List of Criteria for Monuments

• What has the person done in history? What do they stand for?
  • Has the person been a “good” example that you may want to highlight? An example of this is how we don’t see statues of Adolf Hitler around as many consider him to not be a good person. While he may be highly accepted as a bad person, a harder example may be Christopher Columbus as it can be argued that he hadn’t discovered the Americas as it was already inhabited by humans.
• Does the location of the monument interfere with anyone?
  • Does the location of the monument bother anyone? Does it stand in the middle of the sidewalk?
• Is the person/event relevant to the region?
  • Is the person relevant to the region? For example you may not put up a statue of a southern war general Robert E. Lee up in New York because he has no relevance to the north or what they stood for during the war, it would make more sense to put one up in the southern states where he was and somewhat still is a celebrated hero to them.

• How much does it take to maintain the monument?
  • Is worth maintaining a old and broken monument? Could be cheaper to take it down and replace it with a new smaller version of the monument.

Group Members: Raees, Casylee, Herson.