Forgetting

Assessment Task 1A 10% “I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.” Imagine you are Hugo Cabret, you have lost your father, live inside the walls of a train station, always being cautious when suddenly everything changes. Hugo Cabret is an interesting book with many plots, and twists. In this book the idea of mystery and secrets is explored. Hugo has many secrets piecing the story into a curious…

With the popularity of The Force awakens period, it is good to see that not forgetting the original Lego Star Wars Trilogy, which gives us some great new sets to recreate classic scenes. Case in point, the freezing carbon Bedroom set, which is one of the most iconic moments of The Empire Strikes Back. This set includes a relatively small room, three men - Han Solo, Boba Fett and Ugnaught - and Han Solo in Carbonite pieces. Complexity: This is a relatively small series of 231 pieces, but many…

The summer before my junior year, I decided it was finally time to start looking around for my first job. My reasoning was simple; I needed money for a new computer, so I applied at a local grocery store, and landed a job as a bagger. I figured I would save up the money for a new computer and then quit. However, to my surprise, I ended up thoroughly enjoying the responsibility of a real job. Although I was just a bagger, I always gave my full effort with a positive attitude, and as time went on…

America’s Gift to My Generation America is a gift from God. Just like America is giving a gift to us. Remembrance is America’s gift. Most of my generations don’t really know what happened in the past. My generation needs to learn remembrance. Of our soldiers who fought and still are fighting for us. Remember the past, but keep moving forward. We can make things better by remembering. Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the generations before it, and wiser than the one…

Silence means forgetting. Avoiding a lesson, denying the truth, means failing to learn from past mistakes. As seen in the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust is a tragic event that took place in human history. The word Holocaust is of Greek origin, meaning “sacrifice by fire” (memorial council 1). This event begs to be forgotten due to the inability of people to face the harsh realities taking place during this time period in the 1940s. Normal civilians were aware of the cattle cars…

and friends and family will likely catch on that something is wrong. At this stage the subject may have trouble finding the right words in a conversation or even remembering names or events. With stage four they clearly have Alzheimer’s disease. Forgetting details about their life and poor short term memory are normal effects of this stage. Stage five they now start to need assistance with daily activities such as dressing themselves. Second too last is stage six and the subject will need…

times that the emotions in Riley’s head bring up past events and demonstrate what flashbulb memory is. The next three topics are also portrayed correctly and give an accurate demonstration of how they really work. It all starts with the process of forgetting. To forget something means that some of the information that is entered into the long-term memory is lost. It is usually information that is not used on a day-to-day basis or is not important anymore. In the movie, once certain memories or…

stop but she couldn’t, she was hiding bottles of alcohol in the closet and in the draws getting up late at night to drink without her husband noticing. She started suffering from insomnia, she was feeling sad and depress, she was driving drunk and forgetting house shores and neglecting her two daughters. One day she got home drunk and she was alone with her two daughters, her oldest daughter went to see how she was and she neglected her by telling her to go do her homework. She went to the…

When you think of Persephone, think of when a coin is tossed and lands on its side. For a moment it is neither heads nor tails but you can see both. Persephone, (or Kore by her other name) is like this, in the fact that she is both life and death, both Spring and Winter. Her personality as innocent as the flowers she is picking changes to cold and callous as she is abducted by Hades and made to be Queen of the underworld through deceit and ill made deals. Jealousy plays a theme in Persephone’s…

I turned the key over and got nothing, not an attempt from the starter, or a light on the dashboard. The battery was dead, very dead. As I took the jumper cables out of my dad’s car and set them on the icy driveway I kept repeating “Positive, to Positive, Negative to Ground” over and over in my head. I put the cables on both cars, started my dad's car and then proceeded to wait for twenty minutes. After what felt like years, I got in my car, put the clutch in, put my foot on the break and turned…