Essays on Past

The Past is Passed I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never…

Station Eleven: The Undying Past The past identifies people, whether it is good or bad, whether people want it to be forgotten or remembered, the past stays with people throughout their entire lives. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel is about a post-pandemic world…

“In general, all women are perceived to behave in an expected manner fixed by social norms; whereby the desire or likings of women are often ignored and oppressed.” In terms of societal ideals in Western society, Puritanism has permeated through regular conventions (specifically in the…

Life tells you that you are made stronger by your past. However, it’s supposed to be something that should not hold you back to shape your future. Our mistakes are what made us our most beautiful version of ourselves yet. Holding on to our past…

Longing for the past is a common pastime in today’s society. The oft repeated refrain of “the good old days” is used to complain about today’s culture and society. Apparently, everything in today’s society is wrong, and if we just returned to the old-fashioned values…

One of the most important factors of Knowledge in TOK to me is the understanding between Personal and Shared Knowledge. Personal Knowledge is meant to refer to “knowledge which has been obtained by the individual (The law dictionary)”. That is based on their own experiences,…

Nostalgia makes is a craving for the past. It is an emotional longing for the euphoria of a previous time or place, whether it is for a memory or experience, for family and friends, or for a “simpler” time in one’s life. However, the term…

Michael-Rolph Troulliot reminisces historical events by analyzing the ramifications that power and silence had within them. The presence of power and silence are dictated by the historical composition of narrators, or otherwise called storytellers, in their pursuit to provide a narrative storyline based on the…

There are a few powerhouses when looking at world economies China and the United States of America being just two of them. As most people know, the United States and China differ greatly. The two have seemingly different cultures and styles of government. On top…