How Memories Define Us Analysis

I have always been a very curious person asking way too many questions. When asking questions, I tend to ask how and why questions, as I always want to find a great understanding of the processes that occur daily in our lives. I have also always been fascinated with human behaviors and human choice’s and how these choices have shaped a dynamic and complicated history. Thus, the writing seminar “How Memories Define Us” fits perfectly into my interest as I not only get to explore the processes of the brain but also the implications that cognitive neuroscience has on our daily lives. After a few short weeks in this class I have a much greater understanding of neurological processes in regard to memory, as a well as a much better approaching to both reading other peoples work and constructing my own work. This class has provided me with the tools to create a logical, well organized, and …show more content…
Through the repetitious practice of analyzing a text and drafting a condense and specific proposition, my own thesis construction has improved tremendously since my high school writing career. I can now create a specific, single-barreled thesis. This is perfectly exemplified in the difference between my proposition in my baseline document “Staying true to you and not conforming to society is key to finding inner peace and one must be brave enough to show the world who they truly are in order to achieve happiness,” which is clearly a two-part thesis where the first part can be proved true and the second part could be proved false. After weeks of practice in writing seminar I am now able to create a much stronger and precise thesis as seen in my literary review, “thus the shifting from one state to another affects the recall of information.” Here there is only one idea being