The Vow Analysis

What does the National Anthem and Pledge of Allegiance mean to you? Land of the Free? Is America the Land of the Free? This has been a question that has been uprising lately as everyone is thinking about the importance of standing for the National Anthem and Pledge of Allegiance recently. Do you have to stand for the National Anthem? Are you not allowed to emphasise any part of the Anthem and sing the anthem how it is? Are you allowed to do what you want? Ever since the infamous kneel by San Francisco 49ers Colin Kaepernick during the first preseason game of the 2016-2017 season these questions have been going through a lot of American’s head of how should you treat the National Anthem. In the Newsela article “Sports events have a way of sparking

“Never say goodbye because saying goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.” - Peter Pan

A situation I can think of comparing this to would be another incident of memory failure. Think about the times you have had to take an exam (Perhaps a midterm) and your mind suddenly goes blank. You cannot remember anything about the subject, other than a hazy, just out of reach, frustratingly untouchable murmur of an

“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

The Devil’s Arithmetic, a novel by Jane Yolen, is very inspiring to me. It explains the feelings of not only just Hannah, but many others. It lets me know that in any situation, you can always persevere. Although this book can be sad, the sadness is powerful. It takes you to a whole new perspective of the Holocaust, not just through facts, but actually living it. Hannah has to remember anything and everything. Why? Remembering is a huge part of this story and is represented largeley in many different ways.

In the novel Speak the author uses the protagonist Melinda, to teach the reader the importance of verbal expression. Melinda refuses to speak about an event that occurred in her life therefore, her classmates cannot show empathy toward her. Melinda’s lack of speaking lead to her being judged and bullied by her friends. Melinda’s silence slowly erodes her self esteem and leads to depressive behaviors. Melinda refuses to speak about an event that occurred in her life; therefore, her classmates cannot show empathy toward her.

Clive Wearing was a prolific British musical conductor and producer for BBC. He was a wildly intelligent and successful person. It came as a surprise to himself and his family when unexpectedly suffered a loss of consciousness. The type of memory loss that Clive Wearing has is retrograde and anterograde amnesia. He is unable to retain new memories; he is also unable to unearth past memories to his consciousness as well.

After reading an article by Endel Tulving, he talks about memory retrieval with regards to the human brain. He states in his thesis "The purpose of the present article is to question the traditional view that remembering the past and knowing things learned in the past represent similar cognitive processes" (Tulving, 1989). He continues by saying "I would suggest that remembering and knowing, as these terms are used here, are more appropriately conceptualized as operations of two hypothetical memory systems, episodic and semantic memory, and that in that sense they are not only similar, as all memory systems must be, but also basically different" (Tulving, 1989).

Amnesia is the total or partial loss of memory and can affect different types of memory (Madan, 2011). In order to be able to help those with amnesia using the best treatment, the different forms of amnesia need to be understood correctly. In knowing this, the treatment can be designed around the type of amnesia, with the cause, symptoms and ways to help becoming more specific and focused. By studying the diseases and improving our knowledge of the roles that memory plays we can increase our understanding of the brain structures and how the types of memory fit together. In this essay I am going to look at Psychogenic Amnesia (PA) and Organic Amnesia (OA),

Looking on the Internet I came upon article that put a whole new light regarding repressed memories. Scholars like Sigmund Freud believed that repress memories have a detrimental effect on individuals’ lives. Sigmund Freud assumption of repressed memories can have a negative influence on behavior and mental health, but this article, from Time Magazine, discusses the benefits of repressed memories (Sifferlin, A, 2014).

Life is tough; it’s a roller coaster that has suspense-filled climbs and dreadful, heartstopping free falls. When the cart of the coaster reaches the bottom, and the engines fail, and the lights dim, it can seems impossible that the coaster can climb back up the rungs. During the times of misery and the times of sorrow, the only string that keeps people from collapsing is hope. Hope for a better world, hope for a better life, hope for a better tomorrow. Though most of Jane Austen’s works are revolved around love, Persuasion would not have the love story without hope. It was hope that brought Anne’s beloved back to her and hope that all love was not lost that brought her back to him.

Even though parallel universes are fun to imagine, thinking that there is something out there that is unknown and a mystery, but since the only science backing it up is a theory, we chalk up the Mandela Effect to something we can explain - confabulation (SC8). Confabulation is a disturbance of memory defined as the production of fabricated or distorted memories. This is a term that is used to describe patients with memory defects caused by brain trauma or mental illnesses. David Emery states that confabulation is also used to describe an everyday phenomenon like embellishing the truth when recounting events and inventing facts to fill in gaps in memories (Emery). Although confabulation is more prone to people with brain trauma or mental illnesses,

208).” Both films they use psychodynamic therapy by questioning the depth of this small fragments of memories. The purpose is to understand how certain memories affected the patient’s ability to emotionally respond. For example, in the film Sybil confesses that her true loved challenged her to fall in the hay inside the barn. She said kindly said no and Dr. Wilbur asked if they were close, she responded no. Suddenly one of her personalities said he fell on a pitch fork and died in front of her eyes. They claimed Sybil was in love and her mother did not give the emotional support she needed to cope with her loss. In the film Franke and Alice, Dr. Oz used a combination of injections and hypnosis to treat Frankie. In most of the sessions Frankie seem to be in a drowsy state, only remembering fragments of her memories. According to the textbook, “Amytal and pentothal are injections that have been used to help patients with dissociative amnesia regain their lost memories (Comer,2015, p. 208).” The purpose of these drugs is to help patients relax so that they can recall the traumatic events that triggered the spilt

Memory issues are a very normal annoyance, particularly with our age increasing yearly. Different components can influence your memory like lack of sleep, anxiety, nutritional deficiency (especially B vitamins), underactive or overactive thyroid, drinking liquor, smoking and utilization of specific meds.

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.