Forgetting

A little over a week ago, I was getting in my car to drive home following an intense cross country workout. Too caught up in pondering my splits for our three mile time trial and too proud of the effort I had put forth, I had completely forgotten that I had a piano lesson at 5 P.M. immediately following my cross country practice. After turning on my car, I glanced down at the digital clock unaware of my predicament...5:04. I realized that I was in trouble. I was going to be late and have to…

The concept of forgetting is often connoted negatively due to the idea of lacking something in contrast to remembering. Yet, while being able to remember has many uses, its utility is (further) heightened through the act of forgetting. In Borges’ Funes the Memorious, the story centers around the character Funes who is capable of remembering everything after getting into an accident that leaves him physically crippled. Despite his physical state, Funes’ newfound ability can also be considered as…

As the clock ticks, the teen boy waits anxiously for it to hit 3:23 P.M. All he could think about was football practice. His first game is tomorrow and he is overwhelmed with excitement. Forgetting to pay attention in class the teacher calls on the boy saying “Sabin, what does the m stand for in y=mx+b?”, Sabin being clueless he looks at his notes. Being lucky, another student answers saying “m is slope”. As the bell rings, the teacher comes up to Sabin saying “Next time pay attention instead of…

Both writers see narrative as overwhelmingly malleable, shattering traditional novel forms. Milan Kundera’s The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is diffuse with, tone, plot, and characters seem to wander all over the map. Gunter Grass’ My Century is constructed in a similar manor. However, both novels carry a strong thematic and emotional content. Kubdera’s shattered, oblique approach to narrative, and Grass’ step-by-step march through the years. This essay will comment on the effectiveness of…

suggest that the beverage was only soda, your principal strictly believes otherwise so you are suspended from school and your parents punish you. Next time, wouldn’t you think before uploading to the internet? As Jeffrey Rosen states in “The End of Forgetting,” published in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Jeffrey…

There are a lot of reasons prove that why the process of forgetting is believed to occur. One of the reasons is because of cue dependent forgetting. According to Tulving(1975), the cue dependency theory of forgetting also called retrieval failure of theory. It is one of five cognitive psychology theories of forgetting. It applies to long-term memory, not the short-term. Cue-dependent forgetting is means that the failure to recall a memory due to missing stimuli or cues that were present at the…

After thoroughly reading the six articles, I chose the two that interest me the most. “Kitchen Controversial” by Rebecca Traister and “The Great Forgetting” by Nicholas Carr were my twpo favorite. These two articles had great information on their subject and both authors made agreeable arguments. For instance, in “Kitchen Controversial” Traister argues the idea that girls shouldn’t be the only ones to take Home Economics. In her article she wrote, “the number of stay-at-home fathers has nearly…

Shakairah Arthur Paper #1: The Introduction October 1, 2017 Dr. Dugan Paper 1: Intro In ‘Monument’ and “Myth”, the person being forgotten is Trethewey's mother and Trethewey is the one forgetting her. In “Monument”, Trethewey writes, “weeds and grass grown all around/ the landscape blurred and waving. At, my mother’s grave, ants streamed in and out like arteries, a tiny hill rising above her untended .” This tells the reader that the author has not come to take care of the gravesite. Not only…

Chapter Eight: Forgetting About Hatred Forgetting and Getting Over a Lost Love For some women it's easy getting over a lost love. It's like they grieve their ex for a couple of days, and then they hit the dating scene like nothing ever happened. Their belief is that nothing can help you get over the last guy better than the next one. Most women however, can't seem to get over their lost love and are sort of unwilling or unable to move on. They live everyday thinking what if? They mentally go…

“The Great Forgetting” by Nicholas Carr and “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?” by Stephen Marche tell stories of how technology can be great but there are some under lying aspects which can make it detrimental. Carr writes about how technology can cause some catastrophic events if it malfunctions and our reliance on it has made us observers instead of participants which is causing a decline in our ability to perform tasks. Marche talks about the benefits and drawbacks of using Facebook. He suggests…