Robyn M Driscoll TM231 Heritage vs. History As a society we are always looking to the past for many reasons‚ to learn from our mistakes‚ successes‚ experiences‚ to have a better understanding of where you come from‚ the list goes on. Society takes a personal view on what is or isn’t historical and what makes something important or not. There are two ways to distinguish the past‚ history and heritage. The history tends to be the cold hard facts‚ the truth with no emotion‚ no personal reference
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form books is much more important than knowledge gained from life experiences. Although not everything is contained in books‚ we still have to learn most things in books like we used to do it when we went to school. There are three main reasons that support my point of view. Firstly‚ some knowledge can be never gained from life experiences. As we all know‚ some knowledge is recorded by people like scientists or people from the past‚ from ancient time‚ here and abroad. We can say‚ books are not only
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A Near-Death Experience Breeds RebirthHow close have you come to dying? What value do you place on your own life? Mary Oliver poses these very deep and thought-provoking questions to the reader in her short poem‚ Alligator Poem.In the poem‚ the persona has an experience in which she comes very close to death: an alligator walks by her as she drank some water out of a river while sitting on a riverbank. Oliver describes it in this way: I didn ’t understand/I drank up to the very moment it came/crashing
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My Mom’s Near Death Experience *Beep beep beep* I hear the unthinkable. The hospital heart monitor hooked up to my own flesh and blood. She ripped her liver open‚ my uncle shattered his cheek bone in several places and my mom’s friend involved in the accident to has a broken foot. Lets recap the horrible weekend we all had on that mid-snowy night. It was a rough snowy midnight on base in Ft. Drum New York (not the city.) They were next door at my mom’s friend mindy’s house getting drunk having
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of the past. Contemporary life is hectic and filled with events‚ people are busy all the time and hardly find time for communication. It also reflects social life. But I believe that tradition is an important part on a person’s life and it should be saved. Firstly‚ tradition is a part of history. If it helped people to exist for centuries‚ it brings something significant to our life. If a tradition is given up‚ a part of human life will be lost. We will loose a part of our experience and something
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thousand words‚ but a thousand ideas. The idea of a picture itself is so simple‚ yet so remarkable in the way that we can look a picture and instantly relive a previous memory or experience. Pictures are almost a way to freeze time and reflect on who we were then and who we are now. This photograph is not much of an experience‚ but a reflection on my life as a child itself. I had no idea back then that I would be who I am today. I pictured my future many times‚ over‚ and over again. I would make up
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and endured both physical and mental torture‚ Laguna were suffered from the drought because Ikoa’ak’o’ya-Reed Woman went away; after that‚ Tayo decided to take the ceremony healing to help himself to get rid of the pain which caused by his hard experience. At the same time‚ Laguna were trying to ask for forgiveness from the God; at last‚ while Tayo was cured‚ went back to his tradition‚ and started to talk about his story‚ Laguna got the forgiveness‚ purified their home‚ and evil and darkness went
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richly human in our private lives. Sterns‚ the author of our textbook- World Civilizations‚ the Global Experience‚ has the same statement in the preface of the book. He states that “world history explores the human past around the globe‚ to help us understand the world we live in today” (xviii). Many students do not understand why do people need to care and learn about the knowledge of the past. I sometimes hear people complaining‚ “What is done is done. Why cannot we just let it go? Why do we have
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functions in his pocket. As an ordinary people‚ there are many things I regretted in the past‚ so that I need one of Doraemon’s machines‚ which is called ‘Time Machine’. By using this time machine‚ I can go back to the past to correct my repented mistakes. The time machine does not only function to bring us to the past‚ but it can also bring us to the future. Hence‚ besides correcting the mistakes from the past‚ I can also prevent the mistakes which I would make in the future. By doing these things
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in a matter of time. But we are not sure if that change of time will bring us to the bottom of that wheel or in the top of it. We all have past‚ right? This past is the print of the footpath of our individual wheels of life. And for this‚ that footpath is the root of who and what are right now. We are the result of this footpath. The different experiences that we have encountered in our daily living are truly our own footpaths. Through this we have molded‚ have leaned and have gathered some of
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