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Assignment:

Look back upon the journey through the materials and issues covered in the following

Material: (A-H)

You may use A.I if needed and please "write" your responses as if it were a reflection and be as lengthy as possible.

A) Think about 9/11 and its background. Also think about the memorial and the importance of it.

B) Recognize the Great War's devastating impact on European culture. Imagine trench warfare's devastation.

C) Learn about British remembrance culture after World War I and the significance of key memorials and rituals like the Cenotaph, the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, the Menin Gate.

Learn about British military cemeteries, especially the "Sword of Sacrifice" and "the Stone of Remembrance."

Place the Memorial to the Missing at the Somme at Thiepval in context and explain why it is important for British war remembrance.

D) Learn about Israeli Holocaust remembrance and why it meets the interests of the Israeli state and society, formed after WW2 and the Shoah to create "a usable past." Learn about Yad Vashem's function as the world's preeminent Holocaust research institution, a memorial, and a diplomatic tool. Understand why the United States established a national museum dedicated to the history and memory of the Holocaust in 1993.

E) Understand why Germany delayed half a century to establish a national Holocaust memorial, and explain the particular challenges facing the successors of the nation-state responsible for the Shoah.

F) Understand the nature of collective memory as a constructed and political interpretation of the past.

Understand the dominant and forgotten or suppressed themes of American memory of the Pacific War.

G) Discover the prominent and suppressed Pacific War themes in American memory. Understand how the 1945 Pacific War laid the ground for the US to deploy atomic bombs to force a Japanese surrender.

H) Understand why the planned Smithsonian Exhibition for the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II failed, and draw insights into the political and cultural constraints on memory.

Consider how this may have shaped the ways in which you perceive, think about, and react to attempts to memorialize and commemorate challenging historical events. How has the study of memory-construction and commemoration taught you about "being human?" How has this class affected you, in whatever ways? What insights have you gained and what questions do you have?"