My favorite image was the illustration on page 46. The image of the goddess pitting herself between the warring humans and imploring them to stop with the war and the senseless violence. It's a striking image and it stood out to me most of all because it showed the other side of the coin. We saw so many images of propaganda that were fueling the war, and trying to get people out there, fighting each other, but then we see an image that's doing the opposite. It's graceful and elegant, and it's trying to shed light on the pointless, bloody nature of war. I found the inscription below it to be just as moving, "Both have fought hard and have suffered much in the name of humanity. Stay your hands and use your heads to find a basis of agreement."
While reading some of the monuments pieces I felt as if each of them had something that they needed to prove. For example, for the Tate piece felt the need to expose what history has done to people. Each level exposed how much each person was taken advantage of in service of someone else. For the rumors of war piece exposed the whole idealism of the past resurrecting a past historical leader to make sure that the event does not happen again. The Bracero monument exposed all of the work that the people of that time had done in order to make sure that not another person is taken advantage of again. But truth be told, all of these monuments have come with some sort of backlash. The bracero monument had gotten criticism for stating that the braceros were free to do what they wished. From what the article had stated that was not the truth. It was merely one persons interpretation of what a bracero was, b...
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