Summary

English language invasion

The Chinese and French governments have each recently made separate moves to protect the purity of their languages from the infiltration of English words and phrases.

Chinese people fear that foreign language phrases such as English words can disrupt the harmonious and healthy language and cultural environment, causing negative social impacts. They strongly believe that the most popular phrases such as DVD, MP3, CEO, okay, bye-bye and nice can absolutely deracinate native language. The Chinese government has announced a new rule to protect native language by banning the use of all English words and abbreviations in Chinese media. Moreover, well-known websites in the world as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter have also been banned.

Another country which has declared war on the English language invasion is France. An important piece of legislation was passed in 1994 called Taubon Law. The law required that all advertising should be conducted in French. Furthermore, the government prohibited English words and phrases on notice boards.

Nevertheless, statistics have shown that English language is more popular and usable in commerce than native.

In conclusion, English language invasion is one of the biggest problems in the world. China and France have been trying to fight with it since the 20th century.

References: Chinese language 'damaged by invasion of English words'

English invasion 'threatens French language more than Nazis did'

 

Multiple Intelligences

          What are Multiple Intelligences? It has been claimed by some researchers that our Intelligence or ability to understand the world around us is complex. Some people are better at understanding some things than others. Instead of having one Intelligence it is claimed that we have several different Intelligences. There are 8 the main Intelligences.
          What is about me...The strongest intelligences are logical and interpersonal. So it means that I am good at mathematics or other number activities, good at solving problems. Also, I should have an ability to interact with people, understand them and interpret their behavior. In my opinion, it is very good point, especially for my profession.
          In the second place are 3 intelligences with 17 points. There are intrapersonal, kinaesthetic and visual. I strongly believe that I understand myself, know about my strenghts and weaknesses. Moreover, it's true that I enjoy sport - I was a proffesional runner. But absolutely it's not true that I am good at art.
          In the third place is naturalistic intelligence. I agree with it, because I love, not much, but love animals. I have a cat, sometimes we are friends but often and often we are enemies.
          However, I absolutely don't agree that linguistic intelligence is only in the 4th place. It's not true, because I like reading, writing and especially talking about things.
          And my weakest intelligence is musical. I need to develop this in order to recognise sounds, quality of a tone.
          All in all, Multiple Intelligence are eight different ways to demonstrate intellectual ability.

 

The psychology of the Internet

The Internet is a technology that has expanded rapidly over relatively few years and millions of users are interacting with each other using the new medium without having considered how this communication differs in quantity and quality from more established information channels.

Using examples from established researches in the field of social psychology and more recent studies on various aspects of the Internet phenomenon, we can consider how human behavior is influenced by the peculiar characteristics of the new "Web-World".

The first question, the psychology of aggression in the net. It appears that the possibility of assumed anonymity and actual physical distance between web participants leads to disinhibited behavior. The normal social conventions of face-to-face meetings are left behind. Triggered by the frustration of slow responses, long waits for pagers to load and log, Internet users have a tendency often to interpret neutral messages in a negative manner, prompting an aggressive response.

                        However, there is and a positive side of Internet interaction. The most powerful attractor in real-life settings is physical attractiveness, closely followed by proximity. The physical attractiveness heuristic associates happiness, sociability, warmth, likeability, success and intelligence. With the lucky person while we more readily become friends with people whom we see frequently. So these two main factors in interpersonal attraction are translated on the Internet

Richard Wiseman

Professor of the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University in the United Kingdom. R. Wiseman has written three best selling books, one of them is “The Luck Factor”.

In this self-help book, professor has published the main principles of good and bad luck. He showed that both good and bad luck result from measurable habits; for example, lucky people, by expecting good luck, might expend more effort in their endeavour, resulting in more success, reinforcing their belief in good luck. Lucky people are outgoing and observant and therefore have many more chance encounters than unlucky people, each of which could bring a lucky opportunity. Moreover lucky people are more likely to look on the bright side of 'bad' encounters. In a mental exercise describing being shot during a bank robbery, lucky people considered themselves lucky not to have been killed while unlucky people considered themselves unlucky to have been shot.

All in all, professor exactly showed the lives and minds of lucky people.

Summary

Dreams



A dream is a succession of images, sounds or emotions that the mind experiences during sleep. Many psychologists explained that dreams may have strong influence on people behaviour.

Firstly, dreams represent concerns about people daily lives, illustrating uncertainties and ideas. Dreams may thus reveal who people really are, what they really want and how they want to attain these desires. 

More over, dreams have a problem-solving function. Dreams supposedly deal with problems people can not solve in waking life and offer solutions.

Also, dreams have protective functions helping in release of stress or traumatic thoughts. Another function is to protect sleep and to make sleep undisturbed.

All in all, dreams have very important functions for people's existances.

Summary

The mystery of memory



Memory is important to everyone in everyday life. It is the process by which everyone person encode, store and retrieve information. There are three levels of memory: sensory, short-term and long-term.

The first repository of the information the world presents to humanity is sensory memory. Sensory memory allows people to take a snapshot of environment and to store this information for a short period. This type of memory can store information info for only a very short time.

In a second stage, short-term memory holds information for 15 to 25 seconds and stores it according to its meaning. This level of memory is most often stored as sounds, especially in recalling words, but may be stored as images.

The third type of storage system is long-term memory. It lasts from a minute or so to weeks or even years. From long-term memory people can recall general information about the world.

All in all, remembering the names and other details of people who are important to everyone improves their personal, professional and social life.