Past tense

importantly, the question is what is history itself and whose narrative is at the core. In her reflective, but argumentative, essay entitled “In History”, Jamaica Kincaid analyzes how these ideas-- what is history and how does what happened in the past impact us today-- can and should impact people today. Kincaid commences her essay discussing the actions and lasting legacy of Christopher Columbus. She describes that “he [Christopher Columbus] named” the various people, animals, and the…

Everyone has a past. The things many people go through, including the life choices made, makes them who they are later on in life. At least that’s what everyone is told. However, what happened in the past shouldn’t induce your life choices in the future. For Cholly Breedlove, in The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison his incapability of being able to love others in the past, created challenges for him in the future. Cholly Breedlove's lack of knowledge on various life lessons leads him to rape his own…

lead to “revisionist history” when those who write history books make their own determination of what people will remember. “History Tells hard stories of Ethnic clashes” conveys how silence does not improve how society views the dark portions of the past and that by voicing such events future issues can be avoided. Leonard Pitts Jr adequately uses pathos and logos to argue that silencing history only creates more issues especially racial tensions, in…

Human civilization has been evolving for centuries through the use of new inventions and discoveries. With technology having only been around for a few decades, most of the information known about the past is from documents and structures around the world. The importance of keeping these artifacts in their original condition is stressed by author of “The Lovely Stones” Christopher Hitchens. Throughout his article on the importance of preserving buildings, he focuses on the Parthenon, a historic…

Jr once said, “we are not makers of history; We are made by history.”. By this he means that we are shaped by our past, everything that has happened, has happened because certain people wanted it to. We can't change the past but we can make the future. And throughout time society has continued to change. We strive to create change so the world will become better. Looking at the past there are many great changes that have influenced who we are today as a society. However not all change is good…

1. Why does History matter? History first is the series of past events that connect to someone or something. History matters because it is what started the world today, most people do not know this but it represents the foundation of a culture. why things are the way they are now and why our world is so corrupted today. I know you all may know the saying "Stop living in the past" and work to move forward. History also matters because it helps us to learn who we really are and how great our…

When studying past events in history, a common theme tends to come up, wars. Wars have been a part of nearly every country’s history and can change the entire position of a nation. From internal conflicts to external threats, nations will get involved in wars in order to help themselves, help other countries for moral reasons, or just feel as if another country is a threat. As a result of war playing out in a country, it can destroy one’s infrastructure, cause innocent civilians to die,…

History is constantly changing around the world, for example the United States starting off as a British colony and then fighting for their freedom to become an independent country that ended up proving to the world that not only could they fight with a big country such as Great Britain, but also prove themselves to be the most powerful nation that is in charge of politics around the world and help countries that need to be cleaned. In the book The Next Decade by George Freidman he discusses…

In his play Angels in America, Tony Kushner uses Louis’ refusal to face Prior’s illness directly as a platform to address Louis’ overall inability to confront his own feelings, instead choosing to make them more abstract in an attempt to sound philosophical, allowing Louis to remove himself from the central narration, while still making the decisions that will best benefit him in the end. When raising the subject of Prior’s illness, Louis chooses to speak in the third person as though the event…

”That was a long time ago, but it’s wrong What they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realized I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years now." -chapter one This quote, located at the beginning of the first chapter, gives heavy insight into what lies ahead. In the second sentence, the narrator hints at a memory from the past. We then know this memory is traumatizing in one way or…