Question

revision for english pls <3

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what revision???

Answer 2

Lol hold on, I'm still writing it.

Answer 3

AP Language and Composition
Mrs. West
December 2, 2018

Polite Speech
In society, we are normally taught to be polite. We say thank you when we get our food at Wendy’s, and we also say ‘have a nice day’ to the technicians who fixed your air conditioner. However, these phrases also said when you don’t feel like it. We are forced to say ‘thank you’ when the Wendy’s servers throws the fries at you. We are forced to say, ‘have a nice day’ to the technician who overcharged you with Freon Gas. As society forces us to say these phrases, we tend to lean toward being polite because that is what is the norm today. Because of this, the value of polite speech is very high, as this will help leave a good effect on both the person who says it and the person who is being said to.
Polite speech is used in many communities, much as a school. The beginning of the first day of school, for math class in sixth grade, I had this very grumpy math teacher who apparently did not like his job. It just made us more ecstatic when we realized our teacher did not teach at all. He gave us some random worksheets and made us work things out by ourselves. But just because you didn’t like the person didn’t mean you shouldn’t be polite. So every morning when I walked in his class, I said ‘good morning, how are you?’. Every worksheet he handed us, every failing quiz he handed us back, I still said ‘thank you’. Every time we left his class, I exclaimed, ‘have a nice day!’. He barely mumbled back a response. But everyday, it made me happier, knowing that these simple words could help someone brighten their day. I continued being polite to the teacher, and he started being polite back. Polite speech, even if you don’t mean it, can also signify gratitude and thankfulness. Because of me being polite, I gradually helped him feel thankful, and helped him feel happier because of that. Turns out he had a divorce with his wife, and lately had been feeling down. Knowing this, people should be polite to people because they don’t know their backgrounds, and that polite speech can even make their day. This shows that polite speech is very well necessary to improve a human’s well being.
Polite action is also high value in order to motivate and help others become better from their lower state. When I was in eighth grade, there was this girl, Makenzie, whom I did not like. She ruined our chances of our travel soccer team going to state every year just because her parents would pay the coaches and bribe them 2 grand for every game Makenzie played in our games. But every game, the entire soccer team and I would plaster on a very nice face and tell Makenzie, ‘Good game today!’ even though she let four goals in. We didn’t mean it at all. But being in a team, you are suggested to be polite, as it is a norm of society. After our fall season had ended, spring season started, and our game opener roster contained Makenzie as our lead goalie. However, she maintained a no goals allowed streak until the fifth game we played. Turns out our polite exclamations made her want to improve even more. She knew that she wasn’t good enough, and she used the polite phrases as motivations. She helped lead us to state, and we eventually won our Travel Soccer State Championship U13. Because of our polite lines to Makenzie, this helped her improve and eventually lead us to more opportunities to play games. This left a positive effect for Makenzie, as this gave her motivation to improve, and this implies that polite speech helps improve a person’s qualities.
Many people disagree and believe that polite phrases hold no value because of the useless outcomes there are. For example, many can agree that a simple ‘hello’, ‘how are you’, ‘have a nice day’, and ‘thank you’ is heard from people all the time, and will not lead to any effect because of how oversaid it is. Many can also agree that friendly phrases can’t just change anyone, and that the people who say those phrases have original literal intent, as you can choose not to say it at all. However, looking back at my experiences, I believe that politeness and friendliness even with pity, can leave good outcome and impact a person positively.