1. What is doublespeak and how may it be used to cloud our thinking? How does doublespeak stop short of lying? According to Professor Lutz‚ how are words used to manipulate reality? The presenter suggests in closing that doublespeak while it can be harmless and amusing at times‚ can threaten our basic democratic selves. What do you think? Why? 2.After identifying the word or phrase selected from your preliminary research of current events and explaining the event or issue to which it is related‚
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opponent’s name as in the new election coming up between Obama and Romney. Yet is this all propaganda really is? Or is there something more that is never discussed about propaganda? This essay will be summarizing and discussing three from Orwell‚ Lutz ‚ and Woolfolk about propaganda and the English language. The reader will gain a better understanding about what propaganda really is and how it is used and how to avoid getting tricked by it. The first article by George Orwell is out of his book
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"Yes‚ it ’s only Reservation Blues but I like it:" On the Connection between Christian and Native Religions One of the most interesting aspects of the anthropological study of Catherine A. Lutz‚ entitled Unnatural Emotions‚ is that the author applies the same sort of intense self-examination to her own project as an anthropologist amongst the Ifaluk as she does to the Ifaluk themselves. Every individual at some point in his or her own life has been confronted with the surprise‚ after all‚ that
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English 11 Summary: Fourteen Years of Doublespeak In the article‚ the author describes the Committee on Public Doublespeak as a group that tries to change the people’s judgments through working with the government and others who have great influence on the public. They do so by creating the Doublespeak Award‚ Orwell Award‚ and most importantly through Quarterly Review of Doublespeak‚ which is a newsletter that carries tons of examples of doublespeak from areas like education to government.
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William Lutz‚ an author specialised in the use of simple and comprehensible language and the avoidance of jargons. “With these words I can sell you anything” illustrate the idiom of marketing‚ how businesses use marketing strategies to attract consumers into purchasing their products. Lutz claims that companies use “weasel words” to confuse and deceive the public. Such words are described in different topics and each of them gives us quite a few examples of how advertisers use these confusing statements
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The second essay question asks about the various public policy issues discussed in class in second half of the course. The three readings I will be referencing are Ayers and Lutz on the military and Latinos‚ also I will reference the “Without Immigrant Labor‚ The Economy Would Crumble” by Tamar Jacoby which focuses on the reliance on Immigrants in the U.S economic structure. The first article‚ “Military Recruiters are Using and Abusing our Kids” by William Ayers‚ focuses on military recruitment
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Politicians commonly use this to persuade the people to do something. Such manipulation devices‚ including propaganda and doublespeak‚ may be used for upright or malicious purposes. Both Donna Woolfolk Cross and William Lutz recognize what we say and how we say things can influence people’s thoughts. Lutz chiefly expresses how words are used to mislead people. He states‚ “Doublespeak is a blanket term for language which pretends to communicate but doesn’t‚ a language which makes the bad seem good‚ the
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536 Sardis Street Pearl‚ MS 39208 Katrina_lutz@yahoo.com In the last three months it has come to my attention that several changes have been occurring‚ since Jessica Hilo has been on medical leave. The last three months we have more increased cost due to overtime‚ poor quality of work‚ tardiness and variations of break time. Every two executives have one secretary to help support the current team. Jack Snyder supports Jessica Hilo and Ralph Alane‚ while Ruth Disselkoen supports Samuel and
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Paraphrasing William Lutz’s essay‚ “Life Under the Chief Doublespeak Officer”‚ describes what a doublespeak is all about and how companies and businesses in America use doublespeak to change the meaning of something or how it can misrepresent the real meaning of words. It is a language that has no real meaning or has more than one meaning and is intended to hide the truth. In the first sentence of the essay‚ the author reveals that doublespeak is a language that pretends to say something and is misleading
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Alexus Neal April 15‚ 2013 English 101 The Devices of Advertising In his essay “With These Words I Can Sell You Anything” William Lutz informs readers about devices companies use to get people to buy their product. He explains many devices and techniques used in ads or commercials and how each of them work. There are many devices explained but there are 7 devices that are used most frequently. A dramatic claim uses a word and presents a dramatic claim after. Meaningless words are verbs that make
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