Questions in relation to Halpern's Essay

1. a) Data drawn from Sue Halpern's essay "Virtual Iraq":
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder was officially recognized as a medical condition since 1980 when it entered the American Psychiatric Associations' Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
-Thirty-five active-duty and former members of the military in the spring of 2007 were part of the clinical trials to treat their psychological wounds using Virtual Iraq.
-According to a recent study by the RAND Corp., nearly 20 percent of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans are suffering from PTSD or major depression.
-In 1997 researchers in Atlanta unveiled Virtual Vietnam.
-Ten combat veterans with long-term PTSD participated in a clinical trial of Virtual Iraq that had not responded to multiple interventions.
-JoAnn Difede began using virtual-reality exposure therapy with patients from the hospital's burn unit in the 1990's.
-February 2004 a prototype of Virtual Iraq was built on a laptop by Albert Rizzo and Jarrell Pair.

b) No, I did not access any of the data derived from this essay.


2. Yes, Halpern uses active verbs in her essay "Virtual Iraq" and in the following places:
-"...Boyd paused", pg 116 2nd para.
-"Instead he was haunted...", pg 117 2nd para
-"..."encouraged him to seek out pg 117 4th para
-"When Travis Boyd agreed to..." pg 117 5th para
-"...was over the reasearchers moved on." pg 119 1st para
-"...cruel to immerse a patient..." pg 119 4th para
-"...encountering it in three dimensions..." pg 125 3rd para

3. Yes,Halpern uses figuration in her essay Virtual Iraq and in the following places:
-"rooting out insurgents" pg. 116 1st para.
-"the enemy cut loose at us with everything they had," pg 116, 2nd para.
-"Bullets were exploding like firecrackers all around us" pg 116, 2nd para.
-"we'd have to light them up" pg 117, 1st para.
-"haunted by memories of Iraq" pg 117, 2nd para.
-"ground pounders" pg 118, 1st para.
-"drowning pool of painful memories" pg 119 4th para.
-"extinguishing the cues" pg 119 4th para.

4. Examples of portable wisdom from Sue Halpern's essay "Virtual Iraq" are
-"If you suddenly become afraid of the staircsae becauee you had to walk down twent-five flights of stairs to get out of the World Trade Center, the stairs went from being neutral to being negative," pg 119 4th para
-"I thought we should be on this so we don't have another Vietnam, with all these guys suffering from PTSD". pg 121 last line on bottom
-"The last one hundred years, we've studied psychology in the real world", "In the next hundred, we're going to study it in the virtual world". pg 125 2nd para
-"You never really get rid of PTSD, but you learn to live with it." pg 128 last para