Autobiographical Account of acial elations in the Community
My Autobiographical Account of acial elations in My Community

"Despite my time studying race and ethnicity, I have been in the racial minority very seldom;" such has often been my own life as well (McKinney 2004 p 19). The community I reside in is typically a white majority, but has been developing to come into closer proximity to other minority groups. While these groups are not directly targeted for discriminatory purposes by the white majority in the community, there is clearly a line drawn between minority groups and the more established white residents of the community. Essentially, I have seen within my own community a growing sense of color-blind racism, where the racial structures are not so overtly stated, but rather implicit and hiding just underneath the surface.

The community I have lived in for years is a relatively smaller one, which has been undergoing…...

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References

Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. (2010). Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States. Rowman & Littlefield.

McKinney, Karyn D. (2004). Being White: Stories of Race and Racism. 1st ed. Routledge Publishing.

Scheafer, Richard T. (2005). Racial and Ethnic Groups. 10th ed. Prentice Hall.

Autobiographical Memory
How we remember our own lives is a huge factor in how we view ourselves in general. As such, our autobiographical memory can both impact and be impacted by our mood and mindset. The concept of the autobiographical memory is incredibly complex, and is often varied based on individual experiences and mood sets.

The notion of the autobiographical memory is a complicated one for sure. There is a vast body of research that uses it in a number of contexts, but still a similar pattern emerges. Essentially, "autobiographical memory is the aspect of memory that is concerned with the recollection of personally experienced past events" (Williams et al., 2007). It is our own recollection of how we view our past to have occurred. As such, the "autobiographical memory is of fundamental significance for the self, for emotions, and for the experience of personhood, that is for the experience of enduring…...

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References

Conway, Martin A. & Pleydell-Pearce, Christopher W. (2000). The construction of autobiographical memories in the self-memory system, Psychological Review, 107(2), 261-288.

Williams, Mark G., Barnhofer, Thorsten, Crane, Catherine, Hermans, Dirk, Raes, Filip Raes, Watkins, Ed, & Dalgeish, Tim. (2007). Autobiographical memory specificity and emotional disorder. Psychological Bulletin, 133(1), 122-148.

Given the fact that my upbringing was somewhat strict, at the age of 18 I decided I wanted to take control of my freedom and started to do things that I pknew others would not approve of. This is why I decided to get married at this age, although I was advised to do otherwise. It seems that my decision was not a correct one, since we divorced when I was 21 years old.
In Stage 6 the individual focuses on developing relationships and on building a career. This is the period when I realized I wanted to become a nurse. I realized that this type of job is suitable with my personality and with the fact that I want to help people in a practical way. Also during this period I met my future husband. He is also divorced, which means that we have the maturity of learning from…...

Autobiographical Narrative of Colonial American Life
The rise of the colonial era in the 1600s and 1700s was a time of reckoning and awakening for very many of us. Living in this time in the divided regions of America had its fair share of challenges for every person. It was worse if you are an immigrant from other worlds or had come in as a slave worker. These challenging times dictated life for every individual irrespective of anybody's ethnicity or origin (Lassieur, 2011).

I am an African-American resident, living in the southern colonies. The southern colonies of the Americas have rich lands and are hence mainly used for farming and other agricultural activities. I was born in this place and grew to be a person of age, now in my mid-thirties years. I am male and just recently got a wife. My father was an African man, who was brought to the…...

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References

Brill, R.S.B. (2007). Native American life-history narratives: Colonial and postcolonial

Navajo ethnography. Albuquerque: Univ. Of New Mexico Press

Lassieur, A. (2011). Colonial America: An interactive history adventure. Mankato, Minn:

Capstone Press.

The driver's head was bloody like mine, but he was conscious. He didn't look at me, and didn't say anything. I noticed that the car had four passengers; it might have been a mother and father, and two daughters, both very close to my age. The eldest was on her cell phone.
"at the intersection of State Street and Main. There were three cars involved," she breathed gently.

"Are you guys alright?" came a voice from the other side of the car. A man was jogging toward us from the direction of the compact car, apparently shaken, but unharmed. I couldn't reply. I couldn't talk. I wasn't fine, and all I could think was that I wanted to be home, without blood on my forehead or hands, without having done this. The family in the SUV was probably headed home when I hit them. They were going to have a nice…...

By "story" I do not mean that the ways in which they understand (and enact) their lives are somehow false, fiction rather than fact. ather, I am using the word in what might be seen as an essentially Jungian way: Each person's biography can be seen as a narrative, a story that the self tells about the self and to the self. It is the most fundamental story in each life. Too often the story that people tell themselves about their own lives is one filled with shaming and negative elements; far too often such negative stories lead an individual to become to depend on alcohol or drugs to help them overcome their shame, depression, and other negative feelings about themselves.
The subjects of the research that I am currently proposing are skilled in disparaging their own lives, their own selves. The subjects of my research are three Armenian women…...

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References

McWilliams, N. (1994.) Psychoanalytic diagnosis. New York: Guilford.

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autobiographical work Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave is a book which illustrates the many difficulties of slave life in the United States of America. The book tells of Douglass's horrific upbringing as a slave and his subsequent freedom. Being a former slave, Douglass has the authority to write his autobiography which encompasses his youth, upbringing, and adulthood after leaving slavery. His purpose is to use legitimate arguments which showcase how slavery as an institution is wrong. Throughout the book, Douglass makes parallels between his own plight and that of the other slaves in his position with the stories of Biblical times and all peoples who would suffer at the hands of their oppressors. Of the major themes discussed in the narrative are the horrors of slavery and also the hypocrisy of Christian people who claimed to be religious but were not opposed to using…...

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Works Cited:

Douglass, Frederick. (2008). Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.

Forgotten Books.

One has to keep in mind that the practice of foot binding, which literally crippled many Chinese women, actually began around the same time that Shaojun was writing these memorial poems for her husband (Xue). A woman gained much of her identity from her husband. Children were considered less valuable than men, and the way that her overt grief for her husband contrasts with her apparent lack of concern for her children seems to reinforce her internalizing the idea that men are more valuable than women and children.
However, her poetry does not only speak to her role as a wife. In the commentary about her as a poet as well as in her poems about her husband, Shaojun's love of learning and scholarship was apparent. She and Cheng appeared to have spent a tremendous amount of time together discussing poetry, singing songs, and having philosophical discussions. This displayed an…...

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Works Cited

Idema, Wilt. "The Biographical and the Autobiographical in Bo Shaojun's One Hundred Poems

Lamenting My Husband." Beyond Exemplar Tales: Women's Biography in Chinese History. Eds. Joan Judge and Ying Hu. Berkeley: GAIA Books, 2011. Escholarship. Web. 4 Dec. 2012.

Xue, N. "Studying Chinese Women: A Resource Guide." University of Alberta. N.p., 16 Jul.

2003. Web. 5 Dec. 2012.

The intricacies of the many brain areas and structures involved, complicated further by the interrelationships of the many types of memory, make this topic one in which a great deal of painstaking research is necessary. Yet to ignore the evidence at hand would simply be foolhardy, and it seems increasingly likely that autobiographical and episodic memory should be considered two different mental phenomena.
eferences

Baddeley, A.; Aggelton, J.; Conway, M. (eds). (2002). Episodic Memory: New Directions in esearch. New York: Oxford University Press.

Gilboa, A. (2004). "Autobiographical and episodic memory -- one and the same? Evidence from prefrontal activation in neuroimaging studies." Neuropsychologia, 42, pp. 1336-49.

Mayes, A.; pberts, N. (2001). "Theories of Episodic Memory."

Schagman, S.; Kvavilashvili, L. (2008). "Involuntary autobiographical memories in and outside the laboratory: How different are they from voluntary autobiographical memories?" Memory & Cognition, 36(5), pp. 920-32.

Summerfield, J.; Hassabis, D.; Maguire, E. (2009). "Cortical midline involvement in autobiographical memory."…...

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References

Baddeley, A.; Aggelton, J.; Conway, M. (eds). (2002). Episodic Memory: New Directions in Research. New York: Oxford University Press.

Gilboa, A. (2004). "Autobiographical and episodic memory -- one and the same? Evidence from prefrontal activation in neuroimaging studies." Neuropsychologia, 42, pp. 1336-49.

Mayes, A.; Rpberts, N. (2001). "Theories of Episodic Memory."

Schagman, S.; Kvavilashvili, L. (2008). "Involuntary autobiographical memories in and outside the laboratory: How different are they from voluntary autobiographical memories?" Memory & Cognition, 36(5), pp. 920-32.

Effects: Helps the reader better understand the reality of the situation, underlines the fact that despite the fact that fictional techniques are being used, this is 'real' history.

Question 3

n "Son," the conflict between the children and parents is generational in nature. Every succeeding paragraph of the short story takes the reader farther and farther back in time, detailing the history of the previous generation. The sons feel as if their fathers do not understand them. The son of 1973 thinks of himself as an interloper in his home. "Time has tricked him and made him a son" (Updike 1070). "Daughter of nvention" by Julia Alvarez depicts the conflict between a mother and daughter and the mother and the rest of the family. Alvarez's mother wants a source of esteem outside her maternal role and concocts inventions as a way of asserting her intelligence and value. Alvarez is desperate to fit…...

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In "Son," the conflict between the children and parents is generational in nature. Every succeeding paragraph of the short story takes the reader farther and farther back in time, detailing the history of the previous generation. The sons feel as if their fathers do not understand them. The son of 1973 thinks of himself as an interloper in his home. "Time has tricked him and made him a son" (Updike 1070). "Daughter of Invention" by Julia Alvarez depicts the conflict between a mother and daughter and the mother and the rest of the family. Alvarez's mother wants a source of esteem outside her maternal role and concocts inventions as a way of asserting her intelligence and value. Alvarez is desperate to fit into America and is embarrassed by her mother even though some of her mother's ideas, like wheeled suitcases, are not really foolish. Both stories suggest that understanding is only achieved by seeing the world from the other person's perspective. Updike stresses that all fathers once were sons, and the young Alvarez's desire for respect and defying notions of femininity are paralleled in her mother's desire for recognition through her inventions.

Question 4

In "Son," the greatest gift the young man of the 1970s receives from his family is acknowledgement that he has a right to achieve independence, even though the boy may sometimes act very sullen when other family members try to give him love. The boy accepts the wisdom and tenderness (like a backrub) of adults very grudgingly; the adults recognize that he needs these gestures, even though the boy does not. In "Daughter of Invention," Julia Alvarez, struggling to find her identity as a woman in a patriarchal culture, is supported by her mother when the girl wishes to make a speech quoting Walt Whitman to her classmates. Although her father destroys the speech, her mother defends Alvarez, asserting her daughter's right to speak her mind. Alvarez says that she sees herself as her mother's greatest 'invention' and because of her mother's spirited defense of her daughter, her father capitulates and buys his daughter the typewriter she always dreamed of owning. Both children come to realize that although they may be misunderstood by the older generation, they still need its support to realize their dreams and that the older generation had similar aspirations when it was growing up.

Country is an autobiographical story of Abraham Verghese, a man from India via Ethiopia who came to adopt the small town of Johnson City, Tennessee, as his new home.
In postgraduate studies he focused on infectious diseases, in part because it would open more professional opportunities to him, a foreign MD. A mentor took him with him to Tennessee, where Verghese and his wife quickly settled into rural, Southern life. His best friend was a gas station operator, and the emergency room staff enjoyed teaching him to "talk Southern."

Before moving his family to Tennessee, Verghese had read a few journal articles about the mysterious disease that as beginning to be called "AIDS," but it was a "big city," mostly New York and San Francisco. When he came to Johnson City to work, he never expected to be dealing with AIDS, and certainly not in more than 80 patients, but that…...

Brockmeier, J (in press). Dissecting memory: unravelling the autobiographical process. From:
Beyond the Archive: Memory, Narrative, and the Autobiographical Process. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press.

The stories we tell about ourselves and how we remember events can have a profound effect upon our conceptions of 'the self.' Brockmeier's essay on "Dissecting memory" examines how fiction and autobiography can both shape self-perception. To analyze this concept, Brockmeier uses Ian McEwan's novel aturday as a kind of case study, which makes the narrator's stream-of-consciousness about both mundane and important matters as its driving focus, more so than external events. elective remembering and selective forgetting involve both cognitive and psychological factors: memory is a neurological process, but emotions also affect how and what we remember. Forgetting is not necessarily a 'bad' thing: it can enable us to experience things afresh when we revisit them, versus solely dwelling in negative aspects of the past.

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Schraube, E. & Marvakis, A. (2015). Frozen fluidity: Digital technology and the transformation of students' learning and conduct of everyday life. In E. Schraube and C. Hojholt (Eds.), Psychology and the conduct of everyday life. London: Routledge.

Digital technology has become ubiquitous in the modern classroom: even traditional classrooms now usually have some online component, such as chatrooms or message boards. This can be useful because of the way online technology can facilitate communication between students and teachers on a regular basis. New technology has been particularly useful in ending the old 'internalization' model of learning whereby students were envisioned as passive subjects who watched more experienced individuals perform tasks and then replicated the process by rote. Digital technology allows for a more interactive experience. It also underlines the extent to which teaching and learning are interrelated process, given the intimacy of communication between teacher and student. It is often said that the best way to learn something is to teach it. Students can also act as 'teachers' if they are more familiar with certain forms of technology than the instructor.

Learning today has the potential to be more expansive in nature and motivated by intellectual curiosity rather than defensive fear. Problem-oriented and participatory learning is encouraged by the mutual engagement of student and instructor online. Digital technologies have vastly expanded the ability of students to do research in multi-dimensional ways, incorporating new media and more diverse media than was possible when students were shackled to the library. This greater sense of ownership over their learning has the potential to enhance student engagement. However, there is also a negative side to this whereby technology can be used to control students (through mandatory log-ins and requiring more busy work submitted by email vs. meaningful assignments). There is also a risk of learning becoming increasingly standard and commodified through digitalization as the lack of face-to-face interaction reduces the pressure on instructors to personalize learning. Digital technology is thus a double-edged sword. It has the potential to make learning more accessible but also can create distance between teacher and learner.

The dual perspective of the Veil can also be seen in James Baldwin's "This Morning, This Evening, So Soon," though hope is something more of a stranger in this story. The protagonist's fear of returning to the United States with his white wife and mixed-race son from his now-home in France, where these things don't matter, is directly representative of the type of perspective implied by DuBois' use of the Veil metaphor. Even in France, the narrator/protagonist is seen with a similar dilemma, though based on his nationality rather than his skin color, when he reflects that his Tunisian companion thinks of him as simply an American. Though this may or may not be an accurate assessment of the companion, it is a reflection of the burden of the Veil that this character carries; even his life in France cannot remain untainted by the duality of simply his own racial…...

Life in high school was never a breeze, but I did have it easier than most others. Although I was always more into the sports and activities side of school life I still maintained a 3.0 GPA. Plus, the basketball team I was on provided an easy and almost instantaneous camaraderie with my peers, which allowed me to bypass the typical nervous and shy meeting of new friends that the majority of students endure. The best thing of all, though, was the scholarship I was awarded: to play basketball at UCLA after graduating high school. I had always believed I would be granted one, right from the day I joined the team, just as I always maintained and believed in high aspirations for myself, but to actually achieve it was still surreal and staggering; by no means did I take it for granted. I treasured the fact that I had…...

Life in Colonial America
My name is John Smith and I have lived in the American Colonies for more than ten years now. I was born 40 years ago in the year of our Lord 1710, in Yorkshire England, the fifth son of a poor farmer, and of my four elder brothers, only two survived childhood. But since my father had only a small plot of land to work, he left the farm to my eldest surviving brother while having nothing to leave either me or my other brother. However, my father did not simply abandon us, I was apprenticed to a master carpenter, while my brother was sent to join the British Navy. While I have had contact from my brother the farmer, I have not heard from my brother the seaman in many years. Letters, while difficult to send and receive, are more easily sent to and from…...

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Reference List

"Carpenter and Joiner" (n.d.) Colonial Williamsburg Journal. Retrieved from  http://www.history.org/almanack/life/trades/tradecar.cfm 

Crews, Ed. (Spring 2003) Colonial Williamsburg Carpenters Construct Buildings Of The Past. Colonial Williamsburg Journal. Retrieved from  http://www.history.org/foundation/journal/spring03/carpenters.cfm 

Galenson, David. (1984) The Rise and Fall of Indentured Servitude in the Americas: An Economic Analysis. The Journal of Economic History, 44 (1), 1-26.

Indentured Servitude In Pennsylvania (n.d.) Retrieved from  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servitude_in_Pennsylvania

A literacy narrative is a type of autobiographical essay in a modified narrative essay format. It focuses on a person’s own experience with one or more aspects of literacy including speaking, writing, or reading. Your literacy narrative relates a personal experience and should help explain your development as a communicator, even if not as a writer or reader.

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4. The symbolism of the birdcage in Henrik Ibsen's play, "A Doll's House," in relation to gender roles and societal expectations.
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Mixing up humorous experiences in an autobiography can enhance storytelling in several ways. Firstly, humor can provide a lighter tone to what might otherwise be a heavy or serious narrative, making it more engaging and entertaining for the reader. It can also create contrast and balance within the story, showcasing the ups and downs of the author's life.

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