Critiquing an Essay with George Orwell’s six rules In Orwell’s essay he states that it is easy to slip into the bad writing that people have become accustomed to. It is difficult to go against the temptation of using the easy way out with meaningless words or hackneyed phrases that make things easier and require less thought. Orwell concludes that the progressive decline of the English language is reversible and he offers six rules which can help avoid most of the errors in poor writing. In Brenda Chow’s essay The Writer at Work, she breaks many of the six rules that Orwell wrote to avoid the continuation of our language decline. Chow breaks the following 3 rules: never use a long word when a short one will do, never use a simile, metaphor, or other figure of speech which you are seeing in print, and never use a foreign phrase, a scientific or jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
The talker’s main responsibility is to…well…talk. He does have suggestions for the talker on how to share feelings (77-9), thoughts (80-1), and what he calls the “My” aspects of the human factor (82-3), better known as ownership and openness, but the book is clearly stacked in the receiving teams direction, so you should just go with your training when it comes to barking or carrying out commands and orders demanding quick response or high priority rather than responding with a long pause and
Such “weasel words” explained in this article show how advertisements easily persuade people to buy their products. Even though advertisers have to be careful with what they say in ads, they are not responsible for how the reader takes it. The article “The Language of Advertising” by Charles A. O’Neill argues Lutz’s idea because he believes that advertisements might indeed be “charming and seductive by far from brainwashing” (370 O’Neill). The main point of this article is to support why everyone thinks for himself or herself and that nobody forces others to agree or disagree with
Although the Hatchery provides a secure and peaceful lifestyle, it simultaneously takes any intuition and uniqueness from the humans produced there. People are defaced to the level of machines produced on an assembly line. Reading this novel has really made me appreciate the freedoms that we have come to automatically assume. Non conformity and inventiveness, two traits that are completely abandoned by the Hatchery, are highly encouraged in today’s times. It is surprising that the future is depicted this way by Huxley because it seems like more of a degeneration of mankind rather than an advancement.
Alana Walker August 15, 2011 Mrs. Booth ZINN CHAPTER 1 1. According to Zinn, what is his main purpose for writing A People’s History of the United States? A: to tell vivid descriptions in history that usually gets ignored. Zinn tries to bring out the positive part in the truth. 2.
The stick just happened to act as a good eating utensil however, had to be pulled out of the ground and forced against its original stance. Another example is a fruit such an apple we could say that the designer created this apple for source of food however it could also be eaten because its actually tastes good or is good for our health. This argument states that the apple was taken off the true to best suit the need, of becoming food because it tastes good. Therefore the apple suited the purpose of what was needed from it. Many items could be used for purposes that best suit them, and this does not take intelligent design.
Criticism to Technopoly Abraham C. Vanegas University of Maryland University College Advance Writing 391 As I read Technopoly by Neil Postman my view of technology changes little by little. Although at first after reading the synopsis in the back of the book and the introduction I thought this might be just another book criticizing technology severely, I came to find the view of this author very interesting and at some point even realistic. Potsman is a knowledgeable person, his position as faculty and writer are very clear in his writing and his main idea, which is to keep one eye open when allowing technologies in our lives is actually something that after reading his book I will take into consideration. From the beginning of his book he explains how introducing new things to our life have changed the way we are in some sort of way since the old days. “A new technology does not add or subtract something.
Paige Kimble Kimble 1 Scott Honors 190 21 October 2014 Synthesis Paper A Synthesis of Grendel Two scholars, Judy Smith Murr and Reuben Sanchez wrote articles analyzing and observing the quest for truth in John Gardner's Grendel. The main character, Grendel, is the figure who searches for meaning and value in the world. Although both writers address this mission of truth, they approach it differently. The two writers critically evaluate Beowulf's victory, the relationship between Grendel and man, and the comical tone of the story. All of these components correspond and effect Grendel's hunt for truth.
As I read this book, I came across many different facets of what my teaching career should reflect. I found this book to resemble many of my thoughts and premonitions of what teaching and education should be, yet, I felt some examples and issues were incomplete. I found the first chapter to really embody what education is all about. I look at education to be the basis of what world cultures need to be able to communicate and successfully progress the human race. In our current reality, the war in Iraq is the first example that came to mind after starting this book.
First, we have the case of ordinary economic exchange. Suppose A grows nothing but apples and B nothing but oranges, so A controls the allocation of apples between them and B the allocation of oranges. Since each actor prefers more fruit to less, neither would unilaterally transfer fruit to the other. But if A and B each prefers a mixed diet, they can both benefit by trading fruit. Three points can be noted here.