The article I read this time was about learning from the past. The main focus of it was how we need to remember the experiences from the past such as wars and other related things and to use the memories of these to make sure they don’t happen again. As a society, we need to remember the mistakes that have been made and take the appropriate steps to correct them. I think that this article kind of relates to my topic of how our memories define who we are. In this case, the memories didn’t necessarily define the individual; instead they changed how that individual might act. The change in the way they act could in the form of a new law. After the Civil Rights movement, there were a lot of law changes. Politicians and people saw the way that other Americans were being treated and decided that something needed to be done. They remembered what happened and used this memory to make a change. Learning from the past could also be as simple as remembering to study more for a test. If you didn’t study much for a past test and ended up failing it, then when the next test comes, you’ll have this memory and remember that you need to study more. I’m not sure if I’ll use this article in my paper but it was useful to see another way our memories affect us.
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?hid=22&sid=ad043b6f-9557-4451-8939-98acec4b2ee0%40sessionmgr13&vid=2
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