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Figure 1 shows a Christian cross as a memorial for a victim of a car accident on southbound I-684 in North Salem, New York.... Despite the fact that this roadside memorial is not big enough to cause distraction for drivers, yet it is making improper use of the Christian cross, which does not seem proper at public places.... A driver may get busy in reading the text about who got died, when, and how, written on the memorial, and may bump his car into something....
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The lincoln memorial was built as a neoclassical monument in the honor of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.... The lincoln memorial was built as a neoclassical monument in the honor of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.... The Bill to create a memorial for Lincoln was signed in the year 1911, which led to the creation of the lincoln memorial Commission that set aside funds for the monument.... The lincoln memorial was built as a neo ical monument in the honor of the 16th President of the United s, Abraham Lincoln....
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This essay "The Response to the Canadian national War Memorial" is about pointed out, war memorials celebrate wartime heroism.... Thesis statement: The characteristics, history, controversy, commemorative nature, and functions of the Canadian national War Memorial prove its value beyond a war memorial, as a visible example of heroism and duty mindedness (special references to the characteristic, history, controversy, commemorative nature and the function of the Canadian national War Memorial)....
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Subsequently, the museums like the United States Holocaust memorial Museum and the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum involve their audiences in self-reflexive interaction in relation to the subjectivity of their experience and contribution of the audience and the curator towards the development of the historical knowledge (Crane, 1997).... The calamity of the holocaust was so adverse that when art attempts to portray it, it is drained of authority....
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The paper "The Architecture of the lincoln memorial" states that since the monument's completion, it has served as a rallying point for numerous staged protests and events in the nation's history, perhaps one of the most famous being Martin Luther King Jr.... In the United States, the lincoln memorial stands as just such a monument, speaking eloquently not only about the man to whom it is dedicated but also to the ideas he espoused during his years as President of a war-torn and very briefly as a reunited country....
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The paper "The New England Holocaust memorial" highlights that the memorial is able to work on several levels for those viewing the architecture.... The personal relationship with the stories is then able to add to the effect of a personal understanding and relation to the memorial.... While other Holocaust memorials are also able to provide these details, the abstract effect and the combination of symbolism with the direct historical connotations create the same response from those viewing the memorial....
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in the context of the absence of national memorials to the victims of slavery or the genocide of the Indians.... The essay "Berlin Opens Holocaust memorial" states that Germany's 'memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe,' dedicated on May 2005, represents the nation's public acknowledgment of the darkest episode in its history: 'the attempt to exterminate an entire people'.... The Holocaust memorial is situated between the Brandenburg Gate and Potsdamer Plaza, on a five-acre plot of the Ministerial Gardens....
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The paper "lincoln memorial" shows us that congress made the Lincoln Monument Association (LMA) two years after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.... The construction of the lincoln memorial commenced in 1914.... Bairstow, Evelyn Beatrice Longman, Piccirilli Brothers, and Royal Cortissoz ('lincoln memorial Design').... The site for the memorial was chosen in 1901 and President Taft signed the lincoln memorial Bill in 1911, thus dedicating funds of $2 million for the construction of the memorial....
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