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    the Power of Words in Wartime - Summary After reading the article written by Robin Tolmach Lakoff a linguistics professor at the University of California‚ Berkeley. Robin Tolmach Lakoff obtained her degrees in linguistics with a B.A.‚ M.A.‚ and Ph.D. from Harvard University (Berkeley.edu). Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The article was published in the New York Times on May 18‚ 2004 by print. The reader ’s role in this article would be to get a better understanding of words in wartime

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    the power of language‚ and yet I’m not sure adults do either. An example would be soldiers who have names for people‚ “An American soldier refers to an Iraqi prisoner as ‘it’ “(Lakoff 7). We have names for certain things-- sometimes just to shorten a word‚ it might not be the nicest name‚ but it works most of the time. Likewise‚ soldiers have names for everyone that they have war with. The language of war is something everyone does. In his essay “From Ancient Greece to Iraq the power of Words in Wartime

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    The Power of Words In 2004‚ human rights were violated in the form of physical‚ psychological and sexual abuse‚ including torture‚ rape and homicide of prisoners in Abu Ghraib. These acts were committed by military police of the United States Army. Did this happen because the soldiers considered the Iraqis as inhuman‚ and was it caused by having a certain language to refer to the enemies? In war‚ soldiers find it easier to cope after killing if they know that they have killed the opposing side

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    invent words‚ is unknown; in other words‚ the origin of language is a mystery. All we really know is that men‚ unlike animals‚ somehow invented certain sounds to express thoughts and feelings‚ actions and things. So that they could communicate them to each other; and that‚ later‚ they agreed upon certain signs‚ called letters‚ which could be com­bined to represent those sounds‚ and which could be written down. These sounds‚ whether spoken‚ or written in letters‚ we call words. A word‚ then

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    The power of words can make you be down and depressed and they can make you feel good about yourself. The way words make you feel have been used in life history and literature. Words can be hurtful when they are used against you in a argument and say things out of spite. Also words can be make you feel good about yourself when someone complements you or tells you something nice. In my life words have been hurtful and uplifting. There’s a saying “sticks and stones may break my bones but words can

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    Words are the most powerful weapon man or woman can ever acquire‚ the power to explain thy thoughts and feeling upon another. The power to manipulate‚ the power to fabricate a story‚ the power to compose a song or story‚ is all powers that the English language and intelligence around the world has brought to us. When I was an adolescent I was not the smartest. I didn’t have a gratifying vocabulary‚ and always had to work harder then the other student peers in my class. My cousin Blake always says

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    Power of Words Do you remember the saying as a child‚ “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me?” The second part of this phase was and still is commonly overlooked‚ but many can oppose this statement according to personal experiences. Not only have people’s feelings been hurt by words‚ but many lives have been lost as well. The power of words is extremely powerful and can affect one emotionally‚ physically‚ and mentally. A certain phrase‚ phrases

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    colors into language. We can put some bright colors to words when we are happy‚ or dark colors to express that we are not in a good mood. We give them their own power‚ and in the article “A Question of Language” by Gloria Naylor‚ the author shows us her idea about that power of words. Words themselves are harmless; the problem comes from the way people want to use them. Naylor starts her text by mentioning about her first time hearing the word “nigger”. It was in her third-grade class‚ when she was

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    1st Lecture: Finding the Ideal Job Review of the book «What colour is your parachute?» By Barbara Kleppinger You are out of work. You hate your job. You aren’t satisfied with your career. You are looking for your first job. Where do you start? If you are like most Americans‚ you’ll probably send your resume to a lot of companies. You may answer newspaper want ads every Sunday. Or you might go to employment agencies. But experts say you won’t have much luck. People find jobs only 5 to 15 per cent

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    English Idioms Idioms and idiomatic expressions in English An idiom is a group of words in current usage having a meaning that is not deducible from those of the individual words. For example‚ "to rain cats and dogs" - which means "to rain very heavily" - is an idiom; and "over the moon" - which means "extremely happy" - is another idiom. In both cases‚ you would have a hard time understanding the real meaning if you did not already know these idioms! A (26) B (26) C (27) D (25) E (25)

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