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Harari, Yuval Noah. "History and I : war and the relations between history and personal identity in Renaissance military memoirs, c.1450-1600." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.391070.
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Stewart, Iain A. D. "Perspectives of the River Plate around the time of Rosas : an analysis based upon the personal correspondence, private memoirs and published accounts of British settlers, as well as works by creole authors." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/992.
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This thesis draws inspiration from the emergence of cultural studies as an academic pursuit, in addition to the current renewal of interest in the relationship between literary works and their socio-cultural milieux, to bring together an assortment of textual traces pertaining to the River Plate around the era of Juan Manuel de Rosas, governor of Buenos Aires and de facto dictator of Argentina for most of the period 1829-1852. The main texts analysed range from private documents relating to two Scottish settler families, through accounts published by British citizens with first-hand knowledge of the region (Un inglés, Cinco años en Buenos Aires and Beaumont, Travels in Buenos Ayres and the Adjacent Provinces), to three influential pieces of early Argentinian literature (Echeverria's El matadero, Mármol's Amalia and Sarmiento's Facundo). One justification of this apparently eclectic approach lies in the prominence accorded to the incomer in the thought of liberal Platine intellectuals, a concern evinced in their literary production. The methodology involves examining the representation of certain fundamental topics across this range of written artefacts, observing frequent points of thematic convergence amongst the various texts. In this fashion, I construct an image of the River Plate region around the Rosas period, whilst also appraising the degree to which early British settlers matched the idealized notion of the immigrant present in liberal creole writings. The study is divided into four main chapters, supplemented by an introduction, conclusion and appendix. The first chapter summarizes the historical context of the young Platine republics; the second deals with the themes of society, community and family, the third focuses upon religion; the fourth considers perspectives of politics, dictatorship and civil war. The appendix consists of an unpublished settler autobiography, a remarkable account of the tribulations faced on a daily basis in the developing Argentina.
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Trakas, Marina. "Personal Memories." Paris, EHESS, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015EHES0001.
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Cette thèse vise à analyser un phénomène mental largement négligé dans les débats philosophiques actuels: les souvenirs personnels. Bien que l'analyse soit philosophique, l'approche méthodologique est interdisciplinaire afin d'intégrer des recherches empiriques en sciences cognitives. La première partie présente un cadre général pour mieux comprendre ce que sont les souvenirs personnels, la façon dont nous accédons à notre passé personnel et à quoi nous accédons de notre passé personnel. Le chapitre 1 présente les théories traditionnelles de la mémoire: le réalisme direct et le représentationalisme dans leurs différentes versions, ainsi que quelques objections. Je défends ici une forme particulière de représentationalisme qui repose sur la distinction entre le contenu, l'objet intentionnel et l'objet ontologique d'un souvenir. Le chapitre 2 explore les contenus possibles de nos souvenirs personnels, qui s'avèrent hétérogènes, même incarnés et externes, alors que le chapitre 3 analyse les possibles objets intentionnels, avec un intérêt particulier pour les événements passés. La deuxième partie de la thèse explore un aspect de nos souvenirs personnels qui a été omis dans la première partie: les sens dans lesquels notre passé personnel est appréhendé en tant que personnel. Le chapitre 4 examine la façon dont le «soi» intervient dans la construction de nos souvenirs personnels et détermine leur contenu. Les chapitres 5 et 6 se concentrent sur l'analyse de ce qui semble être l'aspect le plus subjectif de nos souvenirs, c'est-à-dire, les émotions et les sentiments en rapport avec nos expériences passées. Dans ces deux derniers chapitres, j'analyse les différentes interactions qui peuvent avoir lieu entre les souvenirs et les émotions et défends l'idée qu'il y a des souvenirs avec un aspect émotionnel qui ne peut être réduit ni à un souvenir propositionnel ni à une émotion présente<br>This thesis is intended to analyse a mental phenomenon widely neglected in current philosophical discussions: personal memories. Although the analysis is philosophical, the methodological approach is interdisciplinary in order to integrate empirical research done in cognitive science. The first part presents a general framework to better understand what personal memories are, how we access our personal past and what we access about our personal past. Chapter 1 introduces traditional theories of memory: direct realism and representationalism in their differen versions, as well as some objections. I defend here a particular form of representationalism that is based on the distinction between content, intentional object and ontological object. Chapter 2 explores the possible contents of our personal memories, which prove to be heterogenous, even embodied and external, whereas chapter 3 analyses their possible intentional objects, with a special focus on past events. The second part of the thesis explores an aspect of our personal memories that was omitted in the first part: the senses in which our personal past is apprehended as personal. Chapter 4 examines the way in which the "self" intervenes in the construction of our personal memories anc determines their content. Chapters 5 and 6 focus on the analysis of what seems to be the most subjective aspect of our memories, that is, the emotions and feelings of our past experiences. In these last two chapters, I analyse the different interactions that can take place between memories and emotions and defend the idea that there can be memories with an emotional aspect that is not reducible neither to a propositional memory nor an occurrent and present emotion
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Moody, Michael Raymond. "Painted from memory : the visual representation of personal memories and their coinciding emotions." Virtual Press, 2003. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1259757.
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Memories of the past are a powerful part of human existence. The pastremembered affects who we are as a person as well as the decisions we make in our lives. As we grow older and time passes these memories begin to fade. Specific details about events in the past become fuzzy or are gone all together. We may still remember what occurred and the emotions felt as it happened but exact records of the events begin to be lost. Is it possible to visually represent personal memories and the coinciding emotions in a way that can convey the said emotions to a viewer? How much of the human experience is common? Can a personal experience and emotion be depicted in a way that is universal and shared by all?<br>Department of Art
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Merrill, Mark Reed. "Where We Belong: A Memoir." PDXScholar, 2012. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/393.
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Where We Belong is more than a memoir. It is a love story about the untimely death of the oldest of five daughters born to a prominent New Haven, Connecticut family. It is also a tale of hubris, rage and frustration, a Greek tragedy about a man's life as re-examined through the lens of the two weeks his wife spent dying, a tale in which chronic illness and good intentions ensure the death of a loving wife, artist and mother. The journey on which her husband takes the reader explores a health care system oblivious to her plight, her family's unwitting complicity and a 12-step mythology that unfolds while he, her six weeping children and her aging mother helplessly look on. The author endures an agony that dwarfs incentives to lie, learning that people lie out of fear, and genuine grief supplants fear with the stark reality of what we fear most: death. Where We Belong gives voice to the internal dialogue the author encounters when reexamining not just memories, but the accoutrements of memory, as well. It is a voice that addresses his own grandiosity, sentimentalism and self-pity in the face of his wife's death, in addition to those details, circumstances and impressions that speak to the arrogance he brought to the task of being all he thought she and her six children needed him to be. He concludes the task was well beyond him, a realization evoked by the gut wrenching decision to literally "pull the plug" on this heartbreaking tale of reconstituted hope and great promise reduced to rubble by chronic illness, alcoholism, drug addiction and death. Born is the lesson that when we grieve, we are free to be ourselves. When we are free to be ourselves, we are free to love again.
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Vemuri, Sunil 1969. "Personal long-term memory aids." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/30242.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, February 2005.<br>MIT Institute Archives Copy: p. 101-132 bound in reverse order.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 126-132).<br>The prevalence and affordability of personal and environmental recording apparatuses are leading to increased documentation of our daily lives. This trend is bound to continue and it follows that academic, industry, and government groups are showing an increased interest in such endeavors for various purposes. In the present case, I assert that such documentation can be used to help remedy common memory problems. Assuming a long-term personal archive exists, when confronted with a memory problem, one faces a new challenge, that of finding relevant memory triggers. This dissertation examines the use of information-retrieval technologies on long-term archives of personal experiences towards remedying certain types of long-term forgetting. The approach focuses on capturing audio for the content. Research on Spoken Document Retrieval examines the pitfalls of information-retrieval techniques on error-prone speech- recognizer-generated transcripts and these challenges carry over to the present task. However, "memory retrieval" can benefit from the person's familiarity of the recorded data and the context in which it was recorded to help guide their effort. To study this, I constructed memory-retrieval tools designed to leverage a person's familiarity of their past to optimize their search task. To evaluate the utility of these towards solving long-term memory problems, I (1) recorded public events and evaluated witnesses' memory-retrieval approaches using these tools; and (2) conducted a longer- term memory-retrieval study based on recordings of several years of my personal and research-related conversations. Subjects succeeded with memory-retrieval tasks in both studies, typically finding answers within minutes.<br>(cont.) This is far less time than the alternate of re-listening to hours of recordings. Subjects' memories of the past events, in particular their ability to narrow the window of time in which past events occurred, improved their ability to find answers. In addition to results from the memory-retrieval studies, I present a technique called "speed listening." By using a transcript (even one with many errors), it allows people to reduce listening time while maintaining comprehension. Finally, I report on my experiences recording events in my life over 2.5 years.<br>by Sunil Vemuri.<br>Ph.D.
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Christakos, Yiannis. "Personal mapping : memories and imaginary maps." Thesis, University of East London, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.532511.
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The discussion in this report considers the framework to my research, my developing methodology and an evaluating synopsis of my professional practice as an artist during my doctorate period. My painting research is approached in the following ways: First is the use of line, as an expressive and visual medium, that is distinct in my work. When I come to the need for pictorial representation, line is perhaps the visual element with the most extensive use in my practice. Second is the development of mapping, viewed as a grid of drawn lines and the use of cartographical language in the drawing practice. Third is the deconstruction of the map towards an imaginary mapped place. Fourth is the concept of the thread in relation to my early memories as child of a seamstress. Thread visually represented by line is influential in my recent art practice. Fifth is doodling and its role into my painting practice. The sixth element is the composition of images that create visual juxtapositions. This is a painting practice that most of the time is an issue of my artistic research. Finally there is my collaboration with other artists and in particular with Group Capsule, my professional practice and the experience I have received participating in a number of exhibitions, art projects, residencies and in teaching. These issues have been at the core of my debate over the past five years and they have played a crucial role in my visual development. It is these issues that I have explored in the context of autobiographical as well as socio cultural references. My current research has been to exploring the processes that give the artist's mark it's meaning in particular the development of the visual reading of cartography. My recent research is a logical extension of ten years interest in image making, particularly exploring the use of line as a way of expression. The changes in my current body of work are developments of my earlier practice. During my practice as a painter deconstruction has been one of the crucial issues. I have a great commitment to drawing and throughout the last ten years the images I have created come from a deconstruction of the outline of form (human figure, a complex of geometric shapes, the organic form of a map, the satellite picture of a city etc). (illustration 30) This is an ongoing process of reworking and redrawing the silhouette of the initial stimulus. I believe that such deconstruction requires an understanding of the original constructed form. Hence drawing has always been vital to and an integral part of my painting practice. I am sometimes asked, "What is your objective? " and this I cannot truthfully answer. I work "from" something rather than "towards" something. It is a process of discovery and I will not impose a convenient dogma, however attractive.
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Leonesio, R. Jacob. "Memory and metamemory for personal experience /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9144.
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Marchesi, Michele. "Le Diario intimo de Niccolò Tommaseo et l’écriture autobiographique." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020SORUL019.
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Mon projet s’articule autour d’une enquête sur les caractéristiques originales de l’écriture autobiographique de Niccolò Tommaseo. Je me suis concentré sur l’étude approfondie du texte qu'il est convenu d'appeler le Diario Intimo dans le but de préparer également une nouvelle édition de ce journal, actuellement disponible seulement dans une édition, qui n’est pas totalement fiable sur le plan philologique, de Raffaele Ciampini, publiée au milieu du siècle dernier, et dont les limites ont déjà été mises en évidence par d’autres études. Non seulement ce travail permettra d’avoir à disposition une édition mise à jour et complète de cette œuvre “privée” également utile en termes de comparaison avec d’autres écritures autobiographiques tommaseiennes en prose et en vers, mais il aidera à tracer de manière plus précise le profil de l’un des auteurs les plus significatifs de la littérature italienne du dix-neuvième siècle<br>Raffaele Ciampini published, in 1938, the first edition of the Diario intimo, the private memories that Niccolò Tommaseo compiled almost daily during his whole life since 1824. In this doctoral thesis we wanted to offer a new edition of those memories, enriching the comment and amending the transcription mistakes made by Ciampini. The thesis is supplemented by a copious introduction, in which we offer a synthesis of the critic literature about the autobiographical genre, its origins, and specific peculiarities of the tommasean work, mostly as concerns the other two memorial pieces of the dalmatian, Memorie poetiche and Memorie politiche
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Taffa, Deborah. "Against a divided land: a memoir in personal essays." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2013. http://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1771.
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Against a Divided Land is a tale of escape from the poverty of the Yuma Indian reservation, the flight of a young girl and her family into modern American in the 1970's. The stories in the collection emerge via the narrator: a forty-year-old woman exploring landscape and memory. Her recollections as a mother and international traveler, juxtaposed alongside her childhood on the reservation, reveal the unique concerns of Native Americans in the era of government relocation and displacement. The stories in this collection paint a picture of United States subculture rarely seen. The accounts link the narrator to the past in surprising ways as they push forth with a modern voice, imagining a brighter future: a future filled with both loss and beauty. From Africa to the Southwest, the characters in these essays seek relationships across typical boundaries.
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Tanguay, Annick. "The Neural Correlates of Personal Semantics." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/38251.
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The long-term memory system for what is conscious and can be verbalized – declarative memory- is often separated into memory for general facts and memory for personal events (Squire, 2009; Tulving, 2002). Personal semantics share elements of both semantic memory (i.e., they are facts that can be known) and episodic memory (i.e., they are self-related and idiosyncratic; Renoult, Davidson, Palombo, Moscovitch, & Levine, 2012). According to the taxonomy of personal semantics (Renoult et al., 2012), they vary in proximity to either semantic or episodic memory. Towards one end of the continuum, memory for autobiographical facts such as jobs and names of friends were hypothesized to be closer to general facts. Towards the other end of the continuum, repeated events are summaries of the core elements of similar events that happened more than once (e.g., getting coffee at a coffee shop), and they were hypothesized to be closer to episodic memory (i.e., the recollection of a unique event). Self-knowledge involves self-reflection about one’s own personality traits and preferences; it was thought to be the most distinct from semantic and episodic memory. However, little research had compared personal semantics to both semantic and episodic memory, or to one another, and these proposals needed to be tested experimentally.
In this thesis, I compared the neural correlates of three types of personal semantics to semantic memory (study 1, 2, 3) and episodic memory (study 1, 2), and to one another (study 1) using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI; study 1) and event related potentials (ERPs; study 2, 3). Moreover, I examined whether temporal orientation modified the personal semantics’ relationship to the typically atemporal semantic memory (study 2, 3) and to the typically past-oriented episodic memory (study 2).
In study 1, general facts, autobiographical facts, repeated events, and unique events were compared using fMRI, in a follow-up to an ERP study (Renoult et al., 2016). In our analyses of the hippocampus (HPC) and posterior medial network (Ritchey, Libby, & Ranganath, 2015), general semantics and autobiographical facts were often not significantly different from one another (except for the left posterior HPC), and repeated events and unique events did not differ from one another in any comparison. I observed a small graded increase of brain activity from general facts to autobiographical facts to repeated events and unique events (with a significant linear trend) in the left posterior HPC. In contrast, no memory type differed in the anterior temporal network (Ritchey et al., 2015).
In study 2 and 3, self-knowledge was operationalized as the knowledge of one’s own traits, and could concern past (study 2), present (study 2, 3) and future selves (study 2, 3). A neural correlate of recollection, the Late Positive Component (LPC), had a larger mean amplitude for thinking about the self than others (study 2, 3), and thinking about a past and/or future self than the present self (on average for study 2, and significant for study 3). The amplitude of the LPC for thinking about the past and future selves did not differ from an episodic recognition memory task (or present self-knowledge; study 2). Further, the temporal orientation effect was smaller and not significant when we compared thinking about the present and the future traits of others (study 3). The operationalization of the “other” as a close friend or a group of people did not modify this result (study 3).
Together, in addition to Renoult et al. (2016), these findings suggest that: the neural correlates of autobiographical facts, repeated events, and self-knowledge do not overlap perfectly with semantic or episodic memory. Moreover, the temporal orientation of the knowledge is one factor that can influence the proximity of the neural correlates of personal semantics to either semantic or episodic memory.
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Elsweiler, David. "Supporting human memory in personal information management." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.488520.
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Personal Information Management (PIM) describes the processes by which an individual acquires, organises, and re-finds information. Studies have shown that people find PIM challenging and many struggle to manage the volume and diversity of information that they accumulate.
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Martin, Caroline. "Memoir and memory : the papers of a pre-war German - Alfred Huhnhäuser, 1885 to 1950." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/24389.
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The personal archive of Dr Alfred Huhnhäuser (1885-1950), a German civil servant, is examined with regard to this thesis. The archive consists of an unfinished personal memoir, Aus einem reichen Leben, five chapters of a political memoir concerning Huhnhäuser's time in Norway during the German occupation, publications edited by Huhnhäuser and other personal documents. A full catalogue of the contents of the archive has been included in this thesis. An attempt has been made to identify the significance of the Huhnhäuser archive within a literary framework and, therefore, a brief analysis of the study of autobiographical writings has been undertaken. The importance of the archive within the context of social history has also been stressed, for Huhnhäuser was an "ordinary" German and not one of the Great and the Good. The personal memoirs operate on three levels - personal, worldstage and cultural- and extracts from the archive have been used to illustrate this. A brief historical summary of events in Norway prior to and immediately after the German occupation is given in order to place the events described by Huhnhäuser in context. The contents of the personal and political memoirs are summarized and analyzed in this thesis. Recurring themes are identified and examined. Perhaps the most significant is Huhnhäuser's repeated claim that he is an inherently ''unpolitisches We sen". Evidence has been obtained from the Bundesarchiv in Berlin which proves that Huhnhäuser joined the NSDAP on 1 May 1933. Huhnhäuser does not refer in the memoirs to his membership of this party, claiming instead that he has never voluntarily been involved in party politics. A second volume of materials has been included in this thesis in order to provide more detailed information as regards to the composition and contents of the archive. Extracts from the memoirs and letters have also been selected.
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Ross, Mario Joachim. "Fuel: Collected Memoir Essays." PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1381.
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Drawing on themes of relationship, addiction, loss and love, this collection explores, through a series of nonfiction memoir essays, the author's movement toward a mature masculinity. He offers this series of works with hopes that others, too may find some measure of insight, acceptance, and not least of all, humor in the puzzles, contradictions, and small glimpses of light afforded by the gift of being human.
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Lovell, Bonnie Alice. "Home: A Memoir." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2001. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2841/.
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Home: A Memoir, a creative non-fiction thesis, is a memoir in the form of personal essays, each exploring some aspect of the meaning of home, how my sense of self has been formed by my relationship to home, and the inevitability of leaving home. Chapter I explores the nature of memory and of memoir, their relationship to each other and to truth, and how a writer's voice shapes memoir. Chapter II, “Paternity,” is an attempt to remember my father, resulting in renewed interest in his past and renewed awareness of his legacy. Chapter III, “Home,” is on the surface about my grandparents' house, but is really about my grandmother. Chapter IV, “Dixie,” is about my contradictory feelings for the South, and my eventual acceptance of the South's complexities.
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Blackmer, Jessie. "Mice, Memory, and Medical history: A Personal Narrative." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1314909047.
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Rader, J. Patrick. "Journey to the Scars: A White Trash Epic." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2007. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3336.
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Inspired by the work of writers Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe and motivated by celebrity prevaricator James Frey, Journey to the Scars: A White Trash Epic is a memoir that attempts to redefine the genre by applying the ideals and themes of gonzo and new journalism. The opening chapter, "The Diary of John Doe Frankenstein" tells the story of a pivotal event in the author's life. Immediately following this narrative of a near fatal motorcycle accident, the author/narrator's reliability is called into question and the remainder of the memoir is the story of the author's efforts to uncover the truth about himself, and more importantly, the events and motivating forces that led to the author's almost Near Death Experience. Starting with a nonjudgmental look at the life of his parents before he was born, our unreliable narrator/author hopes to improve the reader's opinion of himself while also uncovering the true stories behind all the fictional ones he's been telling himself and others his entire life. As he learns more about where he came from, he begins to try to understand why he has made some of the decisions in his own life. Life is one long party for James Patrick Makowski and he shares his experiences not as a victim of his choices, but as a lonely man who just doesn't want to be left off of any of Life's guest lists. In a final attempt to improve his credibility with the reader, the author retells the story of his accident with as much focus on factual detail and verifiable events as possible. His select poems reveal his attempts at emotional honesty while appending documentation is included for the purposes of veracity. Treating himself as a hostile witness, the narrator/author goes on to share the development of his literary integrity when he meets the most honest person he has ever met--the drug dealing Dog. "Tales of the Dog" summarizes the author/narrator's attempts to improve his credibility and why this quest has been so important to him. Journey to the Scars: A White Trash Epic is the gonzo story of one man's efforts to be his own messiah. The author/narrator, after realizing that his life to date has been in large part the result of his efforts to forget his past, J Patrick Rader begins his efforts to remember his.<br>M.F.A.<br>Department of English<br>Arts and Humanities<br>Creative Writing MFA
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McClelland, Nicole. "Shades of Fine." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2006. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/359.
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Lee, Melissa. "The Many Pedagogies of Memoir: A Study of the Promise of Teaching Memoir in College Composition." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5392.
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This thesis examines the promise and problems of memoir in the pedagogy and practices of teaching memoir in college composition. I interviewed three University of Central Florida instructors who value memoir in composition, and who at the time of this study, were mandated to teach memoir in their composition courses. The interviews focus on three main points of interest: (1) the instructors' motivations behind their teaching of memoir, (2) how these instructors see memoir functioning in their classes, and (3) what these instructors hope their students will gain in the process of writing the memoir essay. By analyzing these interviews, I was better able to understand the three instructors' pedagogical choices and rationales for teaching memoir in their classes. I have also collected data and research from scholarly journal articles, books, and from my experiences teaching memoir in the composition classroom. This thesis challenges the widely accepted notion that memoir and the personal in composition scholarship, pedagogy, and teaching practices are “'touchy-feely,' 'soft,' 'unrigorous,' 'mystical,' 'therapeutic,' and 'Mickey Mouse'” ways of meaning-making and teaching writing (Tompkins 214). My findings show that memoir in the classroom is richer and far more complex than it might appear at first, and that the teaching of memoir in composition can, in fact, be greater than the memoir essay itself. Even though each instructor I interviewed values the personal and believes memoir belongs in composition curriculum, it turns out that none of these instructors' core reasons for teaching memoir was so his or her students could master writing the memoir essay, although this was important; rather the memoir essay ultimately served in the instructors' classrooms as a conduit through which they ultimately could teach more diverse writing skills and techniques as well as intellectual concepts that truly inspired them. Since the teaching of memoir seems to be even more dynamic and versatile in process and pedagogy than many of the other essay genres traditionally taught in college composition, this thesis makes recommendations for how memoir needs to be viewed, written about, and taught in order to harness the promise of this essay genre more consistently in the discussion of composition pedagogy and in the teaching of memoir to our students in the composition classroom. Thompkins, Jane. A Life in School: What the Teacher Learned. Reading: Addison-Wesley. 1996. Print.<br>ID: 031001373; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Adviser: David Wallace.; Title from PDF title page (viewed May 21, 2013).; Thesis (M.A.)--University of Central Florida, 2012.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 108-110).<br>M.A.<br>Masters<br>English<br>Arts and Humanities<br>English; Rhetoric and Composition
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Laguna, Alexis M. "“I Almost Hope I Get Hit Again Soon”: The Wartime Service and Medical History of Leon C. Standifer, WWII American Infantryman." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2019. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2620.
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The American GI’s experience in hospital during World War II is absent from official military histories, most scholarly works, and even many oral history collections. Utilizing the papers of WWII infantryman, Leon Standifer, this thesis offers the reader a rare glimpse of WWII military hospital life and chronicles one soldier’s journey from willing obedience to subversive action.
This thesis compares the stated goals and procedures of the US Army medical department to the experience of Leon Standifer, an infantryman who served in northern France during the last year of the war and the American occupation of Bavaria, whose service was marked by several periods of protracted hospitalization. Over the course of five hospitalizations, during which Standifer was treated for bullet wounds, trench foot, and pneumonia, he consistently wrote letters to his family describing his experience.
A careful reading of Standifer’s wartime correspondence in conjunction with his published and unpublished writings, secondary source material, and military records, suggest that while isolated in the hospital, after killing and experiencing the death of his comrades, Standifer lost his desire to fight. He began to make calculated decisions based on his knowledge of the military medical system in an attempt to ensure his survival and control the remainder of his military service.
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McNeill, Allan. "Semantic structure of personal information." Thesis, Connect to e-thesis, 2002. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/840/.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Glasgow, 2002.<br>Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow, 2002. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.
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Bailey, Patrick. "Concerning theories of personal identity." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000261.
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Wardell, Emily K. "Graphic Content Warning; Personal and Political Traumas." VCU Scholars Compass, 2019. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5849.
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The written portion of this thesis work is meant to address and further investigate the visual work created using mediums of print and found video. This artistic research has been interested in examining varying associations with truth, recollection, and evidence. This includes the recollection of public histories and news-media narratives as well as my own history and trauma. Through this work my aim was to create a deconstruction and revolt against how associations are formed, and how to understand imagery as information. This thesis first discusses my relationship to appropriated imagery, then connects and examines it through the addition of poetic elements and events from my own lived experience.
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González-Gosálbez, Rafael. "Actores españoles en primera persona: el oficio de cómico en sus testimonios." Doctoral thesis, Universidad de Alicante, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10045/54170.
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El testimonio de los actores, presente en autobiografías y memorias, en biografías de las que fueron partícipes, en entrevistas, espacios audiovisuales y otro tipo de documentos, constituye un instrumento de gran valor para conocer de primera mano cómo desempeñaron su oficio y otras cuestiones de interés relacionadas con la historia teatral y la historia cinematográfica de la España contemporánea. Esta tesis doctoral se ha centrado en el desarrollo del oficio actoral a partir de los argumentos de veinte intérpretes que sobresalieron en la profesión a partir de 1939, alcanzando los más en activo el fin de la dictadura franquista, continuando muchos de ellos su labor durante el último cuarto del siglo XX e incluso unos cuantos persistiendo en ella en los comienzos del XXI y hasta nuestros días.
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Razeto, Iglesias Manuela Paz. "Memoria vegetal." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2018. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/159471.
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Escultora<br>Tomo la memoria como un espacio de reflexión en torno al proceso artístico que he venido
desarrollando. Permitirme este espacio para lograr entender qué y porqué uno hace lo que hace,
cuáles son los pensamientos que se van cruzando, las motivaciones, intereses, cómo voy
asociando ideas y cómo estas van adquiriendo forma.
Dedicar este tiempo me concede la posibilidad de un encuentro con referentes que me
desbordan, tanto teóricos como visuales, viendo estos entrelazarse en el camino con el proceso
personal, tomando fuerza y afianzando este trayecto.
Se fue conformado entonces, un lugar para asumir dichos cruces, abarcando intereses personales,
cotidianos, biográficos, culturales, naturales, artísticos, que intento poner en orden y resumir en
Cuerpo, Experiencia y Material, para ver estos temas fundiéndose finalmente en un todo
reflejado en una obra visual, que no es más que direccionar una de las miles posibilidades que se
abren en este proceso.
Cómo entiendo el cuerpo ha sido el comienzo de todos los cuestionamientos durante los años de
estudio, que se reafirman en esta memoria, se ahondan y se profundizan, que en relación con la
experiencia y el vínculo con lo material tienden un lazo y se unen para dar cuenta la forma en que
entiendo el arte, que es, principalmente, el reflejo de la “búsqueda vital”.
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Leyton, Saavedra Sebastián. "Memoria." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2007. http://www.repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/101669.
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A través de los años este descubrimiento se relaciona directamente con el propio desarrollo por medio de la experiencia que adquirimos, al vivenciar directamente los hechos en la vida o a través de la instrucción a la que podamos acceder. Esto nos habla de un tránsito experimental que, a través del acierto y el error, nos hace aprender física y psicológicamente el camino por el cual debemos marchar. Este sendero es un electrocardiograma largo y sinuoso, con altos y bajos, donde la aguja escribe en tinta los sismos que nos van ocurriendo. Algo parecido es lo que vamos retratando en esta sacudida trayectoria de artista, llenando de temas las obras que nos recuerdan lo vivido. Y como nuestra vida es el arte, hay que plasmarlo como un testimonio del contexto en el cual nos hemos desarrollado. Un relato hecho en miles de formas y gestos, con una multitud de maneras que reflejan nuestros cambios. Este es el contenido.
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Gaesser, Brendan James. "Simulating personal future events: Contributions from episodic memory and beyond." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11244.
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Episodic simulation refers to the construction of imagined, hypothetical events that might occur in one's personal future. Damage to our capacity for episodic simulation can produce grave consequences, impairing our ability to anticipate, plan, and prepare for the future. New theoretical approaches have begun to uncover the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying episodic simulation, but much remains to be examined. The purpose of this dissertation is to further investigate the mechanisms supporting episodic simulation as well as the functions it serves. In the first study of the dissertation I examine age-related deficits in imagining the future, remembering the past, and describing the present (Paper 1). These findings replicate known deficits in older adults in episodic simulation and memory, yet provide evidence of non-episodic processes that also shape their expression. I next examine component cognitive and neural processes that are recruited to generate imagined events (Paper 2). Distinct regions of the hippocampus were active when encoding, tracking novelty, or constructing imagined events, suggesting a multifaceted role of the hippocampus in supporting episodic simulation. Finally, I present evidence that episodic simulation and memory can be used to facilitate empathy, that is, intentions to help a person in need (Paper 3). People are more willing to help a person in need after imagining or remembering helping that individual. Furthermore, the episodic vividness of these imagined or remembered events heightened intentions to help. These findings elucidate a previously unconsidered mechanism for facilitating empathy, and, in doing so, open the possibility for a new functional account of episodic simulation. I close by discussing the promise of this line of work that aims to provide new insights into the relationship between episodic simulation, memory, and empathy.<br>Psychology
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Collier, Shannon. "Constructing a Memory House: Preserving the Past through Personal Relics." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2005. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/750.
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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf<br>B.F.A<br>Bachelors<br>Arts and Sciences<br>Art
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Pratt, Sarah Jane. "Personal memory and the negotiation of identity : a self portrait." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/26143.
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The first section of this paper surveys the differing characteristics of memory, its fragmentary qualities, its constant negotiation within the present, its personalised form and its links to identity-formation and construction. Concepts of continuity, stabilising identity within the present, and their corresponding memory-related problems are discussed. Photographs are looked at in relation to memory as well as for their ability to inform or influence individual identity. References to the multi-faceted information that is unconsciously assimilated from multi-media sources in today's society, and the resultant identity related complexities introduce a more personal outlook on historically specific factors that appear to have destabilised identity. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission is briefly introduced from the perspective of recreating one collective national memory and the implicit complexities involved on both a personal and collective level. Section two of the paper establishes the importance of place in the formation of identity and then looks specifically at historical incidents that are relevant to my personal self-consciousness. Zimbabwean land reform issues, political racism and economic problems are presented as occurrences powerful enough to trigger the conscious scrutiny of identity and a personal sense of the past. Travel-related experiences are discussed with issues pertaining to the destabilisation felt when the individual is introduced to "other" discourses or cultures. Exposure to these occurrences, and conjecture surrounding their "ripple effect" on the individual provide the starting point from which to understand the motivation behind my body of practical work. The third section of this paper looks closely at the problems, possibilities and variations involved in making a body of work around the concept of personal memory. The history of etching is briefly discussed, and the method of etching is compared to the recollection process. Finally, the panel of work is presented as a "heritage site" to the viewer, and a form of re-evaluation of identity for the maker. A series of narrative texts are sourced as personal springs that triggered the production of each image, and serve to accompany or enrich the artworks themselves.
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Kasibe, Wandile Goozen. "Malundeness, personal memory and the diaspora : politics of the skin." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6037.
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Wickstrom, Johnna Nicole. "Autobiography in dance| Using personal memories to elicit audience association and response." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1523243.
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<p> In fulfillment of the requirements for a Master of Fine Arts degree, three dances were choreographed and performed at the Martha B. Knoebel Dance Theater located at the California State University, Long Beach campus. As this project report details, the pieces arose out of an interest in connecting with dance audience members on a personal level. The material presented in each work was created by excavating autobiographical memories during rehearsals. The first of these projects, <i>The Stories We Tell</i>, attempted to create layers of meaning by juxtaposing truths from the dancers' lives with the mythic story of Athena's birth. <i>Little Water</i>, presented an illustration of the joy with which a child experiences the world, specifically in terms of her relationship to water. The final project, <i> The Truth About Butterflies</i>, was a solo exploring my own personal memories, specifically focusing on father relationships, and the need for love and acceptance.</p>
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Denkova, Ekaterina. "The neural bases of autobiographical memory : how personal recollections interact with emotion and influence semantic memory." Université Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 2006. https://publication-theses.unistra.fr/public/theses_doctorat/2006/DENKOVA_Ekaterina_2006.pdf.
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The main aim of the present thesis has to help improving our understanding of neural mechanisms underlying autobiographical memory (AbM), particularly how personal recollections interact with emotion and influence semantic memory Our first study investigated the neural correlates of spontaneous re-living of emotion during recollection of personal event cued with personally known faces. Our findings suggested that the use of highly self-relevant stimuli and the collection of data with no previous refreshment of the memory trace (i) influenced the right lateralisation of the activation in the medial temporal lobe (MTL), and (ii) involved increased activity in the cortical midline structures and subcortical circuits, known to sustain the self-generated emotion, even though no emotion was explicitly acknowledged. In our second study, the aforementioned nonverbal experiment was compared with a verbal one involving pre-scanning testing in order to clarify whether the lateralisation issue of the general network sustaining AbM retrieval. Our finding of a predominantly left-lateralized cerebral network in both experiments suggested that left-sided pattern of brain activations is associated with AbM retrieval per se in healthy subjects. The third experimental work of the present thesis focused on the influence of autobiographical significance on the semantic memory cerebral network. Our results provided functional neuroimaging evidence that autobiographically significant semantic knowledge relies on a pattern of brain activations different from that underlying ‘purely’ semantic knowledge, with the core difference being located at the MTL. The last study investigated the neuronanatomical representations of both autobiographical and semantic remote memory in two patients presenting with left temporal lobe epilepsy. (i) We provided functional neuroimaging evidence of the dissociation within remote memory (autobiographical vs semantic). (ii) Importantly, we documented dissociation within semantic memory for famous people according to the nature of material. Our last experimental work confirms the importance of combining neuropsychological and neuroimaging methods in appropriate patients in order to better understand human memory functions.
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Denkova, Ekaterina Manning Lilianne. "The neural bases of autobiographical memory how personal recollections interact with emotion and influence semantic memory /." Strasbourg : Université Louis Pasteur, 2006. http://eprints-scd-ulp.u-strasbg.fr:8080/594/01/Denkova2006.pdf.
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Jolaoso, Sheriff Olayinka. "TaskAmbient: A Study in Personal Task Management Visualization." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/52782.
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In personal task management, individual tasks are susceptible to failure at various stages due to failures in prospective memory, information fragmentation, and/or cognitive overload. To alleviate the troubles that occur in personal task management, people use various tools such as notifications and external memory aids, but there is still room for improvement in regards to maintaining distributed cognitive artifacts such as calendars and to-do lists. Improvement in staying abreast of this personal task information as opposed to being alerted of it in individual instances was the topic of exploration in this work.
TaskAmbient is an ambient information display system that was designed to address these problems. TaskAmbient supports retention of individual task knowledge as well as retention of task knowledge in a user's different areas of responsibility. With this tool, I observed usage to verify or deny its ability to support prospective memory and combat the problems associated with information fragmentation and cognitive overload in respect to personal task management.
In this research, studies were conducted to learn about personal task management practices and how TaskAmbient was used. In conducting these studies, I found that TaskAmbient provided value in retaining task information and staying aware of tasks in a user's various areas of responsibility. TaskAmbient showed the extendibility to other domains of personal information management.<br>Master of Science
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Yang, Hyeunjin. "Personal stories to visual representation : ‘The stories of Zili’." Thesis, University of Kalmar, School of Communication and Design, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hik:diva-712.
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<p>I represented a person’s stories and memories of childhood through the material called glass, and found a method to approach personal stories.</p><p>To do this, the medium to express my conception that is express of the personal experience and extreme situation on glass was based. The most significant point of study was realizing the nature of emotions and meanings within a person’s life. As well as special instruments and to analyze whether it is an appropriate expression.</p><p>Accordingly with this, I collected individual stories from Zili and tried to comprehensively understand the cause behind. For that I approached different cases of psychology theory to compare. After I analyzed the colour and object that relate to memories or the person. Expression of artefact I created from foundational theory through my perspective. I represented in magnification of memories as an expression on glass artefacts for respect of peoples diversity life.</p><p>This led me to make more concrete context in practical work and theoretical tool as well.</p>
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Garrick, Angela. "Houses of the Mind: Architectural imaginary, personal reverie, moving image." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/16970.
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This paper looks to examine the intersection of personal memory, physical space and emergent media. Looking at varying examples within psychology, visual arts and philosophy, the argument is raised that the dominance of film and media's presentation of physical spaces and structures now tends to dominate our perception of space, and become intertwined with our own reveries and travels. Using the work of philosopher Gaston Bachelard as a launchpad for enquiry, we consider the personal and collective function of memory and how it engages with the action of experiencing films, media, arts, images, and ecological objects.
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Stephens, Christopher John. "Variations on a Theme: Forty years of music, memories, and mistakes." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2009. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/934.
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How did music play a consistent role through various memories? In this memoir, I look at the sweet, the traumatic and troubling. I use specific songs as connections to lost loved ones. I pin the power of music to the loss of three important people in my life: my sister, father, and mother. Who were their musical touchstones? Did I share them? Did music run through them as it has always run through me? The memoir is sandwiched by a brief extended metaphor that props up the conceit that we are entering a live concert performance. It is billed as a "letter to a lost loved one" because it is indeed meant to address that lost one, my sister, my guide. In the opening section I've lost my voice. I eventually reclaim it and vow that I will perhaps meet my sister at some point in the future.
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Chen, Chufeng. "The use of episodic memory for browsing personal collections of digital photographs." Thesis, University of Sunderland, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.442549.
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Van, Kleek Max 1980. "Effort, memory, attention and time : paths to more effective personal information management." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66466.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2011.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-272).<br>With the widespread availability of digital tools for storing, accessing, and sharing information, why is so much information still lost, forgotten, or kept on paper? The work in this thesis finds that such disorganization results from problems in the designs of the personal information management (PIM) tools in common use today. Such problems impede information capture, force many information forms to be left out, and cause information to be forgotten. How can these problems be mitigated? Our Information Scraps study identifies the need to support more diverse kinds of information, while conserving time, attention, and memory for retained information items. Our first approach to achieving these goals is to eliminate the artificial separation and homogeneity that structured PIM tools impose, so that arbitrary information can be captured in any way desired. A two-year study of List-it, our short-note-taking tool, discovers that people keep notes serving 5 primary roles: reminders, reference items, progress trackers, places to think, and archives of personal value. The second reintroduces structured data to support more effective use and management of information collections. Jourknow addresses the manageability of large note collections with lightweight-structured note contents and contextual retrieval, the access of notes by the contexts and activities at the time of creation. Poyozo reinforces recollection of previously seen information, by providing visualizations of all of a person's past information activities. Finally, Atomate addresses the challenge of managing the ever-increasing deluge of new information, by letting people delegate to software behaviors actions to be automatically taken when new information arrives. These studies identify critical needs of PIM tools and offer viable solutions.<br>by Max Goodwin Van Kleek.<br>Ph.D.
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Fraile, Antoine. "Maquis y justicia militar en España (1944-1945)Imagen personal y memoria colectiva." Habilitation à diriger des recherches, Université François Rabelais - Tours, 2005. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00192814.
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El trabajo analiza los documentos contenidos en los expedientes de unos Consejos de Guerra celebrados en Pamplona los 26-27-28 de julio de 1945. Alli se juzgaron a unos cien guerrilleros republicanos españoles que habían franqueado clandestinamente la frontera pirenaica a mediados de octubre 1944.
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Farago, Anna. "The making and placing of a personal view : Questions of place." Thesis, Federation University Australia, 2019. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/169886.
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The Making and Placing of a Personal View: Questions of Place uses various making methods to explore both the artist’s and others personal connection to place. The research investigates the intersection of memory, identity, and place. Memory is what informs personal history and collective futures. Identity, for the artist is as daughter, sister, mother, wife, friend, crafter, artist, woman and now widow. For others involved in the research, it is as Indigenous Elders, rangers and locals connected to specific sites. Place as which grounds and locates memories and landscapes that preoccupy the creative works. Memory and identity is explored materially through making, connecting art to place using craft’s historical connection with domestic and natural environments. Using the postmodern feminist geography of Doreen Massey, place is a site of flow and routes, rather than origins and roots. The relation between art and Massey’s notion of place is investigated as sympathetic to craft as a feminine epistemology. The creative work created comprises of four large textile patchworks, a series of small embroideries, and a pair of gouache paintings. The making of three large patchwork banner works were informed by conversational interviews conducted with Indigenous and non-Indigenous rangers. The banner works were installed for the duration of a weekend in Darebin Parklands in Alphington, Victoria in 2016 and at Pigeon House Mountain Didthul, Morton National Park, NSW in 2017. Performative and documentation photographs and videos were created in response to these installations. In addition a hand-stitched patchwork was slowly constructed over a year of grief and then used as a cloak and protective cloth in directed performative photos shot in the garden and on the roof of the artist’s home.<br>Masters by Research
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Martinez, Esther C. "Nothing Normal Happens to Me: True Stories of a Journey from Madness to Motherhood." FIU Digital Commons, 2015. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1934.
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Written in first person, NOTHING NORMAL HAPPENS TO ME is a memoir in essays that traces the narrator’s journey from self-destruction to creation. Part one encompasses the narrator’s lost years, after she breaks free from the tyranny of her mentally ill mother and goes to live on her own at 17. Part two provides context for those bad girl years, exploring her childhood when she identified with her histrionic mother. Part three comprises stories about the narrator’s years of awakening when she seeks out transcendence, faith, and a family of her own. The pieces vary tonally and stylistically as they attempt to trace the maturing voice of the narrator. Like SEEKING RAPTURE: SCENES FROM A WOMAN’S LIFE by Kathryn Harrison, this collection centers on a young girl, who without her mother’s love, struggles to love herself. It is both a cautionary tale and a story of redemption.
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Ishige, Yumi. "Identity and differences : the role of memory, narrative, and history in personal identity." Thesis, Durham University, 2005. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1282/.
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The main issue of this thesis is to analyse what kind of concept we have of 'personal identity.' The concept of personal identity is basically examined in relation to memory in this thesis. , Recalling memory is supposed to make an intelligible account between experiences. It gives meaning to what is remembered in accordance with the context of that person's life. This work is compared to a narrative understanding of memory. Ile unity of a person over time, which relates to the unity of personal identity, assumed to be formed through making this narrative account (Chapter one and the first half of Chapter two). However, there arises the question of whether all of our experiences can be managed by the narrative account. Two issues are examined at this point: The insufficiency of that narrative approach (die latter half of Chapter two) and the historical transformation of tile concept of personal identity (Chapter three). The transformation is specifically studied with influences of the media through time. The particularities of tile modem period of time are specifically considered as the age from which the study of personal identity has developed. Today, however, the credibility of the modem concept of personal identity seems to be in doubt. This doubt is summarised in the term 'postmodem'. The characteristics of and the discontinuity between the modem and the postmodern are described in Chapter four. Finally Chapter five investigates the particularities of the concept of identity in the postmodern age I conclude that the modem concept of personal identity has been effective in organising society, but it has arrived during a time at which its boundary needs to be reconsidered. Differences of a person, which are not identified within the narrative consistency of a life, are a key-term in this thought.
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Spanier, Gail. "Maps, metaphor and memory : a personal investigation through image manipulation and textile embellishment." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2006. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/350.
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This exegesis supports the artist-researcher's Creative Arts Project, which explores how personal memories and reflection on family history and narratives can be used as resources for image making. The exegesis underscores the essentialness of Efland' s (1990) Expressive Psychoanalytic model as a conceptual framework in visual arts education,as well as reviewing associated literature about memory and semiotics, and the role of Images in reconstructing self-realization, identity and social history. The artist-researcher also links Efland's model to Gardner's (1996) Inter and Intra Personal Intelligences. The artist-researcher introduces the work of influential artists in Australia, Canadian , and other overseas artists who also work in the field of textile design with personal and family history themes. However, specifically the exegesis, positions the artist-researcher's Creative Arts Project and major exhibition.
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Riquelme, Garrido Daniela. "Memoria a la fuerza." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2010. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/101511.
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El presente escrito de Tesis está constituido por tres capítulos . En el primero describo
mi experiencia en el taller de pintura, la evolución de mi trabajo de la mano de los
ejercicios y práctica adquirida en clases. El segundo relata mis motivaciones y gustos
más personales citando algunos de los referentes que de alguna manera pudieron haber
potenciado el desarrollo actual de mi trabajo. Finalmente dedico un capítulo a la obra de
Tesis propiamente tal, llamada “Pequeñas Criaturas”, aquí indago un poco sobre sus
posibles implicancias y cómo ésta se constituiría en el resultado de un desarrollo causal
de mi trabajo desde los tiempos del taller
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Братусь, Иван Викторович. "Использование семейных документов в общей историко-культурной ретроспекции". Thesis, Талком, 2015. http://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/22891.
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Братусь И.В. Использование семейных документов в общей историко-культурной ретроспекции / И.В. Братусь // Історико-культурна спадщина: збереження, доступ, використання : матер. Міжнар. наук.-практ. конф., м. Київ, 7–9 квітня 2015 р., Національний авіаційний університет / редкол. Тюрменко І. І. та ін. – К. : Талком, 2015. – С. 261–264.<br>The paper is focused on the influence of personal documents for the representation of history. The author proves that each document is important.
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Griffin, Sylvia Clare. "Inscribing Memory: Art and the Place of Personal Expressions of Grief in Memorial Culture." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/16138.
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Expressing grief and engaging in mourning are vital healing processes for those who have experienced loss, trauma or violence. Regardless of whether in the distant past or as an ongoing condition, evidence suggests that the mourning process and the partaking of commemorative rituals are essential to the psychological and emotional wellbeing of the individual. This thesis considers artistic alternatives to the role that monuments and memorials have traditionally played in assisting this process. A range of theorists and philosophers including those in the fields of art criticism, history, and trauma studies are referred to in ascertaining not only how monuments and memorials work, but the role that contemporary art can play in imparting meaningful remembrance and solace. This project tests the proposition that contemporary art, through both public and personal expression, can offer an open- ended re-evaluation of the past, instead of the static nature of traditional commemoration. I contend that this can be realised in the form of actions and ephemeral, temporary and materially challenging artistic means in engaging the viewer empathically. I will advance arguments to challenge fixing memory in place and time while also arguing for the place of smaller, more personal expressions of remembrance. My studio practice incorporates pertinent psychological aspects such as postmemory and trauma-induced forgetting in the form of absence, and considers the work of key artists. This studio work investigates materiality – as both traditionally employed in memorial culture, such as metal and stone - and other forms including textiles and more fugitive examples such as hair and the use of fire. The relevance of time, memory and ritual are also evident in this work as well as in the thesis. Although informed by personal, familial experience – often conveyed through my use of family possessions - my works appeal to broader aspects of memorial culture, engaging in customs and rituals and universal themes of loss and grief.
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Huenemann, Jeannine. "Going Solo with Roald Dahl: Life Rewritten Through Memory." DigitalCommons@USU, 2011. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1003.
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Roald Dahl does not easily fit into a category as a writer, contributing fiction and nonfiction to both children and adult audiences. Faced with this ambiguity, the literary community has mostly ignored his contributions since he is mainly viewed as a children‘s author. Late in life, Dahl created two autobiographies, Boy: Tales of Childhood (1984), and Going Solo (1986), as venues for sharing his many embellished, personal stories. This thesis focuses on Going Solo, the second of these two books which explores Dahl‘s three-year departure from England, including his enlistment in the Royal Air Force during World War II. During this same time period, he wrote 126 personal letters and telegrams to his family. He had experienced much change in his life during the nearly fifty-year gap from when the letters were written to when he crafted Going Solo for a more general audience. By comparing this personal correspondence to Going Solo, it is possible to see how memory and self-selection permitted the author to craft a personal narrative interested as much in reconstructing his public persona as recounting true events from his past.
This thesis asserts that Dahl does not rely exclusively on his letters when reconstructing the narrative and instead inserts himself into a larger historical narrative. Dahl used Going Solo to point to the locations where his personal narrative collides with history and emotions. This is particularly true in the last half of the book where he comes to rely on historical touchstones. It is full of places and people which evoke memories and strong feelings for him. Dahl also relied on techniques and motifs found in folktales, features that make his work of particular interest to folklorists. The final chapter offers an examination of these techniques used in The BFG, Dahl‘s most autobiographical work of children‘s literature, written only four years prior to Going Solo. By paying closer attention to his methodology, we gain a clearer understanding of how folklore functions in the development of literary personal narrative.
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McFarlane, Gilbert John. "The Effects of Computer Versus Personal Administration on Measures of Verbal and Spatial Short-Term Memory." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1985. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331587/.
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This study sought to investigate the influence of expressive task demand, as determined by amount of face-to face social interaction, level of subjects' expressive ability, sex of subject, and sex of experimenter on subjects' digit and visual-spatial short-term memory span performance. The amount of personal contact was manipulated by the automated versus person administrations of the memory measures. The automated administration was accomplished through the use of a microcomputer.
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MORGAN, CHARLOTTE. "NONE OF MY IDOLS WERE WORTH WORSHIPPING." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1304951934.
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