Martin Luther King Jr.

        Martin Luther King Jr.was a civil rights activist who fought to end slavery. Because of his convictions in correspondence for all, he was killed. His work is valued by both minorites and the dominant part. So much that he has a school and doctor's facility named after him. He is a good example for the African American group, his conviction of peacefulness dissent made a positive message for African Americans. Crafted by urgent columns in the public eye, for example, Martin Luther King Jr. ought to be perceived, a case of this acknowledgment would be a landmark. At the point when an organization is memorializing an occasion or individual and making a landmark, they ought to consider what is generally noteworthy about that individual or occasion, do they have the best possible assets to make a landmark and what does the land around the landmark say?

        Monuments are meant to create a feeling; let the visitor know the background of the event or person through its “aura,” as source A says. When someone is significant, you want to know why they are significant. People can easily find this out through research by “reading a text that was already everywhere.” (Source A) However, the scenery around the monument and the way it was crafted all tells a story, it almost puts the visitor of the monument into the event or shoes of the historical figure. Source B shows a picture of a monument, which shows Christopher Columbus looking into the sky. As a speculator of the monument, you feel the dark gray skies around you and you look into the sky along with Christopher Columbus, as if you are both sailing around the sea into a new world. It feels similar to a movie, when the main character is navigating through the gray fog and the light appears as he/she makes it to a new land. The new land in Christopher Columbus case would be America, and both the him and the visitor of his monument found it together. Yet, some people feel that if you want to be apart of a historical event or historical figure, then you should just go watch a movie about it. The same feelings is not felt from standing around a monument and actually visualizing the event or person, with a movie all the visuals are handed to you and there is no aura. Therefore, agencies should consider making the monument feel like a movie or biography when memorializing about a event or person, and in order to do this you have to know the significance of the person or event.

        The price to create a monument is not something a typical citizen makes with their monthly pay. Therefore, an agency or group needs to have government funding or sponsors to fund their project. In order to convince others to invest in your monument you have to highlight the importance and achievements of that person or event. For example, in Source D the Savannah Memorial Park was an Indian burial ground, this shows the significance of the park and could possibly lead to it becoming a monument. However, this memorial park only has enough money to stay open for another two years, then they will not be able to preserve the importance of the sacred grounds. If this agency were to express the importance of these grounds and their historical significance, then maybe the government or private organizations would be willing to give them money. Some might argue, that we should not spend money on the past and historical grounds should be used for new things, such as popular culture; things that people actually care about. You can not move into the future, if you do not know your past, and for this reason is why agencies should consider advocating for funding to memorialize historical events or people.