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"Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country." John F Kennedys famous quote inspired Americans to participate in public services and expressed his determination for Americans to connect as a whole. The 1960’s flourished with the new concept of television along with popular music such as The Beatles. There were also gloomy aspects of the 60s, such as the struggle in Vietnam to stop the spread of communism. The 60’s was also known for some great victories that included the passing of the civil rights bill to grant African American equality. Martin Luther King was a tremendous leader that supported a peaceful nonviolent protest unlike Malcolm X’s that supported a

Kennedy wasn’t the star of the school or in home life. It was his brother who got killed in combat. Kennedy was in his brothers shadow his entire life and was finally able to be seen as his own person. When all eyes fell onto him after his brother’s death he took everything with a flying leap. Of course he had his younger brother to help and guide him along the way. America considered JFK a war hero after saving his crew mates form a Japanese Destroyer. Later in life JFK was diagnosed with Addington’s disease but they had kept it well hidden from the people. Most die from this disease but recent treatments was able to save his life.

Yes, in my opinion I do think that learning about historical events can guide people to behave differently. Although you still have the people who don't care about historical events or don't believe that they actually happened, you still have the vast majority that will be able to be changed by these events. I think that if we really understand what happened during these events we will be able to behave differently and appreciate the life we have. People take the life we have for granted, and I think it’s time for that to change.

Events in the past are preserved through photographs, writings and libraries. Can memories conserve the historical occurrence to the present? The theory of memory transmission states that a “massive trauma experienced by a group in the historical past can be experienced by an individual living centuries later who shares a similar attribute of the historical group” (Balaev 151). In the story “Cattle Car Complex” by Thane Rosenbaum, Adam Posner is a second generation survivor of the Holocaust. He displays symptoms of post-trauma when stuck in an elevator. Mr. Posner’s parents were prisoners of concentration camps and their memories transmit to him “so deeply as to seem to constitute memories” of his own (Hirsch 1). The Holocaust is a “Nazi Judeocide”

Memory is defined as “The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.” Memories are units of information that have impacted one’s life and are stored in the brain for years. In some cases, dramatic events may not let the brain register every single detail about a situation. This is much like Anton’s case of the winter of 1945 of the novel The Assault by Harry Mulisch. The events of that winter affected him like no other would. The loss of his mother, father and brother and the burning of his house left an impact on him but the events were so grave his brain did not allow him to remember the smaller

Memory is a set of cognitive processes that allow us to remember past information (retrospective memory) and future obligations (prospective memory) so we can navigate our lives. The strength of our memory can be influenced by the connections we make through different cognitive faculties as well as by the amount of time we spend devoting to learning specific material across different points in time. New memories are created every time we remember specific event, which results in retrospective memories changing over time. Memory recall can be affected retrospectively such as seeing increased recall in the presence of contextual cues or false recall of information following leading questions. Memory also includes the process

In those times, Blacks had no voice in any matter. If a Black man was accused of a crime, whether he did it or not, he was punished, in a lot of cases by death. I believe that these past occurrences have carried on the burden of distrust between law enforcement and the community, forever stifling the relationship between Blacks and those in the criminal justice system. Even in cases were African-Americans are the victim of a crime, some prefer not to involve law enforcement, because they feel nothing will be done to solve the problem. Others choose not to involve law enforcement out of fear that the officers will ignore what has just happened to that individual and refocus more on what wrong that person could have potentially

November 23, 1963 Dallas, Texas - Yesterday in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963 John F Kennedy, democrat and the 35 president of the US, was assassinated at age 46, born in Brookline, Massachusetts on May 29,1917.

The 35th President of the United States of America, John F. Kennedy, was an amazing man. John was a President that served in our countries military, funded the program of N.A.S.A, and put bills into congress to desegregate schools and public places. From the second oldest child born in Boston, Massachusetts, to the president that succeeded in giving all Americans the rights they deserved, he truly was amazing. His legacy still impacts people today.

The two concepts that I resonated with are Memory and the Psychodynamic theory. Starting with the Psychodynamic theory is an approach to psychology that studies the psychological forces underlying human behavior, feelings, and emotions, and how they may relate to early childhood experience. This theory is most closely associated with the work of Sigmund Freud, and with psychoanalysis, a type of psychotherapy that attempts to explore the patient’s unconscious thoughts and emotions so that the person is better able to understand him or herself. The second one is Memory; understanding how memory works will help you improves your memory. Which is an essential key to attaining knowledge. Memory is one of the important cognitive processes. Memory involves remembering and forgetting. I chose the two concepts because throughout the class they stood out to the most. Understanding the conscious, subconscious mind and also memory. I’m interested in understanding the human behavior.

We should be beware of changing memories as well as emotions with advanced anchoring for past events because we are dealing with changing emotions in the past memories, and not changing the memories themselves. It is possible to do the latter using the history change process. Considering how a trauma works; something bad happens, we associate certain images, things, people, smells with it, and then we feel the fear or other emotions again when those things are noticed in the here and now.

Memory does not work like a video camera, smoothly recording every detail. Instead, memory is more of a constructive process. We remember the details that we find most important and relevant. Due to the reconstructive nature of memory, the assimilation of old and new information has the ability to cause vulnerable memories to become distorted. This is also known as the misinformation effect (Loftus, 1997). It is not uncommon for individuals to fill in memory gaps with what they assume they must have experienced. We not only distort memories for events that we have observed, but, we may also have false memories for events that never occurred at all. False memories are “often created by combing actual memories with suggestions received from

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

Memory. According to the Webster Dictionary, memory is “The power or process of reproducing or recalling what has been learned and retained especially through associative mechanisms” (Webster Dictionary) Taking that under consideration, imagine if everyone didn’t remember the last time they smiled, their siblings last birthday, or the last really good meal they had. The last time they laughed so hard their ribs hurt, the last time they had so much fun that they couldn’t believe it really even happened. Or the last time they told someone they loved them, before they probably never saw them again. Thats memory, now could they imagine if they didn’t remember any of that anymore, because it was taken away. It was such a long time ago and so

Even if people are a rather young, there are still a lot of events that individuals can remember. There are lot of changes that can place in a person’s life. Some changes are tiny and would not affect your life very much. However, other events could be very important and could change a person’s whole life. The important event that changed my life is moving to United States for staying and study here for whole life. I was sixteen years old when I arrived in United States. Then I realized