HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I

that would change the history of all civilization. An event that would lead to the death of tens of millions of innocent lives, a near annihilation of an entire group of people, and a redistribution of world power that is still affecting us today. The “Holocaust” began when Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933 and lasted for a dozen blood-drenched years. In that time World War 2 started (1939-1945) and it has received the distinction of being the deadliest war in the history of mankind (60-85…

However, King’s addition of the “obdurate” past creating obstacles in order to prevent alteration in history adds a new dimension to the overused gimmick. The larger the alteration, the more intense the obstacle. For example, in Jake’s attempt to prevent the murder of John F. Kennedy, he is barely even able to complete his task due to the sheer amount of road blocks that popped up in his path. The idea of the past attempting to maintain balance after time travel is a unique idea…

Many books focus on the living and how their lives impacted a certain event or country. Katherine Verdery, an American anthropologist shares her interest with the “lives” of dead bodies. She focuses on how their deaths, their burials and commemoration of their lives itself is a political act. It is a question of sovereignty and national identity of countries when they decided where to bury the corpse, or where they erect statues in remembrance of the person. The book sets out to bring…

Echos of our time History represents past events that connects with people and things on more than a physical or emotional level. However, often times such notion of history are diluted into subjective views and thus creates a blurry representation to the present time. Students and people of the present day study the past event to reflect upon the historical impact (such as the insight on the wrongdoing and rightdoing of a certain practice within a society) that possess many unknown factors in…

Winston Smith, the protagonist of the novel, believes that Big Brother haunts his life and that Big Brother fills him with hatred when he writes, “theyll shoot me i dont care theyll shoot me in the back of the neck i dont care down with big brother they always shoot you in the back of the neck i dont care down with big brother” (Orwell 19). Winston believes that he must rebel against the Party; who use the signs, telescreens, and hidden microphones to control the thoughts and…

relationships in the course of history such as the friendship of Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong Un but none are as implausible as the relationship between Huck Finn and an escaped slave named Jim. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a timeless classic that is the root of all American literature. The story does a great job of shedding light on the way of life of an earlier generation which is an essential aspect of educating our youth. When requiring books like The Adventures of…

I began my previous response paper with a critical question of wonder and perplexity, “What are the labyrinths in the Borges story and what fantasy themes/issues do they illustrate?” I have explored its interwoven meanings through the text, myself and the world. I have also paused to reflect and, therefore, connect with my personal experience. However, I have not rendered the critical importance of Nature and natural as one of the recurring and meandering themes in Borges’s story and in my…

In the last article that I used is a book review by Stephen Browne I found the text to be essential to my work. The book review discusses public memory as a narrative structure that serves as a rough organizational principle. It serves as a way to identify patterns of commemoration. The review offers a list of signpost to address the politics of memory. 1. Public memory which contains a slowly shifting configuration of traditions, is ideologically important because it shapes a nation’s ethos…

fields of rare diseases, neurogenetics, and biotechnology. His three books Survival of the Sickest, How Sex Works: Why We Look, Smell, Taste, Feel, and Act the Way We Do and "Inheritance: How Our Genes Change Our Lives—And Our Lives Change Our Genes" offer an engaging and revolutionary way of thinking as to why humans are the way they are, and why life is the way it is. Survival of the Sickest in particular is an incredibly intriguing book that explores the reasons why mankind needs diseases.…

destruction of language and how it is used to manipulate people. In the novel, we see a man who lives in dystopian future in place called Oceana, which is present day London. Everyone in this society is being run by the party which rewrites history to control the people. So one can ask themselves: can the destruction of language in the past be used to manipulate people in the future? The destruction of language decreases our range in vocabulary, is used in propaganda all over the world, and…