Essays on Past

Nowadays there are huge arguments between city development and conserving the past: some say old buildings should be replaced with modern buildings and shopping malls, because more money can be made from these developments. Some would argue that these valuable heritage sites should be preserved....

Guns have been an increasingly popularized topic in recent times. This is due to the numerous mass shootings that have occurred, such as the school shooting this year in Florida. On February 14,2018 in Parkland Florida, Nicholas Cruz took the innocent lives of nearly 17...

The Worst Night My family comes from a forlorn country, an orgy of corruption. My mother always shunned talking about it, I never asked her because I never cared. Until our final night together, the night my mother told me about her past, that was...

The Past In Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, Slaughterhouse Five, the character, Billy Pilgrim has experiences in his past that affects his present. In his past, Billy Pilgrim experienced horrific events of war, such as the Bombing of Dresden, which had caused many deaths. Billy’s past events...

Picture this, a complete stranger invades your home and took everything you owned. They then slaughtered your family in front of you, tore apart all you had and had no remorse for their actions. All of what you knew and grew up with was gone...

Introduction According to Reiner. “When we speak of finding the truth about the past we deal with two major concepts ‘”History and history”’ which are two different definitions on their own which can lead to the proper understanding about the past. According to Renier, G....

Love, hate, fear are universal emotions experienced in history, and are shaped by cultural and religious traditions, economics, politics, and violence. Oftentimes, emotions are undetectable such as memory and silence which are concealed and tucked away to be forgotten from historical records. As depicted by...

Living with the present, saying it is easy to do is not easy. On the scientific side, it is perfectly reasonable to arrange a time of ‘what time is it’. However, only regret is that our habits often do not follow such rules. Now it...

The term “nostalgia” was initially coined by Johannes Holfer a Swiss student in the 17th century. It was used to describe a disease, a kind of “homesickness”. He came up with the term to explain the anxieties presented by Swiss mercenaries fighting away from home....