Garry Wills

Introduction Background. To begin, I would like to present some background information on false memory and false memory research. False memory was really brought about in the 1990’s when two groups had differing opinions about memory. The first group, the trauma studies group, argued for the children and the adults that they grew up to be, were the victims and that the reason their memory had changes was due to the trauma they went through. They argued that these people had “repressed” their…

“Judges (courts) do not ‘make’ law but merely interpret the law.” The famous quote, “Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don 't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely” [Hamburger: http://www.quotegarden.com/justice.html (Downloaded 20th March 2016)] can be considered for interpreting that “Judges (courts) do not ‘make’ the law but merely interpret the law” as practically law is ruling our daily life as “the…

To many people marijuana is considered to have medicinal benefits while others believe it’s a gateway drug. Some consider it to have a “high potential for abuse which may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence” ("Resources - Controlled Substance Schedules", 2016). That may not be the case as marijuana possession was criminalized in the Confidential Restricted List in 1923 under the Narcotics Drug Act Amendment Bill only because some “business people and clergy” were upset by the…

Classes, Arts and Oppression: The Confined Legitimacy of Female Characters in “The Dead” “Literature was above politics” (188), Gabriel Conroy says to himself after he is questioned by Miss Ivors about the indication of his writing for a Conservative paper in James Joyce’s “The Dead.” The Misses Morkan’s family feast is brimmed with music, literature and paintings. However, the arts which constitute the civilized bourgeois life are not as innocent as Gabriel states, especially when they are…

Williams). He joined Billy Crystal and Whoopi Goldberg for many Comic Relief benefit shows (Infoplease) His comic talent had involved improvision, following in his idol’s footsteps, Jonathan Winters. He auditioned for the role of Mork from Ork, producer Garry Marshall had told him to sit down; Robin immediately sat his head on the chair, Marshall hired him right away and said he was the only alien who had auditioned (IMDb). His first real break came when he was a space alien on “Happy Days” (The…

Every day in the local news, viewers witness a host of tragedies that have hit Chicago every weekend and sometimes every night. Many of the stories featured concern gun violence and the amount of deaths or injuries resulting from it. It has become a problem so synonymous with our city that many people, from neighborhood activists to politicians at Capitol Hill, have expressed their opinions as to what the city and its residents could do to either minimize or eradicate the violence. In late 2013,…

Sonny Sharrock Sonny recorded with Miles on the sound track of the film named A Tribute to Jack Johnson and on the album Yesternow. Interestingly enough, his participation in the sound track of A Tribute to Jack Johnson was not credited. The soundtrack also includes John McLaughlin as guitar player. His tenure with Miles was from 1970 to 1972 approximately. One of his greatest contribution to Miles's group can be seen in this quote from "The Sharrock way of knowledge" by Robert Palmer (1991),…

Robotics is one of the most popular fields of science. In the last century there have been many advances in the field of robotics that is been able to improve humans’ everyday lives. As the field advances the physical features of robots have started resembling humans, and robots have the capability to perform simple human activities. The programming behind many robots also resembles the working of the human brain. With robots becoming more like humans and performing like humans the fear and the…

Modern technology has advanced at an exponential rate since the turn of the millennium, and similar to how the epoch of the steam engine brought upon the Industrial Age, the epoch of the personal computer has brought upon the dawn of the Information Age. At the continuously compounding rate of innovation and invention, modern technology was prognosticated to hit a wall where advancements become rare. This prediction has been dubbed as Polanyi’s Paradox. As all theoretical barriers in the modern…

Work on the New York subway started in 1900. The world’s first vacuum cleaner was invented in 1901. The vacuum was invented by Hubert Cecil Booth. The triple AAA (American Automobile Association) was started in 1902. The international morse code signal for SOS (...---...) became the worldwide standard. Thomas Edison was alive during this time. He created the light bulb. Babe Ruth was only a rookie at this time. Theodore Roosevelt became president during this decade. Mark Twain was alive…