Monument

Should cities be allowed to take down Confederate monuments? Type your argument below. Cities should be allowed to take down Confederate monuments. Leaving up Confederate monuments can upset citizens who have to see them. In the article “PRO/CON: Should cities be allowed to take down Confederate monuments?” it states that “However, that doesn’t mean we must exalt the ugliest chapters, as we do when we raise the Confederacy up on a pedestal- literally- in our most prominent public places.” The…

first have to go through the two types of statues, memorials and monuments. Memorials are made in order to remember an event or person for the better or worse, while a monument is made in order to honor an event or person. However, they can sometimes be interchangeable terms due to the meaning of the statute being changed. Which leads me back to the confederate statutes. Several of these statutes were originally made as monuments, but over time they became more of a part of history than…

Blaine Yorgason’s Charlie’s Monument altered the way I view my trials and gave me a new look at adversity and the world. The book, Charlie’s Monument, helped me understand a trial I was struggling with and how I could fix it in the future. The author wrote this story with the…

Roger E. Reynolds, “Liturgy and the Monument”, in Artistic Integration in Gothic Buildings (Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1995), 57-68. In his article, Roger Reynolds argues that liturgy and cathedrals and a relationship of mutual adaptation. He argues that they would each adapt their forms and traditions to the other depending on which preceded in each specific case, (i.e. an older building with contemporary liturgy, or a new building being built to fit liturgical…

van Stralen, H., & Iken, A. M. (2013). The Coveted Monument. Psyart, 4. After I have read and reread the short stories listed in the Complete section of this week, I find that A Rose for Emily intrigues me the most. I think it is probably due to the way the story is narrated. I like the way it is framed in a first-person point of view but also relies on the feelings of many. In the nearly 90 years since William Faulkner produced A Rose for Emily, many writers, scholars and critics have…

In this article, the author discusses the role that monuments play in the grief process and the recovery process of tragic events (24), focusing on how monuments serve as a reminder of a tremendous cost that was paid and what was lost (23). Durbin emphasizes that these monuments, or makeshift memorials, will continue to serve, throughout time, as important functions for coping with the aftermath of tragic events and trauma (38). Durbin discusses the role that memorials play in recalling tragic…

John Daniel Davidson, the author of “Why We Should Keep The Confederate Monuments Right Were They Are”, provides several arguments against the removal of the statues. One of his reasons to preserve the monuments is in the interest of honoring those who fought for their statehood and passed away. Davidson’s argument revolves around the grieving process for descending family members, and the necessary remembrance for generations to come. Davidson writes that necessity for these statues arose…

The city rests in a valley of rugged mountains like the heart inside some ancient skeleton. Each evening iron-rich rocks conspire with the setting sun to beat a pulse so elemental that it transcends time. My wife and I moved here from Washington, DC. Work made our decision, but we embraced it, imbued with manifest destiny of the 21st century: the west’s fertile farmland re-formed in technology hubs, then and now ideal places for someone willing to work hard for the opportunity to succeed. Our…

Max Dahl World Art 1 1/30/2017 Response Paper One In “Sex, Rhetoric, and the Public Monument: The Alluring Body of Naram-Sin of Agade,” Irene J. Winter displays an interesting argument that appealing aesthetics and overall sexuality of a political figure can be considered powerful and dominant characteristics for a leader to possess. Something interesting to note is that this can be closely tied with traits and views we see today in a more contemporary society which I touch on later in the…

How would we ever know how war truly is if it wasn 't for literature? Reading literature can help you better understand the hardships and tragedies, they Finish the positive attitude,and challenges your view about war. They touch our hearts, in a way that textbooks are unable to. A good story makes us put ourselves in those characters shoes. Stories spark empathy, they make you interpret them, and think of the many tragic possibilities and consequences that war can bring upon us. Literature…