Why Is It Important To Have A Monument

Monuments and memorials are always being built to commemorate events and people of the past that hold significance to a general audience. Sometimes people will not enjoy the display put in front of them other times people will tear up at the glimpse of a great monument like the statue of liberty. A group or agency should consider the value of the historical figure or event and should consider if residents of a location would or would not oppose a certain monument in the area. A monument or memorial has to appeal to a person's emotions and mean something important. Then a monument or memorial can not be boring, it has to appeal a person from an aesthetic standpoint.

A monument should have an emotional and historical connection with the intended
Some people would not approve of having a monument near their favorite location if it is a statue of Adolf Hitler. This memory is impactful for the audience, but it will be very provocative, it is just eliciting a reaction-a negative one. Do you really want to have a statue of one of the worse historical figures in front of your favorite place of relaxation? Think of the concentration camps, the dying jews, the mass murder, the disease, the broken families. Is this really what you want to coarse through your brain? Although there are some people who honor such a figure, Hitler has been the horror of several people, and he was a threat to the world. But who cares, right? The Jews were just rats and expendable animals and savages and inferior race. Monuments should not drive in anger, but instead cause the honoring of a hero. The memorialization of a historical figure should be based on someone who has acted on preserving or improving a nation and whether an audience actually see the figure as a hero. Document B shows a statue Christopher Columbus in Pennsylvania. This is an example of good placement for
Countless methods for doing so could be such as creating a mural, creating a musical piece, and constructing a statue. If this process of carefully choosing how to portray a statute is not taken care of then one will end up with “graffiti” (Source C). Not that there is anything wrong with graffiti such that is is a kind of art, but not everyone considers it art. Additionally, if one is careless then all the work that was put into making the monument can be lost quite quickly as some people portray the South Dakota Badlands to be “made of soft and crumbling sediments and ash, will be gone in a geological instant” (Source C). With new technology that has been created in today’s time, people can now use the internet, social media, to help memorialize someone of something. It does not require much effort and it saves time. Nevertheless, with new applications and software that comes with computers of all shapes and sizes it is now easy to decorate and make a webpage to help memorialize people. Like in Source B where the Columbus statue stays, it is lacking physical creativity. Even people using web pages could make a better job online at memorializing Columbus even if he was “evil”. Machines such as the 3D printer are now being developed to print 2 dimensional objects into the 3 dimensional word, and with colors. Making statues out of stone or some kind of metal is overrated. There is