Reflection About Memory

I walked outside the next morning feeling great. The bright vibrant sun shone on the freshly mowed grass. I loaded into my sister's car and we went off to school. The day passed extremely rapid,

The two texts, "Excerpt from Martin Sloane: A Novel", by Michael Redhill and "Ode to a Box of Tea" by Pablo Neruda have several things in common. These things relate to how the authors of each text talk about their memories and the objects that go along with those memories.

Salvador Dali’s 1931 painting The Persistence of Memory is a hallmark of the surrealist movement. Dali famously described his paintings as “hand-painted dream photographs” and The Persistence of Memory is a prime example of that description. The Persistence of Memory depicts striking and confusing images of melting pocket watches and a mysterious fetus-like structure all sprawled over the dreamscape representation of Dali’s home of Port Lligat, Spain. Dali uses strange images, color, and shadows in The Persistence of Memory to convey an abstract view on dreams, time, and reality.

What is memorable? A memory has a major component to marketing, it is a kind of product that gives someone a feeling that they are back in the beginning. Which is the feeling of nostalgia, what can be defined as a yearning to relive the past that can produce lingering emotions.

On May 19th, 2012 my whole life was turned around. See, my mom had a drug and alcohol problem, so her state of mind wasn’t really in a good place. As I reached my grandmother’s house in Brooklyn, New York, her telephone started to ring. On the other end, was the sound of a woman crying, the type of cry where you can’t get your words out and no one can understand what you are saying. It was the cry of my mother. I couldn’t really make out any of the words she was saying but I clearly heard the part about my brothers being taken away from her by ACS. Now, remember the date I told you in the beginning? Yeah, they day all this happened was on my birthday. This event made me grow and change my whole life around in so many ways.

It was a Wednesday morning, dull and boring just like any other. No part of me believed this day was unique in anyway. At the time, if you told me this Wednesday was going to spark an inevitable chain of events that would change my life forever, I would've said you were crazy. However, I was dead wrong.

Every person has its own memories. Sometimes they are pleasant, sometimes they are not. They can be clear and detailed, or they can be partially remembered, or even almost not reproducible, just some moments appeared as blinks. But anyway memories always bring emotions and feelings.

Memory can play huge roles in our day to day lives. Without memories, we wouldn’t be able to improve our past mistakes, be emotional, and keep ourselves safer.

Memories leave an imprint on one’s life that help mature them into the characters God has made them to be.

Deterioration of memory is another symptom that is frequently reported in patients with Huntington’s disease. “Individuals with the disease will have difficulty learning new information and retrieving previously learned information”(Paulsen, 2011). Paulsen stated that implicit memory may be affected more than anything. He states that implicit memory is, “collections of coordinated movements and skills that allow an individual to ride a bike, play a musical instrument, and perform tasks such as driving a car.” Righi, Galli, and Paganini also stated that due to the deficit in memory, these individuals present with time perception impairments. They found this information by performing a test that included time perception performance and temporal

The date was October 1st, 2012. Rain poured down in addition to the heavy wind on this dreary Monday morning, and I had awoken rather later than usual. Finding it perplexing that my mom did not awake me for school as she so ordinarily did, I disregarded it and went on with daily my wakeup routine. As I hurried into my living room fifteen minutes later, the expressionless look on my mother’s face told me that from here on out, my life was going to be changed forever.

A memory is something remembered from the past; in other words, a recollection. You can have these memories as you gone along in life. Some can be good, some can be bad, and some can be much more then that. Some memories can be forgotten over time. That's why we need to make new ones to replace the old ones. Memories are meant to be like that.

The climactic sturcture of my life will began with my birth. I am was born in Cypress,Texas. The earliest starting point is when I started going to day camp at the age of four. I was there for four hours each day in order for me to practice English. Next, is my first day of elementary school. I was nervous and had a situation where I cried the whole day, nonstop. Then the next event is going to middleschool. It was in a different area and everyone was new there and again I had cried there too. After middle school, the next most important thing was my first day in highschool where I played football. That was the first time I did not cry at the start of school. My next achievement was going to college at Texas A&M University at Kingsville. The

Life happens, you breathe, I walk. You make the basketball team, I make decisions that determine the rest of my life. It's hard to understand where memories come from, and where they go. Like blowing seeds of a dandelion globe, off into eternal distance, never to be seen again. Memories are bound to fade, with what seems like little wisps left. Time determines when that happens, but it seems as if some memories never fade. When a door opens, it can slam shut just as easily. Memories determine the path we take, and who we become. Memories are just time capsules we hold in our minds that allow us to hold on to the past. Despite the fact that memories are bound to fade, the ones that stay help us grow into who we are. Memories are a

The capacity to form memory in face of stressful stimuli is an essential adaptive behaviour that enables organisms to respond rapidly and effectively to similar demands1. The stress response is largely mediated by the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis (HPA) coupled with the release of catecholamines through adrenergic neural discharges1. These physiological mechanisms activate downstream pathways that stimulate metabotropic alterations in neural networks, resulting in long-term memory formation1. In animals and humans, stress mediated neuroendocrine responses enhance the consolidation of emotional memories2. However, exposure to traumatic or chronic stress can result in memory impairments as well as memory related psychopathologies such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 1. Noradrenergic mechanisms are largely implicated in the mediation of emotional memory consolidation1. Therefore, the disruption of this mechanism during periods when memories are in a molecularly labile state has been proposed as a clinical method of pharmacologic modification of intolerable memories in psychiatric patients3. The application of β-adrenergic receptor antagonists during periods of memory reconsolidation is a possible novel mechanism of emotional memory modification in patients with memory related psychopathologies4. In this paper, the influence of the noradrenergic receptor antagonists, propranolol, on stress mediated memory reconsolidation will be characterized. Similarly,