Vagueness

Knowledge is power in our society. With knowledge one can critically think about situations and make an educated analysis of their findings. Working through the known facts of something to make a decision, but it is the unknown; the things we cant account for that help one draw a conclusion. Literary works from different time periods help show that knowledge is important, but uncertainty is what helps people make their decision. Three women, Story of an Hour, and Dream children all have…

story about one’s search for identity, and sense of self. To begin, Ruth McBride’s narration is, in short, the rebirth of whom Ruth once was, before she left her Jewish faith. From chapter one, titled Dead, the reader is instantly aware of the vagueness or mysteriousness of her past. “I’m dead. You want me to talk about my family and here I been dead to them for fifty years. Leave me alone. Don’t bother me. They want no parts of me and me I don’t want no parts of them.” As the pages turn,…

Unfortunately for merchant interests, enticing pirates to quit their criminal endeavors failed as badly as the military efforts to stop them. Although pardons were successful at bringing pirates into shore, they did not keep them for long. Many shook the hand of the governor, swore his allegiance to the crown, and then shortly returned to preying on vessels at sea. The failure of pardons to slow the proliferation of piracy cannot all be blamed on piratical greed. Pardons were specific to…

The mission of the Department of Veterans Affairs is “to fulfill President Lincoln 's promise "To care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan" by serving and honoring the men and women who are America 's veterans” (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 2016). This mission statement was written vaguely enough to be comprehensive of the changing needs of our veterans. A more precise definition may not have benefited the organization as the services we provide…

Character motivation in short stories is often obvious. When a character’s visibility is limited, it is better to explain why they want what they want. Graham Greene’s “The Destructors” explains several of the character’s intentions. Of the children left undefined is Trevor, a seemingly typical teenager in a new setting. In an act that could be a desperate cry for affection, an act of redemption, or of malice, he leads the gang to demolish an old man’s house. The gang in question has never done…

The Real Results of the Van Boven/Gilovich Study Does experience provide more happiness than material goods? A research study done by Van Boven and Gilovich (2003) explores this question by surveying and performing experiments on different populations. A press article, written by Dr. Dean (2008), presents an argument on this topic using the study as reference. While the press article conveys a message similar to that of the study, its technical inaccuracies, overgeneralizations, and its claim…

Both begin without any introduction or preamble of background. The same background and setting of ‘twilight’ and ‘vagueness’, denoting death and darkness, so elaborately painted in picturesque detail in the preceding one hold ground. The background of twilight and of total negation is made more unspeakably imponderable and sombre here, with Death occupying the centre…

proficient speakers have the ability to stop time to time to allow the formulation of an utterance to catch up with its conceptualization. Another factor is the use of production strategies, the most common are pause fillers such as uh and em, or vagueness expressions like, sort of, and I mean. In conclusion the main characteristics of fluency are the following: pauses may be long, but not frequent, pauses are usually filled, pauses occur at meaningful transition points, and there are long runs…

FOUR: Please discuss the major reasons cited by Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein, in their book It’s Even Worse Than It Looks, for the extreme polarization and dysfunction that now characterizes our government. Thomas Mann and Norman Einstein discuss many reasons to explain the dysfunction of the government and the extreme polarization that has occurred in the past decades. One of the reasons for the emergence is the abuse of filibustering. Filibustering is a tactic used throughout politics to…

this type of speech is of little social value and any benefit is outweigh by the absence of social morals. Many cases have fought to abolish speech codes saying that it violates The First Amendment, but a majority of them have been dismissed for vagueness and being…