Alfred Hitchcock Presents

(46). The dog’s timely appearance and Bunny’s frightening reaction shows how the dreadful past continues to linger upon Bunny. Also, the fact that the reappearing dogs are white represent a ghost like figure from the past that currently haunts the present. While Bunny, Sunshine, and Quoyle were on the boat, Bunny claimed she spotted another white dog, and describe it as “the wave surged and the dog rose with it (150).” Later, Quoyle too…

It has often been said that the present is what matters most. Resolve to live in the now. While that may be true, we often shed importance of our past. Our past dictates who we are and who we will become. For example, take a look at the inspirational Malala Yousafzai, a seventeen year old women’s rights activist. As an adolescent, she was an advocate for girls’ education, which culminated in the Taliban issuing a death threat against her. On October 9, 2012, she was shot in the head by a Taliban…

Naturally the past seems to fade from the forefront of our minds as new times encroach. All that remain are brief fragments of a previous time. Langston Hughes’ “The Weary Blues”, and Robert Frost’s “Directive”, offer a limbo between the past and the present. Modernity is inevitable, yet the past still lingers in the shadows. While their styles may differ, both poems provide a vague depiction of times lost. By doing so, they provide no sufficient solution to issue, but merely offer a momentary…

Eternal Acceptance of the Present Mind Throughout the play, “The Valley” written by Joan MacLeod, there is a definite denial and avoidance theme taking place within all the relationships, but mostly there is a lack of acceptance for what is really happening in each of their lives. In the drama, by Charlie Kaufman, “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind”, there is also a similar theme of unacceptance among the main characters Joel and Clementine, although they are lacking acceptance for…

Meditation is the best way to relax and de-stress. It can also improve the focus and concentration, which are really essential to accomplish the tasks at hand. In today’s age, distractions are in plenty and these can keep us away from completing the immediate work. Meditating regularly can improve our creativity and reduce the stress, which can lead to better results. How to Meditate? For people, who are used to doing Multitasking, to sit at one place quietly, can seem to be quite daunting.…

Individual development has been studied in our field for a number of generations, yet not one generation is as predictable as the last. Contemporary developmental theories have added, subtracted, and applied various approaches to understand child/adult development, but with the society increasingly growing and the millennials slowly taking over, there will be certain issues with development that will arise. In my research, I have found issues of development that closely relate to lack of delay…

“Nature always wears the color of the spirit” (Ralph Waldo Emerson). The spirit of a person can be dependent of the weather that is present. If it is a cloudy cold day, a person could feel sad or gloomy and have a dampened mood. If it a bright, sunny day; a person could be happy and energetic. In general, nature and its conditions can play a critical role in how a person may feel. In literature, nature can play a similar role as a symbol or motif. One example of how nature can be integrated in…

reoccurring themes and patterns that give the novel a much deeper meaning. The last 3 chapters have a way of tying the book together with the beginning and give meaning to the questions he poses about what a true war story is. The three main patterns present throughout this novel are the concepts of war and life as a soldier being unimaginable to those who have never experienced it, the burden and guilt of living, and finally the truth about this novel and war stories in general. In The Field…

“Icarus’” structure conveys a Roman focus on present experiences, using the flight of Icarus to support the idea of flight as a semblance of free will within the present (Ovid). As the poem takes place within an epic, structurally, it brings attention to that there is a significant amount of history both before and after it. The piece does not rhyme, with the first four lines ending in “perōsus”, “amōre”, “undās”, and “illāc”, conveying how the present time is not controlled by a higher god,…

proceeds as follows. Augustine notices that as humans we have the capacity to measure intervals of time, as we are able to say how long an interval was . However, he cannot explain how we measure time. The events in time flow from the future into the present, and once they pass through the…