Essays Tagged: "Memory"

Optical Illusions

work together constantly. Two sources feed visual information to the brain:the eyes and the brain's memory of past experience. Usually the information is clear enough, and you have no difficulty figur ...

(2 pages) 150 2 3.7 Feb/1996

Subjects: Art Essays

Should Marijuana Be Legalized?

cts to your brain and body. Scientist have found that smoking marijuana can cause you to loose your memory. Marijuana has many psychological and physical effects. People usually smoke marijuana in cig ...

(6 pages) 372 1 4.2 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Biography and History -- Harriet Jacob's The Life of a Slave Girl

urself. Yet it must remain astory, and the story at its heart is a reconstruction of facts from the memory of the author. In thecase of Harriet Jacobs, it was also important that she make sure the rea ...

(4 pages) 150 0 3.3 Oct/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

Discuss the significance of food in Like Water for Chocolate.

Essay Final1. Discuss the significance of food in Like Water for Chocolate.Food equals memory and memory equals immortality. In the recipes we pass downfrom generation to generation, in t ...

(3 pages) 149 4 4.3 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Hamlet and Gertrude, love or hate

s not his imagination but cruel reality. Not only has his father passed but, as if to mock the very memory of the former king, Gertrude, Hamlet's mother and queen, has married again within two months. ...

(4 pages) 97 0 4.4 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet

What is life?

writting the story; every thought, action, and emotion that isexperienced is written into the book. Memory is just rereading the book.Some pages torn, stuck together, smeared so we can't remember it a ...

(2 pages) 70 0 3.5 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself, personal essay

my life started going to hell.It happened maybe two or three years ago. The day is very clear in my memory. Theweather was cold and nasty. The monotonous rain made everything outside look gray. Iwas a ...

(3 pages) 136 1 4.1 Feb/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

The Stone Angel, an essay about anger and disappointment

lling about the stone angel on her mother's grave she states, 'I wonder if she stands there yet, in memory of her who relinquished her feeble ghost as I gained my stubborn one...'. (p. 3) Hagar's stub ...

(3 pages) 61 0 3.4 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Defending Hume's description of the human thought process. a compare and contrast with my own personal opinions

Doubting everything would never lead anywhere. The human mind can not just wipe out all it's known memory and start over. The mind is always on. Decarte used his beliefs to prove his own theories. He ...

(2 pages) 111 0 4.5 Feb/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy

Euthanasia, the right to die

of the loved one who has finally died many months after they were diagnose as terminally ill, is a memory of a person lying there helpless, not able to feed themselves, get out of bed, or talk to you ...

(4 pages) 217 0 4.6 Oct/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

"Daddy"

"Daddy"In the poem "Daddy," Sylvia Plath attempts to flee from the memory of her brutal father, who died when she was ten years of age. She employs short stanzas that ... ot killed her father completely in her mind, however she is through trying to overcome her father's memory, her husband dictatorship, and, essentially, her life.

(3 pages) 147 0 3.8 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

"Daddy"

"Daddy"In the poem "Daddy," Sylvia Plath attempts to flee from the memory of her brutal father, who died when she was ten years of age. She employs short stanzas that ... ot killed her father completely in her mind, however she is through trying to overcome her father's memory, her husband dictatorship, and, essentially, her life.

(3 pages) 135 0 3.3 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Home is where the heart is

intentions of family life. 'A house belongs to you, but you belong to a home.' (C. Marks)The first memory that I have of a home is waking up one cold Saturday morning in my bunk beds. I jumped out of ...

(4 pages) 220 1 3.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Smile...Come On...Its Free. Based on the writings of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch

It enriches those who receive, without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich or mighty that he can get along without it, an ...

(4 pages) 43 0 4.2 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

research paper on marijuana

aturally by the body to regulate a variety of processes.2)Cannabinoids regulate appetite, pain, and memory (hippocampus), all of which are affected by marijuana.3)Marijuana is only addictive to a smal ... ey suspect that these molecules strengthen the connections between nerve cells, thus, strengthening memory abilities.5)When cannabinoids are abundant, everything is marked for memory, but overwhelms t ...

(5 pages) 306 1 3.1 May/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

The Perfect World

ould befast, faster than any computers in existence today. There would be a minimum on theamount of memory that a computer would be required to have. Twenty Gigabytes of harddrive space and 100 Megaby ... r would be required to have. Twenty Gigabytes of harddrive space and 100 Megabytes of Random Access Memory (RAM) ,would be considereda small family computer. In addition to being faster than today's c ...

(3 pages) 93 0 4.8 Nov/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

Computer Viruses: Infection Vectors, and Feasibility of complete system protection.

A computer virus is a program which, after being loaded into a computer's memory, copies itself with the purpose of spreading to other computers.Most people, from the corpora ...

(2 pages) 88 0 4.7 Nov/1994

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Get Informed. About what hardware is available

e are detoured from using or purchasing a very beneficial machine. Some people have questions about memory, Windows95, and choosing the best system to purchase. Hopefully, I can clear up some of this ... Hopefully, I can clear up some of this terms and inform you on what hardware is available.How much memory do you really need? As much as you can get. Due to todays sloppy programmers, you can't have ...

(3 pages) 68 0 4.0 Feb/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

In the Name of Malace or for Business. A look into computer virus

This is usually done in such a manner that the copies will be executed when the file is loaded into memory, allowing them to infect still other files, and so on. Viruses often have damaging side effec ... ogram that spreads itself across computers, usually by spawning copies of itself in each computer's memory. A worm might duplicate itself in one computer so often that it causes the computer to crash. ...

(3 pages) 58 0 3.9 Jan/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

How to buy a computer

ake an informed decision on the best processor to buy, the right size for a hard drive, or how much memory he or she really needs. Just because buying a computer can be confusing does not mean one sho ... than 75 MHz Pentium system, for example. That's because there are a lot of other limiting factors. Memory is a prime example. One may be better off buying a 75MHz Pentium system with 16MB of RAM than ...

(6 pages) 161 0 3.9 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science