Remembrance Essays

  • Remembrance of Empire in the Nomenclature of Belfast Streets

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    Remembrance of Empire in the Nomenclature of Belfast Streets I Belfast is Northern Ireland’s principal city and at times its centre of government. Its size and past prosperity can be attribute to its role as a major seaport in the former British Empire. In administrative terms at least the city remains “British” today. A clear result of its history is the present demographic pattern of the city and the nomenclature that accompanies it. I intend to discuss an aspect of this nomenclature — the

  • Marcel Proust Defines the Self in Remembrance of Things Past

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    Marcel Proust Defines the Self in Remembrance of Things Past Proust seems to be unique among the twentieth century authors in that his denial of rational thought is through the use of sensation to respond to the problem--instead of experience, for example--by defining the self as a retrievable essence comprised of all past experiences. Our human condition is defined by mortality, contingency, and discontentment. This reality combined with the new outlooks of relationships between our lives

  • In Remembrance

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    September 2001 and to the rescue workers who donated their lives to help save others lives. We were scheduled to sing at the church, giving our own personal service. We began learning a piece in class called " In Remembrance," an anonymous requiem with music by Eleanor Daley. "In Remembrance" felt different to sing than our usual pieces. The harmonies were beautiful, and with the mixture of the lyrics, I found myself getting chills while I sang it. Still I shook it off: it never left class with me.

  • Bitter Sweet Symphony by the Verve

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    sorrow, some more than others and some to a greater extent. ìBitter Sweet Symphonyî combines crucial elements of lyrics and music to represent our generationís complexities. Through its poetry, the song combines thoughts of good times and the remembrance of the bad. Using the symphony to illustrate oneís past and naturalness was a brilliant move. This correlation of lyrics and music is like no other and ìmakes all attempts from this day on to create ërock classicsí utterly redundantî (Time Out)

  • Carl Sandburg's View of Language

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    time, however, it makes a statement on why languages are difficult to label and mark. The lines dividing languages blur very easily. Languages There are no handles upon a language Whereby men take hold of it And mark it with signs for its remembrance. It is a river, this language, Once in a thousand years Breaking a new course Changing its way to the ocean. It is mountain effluvia Moving to valleys And from nation to nation Crossing borders and mixing. Languages die like rivers. Words

  • Relationships with the Dead in Wordsworth's We Are Seven and Hardy's Digging

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    Wordsworth's We Are Seven and Hardy's Digging "[One] can outlast death not in a divine after life but only in a human one. If the poet dies or forgets his beloved, he murders her" (Ramazani 131); Thomas Hardy's belief of the "poet's duty of remembrance" establishes the basis for his, "Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?". "[Fearing] he abandoned his own wife before her death," Hardy wrote the poem to assume "the memorial responsibilities of the poet" (Ramazani 131). Whereas Hardy tries to atone for

  • Free Epic of Gilgamesh Essays: Underlying Meaning

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    He learns love and compassion, as well as death and loss as Enkidu dies. But Enkidu rages against his death! It is human instinct to fight death, to fight to live! Enkidu is soon appeased though by the sun god Shamash who gives death meaning in remembrance of those who have passed on, of Enkidu who will pass on. So we find in this story a meaning for death - meaning in being remembered. Gilgamesh, however, is not so easily appeased in Enkidu's death. He grieves heavily over the loss of his dear

  • Acts 2: 1-18

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    power from on high." The Holy Ghost infilling brings not only comfort and peace, but power also. On the day of Pentecost, people were gathered in Jerusalem from miles around to celebrate. The feast of Pentecost, first day of the week, was kept in remembrance of the law on Mt. Sinai where the Jewish church got its start. Because of the masses gathered, this was a perfect day for the Holy Ghost to come down. There would be hundreds of witnesses and the word of the gospel and the awesome events could be

  • Nature versus Nurture

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    qualitive level. The problem becomes discernable as an issue of nature vs. nurture. There are also many underlying symbols such as the neighbor (Aaron's father) whom has had the memory swipe, the shrine located in the mother's back garden for remembrance, and the constant reference to the way the mother remembers even the most minute and irrelevant of details from the past. The battle of nature vs. nurture will be argued in the remainder of the essay by means of the characters, Cara and Lalia.

  • Three Essays on Proust

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    constitutes experience, what constitutes divinity, what is knowing, what is being. This is what these three essays attempt to address. A note on the texts: Proust’s Swann’s Way is the first volume of his eight-volume continuous narrative Remembrance of Things Past or In Search of Lost Times. (In the original French, it is A la recherche du temps perdu.) It is the story of a man’s life, a first-person memoir, a fictional autobiography. Swann’s Way is the story of this character’s love for his

  • Analysis Of Bel Air

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    possessing this car I was retrieving part of my past and—through a kind of Proustian logic—expanding my present.” In order to understand the term used in this sentence you need to be familiar with the French author Marcel Proust. In his novel, Remembrance of Things Past, the narrator eats a piece of cake that takes him back to his childhood. So the term Proustian is when an object has the power to take us back to the past. I know how this experience feels. My first car was a blue 1994 Hyundai Elantra

  • Rememory in Toni Morrison's Beloved

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    Rememory in Toni Morrison's Beloved To survive, one must depend on the acceptance and integration of what is past and what is present. In her novel Beloved, Toni Morrison carefully constructs events that parallel the way the human mind functions; this serves as a means by which the reader can understand the activity of memory. "Rememory" enables Sethe, the novel's protagonist, to reconstruct her past realities. The vividness that Sethe brings to every moment through recurring images characterizes

  • Paul Monette's Love Alone

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    passes away. People need to find a way to cope with the situations and often need to express themselves by writing their feelings down in order to get them out. This is exactly what Paul Monette does in his book of poetry title “Love Alone” in remembrance of his companion Rog. Through writing his poetry Monette describes his emotions and the events that occurred during Rog’s battle with AIDS. By Monette’s transitioning through different emotions, the reader begins to understand the pain the author

  • Should We Continue To Commemorate Wars?

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    should continue to commemorate wars, I will be mainly referring to Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday as my examples because these are the biggest commemorations for any of the wars in British history. Among all of the ceremonies and silences that occur throughout the year, there is still a tendency for people to forget what they are commemorating and remembering. When we commemorate wars, for example on remembrance weekend, we are remembering tens of thousands of people who died defending the country

  • Shakespeare's Sonnet 16-Time Essay

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    The Precious Gift of Life Revealed in Sonnet 16    Throughout literature authors attempt to control the passage of time through their works.  In William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 16" he addresses this subject through the use of literary devices.  These devices indicate how the progress of seasons cannot be controlled by words alone.  The passing of time is displayed through paradox and imagery, but it is overcome by the ceaseless life of progeny, unlike the feeble words

  • elationship between art and society

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    eternal Forms. He believed that there is a world of eternal, absolute and immutable Forms (the world of the Ideal) and thought that this is proven by when man is faced with the appearance of anything in the material world, his mind is moved to a remembrance of the Idea or an absolute and immutable version of the thing he sees. It is this moment of recollection that he wonders about the contrast between the world of shadows and the world of the Ideal. It is in this moment of wondering that man struggles

  • My Earliest Memory

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    I have a notoriously bad memory even now, and I have no recollection of it ever having been any better. Thinking back, I have reasonably clear and complete memories for only the past three years or so, becoming increasingly spotty and episodic the older they are. On the far end, I also am familiar with a set of stories about by infancy that my parents have told me. It is somewhere in this border between implanted stories and fuzzy memories that I look in trying to find my earliest memory. What

  • Kuhn's Remembrance

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    The essential message of Annette’s Kuhn’s “Remembrance” is the importance that one single image carries, and the flashbacks we perceive just by glancing at it. Kuhn describes her family album as well as pictures of her own, like the one where she’s holding a bird, while sitting on a chair. The value that pictures carry within are beautifully described when Kuhn states “memories evoked by a photo do not simply spring out of the image itself, but are generated in an intertext of discourses that shift

  • Appeasement

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    as The Peace Pledge Union, The Peace Society and the No More War Movement. World War 1 essentially left Britain in a state of mourning, and accordingly thousands of war monuments were erected, and an annual day of mourning and remembrance was established, known as Remembrance Sunday. This was an attempt to pay tribute to those heroes lost in the war and to act as a subtle reminder of the devastation caused by the war in a bid to prevent any future conflict. As a result of the desolation a common consensus

  • Sufism

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    the people who you truly love, will give you their good deeds, so that you may enter Paradise. Normally these people who give their good deeds away are known as dervishes (this is quite different from the belief in Islam). Sufi's also stress the remembrance of God, which is called Zikr. They try to get close to God, to be one with God. They define God as something that is close to you but you can't see it. That God is all around us, but His presence is too overwhelming to see. An example is like fish