Eyewitness testimony

be facing the problem of extinction in the context of survivor testimonies. According to Holocaust studies critic Thomas Trezise, this phenomenon is the “anxiety of historical transmission” and accounts for the large part acceleration of testimony production in the past three decades. Through the establishment of the different documentation and archives of written memoirs, the question on the fate of these Holocaust survivor testimonies entirely dependents on the reception by those who “were…

1. Differentiate between repressed memories, recovered memories, and false memories. What does the research support? Repressed memories are memories that are kept hidden from yourself. Recovered memories are memories that were repressed but recovered during hypnosis or psychotherapy. False memories are memories that are distorted or imagined. There is no way to differentiate between the recovered memory to be true or false. However, some cases use a recovered memory to convict sexual abusers…

What set apart slave narratives from other works of the time was they claimed to be truth. Defenders of slavery could always claim that works like Harriet Beacher Stowe's were that of fiction, but the eyewitness accounts and graphic testimonies seemed to imprint themselves on the public. C. Thesis: The slave narratives of Fredrick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Moses Roper, and Solomon Northup, were the four autobiographies by men of the 1800 that had the greatest effect…

Sam Beyda Writ 015 Brecht and Twilight Los Angeles 1992: Rough Draft ”The performance’s origins lie in an incident that can be judged one way or another, that may repeat itself in different forms and is not finished but is bound to have consequences, so that’s this judgement has some significance”(Bertolt Brecht 5). The ultimate goal of Bertolt Brecht’s “Epic Theatre” is to portray a socially relevant event objectively in order to induce an audience’s objective thoughts about that…

had proven he was at the scene of the crime. In fact, shoe prints taken from the dirt around Watson’s body were made by feet smaller than my son’s, 13 latent prints collected and tested by authorities didn’t match his fingerprints, furthermore a testimony made by a neighbour was later found out to be incorrect and inaccurate. So on the 9th of December at 12:52 pm, my son took his last breath. And, as the woman who brought him into this world, I was completely and utterly heart-broken as the…

with the Midwest would know: “Driving west from Fargo on I-94” (L.1). This, right off the bat, establishes the notion that this woman knows exactly what she is talking about. She further supports the notion by informing the audience of historical eyewitness accounts of the region (L.…

1. What is the shape of Ebbinghaus’s Classic forgetting curve, and what does it tell us about memory? Ebbinghaus’s Classic forgetting curve is shaped like a curved letter L (T. Hanson. Brain and Behavior). It tells us that the sooner we rehearse new information after learning it, the better the likelihood that we will remember it. However, the more time that passes, the less able we will be to remember all of the information and it only takes a few minutes for much of the information to become…

Memento, directed by Christopher Nolan, was released in 2000 and provides an interesting first-hand glimpse in the world of memory. The plot is centered on the actions Leonard, an insurance investigator, who lives with his diabetic wife prior to the start of the film. The events in the film are not shown in chronological order. Nonetheless, the majority of the film depicts Leonard, who suffers from anterograde amnesia, as he tries to avenge the murder of his wife. His condition has left him…

On October 31st various Reformed churches will celebrate Reformation Day. Chile and Slovenia, who both have a Catholic majority, has declared it a nation holiday. Some churches move Reformation Day to the Sunday before and call it Reformation Sunday. Reformation Day celebrates the day Martin Luther wrote to the Bishop of Mainz protesting the sale of indulgences. Luther’s letter cascaded into a pivotal event of the Reformation, the Diet of Worms (Jan 28 – May 25, 1521). Now in those days a Diet…

Kecia Ali's Sexual Ethics and Islam provides an insightful analysis and commentary on sex and gender under classical Sunni adjudication. Ali’s work sheds a light on the way societies use gender as a cardinal instrument to ensure social organization and establish a hierarchy. I feel that I share many of the same opinions as Ali furthering the ideas that: these classical legal doctrines conflict with constituents, social double standards give way for more harsh, female punishments, the…