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    Importance of Language; Newspeak. It is the intention of the government to make it impossible to convey any nonconformist thoughts. Hence Newspeak was designed for this very intention. To narrow down what people can actually say and think‚ the rules of language are being skewed from what we actually say right now. Negative terms have been eliminated from the language. In Newspeak‚ "bad" and "awful" are altered to mean "ungood" or "doubleplus ungood." This language leaves no room for nuance or shades

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    Communication Disorders ThoughtLanguage‚ I. Clinical Assessment‚ Definition of Terms‚ and Evaluation of Their Reliability Nancy C. Andreasen‚ MD psychiatry has considered thought disorder to be pathognomonic symptom of schizophrenia. Evaluation of the \s=b\ Bleulerian a Bleulerian perspective has been severely handicapped by the lack of any standard and widely agreed-on definition of thought disorder. Consequently‚ the conceptualization of thought disorder has tended to be

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    Does Your Language Shape How You Think? Seventy years ago‚ in 1940‚ a popular science magazine published a short article that set in motion one of the trendiest intellectual fads of the 20th century. At first glance‚ there seemed little about the article to augur its subsequent celebrity. Neither the title‚ “Science and Linguistics‚” nor the magazine‚ M.I.T.’s Technology Review‚ was most people’s idea of glamour. And the author‚ a chemical engineer who worked for an insurance company and moonlighted

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    writer‚ but he still included diction‚ syntax‚ figurative language‚ and imagery. All of these together created the author’s reflective tone. Blake used a lot of figurative language throughout the poem. When he said‚ ?What the hammer?? he was not actually asking what made us the way we are. Another example was when he asked‚ ?On what wings dare he aspire?? he doesn?t literally mean the wings like those of a bird rather who does he put his trust in. These reveal his complex thinking. The

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    advertisements and the newspaper‚ are written to draw attention to and explain a subject. Other forms can be written to express feelings or thoughts on a day-to-day basis. George Orwell wrote Politics and the English Language‚ which criticizes the English language. Orwell used this book to express his feelings about language‚ and he included ways to improve the English language‚ including both speaking and writing.  Writing has become a huge part of society today from social media to regular day-to-day communication

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    Facial expressions Facial expressions also communicate cognitive messages and emotions. They enhance your verbal communication by producing "feeling tone‚" the impression that you care about what you’re saying. The following tips will help you use facial expressions to increase your persuasiveness: Smile before you begin speaking Don’t be either mechanical or melodramatic; act naturally Think about what you’re saying and react with facial expressions to match or enhance the thought (intro) We spend

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    through language‚ from the lyrics of songs to emotion packed novels and countless other forms. In George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984‚ the society of a nation known as Oceania is under constant control and surveillance from a government called the Party. The Party’s stability and continued power rely on the inability of the people to have emotions or thoughts‚ as that could lead to rebellion. In order to control the people‚ the Party manipulated the language by using its slogans and a language known

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    Language In Catch-22 Catch-22 is a witty novel written by Joseph Heller that covers many aspects of World War II that usually go untouched. Unlike most war novels‚ Catch-22 shows the irrationality of war and its negative affects felt by soldiers. It is not the usual novel where hero’s are marked by rank and kill counts. Two themes that Heller covers are that of capitalism and free enterprise. He does so by using language‚ style and the character Milo Minderbinder. In the novel‚ Milo assumes the

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    to make moral decisions” (Bowie‚ 3). Ethics‚ itself‚ is not morals as many may think. It is the study of moral principles. Then to what extent does ethical judgements limit arts and natural sciences? I believe ethical judgement should limit arts and natural sciences when it has negative impacts on something or someone else. To what extent does ethics limit arts? An artist named Marco Evaristti created an art piece called Helena & El Pescador in a museum for his exposition. Evaristti put several goldfishes

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    Instagram and see a picture of Rihanna. You want to do your makeup like her‚ dress like her‚ also to be fit like her‚ so then you will change what you do to be like her. Empower means to give somebody the authority to do something. Additionally‚ there is a website called "How social media empowers us.weebly.com" and it explains how the internet has developed us as humans and change that way you think. The website says‚ "It changes others opinions. It influences us in the bigger things and the smaller

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