Linguistic rights

I completely agree with the evolutionary view Klein et al. suggested, that the function of episodic memory is providing information storages of counter-examples of semantic summary, to achieve adaptive decision rules that guide organism’s behaviors. However, contrary to this argument, I really could not find out any specific episodic memories correspond with this claim. I found most of my episodic memories now I can remember are about non-social, non-human related ones, contrary to evidence…

As referred above the masks of the Middle Sepik River come out in a variety of forms each embellished with different designs and materials. Luckily, I have provided two rather diverse masks from this region which include: A Dance Mask with Bird totem from the Minneapolis Institute of Art and a Gra from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. With these objects, I hope to provide readers with a broad overlook on the different characteristics these masks may or may not share with each other. We will first…

Have you ever heard a certain word and you are immediately brought back to a certain memory? Maybe you hear the word “summer” and you can almost feel the sun beating on your skin and smell the fresh ocean air. Maybe it’s a negative memory. Maybe you hear the word “Valentine’s day,” and instantly drown in thoughts of heartbreak and can feel the regret of overindulging in chocolate and wine in your stomach. For me, it’s the word “kolache,” and it is not a good experience. You are probably…

If we take Malala Yousafzai as an example, we can see how a book, or simply words, can have a great impact as it raises awareness, modifies perspectives, and inspires millions of people to fight for basic human rights such as equality and education. Furthermore, a voice has the ability to connect a group of voices from around the world. For instance, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wrote a book entitled “We Should All Be Feminists” which is a book about sexism in Nigeria…

For me utilizing oral history to further promote social justice and activism is a key goal. Each of the reading for today highlight the need for engaged forms of oral history. Although each of the pieces for today differ in tone, style, and methodology all encourage the need for multifaceted, dynamic and multipurpose oral histories. The Lovell and Lutz article provided commentary on Stoll’s disclaims on Menchu’s oral history. Lovell and Lutz find that Stoll’s study was childish and distracts…

Summary Ajit Narayanan describes his work surrounding children with autism. With regard to language, the main issue that children on the spectrum experience is difficulty with abstraction and symbolism. After all, language is an arbitrary representation of reality. Therefore, pictures rather than words have been shown to aid these children with comprehension. In particular, Narayanan (2014) developed a program called Avaz, which essentially converts sequenced pictures into spoken sentences.…

In this section, we describe the experimental setup of our several runs. Baseline Run: At rst, we used the training dataset of 1.6 million tweets of sentiment140 dataset to train the Naive-Bayes classier for classifying the sentiment of the test set, which we considered as our baseline. In this run, we just use the bag-of-words (BoW) feature and did not perform any text preprocessing task. Run1: At Run1, we consider the similar kind of setup like Baseline Run. But here we incorporate our text…

Having found myself in dicey debates with myself regarding commas that would satisfy the need for a mild pause or the full stop that would “totally” serve the same purpose; the fictional yearnings for an existence that would have an unbiased, yet debugging nature that would clarify and put an end to subtle, tricky-little-things have always hovered around my writing table. And here I am, many years later, looking at an opportunity to help a fellow Engineer or a burgeoning scientist shape his/her…

Module 1 had four learning objectives, understanding the rhetorical situation, considering relationships among audience, text, and purpose, Textual analysis, and developing thesis statements. By reading the assigned text, I found out how to read and analyze texts rhetorically, define rhetorical situation, connect exigence to purpose, and found effective strategies for analyzing rhetorical texts. To read text and analyze it correctly you have to first gather information. You should know whose…

DeMaster, Pathman, Lee, and Ghetti (2014) found age-related differences in volumes of the hippocampal head, body, and tail, in children and young adults. They reported that better performance on an episodic memory task in adults was related to a smaller right hippocampal head and larger hippocampal body. However, in children between the ages of 8-11 years old, performance was related to a larger left hippocampal tail, suggesting that development of hippocampal subregions contributes to…