How language is viewed today

Language has changed throughout history and you can see it even today that it is changing from what the older generations used to talk and how the newer generations talk.  My parents are from the seventies so I have gotten used to the way they talk and how the other people of my family talk.  For one major difference is the term girlfriend for my parents and other people of my family this only means a female friend but when I am talking to people around the same age as me this means that you are going out with the person and I have to remind myself who I am talking to when I am going to use this term for both generations look at the term in a different perspective. 

I know that some of the older generation can tell what us younger generations are talking about but since we now live in a world that technology is a big thing and that it has changed the way we speak.  For you can get on sites that will give you a bunch of made up definitions for phrases.  Then whenever you talk to someone or at least whenever I do and the person is using something other than normal speaking (in terms of what I am used to hearing) I do not even have a clue about what they are talking about sometimes even after I ask them to explain it to me.

Now on to books I have noticed that people are moving away from books and other items that use you mind as technology get more and more incorporated into our daily lives.  I play trading card games and they require some reading to find out what the card does.  I like to teach people how to play and they always ask me what the card does even though I keep telling them that all they need to do is read the card and if they are still confused after reading the card then ask me to explain it to me.  I tried to teach my younger cousin how to play over spring break and I found out that he does not like to read one bit and the type of games he like are simple games that take like zero brain power to play.  On the other hand I love games that cause you to thank and use your mind. 

I know that within school systems that teachers are having to incorporate more technology into the classroom just to explain the same things and I believe that some of the teachers that have been working for quite a wile are having a harder time adjusting to the different social habits that the younger generations have more than the younger teachers that are just starting to teach or have only been teaching for a couple a years of so.  I have some family that in their schools that they go to that they are having the kids have iPad’s to hold all of their books and having them do their homework online and turning it in electronically. 

Even just talking to each other is harder to do now since almost everyone has a cell phone and people to not like to talk face to face anymore so it is harder to gage someone’s actually take on a subject for we have taken almost all emotion out of conversations with texting and talking on the phone and not enough talking to each other is a civilized manner where you can see each other and read their body language to tell more about what they actually fill on a subject.  Technology has changed the way we communicate and too many people have taken this for granted and have gotten lazy when it comes to use their mind in curative way or just picking up a book and reading it to keep yourself busy on that five hour long car ride that you have to take to go on vacation.  There are too few people that actually see the benefits of technology and see the huge downside that it has on the social community and other aspects of our life when people just uses it as an easy way of escape and abuses it.

Up Till Now

               For the begging of the class I had a little trouble connecting the decisions with the items that I write about now I am thinking about how the discussions can help with other items in the class and also a little bit on other areas outside of the classroom.  Since I first started the class I mostly read books that interested me but since I have been reading the articles I have had to find new ways to read the challenging articles that are assigned in class by reading them slower and actually taking a little breather about every 15 minutes or so to thank about what I just read and to piece together what the article is trying to tell me and what they are hinting at and trying to make you think about.  This has also effected how I read my normal novels as well by reading them a little more slowly I am able to pull out more details the first time I read it.  I have also been having to reread the articles to make since of them instead of waiting like a year or two before I reread a normal novel.

               The discussions have helped in the class and have made it a lot easier to write the papers and give me ideals on what to write about and how to structure my paragraphs a little better.  They have also made it where I am able to expand a little easier when trying to find out what I am going to say and expand on it a little farther then I would normally when I am just talking to someone for I have never really liked writing long papers but the discussions that we have had in class have made it easier and more interested trying to get more of my thoughts down on paper.  By writing these papers and going over on how to write better has helped me in some of my other classes where I have needed to write lab write-ups telling about what we did in the lab and how I came up with the final conclusion.

               By having the discussions in class that are more open and we are trying to find the answers ourselves by discussing what the point is and having little debates on defending our own point of view about it has made it easier to find ways to write the papers and making it where we need to read the texts a little more closely to understand the articles.  This has changed my reading pattern a little to where I would read for like an hour or two then take a brake by finding time throughout the day and reading a little here and a little there then reading it again and try and get it done in one sitting where I am thanking on how the section that I am on connects to the parts that come before it and the parts that come after it for I usually do not thank about what is coming up in a book even though I know some people enjoy trying to gees what is going to happen in the book before you get to that point in other words trying to find out what it is foreshadowing.

               I have really enjoyed this class and how it applies to my other classes and has also made me think about how I am reading and writing not only for this class but other areas that I have to read or write about something that I thank is boring at first glance but is actually a little interesting in how it challenges you to come up with ways to write about the topic.

                                                                                                                                                                     

secrets

               For Our Secrets by Susan Griffin I do not understand just about any of it for to me it seems that she jumps around from topic to topic but she does always come back to talking about the cell.  This article if you can call it one talks about the evolution of man for the most part and talks about what humans do from day to day.  For the closest thing that I can thank of for this article is that it is a contact zone for we are talking about Germany but the Americans are the ones that invented the nukes and atomic bombs.  This paper is a little bit on the boring side for you can never really tell what it is talking about at least I really could not find out heads or tells of most of the article.  For even though throw-out the article she talks about the makeup of the cell and this is even a little hard to understand if you if you do not know much about the cell and what it is made up of for just about after each topic she goes back onto a little paragraph talking about a different part of the cell.

               This story starts off on its tangent from first talking about someone talking about their father and about the Battle of the Bulge in World War II.  From there it talks about nuclear missiles and V-1 rockets which it says are the first homing missiles.  From there she goes on from talking about learning on what questions to ask.  I can only thank that she means that you need to be critical conciseness when you are thinking about what questions you need to ask in order to get the information that you want to get and to get the results that you are looking for.  This also supports that she is going from one topic to another but able to keep it on topic even though it seems that she is just going from topic to topic.

               Latter she talks about knowledge and how direct knowledge is the illusion nature of panic.  This ties in very neatly with the baking concept for the information that you gain from learning using the banking concept you will just be showing yourself and illusion for whenever you get into a situation that you were not taught about you would panic and not be able to find the solution to the problem for you would have such a narrow mind that you would not be able to thank for yourself and be able to find your own solution out of the situation that you are in. Then a little farther she talks about someone writing but lacking the knowledge on why they are writing. This is also a good example of the banking concept in that you are only doing what you are told to do so if you are told to write you will write but you will not be able to tell why you are writing or what you are writing for.

               So if you would like to give you brain a workout and find out some more interesting facts and mind twisters that you would like to thank about and wanting find out how something connects to other parts if its own writing read Our Secret by Susan Griffin.  The article is an interesting article once you get past the headache of understand what is says and how it relates to one another.