Hannah Michelle Lambert
Swift
APL2
14 December 2012
Argumentation Essay
Every person is unique in their own way. There are many ways that people express this uniqueness, their individuality. This dissimilarity is expressed through what people choose to wear, how they style their hair, what they do for fun, what they want to be when they grow up, and so many other ways. However, for me, there is no greater, more obvious way to tell who someone really is than the manner in which they talk. Although, this personalized “language” that every person speaks is not solely a reflection on who each specific person is, but additionally on the people that surround them. According to Amy Tan, many sociologists and linguists believe that language skills are highly dependent on peers, while Tan states that these skills are influenced much more by a child’s family. I, however, agree with both sides. The way that children, or any person for that matter, speaks is affected equally by both family and peers.
Peers are the people that students go to school with every day, adults work with every day and that retired folks play golf with every week. These people of around the same age constantly surround everyone for a majority of someone’s life when they are out and about. An influential subcategory of peers is friends. Friends have a huge impact on how one talks because they become almost like a second family. Being like a family, friends’ lingo and inside jokes are passed around and stick because they are together so much. I know for a fact that my friends and I talk differently than we used to before we met, because we can’t help but talk similarly because of the bonds we have built, and we can’t help but pick up sayings here and there. Then there is the other group of peers, which is the people that you see or hear about every day but aren’t necessarily friends with. The effect that this group has on one’s language can, in some cases, be even greater than that of friends. Specifically for pre-teens and teenagers, there is this immense “peer pressure,” to fit in. Take for example, the 2004 movie Mean Girls. All of the girls want to be like Regina George, so they copy everything she does and remembers everything she wears or says. There is the same thing happening to teenagers nowadays, but to less of an extreme. People want to fit in, so they will say everything they’re supposed to say that they think will make others think that they are cool and that they belong.
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However, even though peers have a huge impact on the way that someone speaks, families have an equal affect. Scientifically speaking, the way that someone speaks and all of their mannerisms can be considered genetics, passed on from their parents. This means that without even trying or noticing it, one family, and even some of their extended family members, could say some words or phrases exactly the same, but completely different from any other family. Also, families are one of those situations in which you have no choice in the matter. No one can choose their family, and therefore you can’t change who your family is. Families are together, usually in the same house, so kids are exposed to the many different ways that their families speak since day one. This situation is similar to what happens with friends. Since one is around their family so often, and for so many years, those patterns of speech become embedded in their minds, such as the silly phrases and favorite words, even if they’re not exactly real, that families tend to use, and once they’re there, they aren’t going to disappear.
Though these two sources of influences affect people in different ways, with peers impacting your social language and families impacting your intimate language, they both play a role in the speech habits that everyone has.
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