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“A picture is worth a thousand words, but a memory is priceless.” Does taking a picture add to or lessen an experience?  Some people believe that taking pictures is bad because people are not enjoying the moment. They talk about the people who take out their phones and take pictures when they see pretty scenery or delicious food. They see the view through their phone camera, not with their eyes. They think that taking pictures is the best way to remember a memory because it stays the same forever, while memories fade over time. The people who don’t support taking pictures say that if people only see things through their phone cameras, it is the same as if they were only looking at photos. They say that they are too obsessed with living for others, by taking pictures to post on social media, rather than enjoying their own lives. However, Business Insider states that “instagramming your night out could make it more enjoyable.” Kristin Diehl, associate professor of marketing at the Univer

       4:39 pm image When language is associated with memory, my mind drifts to first grade, when I still did not have a good grasp of the English language. Thus, whenever my teacher proctored spelling tests, I found the assessments hard (so I cheated a few times) and received satisfactory results. One of the most common memorization techniques in high school is last-minute cramming, which has inconsistent reliability. Although at times people can successfully ingrain material in their short-term memory, much of their effort is wasted (in a way) as the contents tend to be forgotten soon afterward. Humans naturally remember better when they concentrate all their attention on something. Memory works similar to a network, as it is strengthened when knowledge is strung together. Thus, the more logical pieces of information are when put together, the longer the knowledge as a whole will be remembered. The most well-known forms of memorization are association and spaced learning/repetition.

     Memories are so pure, even magical. They are like movies playing rent-free in your head whenever you want. Memories bring back funny jokes and fun times with friends and family, they help you remember important information for a test, and memories influence how you are now.     However, memories are like a scar, being torn open repeatedly when the painful memories are remembered. Traumatic and painful memories hold you back; the memories keep you away from joy everything because they remind you of your old hurt. But when we can never fully bounce back from the past, we will always hold that pain when the memories are lucid. It feels like you are trapped in a box, being forced to remember these horrible things that have occurred in your life, and there is no running away from them.      Although we wish painful memories would just go away, we want to they never occurred in the first place, but painful memories are just as important as the good ones. Painful memories keep us safe, i

 a psychology lesson for you :)  Faith Tong      I would of never imagined myself writing a blog post about psychology! Psychology is a very interesting topic and now I’m gonna be an expert today to explain to you how the different types of memories we have can affect the way we speak or express ourselves.      Did you know that we have various memory parts that help us to remember information? The two main parts of memory that correlate with language are sensory and explicit memory. Sensory memory is actually divided into two smaller sections: echoic and iconic memory. Echoic memory is when you use listening to remember information while iconic memory is using observation to remember information. The way we perceive others expression while speaking can help determine the way we speak, and affect the way we use language.      Similarly, explicit memory is also known as “declarative memory”, where you have to say the information you want to memorize out loud in order to remember it and

  Have you ever been separated from your family as a child? I most certainly have. I recall once when I was in 2nd or 3rd grade, my family and I went to Great America during summer vacation. As you can probably imagine, I got separated from my family by staring at something for too long. As a child, you have no way of communicating with your family outside of making face-to-face interactions with them. I didn’t have a phone at this time, so I certainly could not call them. I spent a good 30 minutes to an hour trying to search for my family by wandering around, hoping that I might magically find them. Unfortunately, this did not work. Eventually, I found an employee selling merchandise by the side of a ride. Being the awkward small child that I was, I just walked up to them and casually said, “Hi. I’m lost.” The employee took me to a nearby shop where they called security to see if they could find my parents. While I sat there waiting for them to contact my parents, I began to scare mys

Angie Cheng Benedetti English 11AP Wed 23 March 2022 Published: 3/23/22 1:39 PM    Muscle Memory I enjoy rhythm games a bit too much and I’ve downloaded a good amount of them. However, I play on many Japanese servers if the game has not made an english server yet. Though I don’t understand Japanese, my muscle memories from playing Bandori Dream on the english server made me memorize the functions and the buttons I need in order to operate and navigate the game. As rhythm games are usually similar, I was able to play completely different games, as they operated very similarly.  It isn’t just games too, muscle memory can be used for music and playing instruments. Texting too, huh? When we type on keyboards or on our phone, we tend to low key memorize the letters and do not really look down too much at the letters in front of us. (All that typing.com and nitrotype from elementary school really set us up for that).  If anything, all the small things you do tend to be muscle memory. The mor

Nostalgia in a Box! by: Angel Susantin (I don't have anything else to put here so here's a WIP I'm working on right now) Do your parents keep your projects, drawings, or other works from when you were in elementary school?  Mine certainly do and it was initially a bit embarrassing. We keep my old physical papers in a dusty box under my bed. For the most part, it was difficult to look back at the horrendous drawings I thought were satisfactory when I was ten without feeling immense cringe. I was looking at my old work a few years ago and remembered the feeling that I had peaked when I initially drew it, but I absolutely disagree with my past-past-self. I questioned, "Were my standards really that low?" But, when I thought about it some more, it really was all about perception. Putting aside the embarrassment that I had been proud of an oval face, triangle body, and confused spirit of a portrait I had made of my mother (that I totally copied off the internet, yet st

Mrinmayee Sama - Week 5 Hi I'm Dory I am the dory...  Cute little gif cus why not 😊  Mom: Go upstairs and get the charger from your room  Me: ugh fine  *goes into my room #forgets what I am supposed to get*  "I have short-term memory loss," everyone says this because they want to fill up the time while trying to remember something which is co ncerning to forget and also to appear funny in front of people (#mrinmayee core fr). I'll remember the weirdest things that happened 6 years ago but won't remember a question on a test that happened 10 minutes ago. But on a serious note, short-term memory is the effect of trauma on the head and there is a lot of science behind this condition.  Dementia, my segway into connecting memory with language WOOHOO. The Alzheimer's Association defines dementia as "a general term for loss of memory, language, problem-solving and other thinking abilities that are severe enough to interfere with daily life." Now this is h

            How accurate do you think your memories are? Well, it turns out your memories are not actually that accurate. In fact, the words people use can impact your memory of an event. The article “ Loftus and Palmer ” by Dr. Saul McLeoud discusses an experiment conducted by Elizabeth Loftus that sought to discover how the phrasing of questions can affect people’s memories of an event. In the experiment, individuals watched a clip of a car colliding with another car. They were then asked, “About how fast were the cars going when they (smashed / collided / bumped / hit / contacted) each other?” Based on the verb used, the individuals gave different answers on what speed they thought the cars were going at. Individuals asked a question with the word “smashed” answered on average the highest speed, then the word “collided,” then “bumped,” then “hit,” and then “contacted.” When I first learned about this experiment, I was very surprised that the phrasing of a question can impact one’s

Andrew Chao Ms. Benedetti  Ap English 11 P5 21 March 2022 [11:55PM] Week 13 Looong term or short term?     We all store memories in our brains, they are like the computer chips that exist which is stored into the depths of the computer like numbers and data files. These files in computers are stored in many different places some may be browsing history, others as bookmarks, or even desktop shortcuts. The factor that these listed all have in common are that they can be pulled out whenever you need it at any circumstance. Us humans have two types of memories one short term, and another classified as long-term.  Long term memory is as it suggests something your brain stores for a long period of time maybe a valuable memory or something that makes a part of you. Short term memory is on the contrary the opposite of long term only temporary maybe something as doing an assignment or completing a task. Both I feel like have their own uses and best used for a certain something. But what makes t

How good is your memory? What is photographic memory? The idea that someone can remember everything they see is crazy. Currently, there is an ongoing debate on whether photographic memory truly exists, but there are forms of photographic memory that are proven to exist: hyperthymesia and eidetic memory. Hyperthymesia, or highly superior autobiographical memory, allows people to remember every moment of their life. There are only 61 registered cases in the world at this moment. This ability can be a gift or a curse. When someone mentions a date, they can easily recall everything from that date, including the day of the week, what they ate for breakfast, and everything that happened that day. This memory is similar to a regular person recalling important events from the day before, but with them, it is every detail in extreme detail. This type of memory can be helpful in some cases, such as remembering to do everything they need, never losing anything, and remembering everything they lea

 The movie Inside Out  by Pixar lets us know that its okay to be sad. In the movie Riely moves away from her hometown to San Fransico, Califronia, she isn’t totally on board with the idea, but she pretends to be okay. Her emotions, Disgust, Anger, Fear, and Joy think they all have prominant roles. They exclude Sadness, for they thinks he has no true  meaning in “life.” One day Sadness and Joy were litterally sucked out of Riely’s emotions headquarters. Joy and Sadness go through adventures throughout Riley’s mind, but in order to help Riley Joy has to let Riely feel sorrow, in order to feel joy again.     Now people think the movie is just cute and fun, but it’s more than that; the movie teaches us to embrace our core memories, to accept any other emotions, not just joy, and it teaches parents to acknowlge their kid’s feelings and emotions. This movie has so much power, it really shows the realities of what goes on in a kid’s head, and I think that it’s important. Ignoring our emotions

Mrinmayee Sama - Week 4 ✨Advertisements✨  Superbowl Sunday - February 13 Thing 1: OMG DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE GAME ON SUNDAY BETWEEN THE RAMS AND BENGALS Thing 2: yea lol, but it's valentine's day weekend Thing 1: PFFT, WHO CARES Thing 2: Apparently this thing does 👀( points to girlfriend/boyfriend)      That one Sunday where the final two teams play against each other is exciting for well...everyone who wants to watch the actual game, but I get excited about the ads and halftime because it's the only fun part (Sorry to the people who actually like watching the game LOL). Everyone knows that we get new ads during NFL season and the producers of these ads have the pressure to make them good because literally, everyone is watching them. I usually always thought that ads aren't effective and the companies are spending so much just to play a 30-second video for the crowd to go on their phones and talk over it, but after seeing an ad from Taco Bell in the theater, I changed

  5 types of power                Throughout history, the consolidation of power has always been a major driving force in determining the structure of society and the world. As there are so many forms of power, there is no exact agreed-upon definition. One of the clearest ways to define power is by drawing a line with force, limiting the definition of power to the ability of a person to influence others.                Generally speaking, many experts categorize power into five different groups.                Coercive power is the most negative type, involving threatening others to achieve goals. In the business world, this usually takes the form of firing workers, demoting people, etc to pressure others to listen to the one with authority                Reward power is the usage of benefits to encourage others to work harder, manifesting as a positive form of influence. However, this type of power is rather weak as good promises are rather hard to come by.                Legitimate p

        “Fake news.” “Misinformation.” This is a topic that is frequently talked about in the news due to the harm it causes society. It is a topic that is especially relevant in the current pandemic. On social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, many people have posted inaccurate statements about Covid-19 and its vaccines such as that vaccines can cause Covid-19 or that the vaccines contain a microchip. While some of these statements may seem ridiculous(I know that I have laughed at a few statements), many people still believe that these statements are true. Even worse, the spread of misinformation causes many people to not take the vaccine at a time when increasing the number of vaccinated people is essential in reducing Covid-19 cases.  While misinformation has always existed, in the current age of technology, it can be spread incredibly quickly. In a matter of days, millions of people can view and share a post. The article “Information Overload Helps Fake News Spread, and

Angie Cheng  Benedetti  English 11AP Wednesday, March 2, 2022  Blog #4 Semester 2 Week 4: Too many descriptive words...  – 3/2/2022 [4:52PM].  Haha now, how could I JUST almost forget about writing a blog…currently typing on notes app in history.  Anyways, who what when where, and why is synonyms and descriptive words... I am sure you never thought of that up…(me neither and that sentence made no sense whatsoever).  Can I just complain about how there are WAY too many descriptive words and synonyms for things? As English students, just how many times do we pop open a new tab and search up "a synonym for ____?" I know I have many times for essays and even small assignments. For example, you can describe school as "tiring, boring, sleepy, tedious, dull, stagnant, exhausting, draining," and more. (I did not totally search for synonyms...) Of course, the English language itself is so vast and there is literally a word to describe anything and everything from a box of

How Curious! by Angel Susantin I’ve heard the phrase, “curiosity killed the cat,” several times throughout my life, which essentially is a proverb that implies that curiosity and inquisitiveness can often lead to danger and misfortunes. While this may be true, t o me, curiosity is a strength. It leads people to ask questions, try new things, and be open to gaining more knowledge despite the risks. As people also say: “you miss all the shots you don’t take.” Curiosity is practically the modern-day scientist’s anthem. It’s a great motivation to define things that were previously undefined or to rewrite history. A sense of fulfillment is achieved when feelings of curiosity are satisfied and it can be classified as a form of courage. Progress is the legacy of curiosity and it has enabled us to uncover the secrets the universe has to offer. What has curiosity granted us thus far? Well, there a lot of things that have been as a result of being curious, but the only example I can think of rig

  Andrew Chao Ms.Benedetti Ap English 11 P5 1 March 2022 Team Language      Recently I had just joined the school junior varsity swim team. We just had our first opening meet this last Saturday which was fun and consisted mostly of relay events. I have never in the past swam relay events in a meet so I would say it was quite the experience for me. In my opinion there are bonuses in swimming both a solo event and relay event. I definitely learned alot from the relay event as working together as a team you have to be able to work really well in order to achieve the best. If your teammates don't really like each other or don't get along. You will have a hard time communicating and performing well. For the majority teamwork is very crucial to how a team does or performs such as swimming for example where we need to know when or how quickly our teammates are going to touch the wall. The less you know your teammates strengths and weaknesses the less you can time accurately on when yo

 Music is super cool :D by Faith Tong       Unfortunately, I have run out of brain cells to think about how language and power relate. So guess what? I decided to ask my mom for help! She explained to me that  language can be expressed through music, where through your music you can communicate your emotions and connect with people.  So I guess this is going to be what my blog is about for today! I have realized my biggest mistake is not asking my mom to help me on blog posts...      Not going to lie, I kind of expected my mom to relate language's power with music already. To give you some background information, my mom has always been interested in music since she was young. She started learning piano at only 3 years old (I know, shocking) and basically plays till this day. In addition, she loves singing so I guess that's why music was such an easy topic for her to relate to.      Anyways, back to how language can be expressed through music. According to my lovely mother, when