“You Don't Play,You Volunteer”: Narrative Public Memory Construction in Medal of Honor: Rising Sun

Narrative and ludological analysis suggests that Electronic Arts’ Medal of Honor: Rising Sun constructs a narrative of World War II that selectively retells history and constructs an Orientalist representation of the Japanese Empire. The gaming environment exists as an interactive museum that immerses gamers into history so that they experience warfare in their homes. Combining newsreels, fictional letters from home, and interviews with veterans of the “Good War,” Medal of Honor: Rising Sun retells a history that omits details of Japanese internment or atomic weapons. The intertwined themes of personal revenge for the loss of a family member and historical revenge for the attack on Pearl Harbor guide gamers through an “educational” experience of the war. Finally, its failure to simulate violence means that Medal of Honor: Rising Sun invites a critical blindness to commemorating war.     

Holocaust Perversions: The Stalags Pulp Fiction and the Eichmann Trial

The Stalags, an Israeli pulp fiction series whose advent coincided with the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, portrayed sadomasochistic scenarios between SS female guards and Allied soldiers in POW camps. Written in Hebrew by native Israelis, these cheap pocketbooks were enormously popular with Israeli teenagers, many of whom were children of Holocaust survivors. We posit the Stalags (a) as a fictional counterpart of the trial, complementing the legal procedure with feats of the imagination, and (b) as a text upon which the Israeli young generation negotiated issues of power and identity.     

Memory training program for older adults

ABSTRACT

Objective: Memory loss affects a large proportion of older adults. Research indicates a positive association between memory training and better memory performance as people age. However, studies on specific memory training using an experimental design are limited. This study explored whether memory training has improved memory performance in a group of older adults.

Method: A convenience sample of 48 participants was recruited from two communities. Disregarding dropouts, this left 23 experimental (mean age = 65.4 ± 6.0, range = 56–80) and 19 control participants (mean age = 64.5 ± 4.9, range: 57–72). The intervention consisted of 60-min classes held on a weekly basis continuing for 8 weeks. The class session was held after a 1-h exercise class and before a 1-h session of cognitive games. The pre–post objective memory performances, including associative, list, text, place, grocery learning, and transfer-effect of daily event memory (ecology validity), were examined to determine whether the intervention was effective.

Results: Intragroup: With Wilcoxon test, the findings showed that the intervention of both the list and place learning had significant differences for the experimental group, but not for the control group. Intergroup: The main effects were found for the associative and text learning. The mixed design ANOVA indicated that there is an interaction (time x group) on the dependent variable of the place learning test. Daily events memory: We found within group that the pre–post differences were significant for the experimental group but not for the control group.

Conclusion: The study showed that memory training can help older adults to ameliorate memory loss problems and these findings deserve more attention.     

提升聋生“内存”四法

聋生学习和运用所学语言文字来记叙事情、表达思想都存在一个共同的现象:说话缺乏中心,思想表达不清,作文无从下手。教师如何改善聋生现状,提高他们的语言表达能力,值得聋教育工作者进行探讨。笔者认为,应从提高聋生的语言积累入手,扩大聋生的阅读范围,丰富聋生的词汇量,加强聋生的语言实践,从根本上提升聋生的"内存"。     

一种内存管理策略的研究和实现

针对一种需要动态维护拓扑信息的GIS叠加分析算法,有针对性地提出相应的内存管理策略。实践表明能有效提高算法实现层面的效率。     

《纪念刘和珍君》和《为了忘却的纪念》比较

鲁迅《纪念刘和珍君》和《为了忘却的纪念》两篇杂文 ,主题思想和写作方法大体相同 ;但因为纪念对象和写作时间的具体差异 ,受作者思想发展的阶段性影响 ,各自表现出来的认识结论有所不同。在表达手法上 ,前者以叙事为主 ,抒情淋漓酣畅 ,风格激越 ;后者以抒情为主 ,表达曲折含蓄。把握这些区别 ,对合理设置教学目标、实施教学计划 ,有非常重要的意义     

武术套路图示教学法的尝试与阐释

武术套路技术教学具有可行性、实效性。与传统的教学法相比,有利于激发学生学习的积极性,能有效地培养学生的独立性和创造性,有助于发挥学生的主体作用和教师的主导作用。     

Overconfidence in children's multi-trial judgments of learning

The underconfidence with practice effect (UWP) refers to the finding that people's judgments of learning shift from overconfidence to underconfidence on and after a first study-test trial (Koriat, Ma'ayan, & Sheffer, 2002). Finn and Metcalfe (2007, 2008) proposed that people show UWP because they use their memory of prior test performance as a cue to make subsequent judgments of learning and inadequately account for new learning (i.e. the Memory for Past Test (MPT) heuristic). In contrast to adults, 3rd and 5th graders' judgments showed persistent overconfidence on and after a first study-test trial. A second experiment tested children's ability to remember their prior test performance. Children's prior performance discriminations were accurate for items that they answered correctly on the prior trial, but were overconfident for items they had answered incorrectly indicating that their continued overconfidence was a result of faulty memory, rather than a failure to use the MPT heuristic.     

Aspect-based sentiment analysis with alternating coattention networks

Aspect-based sentiment analysis aims to predict the sentiment polarities of specific targets in a given text. Recent researches show great interest in modeling the target and context with attention network to obtain more effective feature representation for sentiment classification task. However, the use of an average vector of target for computing the attention score for context is unfair. Besides, the interaction mechanism is simple thus need to be further improved. To solve the above problems, this paper first proposes a coattention mechanism which models both target-level and context-level attention alternatively so as to focus on those key words of targets to learn more effective context representation. On this basis, we implement a Coattention-LSTM network which learns nonlinear representations of context and target simultaneously and can extracts more effective sentiment feature from coattention mechanism. Further, a Coattention-MemNet network which adopts a multiple-hops coattention mechanism is proposed to improve the sentiment classification result. Finally, we propose a new location weighted function which considers the location information to enhance the performance of coattention mechanism. Extensive experiments on two public datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of all proposed methods, and our findings in the experiments provide new insight for future developments of using attention mechanism and deep neural network for aspect-based sentiment analysis.     

智力落后者的记忆缺陷及图画表象教学补救策略

智力落后者的实用性语文学习与记忆，一直是特殊教育工作者所关心的问题。至于如何针对其记忆缺陷，设计适当的教学策略，改善其记忆效果，更是特殊教育工作者所肩负的责任。本文拟就智力落后者所存在的记忆缺陷，图画表象教学策略的补救功能及其对智力落后者语文学习效果的影响，作一些粗浅的探讨，以供同仁参考。