Part one of term paper
Lou Pauly was a guest lecturer in my global politics class recently. Pauly pointed to the decay of our language as a cause of the degeneration of our understanding of each other and our own political systems. One example he gave was the overuse and misuse of the term 'globalization' to the point where the meaning has been lost and this term ...

Part two of term paper
... states "what is above all needed, is to let the meaning choose the word and not the other way about". Orwell feels that hackneyed phrases and defunct metaphors allow a writer to easily and quickly compose a piece utterly lacking in original and intelligent thought. Orwell also cites the dangers of terms and phrases such as ‘pacification', 'transfer of population', or 'elimination of unreliable elements' as "designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance o ...