Past tense

and increasingly short with little projection, and last drag contradictions and violence situations where you want to take off and forget "automagically". The solution, bound into a kind of trance where thinking is not necessary or in the future, no past, no family, just realize what you are doing at that moment and drift down the barrier of criticism or inhibitions. This is accomplished through legal or illegal drugs, alcohol, or even as a philosophical healthier recipes that promote this…

The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov is a play about a family of orphaned children living dissatisfied life. The play is rich in time imagery, which is used for indicating the passing of time, and to emphasize the temporality of human existence and theme of the play that sheer hope with no action cannot solve one’s disillusionment towards his situation. The time imagery is intricately weaved into the structure of the play, even though it is not liner in structure. Each act takes place during…

reality. I intend to argue in a similar vein to presentism with a few alterations that eliminate the failure of presentism in explaining things that existed in the past (REFERENCE). In essence, I will argue that, similarly to presentism, only the present exists, and it necessarily exists in the A-series, however I will also argue that the past and future exist in a mind-dependent reality where they exist in the B-series of time (REFERENCE). Firstly, I will define the key terms of my argument as…

A small boy takes his first step, falling as he tries. There is no one watching. No one to help him up. With tears streaming down his plush cheeks, he continues on crawling. As he grows, he never truly learns how to walk, but he holds onto his surroundings to hold him up. Years later, he has completely tricked his mind into thinking he can walk on his own, but when one of his crutches breaks in two, he is back at crawling. With a death in his family, he crashes back into reality that he is once…

that he can travel back in time. He relives a series of moments, but learns that you can not always change what is meant to be. The film teaches viewers to not let their past define who they are because everything is meant to happen for a reason. It also adds to the concept of moving forward through tough times as dwelling on the past won’t change anything. This film in particular focuses on family and relationships, more specifically why it is important to appreciate and cherish one another.…

away these memories in a vain hope that they will not resurface. Exposing the open wounds of memory and extracting moments from the past bring with it the former pain and anguish. In the most dire cases, even the promise of death is more alluring. In William Carlos Williams’ “The Widow’s Lament in Springtime”, a despondent woman yearns to escape the clutches of her past memories. In her final confession, we learn that she wishes to succumb to her depression by “fall[ing] into those flowers and…

“Money doesn’t buy happiness.” That’s what the people prior to us tell us, the next generation, but they tell us as they are sitting in their paid off Ford F150 with their fancy new iPhone watch and college tuition loans paid off. Because they are done, they have no daily stresses because they have “made it” in the real world. The rest of us, not the 99% not swimming in pools of diamonds, but the rest of us middle classers, 50% of Americans (Thuy Vo 2012), bring home less than 1,000 dollars a…

As I was registering for my Fall 2016 classes, Cornerstone Experience was a mandatory orientation course, so I automatically thought it would be a waste of time. However, I was curious about what the class would entail, so I asked one of my friends who took the course his freshman year. He said it was mostly group activities/assignments, and I would have to go around campus and take pictures of the places I went. He left out just how thought-provoking the lectures would be. My all-time favorite…

aspect. For instance, both of them are within the timeframe of the past. But the certain edge that somehow detached history from prehistory is the certainty that there are already written events in the past to clarify history and this is still nonexistent during prehistory. Thus we can conclude that prehistory is the span of time before the era of recorded history. History can be explained as a record of the events that happened in the past. Prehistory does not record the happenings due to the…

The possibilities to help others in the future and there for make a change in the future of another. That contributes making a purpose for another to discover. The reliability of incorporating the past into the present is to avoid a mistake that could affect an accomplishment or advancement that could change the future of humanity. They both play a part in making the future and present others as comfortable as possible. There is only so much each…