Specious present

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…

Brian Tran Reading Response Log 1.”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…

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situation, it was a falsified memory that you forced into your imagination. In Velleman’s case though he would be super-imposing that memory on his prior experience, where he would be thinking of that same memory twice, both being Velleman in the present and Velleman as his former five-year-old self blowing out the candles. Velleman would claim that the child and himself now would not be the exact same self…

with the past, Taylor develops a correlation between the past and the present by making history to look like the determinant of the present. By describing history as a part of the present, the author develops a clear understanding of how history is the formal record of the past. While Foucault identifies the past based on the documentations and activities that took place then, Taylor generates a connection between the present and the past. The approach by Taylor enhances the reader’s…

explored in this text… 1. The people’s views on nature 2. Ideas of leaders (e.g. government, Kingdome) 3. The treatment of woman This assignment is going to be looking over the differences in ideas, values and messages displayed between Macbeth and the present day. Body 1- The Views on nature T-In the period of Macbeth there are multiple references to nature, earth, and human activities, so what are the differences between the righting’s of Shakespeare,…

novel, The Shipping News, the main character, Quoyle, experiences an abusive past of which he believes he’s at fault for. As Quoyle’s journey through adulthood is expressed in this novel, Proulx demonstrates the pain of the past lingers on one’s present ultimately devaluing one’s sense of self-worth and clouding their view of any positive future, but revisiting the past and confronting the issues at hand will relieve this existing pain. Quoyle’s abusive past, which was inflicted upon him by…

hard in the present there should also be the sprit or belief that it can be done. According to Shane Lopez, hope means the belief that the future be better than the present. Most people in the world are optimistic about the future which means most people of the world think their future is bright. But this is not real hope, it is optimism (Hope, Lopez). It is not bad if people are optimistic about their future but they should try to do something to make their future better than the present. If…

scheme of things push humans towards the notion that they need to make an impact on the world within their immediate community by living their lives as the best versions of themselves. Through both Self, Society & the Cosmos as well as Paths to the Present courses it can be found that although human motivation for leaving a footprint has changed, the innate desire to leave a legacy behind has not. The human awareness of self and its impact of the world has slowly…

allowed himself access to it.”(The Emigrants, pg.100). I believe that Ambrose would have given anything to forget all that he could remember in order to free himself from the horrible death of his friend, but is problem is that he could not accept the present; he did not want to give up on…