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    Schindler’s List is one of the most powerful movies of all time. It tells the powerful true story of the German businessman Oskar Schindler who comes to Nazi- captured Poland looking for economic blooming and leaves as a savior of more than 1‚100 Jews. Many of our grandparents told us of the stories and we learned about it in school year after year‚ but to see it put to life was a totally touching experience. Some of us couldn’t even bare to look at those gruesome scenes. The movie starts out in

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    brilliantly used to express history and culture and what can be achieved when history and memory are fused together to create an impression of the past and its connection with the present in a unique and evocative way. Baker takes us on a journey through the history of his parents as holocaust survivors‚ casting light on their memories hidden by pain and despair and through the process takes his own journey of self discovery. Baker’s occupation as a historian helps verify the memories and accounts of his

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    Willa Cather’s My Anthonia‚ in my opinion was not only easy to read but also a thoroughly enjoyable read. It tells the vivid stories of several immigrant families who move to the rural state of Nebraska to start new lives in America. A Bohemian family‚ by the name of the Shimerdas‚ is one of the main focal points of the story. The eldest daughter of the Shimerda family is named Antonia. The book’s narrator‚ Jim Burden‚ arrives in the town of Black Hawk‚ Nebraska‚ on the same train as the Shimerdas

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    MEMORY MEANINGFUL FRAMEWORK There are so many people who use schemata to organize current knowledge and provide a meaningful framework for future understanding. In psychology and cognitive science‚ a schema (plural schemata or schemas) describes an organized pattern of thought or behavior that organizes categories of information and the relationships among them.[1] It can also be described as a mental structure of preconceived ideas‚ a framework representing some aspect of the world‚ or a system

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    Love‚ Stay With Me (by Kim HyunSik‚1991) Junsu - You Inside My Dim Memory (by Hyun JinYoung‚1992) 110702 EPISODE 5 (All songs from Min Haekyung) G.O. - You’re Love Is Enough Hongki - You’re Laughing Like A Doll But Junsu - I Wanna See Your Face Changmin - You’re Laughing Like A Doll But Ji Eun - Whose Life Is It Anyway? 110716 EPISODE 7 (All songs from Joo Hyun Mi) G.O. - You’re Leaving For Memories Jiyoon - We Meet Again Changmin - Blues of Tears Junsu - Wait

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    In the movie Schindler’s List we see the story of Oskar Schindler play out and the great deeds he did to save the lives of many Jewish people and because of this I would say the central theme to Schindler’s List is the great amount of change any one person can make‚ and this reminds us as a religion class that we too can make meaningful change no matter what. I would say this is the central theme of Schindler’s List because firstly he faced much opposition in his actions and didn’t received much

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    Virtue In the opening pages of Schindler’s List‚ Keneally says explicitly that it is the story "of the pragmatic triumph of good over evil" and of the story of a man who is not "virtuous" in the customary sense. Writing about evil‚ he goes on to say‚ is fairly straightforward‚ but it is more risky and complex to write about virtue. The hero of the novel‚ Oskar Schindler‚ is complicated because he seems to be at once virtuous and immoral. Schindler is married but keeps house with his German mistress

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    “The opposite of love is not hate but indifference‚” Elie Weisel stated after commenting on his thoughts on racism and his years surviving the Holocaust. Weisel was thrown in and out of concentration camps starting at the age of fifteen until finally his final camp where his father had died was liberated. The tragedies that Weisel along with the other millions of people who suffered were unimaginable and even Weisel himself strived for years to find words that somewhat explained what their experience

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    Memory

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    are many things to help this common problem. By studying what Ive learned about memory and learning‚ I will use this information to assess my own study habits and make them more effective. Encoding information in short-term memory is stored according to the way it sounds‚ the way it looks‚ or its meaning. Verbal information is encoded by sound‚ even if it is written rather than heard. Visual encoding in short-term memory is greater than encoding by sound. To help with studying‚ a student should look

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    one theory that may affect one cognitive process‚ in this case memory. First of all the cognitive level of analysis it’s how mental processes in the brain develops the information. It includes how we take the information from the outside world like daily activities and how we make sense of it but most important what use we make of the information. One theory of how emotion may affect the cognitive process of memory is Flashbulb Memory suggested by Brown and Kulik (1977). Emotions have been considered

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