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I am not sure what the other category was since our paper was collected, but I posted what I remembered.

Sue Halpern formatted this article successfully in a way that allowed the readers to connect with the characters in the article and fully understand the purpose of the article.

active verbs:

"...rooting out insurgents and sleeping on the floors of abandoned houses,where they'd often have to remove dead bodies in order to lay out their bedrolls"(116).

"His mind raced"(117).

"...nearly 20 percent of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans are suffering from PTSD or major depression" (118).

"...therapists have been slow to adopt exposure therapy because they worry that it might be cruel to immerse a patient in a drowning pool of painful memories"(119).

"Because numbing and avoidance are symptoms of PTSD, you're asking the person to do in treatment the very thing their mind is avoiding doing"(120).

figurative language:

"...and a nose that looks like it has met a boot or two"(121).

"I felt like the weight of the world had been lifted"(128).

"...they worry it might be cruel to immerse a patient in a drowning pool of painful memories"(119).

quote explaining main theme:

"It showed me that they were motivated to do game tasks and that the more they did them the better they got, and it hit me that there could be a link between cognitive rehabilitation and virtual reality"(123).