Alamine Jamai TOK-Metaphors 7/01/11 11th grade 1. To what extent does language generalize individual experience‚ classifying it within the experience of a linguistic group? Did it ever happen to you to be chilling with all your friends‚ suddenly an anecdote comes to mind; you finding it related to the subject
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History of Vernacular Language Unit 2 Individual Project Zoey Bullock American Intercontinental University Abstract This paper will discuss the origins of the Spanish language and describe how the language spread. Latin has significantly influenced the creation of the Spanish language as well as the development of many other Western languages. The ways in which Latin has influenced Western language development will also be explained. History of Vernacular Language Spanish has one of the
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“Ethical language is meaningless” Discuss Ethics is concerned with what is right and what is wrong. Meta-ethics however looks at the language‚ it asks “What does it mean to say that something is right or wrong”. In the words of Pojman‚ "normative ethics is a philosophical examination of morality‚ meta-ethics is philosophising about ethics -that is‚ about the very terms and structure of ethical theories." I aim to explore the claim that all ethical language is meaningless by looking at some of
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History of Programming Languages To date‚ there have been two conferences focusing on programming languages. The Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN) of the Association for Computing Machinery sponsored two "History of Programming Languages (HOPL)" conferences. The first of these took place in Los Angeles in 1978‚ and focused on thirteen early languages: ALGOL‚ APL‚ APT‚ BASIC‚ COBOL‚ FORTRAN‚ GPSS‚ JOSS‚ JOVIAL‚ LISP‚ PL/I‚ SIMULA‚ and SNOBOL. The prospectus for the first
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Theory of Knowledge Éanna OBoyle ToK Mathematics “... what the ordinary person in the street regards as mathematics is usually nothing more than the operations of counting with perhaps a little geometry thrown in for good measure. This is why banking or accountancy or architecture is regarded as a suitable profession for someone who is ‘good at figures’. Indeed‚ this popular view of what mathematics is‚ and what is required to be good at it‚ is extremely prevalent; yet it would be laughed at
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Zachary Haw February 25‚ 2012 TOK13B Mr. Marana Y11 TOK FORMAL PAPER It had been a common question and debate on how people think based on the things that they know. Many people believe that things that we know are based on the things that are established on us through our culture‚ environment and society. According to the prompt that "We see and understand things not as they are but as we are"‚ this statement be a common ground of discussion in this paper. While this maybe
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A HISTORY OF OUR LANGUAGE The English Language is Rich in its history. Studying the events that formed our language is vital to understand not only why we speak the way we do‚ but it also enables us to understand who we are. It comprises French‚ Latin‚ German‚ Norse‚ and a few lesser known tongues. Before there was written English‚ our texts were primarily written in Latin‚ and were reserved to be read by only the Pious and Royal. We also have historical landmarks such as Stonehenge that can guide
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Nick Roberson Mr. Scharff IB TOK 3rd June 2013 Language: Journal #3 1. Our language makes us more likely to notice some distinctions or to experience/perceive in certain ways. 2. Our differing environments‚ cultures and social needs will manifest themselves in differences in language. Concerning the first prompt‚ the language that we use causes us to notice the differences in the environment surrounding us because of the manner which it has been described to us. An
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“Using history and at least one other area of knowledge‚ examine the claim that it is possible to attain knowledge despite problems of bias and selection.” Knowledge is a broad subject that can all be brought down to the one simple definition of facts‚ information‚ and skills acquired by a person through experience or education. This definition is simple‚ to the point and comes with relatively little bias. Bias is prejudice in favor of or against one thing which falls under the category of personal
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15-2-1 TOK Presentation! To what extent does our experience bring implicit bias in our assumptions? ! - Real life situation : 198 words‚ 1 min 20 s! So about one year ago‚ I’ve heard this story from my friend who had been living in Sweden for 2 years. He is a British born African who holds a Master’s degree in Architecture from University College London. He is tall and seems strong. He lived with his Swedish girlfriend but he didn’t get any jobs in the first 3 months‚ later he found a recruitment
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