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nature of happiness and explains the many, many psychological illusions that alter our perception of happiness. Gilbert focuses on why happiness is so difficult to measure and why many people have bias views regarding happiness. After reading this book, I feel as if I have a more insightful view about the human mind and how it works. Personally, I think the following quote by Gilbert sums up his book: "Our desire to control is so powerful, and the feeling

The past, the present and the future all have one similarity: time. The past can either be one’s burden or blessing. The present takes into account how one’s past affects the choices they make that will inevitably affect the future. The future is the product of the past and the present along with the sense and image of the future. These three timely qualities are present in the quote, “We are all serving a life-sentence in the dungeon of self”, by Cyril Connolly. The “life-sentence” is caused by

The Holocaust has ambiguity in holding lessons, which appear endless. It is a reinforce the justification of the idea that the past holds lessons to learn. It enforced the idea that if we do not learn the lesson it is at our peril. However, this is no universal lesson to glean 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 is a universal

reality of life. The clock further provides physical structure and unity in a post-World War I society, connecting characters of the past at specific moments in time. Through the use of flashbacks we can parallel characters of the past into the present moment, which supports Woolf’s intricate understanding of time as circular not merely linear. Wolf further guides the reader to see how time can provoke daunting effects of fear and anxiety upon one’s life, which is displayed through

the narrative contains is then used to make the audience hyper-aware of how fiction becomes us. Therefore, time itself is presented as a construct by which people create a sense of order in the present. Time essentially creates reality and when immersed in the past one distances themselves from the present and loses their concept of time accordingly, being immersed in narrative causes one to lose themselves to fiction. This then calls attention to time’s own fluidity and its existence merely as a

are we to live in the present? Why is it important? God wants us to live in the present because of how, as Screwtape has said, an intersection of our time with eternity. What this means is that by being in the present, we realize how we are in the presence of God. Living in the Future means to focus of our own future well being while living in the present means to be grateful of the things that are and focus on not only our own well being but of others. Only in the present can we truly see God.

Alienation has been considered an especially important issue during the twentieth century. It's often noted as being at the heart of modern dissatisfactions-- especially of youths, women and racial minorities. (Artlex, al-am) In Light in August, Faulkner presents us with the major theme of alienation through several techniques.

Subsequently, they can be clearly understood in conjunction with their present situation through the eyes of their own experiences. Considering these factors, this approach is an infusion of the concept of relational theory with the current state (Arnheim, 1945). It provides essential insight that focuses intensely on self-awareness as well as what is going on in the present moment. The root of concern, in regards to the present moment, is the events of what will happen from one juncture of time until

decisions and predictions regarding the present and future based on the mistakes of the past. Indeed, Edmund Burke stated as early as 1790 that “In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind."1 However, in this essay I will show that this is not necessarily the case, and will argue instead that the value of history is that it allows us to frame our present in the context of the past, and therefore

In The Turn of the Screw, Henry James utilizes many aspects of the “point of view” technique, yet his most palpable use comes in the form of the first person narrator. The use of the first person narrator with the governess enables James to present the reader with many opportunities to question the validity of her account, while at the same time adding to the complexity of the story. Due to James’ clever use of the first person narrator, there is not necessarily a right or wrong way to observe the