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FORM TP 2OO8L72 MAY/JI.]NE 2OO8

CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL

ADVANCED PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION
COMMTJMCATION STUDIES :

PAPER 02

2 hours 30 minutes

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INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATBS

AnswerALL questions.

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MODI]LE 1 - CATIIERII\i,G AT{D PROCESSING INT'ORI}IATION

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Read the exhactbelow carefully tn* answerthe question that follows.

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It's an alarming prospect rccent report out of the u.K., equating the spread of
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surveillance technology to the riselof the Big Brother
ll state, is enough to send nsre then ths
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occasional shiver down one's spinC,

It would ,r"- tn"t c"oru"

i*"tt's "sociegr of the firture,, has been hansported from
the pages of his satirical t9ti4, airwtty
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The totatitarian socigU oJgnvel's nove-l, wr-itte.n

lllr ruth
way back in lgEg,lhas no place for
since historical records are ilestroyed and information
is replaced by propaganda.
Mditionally, thought and rove anract punisbment, ;J;;;;.y
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But it is the ominous warqing, 'Big Brother is watching

I' 10 placards in the inagrnary onvellian
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i".;Lr"a by rejers of /9g4.
state tnat is ptou"uty u"rt

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That warning. is cerainly i propos if the British report ol the emergence of the Big
Brother state is anything to go bi.

Drawn up by.a t911 olrespected academics, the

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picture of what Britain (and, elsewhere I
document is said to paint a disturbing
suggest!) could be like in ten years time.nless
15 use of spy technologias is regulated. the

I Anyone reading th9 newspaper or watching the

international TV news within the last
week or so would have gathered tnat n"
uK is oie of the three world leaders in the use of
surveillance technology; and the Brits, the
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most spied-on citizens in what most of us still think

A fallout of New York's 'Nine-Eleven" tenrorist attack

and more recent London
bombings, this obsession with surveillance i,
won't be long before Big Brother makes his presence
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more obvious here in oqr own backyard.

The British *ry* on the s-nread of surveillance

technology looks at a time in the
not:tdistant future when human ueings ev-ery_wherc may
B with implants rmder the skin storing p"-^-ooaf
be forced to be..microchipped,,,
infqrmation, afo*iog everybody,s
I to be tracked movements

The ctaim made by editors _ Dr David Murakami

journal"' and Dr Kirstie Ball, open Wood editor of the
I university lecturer in og*il ion studies, is astonishing.
that by 2016-, almost movement, purchase, and comnunication of
Lt Sserts these
30 'thip-citizens" could be monitored"n"ryby a comptei
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Some time ago, it was disclosed that the uqe of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
in humans (with the implantation of chips in 70 mentally-illpatients) was being p", i"
the United States. If the claims of the officialrBritish report prove to be accurate,""'oi"f
such use
35 would, in a decade or so, be unlimited urd the Qnryellian sltate would have become a realrty.
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Only this pastweek, theBBC revealedthepresenceof4.2 million surveillancecaneras
in Britain. And viewers were informed that the average Briton is caught oi camera some 300
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Jeawteae l-ayrc-Clarke, Shades of I9&4.
$&naq &t& November 5, 2N6, p.9.
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Write an ESSAY of no more than 500 words in which yoti include reference to the following:

(l) The writer's purpose

(iD Stategies and language techniques used :

(iii) The effectiveness of the strategies and language tecbniques identified in (ii) aborre in
achieving the writer's purpose.
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MODULE 2 - LANGUACN INP 't

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Read the poem betow carefuuy and then answer
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ATble of TlrvoTongues . ,'.

I Miss Ida speaks onlY English to God

I Scholars cannot fault the diction i
of,her graces and PraYers;
to her,it is the language of holy things;
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desenes a grammar of respqctability
as firm and as Polished
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Butto fellow mortals she speaks Creole'

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the language of labrish'
-t su-su, Proverbs and stories,
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it is the way to get
15 hard+ars PickneY to listen
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it is the tongue of bellY laughs
and sweetbodY action.
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And to Miss Ida it isno bother
to laugh and suffer in one language
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I In Cecile GraY, Bite in Stage 3,
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In an ESSAY of no more than 5O0 words' diqcuss:

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in the Poem
(ii) The aninrdes to English and Creoleias rcvealed
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MODULE 3 - SPEAKING AND WRITING

3. Read the following scenario carefrrlly and then answer the question that follows.

Your Principal has invited you to deliver the feature address for the annual graduation ceremony at
your schooUcollege, in which respect, tolerance and togetherness are emphasized. Your address should
be directed to both graduands and parents.

(a) In no more than 50 words, explain how you would use T'WO verbal and TWO non-verbal
elements to influence how the audience receives your message.

(b) kt no more than 300 words, write the feature address in which respect, tolerance and
togetherness are emphasized.
Total25 marks

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