Wednesday, October 6, 2010
FACTS! FACTS! FACTS!
What did you think Dickens was trying to say in this quote," Now, what I want is Facts, teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are planted in life. Plant nothing else and root out everything else. You can only form minds of reasoning animals upon Facts!" Why did he capitalized facts in the book? Why do you think facts are important in life? Are there any times in life where lying would be okay? Give examples.
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As i see it, Dickens capitalizes the word, fact, solely to emphasize on the importance of the word, adding exclamation points,and repetition to add to its importance. When I think of facts, lately its reminded me of what has also been repeated and emphasized in my geometry class, using proof. the definition of a fact is similar to a word learned from my geometry class, theorems; both proven to be true, ergo when using either of them, it must be true. Knowing that, connecting to the other blog based on teaching facts, it can be seen as a basis of imagination. When in a trial case or solving a mystery, you first base it off of facts. After, we may use imagination to create hypotheses that can be used to solve the problem. In reality we base much of our problem solving methods on facts to solve simple matters such as mathematical word problems, or misplaced items. it takes a bit of imagination based on facts simply to adapt through life.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, Charles Dickens used capitalization in the word 'facts' to verify the importance to the word, like the way (Jo Jo Sapida) stated. I also believe he used a multiple number of exclamations points to show tone & mood in his statements.
ReplyDeleteFacts are significant because there will always be a numerous amount of times where you have to prove your point, and with out proof you are not able to deliver full assistance to your statement.