Since, in means “not” and sense means “to feel,” this means that insensibility is when you are in the state of no feeling. You are unconscious and are not aware of what is going on. I used the Latin prefixes to figure out my meaning.
PCM: Pulse code modulation. It is a method used to digitally represent sampled analog signals. It is the standard form of digital audio in computers, digital telephony and compact discs. The amplitude of this signal is sampled regularly at uniform intervals.
PAM: Pulse amplitude modulation. It is a form of signal modulation where the message information is encoded in the amplitude of a series of signal pulses.
<span>C) to discuss the infallibility of memory to recall facts correctly from the past
The narrator in this is talking about an important memory from his childhood, but he is nervous when he thinks about how the memory might be 'marred' or changed from the innocence of youth. He remembers the place but hopes that it has remained as pure as he felt it was from his childhood. </span>
I think "intolerable" best reveals the tone of the passage.
<span>After Jenkins's untimely death, Lieutenant Carroll leads the surviving soldiers in a prayer for him. He calls Jenkins a ‘fallen angel warrior,’ which is the basis for the title of the novel. Carroll explains that this description refers to the extreme youth of the soldiers - these are boys, not men, fighting the battles. The theme of youth and lost innocence is omnipresent throughout the novel. It is a product of Myers’ own experience in the Vietnam War and the fact that the average age of the soldiers who died in combat was less than 20 years old. Most of the men do not want to process the tragedy of Jenkins and what waits for them in this war.</span>
