The use of longer, more sophisticated words that made the paragraph easier to understand is also a good affect of the operation; his intelligence is now capable of so much that he is able to do this type of writing. 3. Another positive effect of the operation is having Charlie realize what it is like in the real world. What Charlie thinks of as good friends are really people who are using him as a joke. They trick him into becoming drunk, therefore making him look even more ridiculous and stupid
There are many factors that can affect the way we speak such as: age, gender, familiarity, background, friendship groups and education. Another factor that can affect our language is the media. For example through T.V programmes and the internet many teenagers have picked up words such as ‘dude’, ‘OMG’ or ‘fail’ etc. By observing my language I realised that I have adopted these words and use them often in casual conversation. It has been especially noticed by my friends that I use the word ‘dude’ very frequently, this could be due to the fact that American phrases are being passed on more easily than before through the internet, making it easier for teenagers to pick up.
He agreed with his friend, and said under the sway of the machine, he “changed arguments to aphorisms, from thoughts to puns, from rhetoric to telegram style.” The story suggests that the Internet isn’t the sole reason for changing the way of thinking, but possibly technology in general. To go along with this thought, Carr also mentions how television, magazine, and newspaper ads have started using our new methods of absorbing information to create a compact and to-the-point advertisement design, further proving how our mind states have been
Perkins believes that by putting text into rhythm children are immediately becoming familiar with language (2008) and I believe that this makes it more fun for the children as they are able to join in and will remember how to count to twenty by remembering a simple rhyme. However, I feel that the first number book is more beneficial to a child’s development as they are made to recognise numbers and match them to a picture rather than remember a simple pattern. Words means
Because of Sleeper Curve, according to Johnson, TV viewers need to improve their skill to watch modern TV shows with multiple plot lines. (279) Johnson believes that “the Sleeper Curve is the single most important new force altering the mental development of young people today, and I believe it is largely a force for good: enhancing our cognitive faculties, not dumbing them down.”(279) In other words, Sleeper Curve is the main reason why it benefits the viewers. Johnson also stated that Sleeper Curves trained TV watchers, but the watchers also want a more challenging stories in the TV series. Thus, the ‘bad TVs’ also has to improve themselves so they can catch up. (289~291) I agree with Johnson’s claim of, Sleeper Curve makes the viewers improve so they Liu 2 can and will want to watch more TV shows.
With this respect comes a stronger conscience as well as greater morals. Diving deep into ideas on how to earn the idea of respect really emphasized the solution to the whole problem association with young adults and the increase in problems with them. Metaphors can be a great way to simplify a complicated subject to enable a wider variety of audiences to understand it more thoroughly, which essentially leads to greater enjoyment of the reading. A great example of using a metaphor to allow the reader to understand better is when the author states “It is an island apart, striving to maintain itself in a sea of change.” (pg 391). This is referring to how the household is not connected with the outer world and is therefore isolated from any interactions.
Venie Pham Professor Litton Writing 39B 21 October 2012 Rough Draft The Daily Show is an anomaly from the usual 24-hour news channels, and uses a plethora of rhetorical techniques to obtain the attention of young viewers who do not normally watch the news. The host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, parodies a news channel with the flashy intros and his professional appearance that imitates a newscaster. The use of sarcasm, profanity, and strange forms of diction compared to regular news channels makes the younger audience laugh and keep them intrigued, as well as help them understand and relate to the politics of today. The Daily Show uses its rhetorical humor to tackle the ambiguous side of politics and portray to the cynical audience
The two scholarly sources analyzed are an article from Endocrine Today, "Engage the village' to reverse childhood obesity" and a journal publication from Education, "Physical activity and childhood obesity: strategies and solutions for schools and parents." Both sources provide many different and similar views on childhood obesity. Each article explains the main causes or observations in lifestyles resulting in child obesity. Each article presents many different views, but have very similarities. The magazine article from Endocrine Today presents a simple background to a few causes of
At the early stages in their young lives where reading is not really their strong point, the visual stimulation of pretty colors, shapes, and exciting sounds of educational TV shines the brightest. Shows like Dora The Explorer, Word Girl, Reading Rainbow, and Mr. Rodgers Neighborhood are sometimes the strongest factors in developing their cognitive and language skills. Most of the kids watching these shows don’t even know that they are learning, and that’s the beauty of it all. Mr. Steven Johnson’s Theory of the Sleeper Curve is an arguable idea. Seeing how most of the television I watch is for entertainment purposes 80% of the time.
TV and images from magazines and newspapers may be more inspiration to learn than just Bimbi’s ability to converse with a high level of intellect. Not only would the advancements in technology be more of an inspiration but, with all the different genres of books, uses of the internet, and the vast amount of ways to obtain books; Malcolm may have been able to learn more complex words, and better ways to get his thoughts put into