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    Basic question 1.Was it harder for you detect a scene change in the trials with or without a flicker between photographs? Does your data support your evalution ?Explain. It is hard for me to detect a scene change with a flicker between photographs .Ya my data support my evalution. In my data‚I made a mistake for the flicker condition (0.875 prpportion correct) and the reaction time for me to see the scene change with flicker (7659.7144) slower than the scene change without flicker (5755.75). 2

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    Song Analysis for First They Killed my Father In Phnom Penh a little girl named Loung and her family had to leave everything behind because of the Khmer Rouge soldiers. Loung Ung wrote a book of her life in Cambodia and three themes for the book are confusion‚ pain‚ and hope. This book is called First They Killed My Father and the song I chose that goes with the book is called Gone too soon by Daughtry. For the song I choose three parts from the book. The parts include when Loung had memories of

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    My hands are shaking as I stumble back and slump down against the plain white wall‚ grasping an old family portrait‚ looking up to avoid the tears from blurring my vision and holding it in front of my face with both hands in an attempt to steady myself. I feel my breathing calm down and a grin spread across my face. It’s a picture of me when I was 7‚ cheerfully blowing out candles on a chocolate cake my parents held with my mother standing on my left and my father to my right. “How fitting‚ don’t

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    social interaction and acceptance‚ affiliation with a particular group or culture‚ as well a connection to the land are all human nature. The human desire to belong can be seen in the memoir “Romulus my Father” written by Raimond Gaita and the film “Crash” directed by Peter Haggis. “Romulus My Father” portrays aspects and impacts of acceptance and disassociation on the individual. Gaita aims to emphasise and honestly record the difficulties in the roles the characters have to play within their new

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    A Timeline for the “Roaring Twenties” (1920-1929) Often called the Roaring Twenties‚ the postwar decade sometimes appears as one long flamboyant party‚ where the urban rich danced the Charleston and the foxtrot until 2 a.m. In fact‚ one might just as convincingly describe it as a period of individual possibility and lofty aspirations to serve the greater good. In his 1931 essay "Echoes of the Jazz Age‚" Fitzgerald wrote‚ "It was an age of miracles‚ it was an age of art‚ it was an age of excess

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    sentenced to die in prison‚ many of which did not even commit the crime. One person in particular was a boy named Ray; he agreed to go with his friend to rob a bank‚ but did not know his friend had intentions of killing someone. Ray did not even have a weapon‚ but his soul swooned slowly as he heard the verdict and can recall clearly the tears that dripped down his face when the judge sentenced him to life. “Tick‚ tick‚ tick‚” is the sound of the metaphoric clock that ticks away slowly as juvenile youth

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    Picture of Death In the poem "This Is a Photograph of Me"‚ Margaret Atwood attempts to depict the parallels between a picture slowly developing and the narrators realization of her death. This poem is divided into two parts with the second half separated by brackets. The elements of the picture begin to emerge reflecting the narrator ’s awareness of her death. In the first stanza it is as if the speaker is trying to remember fuzzy memories of her past and maybe as far back as her youth. This half

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    and always found my uncle perched out of the window smoking a “Marlboro Red” cigarette. As we walked to school‚ my younger brother would often mention to me how neat it would be to smoke a cigarette‚ “too bad we’re not older” he would always add. As I walked into class and sat down I would always imagine myself as an adult smoking “Marlboro Red” in a shiny red convertible Corvette. I came to the conclusion that being older naturally came with its perks. Many children relate to my experience of wanting

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    Nora Ephron’s revealing article‚ "The Boston Photographs" explains the power photojournalism has over the public eye‚ through telling the story of the publication of three controversial photographs. Ephron argues that the publishing of brutal and disturbing photographs is absolutely necessary in order to thoroughly explain the severity of certain situations to the public‚ where keeping the gory truths could give some a false sense of safety or reality. Nora Ephron supports her argument through the

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    difference of results in a complicated confrontation of values. Hence a sense of belonging lies inherent in the individual’s ability to marry or reconcile identity with their social environment. Raimond Gaita’s semi-autobiographical memoir Romulus‚ My Father and the Australian’s feature article Alice Pung on New Australians both explore the difficulties faced when immigrating and how a new found sense of belonging occurs through a transformation of identity and values. John Marsden and Shawn Tan’s picture

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