DISTINCTIVELY VISUAL – MAESTRO QUOTE FROM TEXT p 11. ‘The moths …soft‚ powdery bats. And the bats …were foxes. Even our garden lawn…like some lush‚ green five o’clock shadow.’ P 13. “Without warning‚ my father reached across and seized me violently by the shirt‐front.” TECHNIQUE(S) Simile “like lush‚ green five o’clock shadow” Metaphor :soft powdery bats” Word choice ‘violently’; short sentence; metaphor EFFECT ON MEANING Creates the sense of Darwin being an exotic world that is larger than life…everything seems
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The Frightening memory That year‚ I was thirteen years old. One weekend‚ I was playing with my younger sister in a park. We played the swings‚ slides and ridded our bicycles. We were very happy. After few hours‚ my sister said she was hungry‚ and then‚ we went to a supermarket to buy some snacks. My sister said she wanted to eat some cookies. When we entered the supermarket‚ we were looking for the shelf where the cookies were because we didn’t know where they were
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by these celebrations and enjoyed ourselves immensely. In the evening all of us dressed in our new clothes. Our relatives visited our house and brought us gifts and sweets. The trip to India during Diwali will always be one of my best childhood memories. It was a trip that combined pleasure with
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I was given a chance to visit the Himalayas‚ to one of the concealed places in the province where a panoramic view was preserved. It was very provincial and solemn. Its coniferous and subtropical forests‚ wetlands‚ and montane grasslands are as much a part of this world as the inhospitable‚ frozen mountaintops that tower above. The mountains were the wrinkles of age and pimples of youth on Earth’s crusty outer skin. They rose up as the crust collides‚ cracks‚ crumbles‚ folds‚ and spews. They dominated
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of the revolution during that time created a huge divide between the different social groups. This was dominated by different opinions that were expressed using violence‚ intimidation and other mental and physical threatening methods. Satrapi uses visual representation and plot devices in her graphic novel Persepolis to expose the hypocrisy of the Islamic revolution. First of all‚ the author displays all members of the army and Islamic revolutionary groups without any distinction from each other;
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lifelong print in our mind‚ unless some unusual situation or fearful first time facing characterized it. A first experience in the movie theater‚ a first flight‚ and a fearful car accident are the instances that leave some kind of permanent print in our memory. I do have such unforgettable experience‚ but my first day to school was the most powerful and deeply inscribed in my childhood mind with the fearful and stressful curiosity. It was Sunday morning that I was doing something different
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Memories of Holiday Ladies and gentlemen. Let me ask you a question. Do you like to travel for holidays? Yes right? I believe everyone love to travel. Today‚ I’m going to share with you about my holiday experience in U.S. In Nov 1998 when I was still in primary 4‚ my mum surprised us that we were going to United States for 1mth to visit our father who was on a business trip. We were very excited when we heard the news as we had never been to another country and these will be our first time traveling
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False memories are defined as distorted recollections of an event or events which never occurred‚ and may be due to the incorporation of new information. The occurrence of false memories depends on different factors such as emotion‚ visual stimuli‚ aging‚ and even a person’s seemingly harmless suggestions. How can false memories be reduced in childhood or adulthood? Can we actually use photographs to minimize false memories‚ or can emotions have an impact on our likelihood of retaining false memories
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Critically evaluate the claim that ‘flashbulb’ memories are qualitatively different to other memories Memory In psychology is the physical series of events within the brain that encode‚ store and retrieve information within the human body. When information is encoded within our memory it reaches our primary five senses and is converted into chemical and physical stimuli. This stimuli is stored in the next stage of the memory process where information if retained for potentially decades of time within
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The WMM model of memory Atkinson’s and Shiffrin’s (1968) multi-store model was extremely successful in terms of the amount of research it generated. However‚ as a result of this research‚ it became apparent that there were a number of problems with their ideas concerning the characteristics of short-term memory. Building on this research‚ Baddeley and Hitch (1974) developed an alternative model of short-term memory which they called working memory. There are three main components to the original
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