This Perfect Day

Monuments and memorials have been significant in honoring historical events and people for many years. While monuments bring people together to celebrate and honor historical moments,,some monuments pay homage to sacrifice. When creating and planning for the building of a monument, a group or agency should have proper funding and a desirable location before memorializing an event or person. Proper funding is a key factor to consider when creating a monument. Without proper funding, a monument…

Halloween and Day of the Dead have many things in common and I believe that the two holidays are more similar than different. The two holidays are alike in the ways that in both you have to dress up in costumes, they both have the colors orange and black as the main colors in the holiday celebrations, and that they eat sweets and candy during this holiday. The Day of the Dead and Halloween are similar in the fact that in both holidays people dress up in costumes. In Day or the Dead they dress…

Roadside memorials are notably everywhere on the streets and highways of Hawaii, where accidents have occurred unexpectedly. In The New York Times, Robert Tiernan observes that roadside memorials use public property for private purposes. He believes they violate the constitutional principle of separation of church and state because public facilities are being used to promote religion. He concludes they are a distraction and danger to the motoring public. Though Tiernan makes a sensible point,…

not the case in antiquated marketplaces. Guterson proceeds to discuss some of the conversation he had with patrons at the Mall of America. Two of the patrons displayed emotional attachment and addiction to the megamall. Guterson notes that patrons of this sort are not abnormal as humankind has been going to markets with the intention of finding pleasures for many years. Guterson also notes; however, that old marketplaces used to condemn consumerism to an extent, whereas the Mall of America does…

She straitened her back as if ready to give a speech, “Well, weeks before Day of the dead, everyone begins preparing for the return of dead relatives of friends that have passed away. Families visit cemeteries to have a picnic and clean and decorate the graves of their loved ones. Graves and tombs are decorated with a gold colored flower found exclusively in Mexico and also with candles. The petals of the goldish flower are symbols of a trail to be used by the dead to come back into the world of…

and present” (source G). The Mall in Washington D.C has great monuments such as the Lincoln Memorial. Just like the Lincoln Memorial, the design of a monument must be aesthetically pleasing in order to “manufacture its own aura” (Source A). Through this a monument can truly set a purpose and make its experience…

Halloween focuses on accepting death for a day and shifting the norm upside down. However El Dias de los Muertos is a holiday that uses various forms of festivities to celebrate death accept it and one could argue actually cherish it. The notion that death is cherish in Los Dias de los Muertos, which is Spanish for the day of the dead, can be seen through the practices of festivities that are done. One portion of the festivities that are done within the day of the dead is the fact that many…

The movie Groundhog Day is used to analyze how a character can change from a bad to a good person by the end of the movie. We are able to analyze this change through the lens of Plato and Aristotle. I must argue that it is indeed possible for a character to change from bad to good by the end of a movie. At the beginning of the movie, Phil was not a good person because he was full of himself, sarcastic, and did not value people or work. Phil seems like he would be an easy person to get along…

loved one? Dia de los Muertos, also known as “The Day of the Dead” is a Mexican holiday in which family and friends gather together to remember the lives of their loved ones who have passed away. They also use this holiday to help support the spiritual journey their loved ones are taking. Many people from all religious and ethnic backgrounds celebrate Dia de los Muertos. It has its roots in pre-columbian cultures and beliefs (Day_of_the_Dead). The Day of the Dead usually begins on Wednesday,…

Halloween costumes are an exciting and intriguing part of the October holiday. People of all ages come together in this tradition of becoming something or someone else by adorning masks, makeup, wigs, and even sharp teeth. What was once a ritual of avoiding death's hand, has now become a popular event in modern society. Costumes themselves have a specific culture in Halloween. Young adults and teenagers in particular seem to have almost a conformity in their styles of costumes. The way our…