What is your immediate reaction when you hear the n- word? Where do you think that reaction comes from? When I hear the N- word, I take it as an offense as well even though I'm not African-American. Especially when it ends with the suffix -er, I get very offended because it is disrespectful, unethical, insensitive, and evil/ I take it as a very racist comment/word. Think about and share the places or circumstances when you have seen or heard the n-word.…
These words can have a harmful consequence depending of how people use them. When a journalist uses loaded words in a report, the whole story can have a remarkable change. Loaded words can exaggerated some facts that can make people get the story in a different perspective, which can lead to bias in the…
A. Additionally, the qualifier is unreadably small and lower-case. Freeman, 68 F.3d at 289; See McKinniss, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 96108 at *10 (Qualifier adequate because it is large and capitalized); Compl. Ex.…
Murder. It is a dirty word. To take a life is regarded as one of the gravest crimes one can commit. It is a capital sin. Yet, people kill.…
An example of strong word connotation is the phrase “Hollywood loves to preach” (The Washington Times 1). The word ‘preach’ is a word that can be used to dramatize the way Hollywood does and says things. The effect this type of connotation has on the audience is one that could make the reader wonder ‘what does Hollywood love to preach about?’ The word choice used in that sentence is both equally negative and positive depending on how one looks at it. The next form of connotation is in the phrase “turning off the trash”…
The reading for this week correlated well to each other, in the sense that they all play a critical role in demonstrating how culture, perception, and generations have on our daily interactions. These articles demonstrate how language is interpreted differently and has an impact on an individual differently. In the book is it stated that “words, in addition to being symbolic, are also arbitrary. They derive their meaning from the people who use them”. A great example to this statement is the usage of the N word.…
“I can’t go to a liberal-arts college. My parents are conservatives!” I told my eight grade focus teacher. He laughed and then went on to explain what a liberal-arts college actually is. Like many others, I believed a common misperception about the liberal-arts.…
The word “redskins” is offensive. According to Dictionary.com the word redskin means, “A contemptuous term used to refer to a North American Indian.” The logo and mascot of the football team, the Washington Redskins, is a Native American man. While it is not right to use an offensive word for a team’s name, it is not immoral. If something is offensive, it doesn’t automatically make it immoral.…
Throughout time, there have been many words that have offended people of many races and religions. Even in this time period, there continue to be such words. However, there are words that are not meant to be offensive since they carry a different meaning behind them. Such words either sound similar to offensive words or they were “evolved” into offensive words. One word that I would discuss about is “Bitch,” its past, present, and how it affects people.…
The poem written by Matthew Olzmann, “Letter to Matthew Olzmann from a flying Saucer” is a 25-line poem that contains no stanza breaks. This poem is written in the arrangement of a letter from himself to himself to weigh out some critical decisions in life. In poetry this is known as an epistle. Matthew is changing the way he is thinking and viewing the world, but it is not without discord. The struggle he is dealing with is between a higher power which could be perceived as his family who wants to bring him back to their way of thinking.…
Looking at the list of phrases, I can identify two of the most offensive phrases to me, but I am adding the third: Did we __________? (insert whatever – pay the power bill, buy milk, take something out for dinner). This phrase is a huge trigger for me because the person asking knows they didn’t do it or they wouldn’t be asking. I just don’t understand why they can’t just come out and ask if I did whatever they are inquiring about. To use the ‘we’ seems condescending to me, almost superior in a way.…
Abuse. Such a small, simple sounding, five-letter-word. So innocent, but destructible. Something people for centuries are suffering from and/or act upon. Like a lot of the scenes in The Great Gastby.…
Annotated Bibliography The use of offensive speech on college and university campuses has been debated about for many centuries. The debated controversy is based on ethnic beliefs that students should be shielded from offensive speech such as racist slurs, sexist comments, and profanities. In many universities and colleges, educators’ and students’ speeches are regulated by speech codes to restrict individuals from expressing hate towards other individuals or matters. Universities and colleges apply speech codes on campus to prevent students or faculty members from speaking offensive words or comments.…
Summary of “In Defense of Prejudice” In the United States, it can be seen almost anywhere that societies are becoming more and more conscious of the words they use to describe people, in the case of accidentally offending someone. However, when some words are determined as being “hate-speech” and are deemed criminal, the notion of free speech begins to be altered. With certain words now being treated as legitimate violence against another, where does one draw the line when considering one’s constitutional right to free speech, even when that person is obviously prejudiced? In Jonathan Rauch’s essay, “In Defense of Prejudice”, he argues that instead of eradicating all forms of prejudice in the United States,…
(Plank, Reason,World) The use of capitalizing words in the middle of a sentence is to emphasize the thought she is having. That way the reader can see and understand that “ this is exactly how the narrator is…