Speaking Tongues By Zabie Smith

Information plays a vital role in our lives today. We find it hard now in days to go a day with our phone which for most of us is how we get the information so that we can live our lives. However, since we have access to so much information that it can be hard for us to choice what information is important to us. In Speaking Tongues by Zabie Smith, she talks about the power of using different voices when talking to different people and why people and what people gain from changing their voices. In Strange Creatures by Susan Blackmore she talks about the what it means to be human and why we think that we are so special. Both essays give a better understanding on why we make the choices that we make and how things effect us. Both essays
One way of receiving information is by some that has a credentials Another way we can determine important information depends on how often it is repeat to us. Next is how the information is present to us can make us pay more attention then usually. Also, is the environment that the person is when the are getting new information. Now in days we are flooded by all the information that we are getting from so many different ways that is can be difficult to choice want information is important to us and what is not. The person that gives us information has a huge impact on the way we receive information and determine its effect. Obama has been a part of the black community since he was born, also going through life without a father has given the right credentials to talk about the problems of the black community. Smith gives us the explain when “Obama had lectured a black church congregation about the epidemic of absent black father” (Smith 253). He uses his knowledge to help solve the problem of absent black fathers. Obama also know that it is easier for a member of the black community to talk about it problems then having an outsider do it for them. Blackmore tells us the following “In that book