Group 1: A walk in amnesia.

Group 1: 

Nuria:     Characteristics of characters

Short summary:

The protagonist is a lawyer and is happily married. One day on the train, he meets a friend who is pharmacist and he says that much work can be amnesiac. On the same train amnesiac stays and then he went to a meeting of pharmaceuticals, finally returning to New York and see his wife recognizes. 

Character of Characters:

The protagonist is a lawyer and he is married to a woman who is a housewife. the man who accompanies him throughout the trip is pharmacist. 

Anayka:    Others


Amnesia:

The amnesia is a disorder of the functioning of the memory , during which the individual is unable to retain or retrieve information stored previously. 
The causes of amnesia are organic or functional. Organic causes include damage to the brain caused by disease or trauma , or use of certain drugs (generally sedative ). Functional are psychological factors, such as defense mechanisms. The amnesia posttraumatic hysterical is an example of this factor. The amnesia can also be spontaneous, in the case of transient global amnesia (TGA by its acronym in English) has the highest rate of cases in people between the middle - aged and elderly, particularly males, and usually lasts less than 24 hours. 

Types of Amnesia: 

1. Chronological classification according 

• Anterograde  amnesia . New events are not transferred to long - term memory, so the sufferer will not be able to remember anything that happened after the onset of this type of amnesia for more than a small moment. The complement of this is retrograde amnesia 
• Retrograde amnesia . No events that occurred before the onset of the disease will be remembered. 
These terms are used to categorize symptoms, not to indicate a particular cause of etiology . 

2. According to its classification Aetiologic 

• Post - traumatic amnesia . It is usually caused by a head injury that does not penetrate the skull. It is often transient; the duration of the amnesia is related to the degree of damage. A slight trauma, such as a car accident resulting in only a slight whiplash can cause the occupant not remember the events that occurred just before the accident due to a brief interruption in the transfer mechanism of memory from short to long term.

• Mental Amnesia . It is a psychological trauma caused by a depression usually by some being or object. 

• Fugue state is also known as dissociative fugue . It is caused by psychological trauma and is usually temporary. 

• Childhood amnesia. (or infantile amnesia). It is the common inability to remember events of our childhood. While Sigmund Freud attributed this to sexual repression, others have theorized that it is due to language development or immature parts of the brain. 

• Global amnesia is total memory loss. It can be caused by a defense mechanism which occurs after a traumatic event. The disorder of post-traumatic stress can lead to the return of unwanted traumatic memories spontaneously. 

• Post-hypnotic Amnesia occurs when events during hypnosis are forgotten, or where past events can not be recalled. 

• Psychogenic amnesia . It is the result of a psychological cause as opposed to direct damage to the brain generated by a head injury, physical trauma or disease is known as organic amnesia. 

• Amnesia source . It is a memory disorder in which someone can recall certain information but does not know where or how they obtained it . 

• Syndrome of distrust in memory . It is a term invented by the psychologist Gisli Gudjonsson to describe a situation where the person is unable to trust his own memory. 

• Medial diencephalic amnesia . Amnesia seen in memory disorders that are associated with lesions of the medial diencephalon. An example of these disorders it is Korsakoff syndrome. 

• Summoned Amnesia: excessive intake of alcohol in a very short time, can cause a blocking phenomenon similar to the symptoms of amnesia memory.

Yasmin:     Brief summary

The story talks about Elwyn Bellford, is a lawyer and he works very hard, has a beautiful wife but they do the same things every day. He has a friend Doctor Volney. Volney tells him not to work so hard, some people forget who they are. He tells Bellford ”You need a change and rest.” However, he does rest, on Thursday nights he and his wife play a game of cards, and on Sundays his wife reads him her weekly letters form her mother. One day he walks to work and thinks about Doctor Volney’s words, he is feeling very good and pleased with life. When he wakes up, he is on a train, he changes his name. A man talks to him and he tells the man his name is Edward Pinkhammer. Then Edward follows the train to New York. He feels Manhattan is wonderful, and during this time he learns something very important-if you want to be happy, you must be free, he doesn’t try to remember who or what he is. When he comes to his favourite restaurants. He sees a former love.He tries to remember her. However, he still says he forgets everything. When he returns to his hotel, Doctor Volney waits for him and wants to talk to him. Then he follows Volney. Marian and Bobby try to get Elwyn to remember who he is. Finally, he goes home with Marian and Bobby.

Adriana:   Short bio

O. Henry was a writer, journalist, and pharmaceutical. His real name is William Sydney Porter, and he was a master of short stories. He was born in North Carolina, his father was a doctor, and his mother died of tuberculosis. They were both to live with his grandmother. It was a great reader and student, in 1876 he graduated from elementary school, then he began to work in a pharmacy, and graduated as a pharmacist. His youth was very bad, started with alcohol abuse, and he escapes with a woman named Athol Estes, they had a daughter, was called Margaret. He started working in a bank, where he was accused of stealing money, on the eve of the trial, he escaped to Honduras without his wife and daughter. Nothing is known of his life in Central America, but one day he returned home because his wife was about to die, and there he was arrested for fraud. In prison he wrote stories to pay for food of her daughter, then left prison for good attitude, he went to live in New York and change the name for O. Henry. Shortly after he died of liver cirrhosis with 23 cents in his pocket.

Jorge:         NY features (Museums)


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The new york police museum: this in an old station, this museum is dedicated to preserving and displaying the history of the New York City Police Department, the largest and most famous of the world police body.