Free Essays on Living With The Past

  1. Is the Unexamined Life Not Worth Living?

    Is the unexamined life not worth living? When Socrates said, “The life which is unexamined is not worth living”, the philosopher was telling us that we should carefully analyze our actions, a piece of advise for which he should be admired. We should not ignore such a thought-provoking statement about...

  2. The Past Doesn't Bury Itself

    wrote “the past doesn’t bury itself, instead it sits, waiting to be admired by the present.” This quote holds true in Edgar Allan Poe’s short story The Telltale Heart by reminding the narrator of the past. In other words, the quote means that the past doesn’t hide itself from those living in the now...

  3. Living Longer Is Easy

    Kenyail Jackson Health and Wellness October 9, 2012 Mr. Place Living longer is Easy Jenny Craig Inc., YMCA at USA Inc., Bally Total Fitness, Weight Watchers International, South Beach Diet, and Special K products are all businesses that have one thing in...

  4. The Cherry Orchard Is Sometimes Interpreted as ‘Expressing Grief for Political and Individual Pasts That Cannot Be Revisited’ Debate the View That This Is a Nostalgic Play, with Close Reference to Two or Three Extracts.

    The Cherry Orchard is sometimes interpreted as ‘expressing grief for political and individual pasts that cannot be revisited’ Debate the view that this is a nostalgic play, with close reference to two or three extracts. The Cherry Orchard is a play that is seen as complex with its themes of nostalgia...

  5. Marriage Versus Living Together - Essay

    Marriage versus living together Carrie nelson E N C 2300-9 Work 8 docs. Marriage is the largest things that a man and woman do as husband and wife, we get marriage in courthouse and some get jurisdictions, between us as the same sex, it a union between two people...

  6. Cost of Living

    glass half full instead of half empty. Instead of saying that there is a 30% high school dropout rate, we can look at the newer statistics. As of this past June 2013, the high school graduation rate, depending on location has reached 75%! Still yet getting back to the task at hand. The benefiters of this...

  7. William Wordsworth – Milton, Thou Shouldst Be Living at This Hour

    ‘Milton! Thou shoulds’t be living hour’. Wordsworth is calling upon Milton, who was dead at the time to come and save England from the ‘fen of stagnant waters’ that she has become. Milton had "a voice whose sound was like the sea; Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free." He complains to his elder...

  8. Living a Life of Happiness and Contentment

    contentment, one must help themselves before helping others, to not allow obsessions to run their lives, and to find true love. All these factors add to living a happy life, and will be described in detail below. The characters Amélie and Raymond Dufayet, (Glassman), possess qualities demonstrating that...

  9. DEVRY ETHC 445 Week 3 DQ 2 Living in Our State of Nature

    DEVRY ETHC 445 Week 3 DQ 2 Living in Our State of Nature Check this A+ tutorial guideline at http://www.assignmentcloud.com/ethc445-devry/ethc-445-week-3-dq-2-livingin-our-state-of-nature For more classes visit http://www.assignmentcloud.com ETHC 445 Week 3 DQ 2 Living in Our State of Nature ...

  10. NUR405 Past and Present Leaders

    Past and Present Leaders The Institute of Medicine (IOM), in their report The Future of the Public’s Health defined public health as what society does collectively to assure the conditions for people to be healthy. This definition builds on the classic definition of public health proposed by C.E...

  11. Renunciation and Asceticism in Jain and Buddhist Traditions an Alternative for Radical Living

    RENUNCIATION AND ASCETICISM IN JAIN AND BUDDHIST TRADITIONS An Alternative for Radical Living The world today is quite complex with its multifarious human contact and social dynamism. Fixing the goal with maximum production within limited time, the consequent business and labour stress is the day-to-day...

  12. Revolutionizing the Way of Living

    revolutionized out way of living. We cannot say for certain whether science is a curse or a fruit of blessing. It is science that had provided modern man the life of ease, leisure and pleasure. It has brought in reach of the common man comforts and luxuries that were available in the past only to few. Science...

  13. Living in Puerto Rico

    Living in Puerto Rico my homeland is great for me, this is the only place I know but I can't imagine living any other way or place. But when I was a young girl things started to change, first with Spain. Things had become very tense with my family and everyone that lived here and then when the United...

  14. Benefits of Healthy Living

    It’s important that people realise that living a healthy life is essential to living a good life. In general, a healthy person doesn't smoke, is at a healthy weight, eats healthy and exercises. b Providing in depth views of the three aspects of healthy active living; diet, activity and stress control. It’s...

  15. Is It Ethical to Modify the Genes of Living Organisms?

    Is it ethical to modify the genes of living organisms? Genetic engineering is the act of modifying the genes of different living organisms. It has developed greatly since the first genetically engineered medicine for humans was approved in 1968. Until today, scientists have been able to discover various...

  16. The Living Museum

    Contemporary Museology Concept Çengelhan Rahmi M. Koç Museum Çengelhan Rahmi Koç Museum not only come to realize ‘Living Museum’ concept in new museology concept of 20. century and maintain the circulation of collection and exhibition but also make the visits more actif, participative and amusing...

  17. An Island Divided by the Weight of the Past

    Ireland that are in so many ways alike, and becoming more alike every year, nevertheless still separate is not present conditions but the weight of the past. In the north, there is the strong Protestant sense that their British tradition is an honourable one, manifest in their loyalty to the Crown. In the...

  18. Connecting Gender Issues with Past and Present

    Jessica Robinson November 17, 2009 World Societies Connecting Gender Issues with Past and Present “A Chinese Feminist Condemns Injustices to Women” pg. 783 “Industrialization and Women’s Freedom in Egypt” pg. 784 “Women Earn Less than Men, Especially at the Top.” New York Times...

  19. Every Job Has a Past! Every Career Has a Future!

    Meghan Lazor CMP 125 Section D 4/1/13 Every Job has a past! Every Career has a Future! Times are constantly changing and new jobs are being created while old ones are being lost. There is no question that technology and outsourcing has replaced many jobs and will continue to do so in the future...

  20. Living a Life of Rejection

    creature that lives a life of rejection. The creature felt that “all men hate the wretched; how then must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things” (Shelly 95). This shows that no one wanted him. Rejection had a negative impact on the creature, which is seen through his anger and violent...

  21. Air Quality: Past, Present and Future

    Air Quality: Past, Present and Future Ashley Richardson POL 310 Paul Edleman Ashford University . The topic of air quality can be a hot button issue in our nation today in personal, corporate and political situations. These three facets of society cannot seem to agree on the need and measures...

  22. Healthy Living Trend to Open New Avenues of Opportunity in Flavored and Functional Water Sales, Says TMR.pdf

    Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast 2013 – 2019 Published Date 16-04-2014 64 Page Report Buy Now Request Sample Press Release Healthy Living Trend to Open New Avenues of Opportunity in Flavored and Functional Water Sales, Says TMR Transparency Market Research State Tower, 90, State...

  23. Hercules Past Time and Modern Time

    Hercules Past Time: When Hercules was born to Alcmene, she named him Herakles. But in Roman, Herakles is pronounced Hercules, which is the name we use for Hercules to this day. Hercules in Greek mythology is a great figure of valor and muscle strength. Hercules bravery earned him a place among...

  24. the gate

    with new beliefs is better than living in tradition, and this is represented when Michael states, “ The whole purpose of our school, is to eradicate just such beliefs as that” (Achebe 270). While Michael is talking to the priest, he’s trying to convey that living in the past is undesired by him, and should...

  25. genetically

    Genetically Modified Foods: a Growing Concern? Living in America, we sometimes forget what a huge problem malnutrition and starvation are in other parts of the world. It's estimated that over 852 million people in the world are severely food deprived. Now, imagine a world where no one goes hungry, a...

  26. The Great Gatsby Essay

    507561 Mr. Woodard English Lit 13 October 2008 Living the Past in the Present First time riding a bike. Graduating from college. Skydiving. Memorable past events mold a person’s present figure. Paramount past events in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald create Gatsby’s attitude and present...

  27. Modern Families

    more diverse, accepting, separated, and for the most part are becoming more liberal. Families in the past were more traditional with the mother, the father, the children, and possibly a grandparent living with them. The majority of the families today do still live in this way, but with divorce rates getting...

  28. child abuse and neglect

    more than ever before, there are teenage girls living on the streets trading their bodies for money or drugs. That number is 55% of the girls on the street (National Association of Alert and Concerned Citizens, 2011). About two million mothers that are living with children between the ages of 12-17 have...

  29. Louise Ho’s Poems Will Be Explored in a Way to Understand the Emotion of People in Respect of the 1997 Handover and the Activity Performed --Emigration-- Resulting from the Anguish of the Changeover.

    Anything happened in the past is regarded as history. Art in particular literary text can apparently record human experience namely the ideology people perceive, the psychological statue of people toward the contemporary politics, the social activity people commit and even the individuals emotion at...

  30. Quality of Life

    symbolism referring to the past. The destruction of words is a way of representing the crumbling past, and how the future is pulling apart old complications. Winston is one of the few people rebelling against the future of Big Brother, and the society that he is currently living in. Even though he doesn’t...

  31. Divorce

    From the past to the present, people choose to live together, this is called marriage. Some couples are unable to maintain their relationships, so they divorce. Divorce is one of the solutions to cope with problems between husband and wife. There are three main causes for divorce; the changing of women's...

  32. Reply to Dani

    spent the past fourteen years doing nothing but wasting time mourning the death of a family that was never going to be coming back for her, never going to be coming back to her. It was at that moment in time that she decided that she was going to stop living for others, stop living in the past, and stop...

  33. Culture Among Women

    Culture among Women in the U.S.: A Look at Past and Present History Abstract Culture is a magnificent concept and the studying of American women culture helps us show how different the culture has become for women. By studying American culture, among woman between the 18th century...

  34. Basic Features of Religions

    cultural aspects in the society. Traces of modern religions date to the Stone Age itself. These basic religions found in the tribal communities of the past have paved its way to modern religions having principles and philosophies. According to anthropologists most of these communities had the same characteristic...

  35. Sample Cover Letter - Higher Ed.

    To the Residential Living and Learning Team: I am an experienced leader with proven skills working with students from diverse academic, socioeconomic, and cultural backgrounds. I recently noticed the Residential Coordinator position on the universities human resource website and I feel this is the...

  36. What You Pawn I Shall Redeem

    themselves to living confined on reservations, he accepts his fate as one relegated from the pleasure of the successful to the hope of the downtrodden. Just as importantly, he recognizes the presence in his life of “Too many [good men] to count!” In discovering this aspect of his living condition, he...

  37. Anthropology

    This field studies our past. They examine artifacts that are ancient and modern to glean a new perspective of our collective history. Archeologists examine paleoecology. Ecology is the study of the interrelations among living things in the environment, and paleo which means past. The organisms and environment...

  38. Great Gatsby & Jake, Reinvented

    themselves in getting closer to reuniting the past with Daisy and Didi. Gatsby and Jake ignore any sense of reality that their love plans will backfire and cause more harm than good. Both characters are ignorant that their loved ones are living in the past, and try and push every obstacle in between them...

  39. buisness

    wouldn’t remember anything. But a world without memories can be very painful in many ways. Like if we don’t remember things from the past we would have the same problems in the past. But it’s also a good thing that there are no memories because there could be no rights or wrongs in the community or anywhere...

  40. Education Is The Key To Success,Essay,Quote,Debate

    the most crucial key is Education which can open the doors of development, success and humanity for the people who interested and will for it. In the past several decades or so people have realized that education is becoming the utmost necessity of life today and the one who is far behind in this field...

  41. Even Is One Hypothetically Had Ten Intact Genes from a Dinosaur.

    dinosaur? Paleontologists and anthropologists have been using this method for more than ten years as a window into the past. They still have not determined how much of the distant past they will be able to see through this “window.” There are still some very important questions that need to be answered...

  42. Life's of Mother, Dee and Maggie

    this short story she is attractive, smart, and out going; however, Maggie has been left behind in beauty, luck, and confidence. The author reflects the past of the family in the present actions of each characters. The character mother (the narrator) in this story has had a very hard life and comes from...

  43. The Stranger

    wrong man, he kills himself. Although Gatsby never achieved the American Dream, he did not die unsuccessfully. "If one likes the spectacle of fast-living people who care nothing for conventions and know no loyalty except to their own vices, one will find it in this novel.'"Gatsby's loyalty was to his...

  44. Rabbit

    medical research. I believe that, though this may have been necessary in the past, other ways can be developed to test drugs and, in the future, animals should not be used. One of my main reasons for saying this is that living tissues can be grown in test tubes and new drugs can be tested on these. Computers...

  45. The Great Gatsby

    Aruthur Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby tells the story of wealthy people living in the Jazz Age. Although wealthy people have no taste, exhibited in their large homes, questionable fashion sense, and fancy but obnoxious cars, they make up for it in heart. The green light parallel’s the condition that...

  46. The Great Gatsby Rhetorical Analysis

    represented by Daisy's love, through materialism and power. "Their love is founded upon feelings from the past, these give it, notwithstanding Gatsby's insistence on being able to repeat the past, an inviolability. It exists in the world of money and corruption but is not of it." The Great Gatsby...

  47. Social Institution

    society. Although the woman is the one doing the ideological controlling, they will still be living in a patriarchal household. So it is still the man that comes up with how the children will be thought. 2. Over the past decades or so, society has been constantly changing and so doing also did the families...

  48. Eviction

    in the past few months the changes in the people coming in and out of the building from apartment four are amazing. The neighborhood drug dealers and in and out. Arguing between the four constant faces seen up stairs. There has been as many as 5 people living upstairs at a time. Over the past few weeks...

  49. Concepts of History

    HISTORY What is History? • History is a branch of knowledge concerned with the study of past events. • History is made up of many people's stories of the past. • History is the study of the past with special attention to the written record of the activities of human beings over time. ...

  50. Dead Men’s Path

    with new beliefs is better than living in tradition, and this is represented when Michael states, “ The whole purpose of our school, is to eradicate just such beliefs as that” (201). While Michael is talking to the priest, he’s trying to convey that living in the past is undesired by him, and should...

  51. Global Warming: Causes to Changes

    1.0 INTRODUCTION The earth has been through a lot of changes these past few decades. It is mostly related to the sudden change of the climate. There is a lot of news about natural disasters that have affected many countries such as earthquake, cyclone, tsunami, flood, drought and many more, and...

  52. cloudstreet

    Fish who moves towards a final destination of reconciliation, but also those with whom he lives. The character Rose responds to the adversity of her past relationships with her mother in deep hatred, in that “hating her was the best part of being alive”. This hatred is represented by Winton continually...

  53. A Soul Belonging to a World Void of Beauty

    regret past events; you are to take advantage of every situation and not just waste what you possess." Actually, if it were not for my teacher, I would still have felt as Holden Caulfield, struggling to be a "catcher in the rye." In other words, I realized that the sense of guilt for my past sins...

  54. oakOKOK

    starts jogging and about fifteen minutes in, she feels a chill down her spine and has a vision of her running at impossible speeds. She continues to jog past the old abandoned manor. She feels as if someone is watching her. Roxâne continues her jog while ignoring the feeling of being observed. She reaches...

  55. Real Women Have Curves

    factory. Ana eventually earns a full-ride scholarship to Columbia, but has to decide if she will continue on with her ambitions or satisfy her family in living in her mother’s traditional view of women who have to work, cook, maintain their clean homes and provide for their husbands. One of the main themes...

  56. Here and Now

    responded to different influence. Our relationship with others is also contingent with the past, for we perceive the presence of people through the impressions we acquire through prior interaction. The past in turn has an impact on the future, for the accumulation of our developed hopes, dreams and...

  57. Consumption Patterns

    the opening of markets. As we become wealthier, we consume more. The average New Zealander now has a higher income and a higher standard of living than in the past, and has access to products from all over the world. Another development is that households are getting smaller on average, and partly because...

  58. Elderly

    receive the same kind of care and respect as in times past. According to the Oxford Dictionary (2002), elderly is defined as an old person or a person who has aged. Dictionary.com defines elderly as some one nearing old age or a person being past middle age and approaching old age (sometimes considered...

  59. Psy 270 Clinical Assessment

    you like to learn during the interview with the family? What questions would you ask? First I would like to know if there are any other children living in the household and if so what are their ages. Next, I would ask if there have been any major changes recently, such as a death in the family, a move...

  60. Vietnamese Family Life

    to influence the world of the living. Special reverence was accorded a family's ancestors. This practice, known as the family cult or cult of the ancestors, derived from the belief that after death the spirits of the departed continued to influence the world of the living. I have heard that: The soul...