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    Alzheimer’s Alzheimer’s disease is a disease that slowly progresses as a person ages. Alzheimer’s disease effects brain memory and also brain function. This happens because the brain cells slowly begin to die off. Normally when our brain cells die off, new ones take their place. For Alzheimer’s patients this is not the case. The dead cells are never replaced by new ones. This is what causes the memory loss and the loss of brain function. Most of the time Alzheimer’s patients will remember…

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    hours. It shows us how easy it is to forget something like a phone because we were in a routine and in our routine our phone is in our bag. Then it shows us the dark side of forgetting things, the dark side of having a routine burnt into your head.…

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    He left the room.Olaf told Paulsen that he died of the sickness that the animals give off.Paulsen was depressed and ignited with anger.His mind was mixed with emotion.That night he couldn’t sleep.Paulsen just kept on crying into his pillow never forgetting Dirk’s lifeless body.The next day Paulsen didn’t get any sleep.He got dressed for school.Walk to school and he never ate his breakfast.In the school he met Happy instead hitting Paulsen, he said he was sorry for Paulsen lost and he lost dog…

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    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…

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    Diana Nyad Case Study

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    and managing a swimming apparel company. Based on some research I did on Nyad’s history I came to the assumption Nyad may have suffered from Repression. Sigmund Freud mentions Repression in his theory as Anne Freud described it to be motivational forgetting. In an interview Nyad made known her coach molester her and the second time was an assault. She once expressed her feelings as shocked, afraid, confused, and humiliated. Nyad used swimming as a stress reliever to escape reality in a sense…

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    Memento we follow Lenny a former accountant, who’s life changed the day his wife was raped and murder. He struggles in the film with the fact that he cannot produce new memories but remembers old ones due to a head injury. Though it seems he is forgetting the old…

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    However, there is a problem with how individuals perceive or interpret the phrase forgive and forget. This phrase is misconstrued on various levels. Forgiveness is not the same as forgetting a situation that occurred in the life of an individual. Forgiving does not mean forgetting, unless one acquires permanent memory loss, which would be terrible, by the way. Hocker et al. (2013) suggests memory is absolutely essential in the phrase forgive and forget. One can never forget…

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    It’s hard when forgetting becomes constant and remembering fades away. Through early life it’s all okay until aging becomes a scare. All the while, the brain deteriorates along with the “normal” self. Most commonly in humans starting at the age of sixty-five, Alzheimer’s snatches away the ability to remember and the person’s identity. Alzheimer’s is a dementia that affects the memory, behavior and thinking which leads to many complications and problems. It is the sixth leading cause of death and…

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    "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." Abraham Lincoln said these famous words in s letter to Henry L. Pierce. I think that this quote relates very well to the freedoms we have today. Where Abe said "deserve it not for themselves" could be compared to today's modern day jail because you have little to no freedom in jail. Freedom to me means giving everyone the same rights. What I think relates to the quote from Lincoln because I think that if someone denies another…

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    reader can then realize that the children probably feel bad about forgetting Margot. The author also said, “They stood as if someone had driven them, like so many stakes, into the floor. They looked at each other and then looked away.” The way Bradbury described their actions painted the picture perfectly. If looking stiff and unhappy means that you are guilty, then Margot's classmates are guilty. All the children acted, by forgetting about Margot, and as their consequence, they felt tremendous…

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