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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History of the English Language English is an Anglo-Frisian language brought to Britain in the 5th Century AD by Germanic settlers from various parts of northwest Germany. The original Old English language was subsequently influenced by two successive waves of invasion. The first was by speakers of languages in the Scandinavian branch of the Germanic family‚ who colonised parts of Britain in the 8th and 9th centuries. The second wave was of the Normans in the 11th century‚ who spoke Norman (an
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corpus 1.3.1 Geoffrey Chaucer and his lending support of the London Standard’s diffusion 1.3.2 The role of the printing in the formation of the English language 1.3.3 Principal Middle English written records as a reflection of ongoing changes in Standardization CHAPTER 2. CHANGING CONDITIONS IN THE PERIOD OF STANDARDISATION OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 2.1 Origins of Standard English 2.1.1 The Rise of Standard English 2.1.2 The importance of London English 2.1.3 The importance of Chancery Line 2
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History of the English language From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia (Redirected from History of English Language) Jump to: navigation‚ search English is a West Germanic language that originated from the Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Britain by Germanic invaders from various parts of what is now northwest Germany and the Netherlands. Initially‚ Old English was a diverse group of dialects‚ reflecting the varied origins of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England. One of these dialects‚ Late
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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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Plan. 1. Introduction 2. History of germanic languages. 3.1. The Indo-European languages 3.2. Historical Germanic Languages 3.3. Present day Germanic languages 3. The chronological division of the History of English. 4. Conclusion. 5. Bibliography. 1. Introduction. This paper is dedicated to the history of germanic languages. Germanic languages‚ subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages‚ spoken by about 470 million people in many
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ISL Linguistic Date: 12 January 2013 History of the English Language • Indo-European Language Family Tree • World Englishes History of the English Language Source: http://www.danshort.com/ie/timeline.htm The figure below shows the timeline of the history of the English language. * The earliest known residents of the British Isles were the Celts‚ who spoke Celtic languages—a separate branch of the Indo-European language family tree. * Over the centuries the British Isles were
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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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A History of Computer Programming Languages The first programming languages predate the modern computer. From the first‚ the languages were codes. Herman Hollerith realized that he could encode information on punch cards when he observed that railroad train conductors would encode the appearance of the ticket holders on the train tickets using the position of punched holes on the tickets. Hollerith then proceeded to encode the 1890 census data on punch cards which he made the same size as the boxes
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who assessed the essays‚ and whose individual reports form the basis for this subject report. In order to secure success for their students‚ schools are strongly recommended to ensure that this report and previous ones are read in detail by all TOK teachers‚ and the Diploma Programme Coordinator. The May 08 Subject Report‚ as the first Subject Report for the new assessment criteria‚ contained much criterion-specific advice and is particularly useful. Teachers are also directed towards the IB
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