In These Times

meant a better quality of life and the answer to it is subjective to who is being asked. Charles Dickens, a significant, prolific author and reformist of the period, criticized the apparent “progress” of the Industrial Revolution and his novel Hard Times called attention to the deterioration in moral values, exploitation, deprivation and oppression that befell not only to the working class, but affected the middle and upper class…

in American history. At this point, Ronald Reagan was a b-list actor turned tv star, and although Barry Goldwater’s campaign was obviously unsuccessful, it did lead to Ronald Reagan’s monumental “A Time for Choosing” speech and the start of Reagan’s wildly successful political career. In his “A Time For Choosing” speech, Ronald Reagan addressed the nation on a cable tv program to campaign for Barry Goldwater and warn against big government, but more importantly, Reagan addressed the nation to…

Time has always been a subject of fascination. Time can’t be touched. It’s not a physical entity, yet there are all sorts of ways to manipulate time. Time can be captured, ignored, destroyed, created, felt, cherished, and seen, as if it were the living embodiment of a person. Many people dispute what time actually is, for now the best explanation of time is that it is a unit of measurement of a string of random moments that occur in a progressive sequence. Time has been always been an…

In my previous essay, I explored Brenda Shaughnessy’s “I Have A Time Machine,” a poem that described her experience traveling into the future with her time machine. Through a window in the machine, Shaughnessy could witness her past. I endeavored to explain what was special about the time machine since it can only move forward one second at a time into the future. I latched onto the machine’s window into the past and considered the viewpoint that it provided for her. As a result, my entire essay…

According to Science Buddies Staffs, “Take a Musical Step Back in Time: Make Your Own Phonograph From Everyday Items,” in the year 1877, Thomas Edison successfully built the phonograph. The phonograph, back then consisted of turning a cylinder wrapped with paraffin paper or tinfoil, a needle, and horn. The use of a phonograph was to first connect the stylus(needle) to the paper or tinfoil, then yell into the horn while spinning the diaphragm, this results in indentions in the paper, after that…

it with our gorgeous words. We all love it because these social apps’ interactions can make us feel physically close with others, even if they happen over a screen, and that also is the point for Jenna Wortham, the author of the essay ‘‘I Had a Nice Time with You Tonight. On the app’’. As social apps’ appearance, it helps us solve several problems about long-distance communication, and we don’t need to be afraid the relationship with others that influenced because of long distance. With the…

- Thomas Fuller Have you ever speculated how it is that some people seem to have a sufficient amount time to do everything that they want to, whereas others are always hurrying from task to task, and never seem to finish anything? Is it just that the former have less to do? No, it’s much more likely that they are using their time more effectively and practicing good time management skills. It is advisable that you should carry out introspection occasionally and voluntarily without looking for…

A Sound of Thunder Time travel is a fascinating concept that has been at the forefront of science fiction literature for generations. Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder" explores this concept, but it is not glorified or embellished. The story is about Eckels, a man who travels back to the age of dinosaurs to hunt Tyrannosaurus Rex, and is faced with the severe consequences of his actions. Bradbury’s theme of technological innovation demonstrates that not all scientific advancements are ethical,…

The protagonist in my novel is the time traveler himself. I feel he is the protagonist because he drives the action. If it wasn’t for the Time Traveler than the novel wouldn’t have as much action. Example is when the Time Traveler goes in to time and meets the morlocks and he has to go underground to retrieve The Time Machine because the morlocks took it. I feel that The Time Traveler is a believable character. I believe that he is a believable character because he is an inventor. Inventors…

books such as Ella Enchanted, The Time Travelors Wife, The Pact, and Please Stop Laughing at Me, but in the end, they are each just a book like all the rest. I have always loved to read and I have not been able to put books down since I can remember. I enjoy all sorts of books from romance to mystery,…