Remembering or Rewriting

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Jacqueline DeSantis In the first few lectures of my university english course, ASTU, we’ve begun discussing the way communities and individuals remember and how sometimes people fabricate memories to serve their own agenda. We also discussed briefly the concept of bias versus perspective, what those words actually mean, and the connotations we associate with them. During the past lectures a connection has appeared between the idea that memories are influenced by a number of outside factors and the idea that bias and perspective change the way people view or value a text….read more