Natalie Angier's Almost Before We Spoke We Swore?

In the book They say, I say, by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein they teach students how to be a writer. It is important to let people know how you feel. If you don 't tell your mom the shoes you 're wearing are too tight, how can she help you? Now what if your mom thinks your shoes are not too tight and you want to tell your Dad?

This rigorous study directly states that utilizing a vulgar method of communication in society could lead to a depletion of trust within the speaker. Throughout the stretch of Fahrenheit 451, students are revealed to terms such as "damn" and "hell" on numerous unnecessary occasions. Observing the novel's vulgar insouciant language could influence students to communicate in an immoral fashion, potentially destructing their reliance and trustworthiness in the social world. Consequently, countless quantities of students have factually developed intolerable forms of behavior that is directly correlated to a long term utilization of profanity.

In Legally Blond, Elle Woods delivers the student address speech during graduation. Elle Woods addresses that passion is the key ingredient in the study of law and life. The purpose of this speech was to encourage the students to always have passion in everything they do, having faith in others and themselves. The thesis of the speech would be “It is with passion, courage of conviction and strong sense of self, that we take our next steps into the world.” If I was asked to write the speech I honestly would not change anything, Woods did a good job using an attention getter, and creating a thesis.

Codependency is a form of living that can really affect and individuals life severely. Not many persons are strong enough to realize when they are codependent to someone, something, a substance or a situation. After reading the book “Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring For Yourself,” by Melody Beattie, I started evaluating my self on some codependent characteristics. This book also made me realize the difficulty these individuals go through to go on with their lives as if they were normal. Following a small discussion of the book, I will give my opinion on this book and issue.

In the 1980’s black women are faced with a lot pressure in society, Because women of color are both women and racial minorities, they face more pressure in which lower economic opportunities due to their race and their gender. This pressure is reflected both in the jobs available to them and in their lower pay. Also because they are women of color they are likely to be the giver of the house and also within the families. Through the use of anecdotes,rhetorical questions, anaphora, ethos and metaphors, "In The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism, Audre Lorde argues that women of color need to respond to racism with anger spurred from their fear and that not a bad thing depends on how anger is portrayed.

In George Carlin’s Doin’ it Again (1990), Carlin argues that Americans use euphemistic language in an attempt to not face the truth. To support his thesis, Carlin gives an example of how euphemistic language got worse over time, how it makes describing a simple condition harder than it should be, and how certain people use euphemistic language on purpose. Carlin wants others to realize just how bad euphemistic language is in order to never let themselves be victims of it. Carlin’s main audience is basically anyone that will pay attention and listen to him.

In the novel, Brady’s friends, and other characters, do say some bad words. In the beginning, Brady, J.T., and Digger are waiting for Carl to come pick them up for school. They are having a conversation about how Brady and Digger will be wrinkly when they’re fifty, but J.T. will have perfect skin. Digger responds to J.T.’s comment by saying “Yeah, like a baby’s ass” (pg. 7). Cursing is something that kids can do in real life with their friends.

In “here I stand”, Erica Goldson encourages change in the American schooling system. Erica points out a lot of flaws in the schooling system. No one is learning to learn, everyone is learning to graduate. People aren’t studying in order to learn more, people are studying in order to get through school faster. School puts down the creativity located in each and every one of us.

Linguistics Being supposedly made up on the spot, Noah S. Sweat did not have time to compose an eloquent speech about a controversial topic. He instead spoke a purely unfactual and highly descriptive banter using doublespeak to voice his opinion of whiskey. Both sides of his argument include impactual adjectives to describe the drink. Or as Mr. Sweat would say on line 6, “the devil’s brew,” or on line 12, “the philosophic wine”. Each side of his argument is entirely one sentence long, implying that he emotionally fuels his speech as he works out his thoughts with the audience as one thought flows to the other.

Communication of the Sexes The tongue of a blue whale can weigh as much as an elephant, but there exists a tongue that is far more powerful than that of the blue whale’s tongue, that is the human tongue (Santoso). When utilized properly, the human tongue can accomplish great feats, but if misused can cause a plethora of problem. A certain measure of success in life depends on utilizing communication in a wise way. Debra Tannen, a well-known authority on communication, says men and women communicate in different ways.

SLANG 3 The Effect of slang on the English language The records show slang was first used around the 16th Century, but this is not certain, as it more of a spoken language and so it could have been much earlier. At this time people created new words as the English vocabulary was a lot smaller than it is today and so people felt the need to invent new words to express themselves. Nowadays slang is used much more frequently, with the influence of technology having a great effect on the use of slang. Some people think it has a positive effect on the English language, while others think it is having a negative effect.

Abstract: Language is the medium by which one’s psychological experiences, emotions and imaginations can be recreated in the minds of the reader or listener. Through ages language has been the vehicle with which humans have communicated ideas to each other. Language has not only the power to heal and to comfort but also to retrieve the suppressed experiences of an individual from the past. This paper seeks to discuss Toni Morrison’s novel A Mercy as a text that explores the common language uncommonly well in using it as a double edged sword.

There’s an old saying that “sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you.” In reality, that saying is wrong. Words hurt a person as much as punch or a kick can. It may not hurt someone physically, but it can scar someone mentally and emotionally. Due to the topics they are associated with, certain words or phrases can elicit strong reactions; some are positive, while others are negative but nonetheless, they all leave an impact on people.

In our notes, it is stated that the high-context culture rely heavily on non-verbal cues to maintain social harmony. This includes many Asian and the Middle Eastern cultures. On the other hand, low-context culture uses language primarily to express thoughts, feelings and idea as directly and logically as possible. Such examples are the American and the European cultures.

Language comes naturally, and as time as passed, we have been more inclined to say whatever we want. Unfortunately, recently we have seen more offense being taken to words we say. This is because language can affect people in different ways. In other words, some