(2V) Initiative 

Initiative: the power or opportunity to act or take charge before others do.

Taking the initiative is having the power to do something on your own. Sometimes people don't want to take the initiative but they know they have to. For example, say your in the dining hall eating dinner with your friends and you see and girl sitting by herself and you decide to invite her to sit with your friends. That would be taking the initiative to invite the girl to sit with you. Taking an initiative occurs in many situations and I'm sure some people don't even realize it. Now that I am in college I have to learn to take the initiative to do things on my own. I have to take charge in doing my work ahead of time and not waiting for the last minute to do things.

New Vocabulary:

Rhetoric: speaking and writing to communicate effectively.

Rhetoric was a new vocabulary word that I learned in my english class. It is an example of a figure of speech.

Persuasion: The coproduction of meaning achieved when the sender of a message succeeds in audiences identifying with that message.

In my media class I learned that persuasion is really achieved with symbols, images, and language.