domingo, 21 de febrero de 2010

TOK IB Assessment Blog

Topic: Discuss the role of language and reason in history

Support 1:

http://www.gmixer.com/uploaded_images/Language_Barrier_by_lynxie06-756677.jpg

In this abstract image a human is expelling through his mouth a series of visual figures. The interpretation that I have in relation with language and reason with history is that every person has a different perspective of the world and with the language you can transmit feelings and thoughts to society, and later on that society may interpretate it the way they perceive it. There is when history and the reason of society comes into play by acknowledging the ideas of someone through communication, in this case language. In the image, that person is giving ideas and thoughts in the different kind of geometric shapes that may be the language of that person, and then this type of language is transmitted to someone who would have to think and reason what this person is trying to say, and at the end they would have created a short story of what they thought, creating the basic form of history.



Support 2:
The best example of the role of language and reason in history is the interpretation of the mayan language by humans. The mayan civilization had a cultural language that only they could understand. When they no longer existed, the modern humans discovered all this mayan hieroglyphic language and through reason they made a big discovery of the history of mayan civilization. So the mayan language was interpretated and analyzed by humans in order to have knwoledge of the mayan's history.

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