Analyzing Merle Haggard's Song My Favorite Memory

Memory is one of the most important things we have in our life because it involves in almost every part of our mind including problem solving, decision making, and our interest in life. We depend on it because it helps us make good decisions in life. Memory is the solution in learning and thinking and we use it in our everyday life. Think about the first time you kissed someone you loved or the time you learned how to tie your shoe for the first time. Those are all forms of memory whether they are short or long term. If you do not remember anything from the past then you are having a hard time managing your memory. Without memory you would be exposed to new and extraordinary things in life. Take for example, “Aliens, Love where are they?” by John Hodgman and “Jon” by George Saunders. John Hodgman and Jon both teach readers how without memories we would have a difficult time knowing who we are, who we love, and what we want in life.

Every song I’ve heard can to connected to a memory in my life. It doesn’t have to be an important memory; certain songs flash images of the radio playing while driving down highways or hearing a song playing in the background of a commercial. Others inspire memories like times I’ve danced with my family, or covered songs with friends. These are the memories I will hold on to forever, and I’ll do it through these

The last day I played music for the elderly that were out in the lobby. I could tell that a lot of people were happy to hear the music as I went on playing and taking requests. They sung along while I played Christmas Carols for them. Singing along showed that a lot of the people still had a strong procedural memory. In class, we talked about how in the memory-systems perspective, the most resilient type of memory; refers to material, such as well learned physical skills, that we automatically recall without conscious awareness. For example, you would automatically find yourself singing the words to “Jingle Bells” when the melody comes on the

Memory provides a sense of personal identity. Memories that were made from the past create the person that they have become today. It helps to ground judgments and with reasoning. As an illustration, one day a young girl was shopping at the mall with a group of friends and they deiced to steal a cute

Within the poem "Remember" by Joy Harjo the author uses many different literary devices. Such as her word choice, repetition and imagery. She (Harjo) uses these different devices to get across what I believe her meaning of this poem is that she wants the reader to remember who they are, who they came from, to remember the world and how everything comes from everything. To remember everything and anything. Such as that you have to remember that your mother gave you life and you are apart of her and her mother before and so on and so forth (lines 8-10). Or that the stars in the sky all have stories (Lines 1-2). This essay is going to go into all of my interpretation of what I feel the other is saying and wants interpreted and how she does that.

Songs are psychologically proved to be easier to remember because alliteration, repetition, and rhyme are mnemonics, or memory aids that people have developed over time, according to Psychology Today. For centuries, humans from every part of the world have orally passed down stories through songs. Stories, information, and history are easier passed down through song from generation to generation, or from person to person. This method of sharing stories has been an extremely integral part of our history. For example, Harriet Tubman created many verbal codes to act as maps to help slaves escape through the underground railroad. It was vital that slaves remembered the instructions, so Harriet Tubman cleverly set the escape codes to songs. Because

Memory is one of our greatest assets. “It is how we know who we are. Memory gives us a sense of history, our origin, roots, and identity. By it we relive special events, birthdays, anniversaries and days of national significance. The Lord’s Supper is a call to remember Christ and the cross.” The relationships we have in our lives often become stronger as we take time to reflect on what that person has done for us in the past and continues to do for us. As adults we are able to look back and see the sacrifices our parents made for us and we realize just how much they

Memory literally means “something that is remembered”. In Diana Taylor’s article, Villa Grimaldi, Santiago de Chile is the memory place where brings trauma to the survivors and tourists. As Diana Taylor said “memory, we know, is linked to place…”, I totally agree with her idea that when I go to where I have been, I can certainly remember or link to what was happened last time. For Pedro Matta, one of the survivor from torturing and detention, the memory of Villa Grimaldi only brings him pain and trauma. “The difference here is that what we see in the model is no longer there. Even though we are present, we will not experience it ‘in person’.” (p37) However, he still comes back to this place to give a tour to people from outside. I admire and

Memory – what it is, how it works, and how it might be manipulated – has long been a subject of curious fascination. Remembering, the mind-boggling ability in which the human brain can conjure up very specific, very lucid, long-gone episodes from any given point on the timeline of our lives, is an astounding feat. Yet, along with our brain’s ability of remembrance comes also the concept of forgetting: interruptions of memory or “an inability of consciousness to make present to itself what it wants” (Honold, 1994, p. 2). There is a very close relationship between remembering and forgetting; in fact, the two come hand-in-hand. A close reading of Joshua Foer’s essay, “The End of Remembering”, and Susan Griffin’s piece, “Our Secret”, directs us

In the poem “Forgetfulness” by Billy Collins he portrays the message of memory loss using figurative language and examples. The message of this poem is saying that memory is a precious thing that we should cherish daily.We should make use of it everyday because everyday the older we get the more memories are being lost because they lose importance.Through Collins use of imagery he allows the reader to have awareness and guilt.Reason for saying so, is because it makes you think of how you’ve been taking advantage of your memories .He gives you notice using metaphors to help us understand the horror of memory loss.The choice of words that the other uses in this poem is very well chosen and helps gives the reader a visual of what losing a memory is like.

Memory is a property of the human mind. It describes the ability to retain information. There are different types of classifications for memory based on duration, nature and retrieval of items.

Memories are evoked by smells, sights, and sounds that take us back to a specific time in our lives. For me, certain words have the ability to transport me to specific moments; they are like snapshots of my life, capturing experiences that can be remembered simply by hearing or seeing a word. A word can whisk me back to both my elementary school music class and my present life; a song I sang for days on end; current and past hobbies. Certain words connect different stages of my life and help me make sense of it.

A memory is something that is remembered from the past. Memory is what makes us, because

However, I was able to retrieve later, even though I forgot the line quite quickly. In that case, that would mean that I am transferring material from short-term memory to long-term memory. I was able to remember it at the time because I was repeating those lines in my head, even out loud to myself at times. According to Psychologists I am using a process called rehearsal. Rehearsal is information stored in short-term memory, because the information is getting repeated to his or herself multiple times. However, Psychologists state that rehearsal doesn’t always guarantee that the information will be stored in your long term memory. That would mean I’m also performing a Psychologists term called elaborative rehearsal. Elaborate rehearsal requires complex concepts in which require the individual to make connections and form associations and relationships in order to establish a sense or meaning ( Sousa, 2003 p. 58). This explains that I associated those lyrics to that movie. This helped me recall my information. Personally, I established those two together in a meaningful way. In the end that information was able to get stored in my long-term memory. There are times where the same situation happens, but I have no other connection. I then end up forgetting and never was able to retrieve it. This explains a

Memory makes us. It is, to an extent, a collection of unique and personal experiences that we, as individuals, have amassed over our lifetime. It is what connects us to our past and what shapes our present and the future. If we are unable remember the what, when, where, and who of our everyday lives, our level of functioning would be greatly impacted. Memory is defined as or recognized as the “sum or total of what we remember.” Memory provides us the ability to learn and adjust to or from prior experiences. In addition, memory or our ability to remember plays an integral role in the building and sustaining of relationships. Additionally, memory is also a process; it is how we internalize and store our external environment and experiences. It entails the capacity to remember past experiences, and the process of recalling previous experiences, information, impressions, habits and skills to awareness. It is the storage of materials learned and/or retained from our experiences. This fact is demonstrated by the modification, adjustment and/or adaptation of structure or behavior. Furthermore, we as individuals, envision thoughts and ideas of the present through short-term memory, or in our working memory, we warehouse past experiences and learned values in long-term memory, also referred to as episodic or semantic memory. Most importantly, memory is malleable and it is intimately linked to our sense of identity and where we believe we belong in the world.