Due to the economic forces that led to my decision to leave China to study in Los Angeles, California, I am keenly interested in the history of Chinese economy as impetus to the lineage of my emigration. China's history of economics and its affect on the openness of the nation's politics and social relations with the rest of the world is one that has been subject to cycles of oscillation (Maddison)
Although extending back to the global seafaring culture of the mercantilist economy, the 'official' history of Chinese immigration to the country is typically told through the lens of the male railroad workers whom came to the West Coast in the nineteenth century as indentured labor during California's Gold Rush (Chew, 415). Indeed the history of economics within the international Chinese Diaspora perhaps supersedes all other factors from which the decision to leave China for the promise of opportunity elsewhere stem (Pendery, 201)
As I reflect on my experience living on the West Coast of the United States, and particularly as a resident in the State of California, the specter of Chinese immigrant history is everywhere. The presence of my people and my culture as a salient aspect of the American experience and the expectations of Pacific Rim participation ramify with the depth of struggle waged by Chinese immigrants as laborers and as business owners (Rumbaut, 200)
S. immigration policy toward Chinese immigration characterized by the: 1) Free Period before 1882; 2) Prohibitive Period from 1882-1943 (Shen, 29)
In their exhaustive review and analysis of published literature on the subject, Andrew Mayes and Neil Roberts (2001) detail many of the physical structures and processes in the brain theorized to be involved in the formation and retrieval of episodic memory. The intricate processing of episodic memory could possibly be where the divergence of autobiographical memory can be seen; the many different portions of the brain identified in processing separate aspects of memory shows a clear differentiation in the creation of temporal relationships between memories and the actual visual memory that is most quickly and easily recalled (Mayes & Roberts 2001)
Interestingly, the two type sof memory also seem to coincide with the phenomenon of false memory. Many individuals "remember" things incorrectly, or often remember as personal incidents things that happened to others or that were merely imagined (Summerfield et al
In a somewhat similar study, Svoboda & Levine (2009) tested regions of the brain for rehearsed and unrehearsed memories, and found that episodic and autobiographic memories reacted quite similarly to repetition and rehearsed retrieval, but quite differently than semantic memories. They located episodic autobiographical memory (considered a single type by the researchers) in the hippocampus, concluding that "there is strong evidence that the hippocampus is centrally involved in binding of disparate elements for recollection," making it the essential center for both types of memory (Svoboda & Levine 2009)
1336). In an even more compelling study, it was found that patients with frontal cortical excisions showed no impairment in autobiographical memory retrieval, but were far less likely to organize events temporally (Thaiss & Petrides 2008)
385). To him, this makes autobiographical memory a mere subset of episodic memory; all episodic memory must relate to the person's past experience, and so is necessarily autobiographical (Tulving 1972)
"Remembering the South as a kind of "prelapsarian Paradise" (xii), Williams later transformed memories of people he met or knew into immortal characters, and their distinctive use of southern speech became, in Williams's romantic imagination, a medium of poetic expression at once universal in appeal and importance." (Holditch et al
This is perhaps best contended by the notation in Pagan's text, that "at the end of The Glass Menagerie, Tom cannot help thinking of the life that he left behind as 'the cities swept about [him] like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from the branches." (Pagan, 53) Here, Pagan seemes to reinforce the idea that Williams, through a character like Tom, is willfully separating himself from his family but remains driven by a sense of awareness, perhaps even guilt, related to his inextricable attachment to this family history
Clearly, however, the family shared the burden for what happened to Rose, and no matter what he said, Williams would seek many times to exorcise his guilt over Rose's illness." (O'Connor, 3) This is an important moment in his life, for without question, Rose's figure looms like a ghost in the world of the playwright
78). The organization carefully screens prospective homeowners to ensure they satisfy the eligibility criteria and family support services are provided where needed (Davis, 2002)
One organization that has been committed to addressing this problem is Habitat for Humanity, a Christian ministry that helped nearly 7 million homeless people irrespective of their religion or race. Since its founding in 1976 in Georgia (Tucker, 2009), Habitat for Humanity has become an international organization in more than 70 countries with more than 1,400 local affiliates in the United States alone (About Habitat for Humanity, 2016)