What Are The Similarities Between Samuel Johnson And Noah Webster

He announced his research as reply regarding her demand extremely long to hinder her class and halt an assignment as if politician made filibuster and questioned “ who says that d-o-g implies the thing that goes ‘woof’ and wags its tail? Who say so?’. And she answer that dictionary was worked on by hundreds of numerous brilliant people for innumerable years. Therefore dictionary is law and as all we agrees to the law, we should love and worship dictionary”.

Published in April of 2001 by Harper’s Magazine, David Foster Wallace’s essay is both a review of A Dictionary of Modern Usage by Bryan A. Garner and an interjection into the present day “Usage Wars.” Wallace’s thesis for his essay is stated after a list of grammatical errors that are overlooked on a daily basis and a few paragraphs defining SNOOT. His thesis states, “Issues of tradition vs. egalitarianism in U.S. English are at root political issues and can be effectively addressed only in what this article hereby terms a “Democratic Spirit.” A Democratic Spirit is an attitude a person can have only by being fervent in his/her beliefs while also recognizing and respecting the beliefs of another.

Andrew Jackson, an “Old Hickory” who never had much education where as he spent it in the military and believed in a smaller government, was elected president in 1828 and became the seventh president of the United States. Before him was John Quincy Adams, a guy who was raised wealthy, went to college, and believed in a bigger government. Jackson did run against Adams in 1824, but lost because Jackson did not get the majority vote, which caused the House of Representatives to pick. After Adam’s presidential term ended, he decided to run again, but lost to Jackson this time. Both of their ideas on how to run the show were largely different with a few similarities, which later caused major change from the previous eras. Andrew Jackson was a Democratic president, but did support slavery. He also changed the national bank, created the idea of the common man, and his presidential term created the new two party systems, nothing that Adam’s believed in. The shift from Adams to Jackson created major changes, and the final end to the Federalist party.

George Orwell, in an essay from Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays titled “Politics and the English Language” (1950), argues that the English language, through a cyclical process of sloven language and foolish thought, has become “ugly and inaccurate.” He supports his argument by using expert opinion, metaphors, and historical context. Orwell’s purpose is to demonstrate the debasement of the English language in order to prompt writers to make a conscious change in their writing . He adopts an informal tone (“Look back throughout this essay, and for certain you will find that I have again and again committed the very faults I am protesting against”) for writers in a time of political turnover and rising superpowers.

The author John Smith, a pilgrim who arrived to the Americas, wrote a description of the new land in his book “ A Description of New England ”. In this book Smith shows a wonderful world of vast food and pleasure. Also, William Bradford another pilgrim who arrived to Plymouth on the coast of Massachusetts, wrote a book called “ Of Plymouth Plantation ” in which he describes what really happened, how the pilgrims actually lived. The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast both authors and their books. John Smith wrote about the wonderful place the New World was, on the other hand, William Bradford wrote about the realities and difficulties of the New World.

George Orwell’s essay, Politics and the English Language, first published in 1946, talks about some “bad habits”, which have driven the English language in the wrong direction, that is, away from communicating ideas. In his essay he quotes five passages, each from a different author, which embody the faults he is talking about. He lists dying metaphors, operators, pretentious diction, and meaningless words as things to look out for in your own writing and the writing of others (593-595). He talks about political uses of the English language. Our language has become ugly and the ugliness impedes upon communication. Ugly uses of language have been reinforced and passed down in the population “even among people who should and do know

When most people look for a friend would normally look to someone they met at school, or someone they work with, never a younger sibling, yet I have turned to my younger brother, Jackson, to be my best friend. Jackson and I are very similar and have always had a close relationship. I often catch myself wondering, what would I do without him? I know that I would not have my partner in crime, fishing, and wrestling.

Noah Webster, familiar to most Americans as the writer of the first American dictionary, worked as a schoolteacher in the late eighteenth century. As he taught, he came to realize that there were some major problems with the way English was taught in the American schools. The United States of America had recently declared its independence from England, and was struggling to form its own identity. The schools were still using textbooks from England, and these books varied in consistency when it came to spelling, pronunciation and grammar (Short Summary Website). As a teacher, and as a patriot, Webster felt a need for an American textbook. He wanted consistency and he wanted it to reflect that there was an American

What you have just done is to jot down ideas for the first chunk of this paragraph on diction analysis. Each body paragraph must have at least two chunks to be fully developed; it may have three chunks if you have time and more to say. Remember, too, to give a sense of closure to the last sentence of each body paragraph.

When the year of 1807 came around, the way that America elected a president changed. In previous elections, only the rich men were able to vote which as a result whoever promised more the wealth was elected for president. When the common man was able to vote in 1807, the type of candidate to win the election change. As seen in the election of 1828 the person who was more relatable to the people, won because the common man was able to vote and so they used that opportunity and elected whoever they thought was going to help them. Overall the people preferred Jackson over Adams because Jackson was able to relate to the people better, and because he was a symbol of the American dream.

Andrew Jackson and John Ross both were a part of a different movement. The Proclamation and the letter were both written for a part of the government. The Proclamation was written on December 10th 1832 by Andrew Jackson. The Proclamation was dictated for the people of South Carolina, the attention focused on the issues of the Nullification. As for John Ross, he wrote the letter to the congress discussing the Cherokee nation about the series of harassment that they have endured.

America, a nation with an Electoral College that so far appointed forty-five men, each one of them possessing a unique background, to the most respectable and highest occupation. Said College consists of representatives from all fifty states who voted these men into the most prestigious position in the country: President of the United States. Throughout the centuries in the United States a variety of men from different political parties and upbringings lead the country in its darkest days and glorious times. Andrew Jackson the first Democratic President of the United States did not act in the same manner or share many similar qualities as the latest President of the same political party, Barack Obama. Which makes sense, due to the enormous gap between the duration of their Presidency and the time each man happened to live through. The lives before the switch of citizen to President and legislation signed as President of the two previously mentioned men above are minimally alike and more so differ.

After the “era” of Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay became the new dominant forces in politics. They each brought their own respective ideas to politics and as a result, Jackson and Clay went head to head on many issues. The results of these debates still affect the United States to this day, showing the extent of the power that they possessed. The power of the federal government, the national bank, and states’ rights were among few of the issues that Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay debated. The debates of Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay resulted in the creation the American System, which changed the future of the United States and made it economically successful and prosperous.

There exists a fine line between the degree of responsibility a government has for its citizens, and the control it assumes to ensure the proliferation of its power. While freedom may be a traditional American value, how it is defined is a question that has long been a source of debate. Furthermore, when an institution follows a course of action that becomes detrimental to society, what responsibility, if any, do the citizens have to show their dissent, and what form should that dissent take?

John Humphrys is portrayed as a well-spoken, educated, individual (Radio, Television Presenter and an Author) who is very worried about the English language. “Life the love affair with OED” he uses this to express how infatuated by dictionaries he is and how this article shows how hurt he is. The new edition of Oxford English dictionary came out; Humphrys uses humour to describe how the dictionary ‘has fallen victim to fashion’ because of the removal of the “hyphen” of no fewer than 16,000 words that has “betrayed” his “precious” OED. He continues ‘it has happened because we are changing the way we communicate with each other, which means…. We no longer have time to reach the hyphen key’ meaning we are becoming very lazy with the new generation of technology.