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    rocks. 3) Green plants evolve over most of the Earth. 4) Green plants removed CO2 from the air and produced O2 by photosynthesis. (oxygen level increased) Phase 3 – Ozone layer allows evolution of complex animals. 1) The built-up of oxygen in the atmosphere allowed more complex organisms to evolve and flourish. 2) The oxygen also created the ozone layer (O3) which blocked harmful rays from the sun and enable more complex organisms to evolve. 3) There is very little C02 left now

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    How does Joe express his PAIN? First of all‚ throughout the whole article‚ Joe writes in first person and uses the words “I” and “me” to refer to himself. This shows how real the feelings are and all the expressions are direct and personal. Further‚ this also shows that he is alone in facing all these difficulties without any help. Secondly‚ Joe uses a lot of metaphor expressions about fire and water to describe the extreme extent of physical pains during the mountaineering accident. For fire

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    The documentary Touching the Void is about two skilled climbers Simon Yates and Joe Simpson‚ the two friends had reached the top of the Siula Grande Mountain which had never been done before. Everything was going fairly smoothly until Joe shatters his leg from falling down an ice cliff. Simon did not know that Joe had fractured his leg and but he did however attempt to lower him down. These efforts were unsuccessful and both Joe and Simon were sliding down the cliff‚ it was clear that if things continued

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    In this traumatic‚ edgy account of ’Touching the Void’ you are given two scenarios of two men in completely different mind sets as they are faced with tough choices. The writer portrays Joe full of emotion and in intense pain while Simon accepts reality and thinks logically. The sentence structure of the two stories are arranged diversely. In Joe’s story there is use of short sentences such as "I’m Dead."‚ which depicts how Joe has lost all hope and is on the edge of dread. On the other hand‚ Simon

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    Touching the Void is an inspiring story about the power of the human will. To my surprise‚ the film left me emotionally spent as it touched on the issues of friendship‚ mortality and survival. I am sure many of my classmates will agree that it is an amazing story. But‚ for me‚ the thing that makes it truly inspirational is the way that Joe never gave up. In this brief paper I intend to show how Self Determination and Goal Setting theory influenced Joe’s inspiring story of survival. Self Determination

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    knee‚ his climbing partner Simon lowering him and causing pain to his knee and his anger at himself that his injury has caused them this distress and difficulty. • When you’re angry‚ you often erupt in saying things that you may not normally say. Joe describes himself as uttering “a tirade of obscenities”‚ this shows he did more swearing than just the second line of this particular passage. It puts his swearing in context – he shows that he was relying on this to show his anger‚ even though he describes

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    In Joe’s account‚ he makes the reader appreciate his pain and fear by using figurative language‚ emotive language‚ and imagery to express them. He reveals his pain in the line ’...a fierce burning fire coming down the inside of my thigh...’. A ’fierce burning fire’ is the symbol he used to depict his suffering‚ as though there is a blazing fire burning and spreading in his thighs and in ’...the fireball rushed from groin to knee’‚ a ’fireball’ is the metaphor he used to illustrate the intensity

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    Essay In 1985 Joe Simpson and Simon Yates made a wild decision to climb Siula Grande a mountain in Peru. Simon and Joe were determined to be the first team ever to successfully climb the west face of Siula Grande. When successfully reaching the peak of the mountain‚ they climbed down via the north ridge‚ and that’s when trouble took take its place. Joe slipped and broke his leg‚ leaving Simon with no choice but to slowly reel Joe down the snowy mountain‚ worse came to worse and Joe was hanging over

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    through those risk just for a sport. In Touching the VoidJoe Simpson and Simon are climbing a 21‚000-foot mountain that no one has accomplished. “Looming over‚ with my stomach clenched‚ and a sharp sense of danger‚ I enjoyed the feeling” (Simpson 31). When Joe was almost at the top of the mountain he expresses his emotions that he feels being up there and being to accomplish his goals. Hoping to climb a mountain that was never successfully done before triggered Joe and Simon to climb the West face of

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    In this essay I will discuss how the writer of Touching the Void has made use of language techniques to enable readers to fully empathize with Joes experience. When Joe talks about his accident‚ he makes it sound quite dramatic. ...if theres just two of you and a broken ankle could turn into a death sentence... This quote shows that he took the accident very seriously and he illustrates this by making the story look like he would eventually die. Throughout the story‚ the writer makes constant use

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