Nostalgia

Spent as Dystopian LIFE and Also Survival Horror Spent is a game. But Spent is also life. Above all else, Spent is reality. This game makes no attempts to mask itself as anything besides a harsh look at modern life for those living on the poverty line and those who threaten to drown beneath it. The game begins by proposing a challenge to the player: survive the month with little to no resources and endure a series of financial obligations. Sounds fun, right? Try spinning it this way: collect as…

Nobel prize winner, professor, editor, and novelist, Toni Morrison, wrote an endorsement letter entitled “Toni Morrison's Endorsement Letter to Barack Obama”. It attempts to tell Obama why she thinks he’s a better candidate than his opponent, Hillary Clinton. Morrison uses figurative language and rhetorical devices to prove her point. ¨...truely think of his country's citizens as ¨we,¨ not ¨they¨ ...¨ She states thus because she feels Obama sees the problem as a whole not just a state nor the…

that I trained appear in my mind. I think of how happy they were when they realized their passion for running. I feel pride in knowing that I helped them reach their goals. As I continue to knock out sub six minute miles I smile in my moment of nostalgia. A slight pain begins in my knees, its nothing major though, simply another passing discomfort in the picture of the entire run. Slightly over half way now and my path has shifted, now the wind is in my face. That’s fine though I prefer a little…

Zora Neale Hurston is a master of colorful imagery and child-like nostalgia. In her essay “How It Feels to Be Colored Me,” Hurston remembers her move from a rural, segregated community in Eatonville to Jacksonville, Florida where she became more conscious of her racial identity. In the essay, Hurston learns the power of comparison and how big of an impact that can have on her identity. This essay is an important work of literature, especially when looking at the perspective of an African…

Motivation and Conflicts of Sergeant X In the short story, “For Esme - with Love and Squalor” by J.D. Salinger, the narrator faces many hardships. Sergeant X, a young man fighting in World War II, struggles with his motivation, and with his internal conflict based on the struggles of the war. He chooses to let the harshness of war consume him, and the only way he recovers is communication with Esme, a young girl he met while in London. Esme saves Sergeant X by taking him out of the present and…

‘Xièxiè’ became ‘thank you’, and ‘mm hé bàba’ became ‘mum and dad’. As I grew up, the Chinese language became a distant memory, playing hide and seek with my brain. It slipped through my grasp every time I tried to find it, leaving only a sense of nostalgia behind. The diminishing of my first language draws similar, however more poignant, parallels to the language loss of Indigenous…

Often, we have immigrants caught between cultures whether they are academically successful first-generation immigrants or refugees fleeing from war. Perkins address these mind-baffling issues in her article published in 2005. Her target audience is the young immigrant and she explicitly states the issues encountered by young immigrants when they settle in a new land. Perkins builds her credibility with vivid language besides numerous sensory details. Her attempts to evoke the readers’ emotions…

The word Diaspora refers to the people migrated from one country and settled down in another country. Originally a Greek term Diaspora means Scattering or dispersal, associated with the dispersal of Jewish people from their original land, and it has also a sinister connection aspect. Robin Cohen describes it, ‘’ Diaspora signified a collective trauma, banishment, where one dreamed of home but lived in exile’’ (9). Thus with reference to Greeks, Americans and Jewish people Diaspora migration was…

Imagine if I told you that the popular movie, Dirty Dancing, could have been an epic failure due to a highly controversial social issue! Eleanor Bergstein purposely wrote the script so that the film’s plot relied entirely on an illegal abortion. Dirty Dancing’s stunning choreography and compelling romantic story mesmerized audiences on both sides of America’s abortion debate. Details about “Dirty Dancing” The movie Dirty Dancing is often thought of as a dance movie or a love story, but there’s…

going to think less of you. Lines such as these infected my thoughts and corrupted my physical strength. I felt weak, useless, and unsubstantial; languid, battered, and drained; discouraged, depressed, and dispirited. As I lied in bed that night, nostalgia ran over me as I longed for the days when “the three musketeers” made All-State together. Luckily, it was to my advantage that I had great friends. They encouraged me the following day ensuring me that I was not as mediocre of a performer as…