The competition by the Monument Committee that Maya Lin had won with her Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial design had consisted of 1,400 anonymous entries. After Maya Lin’s 21-year old Asian identity had been revealed, her design had received a lot of backlash and discrimination. Nevertheless, Maya...
Both the Arch of Titus, and Maya Lins’ Vietnam Memorial serve as a public space to their respective cultures. Their use of artistic elements such as size, shape and placement serve to identify and promote emotional realities, such as sacrifice, sombernance, and pride/accomplishment. Made-to-order essay...
Stephen Prothero applies a unique analytic model for text selection in his anthology The American Bible: Whose America Is This? At the center of Prothero’s model is his nuanced definition of Americanness; for him, one is not required to agree with a “set of propositions”...
