Past

“We are products of our past, but we don 't have to be prisoners of it” (GoodReads). Warren argues that an individual’s past does indeed shape the person one becomes in the present. The past will inevitably guide one’s decisions. However, Warren says that one can not let his past gain dominance. It is when one lets his past control him that he loses track of the present all together. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald argues that a person should let go of his past, while Toni…

of our past. Our past dictates who we are and who we will become. For example, take a look at the inspirational Malala Yousafzai, a seventeen year old women’s rights activist. As an adolescent, she was an advocate for girls’ education, which culminated in the Taliban issuing a death threat against her. On October 9, 2012, she was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman. And yet what did she do? She retaliated- not through violence or injustice- but through peace and love. She used that past event,…

The past is a key component into making who we are, but it is not the only component involved. Everyone dreams of a better life or a better future for themselves, so why is it frowned upon to break away from your past? The fear of losing loved ones and memories can be a reason why, but to achieve those goals you must make sacrifices. Leaving behind your past is a difficult decision, but to better yourself you must break away. . In the short story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, we are introduced…

People would say that Christmastime is the most wonderful time of the year. It’s the time of the year where people are generally a lot more altruistic with one another. However, a person who truly shows the spirit of Christmas is if they are truly altruistic, in which a person makes sure they improving the welfare of others without the pretense of fame or glory attach to it. In the article “The Two Moralities of Ebenezer Scrooge,” Dwight R. Lee discusses the two morality A Christmas Carol…

“‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past’” (Orwell 34). George Orwell’s 1984, a dystopian novel set only 35 years after it was published, establishes this statement as a continuous central theme of its government, often referred to as the Party. As long as one is powerful enough in his or her words, one can make an audience believe an utter lie about a real event, no matter the amount of people that saw it happen before…

Past or Future? Sometimes writers write about a world that does not exist yet. In case in which “Fahrenheit 451” was written was to warn people about their future. Ray Bradbury was writing about his future, which is our past. His purpose relayed through his own words, I wasn’t trying to predict the future,” he said. “I was trying to prevent it.”(Qtd.in The National). He was warning us about things. Back in his present the Cold War was going on; a war between Russia and America .Book and…

Gema Serna Professor E. Buchanan English 73X TH PM 19 September 2016 A Blast From The Past In Education Education can be challenging, but as for others it can be quite intriguing. Learning new materials every day for myself, made it hard for me to comprehend everything all at once. Carol S. Dweck, author of Brainology agrees when he states “Different beliefs, or mindsets, create different psychological worlds: one in which students are afraid of challenges and devastated by setbacks” (1). I…

See Past the Skin Creator and benefactor of the Beats Generation, Jack Kerouac prevailed for his composition techniques and mongrel forms of African American culture, style, and music with a twist of European literary cultures to mirror Kerouac's ambitions of both to join the standard artistic convention furthermore to restructure it (Johnson). The Beats Generation offered a critique of middle class American values. "Beat" differently characterizes as a curtailed form of "beaten down" or of…

brighter future, it poses serious threats to people’s lives. This new technology opens a clear path to a number of new opportunities while threatening to undermine the foundation of the society, its past. This rhetorical analysis paper is built around an article in The NY Times, “A.I. Is Coming for the Past, Too” written by Jacob N. Shapiro and Mr. Mattmann, who are Managing Directors for empirical studies of conflict and data sciences respectively. To grab the attention of readers and engage…

In the article “Out of Our Past: The Forces That Shaped Modern America” Carl Degler analyzes how the basis of the American Revolution which inspired multiple other revolutions globally was political and not economical. Degler wrote the Article to inform and persuade his audience that the American Revolution was politically driven by backing up his claim with credible evidence. The thesis of the Article is “This was no heedless, impetuous overthrow of an oppressor; rather it was a slowly…