Origin of the name Mariah: Variant of the Hebrew Moriya (teacher). The name is borrowed from that of a hill from which Abraham prepared to offer Isaac up as a sacrifice. It is a holy place now covered by the Muslim Kubbet es-Sakrah (the Dome of the Rock). From A World of Baby Names by Teresa Norman.
A memoir is a type of autobiography wherein the main content of a written material is about the writer.It is a genre of literature that involves writing about certain aspects and concerns of a personâs life. memoir is a type of autobiography wherein the main content of a written material is about the writer.
Cover of the first English edition of Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, 1793. An autobiography (from the Greek, Î±á½ÏÏÏ-autos self + Î²Î¯Î¿Ï-bios life + Î³ÏÎ¬ÏÎµÎ¹Î½-graphein to write) is a self-written account of the life of a person. The word autobiography was first used deprecatingly by William Taylor in 1797 in the English periodical The Monthly Review, when he suggested the word as a hybrid, but condemned it as pedantic.