For this assignment, first read the following articles (both are available through the link to the file “Paper 1 Articles” at the bottom of this page): <\/p>\n
1.) The<\/span> <\/span>Victoria Advocate<\/em> <\/span>article, \u201c’We Want a Symbol of Unity’: Residents to Request Confederate Monument’s Removal.” It discusses recent controversy over a Confederate monument located in nearby Victoria, TX. It is a local example of controversy taking place on a national scale. If you would like to also view an image of the monument see,<\/span> <\/span>http:\/\/victoriapreservation.com\/house-histories\/the-last-stand-confederate-monument\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n 2.) Jordan Brasher\u2019s and Derek H. Alderman\u2019s provocative article in <\/span>The Conversation<\/em>, \u201cA Confederate Statue Graveyard Could Help Bury the Old South.” The authors propose the idea of creating graveyards for the statues as a \u201cfirst step in a much longer process of understanding, grieving and mending the wounds of America\u2019s violent past.\u201d<\/p>\n After reading these articles, write an essay that answers the following questions: <\/span>What do you think should be done with Confederate monuments like \u201cThe Last Stand\u201d statue in Victoria? Do you favor Jordan Brasher\u2019s and Derek H. Alderman\u2019s idea of a statue graveyard for Confederate monuments? Why or why not? Please be detailed in your response. Your response should be approximately 1-2 pages in length (double spaced).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For this assignment, first read the following articles (both are available through the link to the file “Paper 1 Articles” at the bottom of this page): 1.) The Victoria Advocate article, \u201c’We Want a Symbol of Unity’: Residents to Request Confederate Monument’s Removal.” It discusses recent controversy over a Confederate monument located in nearby Victoria, TX. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[28],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/10383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/10383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=10383"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=10383"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=10383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}