FPT.

That would be Final Project Time, for those of you not up on the acronyms.

Remember that you will need to have chosen and begun research on your topic for part one by the time we return from break.

To help you in the selection process you might want to check out Wikipedia's category page on monuments and memorials. Not that it will make your selection process necessarily faster (there's just so much to look at!, but it will give you some out of the box ideas and, shocking I know, might just make this part of the project fun. There are some pretty wild monuments out there. (Don't believe me? Check out the animals category.)

There are obviously thousands more beyond the net of Wikipedia. The best way to navigate the cavernous opportunities presented you in this project is this: pick a country that you want to know more about, an event you want to study further, or a monument you've seen but never really analyzed. Start from an existing interest and your research will take you to much more interesting new places.

That said, some major monuments that might catch your eye:

• The Memorial to the Battle of Verdun, 1916, Verdun, France
• The War Memorial and Statue of Brothers, Seoul, South Korea
  
• Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin, Germany
• Mount Rushmore National Memorial, Black Hills, South Dakota, USA
• Tsitsernakaberd (and the Armenian Genocide Museum), Yerevan, Armenia
• Monument to the Vargas Swamp Lancers (site in Spanish), Boyacá, Columbia

And others, unlinked but alphabetical by country, and all very much worth tossing into Google:

• Buddha of Bamiyan, Bamiyan, Afghanistan
  
• Mother Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
  
• ANZAC Square, Brisbane, Australia
  
• Judenplatz, Vienna, Austria
  
• Martyred Intellectuals Memorial, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  
• Shabash Bangladesh, Rajshahi, Bangladesh
  
• Ljzertoren, Diksmuide, Belgium
  
• Eternal Flame, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzergovina
  
• Srebrenica Genocide Memorial, Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  
• Pantheon of National Revival Heroes, Rousse, Bulgaria
  
• Monument to the People's Heroes, Beijing, China
  
• India Catalina, Cartagena, Columbia
  
• Jasenovac Monument, Jasenovac, Croatia
  
• José Martí Memorial, Havana, Cuba
  
• Memorial to the Victims of Communism, Prague, Czech Republic
• Monument to Stalin, Prague, Czech Republic
• The Louvre, Paris, France
• Center for the History of Immigration, Paris, France
  
• Soviet War Memorial (Treptower Park), Berlin, Germany
• Soviet War Memorial (Tiergarten), Berlin, Germany
• German History Museum, Berlin, Germany
  
• Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany
• Siegessäule, Berlin, Germany
• Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany
  
• Statue Park, Budapest, Hungary
• Monument to Stalin, Budapest, Hungary
• The Vatican (including the Sistine Chapel and the Pièta), Rome, Italy
  
• Bab-e-Pakistan, Lahore, Pakistan
• Minar-e-Pakistan, Lahore, Pakistan
• National Monument, Islamabad, Pakistan
• The Motherland, Volgograd, Russia
  
• Peter the Great, Moscow, Russia
  
• Victory Park, Moscow, Russia
  
• Worker and Kolkhoz Woman, Moscow, Russia
  
• Rhodes Memorial, Cape Town, South Africa
• Freedom Park, Salvokop, South Africa
• Afrikaans Language Monument, Paarl, South Africa
• 1820s Settlers National Monument, Grahamstown, South Africa
• 228 Peace Memorial Park, Taipei, Taiwan
• Mother Motherland, Kiev, Ukraine
  
• Crazy Horse Memorial, Black Hills, South Dakota, United States
• Statue of Liberty, New York, New York, United States
  
• Tear of Grief, Bayonne Harbor, New Jersey, United States
  
• Livingstone Memorial, Bangweulu Swamps, Zambia
  

Good luck!