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.
1 An autobiography is sometimes limited by dates (as in Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography to 1949 by Doris Lessing), but not obviously by theme.  2  Memoir, on the other hand, is a story from a life. 3  It makes no pretense of replicating a whole life.. ( 4 Judith Barrington, Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art.