Past

another way of saying that man simply cannot be or just exist. In order to be man must leave his thoughts of time behind and simply exists in all facets of life. This brings up two important questions. Frist: what causes man to stay fixated on the past? Is it his aware conscious? Or is it societies’ conspiracy for conformity? Secondly, how can man hope to imitate nature? Emerson’s answers to these questions lies in the understanding of his rose…

Dana’s trips back into the past, have her go from being content in her time, with freedom and no discrimination based on her color, to being oppressed because of her race. What is interesting to take into account is that Dana is in the same country as she was once free, however now…

discover much of Rhys’s past after her death, as only eleven published manuscripts were left after she died. Therefore this seems to expose Rhys’s aspiration of not wanting anyone to delve into her private past, as wanted to concentrate on what existed during her prime. Yet people still maintained speculation regarding Rhys’s early years, wanting to use her past works to give reason to what happened in her present and future pieces. Likewise Woolf wanted none of her past writings to be published…

could nourish his soul in the future whenever he feels down or occupied by the daily life responsibility. The food that could repair any negative energy to a cheerful moment. I believe that these types of thoughts could teach him to forget about the past and focus on the present and the future; however, it still gives him hope for the future. In stanza five, lines (110-111) the poet says “ The anchor of my purest thoughts” which relates to how nature purifies Wordsworth’s thinking and creates a…

Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of 2006, The Road. Tells the post-apocalyptic story of a father and son traversing the ruins of the southeastern United States, after a disaster of unknown origins. The plot, follows the characters heading towards the southern coast, once their previous environment became too cold for them to survive. Only being accompanied by each other, love keeps them alive. An unbreakable bond, that is continually functional throughout the entire book, despite…

Knowing Difference of the History History is the most important thing to know in our life; from the past, we know what is the present time and also from the past events we know in the present events might happen the same as what happened in the past. Each of us might know the different history of their country that might be American, Mexican, Greek, Egyptian or even Multicultural history that knowing your values from your own culture and from the culture that you live in. For me, I…

Re-Thinking History by Keith Jenkins is a book that takes a critical look at writing history and how historians have individual approaches to history and the past. Jenkins creates a debate about theories, the definition of history, the question of truth, bias, and history as a science or as an art. He asks similar questions as John Tosh and John H. Arnold. All three challenge previous historians and theories. Jenkins even asks readers what method and ideology would they choose to follow, that of…

Margaret McMillan’s compelling speech on “using history to understand the present” introduces several major points that construct her idea on how History is used to understand the present. Her points revealed a different way as to how history can be used responsibly and irresponsibly. Furthermore, encompassing two ideas on the validity of history and how it is irresponsibly conveyed to the public. One of McMillan’s first major points was the argument that “humanity deprives itself of a very…

For example, many people in love credit their intuition as the reason for their success. One person knew that they needed to talk to a particular person, so they did. They didn't question why they should talk to that person, they just knew they had to and followed their gut feeling. For most people, they ended up talking to the person that they would be with for the rest of their life. For others, they talked to someone who knew the person they would be with for the rest of their lives. The…

As Prior, Ambros has a clear memory of his past, which is presented to us more explicitly as the potential bearer of both salvation and self-destruction. Adelwarth is constantly tormented by a tragically photographic memory of him and his friend Cosmo; therefore, he chooses to have his mind, self…