With every "LOL" (Laughing Out Loud) and "BRB" (Be Right Back) sent via text with impatient fingers, the English language bleeds with the loss of linguistic development. Capitalization, punctuation, good spelling and proper grammar are falling to their imminent demise as the evolution of this new acronym riddled language, known as "Tweetspeak" takes center stage. I want the life brought back to the words of Robert Frost and William Shakespeare and I want to see the value and beauty of the English language restored.
In the article "Twitter vs. Thought," Dawn Ruth, a Professor of English at Nunez Community College, fears that the use of abbreviated words and shortened sentences used by students today will destroy the English language as we know it. This will lead to a generation of young people with narrow thoughts, who lack the ability to carry on meaningful and thoughtful conversations with an elaborate use of the English language. According to Ruth, "When the words to express thought diminish to misspellings and parts of words, the ability of thought itself is narrowed." Ruth's point is that students today are so focused on texting and staying connected to family and friends every minute of every day, that they lack the attention needed to learn in a classroom. Ruth also argues that with this lack of attention, along with the use of "Tweetspeak," students aren't learning to use words and sentences correctly. .
I agree with Ruth's fear of "Tweetspeak." Young people today are beginning to talk as they tweet and don't seem to have a vast knowledge of the English language. Teenagers of today ooze with entitlement, they expect everything to be handed to them and in a world where information is attainable with the push of a button why wouldn't they? Students may be learning English in school, yet their habitual connection to 'the goings on' outside the classroom creates a constant lack of focus.
Enders GAME Ender . ... Enders life is almost devoted to the games. ... He does this because he knows he is the best and will not be defeated by a computer. ... But in life if he were to do something of that magnitude nothing that anyone could say we be any different to him he would always be a bad person in his mind. ... Enders life is a game As you know games are more than just created by man. ...
Here in America we are free to live life as we please, we can do any job, and we have the opportunity to do that job any way we would like. ... Even though Ender knows this is bad, and does not enjoy doing this to him, he knows that he must. Ender knows that this is the only way to stop him from ever doing this again. ... The fight ends when Ender outsmarts Bonzo and ends up kicking him. ... As Jerry Rice, pro football Hall of Famer, said in his Hall of Fame speech "You know, I never looked down the road and thought 'hey look, one day, the Hall of Fame,' it's always about...
Everyone knows he is capable of cold-blooded murder, so they do as he says because it is in their own best interest. ... He makes the people in his command better soldiers by teaching them what he knows. ... Both Peter and Ender kill throughout the novel. ... He didn't know he was commanding the fleets. ... So in Ender's mind, he was no hero. ...
A few days after Ender beat up Stiltson, Ender was asked to go to battle school by Colonel Graff. ... If you want, I'll [teach] you in the off hours and show you some of the things I know" (79). ... Unfortunately Ender ended up killing Bonzo unknowingly. ... In the end, after all his training Ender is given one final test, but what he didn't know was that he had destroyed all of the buggers and everything he had done was real and not a simulation. ... "The answer," said Ender. ...
This device had allowed the authorities to view the world as he did, and from Ender's thoughts we learn that the monitor has made him an outcast. ... He knows the answers to all of the questions and hardly bothers paying attention. ... Ender does not think Peter is serious but knows it is possible. ... We reenter Ender's life at the breakfast table, where Ender is too preoccupied with his thoughts to eat. ... Peter is upset because he still hopes to be chosen, but the other two both know it must be about Ender. ...
In the book Ender's game, by Orson Scott Card, we are told the story of a boy named Andrew Wiggins. ... Ender passed these tests, and was chosen. The government came that night to take Ender to battle school, but they needed Ender to go willingly. ... Ender decides to go to battle school, he knows that he will not see his family again until he is almost 12 yrs. old. ... He decides that he knows the buggers better than any other human because he studied them for so long. ...
At age six, Ender is taken to Battleschool where adults control him. ... Dink Meeker and Peta Arkanian help Ender realize who his real enemies are. ... We have so much in common, why don't we be friends?""... Ender's Game contains many epic aspects. ... Near the end, Ender even communicates with a bugger, which no human has done before. ...
Ender was bred to Destroy, the government allowed him to be born, which was a disgrace, because he was a third. ... He is pushed far beyond what we would call normal expectations. He surpasses everything we could believe possible, and beyond. ... All in all, Ender lasts longer than anyone could expect, most people would be to burned out to do the right thing. ... Vidi vedi vici, Ender does just that, destroys....
Ender is a very intelligent child. ... Ender is a tremendous leader. ... The day it is removed, Stilson, a bully, begins a fight with him, because he knows the monitor cannot protect Ender. ... It is evident that Ender Wiggin is a genius. ... These traits shape Ender Wiggin's character....
