A Splash Of Your Personality

In Kurt Vonnegut’s How to Write with Style, the author gives his insight on how to enhance the quality of your writing, and attract readers. Vonnegut was asked by an international paper to explain how to put your style and personality into everything you write.

The purpose of this article is to give tips on how to write with your own style. Writing is easy enough for some, but many people do not know how to add their own touch to the piece they are writing.

He gave good tips on how to make your writing your own. A good example of this is, “2. Do not ramble, though. I won’t ramble on about that” (Vonnegut 66). This was a great example because most authors tend to explain why they had given a certain tip. The tip given to try not ramble, does not require the author to explain why we should not ramble, his explanation for that tip was perfect.

The main idea was to make people aware that what you write gets more attention if you had your personal touch on it. Vonnegut states that news reports, people writing for papers etc. Do not reveal anything about them in their articles. Generally, every other writer gives the audience a peak as to who they are and what they like, just by writing articles.

Vonnegut did not target a specific audience, it was meant for budding writers and even people with a career in writing. This article was meant to help everyone improve on the quality of his or her writing.

Do you think that you would consider his tips the next time you are to do a writing piece?

kamikaze or kami-crazy ?

In Yuki Tanaka’s Japan’s Kamikaze Pilots and Contemporary Suicide Bombers: War and Terror, touches on the use of suicide bombers in the war between United States of American and Japan. Typically, when I have read articles on suicide bombers, it never talks about why the people felt they needed to do that, more so about the causalities.

The main idea of this article is to clarify that kamikaze differentiate from one of a suicide bomber. “Kamikaze attacks were implemented and legitimized by the military regime of a nation-state, while “terrorist suicide bombing” is a generally planned and authorized by organization outside a state structure” (Tanaka 298).

I found this article give helpful insight as to why people sign up for suicide missions.. Tanaka explains that the Japanese Imperial Navy and Army forces had recruited voluntary university and college students. The reason these young adults take their own lives to them was simple, for their country and their people. To die for one’s country showed your commitment and that it was not a total waste. The purpose of this essay is to enhance everyone knowledge on their perspectives on what drives people to participate in suicide missions. A good example of this is, “The announcement of their death as kamikaze pilots in the national press brought raise and honour to their parents, in a particular praise by residents of their local community” (Tanaka 296)

Do you feel that in order to stand for your country and people, in war, the right thing to do is to take aprt in a suicide mission?

Outsourced

In Thomas Friedman’s, “30 Little Turtles”, he talks about the benefits from out-sourcing jobs in one country  and hiring people in places like India to do that job.

Friedman starts by sharing how he got a standing ovation from a room full of 20-year old Indians, after perfectly reading, “A bottle of bottled water held 30 little turtles. It did not matter that each turtle had to rattle a metal ladle in order to get a little bit of noodles, a total turtle delicacy. The problem was that there were many turtle battles for less than oodles of noodles” (Friedman 176). He was to show them how the phrase sounded with a Canadian accent, as they were to suppress there native accent and try to pronounce words of one from the country the call came from.

The purpose of this essay is to show how outsourcing can lead to positive things for people across seas. Outsourcing has lead to many people who did not have prior jobs, to get a job and gain work experience. These types of jobs in Canada or America are low paying jobs but translate to high paying jobs in places like India. I think the intended audience for this article is the working class Canadians and Americans because it shows how fortunate we are that it is not too difficult to find a job. Also that we should not be taking advantage of our jobs because people in India are grateful for our “low end jobs”.

A strong example of this is, “Watching these incredibly enthusiastic young Indians preparing for their call center jobs—earnestly trying to soften there t’s and roll their r’s—is an uplifting experience, especially when you hear from their friends already working these jobs how they have transformed their lives” (Friedman 176).

Do you think that people in North America would try as hard at this job versus people in India?