Nostalgia

Seventh grade was the year that ultimately changed how I was going to look at my upcoming years. New experiences arose from middle school, bringing one surprise I would have never expected. That surprise was football. However, even before birth, dad had always wanted me to play soccer. This sport helped me push myself to be the best that I can and shaped my future in positive ways, but the only problem was my father's disappointment. Nevertheless, I fought through that challenge and succeeded in…

6. Appeals, Ethos-Logos-Pathos: The use of the entire real-life 911 call throughout the entire ad [1] is an example of the ethos concept [2]. In Thank you for Arguing, Heinrich tells us that, “An audience is more likely to believe a trustworthy persuader, and to accept his argument” (40). [3] This ad uses this actual 911 call to get across to his or her viewers that something like this is a reality, and can happen to anyone. This particular concept of having this 911 call is chilling to listen…

Published in 1946, A Streetcar Named Desire reflects the cultural tensions that pervaded the nation after the horrors of World War II, when an idealistic and ambitious American nation attempted to prove its superiority and its power to the global community by attempting to - and succeeding in - squashing the threat of Nazi Germany. Millions of Americans lost their lives in an effort that left Germany powerless in the hands of America and the other Allied forces. When A Streetcar Named Desire…

play, as best he could. I am still by no means good or even decent, but that does not matter because there is no better feeling than walking around the course on a sunny day. Now every time I go back to the course I get an overwhelming sense of nostalgia. As I look back on elementary school I smile about I spent those days having fun without a care in the world. However, middle school was just an awkward time in my life that I would like to forget as soon as possible. During high school I began…

The Beatles from England became famous from 1963 when they were swarmed by a mob of girls in of their concerts. The group was later ambushed by a crowd at Heathrow Airport days later. In another occasion, there was a confrontation between the police and teenage girls over tickets to a concert where nine were hospitalized. The reputation and music spread to America following the incidences. New collections like the Revolver (1966) and Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) by the Beatles…

characterization of Hester as a victim. He claims that Hester is Abel to deliberately mock the falsehood of such a statement, which is exactly what Hawthorne did throughout the novel. Thus, Lawrence’s use of biblical allusion combines irony and nostalgia to merge the reader’s prior knowledge with his own…

trauma goes as far back as 1812, when Swiss soldiers’ reactions to combat stress where documented Napoleon’s field surgeons. Although the source did not state what name they gave it. Since then combat trauma has been documented as DaCosta’s syndrome, nostalgia, soldier’s irritable heart, Shell Shock, combat exhaustion, and operational fatigue. Finally by 1980 it was established in the DSM-3 as Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (Yaris, 2013). It took over 100 hundred years for it to be officially…

The Origin of Galatea Étoile I remember when I was just a little five year old, my mother, a zoologist, received an offer for an eight year study in America. My parents decided that my father and older sister, Arielle, who was almost finished with primary school, were going to stay back in France, while my mother, tiny one year old baby brother, _____, and I went to America. Though we were miles apart, we'd always visit each other during holidays. As I grew up in America, I learned…

I grew up with John F. Kennedy. Well, not exactly—Kennedy was assassinated a few years before my parents were even born. So, a more accurate statement is that I grew up with my grandfather’s vivid memories of Kennedy and his political career: specific lines from one of Kennedy’s speeches, or even a photo of my grandfather as a teenager in the front row of a Kennedy campaign rally. Politics was an integral part of my childhood—involuntarily—and it is now a crucial part of my identity. I always…

regardless of age or background. Furthermore, many people can relate to making mistakes due to alcohol or even adolescence. By immediately beginning the poem with “you’re seventeen and tunnel vision drunk” (line 1), the author creates a sense of nostalgia for the reader and increases the reader’s susceptibility of feeling apologetic to the young man. Therefore, when the deer bites the boy (line 29) and reads about the hostility of his father (lines 41-42), the reader is less likely to blame him…