The Tacit Dichotomy: The Worth Of Words

While reading Discovering the Power of Language by Malcolm X I found myself questioning why he was in prison. What could of Malcolm X done to have gotten locked up. Then my thoughts drifted off to my friend (who is also in prison) wondering if he is ok. Will he come out of the system differently. Then how have I changed how is 2015 maria different from 2012 Maria at that moment I realized I was not even reading anymore so, I made myself continue reading. Soon I got to the part where he began explaining his process of learning new words and how he rewrote the dictionary and I started wondering how bad his hand hurt that night and if he got carpal tunnel or arthritis later in his life.

Discerning good from evil is a particularly common theme in the present society, considering that it basically stands as a storyline for a series of books, motion pictures, video games, and similar concepts. Moreover, most of these products set clear definitions of the difference between good and evil by focusing on portraying evil as being associated with stereotypes. Similarly, good is associated with ideas such as honesty, the color white, or beauty, considering that these are stereotypes generally associated with the forces of good. Even with this, such stereotypes have made it difficult for people to have a complex understanding of the concept of morality.

Culture is a strong determinant of people's views of the very nature and meaning of

In “On the Want of Money”, a 19th century text, William Hazzlit presents a strong position on the role of currency in society and the ironic relationship between man and his status through use of rhetoric; such as but not limited to syntax, repetition, and imagery. In doing so, Hazzlit strengthens his argument and gives more weight to his claims that support the idea that in possession of money and lack thereof man is miserable in his ways. Ownership leaves man alienated from friends and family, to be commemorated by a lonely, seldom frequented monument of massive proportions. Austerity dictates lives, limiting those in pursuit of wealth to a constant, consuming search. In summation, the concept of money is hopeless

Between different times and places the idea of what is good changes. Currently, our society does not hold the same values as the ancient city of Athens,

Do you ever wonder how journalists get away with presenting overly biased information through blog sites and news articles? Reporters have been doing this for years, and because of the law enforcement's inability to regulate what gets broadcasted through the media, these articles remain the leading culprits for false interpretation by the audience. A Modest Proposal is a prime example of how easy it is to manipulate the media by the way Swift conjures up what seems to be the “only solution” for the poverty issues in Ireland. Although the idea of “eating children to save money” seems absurd today, the citizens actually believed it to be a probable solution at the time. Swift influenced the viewpoints of his readers by the way he presented logical statistics in his work, making him seem as a credible source to onlookers who had no prior knowledge on the topic.

On April 12 1999 in Washington D.C., Elie Wiesel delivered a powerful speech called, “The Perils of Indifference”. He was invited by then President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton to give a speech for the Millennium Lecture Series hosted by the White House. He used various rhetorical devices to persuade his audience of the consequences of being indifferent to injustices. He used tone in his voice during very emotional portions of his speech. He also used examples of pathos, logos, and ethos throughout his speech to bolster his argument. Wiesel also used repetition in order to provide emphasis on certain words and to also deter define a term to the audience. He also used imagery to help the envision details to them that they may have not ever experience themselves. He also used anaphora and anadiplosis in his speech to help his points come across smoothly and to bring greater emphasis. By using these various rhetorical devices in his speech, Wiesel was able to give a memorable and convincing speech about not being indifferent to injustice.

Words are all around us. Words define the way we describe the way we articulate, one such example being this very paper, the way we interact with others, and most importantly, the way we feel or think. Adjectives: the words that give our world emotional meaning beyond the literal definition; that is connotation. Connotation is most evident in words to which we associate our most extreme emotions. Whether it is witnessing the greatest of fireworks, an elaborate collection of lights and sounds, or seeing truckfuls of babies being dumped into a blistering hot fire, the word we would use to describe these two events, fire, will forever be emotionally seen differently by whomever witnesses it. A word can develop in meaning, once meaning one thing to then mean something completely different. In fact, In Elie Wiesel’s “Night”, Elie’s definition of the word ‘fire’ changes from that of a danger to one’s self to that of destruction and revenge.

As adults and children alike clamour and panic about their fates and the impending bomb threatening to blow up Himmel Street, Liesel gathers her courage to lift everyone’s spirits. She uses her power of words and calms everyone down regardless of age. Liesel doesn't want to learn to play the accordion, as she feels she would never be as good as Hans, but words are her own instrument. Liesel realized how her little act would give everyone so much hope, and just like Hans, she used her passion to give people hope and distract them from all the dreadful things happening. Everyone had already seen the power of words, since that was all Hitler had, but now Liesel had her own gift and used it to give everyone hope and distract them from the sense

Today’s world is filled with advertisement, whether it is in public areas, automobiles, or even on television. The world is filled advertisement and it has been part of society’s everyday life. The advertisement being presented today is AT&T, an American multinational telecommunications corporation. The advertisement takes up an entire page. The visual shows an AT&T cell phone along with a panda bear surrounded with bamboo sticks. The cell phone is located between the bamboos and takes up approximately ⅕ of the page. The panda is hiding behind the bamboo, but the panda’s face is still visible. It appears that the panda is looking at the phone with amazement. Excluding the cell phone and the panda, the colors that are shown in the advertisement are green with a mixture of yellow. The bamboo has designs of hands and some have more fingers raised than others. Some fingers are even longer than others. The bamboo also has the hands facing in all different directions. On the bottom fifth of the page, the text says “More phones that work in more countries,

A Modest Proposal is a deeply ironic and humanistic essay by what it denounces. Swift proposes that the poor of the country sell their children aged one year to those who will be able to afford this "delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food". This provocative proposition denounces the selfishness, inhumanity, and injustice of political economy: if the poor are devoured, figuratively, by politicians and the rich, as well as propose that they are also literally. Exclusion becomes ingestion. It also reveals a certain conception of the human being whose reason and common sense are doubtful.

Throughout history, philosophers have debated the nature of man as good or evil, and the texts To Kill a Mockingbird, James Whale’s Frankenstein (1931), and Vietnam War memoir The Things They Carried all detail this philosophical debate. It is argued that man is inherently of one moral fiber or another, predispositioned towards one nature or another. However, this argument is shallow and does not address what forms evil in the first place. As shown in To Kill a Mockingbird, James Whale’s Frankenstein (1931), and The Things They Carried, man is not born a monster. The surrounding

However, returning back to Pythagorean terminology, Aristotle divulges into what is limited versus unlimited. The former being the good and the latter being badness. It follows that the good is what is few and more difficult to realize and bad is what is great and easy to realize.

“Almost all words have connotative meanings”. (Postman & Powers 44) Postman and Powers go into great detail in the beginning of the article to

Good people can cause severe harm if their motives are influenced by the values shared in a public corporation or are a result of manipulation controlled by the law. Bob Henderson’s ability to satisfy his interests to obtain success by dismissing social responsibility and contributing to the rise in obesity is wrong. Hannah Arendt founded the theory “The banality evil’ through analyzing Adolf Eichmann’s case during the time of the Holocaust. Eichmann and Henderson share similarities of both being ordinary men who influenced large scale harm. The intent of this essay will be to compare and contrast the perception of evil and discuss at which point radical evil may be mistaken for banal evil.