In the TED Talk “Go Ahead, Make Up Your Own Words”, Erin Mckeen discusses the significance of creating new words. Mckeen describes the several reasons for why one should create new words. For instance, she tells the audience about how creating new words will grab people’s attention. Mckeen states “new words grab people’s attention. They get people to focus on what you’re saying and that gives you a better chance of getting your meaning across,” (6:09). By saying this, Erin Mckeen is implying that to make somebody listen, one must do something out of the ordinary and say a completely new word that has never been in any dictionary before. This would make the person realize that they do not know the definitions of the words that the other is saying, …show more content…
Additionally, Erin Mckeen describes how creating new words will help express oneself. She states “Why should you make words? You should make words because every word is a chance to express your idea and get your meaning across,” (6:09). In other words, Mckeen is saying that by creating new words, people can express themselves in ways that the words in the dictionary cannot describe. For instance, if one person is not feeling okay and there is no way that they can describe the way that they feel through words already created, they can let others know exactly how they feel through a word of their own. This would make communication much easier, and would let people express themselves as accurately as possible. Lastly, Erin Mckeen says that it is very easy to create a word of one’s own. Mckeen states, “You can make words by squishing two words together” (3:38). By saying this, Mckeen means that creating words is actually very simple, and already created words can be used when making up a new word. People might think that making new words is extremely difficult, and that they should leave this task up to the professionals. However, it is actually quite easy to create a a
Chris Crutcher, author of the short story “Fourth and Too Long”, demonstrates how important it is for players and coaches to have a mutual respect for each other on and off of the field. Over the course of the story, the main character, Benny struggles to find respect for himself as well as the coaches of his high school football team. Identically, the coaches lack respect for him as well. Benny woods is being penalized from playing football due to the length of his hair and his decision not to cut it. In the 1960’s long hair was said to have represented being a member of the hippie community. “It sends a message that the rest of the team can do any damn thing they want. First it’s the hair, then...who knows what”(160) is what Coach Greene
Do we speak with a purpose? Are we using our words to make a difference? In today’s world, everyone uses language to express the way they feel. By doing this, we not only create feeling but we beautifully deepen and clarify them. It’s how we use our words; that makes what we say special. They can have a major impact on someone or something. Kay Ryan’s poem “Those Places” uses language that influences the entire course of her poem. In fact, Kay Ryan is very careful with her word choice because she knows it will be significant to the meaning of her writing. In her poem, “Those Places” Kay Ryan uses literal language to get to a metaphorical meaning.
The book On His Own by Horatio Alger Jr. was published by Pensacola Christian College. It was published in Pensacola in 2010. It was first published in 1893.
the knowledge we gain and we will be more encourages and eager to express them through writing.
In They Say/I Say, Chapter Eighteen is talking all about food, and the long term argument that has been going on forever: What should we eat? There are many good articles in the chapter written by many reliable authors, but there are two of the articles that really stood out. The first one “The Supermarket: Prime Real Estate” by Marion Nestle, and the second is “How Junk Food Can End Obesity” by David H. Freedman. Both of these authors talk about the food industry, one talks about how the supermarket effects the choices people make in their diets, and the other talks about how junk food and the fast food industries might just be the way to go to help Americans become healthier.
In "thinking outside the idiot box", Dana Stevens responds to Steven Johnson's New York Times article in which Johnson believes that watching television makes you smarter. Indeed, Steven Johnson claimed that television shows have become more and more complex over the years in order to follow the viewers need for an interesting plot instead of an easy, linear story. However, Dana Stevens is opposed to this viewpoint. Stevens is not against television, he does not think it makes you smarter nor that it is poisenous for the brain, he simply states that the viewer should watch television intelligently. That is to say that, viewers should know how much television they should watch and what to watch as well.
Words hold great power and when used correctly can influence what people believe and how they act.
Reminding each other that in order to look at the future the necessity is to deal with the present. According to Sullivan, “real thinking is better done without words than with them, and creative thinking must be done without words”, this is untrue because without words no one is able to think in both real and creative terms. The way people express themselves in writing is because they thought about the words they were going to be using to send the society a message. Sullivan states that people don’t have time to build words, but don’t words help in expanding the thoughts into bigger details. Words help in various forms of expanding the vocabulary and the thought
Toni Morrison makes a good point when, in her acceptance speech upon receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature, she says, “Narrative . . . is . . . one of the principal ways in which we absorb knowledge” (7). The words we use and the way in which we use them is how we, as humans, communicate to each other our thoughts, feelings, and actions and therefore our knowledge of the world and its peoples. Knowledge is power. In this way, our language, too, is powerful.
Any craftsman knows that you need the right tools to complete a project successfully. Similarly, people need the right language and usage to communicate in a positive way. How people write is often a problem because they don’t have the right tools, but a bigger problem occurs when a writer “is almost indifferent as to whether his words mean anything at all” (592). If a writer carries this mentality, why try to communicate in the first place? People need...
Television has come a long way since it was first introduced. Originally, it was thought that the masses that watch television enjoyed the more simple shows that would tell you exactly what was going on from start to finish. In Steven Johnson’s article, “Watching TV Makes You Smarter”, Johnson argues that this is actually not the case. In fact, Johnson argues that much more people enjoy shows that involve multi threading, or multiple plots that are all connected.
After all, the rest of the book concentrates on a change in the organizations and individual' life. This starts with a presupposition of a dynamic and overlapping image of change. Bridges offer another perspective, the organizational life cycle, and believes that this provides an important way to understand transitions. Within this perspective, a map of the organization's life cycle resembles the human development and shows the path an organization follows like we can observe by looking at human life from childhood to adulthood. There are seven comparable stages of organizational life and these seven stages represent fixed times in an organization's life: dreaming the dream; launching the venture; getting organized; making it; becoming an institution;
Words are powerful tools of communication and interpersonal skills. Having the ability to communicate effectively is the most important of all life skills. This life skill is most important because it is very essential for building relationships, whether it personal or impersonal; be it verbal or non verbal. It’s a way in which to express ones feelings, thoughts, and