Today, in the 21st Century, slang is a comfortable language used by numerous people around the world. In a sense, slang is a social language in which primarily the youth use as a form to relate with one another, and create bonds and connections. Not only does it grant people the ability to form bonds, it also encourages one to express their individuality and define themselves as the extraordinary being that they are. Slang is widely popular in our society today, but have you ever wondered about the evolution of the language the we’ve all adopted at one point in time? In an ever-changing society there is not one thing that will remain the same. Throughout time our cities will expand, technology will progress, flowers will wilt, language will
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Initially, I took the time to establish a time frame to dissect. WIth the consideration of the end of the silent film age, I decided that Silent Generation would be a brilliant place to begin, and my generation, the Millennial generation as endgame. It was then that I had to figure out which actress would be suitable to observe. Careful investigation led me to the phenomenal Luise Rainer. Born in 1910 and perishing in 2014, she was a thespian of many spectacular works who lived to be an unimaginable age of one hundred and four. Shortly after that, a comprehensive examination of her works began. I selected two films from the Silent Generation, “The Great Ziegfeld” (1936) and “The Good Earth” (1937), two shows from that of the Baby Boomer Generation (~1946-1964), “Lux Video Theatre” (1956) as well as “Combat” (1965), a single show from Generation X (~1965-1985), “The Love Boat” (1984), along with a single show from Generation Y (Millennials, ~1986- late 1990’s), “A Dancer”( 1991). After gathering an arsenal of her personal works, I searched for scripts of movies or the actual television shows anatomized …show more content…
A problem that arose with this method was that the age of the entertainment didn’t allow for some of her specific episodes to be available, but I made up for this missing information with watching episodes of the same television shows of the same year but consequently not starring Luise Rainer. After previewing the works stashed in my possession, I took careful note of words that stood out, were unfamiliar, or words that were used differently from their conventional English meaning. For example, Millennials use a variety of slang words such as “gucci” to signify that something is okay or good, and “TBH,” as a shortened way to say “to be honest”. This step repeated itself until every piece of entertainment had been
Initially, I took the time to establish a time frame to dissect. WIth the consideration of the end of the silent film age, I decided that Silent Generation would be a brilliant place to begin, and my generation, the Millennial generation as endgame. It was then that I had to figure out which actress would be suitable to observe. Careful investigation led me to the phenomenal Luise Rainer. Born in 1910 and perishing in 2014, she was a thespian of many spectacular works who lived to be an unimaginable age of one hundred and four. Shortly after that, a comprehensive examination of her works began. I selected two films from the Silent Generation, “The Great Ziegfeld” (1936) and “The Good Earth” (1937), two shows from that of the Baby Boomer Generation (~1946-1964), “Lux Video Theatre” (1956) as well as “Combat” (1965), a single show from Generation X (~1965-1985), “The Love Boat” (1984), along with a single show from Generation Y (Millennials, ~1986- late 1990’s), “A Dancer”( 1991). After gathering an arsenal of her personal works, I searched for scripts of movies or the actual television shows anatomized …show more content…
A problem that arose with this method was that the age of the entertainment didn’t allow for some of her specific episodes to be available, but I made up for this missing information with watching episodes of the same television shows of the same year but consequently not starring Luise Rainer. After previewing the works stashed in my possession, I took careful note of words that stood out, were unfamiliar, or words that were used differently from their conventional English meaning. For example, Millennials use a variety of slang words such as “gucci” to signify that something is okay or good, and “TBH,” as a shortened way to say “to be honest”. This step repeated itself until every piece of entertainment had been