You are building a body paragraph that develops around the ideas and examples discussed in class from the readings, Maria Konnikova's grump's Lies v. Your Brain' and William Lutz's -DoubleSpeak'. Your goal is to create a very well developed comparison and contrast between these two articles, and incorporating your own examples that conned directly to the ideas explored in the two works.
"Language can easily distort perception and influence behavior and thus be a tool, or weapon, for achieving the great good or the greatest evil." - Lutz, Doublespeak (pg.25) Class question(s): 1. What is the difference between using words as tools and as weapons? • What examples from the texts best support an answer to these questions? • What examples from your own observations can best support these questions? You are developing a claim in response to question one. Please select one passage as an example from each texts to develop your analysis. Try to center your analysis around your core idea, theme or meaning you see shared between the two texts.
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