Why the past should not be glorified We should not preserve the past‚ we should look to the future. We are living in the modern era‚ where people are practical and realistic‚ optimistic that new inventions and discoveries will improve their lives. For most‚ it would be plain foolishness if one were to be so mindful about the past‚ when instead‚ one should invest his time and thought into building a better and more meaningful life in the future. Ironically‚ in the midst of their “pragmatic” judgement
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An Obsession For The Past Obsessing too much over anything is unhealthy for a human being. Gatsby‚ in The Great Gatsby‚ dedicates his life to finding his lost love‚ Daisy‚ despite changes that may have occurred since the relationship ended. It is a love from the past that he longs for once again. Gatsby’s obsession gets to the point that he will do almost anything to retrieve the life that he once lived. Due to Gatsby’s attachment to the past and obsession to relive it‚ he forgets to live in the
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Can People Change Over Time? “I didn’t know who to blame. I tried to find somebody. I began to blame it on black people.” These are the words of C.P. Ellis‚ a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan‚ as he described his way of thinking to Studs Terkel in “C.P. Ellis” (400). “C.P. Ellis” has many similarities with Vincent Parrillo’s theories of prejudice in his essay “Causes of Prejudice” (384). Parrillo explains that the causes of prejudice are psychological and sociological. Parrillo describes three
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Avocados have been part of many people’s life for hundreds of years. People know different ways of using them and their different of eating them but some people don’t know where avocados come from or that they have changed over the years. People have had avocados for so long that they have been taken for granted but just imagine avocados going extinct and never being able to taste guacamole for the first time. Before we discuss the avocado’s end let us go back to its beginning. In 1518‚ Martin Fernandez
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India at the cross-roads 64yrs after Independence Since 1947‚ India has been celebrating Independence Day to rejoice in her freedom from imperialism. Its essence is also to recall how much suffering people had undergone during the British rule.We all are now ready to celebrate 65 years of Indian Independence‚ which is obviously a good day to sing patriotic songs‚ listen to dignitaries’ speeches and feel passionate about our motherland. However‚ we tend to forget the basic introspection required
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Change Over Time Essay The social and Economic transformations that occurred in the Atlantic world as a result of new contacts among Western Europe‚ Africa‚ and the Americas from 1492 to 1750 increased and decreased populations of the Atlantic world due to the slave trade and flourishing economy. Also in the Americas‚ European colonists stopped mining for silver‚ and moved on to agriculture. Due to the new contacts within the Atlantic world‚ economies flourished as new crops and food spread around
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Our correctional system has changed over the years. In the United States‚ there were historical changes in correctional thought and practices. Several periods were involved that emphasize ways in which correctional goals reflected ideas current at the time. First‚ would be the colonial period. According to the textbook‚ “American Corrections”‚ Americans lived under laws and practices transferred from England and adapted to local conditions (48). A strict society was carried on by puritans in New
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technological and societal progress that this country had made. There were many positive‚ extreme changes that took place in the US after the civil war that included transformation from an agricultural to industrial economy‚ a growing population of different cultures due to a huge increase in immigration‚ and the expansion of transcontinental railroads that gave people access to areas and products from all over the country. One would think that societal and moral progress would keep pace with technological
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From 100 CE to 600 CE‚ the Roman Empire experienced many changes‚ both politically through power of leaders‚ and culturally religion. Rome also had some continuity‚ like the fact that it remained an empire through all of the 500 years mentioned. Although it stayed somewhat the same‚ its changes far outnumbered its continuities. Cultural changes in Rome were mostly due to the rise of Christianity during this period. Toward the beginning of the era (circa 100 CE)‚ many pagan religions were very prevalent
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Mishra was perturbed. As an AGM of the prestigious State Bank of India Staff College at Hyderabad‚ he was scheduled to take a session with the young probationers on the benefits of the restructuring as suggested in the Mckinsey Report. He was perturbed‚ not only because the report was something that was not easy to understand‚ but the portions of the report that he had read and understood‚ he was not convinced about. Much had changed since the time when he himself had started his career as a probationer
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