"Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think." Evaluate this extent to which the characteristics of Sartre claims for words affect - negatively or positively - different Areas of Knowledge.

To ilustrate these statements I can use the recent political situation in our country Lithuania. The speeches of our president Rolandas Paksas can be a good example to prove, that words are very influencial in political area and can affect people both positively and negatively. A good way of speaking and promises helped him to win the ellections for the president and convince others that he is able to make the situation in Lithuania better. However, his later speeches and steps, unreasonable usage of words and expressions revealed that he had lacked a good educational level, thinking and understanding of situation. So the first good impression was destroyed. That was fixed by yournalists and showed to the society.

Another Area of Knowledge in which words have significance is arts. Actually, the usage of word in arts does not make so much influence as it makes in politics, but it still remains important. This can be proved in few ways.

First of all the way of writing. In poetry and prose words get a symbolic meaning. They help to reveal the context, genre and mood of work, situation of the characters, plot, suroundings and the authour himself. If one or some words are being changed, the whole production may loose its value and be interpretated differently from the expectations of the author. That is why it is very important to use suitable words and phrases, to created special surroundings and by revealing the main ideas of work, affect the readers either positively or negatively. The same can happen with songs. It is clear as a day that the biggest part of song take words and not music. In order to create an interesting and a nice one, the performers should keep the proportion of words and music in proper way. And only then song can become popular and reach the deepest corners of human hearts by making influence on them.

However, arts have some fields where words are not so valuable, because they are being used partly. For example design and applied arts. The process of painting or sketching drafts involves only actions of hands, ideas, feelings, and no speaking. But on the other hand, it is necesary to present created works (designed clothes, models or paintings), to say something useful about them in that way convincing people to buy or make investments. The unsuitable usage of words can make a negative effect on others and dissapoint those who might be interested in.

The third Area of Knowledge is maths. In my opinion, words have the least influence in this field comparing with other two areas that I have already described. This is because maths is based on logical assumptions and rules. These rules do consist of words, but the way of using them suitably does not make so much sense to the main point of the matter. The same happens with logic, because the order of words in sentences may be changed according to the purport that is needed. Synonimes also can be used in order to express minds in logical way. For example we can take few short statements: " Today is beautiful weather. What is more, today is nice weather (nice and beautiful are synonimes). And the weather today seems to be beautiful." So we can see that the changing of words and their sequence does not change the main purport. These statements also do not affect people a lot, because the meaning is the same.

The only one exception could be theorems. They are short descriptions of something that has already been proved. And there is no possibility to change words or their order in sentence without changing the whole theorem. As an example we can use the theorem of Pythagor. It says that in the right triangle the sum of square raise to the second power of the first cathetus and square raise to the second power of the second cathetus is equal to the square raise to the second power of the hypotenuse (A * A + B * B = C * C). If we change the sequence or the word cathetus to the word hypotenuse, all theorem will loose its value and become incorrect. So this makes us believe that wrongly used words in theorems affect people negatively and right statements - positively.

To sum up, I would like to say that words are really much more treacherous and powerful than we could imagine. They are used in many Areas of Knowledge and daily life of humans. Just in one situation may affect positively, in another - negatively. Used in political field, words may not only help to gain support for representatives of government by showing their aims, but

also cause some troubles for them. Used in arts, words have less effect, but it still depends on the situation. Used in maths and logic, they can not make huge impressions, just help to reveal the task of excercises and context of logic assumpions. Only theorems require more attention when using words and phrases. So we can see that it is necesary to talk and write in proper way each time and ensure that you have an understanding of the subject, can affect others positively. In such way showing the attitude and respect to the native or foreign language, culture of the country life, personal features and finaly educational level and the maturity of an individuality. So try to avoid mistakes while talking and writing.