Tip of the tongue

order to retrieve something from your mental data bank, you search your store of memory to find relevant information. You either remember something or you don’t, right? Wrong. “Partial memories are common. Partial memory is demonstrated by the tip of the tongue state- the feeling that a memory is available but not retrievable” (Coon, D., Mittener,…

process the fact that I am telling my mom the biggest secret of my life, right to her face. As soon as she saw me cry, she got so worried and started yelling at me, telling me that I was scaring her. Once I caught my breath, the words were on the tip of my tongue and were rolling back down to my throat like a yoyo. My hands were sweating and my head was pounding so hard. But all of it went away when I said the words “I’m…

And then you have to play better than anyone else" (qtd. in Nikolov). Exactly the key of success is to know the rules and be the best player. For me I 'm Egyptian and everything is different here. Taking English in America plus not being my native tongue was a great challenge. I spent my childhood in a British school in Egypt so, English wasn 't that strange to conquer. In my school I studied novels, dramas, and poems. I took a lot of vocabulary and grammar classes as well. Then I transferred to…

Primarily focusing on such themes as human relationships, desires, passions, sexualities, gender inequalities and empowerment the novelists under discussion voice the age-old silence of the “gendered subalterns”. This trauma discourse makes the muted trauma of South Asian women visible and attempts to create a framework that promotes the healing of trauma. The novels under discussion create a space, a site for contestation of ideologies in an effort to break the silence on gender-based violence…

We’ve all had our struggles. But our struggles define who we are. Although living in the Briarcliff bubble, where everything is at the tip of our fingers the issues I have faced throughout the Chapter 1- 28.2282° N, 112.9388° E- Changsha, China For my entire life, I’ve known I was adopted. I never had a long talk with my parents about it. Of course, they tell me stories and show me pictures, but I have had a talk with my family about why they decided to adopt and the process of it. My family…

One of the players of Sword Art Online raised her saber behind her ear and held the position, feeling the Sword Skill charge. Once it was she let it explode as she spun her blade around. She was just one of a large group of Clearers currently fighting the Floor 49 Boss: The Sky Serpent. Floor 49 was Aztec themed with thick jungles, giant stone buildings, and ziggurats. It should have been little surprise that the Boss for it was based on the Quetzalcoatl from Aztec myth. Lyra ducked under one…

I spent most nights thinking about her and how she was no longer existent. A stone replaced her with her name engraved on it. I stared at it feeling unsatisfied because she just meant so much more in my eyes. She was now lying down still with a stone above her head showing the world she once lived. I found it odd how all-living things become objects or some historical monument at the end of their lives. Something stationary that people admire or reflect on. I found myself crying one late night…

“All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails is a function of power not of truth” = Friedrich Nietschze Manipulations of the Mind, Misogynistic Mistrust and Rash ramifications are just the tip of the iceberg that holds the crumbling power pedestal of Shakespeare’s compelling play Othello. In Shakespeare’s Othello, the eponymous character is a Moorish general waylaid by his ensign’s thirst for power. His ensign, Iago, revels in the power he wields in manipulating…

Sitting around the table as the sounds of laughter and joy and the smells of home-cooking and sugary goodness wafts throughout the air, the feeling of love and closeness surrounds you. The family is together for that Sunday dinner waiting on the one thing that will tie an awesome weekend together, dessert. What’s for dessert? Why apple pie of course! Nothing screams American family more than apple pie. According to My mother, she cooks apple pies when she wants the family to be together. But…

Floyd steps into the middle of the floor, the defense in which he has spent so much time preparing sitting on the tip of his tongue: I believe that you all know why I am here. It is because I hold the belief that all of the accused are nothing more than that; accused. They are not guilty, and have only been brought to this court either because someone was selfish and greedy…