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(Not completely sure what this is, but it describe the topic of this blog post perfectly.  Photo by Toby Downton ) TEDed Language Lab How Languages Evolve Way back when, groups of people split from their original groups and were isolated. So, different dialects turned into new languages. There are between 3,000 and 8,000 languages nowadays. How did English evolve? Germanic language turned into Old English.  Old English got mixed in with Old Norse French and Latin got thrown into the mix and there English was. How many verb tenses are there in English? 3 grammatical tenses  4 grammatical aspects Are Elvish, Klingon, Dothraki, and Na'vi real languages? Conlang means constructed language. These languages are developed enough to actually speak them. Where do new words come from? 1,000 new words are created every year on average. New word maybe borrowed from other languages. New word can be mixes of a couple or several words together. How to use a s

(A photo of a woman in India. Photo by Nick Kenrick ) Gaia's Secret Parts 3 and 4 The Main Ideas of the Story These parts of the story talked about women's fertility and obedience in the beginning. Once upon a time, men were asked to domesticate women. To relate these topics, the video went through some of the mythology of each subject throughout different countries of the world. In Greek mythology women were deemed as the problem creators of life. Way back when killing a woman was absolutely forbidden, but as time went on men started justifying killing women. In the story, women were turned into objects of patriarchy. There was a stigma of what women were or should have been. 2000 years ago, in the Buddhism and Hinduism religions goddesses became important figures.  Devi allowed her sons to be in control, but she did not allow them to control her. Devi also allowed people to grow beyond the anxiety that has created partiarchy and the anxiety that was creat

Gaia's Secret: Male Anxiety is Outdated Parts 1 and 2 The Messages within the Story Gaia is the Earth mother. (A picture that sort of represents the concept of Earth mother. Photo by Gravityx9 ) Males used to have to compete for females to the extent of fighting and killing each other for a woman's attention.  Over the years the status of women has been degraded. Women used to not be rejected or taken advantage of. Men eventually decided that rejecting women would protect themselves. In the beginning of time both genders owned their bodies, but over time men took over and began to degrade women. The Big Takeaway: Women were once independent and free of men and owned their bodies, however, over time things have changed and men now "own" women. The video talked about these issues that arose within the Indian culture and all over the world. To really get the messages through they told bits and pieces of Indian epics throughout the video. Bibli

(My most popular post sidebar widget.  Screenshot by me, Hannah Mulder) This week for my tech tip I actually did not add a featured post to my sidebar because Blogger insisted that I already had one even though I do not, but trough this tech tip I figured out how to feature my most popular post, so I did that instead. I configured it to have only my topped viewed post from the last year. I also came up with a pretty witty name for the widget, or at least I thought it was. 

(Counting down the days until I get a well needed break!  Screenshot by me, Hannah Mulder) I have backed up my blog and portfolio website to my computer for safety measures. I have also checked the grade progress chart, and I am about a week and a half ahead of the schedule to get the grade I want. My favorite video from the past week of announcements was on Wednesday's announcement . It was called Enemy of the Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story - Trailer . This video was about a Muslim women, who was young. She helped Winston Churchill in the war against the Nazis. She made a name for herself and what she hoped and believed in. I thought this video was super interesting because of all the different aspects of everyone's background, yet they were all fighting against one thing. My favorite graphic from this week was the How Long to Nap picture guide from Thursday's announcement . This was my favorite because I love to nap, but sometimes I can go a little over board

Jara’s Story of Significance There was a forest that was as silent as could be. It seemed as if a single noise was made the whole world would have heard it. In the heart of the forest stood Jara. Jara was a hunter, more specifically an archer. Jara had been in the forest a while and started to get eerie feelings about the whole ordeal. He was the only living creature, so it seemed. He was on the hunt for any ounce of protein, but there was not one insect to be found. There were no birds singing or cooing from the tree tops. In fact, the trees themselves wilted in their death. Jara was convinced that he was the only leaving creature left on Earth. He was starving. He was exhausted. He was hanging on to his last ounce of energy for dear life. He was going mad and was ready to use everything left in him to draw his arrow if he heard a noise or saw any movement in hopes of whatever caught his attention was food. Finally, he saw a sliver of movement, and without thinking twice he d