Attitudes, Values and Ideas

By Jack Chambers, the critically acclaimed English student

"Amazing!" says The Telegraph

 

DENOTATIONS

Attitude- manner, disposition, feeling, position, etc., with regard to a person or thing; tendency or orientation, especially of the mind: a negative attitude; group attitudes.

Values- the ideals, customs, institutions, etc., of a society toward which the people of the group have an affective regard. These values may be positive, as cleanliness, freedom, or education, or negative, as cruelty, crime, or blasphemy.

Ideas- any conception existing in the mind as a result of mental understanding, awareness, or activity.

 

ATTIUDES

In writing, an attitude is an expression of feelings or opinions. They are often very noticeable in all forms of writing, such as editorials. For example,

"Dear whoever,

You are going to die.

Not by my hand and hopefully not by anyone elses. If your age is zero and your reading this, you have between approx. 0 to 100 years to live. The likelihood is your not zero, and thus have even less time to live. That's all you get. What? You think you live this life as some sort of chore or test before you float up and live in ecstacy in the clouds. Yep, of course God created you so you could bum around for sometime before coming to live with him. No no, don't question this at all - just accept it maybe counteracting any sort of constructive criticism of this system with an enigmatic question like "He works in mysterious ways". Maybe you've read this far and am thinking "Whoever wrote this is some commie bastard asshole hippy who should get into the real world". If you did just think that, you should definitely keep reading…"

The main attitude of the above letter is of anger and general dislike for the public.