...view of a religion that places their beliefs above the lives of innocents. They felt that their message of hate was more important than the lives of three thousand innocent men, women, and children, people who had no major role in international politics and religious offense. We knew then that we faced a long and bitter challenge. We knew then that the road to preventing another 9/11 would be a difficult path filled with many pitfalls and dangers. We accepted this challenge willingly. We believed the slumbering giant had been awoken. Today, almost six years later, our country seems to have forgotten that terrible day. Of course we have not forgotten the terrifying images of the planes exploding in a fireball into the sides of the towers. We have not forgotten our hair standing on end when we watched those mighty towers fall in a cloud of dust and debris. What we have forgotten is the sense of resolve and unity we felt as a nation on that fateful day. The...
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...Cesar was frustrated that while most other jobs could create unions to bargain for better work conditions and wages, farm workers could not. Afterwards Cesar Chavez formed unions and protested for better job conditions. In the end he was able to succeed in his struggle. Even so nowadays it seems that people have forgotten all about him. So I strongly believe that most people do not honor Cesar Chavez enough as they should. I believe that they may not honor Cesar Chavez enough since most of his memorial sites are rundown, some of the sites are actually forgotten or obsolete, and lastly people have forgotten or do not care for Cesar Chavez enough...
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...Men Have Forgotten God Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn made the point that men have forgotten God in his Templeton Address. He cites several key points in which this is, in fact, the case. These facts will be brought to light in the following statements. Solzhenitsyn was persecuted for most of his life due to his beliefs and for telling what he believes to be the truth, such is the case so many times. Solzhenitsyn states that for the great disasters that had happened to Russia, “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.” (Solzhenitsyn, 2004, p. 145) This could be true of more than just Russia, as it seems, men have forgotten God in several aspects of life. The church and schools in Russia were condemned to being persecuted, sent to prison camps, or even put to death. Religious leaders were slaughtered for no sane reason. This is due to the fact, as he states,” Militant atheism is not merely incidental or marginal to Communist policy; it is not a side effect, but the central pivot.” (Solzhenitsyn, 2004, p. 147) World War I brought about more violence and deaths at the hands, of what could only be considered as, godless men. The crimes against man were immense. There was poisonous gases being used, and there were people bombing innocent people for the sake of land and religious views. Military vehicles such as tanks were first implemented as well, wreaking more havoc in their wake. World War II, if it could have even been comprehended at the time, became even more...
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...itself is being forgotten and destroyed.” Silko portrays a beautiful day in nature, with vivid imagery through the entire poem to add effect and enrich the beauty of the words. Throughout the poem, words and lines such as, “silently” and “returning” are indented to show the progression of the speaker climbing up and down the mountain. It is like she is stepping back in time to a forgotten place. In the fourth line she states, “I smell the wind for my ancestors”, to portray a search for her culture that is fading away. The line “where mountain lion lay down with deer” is very significant. It shows that past or present, things coexist and change each other. Three lines stating, “It is better to stay up here watching wind’s reflection in tall yellow flowers”, follow it. This shows that she would rather be enjoying the exquisiteness of nature. The imagery makes you think of beautiful flowers, swaying in the wind. The three consecutive lines “The old ones who remember me are gone”, “the old songs are all forgotten”, “and the story of my birth”, portray that with time, things are forgotten which should be treasured. The next two following lines, “How I danced in snow-frost moonlight” and “distant stars to the end of the earth”, show how much she appreciates nature. The three ending lines, “the memory”, “spilling out”, “into the world”, again remind us of the essential things forgotten and that the memory should spill out into the world. Everyone needs to remember that the world...
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...Ways of Remembering Things You've Forgotten Personally, when I want to remember things I have forgotten, I put myself into a relaxed light trance, "space out" for a moment and think to myself "I am remembering" until what I want to know comes back to me easily. I wanted to jump into this article with an example of what I do when I lose or forget anything. It is so simple that I would be cheating you if I did not tell you about it in the first part of the article. The relaxed light trance can be done at any time really, once you know how to do it and it is second nature. The thing is, though, you must fully let it go and let yourself forget, to remember what you wanted to remember. At first, it seems like a hard process, but as you make it a habit, it is easy to get away from the problem, relax and find the solution. The most important way to remember something you have forgotten is that removing yourself temporarily and completely from your problem until the answer comes to you. Because, being nervous never does any good or benefit to you. In fact, all you are is nervous and excited, that is it. Problems are never solved in this state, if anything they become worse in every way. The kind of light trance I am talking about is not a "Svengali stereotype" thing, anyone can do this at any time, especially when in the heat of an activity such as running or strenuous work, because you can become so in concentration that answers you want just come to you powerfully especially...
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...Freudian theory holds that unpleasant things are often barred from consciousness. This is often referred to as active forgetting. 4. Disuse Memories fade away rapidly when not reviewed or used. The curve of forgetting is like a playground slide; we forget most immediately after we learn -in the first 24 hours; then it proceeds slowly. Motor learning seems to be better retained than verbal learning because a motor act has to be completely done to be done at all and so requires a higher degree of organization and competency which involves over-learning. But "forgotten" material can be relearned in less time than is required for the original learning, even after many years' disuse. EVEN MATERIAL THAT WE DO NOT RELEARN HAS UNDOUBTEDLY BEEN TRANSFORMED INTO ATTITUDES AND VALUES THAT FORM THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR JUDGMENT. EDUCATION PAYS IN SPITE OF ALL THE DETAILS THAT ARE FORGOTTEN. Forgetting through disuse is normal and unavoidable. The mind is a marvelous instrument, but not a perfect instrument. 5. Interference Forgetting was formerly thought to be mainly the result of disuse, but now it is believed that disuse may be a less important factor than interference due to...
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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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...Remembrance is “something that serves to bring to mind or keep in mind some place, person, event, etc.” We have many days specified to one special event that we take the time to remember and celebrate once every year. It is important to have these special days to make sure that events that have happened in the past live on to not be forgotten. It`s important that we recognize hero`s, and what they have done for our country. Along with the fallen that have gave their lives for us today. There are many events in history that get over looked and not recognized how they should be, lots of events have been forgotten because we don’t specify a day for us all to give thanks and remember. As well as December 6, 1917, when a tragic event occurred in...
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...overgrown until it disappears. In the same way, facts that you learn are forgotten when you don't review them. A famous study on forgetting textbook materials compared the percentage of material remembered after different intervals of time. The results were as follows: After 1 day | 54% was remembered. | After 7 days | 35% was remembered. | After 14 days | 21% was remembered. | After 21 days | 18% was remembered. | After 28 days | 19% was remembered. | After 63 days | 17% was remembered. | 2. Remembering what you have heard in lectures is even more difficult to recall because you are not able to slow down, pause, reflect, or to reread unless you take excellent notes! In a study on recall after listening to a seminar, students forgot more than 90% of the points from the lecture after 14 days! The conclusions to be made from these studies? * Without review, most information will be lost from memory. * The best time to review materials is within a day or two after the material has been read or presented in lecture. The best way to study for a quiz or test is to keep the memory fresh on an ongoing basis. If you wait to review the information till the night before the test (let's say after 28 days), you will have forgotten 81% of the material and will have to study a lot longer to be sufficiently prepared for the test. 3. Retrieval. According to this theory, a forgotten fact hasn't faded, it has been misplaced in the "file cabinet" of your...
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...Information from the environment enters sensory memory, encoded through one of the 5 senses depending on the type of information. If attention is paid to this information it will enter short term memory ( STM )which, according to Miller, has a capacity of 7+/- 2 bits of information. It can last up to 18 seconds, without rehearsal, according to Peterson and Peterson. Baddeley found that information in STM is encoded mainly acoustically, although Brandimonte showed that sometimes it is done visually. If maintenance rehearsal takes place it will remain in STM or be forgotten through decay or displacement. Elaborative rehearsal will then transfer information into long term memory ( LTM ) which has unlimited capacity and, according to Bahrick, can last a lifetime. Baddeley found that LTM encodes mostly semantically. Information can be retrieved from LTM to be used in STM when needed and can be forgotten through decay or displacement. ( 157 words ) A particular strength of this model is that it is supported by evidence from clinical amnesics, and as this is based on real people rather than experiments, it is more ecologically valid and therefore can be applied to everyday life. For example, H.M. underwent brain surgery to cure severe epilepsy but this resulted in the inability to transfer information from STM to LTM so that he could not form long term memories, supporting the...
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... Information from the environment enters sensory memory, encoded through one of the 5 senses depending on the type of information. If attention is paid to this information it will enter short term memory ( STM )which, according to Miller, has a capacity of 7+/- 2 bits of information. It can last up to 18 seconds, without rehearsal, according to Peterson and Peterson. Baddeley found that information in STM is encoded mainly acoustically, although Brandimonte showed that sometimes it is done visually. If maintenance rehearsal takes place it will remain in STM or be forgotten through decay or displacement. Elaborative rehearsal will then transfer information into long term memory ( LTM ) which has unlimited capacity and, according to Bahrick, can last a lifetime. Baddeley found that LTM encodes mostly semantically. Information can be retrieved from LTM to be used in STM when needed and can be forgotten through decay or displacement. ( 157 words ) A particular strength of this model is that it is supported by evidence from clinical amnesics, and as this is based on real people rather than experiments, it is more ecologically valid and therefore can be applied to everyday life. For example, H.M. underwent brain surgery to cure severe epilepsy but this resulted in the inability to transfer information from STM to LTM so that he could not form long term memories, supporting...
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...LESSON 3 To Sense. To Select. To Perceive. TOPICS COVERED To Sense. To Select. To Perceive. The Visual Process. Visual Communication’s circle dance. OBJECTIVES Have you ever wondered how you sense, selecting from a myriad of sights and sounds, perceive...The more you know the more you see. This lesson will focus on our seeing and learning, what we remember, what we forget and what are memorable images. By the end of this chapter you should know: . That visual analysis is vital for understanding the visually intensive world in which we live. . That if you can learn to be more observant, you will see, learn, and remember more. “ The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, all in one.” John Ruskin 1819 – 1900 The day that changed everything 9/11 What do you remember? What have you forgotten? The Art of Seeing Sensing, Selecting, and Perceiving “The more you know; the more you see.” From the morning of September 11, 2001, radio, television, and print media sources along with their Web site counterparts all went to work to try to inform and explain the horrific personal carnage and destruction that was unleashed against thousands of innocent Americans. Reporters gathered as much information as quickly as possible during the confusing and unbelievable first hours after the attack. With the north tower of the World Trade Center already on fire from a previous direct hit from a commercial...
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...What makes Riley balanced through her life is Joy. “But Joy reigns supreme. Even without an organizational chart, you can tell she’s the boss. She’s a sparkling whirlwind of positive energy and friendly micro-management.”(Scott, Web). However, not all the emotions feel the same and they want to help maintain Riley control. For example, Sadness converted all bright and delightful memories into miserable and depressed memories (Inside Out, DVD). Joy and Sadness discovered the place for the forgotten and death memories in Riley’s brain. The dump is the black and gray hole were the forgotten and death memories are thrown when Riley forgets about them and they are not really that important. Riley realizes that who she used to be and remembers it, but it all shades away in black and white. She feels blue and all black and its shades. She sees the world as meaningless without her old friends and her old town,...
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...The Human Brain: Reaction Paper Human beings are regarded as the ultimate life form on earth. Why is that? How different are we from other living creatures that make us superior from them? It’s simple, our brain. The human brain is a fascinating subject, and the videos shown to us on Thursday, February 18, 2016 were only a fraction of what is to learn about the brain. What distinguishes us from other animals that have brains is the ability to reason, to think, to process, to speak, and many more. I learned that there are different regions in the brain that control different functions in our body. The fact that a single organ controls me, and is aware of itself, it is so amazing to me. We were shown a caricature of person, where it shows that the largest parts are the parts of the body that are given a lot more attention by our brain, the lips and the hands in particular. It makes sense that our hands require more brain activity because we use it for almost everything we do every day. The brain works to keep us alive and functioning all the time, and it never rests. I learned that the brain is symmetrical on both sides, and the two sides of the brain are referred to as the left hemisphere and the right hemisphere. I learned that the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body, and is focused more on things that require logic. On the other hand, the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body and is focused on more creative tasks. Although...
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...Ryan Young CLA 325 3/10/11 Critical reviwe Do you ever have a dream that you have when your asleep and when u wake up it and u don’t remember? In the article Forgotten Fantasies? Modernity, Reenchantment, and Dream Consciousness by Raymond L. M. lee stats that “dreams are quickly forgotten and attempted recalls are difficult. We may remember some dreams or fragments of some dreams, but it is rare that our memory can provide unproblematic access to the detailed aspect of any singular dream or to the sequential unfolding of several dreams.” (pg288) When I think about this I feel that this is true because when I have dream and when I wake I have problems recalling my drams when I wake in the morning. Later in the article Lewis that “most people tend not to be in the habit of activating that power (to remember dreams). Unless dreams have significant meaning or arouse strong emotions, they have little immediate recall value and become cosigned to the waste bins of our memory.”(Pg289) If you think about this is significantly true it might not be to you but to me it is because all the dreams I remember are dreams that has great meaning or has some personal message connected to it. In the next part of the article Lewis starts talking about the cultures or dreams consciousness and memory. In this part Lewis talks about historic views of dreams by cultures. Most of these cultures we went over in class like the Babylon, Greece and rome. He talks about how some cultures view dreams...
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