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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and do the same as above. In this paragraph discuss some of your personal experience and how they link to the topic. Try to keep personal voice throughout the essay. In next few paragraphs discuss how some ways of knowing (perception‚ reason‚ language‚ emotion) are linked to your topic. Tell how these ways of knowing affect what kind of knowledge we gain and reliability of knowledge. Remember to consider counter arguments. Do not only try to prove your thesis by providing supporting evidence
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The History of English Teaching Methodology by S. Kathleen Kitao : Doshisha Women’s College‚ Kyoto‚ Japan Kenji Kitao : Doshisha University‚ Kyoto‚ Japan Language teaching has been around for many centuries‚ and over the centuries‚ it has changed. Various influences have affected language teaching. Reasons for learning language have been different in different periods. In some eras‚ languages were mainly taught for the purpose of reading. In others‚ it was taught mainly to people who needed to
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The English language has had an adventure in many respects‚ and has been very near extinction. The original language is undistinguishable from the language that we speak today. Although the language is very deeply rooted in the Latin language it has managed to retain much of its Germanic qualities. Today the language is about sixty percent Germanic and forty percent Romantic. The beginning of English started with the Scandinavian people when they landed in Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries A
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Session Word Count: 1600 Humans have come to accept that History by mere definition is the exploration and study of history whereas the Human Sciences are defined as the in depth study of social‚ biological and cultural aspects of human beings. As humans we have used and accepted this two Areas of Knowledge‚ to interpret and understand the world around us. History and Human Sciences seek to influence humans through language‚ reason‚ and emotion. An assumption is made here that the Ways of Knowing
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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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Do animals have language? ’’Language is the method of human communication‚ either spoken or written‚ consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way’’(1) Language is humanity’s way of communicating with each other‚ there are over 6‚500 different languages spoken around the world. Every language is communicated by two or more people. Every person can have a combination of languages. It all depends on what that person chooses to do. Some individuals believe that there is
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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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TOK Essay: When should we discard explanations that are intuitively appealing? Many question its reliability because at times‚ intuition is of great help to us‚ but other times‚ it may influence us in making the biggest mistakes. Before we are able to decide whether or not “intuitively appealing” explanations should be considered‚ we need to define the word. Simply‚ intuition is a method of attaining knowledge without the use of reason. It is the direct knowledge that we can access without rational
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