Past

A promise, by definition, is “a declaration that one will do or refrain from doing something specified”. Promises can range from promising to throw out the trash or promises made during wedding recitals. They can be of great significance and meaning to some or forgotten about just as easily as it was to say “I promise”. The significance does not depend on what the task is, but who is reciting the phrase. This means that a person can give out promises all the time,but as long as they keep them…

The opening credits of Persepolis (2007) feature a flower moving across the screen, travelling through the different places depicted during the titles. This quite simple feature helps to introduce the audience to the main premise of the film - moving; mobility; change and growth. Marjane Satrapi’s film debut Persepolis (2007), made together with Vincent Paronnaud, is an autobiography based on Satrapi’s similarly titled graphic novel. This French-Iranian animated film deals with the subject of…

characters are in denial of the present situations that are taking place in their lives and they are seeking to find past memories to deal with their present reality. Whereas, in the “Eternal Sunshine…

to carry on with life automatically, the quality of it would be devastating to ourselves and others. The cause of common mindlessness lies in a situation where our thoughts are not concentrated on what we are doing right now, but wander around the past and the…

the people who live there, and the flag that represented what were once the colonies of Great Britain changed to the flag that symbolizes the free country of the United States of America. Rip Van Winkle acts as a tool that helps people recall the past, much like a time capsule. A time capsule is a historic cache of goods…

Scurzynski's "Nethergrave" and Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder" are both very well written pieces of science fiction that both focus on scientific technology and how it's affect the main characters' lives. Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder" is about a young man named Eckels goes back in time and has to deal with the harsh consequences of his pusillanimous mistake. In Scurzynski's "Nethergrave", the main character, Jeremy, picks a virtual world over his entire life where he feels humiliated,…

“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them” (Huxley 160). Have you ever thought that you should question what was in your primary and secondary school history textbooks? Textbooks that are written by experts are voted on by the state school board. If the content of the textbooks does not meet the board’s standards, the textbook is not adopted, even if what the expert wrote is fact based. In recent years, state school boards have started to scrub history textbooks to…

Meditation is the best way to relax and de-stress. It can also improve the focus and concentration, which are really essential to accomplish the tasks at hand. In today’s age, distractions are in plenty and these can keep us away from completing the immediate work. Meditating regularly can improve our creativity and reduce the stress, which can lead to better results. How to Meditate? For people, who are used to doing Multitasking, to sit at one place quietly, can seem to be quite daunting.…

those times hadn’t gone by so fast and that school, work and life were that simple and so laid back again. Though most of us like thinking of the past, we have to simply take a look back in time and leave it there, in the past, so we can experience new things and have new memories to look back on in the future. This chapter is about my look back into the past. I actually started school a year early in pre-k. When it came time to start pre-k my birthday fell just a few days before the dead-line…

History is just a compilation of several compelling stories of the past put together. I love that I am able to learn intriguing and true stories about places, people, and events that I have never seen physically or experienced personally. History is very interactive and requires creative and attentive thinking to connect why and how occurrences took place the way they did. For instance, I did not fully understand why the Americans revolutionized against the British until I viewed their struggle…