To begin with, a lot of fast food restaurants and gas stations have those signs where they sate their new items or their current special. Every time that I am driving down the road, I always find myself reading them. At times, some of those advertisings are missing some letters to complete a word. For example, a McDonald’s is advertising two Big Macs for five-dollars, and the sign says “2 B_g M_cs for $5, this is where the Top-Down processing (p. 124) comes into play. You use previous knowledge to complete a certain task, in this case to complete the word with the missing letters. I always see those McDonald’s commercials on television, so now I can complete those phrases without even thinking deeply of what it can possibly be. I have a baby
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170) upon waking up. I literally hate the sound of my alarm clock, it just puts me in a bad mood knowing that, that sound woke me up. My parents watch a Latino news channel, and that channel has an advertisement that plays the exact same tone that I use for my alarm clock. I often hear it when I’m doing homework in my room and my parents watching television in the living room, that tone just annoys me and makes me feel tired as if I had just woken up from a good sleep. I have a feeling that my hate towards this tone is never going to fade …show more content…
233) frequently when I am totally focused on one single task at home. Daily, I’m always doing homework in the kitchen table or in my desk that I have in my room. It has happened in frequent occasions that my mother or father assigns me duties before they head out to the store, and my reply is always “Okay” without me knowing what they just said. I am much more focused on completing my homework that I don’t pay attention to a word they have just said to me. Once they arrive home from the store, they always question me on why I didn’t complete the tasks that they’ve had assigned to me, and I just feel lost because I can’t recall them telling me to do those things. So far they have gotten to the point to not talk to me while I’m working on my
170) upon waking up. I literally hate the sound of my alarm clock, it just puts me in a bad mood knowing that, that sound woke me up. My parents watch a Latino news channel, and that channel has an advertisement that plays the exact same tone that I use for my alarm clock. I often hear it when I’m doing homework in my room and my parents watching television in the living room, that tone just annoys me and makes me feel tired as if I had just woken up from a good sleep. I have a feeling that my hate towards this tone is never going to fade …show more content…
233) frequently when I am totally focused on one single task at home. Daily, I’m always doing homework in the kitchen table or in my desk that I have in my room. It has happened in frequent occasions that my mother or father assigns me duties before they head out to the store, and my reply is always “Okay” without me knowing what they just said. I am much more focused on completing my homework that I don’t pay attention to a word they have just said to me. Once they arrive home from the store, they always question me on why I didn’t complete the tasks that they’ve had assigned to me, and I just feel lost because I can’t recall them telling me to do those things. So far they have gotten to the point to not talk to me while I’m working on my