In the book “I Had Lived A Thousand Years” by Livia Bitton-Jackson talks about Jews being tortured by the Germans. The Germans hate the Jews because they blame the Jews for losing World War 1. Ellie and her family were sent to concentration camps where they face their nightmares and are separated by the Germans. They were suffering, but were afraid to run away.
“Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope.
Ransby wrote about the complexity of Ella Baker's life. Ransby stated: "for me, in looking back as Baker's life in all of its rich complexity" (Ransby, Pg). In the writing the biography, Ransby brought to life a person in her writing. Her argument centered on the idea of complexity. The complexity of Baker's life leads to the importance of her legacy.
In Livia Bitton-Jackson’s memoir I Have Lived a Thousand Years, Bitton-Jackson recounts her experience of surviving the Holocaust through the character of Elli Friedman. Elli is a blossoming, intelligent adolescent girl who lives a normal life until the events of the Holocaust take place. Even a broken relationship with her mother does not stop Elli from giving up. This illuminates aspects of Elli’s admirable personality, such as wisdom beyond her years and her strong ambitious attitude. Elli’s young spirit still fights keep her mother alive in the camps despite her mother’s animosity.
In Legend by Marie Lu the author develops the theme of Day’s perspective on life to reveal that you need to live everyday to its fullest potential because when you don't you miss out on so many opportunities and it's just better to live one moment at a time and try and soak everything up. The author tries to explain that you just need to slow down and enjoy everything because maybe in that next moment you won't have anything. At this point in the story Day and June are sitting in an abandoned railroad car, when June asked why Daniel chose his street name Day, and he responds. “‘Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything’s possible again.
This shows of Bradbury’s attitude of growing old, and later embracing it and death. Furthermore, death to Bradbury is simply a lot of nothing. “Death is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing (Bradbury 243). " This quote further proves Bradbury’s thinking of death as not knowing when it is going to happen.
"Now the night is coming to an end, The sun will rise and we will try again." With a new day comes a new chance at life. The night ending brings the end of the past and the start
This is implied to every character and sticks with them the moment they get it until the moment they perish. Word choice within influence the environment within the book. “One million years ago, back in 1986 A.D. …” (3) Million is repeated throughout as the time gap. A million years is more than enough for evolution to take its course. Nothing major happens at the end of that time frame other than that humans are still on this planet.
Though this is true, the allusions she uses could be applied to many events that happened in 2022 as we enter into the 2023 new year. In one section of her poem she says, “So let us not return to what was normal, but reach towards what is next.” If I were putting this into the context of when it was written, I would say it is alluding to the question of when we would get back to normal by our country and specifically by the students in our country because of the pandemic. Applying this to our present-day situation, I would say this statement could be alluding to our normal of getting by with the bare minimum in 2022, and how we should start truly reaching our full individual potential in the new year. This allusion adds to the main message of the poem that we should keep our eyes on the future and not the past by making us think about what our new normal could be, and not what we missed out on in the
War is a devastating site to witness for anyone, but imagine being child in the middle of a civil war having to decide whether to kill or be killed. A twelve year old boy named Ishmael Beah, along with many other children, faced this challenge during the Sierra Leone Civil War. He later wrote about his journey in his memoir A Long Way Gone. Ishmael’s story consists of a conflict between the government and rebels.
Time, she said is the only one truly irreplaceable commodity at our disposal. While time is limited, it has infinite possibilities. She used the West African proverb- if you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes and if you don’t wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes to place emphasis on this. The choices we make with the 86,400 seconds in each day is what gives it an unlimited potential. Connections from the past, present and future are always very good.
The most influential speech to me is one that Ray Lewis gave back in 2012 to his former college, The Miami Hurricanes. In the first part of this speech, Ray Lewis talks about effort. He says, “there has never been a time where someone has consistently beat me to the ball, that doesn’t have anything to do with talent it just has everything to do with effort”. For me, putting this into life perspective, it means that no matter how hard things get effort is the key. Effort will get you through any obstacle, whether it is football, school, work, or life in general.
“Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him, and afterward when you say to this person "the world today" or "life" or "reality" he will assume that you mean this moment, even if it is fifty years past. The world, through his unleashed emotions, imprinted itself upon him, and he carries the stamp of that passing moment forever.” Though some disagree, a person 's’ past affects their future no matter how much they attempt to erase it. Generations of people live in time periods that have events that set them apart from other generations.
It mainly discusses our lives from seventy to ninety. It goes on to say how those in their twilight years can be full of life and happy, however we will all slow down before death. As we age, we approach a space between Earth and eternity, and begin to dwell more in eternity. Often times this is in an end of life care facility: a hospital, nursing home, etc. At this point in our lives we are at our wisest.
Likely meaning the end of days, and more specifically, the end of the singer’s days, the Doors capture a dark fantasy about a son of a wife and husband who goes insane and commits some very sick deeds. The near 12-minute ballad captures the turmoil and anti-establishment of the 1960’s. This song shows the transformation rock music made from being about teenage love of the 1950’s to the tumultuous and hectic 1970’s.
