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idea that the past holds lessons for the present. It creates the idea that if the lesson is not learned it is at our peril. However, there is no universal lesson gleaned from the Holocaust, that is convincing enough to justify the current obsession of studying it. Rather, it is the collective memory of oppression and the specter of comparison, that has made us chose to believe that there is a universal lesson to be learned. The specter of comparisons affects our understanding of the past and the present

Some of the poems and essays I have read during this class were relatable to me. Being away from college, I have struggled with not being at home. I have become a different person when I am at school, but when I am home, I feel like I am my normal self again. Some of these authors of the poems and essays that I have read throughout this class has struggled with being somewhere where they don’t belong and that they are someone else when they are not home. Unlike the other poems and essays we have

into a good college, next you won't get a good job and your life will be miserable. I know I have. Ray Bradbury's short story "A Sound of Thunder" takes place in the past when dinosaurs existed. Travis, the instructor, takes Eckles through a time machine so Eckels can feel what it's like to kill a dinosaur. They don't belong in the past so there is a path that they all have to stay on so they don't mess up the future. Disregarding the instructions, Eckels accidentally steps off the path and squishes

“A role model is an imperfect person, not a perfect person, because that’s who we are as real people” (Jennifer Love Hewitt) Everyone one needs somebody to look up to. During the video of the greatest love of all Whitney Huston shows a couple of things. She wants tries to prove a point during the video. The point she is trying to prove is that everyone needs a role model or even someone to look up to. When you’re a little kid most of the time your first role models are a doctor, firefighter, or a

Generation's and The Gaps In-Between In our present day lives many might not think about different generations, let alone how it affect them and the world they live in today. But even today people from many different generations live their lives day to day like everyone else. The world in a sense* is a generational salad bowl, mixed with people of all generations living together. Many might never notice they are living in a generational salad bowl, that is until they talk to someone who was born

VFrom the Anglo-Saxon Era till the Present Time The Anglo-Saxon refers to the settlers from the German regions of Angeln and Saxony, who made their way over to Britain after the fall of the Roman Empire around AD 410. Thus, paved the way to be known as the Anglo-Saxon Era. But I, the author of this essay, will simply discuss the Anglo-Saxon’s similarities and differences with the present modern time, specifically in three areas. And these areas would be gender roles, language and social conduct

will learn to use my strengths in a positive way to assist others in the future, the present, and maybe support people with hindsight from the past. My strengths are Competition, Adaptability, Ideation, Context and Futuristic, these strengths are interesting because context and futuristic are kind of opposites in the fact that context focuses on the past and present and futuristic focuses on the future. Throughout this reflection paper I will focus on how my strengths can help other people rather

his reader that one's action may cause a result that cannot be fixed. At the beginning of the story, Eckels was walking by when he saw a sign about traveling into the past; which got him interested. Eckels walked into the office ready to kill a dinosaur in the past with two safari leaders and two hunters. As they arrived in the past through a time machine, Travis told him the rules; especially emphasizing mostly about not to step off the path. Well, after a few days of searching, they found the T-Rex

never able to find again. The story’s denouement concludes with Hope finding her place with Sarah and Anna on the farm. Throughout the story the past brings hope to the future. Holding up the Earth has foreshadowing, when the writer clues the reader to something that will eventually occur in the story, woven through the book. When hints are given in the past about the future being good hope is created. Anna was able to save the graves of the women who lived on the farm when it was first settled from

“Keep Memory Alive” is an award acceptance speech delivered by Elie Wiesel. The speaker recalled the events and personal experiences during the unfortunate and penetrating event known as the Holocaust. Wiesel gave an example of a little young boy asking his father: “Who would allow such crimes to be committed? How could the world remain silent?” (Wiesel, 544). That young boy turns out to be Wiesel. Wiesel proceeds to emphasize his belief that everyone should remember the significant events in history