Clive Wearing's Amnesia

Cults bring fear in the hearts and eyes of the public, but do citizens know how Jim Jones managed to seduce so many people to join his cult, the Peoples Temple? The Peoples Temple was previously loved in the public eye, as they aided anti-segregation groups and community work, but were eventually relocated in Jonestown, Guyana, under the paranoid eyes of Jim Jones, where they were found dead in a mass-suicide. The ways Jim Jones managed to bring in as many followers as he did are still widely debated to this day. Jim Jones, the leader of the Peoples Temple, manipulated his members to join his sadistic, sinister cult and blindly follow him until their eventual deaths by using threats, blackmail, and brutal punishments.

Mark Waid once said, "Heroism is heroism, regardless of the timeframe or the backdrop." In the novel, The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, the focus is on two social groups. The Socs are the preppy and rich kids, and the greasers are the poor, trouble-making kids. Johnny Cade was a greaser. He had greasy dark hair, sad eyes, and was known as the "lost puppy". Johnny grew up in an abusive family and that made him scared and uneasy about certain situations. A hero is someone who puts others first, understands the needs and gives help to others, and is determined to help and succeed. Johnny is a hero, because of his qualities selflessness, empathy, and courage.

He often forgot the last thing he said and repeated himself often. Wearing could not describe his wife’s appearance but he recognized her once he saw her. He was unable to recall events that happened to him in the past. Wearing was able to sing, play and read music because of muscle memory. He was able to remember his wife and the love that he had for her. Wearing remembered that he was married, and he remembered the names of his children. Clive was also able to remember implicit memories as a result of conditioning. He responds to stimuli like his diary in which he records his

Throughout the entire play, “A Raisin in the Sun” Walter goes through a few experiences such as sadness, euphoria, depression and at last hope in order to become a more dynamic character. At first he is a static and predictable character but as difficulties arise he gains a dynamic disposition. Although he is a static character at first, he is also a round character. He has many different ways of thinking, though he doesn’t put his thought into action. Some of the incidents that give him hope and euphoria, come crashing down and turn into doubt and despair. Finally, he realizes that things like family and happiness are the more important things in life.

“He was a dead man with a mind that could still think. He knew all the answers that the dead knew and couldn't think about. He could speak for the dead because he was one of them. He was the first of all the soldiers who had died since the beginning of time, who still had a brain left to think with” (52). This quote expertly explains the story, a man left with nothing, he is only able to comprehend his current situation. He is forced to relive his past memories. He is unable to experience things as he once did, he is similar to a VHS constantly on rewind. In the story of Johnny Got his gun, The book focusses in on the life of a young man named Joe Bonham, who had suffered a horrifying tragedy when he was in fighting

Winston, like the majority of the public, suffers when he is robbed of his words and thoughts. Consequently, “memory, with its attendant richness and variety, atrophies” since “memories die when they go unrehearsed in words” (Lewis and Moss 51). (Berkes

She mentions that these “dangerous” memories are presented in legal cases and explains her part in two of which she was apart of. In the first case, the photos of Thomas Sohponow who was mistakenly identified as the murderer of a young woman during the identification process were arrayed simultaneously rather than sequentially giving witnesses an easier target. This practice is not reliable as it allows witnesses to easily be persuaded by their naïve “memories” of a person and unfortunately in his case resulted in four years in prison. The second case Michael Kliman who was an elementary school teacher was accused of molesting a 6th grade student based on “repressed memories”. After two decades the student who “recovered” her memories laid charges on Kliman, which makes the case questionable since it could be difficult to justify the validity of a “repressed memory”. While both cases witnesses came to testify based on memories, jurors faultily accepted

The main character in “Fahrenheit 451” is Guy Montag. One of the main things I understood about him as a person before was, he enjoyed burning books and houses, as quoted “It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.” (Bradbury 1) But then he meets a girl named, Clarisse McClellan, and she asks if he was “happy.” At first he said to himself he was but soon, he realized that he wasn’t. He was not happy. Since then, his belief and everything he stood up for all turned upside down. He started seeing a new perspective of his life, but in his dystopian society your own point-of-view and opinion is not allowed, which he fears for his own life. They are three traits that I noticed about him in the novel. He was

However, memories are not always reliable. According to Psychologist Elizabeth Loftus, memory is continually being reconstructed by usual events that happen throughout one’s everyday life (cite video). Elizabeth also discusses that every time a person recalls a memory it is slightly distorted (cite video). Considering the fact that the authors of these memoirs are writing about stressful situations, then the memories are more likely to be distorted than usual memories because the hormones released during stressful situations cause the brain to form new connections (cite video). Thus while reading these memoirs, it needs to be taken into consideration that some of the information could be exaggerated or

In “The Jungle” the stereotypical characters are the hardworking man (Jurgis) and the weak vulnerable women (Ona, his wife). The conventional character of the man being the provider for the family and the wife being “too weak” shows the concept of survival of the fittest and encouraging people to advocate towards socialism.

In the novel ‘The Moonstone’ by Wilkie Collins, memory is an important theme in the novel as it sets out the backbone of the book. It allows the author to structure however he chooses and in this case each person in the novel allows the reader to read their narrative. Not only that but considering that this was a detective novel, memory is what any detective in the Victorian times would have used and so it is important especially in discovering who had stolen the Moonstone. There was no other alternative than memory and so that is why memory plays a crucial role in this novel.

In 1958 Gary, Indiana Michael Jackson was born to parents Katherine and Joseph Jackson. Michael went on to become the lead singer of the iconic family musical group The Jackson 5 and after their huge success he reinvented himself as a solo artist. Michael Jackson was one of the greatest artists of all time, he was credibly deemed the King of Pop. Throughout all of his successes he faced many struggles physically, mentally and emotionally. Behind the scenes, Michael seemed to have been struggling with self-identity amongst other things. The world watched as his natural African-American features morphed into a Caucasian male. Everyone speculated about the differences, but, Michael outwardly denied the changes, after a few years of alterations

Obviously, the deterioration of the self-awareness of the man in “The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury” would be a result of involuntary separation, but we can still observe and try to understand the consequences it has. I am speaking from experience when I say that Alzheimer’s is a nasty, spirit-crushing disease that no one should have the misfortune to experience. My grandfather recently passed away suffering from this condition, and I must say that Neil Gaiman’s description of it is insightful and accurate, the tragedy my family when through witnessing my grandfather’s decline of self-awareness is perfectly illustrated by Gaiman’s first-person approach to expressing the individual’s difficulty remembering words and people. “I mean of course, the man I am thinking of. I can see him in my head when I close my eyes’ … ‘I am sorry. I lost something there. Like a path I was walking that dead-ended, and now I am alone and lost in the forest, and I am here and I do not know where here is anymore.” (Gaiman, 2013). As mentioned in the story, the man is unable to remember many of the words and names that he has learned over time, but he has not forgotten concepts, he just has to describe them to himself in order to remember and we can sense his growing frustration in doing so. I saw the same thing happen with my grandfather, I knew his memory was still there, but it was just so hard for him to recall it easily and it was heartbreaking to

This report is about improving students’ memory. The aim to research on this topic is to help students to improve their memory and be have better prepared for exam.

One famous case of amnesia supporting Squire's view is patient H.M. (Scoville & Milner, 1957), who had parts of his left and right temporal lobe, hippocampus, amygdala and surrounding areas of both removed. He developed severe anterograde amnesia, the inability to learn new information, resulting in an almost completely absent short-term memory storage. He also had moderate retrograde amnesia, unable to remember information between 3 to 11 years prior to his surgery, but with other long-term memories unaffected. Explaining this, Squire argued that memories are consolidated in the hippocampus, easily disrupted by trauma during this. They become less dependent on the hippocampus with time, eventually being stored in the neocortex (Alvarez &