Language map

Podcast summaries

Part 1:

During a speech, Iran's leader said some inappropriate statements and was immediately criticized  and corrected for his language at that time. The speech was then posted on many different websites and people from all over the world saw the leader's mistake. But, some people feel as if he was just people a politician relating to the people.

Part 2:

Stephen Leonard is taking a year of his time to study the language, Inuktun, spoken by the Inughuit people. But, the Inughuit's life style might be in danger. Global warming has caused a glacier to break and a block of ice might ruin most the way of life the Inughuit people.

Part 3:

More foreign-made films have been discovered recently in movie rentals. Why? Some people believe this will increase the American people's desire to want to learn a foreign language. But, the plan didn't work out as it was supposed to. Many Americans still have no interest in learning a foreign language.

9/11 paper

https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1s8uGuVb33KImsp4q6DCknMbGHc_yeagVHyHAlzALZVA&hl=en&pli=1#

Definiton, example, sources.

Globalization -Worldwide movement toward economic, financial, trade, and communications integration. Globalization implies opening out beyond local and nationalistic perspectives to a broader outlook of an interconnected and inter-dependent world with free transfer of capital, goods, and services across national frontiers. However, it does not include unhindered movement of labor and, as suggested by some economists, may hurt smaller or fragile economies if applied indiscriminately.






Source: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/globalization.html





Example of globalization: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/12/opinion/12iht-edwatkins.html









Humanity- the quality or state of being human





Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/humanity





Example of humanity: http://allafrica.com/stories/200906291686.html







Culture- A shared, learned, symbolic system of values, beliefs and attitudes that shapes and influences perception and behavior -- an abstract "mental blueprint" or "mental code."





Source: http://www2.eou.edu/~kdahl/cultdef.html





Example of culture: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=culture-speeds-up-human-evolution









Civilization- An advanced state of human society, in which a high level of culture, science, industry, and government has been reached.





Source: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/civilization





Example of civilization: http://memo.fr/en/article.aspx?ID=ANT_CRE_002









History- A usually chronological record of events, as of the life or development of a people or institution, often including an explanation of or commentary on those events





Source: http://www.answers.com/topic/history





Example of history: http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/CookieHistory.htm