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The United States has had a history of immortalizing people and other events that have occurred or existed in the past. However some of these “remembrance Statues” are places on areas of no relevance or built depicting an event that did not occur. Therefor before companies or the government decide to build grand monuments to remember people or events they should consider the place where the memorial is going to be placed, what event or person this will depict, and should the person or event be remembered.

A major factor to build a memorial should be the place it is built. If a statue of George Washington was built in an area where he suffered a major loss as an army general the statue would be considered inappropriate. Another example is found source E where a holocaust museum was built inside a mall. This caused major controversy because the museum was placed in United …show more content…
This is important because not all the people that are remembered are as heroic as history makes them to be. An example of wrong remembrance is the Confederate statues made to remember traitors in our past. Furthermore these statues were made not just to remember but also to send a message. Which in due time sparked controversy, hate and even racial discrimination. Another example is in Source C which talks about how the people depicted in Mount Rushmore are out of place, “ I have to admit it: Mount Rushmore bothers me it was bad enough that white men drove the Sioux from the hills the still hold sacred: Did they really have to carve faces all over them too? Its easy to fell affection for Mount Rushmore’s strange grandeur, but only if you forget where it is and how it got there. To me, it’s too close to graffiti” (Source C). This quote shows a statue or memorial made to remember someone or something can also be offensive to others depending on who is being depicted and where the memorial was

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