Thursday, February 19, 2009

Style or Swagger


Style is very hard to come now of days. Having your own unique style is very uncommon in my opinion. Writing on the other hand, is very unique and its own way. Style is how someone writes a story or how he or she makes it her own. The way they come across to the audience. Not anyone can write or express themselves as good as others. Therefore; having a good style recommends being able to real the audience in and wanting more. I would have to say that writing is the only style where no one can imitate any one else. They might have the same idea or same concept but everyone expresses themselves different, which makes us so unique. Since we all have a unique style in writing, that doesn’t necessarily mean that the piece they write will be good or bad. It will all depend on how interesting your piece is. At least that’s my own personal opinion, because I know that once I read something and it doesn’t intrigue me I just stop. I do find it that people who tend to write their feeling out on a piece of paper find it easier to write and in the long run tend to turn out to be great writers. Being bilingual I’ve noticed that English and Spanish are pretty similar and so different at the same time. If that makes sense at all, like Spanish the English language has so many words that mean the same thing but it is harder to translate “sayings” from Spanish to English because the meanings never turn out the same or the words aren’t just right for what you are trying to
say.





Friday, February 6, 2009

Journalist "Good News" or "Bad News"


One of the criticisms of the news media that many people make is that journalists emphasize “bad news” rather than “good news.” I agree, just because I feel most of the time journalist are out to find “bad news” rather than “good news” Yes, I know that their job is to find informative information, but they tend to go towards the bad side. A journalist job is to write about current events, trends, issues and even people. Having so much to write about, yet they still manage to find the bad in what is going on around us. Even though it is helpful and it keeps us informed of what is going on around the world. It would be nice for a change to find more “good news” than “bad news.” Even though we criticize journalist for writing “bad news” it does have it upside, we are informed of what is going on in the world, and this society it is great to know what is going on in the world or you just a outcast. We live in a society were we must know of our surrounding, because you never know when a topic might come up and you might have to talk about it. Like people say “It’s always good, to know a little about everything. Rather then nothing at all.” Needless to say a majority of the people do criticize journalist, but yet again we criticize people, ourselves , everything so it doesn’t make that much of a difference if we as people criticize journalist or not, because if we don’t do it some one else is.