Nostalgia

in place.” The clock is an obvious representative of time, not only in a daily fashion but on a life spectrum as well. Throughout the novel, Gatsby struggles to differentiate between the past and the present as he endeavors to fall back into the nostalgia held so carefully by his past. This was a major problem during the 1920s as people were becoming more and more aware of their role in the world physically, spiritually, and religiously. Many people struggled with the idea of being totally in…

glory lost, while others maintain contentment by allowing their blessings to mute the pain of grief. While the former tend to spend their final years lost in resentment, the latter are able to experience their decline into infirmity with pleasant nostalgia. Thesis statement: In the short story, “3 AM and the Stars Were Out”, the author, Ron Rash, introduces the reader to Carson, an aging, retired veterinarian who contemplates the life he lived and death he has seen. Using a late night cow birth…

Overtime, college has adjusted to an infinite number of changes. To the point where every year something is different than the last. Many wonder if college is worth the time and money at this point. Accordingly from two different generations, Rick Perlstein wrote “What’s the Matter with College?” and Liz Addison composed the essay, “Two Years are Better Than Four” to debate the college experience, who the college market is directed to, and the overall value of college to American society, which…

I chose to do an advertisement from the Allstate Insurance Company. This humorous ad presents equal parts of pathos, ethos, and logos from Aristotle’s Theory of Persuasion. It contains a curious blend of emotion, ranging from excitement to fear, all while keeping the viewer entertained. The company is one of the nation’s leading insurers, in addition to donating over $34 million to local communities. With its specific advertising style, the ad makes a good point: when the viewer is faced with…

“Who is the other kid”, she asked pointing to the other kid in the picture. “Ah” said Cain taking the yearbook out of her hand. “He was my best friend. What an amazing kid. Abel. I’m sure that was his name” he said admiring the picture feeling nostalgia thinking of his pal from the past. “That’s what I thought. I knew you seemed oh so familiar when we met” Sarah said getting her stuff. “You betrayed my brother and made a mockery of my family when we thought you cared for us. Goodbye Cain” said…

There are a lot of films that are adapted from Shakespearean plays. The movie, Kiss Me, Kate, is a musical adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew. It is a play-within-a-play. It is about Fred Graham creating his own musical version and he invites his ex-wife, Lilli Vanessi, to perform Katherine Minola. Fred has the lead role of Petruchio and he also invites his secondary romance, Lois Lane, to play Bianca Minola. Lois’ gambler boyfriend, Bill Calhoun, signs a UIO using Fred’s…

The speaker of Anne Sexton 's poem "Mr. Mine" is a woman, as tacitly revealed by the speaker at the beginning of the poem when she asks her audience to "Notice how he has numbered the blue veins / in [her] breast" ("Mr. Mine" 1-2). The poem essentially serves as an extended metaphor in which the speaker describes her male lover, depicting him as an "industrialist" ("Mr. Mine" 5) who was responsible for creating her, a living "city of flesh" ("Mr. Mine" 4). The speaker sustains the metaphor…

accepted.  The lottery brings a full corn harvest (i.e., feeds the village). o The reality: winning is death by stoning to cause an unknown change. What does she use to support her decisions? • The village’s common acceptance of, expectations in, and nostalgia for the lottery and the change it brings to the village. • Children and adult o Acceptance of the lottery and its rituals and rules o Knowing the vagaries of winning and shielding their minds from the truth.  Villagers do not talk or…

verbalizations, and observation. Beriss fixates on Antillean migrants from Martinique and Guadeloupe who are caught in a tight web of cognations, including French convivial-class policy, universalist notions of citizenship, Euro-racism, diasporic nostalgia and diverse cultural energy. Beriss notes that since the early 1980s this population, which is scattered across Paris, has been amassing in clubs, cultural groups, churches, sports clubs, gregarious work offices, and other venues, with a view…

Eight albums in and we’ve gone from a quiet little bar in anytown USA, steeped in nostalgia and sweetness to something else entirely. It was building from the start and although that only comes through in hindsight and by looking at the trajectory of his career, it doesn’t seem completely shocking that Tom Waits would end up making an album like Swordfishtrombones when he did, in 1983. Rising out of the jazz, blues and pop standard traditions he explored in previous albums, this is a theatrical…