"Separate pasts" Essays and Research Papers

Sort By:
Satisfactory Essays
Good Essays
Better Essays
Powerful Essays
Best Essays
Page 23 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Good Essays

    thoughts! If we spend the majority of our mental and emotional energy in the past looking for answers‚ for happier times‚ or for redemption‚ we will perpetuate that energy continuum into our future.  Alternately‚ if we spend the majority of our energy in the future‚ we miss out on the divinity and clarity available to us in the present.  It is common for some of us spend the majority of our energy focussed in the past while others spend the majority of their energy in the future. Regardless of which

    Free Time Future Present

    • 665 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    actively make a products. Innovation. The act or process of introducing new ideas‚ devices or methods. Isolate. To put or keep something in a place or situation that is separate from others. Media. This means as the medium of cultivation‚ conveyance‚ or expression. Modern. It relates to the present time or the recent past that is happening‚ existing or developing at a time near the present time. Obsessive. This pertains to the thinking about something too much in a way that is not normal as

    Premium Time Present Past

    • 457 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    My Papers

    • 1761 Words
    • 8 Pages

    How to Write an Autobiographical Essay/Personal Narrative A short summary of your life story‚ two to four pages‚ begins your portfolio. It tells the assessor how you got to be who you are now (attitudes and behaviour)‚ what things you did to gain what you know now (knowledge)‚ and what you can do (skills). It is important for the summary to show how you and your abilities are connected to the kind of work you are doing now and what work you hope to do in the future. The process

    Free Present Future Time

    • 1761 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Better Essays

    owes its entire existence to humanity‚ a continuous process that has no know beginning and‚ hopefully‚ has no known end. The process to understand history is a complicated mess‚ where recollections of the past can never truly be presented in an accurate manner. History can only be created in the past. All we can do in the present is view periods and events‚ such as the role of Confucianism within the Qing Dynasty‚ through different approaches of writing and thinking about history. In the modern period

    Premium History Past Psychology

    • 1374 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Better Essays

    History is defined as the study of past events or series of past events specifically in human affairs or connected with someone or with something. The study of history plays a crucial role in our lives as it represents our present. It is said that the events in history alter the lives of mankind‚ and human civilization never remains the same after that‚ and things change permanently‚ for better or for worse. Many events have taken place in our past history that has truly impacted the lives of humans

    Premium History Humanities Science

    • 1918 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Siddhartha River Passage

    • 506 Words
    • 3 Pages

    it‚ not the shadow of the past‚ nor the shadow of the future...Siddhartha the boy‚ Siddhartha the mature man and Siddhartha the old man [are] only separated by shadows‚ not through reality...Nothing was‚ nothing will be‚ everything has reality and presence. (p. 87‚ Hesse) The realm of reality is something that most believe to separate the phases of one’s life. Siddhartha is learning and learned that the present is the only existent in the moment‚ not in the form of past or future. If one lives in

    Free Time Future Present

    • 506 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Huffin Puff

    • 590 Words
    • 3 Pages

    calming‚ universal yet unique. It is a place that holds the unknown within the known. It’s complexity and creases of age‚ embody the qualities of both our known and unknown pasts. Our history. While the oxford dictionary defines history as the study of past events‚ particularly in human affairs‚ my recent further analysis of our past and present world has entirely dismantled the idea that history can be defined by a statistical record of events‚ dates and figures but has rather enlightened me to the

    Premium History Humanities Past

    • 590 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    personality‚ under these circumstances‚ remains present throughout her life. Amy Tan uses a variety of narrative techniques to show the contrast between the past and present‚ and the importance of the journey in-between. The last paragraph significance lies in the transition from the adolescences to adulthood of the protagonist. In order to unify the past and the present‚ the narrators explains to the reader the determination of her mother’s will‚ to be used in contrast with her rebellion.“Of course you

    Premium Time Present Amy Tan

    • 718 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    nineteenth century is a nation full of bustling people living their own separate and original lives‚ people today look at the past with a narrow and romanticized perspective. It is easy to stereotype and stigmatize people who live in certain eras because they will never be known-- they are defined by the events they live through. However‚ it is possible to rediscover that time does not change what makes everyone human. Americans of the past defend themselves through their literature; their stories and poems

    Premium United States Time Past

    • 1052 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    and dates to remember. But they do not understandthat if we know nothing about the past‚ we cannot have a good knowledge of the present. For example‚ if we wish to know how men learnt to use fire or clothes‚ we have to know what men did in the past totravel at night or to keep themselves warm. In fact‚ only a study of History will make us realize that what we do today is the result of what our ancestors did in the past. History therefore is a long story of man’s struggle through the ages. As we read

    Premium Time Learning Present

    • 598 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
Page 1 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 50