In “Postcards from Chinatown”‚ the poet examines how‚ in a place that had been renovated as a tourist attraction‚ the past lurks in the shadows of the present‚ which is unauthentic and seemingly all just a performance for entertainment. “An Empty Cinema”‚ on the other hand‚ laments the vanishing of Singapore’s past and heritage‚ likening the past to no more than just a cinematic film‚ where it is just a hologram projected onto a screen. In “Postcards from Chinatown”‚ the poet calls our daily
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History is often seen as a way of advancing to the next stage and improving the cultural values of the past. However‚ for T.S. Eliot‚ modernity had ruptured its connection to a more vital past and was as a result impoverished. History is instead characterized by regression and ruptures. In his essay‚ “Tradition and the Individual Talent‚” his idea of tradition shows retrogression instead of progression. Eliot argues that “the whole literature of Europe from Homer” (49) is an archive of works affecting
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1. To me the past does matter because that makes you who you are now even though sometimes you try to ignore it your past will always stick by you. For example I didn’t have a happy childhood‚ it was full of arguments and abuses. I learned from my mom’s mistakes to not stick around and let a man abuses you in anyway. Another example losing my brother was probably the worst way to learn to cherish those you have today but that’s the past and somehow some way you learn from your past. 4. According
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empasizes the importance of the present to the future‚ and consequently the past to the present as well as the future. What we have done and what we do affects what is in store for us. Different people have different ways of defining and looking at the past. For some‚ “Past is past.” It is something that already happened. As Mr. Hundert put it‚ “We cannot step into the same river twice. An opportunity lost is lost forever.” The past is something we can not do anything about but which should not affect
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Loria Both the novel The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger and The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini portray a similar theme about the persistence of the past is able to affect someone’s life in the future. In general‚ the past might turn out to be something nice and memorable for some people‚ but some people might think that the past is something that will haunt them and they just want to forget all about it and start a new life. It is scientifically proven that repression is one of the most
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1-night time Act 2-various times the next day Act 3-several days later The play is largely a representation of what takes place in his mind during the last two days of his life. In fact‚ Willy’s reminiscences allow us to understand what happened in the past‚ and why things are how they are now in the present day. Miller says: “The salesman image was from the beginning absorbed with the concept that nothing in life comes next but everything exists together and at the same time within us.” The story is
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one fine morning---- So we beat on‚ boats against the current‚ borne back ceaselessly into the past. (ending paragraphs‚ Chapter IV) Fitzgerald’s last words of the novel sum up the ending and clearly convey the idea of human nature yearning for the past. Commenting about Gatsby‚ color imagery is used to symbolize the American dream in the 1920s. Establishing the theme of the significance of the past and dreams for the future‚ the “green light” at the end of Daisy’s dock stands as a symbol of Gatsby’s
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people need to look to the past or the future when making decisions? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading‚ studies‚ experience‚ or observations. Do people need to look to the past or the future when making decisions? Today there are many obstacles to success‚ and the decisions you make‚ whether you succeed or not. Now the things we have done on the past will influence what people
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It is always enjoyable to take a visual journey back in time‚ to view what was considered advanced and what thoughts of future times represented. A time capsule stored with precious documents and possessions from a past era can serve as a visual and material presentation of what past times were like‚ and put in prospective the accomplishments that have changed human lifestyles for better or worse. If I were invited to participate in the planning of a time-capsule‚ I would include items that depicted
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