Jargon

It is hard to tell when the first established communicative signals of mankind started to exist and it is only known that the primitive writing system was developed by 4000 BC in the region of Sumer in southern Babylonia. One thing that hasn’t changed till these days is the fact that language, as a particular human phenomenon, can be divided into two main forms: spoken and written. Even if both languages bear some similarities, such as the status marking of the sentences (is it a question, a…

Draft 1.1 Lera Boroditsky’s Lost in Translation was written and published in the Wall Street Journal in 2010. The articles main audience focuses on the upper middle class around the United States who subscribe to the Wall Street Journal. The intended audience being relatively wealthy and educated people, who may or may not necessarily know anything about the subject Boroditsky is…

As William Bernbach once said, “An important idea not communicated persuasively is like having no idea at all.” It is true that the importance of writing persuasively on crucial matters is clear in many areas of life. One of the most important subjects about which it is important to write persuasively is politics. This is because of the way the media, especially when it comes to conspiracy theories, is constantly trying to persuade the people to believe different things, and the only way to make…

have experiences in the ER, whether they are being admitted, having tests done, or just visiting a loved one. Many people who visit emergency rooms think they are very strict and high-stress environment; nurses are speaking to each other by using jargon that few people understand. What patients do not see is the hospital from the perspective of a staff member; it is completely different from a nurse’s point of view. I chose to observe an emergency room to reveal how the nursing staff functions,…

Have you seen the open letter in the New York Times written to a woman who told the author (a New Yorker) and his family to “go back to China”? I’ve been thinking about the topic of racism as it relates specifically to people of Asian ancestry for awhile. I am the white mother of two mixed race babies (my husband is American of Japanese descent). Not too long ago, I was talking about podcasts with a mother of grown children. When she asked what I had been listening to, I told her I had most…

“For the first time in history, more people die today from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists, and criminals combined.” “The average human is far more likely to die from bingeing at McDonald’s than from drought, Ebola or an al-Qaeda attack.” Yuval Noah Harari, book Homo Deus; A Brief History of Tomorrow, 2017 What was that? It can’t be right! Yet in the…

Personal Goals I aspire to attend a university and pursue a higher level of education. My parents did not attend college or even finish high school. I want to be the first in my family to pursue a college degree. I started my journey on the first day of high school. I recognized that I had put my academics before anything in order to have a promising future. Through perseverance and dedication, I have earned the title valedictorian which shows that I am motivated to be successful. I…

This paper explores how the Conflict of values, international systems, national interest, realism, and humanitarianism played a role in the Rwandan genocide. Although the Jewish genocide seems to be the worlds most remembered massacre of a people, the Rwandan genocide will go down in history as the fastest, If not the utmost vicious, massacre in the history of all humanity. For thousands of Tutsis, a catholic church is all that protects them, “No one gets killed in a church” this…

The book is a critique about the fundamental structure of capitalism. One of the main premises of his work states that capitalism is flawed from its roots and that naturally communism will follow. Marx created a new jargon in order to build his theory; he refered to certain objects as commodities. "A commodity is an external object that satisfies a human need either directly or indirectly" (spark notes). according to Marx commodites have three important traits: their…

used in noun phrases such as “fatal errors” or “fatal exceptions” to denote a “sudden end to the running of a [computer] program” (Dictionary.com, 2015), as if the program was dying. This more figurative use of the word is a one that is used in the jargon of a very specific set of people, mainly those who are skilled and learned in computer software, and is recorded as early as circa 1997. Therefore, this usage does not signify further semantic change, but rather a modern day application of…