The Persistence of Memory

One of my earliest memories is a nauseating blur of deafening screams, broken glass strewn across the ground, my hoarse wailing, and a compulsory one-day stay at Disneyland Resort to “forget.” Under a cracking veneer of perfection, my traditional Vietnamese parents desperately fought to keep the shame of their failing marriage and verbal and emotional abuse a family secret. Then, during my middle school years, social work became undeniably real to me. After being diagnosed with major depressive…

On the account of a woman named Sybil, Flora Rheta Schreiber wrote, “She’d abandoned the animal she loved as she herself had been abandoned repeatedly in the past by people who had claimed to love her.” (44) Schreiber is a psychiatry journalist and author who wrote the biography Sybil, a work about a woman who developed sixteen different personalities. The book profoundly depicts the emotional and intense incidents from her social life to hospital and psychiatric visits. It also interprets a…

pathology without seemingly affecting overall health (31). However, when the infection is cleared with anti-helminthic drug treatment and the mice are subsequently re-infected, a strong memory response is generated that expels the worms in about 12 days after challenge (25,32). The exact mechanisms of this highly effective memory response upon reinfection is poorly understood, but it is generally accepted that both humoral and cellular components are necessary for a protective immunity, whereby…

Art throughout the world reflects new ideas of the time and preserves the past historically marking each new era. A shift in the way the world is organized is almost always immediately followed by a new perspective that changes the way people create and receive art. Art has endless capability to be felt, observed, and examined in new ways that reveal a story behind each piece that weaves another picture of life during that century. Exploring art movements not only reveals the history of the time…

In a way, the Reconstruction of the United States is a prime example of why historiography exists for a number of reasons. The event happened so close in recent memory so as to occur in a time in which many records could be kept and in which history was already a well-established area of study. Furthermore, it is also so old as to allow for multiple interpretations throughout time and so impactful and controversial as to become a source for heated debates. Though history is the study of the past…

the patient’s preferred style of music. This is because the patient already has a certain relationship with the music. Whether it is a positive and comfortable connection or a negative and vulnerable connection, the music will be associated with memories, emotions, and images. This insight will show how one is mentally feeling and may reach experiences that are hard to deal with verbally. It is beneficial for the patient to express emotions that are too difficult to deal with alone because it…

the early years of life. Through Harlow’s monkey experiment it was confirmed that infants can form attachment to whoever or whatever gives them comfort when they are distressed. (Berk, 2012) Secure attachment has been linked to higher measures of persistence and self-reliance and higher ratings on friendship and leadership qualities. (Crain, 2012) The importance of healthy relationships has been supported by the study of institutionalized infants by Rene Spitz. She found that when infants do…

1. What is your thesis statement? Innocent individuals have been wrongfully convicted for crimes that they did not commit. This has happened in the past, before DNA technology was available, however, it continues to happen today. Some people have spent several months behind bars, while others have spent decades behind bars, all while being innocent. There are several reasons that this occurs, and there are several ways to correct this life changing problem. This includes misidentification.…

Most recently, especially in the 20th century, stress has been one of the leading complaints by employees in the workforce due to the complexity of most jobs. In a telephone poll done for the Marlin Company by Harris Interactive, 80% of workers feel stress on the job, nearly half say they need help in learning how to manage stress and 42% say their coworkers need such help (Harris). This statistic is one of many that has called for increase awareness needing to be shared about known stress…

Standardized testing has taken many blows from critics because of its inadequacies. However, few stop to consider how the shortcomings of the tests and curriculum affect the students subjected to them. According to the U.S. government, 49.5% of adolescents in 2010 met the criteria for various mental health disorders (“Prevalence”). With an education system so focused on success and a country full of opportunities, why are the country 's youth foundering? Criticisms of standardized testing…