Specious present

ready at her vanity, making sure that she looks good before she goes out for the night. Then the women meets a man and they are walking down the street and the women is paranoid and think that she keeps hearing things. Eliot describes how people are more concerned about what they are going to do and what they look like when they go out on the town, and they are not in the moment that is happening in front of them. “‘What shall I do now? What Shall I do? / “Shall rush out as I am, and walk the street / “With my hair down, so. What shall we do tomorrow? / “What shall we ever do?” (Eliot 9).” Instead of people wasting time on what they are going to do in the future, they should be trying to get involved with what going on around them at the present time. Since time is an essential part in everyone’s life, people should avoid wasting time on making a plan for the future that could possible end up changing in the end anyways. In the beginning of “The Fire Sermon” takes place in London next to the Thames River, Eliot talks about how there is no remanence of people having a good time. There is no destruction or trash left where people could have been having a good time with each other and connecting near the river. The scene then moves into what would be considered the red light district of London. Where a man and a women get together, then the man proceeds to have unconsented sex with the women. “The time in now propitious, as he guesses, / The meal is ended, she is bored and…

Day labourers, London prostitutes, and Mexican migrants are communities that live on the margins of society. Their status and occupation labels them as outcasts as they are considered to be communities who are deviant from societal norms (Gill 1999:120; Day 1999:141; Gonzales and Chavez 2012:277) These individuals live their daily lives in the ‘here and now’, in other words, their temporal orientation is towards the present. According to Park et al., (2016:1-5) and Kwapinska (2009:433), temporal…

family to illustrate life in the South during the Reconstruction era of American history. Benjy’s narration is unique in that it warps time, amalgamating many different memories with the present. Benjy’s role within the Compson family and within The Sound and the Fury is to represent unity, both in the familial sense, and within the context of the novel, since Southerners desired to unite pre-Civil War ideals with the present time; he is a reminder of the suffering that both the Compson family…

unpredictable by nature. Are we ever ready for what’s ahead? We try to keep up but are clumsy at best in being present with all that comes our way. A while back we buried a friend. He had been sick, but his death came sooner than expected. We were barely able to keep up with the harsh pace of his illness and still struggle with his passing. Around the same time, I found a little kitten on the street, not even two weeks old, thrown away with the garbage. A carefully planned day turned chaotic the…

greatest feat to date, and now I am surrounded by endless opportunities that are waiting to become experiences. My third theme is Developer; this describes a person who sees potential and enjoys helping people push their limits so that they can flourish. I feel I relate to this theme because I enjoy helping people in their life and academic pursuits. Helping others advance stimulate me in my own progress. In addition, since I can see potential I never feel like a project is beyond saving. This…

provokes us to ask whether or not “future,” “past,” and “present” are valid terms that can be applied to Time and if they are, whether or not all, some, or none these Times exist equally. While such questions have a significant weight in evaluating the logical consistency of Time travel, please note that they are not this paper’s central focus. Rather I will spend most of this paper focusing on explaining the logical impossibilities of Time travel through more concrete examples I have created…

What is the "live the moment", the "let yourself go", but a demonstration that both personal and social crises that the world is used? The reason is simple, the reality check, the present is not good, the images of the future are few and increasingly short with little projection, and last drag contradictions and violence situations where you want to take off and forget "automagically". The solution, bound into a kind of trance where thinking is not necessary or in the future, no past, no…

only added to my learning. I learned that every temple is different with different services, routines, chants, etc. More Importantly, there are still parts of Buddhism that I am unsure about, such as the whole 'no soul ' doctrine, and the fact that you have to eliminate desire completely. I agree that there are many things that we want and have in our modern society that we really do not need, but is it so wrong to wish for something or look forward to something. However, I still believe there…

eternal suffering and guide us toward a meaningful existence. The most crucial step towards enlightenment is explained by right mindfulness; remember to come back to the present moment. While we focus on paying attention to the ideas that keep us in the present moment, it is also important that we be mindful of the things we say and the how we listen to one another. Right speech highlights the importance…

For example, Vershinin, the new colonel in town especially displays his optimism about the future: he believes that the world will change into an “unimaginably beautiful and wonderful” (Chekhov 11) place, and that those at the present will “work,” “suffer,” and “create” (Chekhov 22) this brighter future. Vershinin’s belief also demonstrates the scantness of human life, as he believes that those who work hard to create change in the society will not live long enough to “take part” (Chekhov 22) in…