Buyandelger: Chapter Summary And Analysis

The internet really has affected the circuits in our brains. The author describes our memory, how our brains are being trained, and how attached we are. People do not memorize anything anything any more because we can look it up now. We search everything we question nowadays. The author says memorization is a “waste of time.”

“Memoir, in some regard, became the voice of national policy,” so states John D’Agata in Joan Didion’s Formal Experience Of Confusion. He thus proclaims that memoirs and memories exist not only as personal experiences but that they can be remolded for public use. D’Agata’s essay supports the concept that memories are powerful tools which connect and inspire communities. Along with this, he warns that though memories and memorials can be helpful for the remembrance of people and events, they can also manipulate people’s perspectives and even erase certain memories from a narrative. D’Agata depicts memories, specifically through memoirs, as powerful and able to connect and inspire communities.

(AGG) Knowledge is one thing that drives humanity to keep evolving, the yearning to learn more is what separates us from other animals, but what happens when you take that away? (BS-1) The government knowingly creates a world that limits people’s knowledge in order to give themselves more control. (BS-2) This control has a negative effect on the humanity of the people, which is lost due to the lack of awareness and memories.

A simple act of violence can genuinely affect an individual's state of mind. Through violence, individuals feel empowered and are tempted to prolong their violent nature. This results in one heinous act, following with worse violence. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of A Boy Soldier, both authors effectively highlight a theme, that violence will ultimately lead to more violence.

Dick Meyer, a famous author and chief correspondent talks about a crazy term, “Digital Amnesia”, and how it is taking a large impact on people 's life along with his. In his article, he talks about how technology has lowered his memory and attention span which is similar to other people. In the article he states, ¨Europe documented a forgetfulness phenomenon, it’s called ¨digital amnesia.¨ Young and old we 're outsourcing our brainwork to digital devices, and memories are worse for it¨. This was only studied from a group of people from the age 16 and older. Another thing mentioned in the essay was that our attention span in 2000 was 12 seconds. Now it is 8.25 seconds due to technology changing our brains.

Individuals are deprived their basic rights of individuality, mental freedom, and physical freedom. They are taught that “it is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them” (21). To further limit the freedom of individuals, the Council decrees that “everything which is not permitted by law is forbidden” (31). Though civilians are unware of what they are missing, they all live a dull meaningless life controlled by fear. Through their amoral means, the Council has successfully turned the suffering civilians of their world into mindless zombies, striped of their rights, oblivious to the joy once possessed by

The study of humanity's dark past is crucial in understanding the present and future of society. The historical crimes and atrocities committed by people, such as genocide and slavery, have a major impact on the world filled with tragedies and leave lessons to learn from these

In the justice and the wheels of history, the section goes into detail of how history and conflicts cycle and repeat, almost always in the name of justice. Great wars and battles occurred when the people involved readily claim their actions and motivations out of justice, and how it must be served out of an obligated sense of morality; this is illustrated in how we as people identify with being right and just out of suffering and privilege, and how said urge for justice is used in creating new rounds of conflict. Said sense of justice looks at how polarized group thinking could become, and how concern for justice affects loyalty and group bias. Using World War II and the Holocaust as a respectful and historical example of a tragedy, this is shown in how, in the rise to power, Adolf Hitler used the lingering but potent resentment

In this interview, it illustrates how power may ignite cultures to have a division based on their cultural group. It may cause a nation to become captivated by misleading mistakes and false representation of a political group. Although, segregation exists, individuals felt the need to react in ways that became unjustifiable causing destruction affecting beliefs, values, and other perspectives amongst other cultures, religions, and beliefs differently than their own. By taking the lives of innocent individuals and shaping and conforming lives according to their biases alters how children may shape their own human world views based on exceptionalism, power and segregation, and improving history and evolution through integration.

Imagine growing up during a time when money was short and food had seemed like it disappeared. The Depression caused a tough, yet learning experience for everyone during the 1920’s. History and memory gives those in our society a chance to understand what they went through. Memory allows us to remember this hard time and reflect off of it. History of this event makes most rejoice they did not grow up during this time, having to fight for their life every single day.

An Appreciation for Time   Memories make up who people are. Whether they be good or bad, these events shape the very being of mankind. It is, however, what memories that stick to the mind that speak a thousand words to who the person is. The concept of memory is discussed in the words of Tobias Wolff in his short story “A Bullet in The Brain”. Wolff writes of Anders, a book critic turned misanthropist through being consumed by his trade.

The coup was also justified in terms of Pinochet with his fabrication of “Plan Z”. Steve J. Stern, in his book Battling For Hearts and Minds, discusses “Plan Z” and states that the leftist revolutionaries are planning to govern by an authoritarian rule and will deliberately murder those on the right. However, more importantly, Stern examines a few types of memory narratives that are correlated with the different ways in which people remember the Pinochet regime. The narrative of memory as an unresolved rupture resides predominantly in those families who are direct victims of the murders or disappearances during Pinochet’s regime. Plan Z is just one example of the misinformation and lack of truthfulness that occurred during the regime.

To begin, the foundation of every government’s power has always been fear. Governments depend on public fear to secure societal position. Tracing back to thousands of years ago, governments relied primarily on conquests. The research author Robert Higgs argues, “Losers who were not slain in the conquest itself had to endure the consequent rape and pillage and in the long term to acquiesce in the continuing payment of tribute to the insistent rulers.” In other words, Higgs’s point emphasizes that the government violently conquested lands and hence attacked people living there in the old times.

(127). All of which indicates that our brain will forget memories which are not use; from there society inclination to records. Societies have different ways to maintain the memories that form their identity. Assmann divides them into two groups those of “cultural formation” and those of “institutional communication”, in the former he includes “texts, rites, monuments” and in the latter “recitation, practice, observance” (128). The first educates, the second regulates, and both have the double function of preserving, and to reminding individuals of the past.

I have read the novel, “The Giver”, written by the famous American writer Lois Lowry. This book was written under author’s impression after visiting her aging father in the hospital, who had lost his long term memory. The idea of the book is the importance of memory. The novel is set in a society which seems like utopian, in this society there is no hunger, sadness, or misery. However this utopian society is held from experiencing true emotions.