<p>A well-known company recently proposed setting aside every Friday as a day with no e-mail-based communication. On these e-mail-free Fridays, employees would be encouraged to refrain completely from reading or sending e-mail or text messages and advised instead to call each other or talk in person. This idea can work for everyone. If each week we set aside time to actually talk to one another, our communications will be less impersonal and more effective and satisfying.</p>
<p>Assignment:</p>
<p>Is talking the most effective and satisfying way of communicating with others? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.</p>
<p>In today’s world, many denounce the ubiquitous use of texting, emailing, and other means of communicating electronically. Instead, they deem talking in person much better. However, this is not necessarily so. In fact, communication in the form of print has oftentimes made a vital contribution to society. As Guy Montag and the New York World Journal can both attest, by no means is talking the only effective way of communicating.</p>
<p>On one hand, Guy Montag’s world in Fahrenheit 451 is devoid of books. Montag originally took pleasure in burning books, which the fire chief knew to be very influential. To encourage conformity, books were banned from society. However, when Montag witnesses an old lady choosing to die with her books rather than live without them, he realizes that the books must be very important and satisfying. Upon stealing some for himself, he discovers that books are, in actuality, a satisfying way to communicate ideas from any place and time in history. Later, Montag would meet several others who also realized that without books, society would lose an effective and satisfying method of communication.</p>
<p>On the other hand, the New York World Journal wrote a series of articles that would later become a catalyst for the Spanish-American War, proving the incontrovertible influence of another method of communication. In 1847, the New York World Journal published a provocative story on the harsh life of prisoners of the Spanish, as well as another one on the sinking of an American ship believed to have been the doing of the Spanish. After the public read these artlces, they were indignant and demanded that the US government punish the Spanish. THe US government succumbed to the mounting pressure. So war followed. Indeed, talking in person is not the only effective and satisfying way of communicating with otherse. As the New York World Journal showed, its articles were just as effective, if not more, at communicating.</p>
<p>In conlusion, for those that lament te burgeoning use of nonverbal communication, there is no disadvantage to these methods of communications. In many cases, these nonverbal methods have proven just as effective and satisfying as talking.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>