Monument

Author Haruki Murakami once wrote, “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart”, aptly describing the bittersweet nature of memories. Similarly, the South’s antebellum past is simultaneously glorified and rejected at the turn of the nineteenth century, resulting in an ambiguous social atmosphere riddled with hypocrisy and infeasible expectations. This paradox is exemplified in “A Rose for Emily” as the story focuses on a Southern town’s obsession with past traditions and…

Upon the death of Trajan his life and campaigns were honoured with this monument that demonstrated how the Romans honoured their leaders, idolizing them and creating their stories eternal in the culture. Trajan’s column sent the message that the Roman military was massive and powerful, and able to create legendary role-models…

Lewis Hobart’s monument design engages the subject of war by using symbolic representations from the eagles with their wings spread on the top of the arch to the great white stonewall around the front of the “living memorial.” The monument inspires bravery, strength, and respect and exemplifies dedication and loyalty to our nation by never forgetting the ones who have fought…

General Purpose: Saudis visiting NYC in the United States Specific Purpose: Empire State Building, Financial District, and Statue of Liberty I. Introduction A. Attention - There are many countries to visited, but we think the United States is one of the most interesting places to visited, due to its many well-known states and cities. Especially the many landmarks and historical monument’s that New York City have that are known world-wide. B. Thesis- Saudi Arabians visit to New York City in…

A regressive movement masked as progressive to remove historic monuments that depict a dark past. I use to be for their removal but have recently changed my stance. Those removed in New Orleans is over, but this movement is far from over. If this regressive movement isn't contested, I fear that a slippery slope with no end in sight. Once the Confederate memorabilia is removed across the country, these revisionists will turn their cross-hairs to objects like Mt. Rushmore as two of the four…

Critics opined that the Iron Curtain was built to keep communism and communist populations inside the Soviet Union-controlled areas and not to keep out capitalism or capitalist people from the West. To the west, the Iron Curtain represented a monument failure of the command economic theories of the Soviet Union. Although previously used in the early nineteenth century to refer to fireproof safety curtains in theatres, former UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill made it…

Lou Gehrig Lou Gehrig was born June 19, 1903. He played for the New York Yankees from 1923-1939 until a big moment changed his entire life. Baseball changed his life Lou Gehrig was born in the Bronx in New York. His full name was Henry Louis “Lou” or “Buster” Gehrig. When he was young, his two sisters died of whooping cough and his brother died at infancy. He was an only child so he helped his mother with choices. In 1923, Lou Gehrig signed a contract with the New York Yankees on April 30…

Architecture: The Temples and Ideas Built by Ancient Greece Classical Greek architecture is an iconic part of Greek history. As Greece developed, so too did the architecture. The architecture became symbolic of the rise and success of Greek Society. All of western civilization can trace its origins to that of Greece. Thus, modern neoclassicism continued to be a symbol of western society and its drive to attain the ideal. Greece forever impacted culture by discovering that architecture is a…

Pyramid Giza or the most remembered monument in Egypt and I liked the sound of his name. B. Making the great pyramid Giza so he could be remembered for ever and ever. He did he made the biggest most remembered monument in Egypt. And he made the great Sphinx to scare all the tomb raiders. Away but it only made the pyramid a bigger attraction. C. The was the pharaoh of Egypt from (2589 to 2566 bc) he also made the most beautiful, expensive, most well known monument in the whole of Egypt. He…

shaping of public memory at the turn of the twentieth century. Bishir says that the elite at the turn of the century took control of the state of North Carolina and formed a “redeemer” government that intentionally influenced public memory through monuments and architecture, replacing the gains of reconstruction with a return to white supremacy and esteem of the Confederate cause, showcasing their hopes for the future. The argument that Bishir presents is solid and well structured. Her source…