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FYI: English isn't the official language of the United States

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CNN presented an article on the importance of acknowledging multiple languages in The United States of America. The article goes in depth about the fact that many people in America do not speak english. It also talks about why this makes America better than it would be without its diversity in language and culture.

This article discusses the ideas that surround how important it is for Americans to acknowledge that the United States is a country of immigrants. Many people forget that immigrants help make this country strong as they bring culture and language with them. There are many people that come to America from other countries and this can be shown within the diversity of our government, businesses, and other professions. Even though diversity can be improved in America, there are many reasons to believe that there are various people with numerous languages that are a part of American society.

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Kaur, H. (2018). FYI: English isn't the official language of the United States. Retrieved from http://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/05/20/us/english-us-official-language-trnd/index.html

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A lot of multilingual countries promote an official language, but the United States has never done so with English. In fact, the US has no official language.

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For this assignment, students were to read specific articles and readings on African American English and then post discussion blog posts on their view on it. This assignment shows the importance of culture and how it can influence and revolutionize languages. This assignment also looked at ways in which African Americans from different cultures and societies speak with different dialects.

African American English, also known as Ebonics, is a collection of words and phrases that are primarily used by African Americans. There are many African-Americans in America as there are many black students, workers, government officials, and other personnel and people as well. This blog post made students think about the application of African American English in different aspects of society. This assignment made me think about African American students who use Ebonics and go to school in America. Many students could possibly benefit from being encouraged to use African American English in school. It could also be beneficial for students if teachers learn more about Ebonics as well.

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Assignment 2 - Standardized Assessment Analysis

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Assignment 2 - Standardized Assessment Analysis

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This assignment was a group project that focused on analyzing and evaluating content of different national tests in The United States of America. My group studied the ACT and how its use is determined within America. This assignment showed the importance of looking at Socioeconomic elements and regional influences that should be considered when making a national test.

This assignment helps students with studying ways in which standardized tests can lack elements that help with making sure that students from different regions and socioeconomic classes have equal opportunities pertaining to the test. This assignment also made students more aware of the different components of a test. I studied the technical manual for the ACT. The manual was very informative as it gave very specific was in which the test can be applied in different areas in and out of education.

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TLPL 288C - Assignment 2 - ACT - Nicholas Orji

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This Article was published by the Child Mind Institute and it discusses the influence of social media on Teens. This article presents ideas on how social media can affect how teens speak and communicate to people. There are also ideas about how one's perspective can be molded from one's setting in the world of social media.

Social media is a platform that helps teenagers communicate with different languages. Many teens can find inspiration through social media, however, social media platforms tend to have a negative connotation due to negative influences and content that can be found on platforms. This article talks about mental effects on teenagers that can affect

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Ehmke, R. (2018, October 23). How Using Social Media Affects Teenagers. Retrieved from https://childmind.org/article/how-using-social-media-affects-teenagers/

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Many parents worry about how exposure to technology might affect toddlers developmentally. We know our preschoolers are picking up new social and cognitive skills at a stunning pace, and we don't want hours spent glued to an iPad to impede that. But adolescence is an equally important period of rapid development, and too few of us are paying attention to how our teenagers' use of technology - much more intense and intimate than a 3-year-old playing with dad's iPhone - is affecting them. In fact, experts worry that the social media and text messages that have become so integral to teenage life are promoting anxiety and lowering self-esteem.

Young people report that there might be good reason to worry. A survey conducted by the Royal Society for Public Health asked 14-24-year-olds in the UK how social media platforms impacted their health and well-being. The survey results found that Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram all led to increased feelings of depression, anxiety, poor body image, and loneliness.

Indirect communication

Teens are masters at keeping themselves occupied in the hours after school until way past bedtime. When they're not doing their homework (and when they are) they're online and on their phones, texting, sharing, trolling, scrolling, you name it. Of course before everyone had an Instagram account teens kept themselves busy, too, but they were more likely to do their chatting on the phone, or in person when hanging out at the mall. It may have looked like a lot of aimless hanging around, but what they were doing was experimenting, trying out skills, and succeeding and failing in tons of tiny real-time interactions that kids today are missing out on. For one thing, modern teens are learning to do most of their communication while looking at a screen, not another person.

"As a species we are very highly attuned to reading social cues," says Catherine Steiner-Adair, EdD, a clinical psychologist and author of The Big Disconnect. "There's no question kids are missing out on very critical social skills. In a way, texting and online communicating puts everybody in a context where body language, facial expression, and even the smallest kinds of vocal reactions are rendered invisible."

Lowering the risks

Certainly speaking indirectly creates a barrier to clear communication, but that's not all. Learning how to make friends is a major part of growing up, and friendship requires a certain amount of risk-taking. This is true for making a new friend, but it's also true for maintaining friendships. When there are problems that need to be faced - big ones or small ones - it takes courage to be honest about your feelings and then hear what the other person has to say. Learning to effectively cross these bridges is part of what makes friendship fun and exciting, and also scary. "Part of healthy self-esteem is knowing how to say what you think and feel even when you're in disagreement with other people or it feels emotionally risky," notes Dr. Steiner-Adair.

But when friendship is conducted online and through texts, kids are doing this in a context stripped of many of the most personal - and sometimes intimidating - aspects of communication. It's easier to keep your guard up when you're texting, so less is at stake. You aren't hearing or seeing the effect that your words are having on the other person. Because the conversation isn't happening in real time, each party can take more time to consider a response. No wonder kids say calling someone on the phone is "too intense"- it requires more direct communication, and if you aren't used to that it may well feel scary.

If kids aren't getting enough practice relating to people and getting their needs met in person and in real time, many of them will grow up to be adults who are anxious about our species' primary means of communication - talking. And of course social negotiations only get riskier as people get older and begin navigating romantic relationships and employment.

Cyberbullying and the imposter syndrome

The other big danger that comes from kids communicating more indirectly is that it has gotten easier to be cruel. "Kids text all sorts of things that you would never in a million years contemplate saying to anyone's face," says Donna Wick, EdD, a clinical and developmental psychologist. She notes that this seems to be especially true of girls, who typically don't like to disagree with each other in "real life."

"You hope to teach them that they can disagree without jeopardizing the relationship, but what social media is teaching them to do is disagree in ways that are more extreme and do jeopardize the relationship. It's exactly what you don't want to have happen," she says.

Dr. Steiner-Adair agrees that girls are particularly at risk. "Girls are socialized more to compare themselves to other people, girls in particular, to develop their identities, so it makes them more vulnerable to the downside of all this." She warns that a lack of solid self-esteem is often to blame. "We forget that relational aggression comes from insecurity and feeling awful about yourself, and wanting to put other people down so you feel better."

Peer acceptance is a big thing for adolescents, and many of them care about their image as much as a politician running for office, and to them it can feel as serious. Add to that the fact that kids today are getting actual polling data on how much people like them or their appearance via things like "likes." It's enough to turn anyone's head. Who wouldn't want to make themselves look cooler if they could? So kids can spend hours pruning their online identities, trying to project an idealized image. Teenage girls sort through hundreds of photos, agonizing over which ones to post online. Boys compete for attention by trying to out-gross one other, pushing the envelope as much as they can in the already disinhibited atmosphere online. Kids gang up on each other.

Adolescents have always been doing this, but with the advent of social media they are faced with more opportunities - and more traps - than ever before. When kids scroll through their feeds and see how great everyone seems, it only adds to the pressure. We're used to worrying about the impractical ideals that photoshopped magazine models give to our kids, but what happens with the kid next door is photoshopped, too? Even more confusing, what about when your own profile doesn't really represent the person that you feel like you are on the inside?

"Adolescence and the early twenties in particular are the years in which you are acutely aware of the contrasts between who you appear to be and who you think you are," says Dr. Wick. "It's similar to the 'imposter syndrome' in psychology. As you get older and acquire more mastery, you begin to realize that you actually are good at some things, and then you feel that gap hopefully narrow. But imagine having your deepest darkest fear be that you aren't as good as you look, and then imagine needing to look that good all the time! It's exhausting."

As Dr. Steiner-Adair explains, "Self-esteem comes from consolidating who you are." The more identities you have, and the more time you spend pretending to be someone you aren't, the harder it's going to be to feel good about yourself.

Stalking (and being ignored)

Another big change that has come with new technology and especially smart phones is that we are never really alone. Kids update their status, share what they're watching, listening to, and reading, and have apps that let their friends know their specific location on a map at all times. Even if a person isn't trying to keep his friends updated, he's still never out of reach of a text message. The result is that kids feel hyperconnected with each other. The conversation never needs to stop, and it feels like there's always something new happening.

"Whatever we think of the 'relationships' maintained and in some cases initiated on social media, kids never get a break from them," notes Dr. Wick. "And that, in and of itself, can produce anxiety. Everyone needs a respite from the demands of intimacy and connection; time alone to regroup, replenish and just chill out. When you don't have that, it's easy to become emotionally depleted, fertile ground for anxiety to breed."

It's also surprisingly easy to feel lonely in the middle of all that hyperconnection. For one thing, kids now know with depressing certainty when they're being ignored. We all have phones and we all respond to things pretty quickly, so when you're waiting for a response that doesn't come, the silence can be deafening. The silent treatment might be a strategic insult or just the unfortunate side effect of an online adolescent relationship that starts out intensely but then fades away.

"In the old days when a boy was going to break up with you, he had to have a conversation with you. Or at least he had to call," says Dr. Wick. "These days he might just disappear from your screen, and you never get to have the 'What did I do?' conversation." Kids are often left imagining the worst about themselves.

But even when the conversation doesn't end, being in a constant state of waiting can still provoke anxiety. We can feel ourselves being put on the back burner, we put others back there, and our very human need to communicate is effectively delegated there, too.

What should parents do?

Both experts interviewed for this article agreed that the best thing parents can do to minimize the risks associated with technology is to curtail their own consumption first. It's up to parents to set a good example of what healthy device usage looks like. Most of us check our phones or our email too much, out of either real interest or nervous habit. Kids should be used to seeing our faces, not our heads bent over a screen. Establish technology-free zones in the house and technology-free hours when no one uses the phone, including mom and dad. "Don't walk in the door after work in the middle of a conversation," Dr. Steiner-Adair advises. "Don't walk in the door after work, say 'hi' quickly, and then 'just check your email.' In the morning, get up a half hour earlier than your kids and check your email then. Give them your full attention until they're out the door. And neither of you should be using phones in the car to or from school because that's an important time to talk."

Not only does limiting the amount of time you spend plugged in to computers provide a healthy counterpoint to the tech-obsessed world, it also strengthens the parent-child bond and makes kids feel more secure. Kids need to know that you are available to help them with their problems, talk about their day, or give them a reality check.

"It is the mini-moments of disconnection, when parents are too focused on their own devices and screens, that dilute the parent-child relationship," Dr. Steiner-Adair warns. And when kids start turning to the internet for help or to process whatever happened during the day, you might not like what happens. "Tech can give your children more information that you can, and it doesn't have your values," notes Dr. Steiner-Adair. "It won't be sensitive to your child's personality, and it won't answer his question in a developmentally appropriate way."

In addition Dr. Wick advises delaying the age of first use as much as possible. "I use the same advice here that I use when talking about kids and alcohol - try to get as far as you can without anything at all." If your child is on a social media platform, Dr. Wick says that you should friend them and monitor their page. But she advises against going through text messages unless there is cause for concern. "If you have a reason to be worried then okay, but it better be a good reason. I see parents who are just plain old spying on their kids. Parents should begin by trusting their children. To not even give your kid the benefit of the doubt is incredibly damaging to the relationship. You have to feel like your parents think you're a good kid."

Offline, the gold standard advice for helping kids build healthy self-esteem is to get them involved in something that they're interested in. It could be sports or music or taking apart computers or volunteering - anything that sparks an interest and gives them confidence. When kids learn to feel good about what they can do instead of how they look and what they own, they're happier and better prepared for success in real life. That most of these activities also involve spending time interacting with peers face-to-face is just the icing on the cake.

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How Using Social Media Affects Teenagers - Child Mind Institute

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How does social media affect teens? Experts say kids are growing up with more anxiety and less self-esteem due to social media. Read advice for parents from specialists in our article.

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This is a picture of a world map of languages. This picture is very expressive and important as it displays multiple languages around the world in different colors. This map shows the diversity of languages in an international perspective and shows how every country has many ways in which people speak and listen to each other.

This world map is very informative as it shows how diverse the world is. This map does not go into depth about specific dialects and other elements of language, however, it stills shows relative diverse spreads of languages throughout the world.

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6 UN languages world-wide. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://visual.ly/community/infographic/other/6-un-languages-world-wide

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This article discusses the ideas an concepts of how language and thoughts are connected in many ways. This article goes in depth on how language creates different types of experiences for different people in terms of communicating and processing information.

This article is very interesting as it talks about the connections between language and the ways in which people think. Many people tend to believe that language is a separate entity from how we process our thoughts due to the ways in which people communicate. However, this article refutes this idea and argues that language and thinking are more connected than people think.

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Language and Thought Processes. Retrieved from https://www2.palomar.edu/anthro/language/language_5.htm

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On a practical level, language has to do with sounds, symbols and gestures that a community puts in order and associates so that they can communicate. On a deeper level, language is an expression of who we are as individuals, communities, nations. Culture refers to dynamic social systems and shared patterns of behavior, beliefs, knowledge, attitudes and values.

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How Language Shapes Your Organization By Kevin Allen Article

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How Language Shapes Your Organization By Kevin Allen Article

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This article contains ideas and topics on how language can affect businesses and organization. This is important as their are many companies around the world and in America, many organizations are looking to create diversity within their environments. This article talks about how many organizations should not just think about the language that someone speaks, but the culture that is connected to that person and language.

There are many businesses and organizations with America have recently started campaigning for more diversity within their companies. Diversity is very important in the workplace as it helps with bringing different ideas and cultures to organizations. Diversity also helps with creating representation within organizations that provide goods or products for different people from various cultures.

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Allen, K. (2014, August 07). How Language Shapes Your Organization. Retrieved from https://hbr.org/2012/07/how-language-shapes-your-organization

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Cultural permission is the tone, attitude and language that emanates from the executive suite. It is a mantra, expressed in oft-used catch phrases and philosophies that move like waves through the organization. They get adopted and interpreted as actions to be followed. They become part of everyday lexicon and cultural idioms that people hear coming from the highest levels, and form a platform for what the organization believes and expects of its people. "Get it done!" "We will not be denied." "Take no prisoners!" These are just a few of the things I heard coming up in the business world, and from my perspective, no good came from any of them.

As a former New Yorker, now a London resident, it has been nearly impossible to avoid the drama of News Corporation's phone hacking scandal, which has shuttered a more than 100-year-old newspaper and, even as of this writing, has executives and politicians alike running for cover. It is yet another in a catalog of companies caught up in the misdeeds of their people. I was struck by the steadfast claims of executives that they had no knowledge of inappropriate acts, and certainly had not condoned any inappropriate actions. Yet, the inappropriate behavior seems to have happened not just randomly, but systemically.

The real drama however, unfolded not when the leaders of the company claimed, perhaps accurately, that they were unaware of and shocked by the actions of errant employees hacking phones, manipulating markets and cooking the books. The real drama happened long before - when these leaders played a major role in setting the cultural climate for inappropriate actions to unfold. In the race to find culpability, what doesn't get talked about is the very climate that creates the conditions for people to behave badly and feel perfectly justified in their behavior. It is, in fact, the very same thing that creates an environment and provides the fuel for people to conversely do great, generous and far-reaching things. It boils down to cultural permission.

Take Enron, for example. Lurking amidst Enron's excesses were the unmistakable cultural cues that I believe drove employee behavior. "We're an aggressive culture", "Guys with Spikes", "Money is the only thing that motivates" and "Rank and Yank" are but a few of the statements heard. Is it any wonder traders thought they had the right to shut off electricity supplies and manipulate the market?

The Power of the Spoken Word
One of my greatest mentors said to me upon being awarded my first real management role, "Well kid, welcome to the club. You are now dinner conversation." He let me know in no uncertain terms that what I said and how I said it would be discussed at every dinner table of every employee in the place. He taught me that I had a vital duty to be certain that the language I used and the themes I shared would result in a positive, constructive and motivating force, mindful always that what I said, however offhanded, would be seen as a directive - interpreted and acted upon.

The Seeds of Greatness
One thing common to the fraternity of leaders I have known is the rapid recognition of the power of the "bully pulpit." The words you share travel like lightning and when they arrive at your people's doorstep...they act on them. Your influence over the behavior of your people is not limited to carefully-prescribed internal communications; it lies in the daily sentiments, conversations and values you share. The best leaders understand this - like Horst Schulze of Ritz-Carlton, who shaped his employee's decorum and conduct with "We're ladies and gentleman serving ladies and gentlemen." Or, Rudy Giuliani, when he was working to build a better New York, stating that "People created the problem so people can fix it," and "What doesn't get measured doesn't get done." These leaders used simple, highly motivating and prescriptive words that set the right cultural permission for their organizations. For my company, there are several phrases we use, chief among them being "Generosity of Spirit." I believe when you set out to do something worthy for someone, it's honorable in the first instance, and comes back to you in the second. It shapes a climate...and a bottom line.

Choose Your Language Carefully
Try this: Write down the various phrases and expressions you use regularly. Look them over, and ask yourself what permission you think they invoke? What behaviors do you think your employees will take on when they hear them?

If they exist, write down the legacy phrases that float through the organization. Are they healthy? Do they need erasing?

If you don't have a stable of rich language, then there's an opportunity for you to craft it, and add this language to your overall internal motivation and communications program to inspire and mobilize your people. This language, carefully articulated and shared, offers rich opportunities to codify and crystallize what your company is about, and what your company seeks. It will provide the cultural permission you wish to give.

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How Important Is Listening, Really? By Christina McEntee

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How Important Is Listening, Really? By Christina McEntee

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This article talks about the importance of listening and how it is very crucial to understanding what occurs in society. It is also very important as constant amounts of information are being presented to people everyday and being able to listen before one speaks can help with making better decisions and understanding more about one's environment.

This article describes listening as a very important aspect of learning and communicating. The reading talks about why one should listen actively and pay attention to other aspects outside of conversations. This is important because in this class we discussed how listening is one of the most important parts of communicating. This is especially important today due to the amount of information that people take in every day.

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McEntee, C. (2011, October 27). How Important Is Listening, Really? Retrieved from https://www.forbes.com/sites/85broads/2011/10/25/how-important-is-listening-really/#206571196d2f

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Someone once asked me, at a time in my life when I was a Sales Manager: What one quality above all others do you look for in a sales person?

I thought about the sales people I worked with, and the really good sales people I have known. The best are persistent, persuasive, strategic thinkers, energetic, able to offer compelling arguments to overcome resistance. Many, as you would expect, are really good talkers. But if I had to pick just one quality, that all of these individuals share, it would be this: The ability to listen.

"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force" writes Brenda Ueland in her essay On The Fine Art of Listening. The people who "really listen to us are the ones we move toward, and want to sit in their radius as though it did us good."

Most of us don't really listen very well. Or if we do manage to listen, we are often just waiting until the other person finishes so that we can say what is on OUR mind. And that's not really listening. Over time the result of this is that we seal ourselves off from other people, we don't really know them, or really understand their concerns. Eventually, as our lives move on, we may become more and more isolated. When we listen, Ueland remarks, we allow the creative fountain to start up, 'the spirit, the intelligence, the imagination.' And by not listening, whether it be in business or personal life, that fountain will run dry.

Here's a little test. Try listening for just one day to someone you are close to: your husband or wife, child or parent. Try really listening to a difficult business colleague or client. And when they finish, don't let your self-assertion jump in with "yes, but.....". Get rid of the word "but" altogether, it only serves to negate everything the person you are listening to has just said. Instead, if you do say anything, try asking "What else?"

You don't need to do this perfectly for the results to be quite remarkable. All of us want to be listened to, all of us want to really be heard. When someone senses you are really listening to what they have to say amazing things can happen. Solutions can be found that were never imagined. Understanding can be reached that had seemed impossible. Old angers and resentments can be overcome. Frustrations can simply fall away.

Everyone lightens up and feels much better.

"We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role. And the true listener is much more believed, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective and learns more and does more good. And so try listening. Listen to your wife, your husband, your father, your mother, your children, your friends, to those who love you and those who don't, to those who bore you, to your enemies. It will work a small miracle. And perhaps a great one."

Quotes are all taken from Brenda Ueland's wonderful essay, Tell Me More, On The Fine Art of Listening. Published by Holy Cow Press, www.holycowpress.org.
Christina Holbrook McEntee has worked with individuals and companies in the U.S., Europe, and the Far East. She has a background in leadership, sales management, and strategic planning, and has held the position of President and CEO of The Black Book Marketing Group, and VP of Sales of BrandEra.com, a NASDAQ-traded company. Today, Christina advises individual professionals as well as businesses and non-profit organizations on issues of strategy, sales, and individual performance.

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By Christina Holbrook McEntee Someone once asked me, at a time in my life when I was a Sales Manager: What one quality above all others do you look for in a sales person? I thought about the sales people I worked with, and the really good sales people I have known.

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Ted Talk: Lera Boroditsky - How Language Shapes The Way We Think

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Ted Talk: Lera Boroditsky - How Language Shapes The Way We Think

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Lera Boroditsky is a cognitive scientist and professor who studies language and speech and she presented this Ted Talk on the importance of language in shaping one's perception and how he or she thinks. This Ted Talk goes in depth about the ways in which people speak, read, and write and how it can affect how one portrays their environment.

This Ted Talk discusses how important language can be in influencing one’s perception of their environment. She also talks about why this is one reason why we should pay more attention to how we communicate. This also alludes to the idea that different language can create different perspectives.

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Boroditsky, L. (2017). How language shapes the way we think. Retrieved from https://www.ted.com/talks/lera_boroditsky_how_language_shapes_the_way_we_think/transcript?language=en

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Lera Boroditsky: How language shapes the way we think

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There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world -- and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures. But do they shape the way we think? Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky shares examples of language -- from an Aboriginal community in Australia that uses cardinal directions instead of left and right to the multiple words for blue in Russian -- that suggest the answer is a resounding yes.

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Stringer By Kanye West is a song that was created in 2007 following a time in which Kane was developing into one of the greatest artists on a global level. Prior to this song and its music video, Kanye West was known for his experimentation with different forms of sound and lyrics. In this song, he takes on the viewpoint of motivation and perseverance as he talks about him being stronger than his competition in the world of Hip-Hop/Rap and life. The song shows many great elements as one listens to the lyrics and embraces the visual effects of the production.

This song and music video have different elements of language and listening as Kanye West uses different types of language and imagery than what he usually made during the time of the release of the song. When artists make songs and music videos, they usually create them to illicit emotion within their fans and viewers.

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West, K. (2009, June 16). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsO6ZnUZI0g

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Response to Journey of an International Student

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Response to Journey of an International Student

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This blog post asked for students to discuss their views on the experiences for one of three students mentioned in an article of how three students who are, English language learners, went through the system of education in The United States of America. This blog post showed how many students who go to school are not able to speak, read, or write in English. This also means that it can be hard for many students who are English language learners to listen to someone who is speaking in English and understand what they are saying. However, many of these students are held to the same degree as English native speakers to take tests and so school assignments in English.

This assignment helped with showing students the struggles that international students who come to America can go through. This assignment focuses on all four domains of language as there are articles that help with showing how three English language learners attempted to cope with American society. This shows that the domains of language for different people can be molded based on motivation and environment.

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Online Autobiography - How does language inform us?

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Online Autobiography - How does language inform us?

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The online Autobiography assignment was an assignment that focused on students reflecting on the languages and dialects that they use and how their culture has influenced them. This assignment helped with looking at personal aspects and elements of language and culture that effect students. This artifact is a great example for this assignment because I saw that I described the four domains of language in relation to my culture.

The online autobiography relates to this project as it helps with students looking at personal examples of speaking. In my autobiography, I noticed that there are many factors that are affecte by the four domains of language. Culture and other factors also form connections with the four domains of language. This is a great example as an artifact for this project as it helps to show that many people can also look at their own language and culture and evaluate how their surroundings and environments have affected their language.

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Assignment 1 - Linguistic Profiling Media Summary

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Assignment 1 - Linguistic Profiling Media Summary

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This assignment was a group project that students within this class did in order to look at different areas and regions around the world to examine different forms of language and dialect. My group did our project on Southern accents in The United States of America and we looked at the different ways in which people from the South are linguistically profiled due how they speak.

This assignment dealt specifically with all the four domains of language. This is important because I was able to examine different aspects of Southern linguistics in America and compare these aspects to other states and regions in the country. This also allowed for us to go in depth on why certain people react to Southern accents and dialect when they hear specific forms of speech from people that originate or are influenced by their linguistics. This also lead to us focusing on views of Southern linguistics in the media.

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This assignment required students to look up lyrics for a song of their choice and look at different aspects and elements of language in terms of the message that the song had for social issues. The song that I chose was "Jesus Walks" By Kanye West and this song showed a great use of slang to help portray and discuss police brutality in The United States of America.

This assignment taught me about the importance of music and the arts in portraying specific elements in language and society. This assignment made students talk about whether or not artists should focus on proper grammar usage in their songs. This discussion helps with looking at the creative value in the ways in which rappers use imperfection within songs to create innovative sound and music.

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This Culture Picture is a group assignment that was done in groups by students in this class at the beginning of the semester. There are various elements in this picture that help illustrate why culture and language are intertwined. Speaking, reading, writing, and listening are all connected to culture and their relationship also affects dialect. Language can be described as a tree that has different branches and elements that stem from the root and foundation of language and culture.

This image describes what culture is composed of on a broad scale. The creativity of the picture comes from the use of digital tools and transparent pictures to create a piece that includes a smooth application of our ideas.

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This blog post asked for students to read articles based on code-switching. After reading the article, I was able to give a brief overview of my thoughts on code-switching and why I believe it is important. Code switching is important due to its wide use among people who know different languages and dialects. This artifact applies to this projects due to its connection to speaking. Code-switching is a way for those who know multiple languages and dialects to use this knowledge to express their words and ideas in different ways. Code-switching can also be natural as it also combines listening and speaking.  This is very interesting as someone could speak in different languages and dialects depending on who or what they are listening to and responding to. This is important for this project as it helps with looking at natural ways in which people can combine the domains of language.