Chapter 6: Transitions and Thought Patterns
Lab Activity 26: The Time Order Pattern
 
Objective:
To use time transitions and the time order pattern to see the relationship of details to the main idea.

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      11. Each day begins before dawn with close order formations. The rest of the day is filled with training in hand-to-hand combat, marching, running, calisthenics, Marine history, and—______________ —following orders. 

 
 
 
 
      12. The pressure to conform is intense. Those sent packing for insubordination or suicidal tendencies are mocked in cadence during drills. ("Hope you like the sights you see / Parris Island casualty.") As lights go out at 9 p.m., the exhausted recruits perform the day's ______________ task: The entire platoon, in unison, shouts the virtues of the Marines. 

 
 
 
 
      13. Recruits are scrutinized. Subperformance is not accepted, whether it be a dirty rifle or a loose thread on a uniform. The subperformer is shouted at, derided, humiliated. The group suffers for the individual. If a recruit is slow, the entire platoon is punished.
—Henslin, Essentials of Sociology, 5th ed., p. 73.
 

 
 
 
 
      14. Subperfomance means performance that is 

 
 
 
 
      15. One of the new Marines (______________ graduation, they are recruits, not Marines) says, "I feel like I've joined a new society or religion." 

 
 
 
 





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