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Recovered Memory Recovered Memory
RECOVERED MEMORY The remembrance of traumatic childhood events, usually involving sexual abuse, many years after the events occurred. The heightened awareness of child sexual abuse that developed in the 1980s also brought with it the controversial topic of recovered memory. Some mental health... Read more
Virtual memory Virtual memory
Virtual Memory Virtual memory is a model—one of many possible models—for managing the resource of physical memory, or main memory. Such management is necessary because a microprocessor, the heart of a computer, has direct access only to main memory, while all programs... Read more
Lillian Smith Lillian Smith
Lillian Smith 1897-1966, American writer and social critic, b. Jasper, Fla. She was a social worker in Georgia for several years. Her bestselling novel Strange Fruit (1944) is set in the South and depicts the tragic love of a white boy for a black girl. Smith was active in the Congress of Racial... Read more
Semantic memory Semantic memory
Semantic Memory BIBLIOGRAPHY In 1972 the cognitive scientist Endel Tulving (b. 1927) argued that conscious recollection (i.e., declarative memory) is composed of two separate memory domains, each having distinct functionality, knowledge access, and neurological localization. Whereas episodic... Read more
Cache memory Cache memory
Cache Memory Cache memory refers to a fast storage buffer in the central processing unit (CPU)of a computer, allowing the computer to store data temporarily, making information retrieval faster and more efficient. By storing often-used data in a special memory chip ... Read more
War Memorials War Memorials
Memorials, War. Wars are commemorated by an immense variety of devices—obelisks, monoliths, marble temples, battlefields and battle markers, statues, cemeteries, tombs, memorial chapels and parks, plaques and walls bearing the names of the dead, place names, and “living... Read more
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memory in psychology, the storing of learned information, and the ability to recall that which has been stored. It has been hypothesized that three processes occur in remembering: perception and registering of a stimulus; temporary maintenance of the perception, or short-term memory; and lasting... Read more
Memorial Day Memorial Day
Memorial Day holiday in the United States observed in late May. Previously designated Decoration Day, it was inaugurated in 1868 by Gen. John A. Logan for the purpose of decorating the graves of Civil War veterans and has since become a day on which all war dead are commemorated.... Read more
Runnymede Runnymede
Runnymede or Runnimede , meadow, in Egham, Surrey, S England, on the south bank of the Thames River, W of London. Either on this meadow or on nearby Charter Island, King John accepted the Magna Carta (1215), which is commemorated by a memorial. There is also a memorial to John F. Kennedy on... Read more

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Hell comes to Arcady: racial history and gothic memory in Evelyn Scott's...
Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly ...gothic language, too, and Background in Tennessee, in part, is a gothic text, a work haunted by the memories--often racial memories--of Evelyn Scott's Tennessee childhood. I am not suggesting that the memoir is without genuine warmth...
Racial memory designed to inspire
Newspaper article from: Chicago Defender ...Miss Booker was my first grade teacher and I deliberately keep memories of her alive. So, if you've heard this story before, here...were assigned the names of notable Blacks who had surmounted racial terror to "become somebody." Before our first school year...
Preserving "that Racial Memory": Figurative Language, Sonnet Sequence, and...
Magazine article from: Southern Quarterly ...has asserted of Holocaust literature, "memory is not being invoked; it is being created...in A Wreath for Emmett Till, it is the memory of Till's death and the means of enduring...for a way to honor Till and share his memory with readers. Nelson exploits the Petrarchal...
Negotiating power from the margins: lessons from years of racial memory.
Magazine article from: Women and Language You who understand the dehumanization of forced removal - relocation - reeducation -redefinition, the humiliation of having to falsify your own reality, your voice - you know. And often cannot say it. You try and keep on trying to unsay it, for if you don't, they will not fail to fill in the blanks
Racial stereotypes influence readers' memories of crime stories, study...
Magazine article from: Black Issues in Higher Education ...study concerning people's memory of news photographs, images...influence of stereotypes on memory," says Dr. Mary Beth Oliver...regardless of their self-reported racial attitudes. "We believe our...implications in line-ups, for racial profiling, and for criminal...
HOLIDAY PICNIC HELPS EASE MEMORIES OF RACIAL TENSIONS AT CITY PARK
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) ...a continuing effort to ease the memories of racial conflict in the neighborhood and...Park area has been the scene of racial unrest and confrontations over...worked with the community to ease racial tension in the area. Last July...
Church bombing trial revives memories of racial woes; 1963: Former Klansman...
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) ...old courtroom became a stage displaying the city's stark racial divisions of more than a decade earlier. The occasion was...Church that killed four black girls.Now those images and memories are being revived as another former Klansman, Thomas Blanton...
Absurdities of Color // An Ex-Chicagoan's Memories of Unintended Racial...
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Racial insults don't lose their sting just because they're unintended, Gayle...Daley that followed. Washington's surprise primary victory and the bitter, racial campaign mounted to oppose him in the general election are detailed. The...
45 Years Ago, a 'Raisin' to Cheer; Revival of Hansberry Play Stirs Memories...
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post There was nothing like it on Broadway, which made it all the more powerful and beautiful and mesmerizing and tender. A great billowing curtain had been thrown back on a whole people, a whole race. The whole production had a leaping, antic, ferocious quality to it, as if the playwright planned to
Racial amnesia may be the cure
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) ...benevolence. We could afford to put aside racial differences and spread resources...shift in voting patterns, some racial memories are either fading or being altered...that the country is aware of its racial and ethnic diversity, and that...

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