Two Amazing Tales Of Memory Summary

Paul Henry is the son of Norah and David, twin brother of Phoebe, Paul and his father begin to grow apart as he chases after a career as a professional

In this book, the author describes the long process it takes to create a national museum that will commemorate the Holocaust. He covers issues such as, the location of it, the design and construction aspects of the museum building. He informs readers about how they’ve tried to represent the Holocaust through the museum with sensitivity. I will use specific facts from this book to show that this museum was built with the help of many and required a lot of thought into it. I will show that this museum does in fact show sensitivity to an individual.

The Impossible Knife of Memory, by Laurie Halse Anderson is about a father-daughter duo who were trying to live a normal life so Hayley Kincain, the daughter, could finish her last year of highschool. Hayley’s father, Andy Kincain, was a veteran soldier who suffers PTSD from his active-duty days, and now currently is an alcoholic who has difficulty holding onto a steady job. Hayley constantly worries about her dad, as she inspects his truck’s mileage daily to see if he has gone to work, and skipping school to check up on him when she heard that Andy’s ex-girlfriend, Trish, has been contacting the school. Somehow, past all the panic and worry, Hayley manages to develop a close and stable friendship with her neighbor, Gracie Rappaport, who

Hacker, J. S., & Pierson, P. (2016). American Amnesia: How the war on government led us to forget what made America prosper. Simon and Schuster.

* Consolidation- hypothetical process involving gradual conversion of information into memory codes stored in long term memory.

Amnesia is typically defined as partial or total loss of memory. The occurrence of amnesia can arise at any age. Individuals who suffer from amnesia typically remain lucid and preserve their sense of self. Amnesiacs can obtain a perfectly normal appearance despite the amnesia. Moreover, they also have the capacity to read and comprehend words. Based on these facts, researchers have arrived at the conclusion that more than one area in the brain is used for storing facts.

“You’re the one who doesn’t understand. I’ve been standing on edge with you for years”(pg 382). Hayley Kincaid, 17, has been on the road for five years with her father, Andy, who never settles down in one place as he battles the nightmares that followed him from Iraq. Now, they have returned to the town where he grew up so Hayley can attend high school and graduate. Hayley wants to live a normal teenage live with friends and possibly a boyfriend, but will she be able to handle that along with babysitting her father?

This memory book is about a young Vietnamese, American teen name Trung that grew up in America for the past 13 years, hoping to find a better way to settle things down soon after he graduates from High School. He grew up in a house of 2 siblings, an older brother, and sister which is now living life to their full potential. Trung is a boy that is loved by many of those whom meet him. People mistaken him for being a cranky person, but truly he’s just going through ups and downs. He has good intentions, but just bad moods all the time. Although he was not the brightest kid growing up, he still has the ambition to make a positive change in his work ethic by working hard in school, and he hopes that some day he will eventually succeed in life and

PTSD not only affects the person who has it, but it affects their family as well. The people surrounding individuals with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder are impacted greatly by the effects PTSD gives off. Everyday someone is a survivor of PTSD, and it takes a toll on the people around them. The people surrounding an individual with PTSD just want their husband, wife, dad, mom, etc, back. They have to see them suffer though the pain of PTSD daily.

Before I got engaged in writing on a constant and more personal level, a level from which I can boost my skills, I oftentimes misunderstood the mere purpose of writing. In the beginning of my academic childhood, I, similar to many children, was introduced to literature from an angle that was related to my academic progess. I was given the idea that you write in order to satisfy the teacher and receive a grade. Therefore, my understanding of writing would continuously be that of a common learning skill that would assist me in becoming a standard citizen in the future who was taught the correct placement of an adverb in a sentence. Richard Rodriguez, in `Mr. Secrets, Hunger of Memory´, stated that “Writing, at any rate, was a skill I didn’t regard

I felt The Impossible Knife of Memory was to pedestrian for a college-level course. In my belief, the author should have focused more on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and how it affects families and friends.

According to “Two Amazing Tales Of Memory”this was the problem when Mr.S tried to talk,words made pictures in his mind,and this caused his mind to get confused and distracted. Then the words had nothing to do on what he was talking about. It was because Mr.S used a strategy to help him remember things. In the passage it states that Mr.S

Richard F. Thompson was a memory scientist who conducted research on where and how memory is stored and transformed in the brain. He conducted research on the cerebellum, which is a lower brain structure that deals with physical movement, to see how reactions are created and reestablished every time a certain thing happens, which is basically a reflex (Hockenbury, Nolan, & Hockenbury, 2016). His research was to study how a basic function reflex occurs, and how the memory knows to react when something occurs again in the same manner. Thompson succeeded in his research, by conducting an experiment with rabbits and their blinking reflexes (Hockenbury, et al., 2016). He designed a way where rabbits would react to a tone in where they would blink to it (Hockenbury, et al., 2016). He then took an extra step away from the brain, and the rabbits would still react in the same way to the tone, which lead him to discover that the main memory function is stored in the cerebellum (Hockenbury, et al., 2016).

Memory is defined as "the persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information." Our memory can be compared to a computer's information processing system. To remember an event we need to get information into our brain which is encoding, store the information and then be able to retrieve it. The three-stage processing model of Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin suggests that we record information that we want to remember first as a fleeting sensory memory and then it is processed into a short term memory bin where we encode it ( pay attention to encode important or novel stimuli) for long-term memory and later retrieval. The premise for the three step process is that we are unable to focus on too much

Specific purpose: to increase my audience's understanding of how memory functions and how it affects them.