Essays on Memoir

English definitions

A memoir essay describes a significant event in the past that one’s keeps in the memory. It is an essay that explains the event and its importance to the writer. It is important to provide details of the event in an engaging manner. After writing a memoir paper, one feels refreshed on the memories associated with the event on which the memoir is based.
A review paper involves writing both summary and an evaluation of the article or book in question. It involves selection of the article to be reviewed and then writing a summary followed by an

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The connection and possible collaboration between oral history and reminiscence is the key issue for Joanna Bornat in Chapter 35. The main difference of the two fields, according to Bornat is its focus: “Where oral history tends to focus on the content of memory, what is perhaps more characteristic of reminiscence and life review is attention given to process and outcomes for participants”. The blending of these two can lead to surprising revelations about the historical and social context of the past that often break national barriers, as the author own experience has shown. Both practices, although different in

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Book Review:

George Washington Bush stands as the 43rd president of the United States of America who led the country for two elective terms each consisting of four years. Like most of the other International players, he wrote a memoir after his constitutional term in the presidency office. The memoir captures his life, the presidency choices made and their consequences. The title of the memoir is Decision points. The book was launched on 9th November 2010 and in less than two months more than two million copies had been sold out, also at this time it topped on the New York

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Kathleen Tamagawa grew up with an Irish American mother and a Japanese father. Her memoir “Holy Prayers in a Horse’s Ear” is about her experiences growing up and feeling like she never fit in. She believes being racially mixed is a difficult and complex. Her memoir was written in 1932, so maybe things have become better, but her conclusion was that different cultures and societies are not fully open to completely accepting other races. She explains the title of the book towards the end, when she asks the reader “and now I ask, what use are holy prayers,

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Both books – “The Picture of Dorian Grey” by Oscar Wilde and “Chronicle of a Death Foretold” by Garcia Marquez – expose the human vices and human psychology, even though, they were written with the difference in a hundred years. Two great writers incarnated the idea of perverse and apathetic society as well as the destiny of a human within this society. Two different stories, two different persons’ tragedies both have fatal finals that do not lose the relevance and significance even nowadays.
The story of “The Picture of Dorian Grey” takes place in London of 1890s, during Wilde’s modern

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The stops in time that Conroy includes in his memoir are important moments that occur only once or during a short period, but they have an effect on the rest of his life. While many some people are lucky enough to have several chances, for most people, there are some decisions that you can only make once, and once you do, you must live with the consequences of the decisions for the rest of your life. This is why Conroy refers to these events and decisions as moments in time, when time is actually stopped, and you live in

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When I Was Puerto Rican is a memoir written by Esmeralda Santiago. She writes of her childhood life in Puerto Rico and how she lived in primordial conditions. Santiago paints a vivid picture of her early life which creates unforgettable memories of her childhood. The author talks about her life from her rural home in Puerto Rico to Brooklyn, and to her graduation in Harvard University. The memoir details the struggles and freedoms of a young woman in a foreign land with a foreign culture.
In her memoir, Santiago reveals the history of her life and her family in

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No Easy Day: The Autobiography of a Navy SEAL

After having been published in 2012, the book titled No Easy Day: The Autobiography of a Navy SEAL by Mark Owen with co-author Kevin Maurer became a very popular work dedicated to the Navy Seals. Mark Owen was a member of the US Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU). He took part in the mission dedicated to the elimination of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, 2011. Moreover, Owen was a team leader of the unit responsible for the death of bin Laden. Kevin Maurer was involved in military special missions for nine years. So, the experience of both authors

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Anti-hero is a literary term that entered in literature in 19th century with Dostoevsky and its usage has flourished since then into the second half of the 20th century. The term has been used to describe protagonist characters in Greek drama and stories. The idea of “hero” sets a base for the definition of an anti-hero. The number of anti-heroes in contemporary literature and the society are growing. Currently, the gap between the heroes and the anti-heroes is narrowing in terms of their moral codes, personality and value judgments. The narrowing of the gap could be caused by the

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His memories are still very vivid in my mind. We shared a lot, and he encouraged me to take a different approach towards life. His sense of humor and view towards life still challenge me to this date. Sometimes I ask myself why God lets such events happen. Is the death kind or even fair? Why is it that the good get to die while those who don’t do well or are not necessarily serving humanity in a good way the ones who get to live and have a long life? If I were God then merit would

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Watson appreciates the test from a chemical point of view, but fails to see any practical utilization of it. His doubts are quickly shattered by Holmes’s explanation of the test’s significance in a crime investigation as he points out that: “had this test been invented, there are hundreds of men now walking the earth who would long ago have paid the penalty of their crimes” (Doyle, ASIS 16). Given the fact that branches of Forensics medicine such as blood stain pattern analysis or forensics toxicology arose in the second half of the nineteenth century (“forensic medicine”), Holmes

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- Sexuality as Main Agency of Change
Higher Ground, the film and the memoir, both depict sexuality as the main agency of change in the story. The developments and the conflicts are centered on this subject, with the protagonist heavily influenced by her sexual experiences in majority of her life decisions.
In the film, the reason for Corrine’s marriage are a hasty solution to her unexpected pregnancy. The pregnancy arose from her sexual curiosity, which reflects her usual curiosity towards all aspects of her life. The marriage and incidences that follow are the main reason that Corrine becomes

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It is widely believed that the Internet has led to a great increase in plagiarism at both the high school and university levels. Whether or not this is true requires carefully considering the Internet and its effect on plagiarism. Four questions come to mind. The first is whether or not plagiarism has increased due to the Internet. The second is does the Internet can make plagiarism easier to accomplish. The third question is can the Internet make catching plagiarism easier. A final question is what can be done to reduce plagiarism whether it is due to the Internet or

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Summary

Summary of the Article
The article explains the importance of having a set of a body of literary works that target young children and teenagers. The author of the article uses the first person voice to establish a direct conversation with the readers. She argues that much focus has been given to adult literature to the extent that childhood experiences are often ignored. However, it is these childhood experiences that shape the character of adult people. The author thus advocates for a shift in focus to the significance of early childhood encounters. She discusses a series of literary tools

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- Introduction
- Our society have witnessed the rise and drop of many social inequities, but the subject of stereotyping yet remain and has remained for many years, decades, or else millennium.  In United States and in further nations around the planet, we are accountable of judging a person merely based off one chronicle that we had the opportune to hear about their ethnic group or society. 
- Starting from the 20th century till today, America has been able to go through several changes in society that was never thought to have been possible before. Nevertheless, the expectation that

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Michael Herr stayed in Vietnam for 18 months as a war columnist for Esquire magazine. During his entire stay, he anticipated scripting a book about he had gone through and witnessed; Dispatches was the product. Just as the title suggests, Dispatches is fragmented, wavering back and forth in time, but is concentrated around twofold actions: the Battle of Khe Sanh and the Battle for Hue during the Tet Offensive. Herr decides to focus solely on the men who fought the war and the men who covered it as a reporters rather than focusing on the battle itself.
Herr undeniably

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INTRODUCTION
“He [that is, Antonio] hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million—laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies—what’s his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes?” (Merchant of Venice, 3.1.42-46)
The above lines were borrowed from the famous speech made by Shylock in William Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. This speech by Shylock was his attempt at demonstrating his humanity and to encourage the audience to sympathize with his condition as a

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I intend on writing, in this paper, about the social effects that come as a result of children from age 10 to 14 (preteens) or younger, having cell phones. How the cell phones are dangerous to the social community. On top of that, I will mention about the policies that elementary and middle schools have regarding the possession of cell phones by their students and pupils.
The argument comes in where cell phones have numerous advantages, but should they be allowed in school despite their policies? Parents are responsible for their children meaning they shape the morality that their

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HIST1010: “How do we remember?”

Introduction
Memorials remembering a tragedy (or perhaps celebrating the perceived positive outcome of a tragic event) often serve different purposes over time. In the beginning, they usually focus on the suffering and on the loss of both soldiers and civilians. The establishment of the memorial is an integral part of the mourning process. But while historians try to keep these memories alive in their ‘objective’ accounts of events, they do inevitably fade.
At the same time, others (for example the government, but also support groups) try to remember the past, creating lieux de mémoire that evoke pictures from

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Book review

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for Franklin’s Memoirs, the unfinished records of Franklin’s life, written between 1771 and 1790. The Autobiography was never published during the lifetime of Franklin. While it was several times published in original view in French and English, the most popular version is the one, edited by J.Bigelow. This edition contains both ready parts and the notions about the unexecuted portion of the Franklin’s plan (Franklin 53). The book consists of four parts that represent different periods of life of Benjamin Franklin. The purpose of the edited Autobiography

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Introduction

Through the years, theorists use a variety of theories in attempts to explain human development socially, emotionally, physically and intellectually. Among the most used theories are those of psychosocial development; the main contributor is Erik Erikson. His theory on psychosocial development is one of the most influential personality theories; he focuses on the belief that a human being develops in stages. The occurrences at every stage develop the person’s psychosocial abilities; Erikson explores the influence of social experiences throughout a person’s lifespan (Cavanaugh & Blanchard-Fields, 2006). The development of ego identity is a significant element in Erikson’s

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Often our enthusiasm and ideals hinder our perception of reality, and can influence our liveliness in the society. The significance of our ideals can either be astonishing or deplorable, and the truth of that ideal one renders, can transform our lives for better or worse. The memoir of Jeannette Walls in The Glass Castle captures both the splendor and regret that surround her past and present life (Lewis 98). In life, we accept the truths that align well with our aspirations as we advance our achievement. Truth has close ties with our aspirations and we cannot favor a convenient

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Famed basketball player Chris Herren endured a great deal of controversy and criticism over the course of his career – infamous for his drug addiction and abuse, his surprising candor about these issues make him unique among professional sports players. Chris Herren’s heroin and painkiller addictions made his journey an incredibly tragic one; despite his successes, notoriety and incredible heights with the Boston Celtics, his American Dream turned into a tragedy. The tale of Chris Herren is one of a young, talented upstart who was unable to handle the amorality of the professional sports world – as his fame increased,

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Introduction

12 Years a Slave is a devastating memoir released as a movie by Steve McQueen. The movie starts with “based on a true story” and the end credit shows the life of Solomon Northup and other assailants after they were freed. In between, the story shows the 12 years where Northup was kidnapped and served as a slave in South (“slate”). While most of the movie is based on the Book by Solomon Northup, there are still some facts which have been added to give the story a more glamorous look of a movie, some of them are discussed

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Biography

Theatre exists for decades, passing important messages and entertaining audience at the same time. And art directors who are behind the scene is one of the reasons it is possible. One such individual is Miсhael Aleksandrovich Chekhov, a Russian-American actor, director, author and theatre practitioner majoring on stage acting. Michael Chekhov was born on 29th August 1891 to Alexander Chekhov and Natalia Golden. He had a unique acting technique that was admired all over the world. Numerous actors adopted it in their own work, referrening to it as brilliant and outstanding. The notable actors who used Chekhov’s

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Lipstick Jihad is a book written by Azadeh Moaveni and centered on revisiting the forgotten memories of the Iranian. In this book, Azadeh Moaveni is presented as the daughter of immigrants from Iranians who was initially born in California just three years before Islamic Revolution began. Moaveni is portrayed as a memoir of Iranian growing up in America and thus American in Iran is her only account of how her childhood would have been if she grew up in her homeland (Moaveni 7). She moves back to Iran in her quest to search for her Iranian identity.
According to

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Everyone suffers from guilt sometime in their life while some people suffer these bitter feelings for a lifetime. Guilt is a bothered conscience that occurs when a person commits an offense, crime or violates a moral standard or code. It is associated with the beliefs of what is right and wrong, moral and immoral. A person’s guilt not only affects his/her own life but also the lives of everyone involved. This particular emotion is the subject of my analysis in which I have chosen to evaluate the novel, “Chronicle of a Death Foretold” written by a Colombian writer,

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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): An Introduction

PTSD is a well-known acute anxiety syndrome that is created after an experience to any incident which is considered as threatening and causes psychological distress. Normally, the PTSD is created following the exposure to a horrifying incident or trauma in which grave bodily harm has taken place or was endangered. The distressing incidents that can activate PTSD consist of violent personal physical attacks such as rape or robbery, natural as well human-created calamities, mishaps in military warfare. PTSD can be at times turns to be an extremely disabling condition.
These traumatic events may invoke the risks of death to

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Brittani Scott

Introduction
Sickle-cell disease is an illness that is multisystem, linked to episodes of progressive damage of organ and acute illness, and is among the most common dangerous monogenic disorders in the world (Weatherall, Hofman, Rodgers, Ruffin, & Hrynkow, 2005). The sickle-shape erythrocytes were initially described in the year 1910 by Herrick (Herrick, 1910) and understanding has slowly increased from that time. Together with his colleagues, Pauling (1949) keyed out electrophoretic abnormalities in sickle HbS and made up the word molecular disease in the year 1949. The genetics, as well as biophysics of hemoglobin behind the disease, have been widely studied

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Organization

Liberalism is a political thinking whose ideology is founded on equality and liberty. Liberals are popular for their support of civil rights, press freedom, fair and free elections free trade as well as religious freedom and private property. Liberalism was not a divergent political movement until the 17th century with the endorsement of John Locke. On the other, hand, classical republicanism is a republicanism ideology which was developed in the Renaissance period. It is also known as civil humanism and is based on three main concepts. These are civic virtue, civil society and mixed government. One of the first

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The aim of this essay is to present you with the answer to one of the questions risen at the reading of the book ‘Dreams for my father: A Story of Race and Inheritance’. Barack Obama wrote this book which belongs to the kind of memoirs and became a bestseller in New York in 2004 – the year in which it was reissued – nine years before he began his Senate campaign.
This memoir is a book which tells its readers the autobiographic story of its writer. Barck Obama seems to have written this memoir in an effort to depict his

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Abstract

This paper discusses the crime of mass murder with particular reference to the mass murder orchestrated by Jim Jones at Jonestown: the People’s Temple Agricultural Project. The essay will broadly discuss mass murder in the context of its definition, elements and causes, effects on the society, and measures for its prevention. The underpinnings of this paper will be derived from the mass murder that occurred at People’s Temple Agricultural Project: Jonestown in which Jim Jones presided over the murder of over nine hundred people through poisoning on 18th November 1978. This paper aims at expounding the crime

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A test that I had taken is a objective test. It only measures the aptitude of the student of picking the right answer from the given choice. There can be different tests like subjective test, open book test, surprise test, presentation on a particular subject, debate etc. Different test would give different scores for the same material.
Surprise test and presentations are commonly used as punishing mechanism by the teacher. It makes students more attentive in the class. In case of making a presentation students have to come prepared to attend the class. This leads to the students being

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In compliance with the State of Georgia's Waste Reduction Unit regulating the handling and disposal of scrap tires as part of their solid waste, land conservation management enactment of HB257 became effective "April 5, 1993" according to Georgia State University Law Review (GSULR) (46). This law arose due to federal regulation changes concerning solid waste disposal management. The specific intention of the Act looks at reducing the generated amounts of tire disposal through "source reduction and planning methodologies" (GSULR 46; Environmental Protection Division – Georgia Department of Natural Resources 2013). Enacting HB 257 by the State of Georgia in addition

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English

Hollywood has on countless occasions brought back to life the system of existence and the social way of life of the old west. Hollywood goes out of its way to provide the most vivid description available of how life really was and how dangerous and adventurous the old west really was. More often than not however Hollywood pays little or absolutely no attention at all to being politically correct on the system of life of the old west. Portrayals of Hollywood in regard to the old west normally portray lawmakers on a cosmic collision course with a contingent of

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Part One: Biography

Theatre has been in existence for decades passing on concrete messages to the audience for purposes of entertainment. Behind the scene, there exist significant art directors who make this possible. One such individual is Mikhael Aleksandrovich Chekhov, a Russian American actor, director, author and theatre practitioner majoring on stage acting. Michael Chekhov was born on 29th August 1891. His father was called Alexander Chekhov while his mother was called Natlya Golden. Michael Chekhov had two wives namely Olga Chekhov and Ksenya Ziller. Olga Chekhov who was also an actor was the first wife to Michael Chekhov. He later married

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Introduction

This influential book by writer and translator Kwan reckons his tumultuous coming-of-age in China during and after World War II. This direct and poetic work clarifies the contradictions of wartime as set through the eyes of a child. Kwan is alienated from his Swiss mother as a young boy and servants take care of him while his father remarries an Englishwoman. Thus, David is emotionally distant from his father who is a wealthy administrator for China's railroads, and a role model to those he interacts with. Kwan's story is as much about his father as it is about him.

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The Vietnam War is widely acknowledged as one of the most contradictory wars in American and worldwide history. It has been a historical incident whose causes, effects, interpretation and role in the evolution of world affairs has never stopped causing heated debates, still leaving lots of questions unanswered or half-answered. Like any contradictory event, the Vietnam War hurt lots of people, destroyed numerous human lives, tore America apart in terms of its heated supporters standing against its heated opponents and brought nations on the front step of dealing with one of the world’s worst historical pages. If history

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The Nazis’ desire to purify the German nation turned out to be a tragedy for all non-Aryan people. The people considered “different” were penalized not only by concentrations camps but morally as well. All minorities that did not match Nazi criteria of “purity” were treated severely in concentration camps, however the distinctive place in the Nazis’ racial policy belonged to homosexuals. Homosexuality was a criminal offense in Germany as early as 1871, under section 175 of the Criminal Code of the German Empire so the system of Nazi persecution of homosexuals did not appear out of nowhere. And yet,

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Impacts of the implementation of a mentoring program that utilizes essential elements of effective mentoring on the level of job satisfaction and retention of faculty in a school of nursing
Research has revealed that the reasons that might cause nurses to abandon nursing practice and education could include inadequacy, feelings of stress, anxiety, disempowerment resulting from horizontal violence, and oppression (Rhodes, 2012). Other factors could also include general apathy with regard to collegial support, low morale, reduced resources, heavier workloads as well as higher patient insight. This research describes the responsibility of a mentorship program as one that assists

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