Name: Khian L.

Trumata Date Submitted: 26/08/21

Grade/Section: 11-St Francis de Sales

Instruction: Identify the dominant structure in the following excerpts. Underline the language cues and do any
appropriate text mapping strategies to show the overall organization and content of the material.

1. An archetype is a basic model or a prototype. The psychologist Carl Jung holds that some recurrent experiences
actually echo and re-echo a primordial or basic urge deep within human beings. Many films today, for all their hi-tech
effects, reflect these archetypal situations and characters. For example, the conflict between Good and Evil has been there
since time immemorial and today, plots of modern films reflect the archetypal conflict between these two forces. The
characters may look and talk differently but the situation they find themselves in mirror the same moral struggle. This is
true of the many episodes of Star Wars. Another archetype is the initiation of the innocent. The main character, an
innocent in the world of crime, deception and decadence, is lured to step into this world and become either an unwilling or
willing participant in this world. Either way, the main character does not remain unscathed or unchanged by all these
experiences. The war film Platoon revolves around the initiation archetype.

Dominant structure: Description

Text Mapping:

ARCHETYPE
a basic model or a prototype.

The characters may look and talk differently

but the situation they find themselves in
mirror the same moral struggle

Many films today, for all their hi-

Initiation of the innocent - The main tech effects, reflect these
character, an innocent in the world of archetypal situations and
crime, deception and decadence, is lured characters.
to step into this world and become
either an unwilling or willing participant
in this world. Example: the conflict between
Good and Evil has been there
since time immemorial and today,
plots of modern films reflect the
archetypal conflict between these
two forces.

2. Although some people differentiate generation X from generation Y in terms of date X are the people born in the 1960s
and 70s, Y are those born in the 80s/90s - I would like to think that character is what essentially differentiates them. One
differentiating trait is related to technology. In terms of their attitude towards technology, generation X is not too
comfortable with it, being forced to use technology for convenience. On the other hand, generation Y is tech-savvy (India
Tribune, Feb. 16, 2015). In fact, Prensky (2001) called them "digital natives" whereas members of generation X he called
the "digital immigrants." Generation Y, also called the Millennial (for the new millennium of the 21st century), often don't
need manual to make sense of a digital program, they know by instinct what to do, how to play it. Unlike them, generation
X fumble as they read a manual to make sense of a gadget.The virtual world of the Internet, to generation X, is a world
that they navigate from time to time in order to get information; to generation Y, the virtual is a part of the real and they
smoothly operate, even thrive, in the two worlds. Because technology is very much a part of their system, generation Y is
wired to connect to as many people as possible, and this urge is so strong that they feel lost it they are not "in touch" or in
the loop. In contrast, generation X would like a more personal touch as they reach out to people and form communes.

Dominant structure Compare and Contrast

Text Mapping:

GEN X GEN Y
-Born in 1960's and 70's
-Born in 1980's and 90's
-not comfortable with
-tech-savvy
technology
-"digital natives"/Millenials
-"digital immigrants"
-
3. A language, through a highly-developed lexicon or vocabulary, makes its speakers more conscious of a certain
phenomenon more than others. For example, the Eskimos are reported to have at least five terms for snow, so they
experience snow in five different ways: ‘falling snow' is different from 'wind-driven flying snow, from 'snow on the
ground', 'snow packed hard like ice, and 'melting snow’. Other cultures may have only one term for rice but Filipinos
distinguish "bigas" from "kanin" from "sinaing" from "bahaw" from "tutong from "lugaw from "sinangag', etc. "It is clear
that the continuum of experience is differently dissected by the vocabularies of different languages" (Montgomery,
1986:173). That is why the words of a language are powerful: they label and therefore, create divisions in society. Such
divisions or segmentations may not be natural but when a people become used to using such words, then the divisions
eventually appear to be natural.

Dominant structure: Thesis-evidence

Text Mapping:

A language, through a highly-developed

lexicon or vocabulary, makes its speakers
more conscious of a certain phenomenon
more than others.

the words of a language are powerful: they

label and therefore, create divisions in
society

Other cultures may have only one the Eskimos are reported to have at
term for rice but Filipinos least five terms for snow, so they
distinguish "bigas" from "kanin" experience snow in five different
from "sinaing" from "bahaw" from ways: ‘falling snow' is different
"tutong from "lugaw from from 'wind-driven flying snow, from
"sinangag', etc. 'snow on the ground', 'snow packed
hard like ice, and 'melting snow’.