Dejah Memoris 1 Summary

While reading "The Rememberer" by Aimee Bender was very powerful and had the most effective tone and style. I felt the joy that Annie felt when she talks about making love to Ben. I also felt the pain Annie felt through each phase of Ben's transformation. The way Annie is hopeful that one day Ben will come back to her makes me have hope for her. You can almost hear the sadness in her voice as she looks at Ben in his slamander form and asks if he, "remembers her." (341). The way Annie talks about Ben's reverse evolution is so descriptive, yet simple. Annie was open and honest to herself about what was happening to Ben. She was so calm, almost as she was at ease with everything.

In the book “The Memory Keeper's Daughter” by Kim Edwards a doctor and his wife have twins and the first child is a healthy boy but then the second child that comes out is a little girl with the signs of down syndrome and he asks his Nurse to take the baby away to an institution while he tells his wife the baby girl died. Through out the entire book it is a struggle for Dr. Henry's wife Norah to have closure with the fact that her baby girl is said to be dead and she never saw her, held her, or cared for her. Kim Edwards shows through the whole book that we are only human, the themes that life is beyond our control and through the connection between suffering and joy.

Alan Jackson, a country music singer, is one of a few superstars who has built his career on traditional country. He is “one of the greatest singers in country music that has written the best songs in the history of the genre” (The Boot Staff). He has “written more than sixty singles and half of them have reached to #1 on the charts” (The Boot Staff). Most of the songs that Alan Jackson has written during his career are about his personal experiences. The song “Remember When” was written “during a difficult period in his marriage, which was when he and his wife got separated and then reconciled” several months later (The Boot Staff). In the song “Remember When” by Alan Jackson, the lyrics, music video, and history reveal the events in his life with his wife so they will remember as they grow old together.

On September 11th 2001, 70 years old Rita Laser lost her brother. Along with Kelly, Colleen, David, Eva, and Amber who as well lost someone special to them in the attack. Many of the victims families hid in silence after the attack, full of sadness, the government was trying to get revenge for the victims that were lost in the attack. However Rita Laser had a different outlook, she and others did not want revenge by killing other, her, Kelly, Colleen, David, Eva, and Amber were all trying to install peace into the world not start a war. In Sue Halpern’s “A Peaceful Mourning” describes that in the aftermath of the attack they have all devoted their lives into advocating peace throughout the world, in their lost one’s name.

“For my part, I felt that I had somehow committed a sin of betrayal by learning English.”

In the essay, "Westbury Court," by Edwidge Danticat describes his past experiences in Westbury Court. An otherwise undesirable place to live with no consistent hot water and trash pilled up in front of the apartments, as his home. Danticat uses expressive and literary purposes, along with classification and narration, to convey his theme that individual experiences shape us and how we interpret things.

Growing up from a different culture, Richard Rodriguez looks back on his experience on how he faced the situation as the child of Mexican immigrants. According to his 1982 memoir, “Hunger of Memory”, Rodriguez uses his own observation “to argue that if the children of immigrants are to succeed in the United States, they must separate themselves from their home culture and immerse themselves in the English oriented atmosphere of the American school” (980). In “Aria”, Rodriguez has created an autobiographic essay of his childhood. In his essay, the author is against bilingual educators, who believe that children in their first years of school should be educated in their native language. According to Rodriguez this education method is wrong, it won’t be helpful, therefore children should be knowledgeable in the same language as the public one. The author’s main point is to strongly motivate children of immigrant parents to adopt English as their primary language in order to comprehend public society and have a better future.

In "The Lesson" by Toni Cade Bambara, the narrator is Sylvia. She is a young African-American girl who has the capacity to see the truth in the reality around her. Her point of view explores the issues that minorities face every day. In the way she thinks, speaks, and feel in situations. Sylvia is able to present a broad view regarding her community; the lack of proper education, the need for involved parents, and the inequality between rich and poor in the United States.

One of the main reasons I chose to research memory was because it reminded me of a song that I know very well. The song is called My Favorite Memory by Merle Haggard. In the song he sings these words “First time we met is a favorite memory of mine. They say time changes all it pertains to but your memory is stronger than time.” I settled with this song for several obvious reasons like being about a memory and being a song I know. Merle Haggard’s song is a hit off of his album Big City. In this song, he sings about a memory he remembers with a girl. Throughout the song he talks about all the different things he remembers either doing or just enjoying with this particular girl. I related the meaning behind this song to just the word memory. Memory

Michelle Alexander makes some very interesting claims in chapter 4. We can honor the validity of her clams because she has the proper credentials to argue her points. “Michelle Alexander is an associate professor of law at Ohio State University and holds a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity” (back cover of The New Jim Crow). In order to teach these laws, you must thoroughly understand the issues that you have studied and we know Alexander understands the laws very well because she is teaching them. As a result of studying and teaching these laws, she can see the flaws in these laws more clearly that we can.

I am a member of the Butterfly Project Program. In class I painted a ceramic butterfly in memory of Yolanda Debax, a girl who died in the Holocaust.

11:00am- IRTC spoke with assigned CPS, Christina Davis, who reported that she observed the subject child and no visible injuries were present. CPS expressed that she reviewed a doctor’s notes the subject child’s mother had which states that the child was medically assessed and diagnosed with “pink eye.” Based on the above documentation, this case does not meet the criteria for an IRTC.

Bethany Hall-Long story gives the reader a perfect example of what a day-to-day activities consists of when running a campaign. Campaign activates entails phone banks, literature drops, door-to-door canvassing, and house parties (Mason, Leavitt, & Chaffee, 2012). After reading Mason, Leavitt, & Chaffee (2012), this student understood that running a political campaign requires hard work and dedication. As Bethany states she juggle caring for her family, legislative work, and nursing education (Mason, Leavitt, & Chaffee, 2012, p. 581). She spent three days in meeting which runs at least 8 to 12 hours long. As she states, the rest of her days were focused on doing community work, speeches, and working as a nurse educator (Mason, Leavitt, & Chaffee,

In Ben Johnson’s “To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us”, Johnson dictates a dramatically sycophantic poem in honor of the late William Shakespeare. With his superficial, dramatic style, Johnson unveils his own envious attitude within the unbegotten admiration he appoints throughout the poem. By complimenting Shakespeare through this ironic voice, Johnson insincerely praises Shakespeare’s legacy in a clever attempt to highlight Shakespeare’s minute but mentionable flaws. Throughout the commemorational poem, Johnson cleverly praises Shakespeare’s seemingly incomparable success as a poet by incorporating other famous poets as a belittling contrast. While meant as a friendly coup de grâce, Johnson’s assessment of Shakespeare is Johnson’s ultimate attempt to align himself with Shakespeare, bearing praise unto himself as well. In a poem meant to highlight and enunciate Shakespeare’s unparalleled skill and talent, Johnson instead attempts to expose his faults in hopes of bringing Shakespeare closer to himself.

I believe that everybody is right. Today, if people have different political views, one will be looked down upon. All I hear on the news is how the right is wrong or how the left is wrong. Instead of bickering, we need to practice civility. Instead of the yelling and screaming, we need to sit down and have respectful and reasonable conversations about our political differences.