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.
A memoir does not contain everything from this particular slice of the authorâs life, but rather, events are selected and examined for meaning relative to the purpose of the book. The author has questioned what happened and come to some kind of new understanding or lesson learned by it.