Transience College Essays Samples For Students

Poverty and Religiosity as Bridges to other Faiths

Poverty does not choose who to strike or who not to, and neither does it focus on one religion over the other. However, many people believe that poverty is dictated by a specific religion, a speculation which is not true. This discussion will focus on the following characteristic that explains religion and poverty as a bridge to other faiths; Intense Social Stratification, Omnipresence of Poverty, The Transience of Life, and Philosophical Detachment with Africa as the specific community.

Intense social stratification

Social stratification is the act of forming hierarchies among people so as to distinguish one group from another. Most of these ...

Shelley’s Ozymandias is an interesting sonnet. The overriding theme is of transience, and he uses elements of figurative language in order to accentuate and complement this theme.
Ozymandias takes the form of a sonnet in iambic pentameter. It is an odd combination of both the Petrarchan and the Shakespearian sonnet forms. The poem is fixated on transience; that the statue is a “colossal wreck” represents the idea that nothing lasts forever. However, the poem is not simply about how large sculptures finally submit to the consequences of time; the statue is a representation of Ozymandias' motivation, vanity, and complete power, ...

The two poems under consideration in this essay are “Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town” by Edward Eslin Cummings and “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson. Both poems are well-known works by equally well-known poets and both dwell on such philosophical issues as life and death, their quality and meaning.
Cummings’s poem is more about life and its passage than about death. In that typical manner of his based on the play of words and syntactical structures, Cummings conveys an idea of transience of life. In addition, he points out that often people ...

The basic memory process involves three steps which are encoding, storage and recall or retrieval. Encoding refers to the stage where the information is transformed or processed so it can be part of one’s memory. Encoding involves four types of codes which are the acoustics (sounds), visual (images or pictures), tactile (senses) and semantic (meaning). The next step is the storage which is the consolidation of the information and retaining it in the brain as either a sensory memory, short-term memory or long-term memory. The third stage in the memory process is the retrieval stage which is the recalling ...