Memories are a way of recalling ones personal experiences. Whether a positive or negative nature they form who we are as individuals. History is the recorded experiences and events which have occurred in the past. There is a strong entwinement between history and memory and this allows the inconsistencies of personal memories to influence the credibility of human history. This is reflected in Denise Levertov’s poems’ ‘Ways of conquest’ and ‘In Thai Bin (peace) Province’.
This essay will explore the connections between history and memory and how they influence each other. It will show how personal experience affects both history and memory, how history relies on collective memory and also how history and memory become inseparably linked and intertwine over time. Personal experience is the most influential factor when history and memory are being considered. Personal experience changes a perception of events and creates emotional ties to certain stimuli. This prevents recorded histories, or memories being accessed impartially, as a subconscious biased will have already been formed.
The words of a language reflect what the mainstream in a culture regards as worth naming. The dominant values of a culture are reflected in calendars, in which important days are named. To understand further how cultural values are woven into language; consider the cultural values that adages, or common sayings, express. A primary way in which communication changes cultural values and perspectives is by naming things in ways that alter understandings. 3.
Through this confrontation Noonuccal force them to discover the loss of land to the industrialisation which ultimately changes the moral toward the aboriginal community. This notion is elucidated through the quote “Hard bitumen around your feet”. The quote creates a juxtaposition of two distinct cultures through the use of personification of the “tree” and the diction of the words “hard bitumen and around”. The effort of personifying “the tree” allows us to see how much the indigenous Australians value their ethnic and culture while the diction of the word “Hard and around” metaphorically reveals the Aboriginal connection to the land as being lost and trapped inside the modernised world of the white Europeans. It is this juxtaposition of the two cultures that allows the responders to see the loss of indigenous bond to nature to industrialisation.
While history makes us demand that we keep the symbols, certainly the moral tutorial that we take away that is proof that we have been educated in the rudiments of the injustice that one man inflicted on a whole selection of people (Stier). Can an atrocity of this magnitude be replayed in our historical theatre? We would hope
All these relationships are at the heart of our existence and play a vital role in shaping our lives (Berscheid and Peplau, 2002). Currently the science behind relationships is being increasingly investigated due to a need to understand them. Psychology plays a key role in this development with developmental psychology, helping to explain the impact relationships have on growth and development. Friendship has been present throughout history and the definition of friendship differs across societies and cultures (Keller, 2004). In Western societies friendship can be defined as a voluntary, reciprocal relationship with strong positive affective connections which help the achievement of personal or social
For Natasha Kaplinsky, a British news presenter and her distant cousin, Benny, the need to revisit the past; to engage with their cultural background is again very important. To find out who you are, where you come from and what your cultural background means to you is to gain a sense of your own identity and, without that, you will never have a true, authentic sense of belonging. Belonging can be a choice. The documentary begins with Natasha summing up what her cultural identity means to her. The technique of her engaging directly with the audience in a conversational tone enables viewers to empathise with her attitude.
Narrative Therapy and Its Growing Success Stories and Literature Kierra Morris Liberty University Dr. Stephen Ford October 11, 2013 Narrative Therapy and Its Growing Success Stories and Literature Part I Introduction Within family therapy there is a therapeutic model that is in the “forefront of today’s theory and practice and it centers on the metaphor of narrative, that encourages the belief that our knowledge of reality is organized and maintained through the stories one tells about themselves and the lives they live” (Goldberg&Goldberg, 2013, p.395). There are many different forms of narrative that counselors can use to help and guide their clients. The stories that clients tell are important because: “Our stories link life events together in a particular sequence to make sense of how and why we live the lives we do. This ongoing process of weaving together events includes stories about us, our abilities, competencies, actions, relationships, achievements, and failures, and much else. Certain dominant stories explain our current actions and impact our future lives” (Goldberg&Goldberg, 2013, p. 395).
Next is the social cognitive theory, created by Albert Bandura. The cognitive social theory is the belief that people are flexible enough to learn from behaviors, people can regulate their own lives, people can control the nature and quality of their own lives, people can control their own behavior through external and internal factors, and when people are morally misunderstood they try to blame someone else or not take responsibility for the action or behavior (Feist & Feist, p. 478). The final theory is the cognitive social learning theory by Julian Rotter and Walter Mischel. Their theory is the belief that cognitive factors influence the way people respond to environmental forces (Feist & Feist, p.
In that matter knowledge is what we have achieved or gain from our past experiences. Our knowledge and beliefs are usually being influence by the perception around us, in our culture. Culture is a strong and common belief a society or community has that influences their ethics. Furthermore we do not have to be part of a society in order to have different beliefs because we always are affected by another culture. In that way we sometimes can be independent or dependent of our culture.