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Teenagers are so busy on their phones, texting and staying in constant contact with friends and family, that they aren't taking the time to learn what's being taught in the class room. Students would rather reach for the quick solution, focusing on keeping in touch with friends, rather than taking the time to learn, study and participate in class. Texting simple acronyms, symbols and simple sentences trains teenagers into thinking that they don't have to take the time to write out proper words and sentences of the real world. If they aren't implementing the skills learned in the classroom in everyday life the information will not be retained.
In the article "2b or Not 2b" David Crystal argues that the language of text is not the doom of the English language but the next evolution of the English language. While the "slanguage" of texting has created fear in the media that children will grow up without knowing the proper English language, one American study shows that only 20% of text messages actually showed any abbreviated forms. Crystal states that abbreviated words and shortened sentences are merely a modern version of abbreviations and symbols used in the English language for centuries. .
Common phrases such as IOU are similar to today's use of LOL ("laugh out loud"), and words like exam, vet and fridge that have all become common place, so too will abbreviations like msg ("message"). Crystal argues that "children could not be good at texting if they had not already developed considerable literacy awareness". The ability to text is simply playing with words already learned in the English language and texting is simply being linguistically creative. I agree with Crystal in that some "Tweetspeak" is play on words and knowing the English language allows you to manipulate the words. However so much of texting and tweeting is manipulating the phonetic sounds of a word, and not manipulating the spelling of a word, that makes me question Crystal's argument that children wouldn't be good at texting without literary awareness.
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....
