...In this ZAP activity I decided to focus on memory where it provided me with information on Iconic memory, memory bias, memory span, recalling information, and encoding specificity. This activity on iconic memory has a goal to show the importance such as its part of a sensory memory where the information is remembered and kept but also how long this visual iconic memory can last. During the experiment a blank matrix appeared in which later the matrix was filled in with letters. Afterwards I was to fill out the blank matrix in the exact order it was given. Since there were 36 trials it showed that the shorter the amount time given, the more successful I was in recalling the letter compared to more time given. For the memory bias activity I...
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...of the memory. Lucius Scipio was able to remember the names of all the people of Rome; Seneca could memorize and repeat two thousand words after hearing them once. Test Your Memory 24 If you can remember any one thing by association, you can do it with anything else. A series of tests for you to take now to indicate how limited your untrained memory is. Interest in Memory 32 The first step is to be interested in remembering names, faces, dates, figures, facts—anything, and that you have confidence in your ability to retrain them. Link Method of Memory 39 What the Link Method is. Use this method of associating ridiculous mental images with items you want to remember. Start to remember as you've never remembered before. Peg System of Memory 48 The Peg System helps you associate and remember numbers. You can learn to remember 52 items by number, in and out of order. Uses of the Peg and Link Systems 60 Start with remembering a Shopping List and Daily Errands. From this you will go on to more difficult feats. How to Train Your Observation 66 Test yourself (and your friends) on a "trick" sign. How to sharpen and develop your observation abilities. It Pays to Remember Speeches, Articles, Scripts and Anecdotes 72 How to retain the contents of a speech or script JOT delivery or use when wanted. How to memorize the complete contents of a magazine! It Pays to Remember Playing Cards 81 How to remember the lay and play of cards...
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...Lauren Hillstrom MW 2:30 12/17/12 Option A Final Paper: Remember “Remember” by Christina Rossetti is a sonnet written in iambic pentameter. Her poem follows the structure of an Italian sonnet, one divided into an octave and sestet. The author’s thought process is portrayed through the rhythmic divide of her poem. The octave rhyming ABBAABBA directly pleads a loved one to remember her when she is gone. Then the following sestet rhyming CDDECE creates a shift in atmosphere, where she realizes the mortality of memory and would rather her love one be happy than mourn in the misery of her death. The fourteen lines altogether portray themes of love, fear, and death. With dark and sad undertones, the words “you” and “I” are used frequently showing that the poem is a dialogue speaking directly to a loved one. Throughout the poem she uses anaphora, such as repeating ‘remember’ at the beginning of several sentences. In the first line “Remember me when I am gone away”, she is speaking to someone in a direct form asking to be remembered when she is no longer here. Thus, the idea of separation is introduced here. At this point, we cannot tell if she is embarking on a journey, leaving a relationship behind or what calls for this separation between her and the person she is speaking to. Following, in the second line, “Gone away into the silent land”, the word ‘gone’ is used as a euphemism for death by using silent land as a metaphor for heaven. This imagery of heaven reveals the separation...
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...very effective thus making me outstood others not just in the past and of course trying my very best for the years to come. Before we proceed, make sure you have taken something inside your stomach — snacks, dinner, breakfast or lunch. Leave all anxiety behind, you must be worry free and focus mainly on your study and lessons. Say no to every temptations that your friends and or classmates are inviting you to, this includes watching movies, go to beach, malling, chit-chat and other things that teenagers usually do every vacant time. Choose a good place for studying, this may include seashore area, below a shaded tree, in our veranda and please not those closed rooms like your bedroom or any room which you can be tempted to take a nap or sleep. These are some of the perquisites before you proceed studying for a Major exam or for a BAR exam or just simply for an examination. and oopss, before i forget, i prefer to have a background music when studying especially those smooth melody that help me calm down and concentrate on my study. That’s it! So here we go! 1. When studying, you need to read all the lessons that to be covered in the examination. Pure comprehensive reading will do, read, understand and read. 2. After above, get back to the definitions of terms that you could simply remember. And again, read, understand and read. For me, no need for further memorization, just understand and remember those common words that define a certain word that will help you connect...
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...Katie Fuller English 1010 Ms. Wardell 18 September 2015 How Alcohol Has Influenced My Literacy Not everyone really remembers how or when they learned to read and write. In fact, most people do not. I am one of those people that do not. So, this is not so much a story of “how” as much as it is a story of some recollections of my journey through literacy as a whole. From my first big kid book, to learning a new language, and everything in between. Not all of these recollections are necessarily positive ones, though. My father had a lot of negative influence on me when I was younger, and I believe he is the reason I am still not the greatest student. Once when I was in first grade, my class was taking our weekly spelling test. None of the words were particularly difficult, considering we were only in first grade. In fact, I specifically remember the word “pie” being one of the words. For whatever reason, though, I could not seem to keep up with my teacher as she called out the words. She would call out a word, and before I could finish writing, she had already called out the next, and the next, and the next. Eventually, being the cry baby I am, I started sobbing uncontrollably because I was sure I was going to fail. In the middle of the test! Once she realized I was crying, she turns to me and asks, “What’s wrong?” I felt way too embarrassed to tell her and the whole class that I could not keep up with them, so I ended up blurting out, “I just miss my dad.” My dad had been...
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...home or church. I remember prayers taught to me in childhood. I was taught to say my prayers regularly at bed time. As a child I was taught "Now I lay me down to sleep..." and the Lord's Prayer. I do not remember learning them; I just remember always knowing them. As I think of the ways I learned to pray, the most important teacher was the experience. My family did not have times of prayer together except at daily meals when grace was offered by my father. On Sundays when I went to church, I remember hearing long and boring prayers from the minister. As I recall, on no occasion was I taught about silent prayer, meditating, or the fact that I could have an individual relationship with God. Being a new Christian I found it a challenge to pray on a consistent basis. The first step in developing a life of prayer, was realizing that prayer was communicating with God. As I prayed There were times when sickness in the home or with close relatives caused me to prayer without ceasing. I didn’t realize at that time, that I was becoming an intercessor. Many times as a young Christian I served as my pastor’s driver and daily companion while rearing my children. There were times when she would be called upon to pray for the sick, at the church or at the hospital. This is where I learned the power of prayer. I can recall during times of pain, agony or despair when a prayer was pulled out of me with surprising strength. I was taught to read the word, pray the word so that it became...
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...quickly. When I was in China, I gave little presentations, but after I came to America, I gave approximate 5 presentations in one semester. From others’ presentations, I also have learnt much healthy and useful knowledge that I cannot learn from class. During this whole semester, all classmates are divided into four groups to give their own presentations. Four ladies are the presenters of the first presentation, whose topic is community. They introduced us different forms of community, like religion community, sport community and learning community. Since this is my first year to live in a foreign country, religion community is very unfamiliar to me. However, through their introduction, I acquired that some community is organized based on faith, so the people who have the same faith can communicate their views with each other. For me, I barely socialized in school, but after their presentation I want to participate in some communities, because I learnt that there are amount of benefits. For example, joining to a learning community can develop our academic grade; participating in a volunteer community can realize our self- fulfillments, and attending to an art community can cultivate our temperament. In all, students can always find value of a community. I am an accounting student, so, of course, I need to learn some courses, which is required a high level of memory ability, like taxation. However, sometimes I...
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...Green Eggs and Ham by Dr.Seuss. I remember just loving to read that book that I read it like 10 times and then my parents got me more Dr.Seuss’s books and I remember reading those books very quickly. I really enjoyed Dr. Seuss’s books because the drawings were so colorful and the rhyming I loved how his books always rhymed or how he created words to make the book rhyme. As I grew older my interested in literature varied widely, but I really enjoy reading vampire love stories. My love for this genre started with the Twilight series by Stephanie Myers and since those books did so well, writes continued to make more vampire love stories. Thus, making...
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...interesting things to share. There’s too much to talk about, like my favorite teacher, or the worst teacher I’ve ever met, or the experiences I went through when I first come to America. But because Amy Tan and Elizabeth Wong’s stories, I’d like to share the story about my first English teacher Mrs. Wu and my mother. So let me talk about Mrs. Wu first. I met her in the first year I went to elementary school. She is not the English teacher in school, and actually she was not the real first English teacher I met, but she made me interested in English. We already started to study English in grade one. However my parents thought the English that I learn in elementary school was too basic, and they thought English will be very useful. So they find me an English class outside the school, I met Mrs. Wu there. I didn’t want to have the class at first. I have no wish to learn a foreign language at that time. That means I have to spend half days to take that class on every weekends. No, that was not acceptable for me, I had dozens of cartoons didn’t watch, I had dozens of crickets didn’t catch, how can I spend half days in this class? However, my parent didn’t listen to me, I have to go. I am glade I went to there at last, or I must be regret now. The first meeting with Mrs. Wu...
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...11/24/13 Holy Mass for the conclusion of the Year of Faith on the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, 24 November 2013 HOLY MASS FOR THE CONCLUSION OF THE YEAR OF FAITH ON THE SOLEMNITY OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, KING OF THE UNIVERSE HOMILY OF POPE FRANCIS Saint Peter's Square Sunday, 24 November 2013 Video Today’s solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, the crowning of the liturgical year, also marks the conclusion of the Year of Faith opened by Pope Benedict XVI, to whom our thoughts now turn with affection and gratitude for this gift which he has given us. By this providential initiative, he gave us an opportunity to rediscover the beauty of the journey of faith begun on the day of our Baptism, which made us children of God and brothers and sisters in the Church. A journey which has as its ultimate end our full encounter with God, and throughout which the Holy Spirit purifies us, lifts us up and sanctifies us, so that we may enter into the happiness for which our hearts long. I offer a cordial and fraternal greeting to the Patriarchs and Major Archbishops of the Eastern Catholic Churches present. The exchange of peace which I will share with them is above all a sign of the appreciation of the Bishop of Rome for these communities which have confessed the name of Christ with exemplary faithfulness, often at a high price. With this gesture, through them, I would like to reach all those Christians living in the Holy Land, in Syria...
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...breath/sigh Oh, well here I am again. Breaths out Exhaustion has caught up to me.(pause) Come on Maya concentrate. You have to finish this. (pause) It is such an honor that president Bill Clinton chose me, me puts hand on chest out of all the people in this world to write a poem for his inauguration so it must be splendid lifts head high, emphasizes “ splendid” Where did I leave off? (pause) skans page Okay “But seek no haven in my shadow. I will give you no more hiding place down here.” (pause) Stand up. Small smile. As a small kid I was always hiding from the world, eyebrows raised too big and too menacing.(pause) questioned face I mean, do I really blame me? points hand toward her My childhood... smile oh that was such a long time ago. I remember it as the most memorable time of my life. sigh (pause) Sit back down on desk (pause) The love from my brother, helped me get through all the obstacles I had faced.(pause) Bailey smile was always a great brother, I very much adored him. Smile Oh I remember the delight I always felt when he...
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...describes you. Remember, there is no right or wrong answer. 1. When learning something new, I need to: * a. read information and see diagrams about it * b. listen to a lecture or discuss it * c. try it out, build a model or touch the materials 2. When assembling equipment or furniture, I prefer to * a. read the directions and examine the diagrams first * b. listen to someone tell me what to do or talk me through it * c. work with the pieces and figure out what to do myself 3. When giving or receiving directions to a new address, I usually * a. draw a map and write out the directions * b. have someone explain the directions to me * c. just go there and find my way 4. The following is true for me: * a. I prefer to write things down and make notes to learn well * b. I prefer to hear discussions or recordings of critical information to learn well * c. I prefer to participate in an experiment or demonstration to learn well 5. After meeting someone I usually remember * a. how he / she looked * b. what he / she said * c. what he / she did 6. When learning vocabulary, I prefer to * a. write the words alone or in sentences * b. repeat the words aloud by themselves or say them aloud in sentence * c. walk around, move around and do something while learning the words 7. When spelling a word, I usually * a. write out the word * b. spell the word out loud ...
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...I remember as a young child my parents, teachers, and tutor always saying " read the book" and I didn't. I thought that it was just silly to do so and that it wasn't necessary, especially since the teachers would always teach us what was in the book. Now that I am older and have to read more documents and sign more papers on my own, I see why it is important to learn how to read. Most of what we learn is through reading. The more we read, the more we know and the more we are able to remember. Through reading comes knowledge. When we read, our brain processes the information and stores it as memory. This gives us more knowledge because after reading any kind of material several times, we will have eventually learned it and remember it more. This is because our...
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...interested in reading since I was a child growing up in Iran. I remember that I was grabbing my mom or my dad magazine’s and look through all the pictures and wondering what is it saying? Then I would go to my dad and asking him to tell me what all these word surrounding these pictures means? So my dad was putting his glasses on while he was smiling at me and looked at the page that I was pointing at, then he start to read it to me loud and clear; at that point I was very jealous of my dad, that how can he read so well and I couldn’t ? and he would tell me that:”Don’t worry once you go to school they will teach you and you can read anything you want as good as me or even better”. My father explained to me that he felt books were very important and that I had been exposed to books from the beginning. I was read to by many family members such as aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents. He also stressed that I was a very verbal child at a young age and had been around mostly adults for the first few years. My vocabulary started at about five months and by two years had clear structured sentences. As I was learning how to speak, I was also introduced to letters and their sounds. By the time I was four and a half I was able to write and read my name and the alphabet. As I learned how to speak, read, and write I also taught my younger brother. There are two grades during school I remember that made an impact on me. They were kindergarten and sixth grade, the beginning and end...
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...3. I know a little accounting can help me to calculate accounts. 4. Economic and business management. 5. Economic and business management. 6. Some learning business website. 7. Maybe one or two years. 8. Dalton college 9. Understand the industry determine the goals determine the related courses Learning course know the market open a shop 10. A I am beginning to understand how to read a whole book. I am beginning to read instructions. I am beginning to read the questions on my assessment tasks. I am...
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