Past

As set within a larger epic, Ovid’s Metamorphoses and also mirrored in Ars Amatoria, “Icarus’” structure conveys a Roman focus on present experiences, using the flight of Icarus to support the idea of flight as a semblance of free will within the present (Ovid). As the poem takes place within an epic, structurally, it brings attention to that there is a significant amount of history both before and after it. The piece does not rhyme, with the first four lines ending in “perōsus”, “amōre”,…

If a person’s past dictates their future, then it will seem like the journey of life is predictable. As we all know, life is not predictable; therefore, a person’s past does not dictate their future. Every person has the power to create their own future, regardless of their past. In the play “A Raisin in the Sun”, written by Lorraine Hansberry, the Younger family are suffering financially. Our protagonist, Walter Lee Younger, is portrayed as a reckless man who puts his own wants before his…

Naturally the past seems to fade from the forefront of our minds as new times encroach. All that remain are brief fragments of a previous time. Langston Hughes’ “The Weary Blues”, and Robert Frost’s “Directive”, offer a limbo between the past and the present. Modernity is inevitable, yet the past still lingers in the shadows. While their styles may differ, both poems provide a vague depiction of times lost. By doing so, they provide no sufficient solution to issue, but merely offer a momentary…

the reminiscences of an aging newspaper man McIlvaine. As one reads, the narrator is describing the past, which at the time seemed to him like the very edge of the future. MacIlvaine states: “You may think you are living in modern times, here and now, but that is the necessary illusion of every age” (11). Throughout the novel Doctorow uses different circumstances and characters to show that the past was at one point in time actually the future. The first example that…

There was a time in the not so distant past where social media was not around, a time where people actually interacted with one another and looked up to view the world and interact with individuals around them as it and they were meant to be appreciated. People seem to be becoming more dependent on technology and social media. As a result often times socializing more online through their social network of “friends”, in turn interacting and communicating less and less with their friends in person…

The past me and the present me have seen changes while I were growing up. Many things may have change to make it more safe for people, but while it may make it safer many new harms and risks are also happening at the same time. Like for examples, now there are seatbelt and air bag in every car making it safer for people. But, there are more drink driving than there are compare to like in the past and car crashes because of text driving. Another thing is that now that the upgrade in cell phones…

This essay discusses Wittgenstein’s response to Augustine’s puzzle of measuring time. The paper begins by explaining Augustine`s puzzle. From here the paper explains Wittgenstein’s explanation for the origin of the puzzle, the usage of the wrong definition of measure. The essay, then explains how using the wrong definition leads to the problem. After this the essay gives the rules for measuring time. The paper then concludes that it has been successful in dissolving the puzzle. Augustine’s…

Blake reflects on their environmental position and also reflects on the conditions of the past. Blake expresses her feelings about their degraded environment when she says, “It seems hard to believe there was ever such a world, before the degradation of the environment filled with water and the soil and the air with toxins. My thoughts drift…

Midterms How do the choices made by the archivist in selection, appraisal and arrangement/description of archival materials ultimately affect the historical record? Archivist have a greater impact on history, culture and how the future sees the present (past) than most. An archivist can pick and choose which record, document or artifact can go into storage for later research. Not only that, but how it is cared for (arrangement/display) and put out for the public to view can affect what the…

The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot is a poem that explains how people have become disconnected. Whether it be that mankind has become disconnected with nature, with a spiritual force, or with time, we have drifted away from having connections with others and the world that we live in, instead people are focusing more on themselves. Even though The Waste Land was written in 1922 it still holds some truth about how we are disconnected with time in today’s society. Time is an essential part in everyone’s…