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Emmanuel Bradshaw-Monuments article-wk4

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, but did not describe the whole experience. For you cannot 

describe one entire experience in a monument without having it be interactive. Those are just my 

thoughts.

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