The University of Hong Kong CCHU9042 Human Language: Nature or Nurture? Final Report Is Language Influenced by Culture? Culture and language have long been believed to be intimately interrelated. Defined by anthropologist Tylor (1871‚ p.1)‚ culture is "that complex whole which includes knowledge‚ belief‚ art‚ law‚ morals‚ custom‚ and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society." People learn culture
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to differentiate between different note pitches and durations. The results revealed that an astounding 50% of musical aptitude was heredity. An excellent and classical example related to this case is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart‚ who was a musical prodigy who showed interest in the musical field at the young age of 3. Mozart’s talent was not entirely due to nurture but nature. This can be proven by St Thomas’s Hospital in London’s 2001 study of more than 500 twins that revealed 80 per cent of pitch deafness
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In The Communist Manifesto‚ Karl Marx and Frederick Engels present their view of human nature and the effect that the economic system and economic factors have on it. Marx and Engels discuss human nature in the context of the economic factors which they see as driving history. Freud‚ in Civilization and Its Discontents‚ explores human nature through his psychological view of the human mind. Marx states that history ’...is the history of class struggles ’ (9). Marx views history as being determined
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the years the topic of human nature has been studied and debated by many. Human nature can be defined as distinct characteristics that include how people think and act naturally. Between past and present events‚ there is corruption in human nature. With the corruption of human nature people only do kind acts only out of self interest. Throughout history‚ early American authors‚ such as Jonathan Edwards‚ Thomas Jefferson‚ and Olaudah Equiano‚ convey how they view human nature through their literature
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Caitlin Arnold Human Nature Mencius is an ancient philosopher of China around the fourth century B.C. He was believed to have similar view to the philosopher Confucius‚ and he had a strong view on human nature. Mencius believed that human nature was intrinsically benevolent. Mencius believed that people had four virtues that drove their thoughts and actions. Mencius is quoted to say‚ “Therefore‚ it can be suggested that without a mind of commiseration is not human‚ that a person without
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Thomas hobbes theory of human nature is proven by the hunger games ‚ because of killing and the people’s bad behavior. The annual hunger games are based off of bad human nature. In the book ‚ the book quotes “ Taking the kids from our districts‚ forcing them to kill one another while we watch”.( 1.76) By stating this quote‚ this quote proves that human nature is bad ‚ because killing for no legal reason and forcing a child to harm or kill another child is cruel. The competition of the hunger games
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How Religious Belief Connects with Humans And Nature Humans’ relationship towards nature is complicated. Phyllis Trible‚ a well known scholar‚ mentions in her paper A Tempest in a Text : Ecological Soundings in the Book of Jonah that “Theological language is ecological language” (Trible 189). It suggests that widespread religion has a reflection on the relationship between humans’ belief and nature. Besides‚ the two main characters‚ Arab and Jonah‚ from the movie Moby Dick and the religious book
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restriction of free will. Human beings typically utilize their freedom responsibly and consider the balance between risk and reward. However‚ in the occasion where a force actively attempts to deter the completion of an action‚ the curiosity and reactance of humans will create a desire to do it simply for the satisfaction of feeling “free”. Four hundred years ago‚ William Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet‚ a romantic tragedy that centers around this aspect of human nature. Within the play‚ Shakespeare
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Human Control Over Nature: The Computer Revolution and Medical Research Throughout history‚ human beings have struggled to achieve control over nature. Now‚ in the twentieth century‚ with all of the scientific advances in computers and medicine‚ humans have come closer than ever to reaching this ultimate goal. However‚ along with the benefits of these new and rapidly increasing scientific advancements come moral‚ ethical and social issues that need to be given consideration. The Computer Revolution
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Human nature is a very complicated and disputed topic‚ and the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel brings up several questions about what humanity is capable of. The act of killing the young pipel is far more inhuman than the murder of one’s own father for bread‚ killing for food is a basic survival instinct‚ driven by extreme circumstances and starvation‚ killing the young boy is simply cruel. Killing the young boy in front of the whole camp shows no compassion or empathy‚ two key qualities that show humanity
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