In Spotlight, the filmmakers include a scene where one of the Boston Globe reporters, Sacha Pfeiffer, is interviewing Joe, one of the survivors. Joe tells Sacha about his first visit to Father Shanley’s house, and how Father Shanley the two play strip poker. Joe says, “Of course I lost. And things went on from there.” Sacha asks, “What happened specifically?” and Joe replies “Specifically, he molested me.” Sacha continues, and says, “Joe, I think the language here is going to be very important. We can’t sanitize this, just saying molest isn’t enough. People need to know what actually happened.” I will consider the word “sanitize” in this paper, and why the filmmakers chose to use this word and film the scene like they did. The Oxford English …show more content…
This definition is, “to render more acceptable, clean up, as by the removal of undesirable, improper or confidential material.” This second definition is different then the more technical and medical health-related connotation of the first definition, but it makes Sacha’s use of the word “sanitize” seem especially fitting. Sacha and the Spotlight team have been fighting to expose confidential materials, seen in their struggle to get the documents unsealed. When Mike gets a tip from Garabedian that the 14 most “damning docs” are already unsealed because of his public motion to oppose another lawyer’s motion, Garabedian tells Mike the documents are not in the courthouse, where they should be because “the Church doesn’t want them to be found. So they are not there.” This scene between Mike and Garabedian highlights what Sacha is doing by saying they cannot “sanitize” the language. The Church in the Mike and Garabedian scene has in a way “sanitized” the record by either of the two definitions—they have cleaned it, expunged it, and omitted unsavory information; in contrast, Sacha does not want to “sanitize”, clean up, expunge or omit the language of what happened to Joe. This is why she encourages him to not use euphemisms or tidier language for his
Having the insight as a former student and a present educator, Linda Christensen wrote about her views on the way English is taught to students in her essay“Teaching Standard English: Whose Standard?” Christensen
In his short essay, Why Good English Is Good for You, John Simon utilizes several rhetorical devices in order to convey the idea of the resurrection of the dying English language. In order to gain the support needed, Simon aims his essay towards the average, educated, young adult, Americans, because they are still at the age of where they can learn and cultivate their minds for the better, while also being old enough to fully understand the ramifications of becoming better educated. Through the use of rhetorical questions, similes, pathos, appeals to history and authority, repetition, and many other devices, John Simon is successful in portraying his arguments of why the proper English language must be resurrected. In order to prove his argument,
The author's purpose of this article is to show how “Cuss Time,” should be not necessarily encouraged but protected by our first amendment rights. Granted having the freedom to make a fictional character realistic, in a situation, strong language can be called for. McCorkle giving her son cuss time, she found it “liberating to watch his liberation” because he recognizes the urge to want something much more, the more you are denied it. Rather than when we are given the freedom to choose to do their os that, the real reason being it might lose value to our well being. By limiting our freedom of speech, some of
“In the 60s, the Catholic Church in Massachusetts began hearing complaints that Father James Porter was sexually molesting children. Rather than relieving him of his duties, the ecclesiastical authorities simply moved him from one parish to another between 1960 and 1967, actually providing him with a fresh supply of unsuspecting families and innocent children to abuse” (Ericsson 162).
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In the book excerpt by Firoozeh Dumas, “The F-Word”, Dumas uses several techniques to hook her readers and keep their interest in her piece. It was her style, however, that did most of the work. Dumas' article has a very strong single argument that she works toward throughout her entire piece. She claims that the English language could do with a bit more “spice”, as she calls it (Dumas). Though this argument is only listed only twice in the excerpt, it is the underlying foundation of every humorous story as well as every painful moment. Throughout the excerpt, Dumas has paired together the use of her style with how she builds ethos in the reader's eyes. This creates a very good way to convey the argument, however it still lacks certain strengths. Had she written in a slightly more formal tone and included more evidence, she could have kept her humor and continued to build on her ethos by appealing to a more professional group. The use of an easy going conversational style in Dumas' excerpt helps to portray her claim in a way that most readers will be able to identify with, however, the style does not work well in appealing to a professional setting due to the lack of empirical evidence.
“This is a book that contains so much profane language, it would make a sailor blush with shame. The ‘F-word’ is plastered on almost every other page...” (Paulson, 1). The commenter has exaggerated in truth; there is indeed profane language, yet it does not
This explains how censorship has such a present impact in this futuristic society, not only to the readers but to the characters as well. “It didn’t come from the government down. There was no dictum, no
The use of diction is a great tool that Cullen employs throughout “Incident” to further his depiction of racism. The one word
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For my FERP, I have chosen to research the censorship of J.D. Salinger's novel, The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger's novel is one of my favorite books and one with which I am very familiar. After deciding on my subject, I began putting together an outline that consists of an introduction, a conclusion, and three body paragraphs. With some preliminary research, I discovered that critics most often challenge Salinger's novel for the following three reasons: vulgar language, morality issues, and destructive behavior. I decided to address each of these criticisms in my three body paragraphs.
It is not in keeping with the reverence due to the majesty of God and with the observance of the gospel teachings for the honor and respect of the church to be polluted by contamination at once so degraded and so scandalous.
Nowadays, the roles of English around the world have changed rapidly. English only served as the first or the second language of certain countries some years ago. Recently, English has a new role as a language which is used as a means of communication between people with different
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