“With These Words I Can Sell You Anything” is an article written by William Lutz‚ explaining the tactics of marketers to sell their products. It is an excerpt from his book Doublespeak‚ published in 1990. William Lutz has been called “the George Orwell of the 1990s”‚ and indeed many of his books are titled in direct reference to Orwell’s works. Lutz claims in his article that there’s a big conspiracy where the people trying to sell us things are giving us ineffective products disguised as something
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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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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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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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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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former friend‚ grandfatherly-figure‚ and mentor. Hello‚ I am Brandon Kemble for those of you who don’t know me‚ and consider the Hawkins family a part of my own. It is for this reason that I am here‚ before you‚ to share the love I had for Allan. Allan Lutz Hawkins‚ or‚ better referred to by my present and former childhood self as‚ “Mr. Hawkins‚” was a wonderful and inspirational soul who lived every moment for and by the present; and it was his presence that left an indelible impression upon me and altered
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