The Gap Between The Past And The Present

Symbolism is the use of symbols to represent ideas. These ideas can also be depicted using objects. Symbolism is clearly visible in the book Inside Out and Back Again. When Ha and her family are leaving South Vietnam, they had to leave behind items that represented a part of them. Ha’s papaya tree symbolizes the rise and fall of hope and her home.

While it's a rather misleading title, the essay “On Keeping a Notebook” by Joan Didion doesn’t talk about how to keep a notebook, but rather why you should. She expresses her belief that a notebook is: “...something private, about bits of the mind’s string too short to use, an indiscriminate and erratic assemblage with meaning only for its maker (Didion, 87)”. Which, in other words, means a notebook’s contents are information, often small “bits”, that would only make sense, or have meaning, to the person who wrote it.

Our VA is a great place to work overall.  I feel most people work there because they love working with and caring for Veterans.  It is our duty to promote well-being and happiness so we can recruit and retain the brightest and most talented people.  The VA has a good retirement program and benefits package and it is what initially entices non-physician applicants at first.  The application process is a bit complicated and our HR does not do well in the communication part of the process.  Once employees are hired on, which can take several months, they are usually pretty happy.  Physicians and nurses are boarded, there is a very detailed algorithm used to determine their grade and step, which ultimately calculates their fair

The Great Gatsby and Citizen Kane are both stories in which the main character wants to get back to times before where they presently are. In both stories they have an object that symbolizes a time and person they wish to be. For Gatsby it is the green light and for Kane it is Rosebud. What I want to explore is what happens when theses symbols are no longer symbols, but memories.

Keeping some sort of diary or journal about your daily thoughts and experiences is at times said to be therapeutic and help the mind unwind. It is also important when it comes to looking back and seeing how time has changed the not only a persons thoughts and actions but the worlds. This is what is seen in Aaron Thomas’s: The Caribbean Journal of a Royal Navy Seaman. Documenting a year at sea is obviously time consuming, can take a great toll on a person but most importantly can give a great deal of information about the person as well as the time period and geographical location.

keeping a diary for recording my daily life because it is a good way to practice my

Memories are not tangible objects you can buy, but intangibles souvenirs one can only keep by constantly remembering them. The largest tragedies of life are forgetting memories. Jane Eyre 50 Quotation Dialectal 7. “I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.”(ch. 6, pg.

Memories are a powerful force within people’s lives. They encourage, explain and expose the inner depths of an individual and the reason for who they are. Whether remembrances from past occurrences as children or teens or life altering decisions made regarding career and family, memories continue to have an influence on everyday life. They drive a person forward in current judgments and effects relationships with those surrounding. However, as time progresses memories alter. Either details are forgotten or translated differently than their original happening; memories are subjected to distortion. Consequently, the revision in which people remember recollections of their life’s history can influence the interpretation and their retellings. The correspondence between time and memories is often overlooked as parallel, but the interlocking connection contributes sustainably to everyday life, choices, behaviors and personal relationships. In her photographic series, Mutters Schuhe, Nina Röder explores how “subjectivity and perspective affect the retelling of memories” (Garrett, 2014) through the suggestion that emotions and time can trigger a rebirth of perspectives concerning memories.

The article, “Why Does the Gap Persist?” by Paul E. Barton is an attempt to try and make sense of why our minority students continue to struggle. Barton brings up the point that research has shown that equal access to education has not equated to equal achievement. Mr. Barton points out fourteen factors that affect student achievement. A summary of some of these points will follow.

#2.) "recycling an old paper" is plaigiarism - This is the equivalency of when any type of resource is taken and the wording is reconfigured without any recognition whatsoever. (Fox and Azman, 2014, p. 8)

“The Past” by Oodgeroo portrays both the author’s resentment for the mistreatment of aboriginals in the past and also depicts her desires. Oodgeroo Conical her aboriginal name also knows as Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska was the first Aborigine women to have her works published in which she used to promote aboriginal rights. Oodgeroo’s has a variety of poems which all are very direct, uses accessible rhyme schemes and allusion. Poems such as “Dark unmarried mothers, “Time is running out” and “The dawn is at hand” corresponds well to this poem. On other hand, “Let us not be bitter” has a large contrast between “The Past” but is thematically linked. Oodgeroo has used effective language devices such as imagery, metaphors, figurative

As this century fades into the past it is worth remembering that its course--in contrast to earlier times--has been chronicled by a visual narrative that relies on the attraction of photographs as means of storing

“A shattered visage lies, whose frown, and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command” We as humans try to preserve memories by building

Throughout the semester, evaluating different eras and event across the world and expanse of time, we have studied how individual players and their actions contribute to our understanding of history itself. Many of our readings were historical accounts centralized on the lives of single players, and these players’ roles in greater historical events.

Archive-based history has many challenges, such as overcoming bias of information. When an event occurs, everyone has an opinion on it, so when they write about it, or take pictures of the event, there will always be a bias. Sometimes, there are not enough primary sources to get a holistic view of the event, so the historian only has a partial picture of what happened. An image can be taken at a biased angle, only showing part