User:Sophierachelmeganzyaire

Our monument design is fairly simple if making a huge sewing machine made out of copper with a statue of a girl inside is easy. It’s not! We had to come up with why we wanted it to look this way, why did we choose the location for this masterpiece? It all started with a problem and our problem is sweatshops and how they are cruel places to work for many reasons. Then we went back into history of one of the most famous or well-known sweatshop disasters in history. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. Washington Square Garden was a great choice for us, not because it was a big popular park, but it added to our history and our design. The park is right across the street from the factory, and it can help our viewers know more about the history of the factory, and the monument. The creating of the monument was easy at first we thought a sewing machine represented our cause and our location pretty well, but we thought wrong. We had trouble as a group compromising with ideas, but we kept the sewing machine idea because it was just so grand. The sewing machine is going to be huge, big enough so tourist can walk through it, by taking a ramp or stairs to the top where you will see a status of a girl who died in the factory. I think the reason we put the girl inside the sewing machine was because that was all she saw when she came to America, and when she died. Her name is Kate Leone and she was one of the youngest to die. We will have plagues talking about the girl, and plaques talking about the sewing machine, and a little bit of the history of the factory. We don’t want too many plaques, but when the viewers look at our monument they will leave it with a plaque that has a small poem on it.