Imprinting

snow-covered turf. I made my way out to the center of the field. The field revolved around me as I attempted to breathe in the smells of the game and remember the sights and sounds of my last soccer game. Kempton Schneider walked up to me with tears imprinting streaks down his face. “It’s beautiful isn’t it”, Kempton whispered with a depressing stutter. He and I made our way off the field against the murmuring wind and light snow. Snow melted on our faces and removed any trace of our…

Wax or Digestion: Which Best Explains Memory? Memory is an extremely complex function which scientists and philosophers have been trying to explain since ancient times. Throughout the years they have been attempting to devise an effective analogy to explain memory, with varying effectiveness. One of these analogies comes from Plato in his works Theaetetus and Phaedrus, in which he compares memory to a block of wax on which we imprint our experiences. Another analogy comes from Mary Carruthers in…

No one is ‘perfect’. Perfection is a word we misuse to describe those who we think are above us in terms of power, beauty and much more. We often criticize those around us and ourselves due to our infinite imperfections while we should be focusing on other aspects of life. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Birthmark”, the primary focus is on human perfection as the protagonist tries to restructure the face of his wife, but it ultimately leads to her demise. This story is a mirror of life…

The Trials Encounter Politics The citizens of Salem were not exclusively affected by the witch trials— the authorities were shaken as well. At first, judges involved in the trials placed blame on “the trickery of Satan,” releasing themselves from any feelings of guilt. They eventually recognized their mistakes, and on January 14, 1697 proclaimed a Day of Fasting, where twelve jurors admitted they had condemned people without proper evidence. We do hereby signify to all in general (and to the…

As imprinting on paper materials has passed, different free textual styles utilized as a part of computerized showcase is also studied. When individuals are conveying with each other, they are utilizing the senses of hearing, touch, smell and taste. Other four…

alter gene expression in one generation and sometimes pass on these alterations, Moalem addresses epigenetics through his existing medical knowledge and various conducted studies (Moalem, 2014). For an example, Moalem first introduces the idea of imprinting, in which the parent a gene is inherited from carries more importance than the actual gene. In the Prader-Willi and Angelman syndromes, although they are totally different conditions, the parent a person inherits the genes from is the…

William Blake (1757-1827) was an English artist and poet whose works “The Divine Image” and “A Divine Image” were created during the Romantics Era. The political, cultural and historical events of this era molded the focus and perception of human nature in his poems towards God and religion. The titles are inherently influenced by teachings of the Bible, which state “so God created man in the divine image, in the divine image he created him; male and female he created them.” (New International…

In The World Who God Is (Tattoos on the Heart, p. 67) I am a spiritual non-theist who has come to treasure a parable-filled memoir celebrating a vision of God in the world, authored by a Jesuit Priest. In 2010, Father Gregory Boyle, pastor of Dolores Mission since 1986 and founder of Homeboy Industries, serving to uplift the lives of gang members in Boyle Heights near downtown Los Angeles—a thoroughly savvy, engaging, astonishing writer and man, who holds degrees in English, and has been…

Trisomy 21 is caused by the failure of the chromosome 21 to separate during sperm or egg development. As a result of this, a sperm or egg is produced with an extra chromosome 21. When it is combined with the other normal cell, the baby has 47 chromosomes out of which 3 are chromosomes 21. In 88% of the cases, trisomy 21 arises from the non-separation of the chromosomes in the mother, 8% from the non-separation of the father and only 3% when the egg and the sperm have merged together to form one.…

extremely important”. There have been many studies carried out to explain and investigate this phenomenon of flashbulb memory- some showing support, but some also going against. Brown and Kulik (1977) found that more significant events can cause an imprinting of a memory of the event in question. They asked the participants about 5 major events, for example, the assassination of John F Kennedy. The result was that people said they had very clear memories of their location and when they first…