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    thoughts were answered because now I have a lot of interesting and enjoyable things in my life, hopefully I will not forget it. The first one is the American University I am studying now, a dream that became true. It is important to remember my family too, I know that I am far from my home, parents and sister but they give me strength to continue my dream. Also, I would not forget to tell about my amazing life in a different country, cultures and habits. During my childhood, I used to watch a movie

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    Lovely Bones Essay “Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.” -Alice Sebold. Alice Sebold the author of Lovely Bones creates a story of depression, guilt, and grief with the murder of Susie Salmons. In Lovely Bones the death of Susie affects all those close to her, like her mother, her father and her classmates. Her father grieves with despair as the murderer has yet to be caught. Her mother can not handle her disappearance and finds unnerving ways to cope. Susie’s classmates, Ruth and Ray

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    AN D H OW TO REMEMBER Unless you have a photographic memory, you likely find it hard to remember everything you learn, even an hour or two after you learn it. Why? Research about how we remember and forget gives us a clue. 01 HOW QUICKLY WE FORGET 19th century psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus created the “Forgetting Curve” after studying how quickly he learned, then forgot, a series of three-letter trigrams. Here’s what he discovered: In the time it takes to make and drink a cup of coffee, you’ll

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    Shall I Forget” and “We Remember Them”, written by Elie Wiesel and Rabbi Sylvan Kamens, have their fair share of similarities and differences. These poems are both highly influenced by the Holocaust, the genocide of over 11 million people, 6 million of them being Jews, during World War II. In “Never Shall I Forget”, Elie Wiesel talks of his sufferings in a concentration camp and “We Remember Them” pass on the memory of those who died during the Holocaust. “Never Shall I Forget” and “We Remember Them”

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    “Never Shall I Forget” by Elie Wiesel and “We Remember Them” by Sylvan Kamens & Rabbi Jack Riemer are poems that have their similarities and differences. In the poem “Never Shall I Forget” Elie Wiesel describes the environment in the Holocaust and how we should never forget a tragic memory. In “We Remember Them” Sylvan Kamens & Rabbi Jack Riemer talk about how we should remember our past. Even though the message in both poems are expressed differently there are some similarities and differences because

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    brain is called “hippocampus”. That is the reason that when you go shopping with your nanny she forgets half of the list and she also forgot to write it down. The elderly also don’t have cognitive memory because you can ask them their original cheesecake recipe and they have it written down because they can’t remember. I would advise that the elderly play regularly memory games so they can’t forget. The elderly can play luminosity which is a website that challenges your brain. It also includes memory

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    craves to be loved now while she is still alive, because she may not have much time left here on Earth. In lines 15 and 16, the poet states, “Haply I may remember, And haply may forget.” In these lines, the poet uses the word ‘haply’, which means by chance, luck, or accident. Rosetti is saying, “By chance, I may remember, And by chance may forget.” She uses this word, not only to allow the lines to flow, but also to support the idea that a word invokes to its literal meaning and to what the word

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    memorizing nonsense syllables would retain these syllables for a short period of time, but forget them after a while. The people learning these syllables would eventually forget them all together, and would have to relearn them, which would take a shorter amount of time than it did for them to initially learn them, which he called “savings.” When information is meaningless, then the amount of time to forget it is rapid, then a “declining rate of loss,” which Ebbinghaus showed with a graph called the

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    In Christina Rossetti’s poem “Remember” first stanza, the poet makes it obvious that her speaker has not yet committed to a life of devotion, yet rather is at the point of threshold of doing so. In lines 1-2: ‘Remember me when I am gone away, gone far away into the silent land.’ The speaker here is addressing someone and tells this person to remember her when she is gone. It also signifies that the speaker is discussing about death. As we can conclude from this we can say that the speaker is addressing

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    says in the first line , “We have memorized America,... (WIlliams, 1)” he conveys the severity of how Americans memorize information about the past but do not truly know it. He later relates back to this when he says, “If we can truly remember, they will not forget. (Williams, final line)”. By zeroing in on “truly remembering” Williams emphasizes to his readers the importance

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