Chapter 4 Focus Your Audience's Attention

In Chapter 4, I learned about short-term memory, long-term memory and iconic memory.  Doing concept mapping on a paper about information I learn in my classes helps it stay in my iconic memory for a fraction of a second and then gets forwarded on to my short-term memory.  When I watch movies, if not everything, at least some parts get into my short-term memory.  For example, in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, I remember seeing the meeting between Poe and Leia discussing how to use force to get rid of the soldiers.  During their meeting, I saw that Luke Skywalker had to face The First Order.  Kylo ordered the soldiers to fire everything on Luke Skywalker.  The soldiers followed wolves to be blocked by a huge pile of stones.  Poe and Leia duel with light-sabers. When Kylo goes to visit Luke Skywalker, he threw a fire-blowing sound at him.  In return, Luke Skywalker told Kylo that he was not going to be his last Jedi.  At that time, Rey used force to create space for the fighters.  Rey and Finn embrace.  Kylo saw the heroes escape from the soldiers by riding in a Falcon.  The three people who encountered Finn and Rose told the story of Luke Skywalker.  They act like light-sabers with broomsticks.  This reminded me of the goal of violence leading to peace, which is what I learned about in one of the humanities classes I took at Benedictine University.  However, I do not like to watch movies, but am slowly getting the hang of chatting about them in social conversations.  Even though a lot of parents tell their children not to watch too much TV/movies, in my case I could benefit from social knowledge.  I think this movie will be transferred to my long-term memory.  I sometimes tend to forget certain concepts.  One skill I am working on is transferring information from my studies into my brain and not just leaving it on paper and on note-cards.  I bet some people, like me have a hard time putting their thoughts together in multiple sentences.  That's why they tend to finish them off in one sentence itself!

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Anjana