Please Read This Story,
Thank You
Central Argument: The central argument is that people are
losing their manners through generation to generation as people are starting to
be rude, impolite, and overuse of casual language.
Basic
manners is something that each person is expected to have and follow. Certain
phrases or words like “Please” and “Thank You” are expected to be said because
these are basic manners that one is expected to posses. In Lincoln Weeks’s
article Please Read This Story, Thank You, the author claims that people
are losing their manners through generation to generation as people are
starting to be rude, impolite, and overuse causal language. When you look
through each generation, you can see how many things have changed during the
gaps between generations. The fashion, fads, general interest and basically
culture has changed from generation to generation. I strongly do not believe
that people are losing their manners through generation to generation. I
believe that people are rude, impolite or lack basic manners because they are
brought up in a way where they lack discipline. Another factor I believe that
determines the manners of a person is where they live, and what type of
environment they are brought up in. I
feel that these two factors determine how mannered a person is, because I
believe manners come from discipline and influences.
Discipline
is an element which helps keep people focused and maintained. Having discipline
ensures that one does not have dynamic changes in them. Discipline is usually
considered the key element to success. Since manners are something that can
change, discipline is required to ensure that people do not intend to follow
bad manners. Since I am in a boarding school, I have to go to bed in a certain
time, get up on time to make sure I am not late for school, and I have to be
nice to my dorm parents, so that they don’t make my life miserable here. I have
to follow all this, and I have to have discipline in me to follow such a pattern.
My cousin brother back in Nepal does not go to a boarding school. He doesn’t
get enough sleep, eats junk food all the time and doesn’t listen to his
parents. These are considered bad manners and this is due to lack of
discipline. The amount of discipline one has is enough to see how much manners
one has.
Manners
also come from the environment of where one is living and where they are
brought up from. There are many ways to illustrate this factor. A student in
USA can call an older grade student by their first name, but a student in Nepal
would have to call an older grade student a “big brother” or “big sister”. This
is due to culture, as different cultures expect different manners. The use of
casual language also depends on where one lives. If you lived in Harlem in New
York, you would use “gangsta” language, where large amount of swear words are
placed. If you lived in Beverly Hills in Los Angeles, such “gangsta talk” would
not be tolerated. The environment and culture play a key role in what kind of manners
a person has.
Overall,
manners are not derailing through generations, as manners are valued in
different ways. A person’s manners are determined by how much discipline they
have, as discipline teaches one not to change their attitude to certain heights.
Another factor that must be taken into consideration is that a person’s manners
can be determined by the culture they are brought up in, and the environment
they live in. Manners are something people should have, but that varies on
which perspective you look at it from.
Why We Like What We
Like
Central Argument: The central argument is that we like what
we like because what we perceive things through a certain perspective that gets
the better of our five senses.
Have
you ever wondered why your Rip Curl t-shirt is your best t-shirt? Why is pizza
your favorite food? Why are you sexually attracted to tall, blonde girls?
According to Alva Noë in his article, Why We Like What We Like, people
tend to like something because they perceive things through a certain
perspective that gets the better of our senses. His argument would mean that
you like Rip Curl your t-shirt because it is made by Rip Curl, not because it
is made from cotton and possibly because of the color. I disagree with what
Noë’s perspective as I believe that the five senses do have a part to play in
what we like because one would not just choose what they like because they see
it as beneficial. I feel that at least one of the following; appearance, sound,
taste, smell or touch at least has some part to play in what we like and what
we don’t. Would one just like something because they feel they should like it?
Would one choose consider something without looking or tasting etc? There has
to be one of the five senses taken to consideration by a person, as no one
would like something if they have no feelings or attribute of appreciation for
it
If one
of the senses is not considered by a person, then they are most probably numb
all around their body. I can confirm that each thing I like has to do with the
five senses. I like Momos because the meat and the wanton taste absolutely
delicious. I like to wear cut sleeve t-shirts because they look cool to wear around
the beach. I like Indian food because I can smell the spices when it is being
cooked. I like my blanket because it feels so fuzzy. I like to hot girls
because I can see how hot they look. Everything I like has to be related with
one of the five senses, and I believe that is the case with everyone. Why would
one be married to their wife? If they didn’t find her attractive or find their
voice very annoying, why not just marry a fat, ugly, old lady. Why even marry a
woman actually? Why not just marry and make love to a man? See a man wouldn’t marry
any random woman because he sees some quality in her that makes her attractive.
He certainly would not marry a man because he sees that men have a quality that
just doesn’t make them the right partner. There has to be a reason, and usually
that reason is aided by one of the five senses in some way or the other.
Senses
do play a part in what we like and what we don’t. It contributes through some
way or the other as it plays an important factor to what we decide on what we
like and what we don’t. We like something because we find something good in it,
and that is caused by the help of at least one of the senses. Senses do play an
important role to what we like and what we don’t.
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