Huy Nguyen (Lee) Humanities 11 Mr. Stremming Essay #3: Hateful Words We usually ignore a person who uses hateful words, and we all know that those words can really hurt a person. A recent grassroots movement tried but failed to have the word “nigger” removed from dictionaries. When those hurtful words are directed at us, they can cause just as much as a slap or a punch. When they are being used, they diminish not only the humanity of those who they are aimed at, but also the individual or group that uses them. In this essay, I will discuss about the hateful words, why they still survive though most of us do not want to use them, and in addition, I will give some examples of them.
Police blame game in wake of crash is a cop-out The opinion piece, “Police blame game in wake of crash is a cop-out” by Andrew Bolt, which was published in Herald Sun on March 23 /2010, has clearly expressed his idea on a current issue in public. He says that Police pursuits should be allowed and In Charles Williams case he clearly assists that it’s stupid to blame police as they were trying to catch a dangerous criminal. Andrew Bolt has used strong language to persuade the audience. The tone of the article is more spot on and strong, He expresses his anger, sarcasm and disgust towards the criminal throughout the article. The writer asserts that before we blame police that we should blame Charles first as he is the main figure in this incident.
Idiot Nation In Michael Moore’s writing of “Idiot Nation”, he states that, obviously enough, we live in a nation of idiots. He argues that the education system is failing and the causes as to why he believes that. These including the wrong people being in charge, lack of funding, and also a lack of care for the education system. He supports this by using specific examples, asking questions that need to be asked, and saying things that others are too afraid to say. He also succeeds at appealing to his targeted audience through a loose, but serious, form of humor.
In today’s society conformity and deliberation have taken over the lives of many as the concept of individuality goes astray. Throughout Soren Kierkegaard’s text, The Present Age: On the Death of Rebellion, he explains his thoughts on his beliefs that this age has lost a sense of inwardness and has become more and more ambiguous with the self. In addition to this, he also stresses the dangers that are associated with these loses. Furthermore, he argues that “the most dangerous, if also the most respectable of all diseases” is “to admire in public what is considered unimportant in private – since everything is made into a joke” (Kierkegaard 9). In this essay I am in agreement with Kierkegaard that in the present age, we as a society lose character in the process of reflecting upon what we are ought to, and expected to do.
In this book, Selby brings out prostitutes, pedophiles, drug addicts, abusive husbands, psychotic wives, and all lowlife trash that you could possibly imagine and places them under a harsh light, explaining their sides and everyone else's yet allowing us to grow to hate these characters. Selby is actually one of the few authors who does not rely on character sympathy and the ability of the reader to relate to them, but rather does the opposite. He wants us to hate these characters with a passion and that is brought out with every word he writes. He has the same writing style as in all his books - realistic, somewhat trashy, and very vulgar. He uses this as a way to visualize the characters and situations more and it works very well.
This “textspeak” has provoked controversy between those such as John Humphreys and John Sutherland who believe that text language is “wrecking our language”. We can Humphrey’s opinion of text messaging is negative as within his article he describes texting with negative adjectives like “sinister” and “deeply troubling” and in John Sutherland’s article Sutherland tells us that it Is texting that’s promotes “bad spelling” and “dyslexia”. On the other hand in David Crystal’s article Crystal gives a balanced view towards text messaging mostly explaining the positives of this new language and telling us that abbreviations and coded messages have been along for centuries like this one for example, “YY U R YY U B I C U R YY 4 ME” translated as Too wise you are, too wise you be, I see you are too wise for me. This abbreviated message was written in the 16th century showing us that this abbreviated English language has not just evolved recently but could be argued that it now used and abbreviated more frequently. David Crystal also describes this “textspeak” as “a language in evolution” describing texting as having a positive affect on the English Language and that it is encouraging the younger generations to be creative with their language and the riddles they use within their messages, requiring thought and intelligence and showing great knowledge and creativity, perhaps
On any first impression of Moore, one is so taken aback by his relentless pit-bull attack style of character assassination and gratuitous and mean-spirited insults, that it’s not immediately apparent what his cause is. What is the central thesis of Idiot Nation? In Moore’s opening paragraphs the focus of his attacks is not clear. Ultimately, we get to the bottom of it, albeit in a most convoluted presentation of his opinions and analysis of facts, or pseudo facts. Americans are dumb; dumb, as in lacking a good education.
Armed with this knowledge, the trusted broadcast journalist decided to air grim editorial detailing his own impressions of the war in Vietnam" (pg 120, 121) When he did this editorial his understanding of the war got the public to feel they were being lied to because they had believed we were winning. Even President Richard Nixon believed that the television was something harmful to Americans. In 1971, Nixon even stated that "aside from the communists, our worse enemy seems to be the press." With this understand we
“These are people who are already angry, and when things don’t go the way they want them to, they personalize it. They take out their rage not on the person who hurt them last, but on the whole world.” (Kluger 169) These people who have a low self-esteem take out all their anger on others, not only the person that hurt them. They had to have gone through some
This is a typical theme which runs through Edward Thomas' poems. He also explores the civilian public's hatred of “the Kaiser” and Germans. He definitely disagrees with it, and vehemently so too. The overall tone of the poem is one of disagreement, perhaps quiet anger. But this is also coupled with a tone of lofty love as well.