 So let's start off with the Capitol Building. Who is looking at the Capitol Building? The fact that there's the two houses, the Senate and the House of Representatives kind of link this idea of states and the nation and then the Capitol, the dome in the middle kind of unifies the two. There's the Greek style columns which, you know, pay tribute to the birthplace of democracy. Everything else pales in comparison, and the marble and the white symbolize, I guess, pure in the mirror. Ideal, pristine, we're doing good things here. Perched up on the hill to add to the importance. It's stately, powerful in itself, but not overdone, not overblown, not too elaborate. A house for the president rather than a mansion for the president, or a castle for the president. So not towards the realm of king and royalty, but still important enough that a president can live in there. It's got kind of like a plantation house feel to it. Anything else that anybody wanted to have? So we still have that, we have that continuation of the white coloring again and the reference to classical architecture with the columns and the capitals. Okay, who looked at the Jefferson Memorial? We talked about the columns and the architecture, the structure of the building. Being women is an ancient woman's architecture and how one was the greatest power of his time. So kind of our aspirations of being one of the greatest powers in the world. We also talked about him standing as opposed to Lincoln's. What did you think about him standing? He was sort of presiding over everything and the idea that when you go to the monument you have to walk up the steps to greet him and you have to look up at Jefferson and he's just sort of looking down, not looking down on us. Surveying the land. But just sort of overseeing, making sure the democracy stays intact. Okay, the Lincoln Memorial. Who was looking at that one? It was Dr. Parthenon. The Greek influence. Anything else? What about the size of Lincoln? It's huge. Okay, so what does that say? Lincoln's disposition in art history. Okay, so his position in art history. He's this huge man, huge figure in art history. The original statue is going to be a lot smaller and then when they went to start trying to figure out putting it in the building they realized it was going to be much too small and it would be dwarfed by the architecture. So they made it even bigger. I always think it's so ironic to think that they ended up making this huge statue of him and making him this huge icon whereas what we know of him and his personality is so humble and, you know, just your everyday man. So I just only imagine what he would think if he could see this. It's got symbols on it about Lincoln, but the building itself has become a bigger symbol for civil rights and for rights in general. It's grown beyond what Lincoln was about and to be even more symbolic and meaningful to the country. So don't you mean it's always evolved? The meaning to the power of place always needs to change? Absolutely. These things grow. They grow and they evolve until what we think now about the Lincoln Memorial is not the same thing they would have thought about the Lincoln Memorial in the 1920s. I'm understanding that everything that's historical is not written. Some things are based on the boulder that's in the middle of the road and it has a story behind it. Why is it significant in the District of Columbia and why is it significant to you? And that's where I need to learn to make a connection for the students. You know, who really decides if the place has power?