Nostalgia

contemporary designers there is significant value in the study of design history. Unfortunately, at a time when incredible value is placed on novelty and individual creativity, the narratives of the past often fall on deaf ears, written off as mere nostalgia (Hunt 2014, 1). Focusing on landscape architecture, this essay will defend the presence of history in contemporary thought and promote an active and critical engagement with the antecedents of design. It will be argued that the study of…

Myth and Its Revision. Myths gain a literary autonomy as they evolve through time into sovereign narratives used as socio-cultural foundational texts. Mythic sources may originate or accrue from religious, historical, political, or cultural references, but each of these sources holds: “ a double power. It [the myth] exists or appears to exist objectively, in the public sphere, and consequently confers on the writer the sort of authority unavailable to someone who writes "merely" of the private…

Depression, anxiety, stress, and demons that we all battle with in daily life. Some people fake their smile and happiness because for them happiness is all a lie. We do not tell the world what we are going through because we are afraid of what they might think of us. Eighth grade was one of my worst and best school years and it was all because of my demons. Therefore, demons of mental darkness made me realise the importance of music in my life. I felt like an outsider. Nobody could understand…

yearning to participate in a local community, a store that is somewhat connected to the arts. So they like coming in here. Sometimes there’s people coming in that just want to see old records. And say “ Oh yeah i remember when I had old records.” Nostalgia is a big part of it. But there is also a revival right now. There’s a ton of people who genuinely enjoy listening to music on vinyl more than digital format. Journalist: Do you see a future for record stores? Joey:…

the grace of God in the grotesqueries of the world," (Georgia Women of Achievement, via Internet Public Library). By incorporating what O 'Connor 's forte, helps the reader become intwined and guessing throughout the story. It hangs on distorted nostalgia and redemption in an epiphany of divine grace and mistaken bounds by kinship. One of O 'Connor 's most widely read stories, "A Good Man is Hard to Find" (written in 1953), that peaked her career. The short story has fundamental questions about…

man naturally questions the ambiguity of each decision made. Frost structures this lyric poem to feel like a journey. He uses four stanzas of five lines each in a progressive unveiling of thought about an uncertain future, and culminates in the nostalgia, the title suggests, for the road not taken. The first stanza begins the extended metaphor of roads and choices, or “Two roads diverge in a yellow wood.” The speaker’s vision of the future is impaired, by “the undergrowth”…

incredibly difficult to find. There are several reasons why gender-based marketing has become so widespread. Toy makers know that by separating the market into smaller demographic groups, they can sell more versions of the same toy to more people. Nostalgia also plays a part, parents and grandparents often give toys that they remember from their own childhood. This kind of marketing taps deeply into beliefs about gender that still operate in our culture. Numerous parents argue that their…

“nothing happened” after his people were moved onto the reservation, and that the average person knows all there is to know about his scenario after being moved to the reservation. What Plenty Coup really was missing was his childhood and a sense of nostalgia. This vulnerability Lear is talking about should rather be called change, or not being able to adapt to the…

initial reaction was to be remarkably pleased. (on Page 55 of my 133 Page E-book). He then comes back to find all of America changed, starting from his thorough search at the airport. With the India-Pakistan standoff happening in his homeland, the nostalgia that has taken over Erica, the comparison made by Juan-Barista of Changez to janissaries, and the gaze by which his surrounding fellows look at him post 9/11(his coworkers and weird foreign strangers that swear at him when he walks to his car…

It is self evident that Frank Sinatra has inspired countless artists in todays music world from all diverse genres of music. The two pieces of music I will be comparing are Panic! At the Disco’s “Death of a Bachelor” and Frank Sinatra’s “My Way”. Both, “Death of a Bachelor” and “My Way” are portrayed in different ways, but both songs are in relation to an end of an era. Although the song “Death of a Bachelor” was not inspired by a specific Sinatra song, Panic! was inspired by Sinatra’s…