Most recent public comments by Mr Peter kozlowski https://nowcomment.com/users/90001 https://nowcomment.com/documents/251842?scroll_to=2302245 https://nowcomment.com/documents/251842?scroll_to=2302245 It has been one thing after another she has had NO time to dwell on the past giving her no recollection of everything she once had and everything she lost. The city was a place of hope and dreams but, once she left the city her dreams seems to slowly float away until they were completely lost merely a grain of sand in the desert. She might even bury those memories to help deal with the pain of her newfound life. But, the orchestra was too powerful and brought all of the memories flooding back in one brushstroke. While she was in the orchestra the city was no longer lost her dreams were no longer lost it seemed like she had a chance to get it all back. Fri, 29 Jan 2021 18:29:48 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/251842?scroll_to=2302244 https://nowcomment.com/documents/251842?scroll_to=2302244 This location is her home well her new home at least when she was younger she lived in the city probably getting to experience things like the orchestra and enjoy life but, since she moved to her new home it has been one hardship after another her dreams have been buried down below and not just her dreams also her memories. It is not as if she had a choice if she didn't do her work her husband and nephews would struggle there was no time to stop and think so because of this she has no dreams. Leaving her home the place that only ever brought her hard times gave her a chance to remember everything she wished for and no only that but everything she had. By getting this chance she didn't want to go back to the countless hours of work and the only way to not go back was to not leave the orchestra was where everything resurfaced so once she left she assumed everything was over. Fri, 29 Jan 2021 18:24:19 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/251842?scroll_to=2302228 https://nowcomment.com/documents/251842?scroll_to=2302228 One location was the concert. It seems that the concert was not something for her to relax and enjoy but more of a breaking point after everything she has gone to she finally sees what she could be doing. What she should be doing. What she deserves. But, she knows once she leaves the concert hall everything she experienced everything she wants will be gone and lost forever. In a moment of panic, she decides not leaving is the only way to stay within this dream of hers the perfect life. Her perfect life. Fri, 29 Jan 2021 18:16:13 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/251842?scroll_to=2302224 https://nowcomment.com/documents/251842?scroll_to=2302224 The author uses the word I here stating that it is first-person and he is in the body of the aunt Geworgianas nephew. This point of view makes it much easier to understand the aunt and her feelings because the nephew grew up with her and knows much of her past and present and can help us understand the emotion she is feeling and why she is feeling this way. Without the nephew's point of view, it would be much more difficult to depict the meaning in this story. Fri, 29 Jan 2021 18:05:46 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/251842?scroll_to=2302193 https://nowcomment.com/documents/251842?scroll_to=2302193 The moss is a metaphor for his aunt's soul. Over time all fo the things she has had to do and all the dreams she didn't get to follow that was the moss slowly dying but, going to that orchestra was the equivalent of watering the moss in a sense it brought her back to life. The same way the water brought the moss back to life rather than just surviving. The metaphor helps you see her side of the story and that she isn't living just merely surviving. Fri, 29 Jan 2021 17:59:02 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/225798?scroll_to=2211390 https://nowcomment.com/documents/225798?scroll_to=2211390 In Native American culture, ancestors play a tremendous role. One of the conditions the chief laid down was that they will not be denied the privilege ‘of visiting at any time the tombs of our ancestors, friends, and children’. When man perishes the spirit of the dead will remain. A place of solitude needs to exist to keep the sacred bond between the living and the dead intact. Molestation in the context of the text is the older definition ‘ the action of pestering or harassing someone in an aggressive or persistent manner.’ Sun, 22 Nov 2020 20:03:11 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/236669?scroll_to=2211304 https://nowcomment.com/documents/236669?scroll_to=2211304 It is interesting how we often seem to take it for granted that the ‘ majority rules’. Yet if we were to follow Thoreau's philosophy it is evident that laws should be made by following our conscience, by looking to be just and doing what is right. We must respect what is right before we respect what is the law. Law can be and are often unjust. We the people should feel obligated to do what is right. Sun, 22 Nov 2020 17:28:19 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/236669?scroll_to=2211301 https://nowcomment.com/documents/236669?scroll_to=2211301 I see what you mean. Thoreau tells of his belief that the American government is needed to a certain extent. But, at the same time, states how more is achieved when the government steps aside. Thus creating an opening for the American people to take over, to be creative, and to get things done. The government takes credit for many things it did not achieve. These accomplishments come from "the character of the American people". And much more would have been achieved if the government had not been in the way. So true. Sun, 22 Nov 2020 17:18:21 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/236669?scroll_to=2211252 https://nowcomment.com/documents/236669?scroll_to=2211252 A core belief of transcendentalism is in the inherent goodness of people and nature. Transcendentalism was an important part of the romantic movement. Upon reading Henry David Thoreau’s essay “ Civil Disobedience”, it is clearly evident that he was part of the transcendentalism movement and promoted civil disobedience to an unjust state. He believed that individuals should be in defiance of any unjust laws. The essay brings to light how the government in its philosophy was often immoral and self-righteous. He was not entirely asking for no government but for a better government. Sun, 22 Nov 2020 15:55:34 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/236669?scroll_to=2211249 https://nowcomment.com/documents/236669?scroll_to=2211249 There were many great lines in the text. But for me, the best line was “It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.” I have often heard it said that corporations have no conscience and therefore it appears that no one is at fault. Yet the line above clarifies that it really is an individual thing and that we can and should hold corporations to account. Our obligation as individuals is to do what is right. Sun, 22 Nov 2020 15:52:10 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/225798?scroll_to=2051641 https://nowcomment.com/documents/225798?scroll_to=2051641 The spirit of the children, past and present is evident. The memory of the children who have gone to the tomb is honored., Children are important to native Americans. Life continues through them. All are connected, land, nature, children, ancestors. . Children learn about the land, they receive messages from their ancestors who are still very present in the dust and on sacred land. Children will continue the sacred bond, the spirit of life continues through them Sun, 22 Nov 2020 19:33:56 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/225798?scroll_to=2051631 https://nowcomment.com/documents/225798?scroll_to=2051631 Ancestors are treated with the utmost reverence. Nature is alive. All things are seen as conscious, the rock is aware of this and has memories of events from yesteryear. So too is the dust, that responds lovingly to their ancestor's footsteps. This is profound and shows the feeling of oneness and connectedness of all things. Sun, 22 Nov 2020 18:44:23 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/225798?scroll_to=2047258 https://nowcomment.com/documents/225798?scroll_to=2047258 This is an important and effective piece of diction, because unlike this sentence it clearly and effectively conveys that they don't want to be pestered or refused access when they visit their ancestors tombs. Sun, 22 Nov 2020 20:03:11 -0500