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Now for a different aspect of change, in some characters nostalgia for the past cripples the ability to deal with change. This nostalgia is linked with an inability to face the present. Rachel is frustrated with Jerra and accuses him of being like an old man stuck in the past. In ‘No Memory Comes’ the boy actually becomes his memories and nothing else. In this section of my speech I will delve into a very prominent character that is there through out the novel Minimum of Two. I am speaking of Jerra, Jerra is one character who doesn’t like to be in the present. He is nostalgic and thinks about the past too much. This attitude of Jerra affects not only himself but also the strength of his relationship with family members (The Strong One). Even though in some stories Jerra tries to let go of the past and deal with the present such as in Gravity, but still he is drawn back to the past. Jerra’s modern lifestyle still doesn’t stop him from thinking and bruding over his passed away father. His nostalgia for the past can never leave him. Jerra in the story The Strong One, does not want to change his lifestyle. Jerra continuously objects to his wife’s decision of studying and moving out of the caravan park. Jerra has tried to make a living by playing in a band, but this fails. And whenever Rachel approaches Jerra referring to her ambition of studying and moving on. Jerra always refrains and says

It is not a complete story, however. The past is full of holes. The memories seem to have been wipes off the mind and throwing into an abyss, forgotten forever. These uncertain points in a person's life causes him to panic and forget who he is and where he comes from. In the poem Itinerary, the narrator describes his past and how he cannot return to it. It describes how individual try and cling to what they can remember. Looking backwards, they forget the future. In my personal example, I describe a memory of mine that is no longe complete, but is more of a fragment. I describe how this image of my father shapes my actions and personality today. IN my experience the past should be a guide for the future. Positive example should be followed. Looking back at the past should be as simple as looking through a window. It should be admired, but not be allowed to control the

Being stuck in the past can have negative effect on your outlook on life. In this case it causes Leah to hold herself back, “‘Will I

This art work clearly shows that women and their roles were becoming viewed as more valuable and acceptable. One element of the art that expresses this higher role that women possessed is demonstrated by the fact that there are two women – probably mother and grandmother – placed in the center of this painting; this may be representing a previously learned term called “republican motherhood” (168). Surprisingly, the Louisiana Purchase is an event that wonderfully displays how women were becoming more accepted. In 1804, when Jefferson called on Lewis and Clark to go see what the new land had to offer, it is mentioned that a women by the name of Sacajawea was of assistance to them (222). By her helping out these two American men, she showed

It was an infamous plantation buried in Louisiana converted into a home for correcting convicted criminals. Only, once inside the doors, the rumors end and the truth begins. The weeks, months, and years the criminals spend are beyond their wildest nightmares. Follow Nala Osei as she unravels the criminals and makes them reveal who they truly are and what they've truly done.

In the novel, Hannah is getting use to living in Lublin and is now very interested in how they lived in the past. Hannah starts to show that she has the emotion of curiousness when starting to live in this past life time. Hannah starts to

The story is told in past tense, therefore, the narrator is looking back on what was happening at that time. “There was a summer in my life when the only creature that seemed lovelier to me than a largemouth bass was Sheila Mant.” (Wetherell 1) The narrator would do anything to impress Sheila Mant but has not yet realized what was coming. While they were on their date, the narrator decided to do something extremely risky that could damage his chance with Sheila Mant. He decided to set down a fishing rod because he was interested in what possible things could happen. Needless to say, he caught something quite extravagant. “Four things occurred to me at once...that it was the biggest bass I have ever hooked...Sheila Mant must not know.” (Wetherell 3) Initializing that Sheila Mant thinks fishing is dumb, the narrator did not want her to know about his fishing secret. Here was when the narrator must choose between the bass or Sheila Mant. After the loss of both Sheila Mant and the bass, the narrator realized that he cared more about the loss of the bass than the loss of Sheila Mant. Since then, the narrator never forgot about what he had done that summer. “The memory of that lost bass haunted me all summer and still haunts me.” (Wetherell 4) The narrator was having mixed emotions throughout the whole story but as the years went past, he realized that he lost something he loved greatly, and it was not Sheila Mant, it was the largemouth bass. Even if he did not realize it that night exactly he realized it further on in his life. All things considered, flashback has an extensive impact on what the theme came to be in the end, that no one should change for someone and be true to who they

Chinese American women who came to the country as first generation immigrants. The reason I chose this movie is because it was my mother’s favorite movie and it deals with many sociological issues.

She grew up in Africa and was home schooled her whole life untill one day her family moves back to the States and she enrolls in a high school in a suburb outside of Chicago. This funny movie shows the thoughts of a girl who has lived in the jungle, and comes to a reality where the jungle seems to be civilized as she is involved in a variety of situations where it is played with psychological warfare, and social rules. Although it is a fictional film, the resemblance to reality is very close. Moreover, the film addresses the main issues that arise in a real high school such as; friends, boyfriends, betrayal and superficiality, elements that allow us to interpret reality. This film is an example of a coming-of-age film as the protagonist is trying to find belonging in her new

millions of Americans watched the story of a young African stolen into slavery and taken to colonial America. It begins with the birth of Kunta Kinte in 1750 in an African village and ends seven generations later after a monumental struggle to achieve freedom and dignity against overwhelming odds. Lou Gossett Jr. as the house servant, Fiddler, gives one of the finest performances ever seen on

movie she appears to be in, due to the same physical characteristics and style as the women dancing in

Flashback: Mia looks back in her memory while she is staying at the hospital waiting for Adam, so he can help to get Mia out of this critical situation. Mia 's memories include her brother birth, her parents transformation from rocker musicians to ordinary parents, her passion for classical music, her ambitions to be a great cellist, her friendship with Kim, her relationship with her grandparents and her love for Adam. As she goes through those memories, she has to decide whether she will die or live.

In a dream locker room, the camera container along a gathering of young ladies after exercise center as they shower and dress, energetically slapping one another with white towels, the pictures of stripped youthful bodies delicate sifted and rendered in moderate movement, similar to an obscene dream intended to titillate us into voyeuristic spectatorship. As yet giving, the pulled back Carrie White touches her body cleanser as the water delicately pours over her, her body filling the casing which sexualizes her until, at the same time, executive Brian De Palma turns around the scene from a suggestive minute into a frightening one. Blood starts to stream between Carrie's legs; she looks on concerned and befuddled at the red caught in her fingers.

Set in feudal Japan, the movie opens up with a young woman traveling across the ocean in a small boat, clutching her shamisen (a three-stringed instrument). An almost tsunami-like wave crests over the young woman, named Sariatu, who then strums her shamisen causing the wave to split in half, almost parallel to that of Moses and the Red Sea. The storm outside rages on, a wave crests behind Sariatu, unbeknownst to her, and crashes down upon her, sending her into the water where she strikes her head on a rock. She washes up on the shore and is seemingly unconscious until she hears the cry of her child, whom she had been carrying on her back.

Vagabond is a 105 minutes film made in the winter of 1985 in Southern France. The French title of the film is Sans toit ni loi, which means without a roof or law, however, loi also means rights and rule. The film opens with a shot of a frozen woman’s corpse, whose name is Mona, lying in a ditch. We know nothing about the identity of the dead girl until the voice-over of a woman (Agnes Varda) and the flesh back’s sequences in which people met and remember the girl in the last few weeks of her life, provide information about her. As it can be seen in the movie, Mona is a hitchhiker homeless woman who has left everything behind and struggle to meet her basic needs independently. She talks rarely and seems to be not interested in anything. The range of characters who have contacted Mona and accompanied her for a short or longer time is quite wide. The perception of these various witnesses of Mona comes from their own vision rather than a real understanding and construct different expectations based on their own fantasies, desire, and norms. Thus, when Mona behaves against their wishes and follows her own way, they eject her from their place or vehicle.