“What are you doing?! Stop that Emma!” said I, suffering from nightmare. When I called Emma, she never replied to my words in the dream and in a moment, she took off her necklace, and threw it towards the Mountain Dragon. If Emma was an ORDINARY person, then there would’ve been no problem; the thing is that Emma would die within three days if she takes out her necklace. Panicking, I woke up. Phew, good that it was just a dream… it would have been so frustrating if it was real. …!? With worry and
the period of the Turbulent Sixties, which along with other tremendous political events such as the Civil War, divided the American society for decades. Until today the memory of the war still haunts the American conscience. Thus, the purpose of the essay is to examine the significance of the Vietnam War as a collective memory in the American society. Specifically, the main focus will be on how the remembrance of the Vietnam
the present date which tends to create “sensual or psychological impact” on their spectator. These catastrophes can be in varied forms likes manmade, natural, alien invasions , planetary related etc. but tends to follow the same clichéd form of narrative that Susan Sontag talks about in her article “The Imagination of Disaster”, she claims that’s that from a psychological point of view, different periods of history hasn’t seen any great difference in the imagination of a disaster but it has
The question is, how we can get histories? There are a lot of mediums that we can study or learn history. Video games, movies, books, essays, paints, dances, dramas, pictures, tattoos etc. these are a few of medium in which we can interact with histories. I think we will comfortable and have a willing to know the history when the history came In a form in which we want. For instance, I
As many as one in five young women were prostitutes in 18th-century London. Figures suggest that there 40,000 in the 1780s, 50,000 in the 1790s, maybe even 65,000. The Covent Garden district that tourists frequent today was the centre of a vast sex trade strewn across hundreds of brothels and so-called coffee houses. The levels of prostitutes located here and across the city was high for a variety of reasons, ‘Some were abandoned or orphaned and turned to prostitution’ or had to get involved in
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin