Specious present Essays

  • The Importance of Time in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale

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    The Importance of Time in The Winter's Tale Leon. No foot shall stir. Paul. Music, awake her; strike! [Music] Tis time; descend; be stone no more; approach; Strike all that look upon with marvel. Come! I'll fill your grave up: stir, nay, come away: Bequeath to death your numbness; for from him Dear life redeems you. You perceive she stirs: --The Winter's Tale (V.iii.98-103) Unlike most of Shakespeare's earlier plays, The Winter's Tale moves from tragedy to comedy

  • The Sound and the Fury

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    Brooks sees Benjys stream of conscience as a vivid stream of the senses. He sees Benjys conception of love as simple like a child seeking a maternal love. Benjys perception of time tells Brooks that he “is locked almost completely into a timeless present.”6 His brother Quentin is filled with a low self esteem and can not get over the failures of his family. He has an obsession with his sister that is not about love but possession of her virtuousness. He is infatuated with time because he can’t

  • Escaping Time

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    as a whole has gone farther than most people could have ever imagined. By looking back and evaluating the evolution of time’s impact on technology and culture as well as understanding how it is possible to be where we are, technologically, in the present time, there is no doubt that change is rapidly increasing. When this change will stop or slow however, is unknown. Julian Huxley believes that, whether he [man] wants to or not, whether he is conscious of what he is doing or not, he is in the point

  • Analysis Of Social Time: The Heartbeat Of Culture

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    Cesar Lopez Melissa Qualls Strategies for University Writing 26 March 2014 Time According to the essay “Social Time: The Heartbeat of Culture” written by Robert Levine, every society throughout the world has a different perception about “time” that can be appreciated by comparing how different people of different cultures behave in different moments of the daily life. Levine was able to make a research comparing two different cultures while living in Brazil as professor at a small town near Rio de

  • Once More to the Lake, by E.B White

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    childhood memories and his present memories, as an adult, on a lake in Maine. The narrator begins the story by reflecting his youthful memories at the lake with his father. Now, as a father, he decides to relive those past moments and feelings with his son. As the narrator begins his journey, despite changes due from the innovation of technology, he notices everything is still the same. However, continuing his journey, the narrator struggles with the distinction between past and present experiences. All

  • Definition Of Time In 'Ode On A Grecian Urn'

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    step away from time, and to speed up or slow down the current time based on how their mind processes time. While their mind still moves at the same rate, time flies by them and pulls behind, leaving them outside of the present moment. There is a [s]lowing down of passage of present time when they were feeling sad or in a state of low arousal [,] [and] [w]hen the level of arousal [is] increased, both groups of participants thus experienced a speeding up of passage of time . In my opinion, I support

  • Present Moment Analysis

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    opportunity of being in the present moment fleeting. It is only in our present moment where we can experience blissfulness, happiness, confidence, and being our authentic selves. Journaling after the day is over or even several days later, we both know is not being in the present moment. When we journal in past tense, we need to close our eyes and remember what it was like then. Usually forgetting many of the details of that previous moment. If you want to journal in the present moment, which in turn will

  • Analysis Of 'Ode On A Grecian Urn'

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    The Passage of Time The passage of time preserves the past while altering the present and defining the future. In the poem ““Ode on a Grecian Urn”, John Keats analyzes the theme of the passage of time in by comparing the theme with the art depicted on the Grecian urn. Time is defined by what it is, what Time is in the Present, how it flows from one moment to the next, and how it alters the conditions of the environment, and how it alters the human body. Time is an omnipresent element, and, although

  • Leslie Marmon Silko's Yellow Woman

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    “Yellow Woman” written by Leslie Marmon Silko is a short story based on a Native American Legend story. In this Legend story, a woman has been taken away from her family for a period of time. The Yellow Woman are taken by a Ka’tisna spirit which is better known as a mountain spirit. Throughout the story, the reader learns that the narrator is in an overarching battle with her personal identity as a Pueblo Indian Woman. On top of the narrator's battle with understanding her personal identity she is

  • Piano by D. H. Lawrence

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    him to the time when his mother played piano on Sunday evenings. In the present, this woman is singing and playing the piano with great passion. However, the passionate music is not affecting him, because he can only think about his childhood rather than the beauty of the music that exists in his actual space. “A woman is singing” softly to the speaker “in the dusk.” The speaker is describing the place he is at in the present moment. It’s partially dark, and a woman is singing to him. As he listens

  • The Intersection of External Time and Internal Time in Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

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    in June and, by the use of two important techniques, namely the stream of consciousness mode of narration and the interior monologue, the reader is constantly flowing from the present to the past or the future. Moreover, Woolf blurs the distinctions between dream and reality but emphasizes the importance of the present moment. Finally, both representations of time have a great influence on characters' life and relations between each other. Firstly, time itself, which, in fact, measures and

  • Cross Culture Business Essay

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    The multifarious culture in the world is requiring the business people to understand more and more of other cultures beside their own cultures. Despite the fact, it will not be easy to know deeply other cultures in a brief time. By understand other cultures; it can make people more tolerance and show some respects in doing some businesses with people from different cultures. What’s more, the counterparts with different cultures will feel more comfortable because we can show them some esteem to their

  • Analysis of Art Spiegelman’s Maus I: My Father Bleeds History and Maus II: And Here My Troubles Begin

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    The past and present are two completely different moments, separated by a constantly growing space of time. Though they’re quite different from each other and separated in many ways, there are still apparent connections between the two. In Art Spiegelman’s graphic novels Maus I: My Father Bleeds History and Maus II: And Here My Troubles Begin, Spiegelman integrates the concept of past versus present, most apparent in his relationship with his father. As Artie’s relationship with Vladek improves as

  • Past Contrasted with Present in Faulkner's A Rose for Emily

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    Past Contrasted with Present in Faulkner's A Rose for Emily In "A Rose for Emily", Faulkner contrasted the past with the present era. The past was represented in Emily herself, in Colonel Sartoris, in the old Negro servant, and in the Board of Alderman who accepted the Colonel's attitude toward Emily and rescinded her taxes. The present was expressed chiefly through the words of the unnamed narrator. The new Board of Aldermen, Homer Barron (the representative of Yankee attitudes toward the

  • Sunrise A Song Of Two Humans

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    The name of the film that we recently watched is called Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans. The film was directed by Freidrich W. Murnau, while the producer was William Fox. The screenwriter of the film was Carl Mayer. The major stars of the film were George O'Brien as the Man, Janet Gaynor as the Wife, and Margaret Livingston as the Woman from the City. Sunrise was released to theaters on September 23, 1927. The story begins with the showing of a woman from a city traveling to the countryside for

  • Poem Analysis: As I Grew Older By Langston Hughes

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    a wall. Hughes set his poem up to tell the story of the characters life. First it’s telling you about how he was younger, and how his dream was right there without the wall and all of the sudden the wall starts to grow. Then it’s his life in the present, now the wall has grown up to the sky and is shadowing him. Then it talks about the future, how he wants to break through the wall and see his dream. The wall could represent a lot of different things, if the character represented a community

  • Personal Statement: Why I Am Majoring In Industrial Distribution

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    Why I Am Majoring In Industrial Distribution I gradually became interested in Industrial Distribution throughout my education career. When I was applying for college during my senior year of high school, I was having a difficult time deciding between the majors of Business and Engineering. Therefore, I applied to Computer Engineering and was put into Blinn TEAM. Since Blinn was more cost efficient, I declined that offer and applied directly to Blinn College. I completed all of my core classes at

  • Pseudonyms Online Essay

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    sight of this, but it is by observing an example in which pseudonymity breeds positive consequences in which we can understand the importance of it online. One such example of this is in the semi-autobiographical work Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of Present Time, by Fanny Fern (Sarah Willis), written in 1854. Even though this is a historical case and, of course, does not involve the Internet, it provides insight into what apparent anonymity offers. By examining the positive consequences the protagonist

  • The Alchemist Redemption Quotes

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    “Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption,” Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist says. And he isn’t wrong. A man’s every action will be eventually determined by some sort of positive or negative result, and if it were to be negative, then another chance would resurface. The actions one takes in the present can never be taken back, but can only be reflected upon and corrected as much as possible. Khaled Hosseini addresses a novel about

  • Self-Reflective Loop Analysis Yalom

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    The here-and-now concept that Yalom refers to in text is the idea that there are two tiers to the processing in groups (2005). The first being the present and the current experience, the second the processing or the enlightenment that the moment brings (Yalom, 2005). For a group to be effective both of these aspects must be present (Yalom, 2005). The moment must happen in the group and the processing and understanding of the moment should be evaluated (Yalom, 2005). A powerful experience needs