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Language is the human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, and a

language is any specific example of such a system. The scientific study of language is called linguistics.
Human language has the properties of productivity, recursivity, and displacement, and relies entirely on
social convention and learning. Its complex structure affords a much wider range of expressions than any
known system of animal communication. Language is thought to have originated when early hominins
started gradually changing their primate communication systems, acquiring the ability to form a theory of
other minds and a shared intentionality. This development is sometimes thought to have coincided with an
increase in brain volume, and many linguists see the structures of language as having evolved to serve
specific communicative and social functions,
Language is processed in many different locations in the human brain, but especially in roca!s and
"ernicke!s areas. Humans acquire language through social interaction in early childhood, and children
generally speak fluently when they are approximately three years old. The use of language is deeply
entrenched in human culture. Therefore, in addition to its strictly communicative uses, language also has
many social and cultural uses, such as signifying group identity, social stratification, as well as social
grooming and entertainment.
Languages evolve and diversify over time, and the history of their evolution can be reconstructed by
comparing modern languages to determine which traits their ancestral languages must have had in order for
the later developmental stages to occur. # group of languages that descend from a common ancestor is
known as a language family,
Yet another definition sees language as a system of communication that enables humans to
cooperate. This definition stresses the social functions of language and the fact that humans use
it to express themselves and to manipulate objects in their environment. Functional theories of
grammar explain grammatical structures by their communicative functions, and understand the
grammatical structures of language to be the result of an adaptive process by which grammar
was "tailored" to serve the communicative needs of its users.
Internet has changed the way of life
asily! The world has become much smaller since the creation of internet.
You can research just about anything without ever leaving home" vacations,hotels, medicine, any
subject in school. You can find answers to #uestions you are clueless about...on sites li$e %i$i.
You can visit art gallaries, map locations, map sites with cameras to chec$ everything from jail cell
behavior to s#uirrel behavior" views on freeways, to views of constellations. There are times you
can log in and tal$ to astronauts %&I' they are in space. (s for students, you now do joint
projects with other $ids all around the world in )(' time...you tal$ to each other, as it happens
and canphones, text message to phones, watch T*, and download songs all without ever watch
each other+s expressions. You can write letters...without stamps, ma$e calls...without leaving your
chair. There are businesses now that are totally run from home and still connect to people around
the world and where else could people in ,- countries all bid on some bi.arre thing on auctions
and wor$ in the last minute to outbid each other. 'et+s not forget ban$ing, applying for college,
loans, buying cars, chec$ing out library boo$s...just download them onto your I/01 to save time,
and do all this while you have pictures being sent out to print, answering mail, and watching a
movie in different windows. Yep, just a little change.
2ost people these days have become heavy users of the internet" and I guarantee that you
wouldn3t be reading 4hout2e'oud if you weren3t. It3s been an awesome technological
advancement that has revolutioni.ed the way that we do things. The internet has certainly
impacted our lives, and the way we did things in the past is now different to this day" most people
cannot even live without it, nor could $now a life that did not have it. &ere are some of the ways
the internet has changed us, for the better and for the worse5
(ll these changes can often lead to this #uestion 6 is it all for good7 The internet has changed the
way we do close to everything, and with people #uestioning what their lives would be li$e without
it, it ma$es us wonder, what negative effects has the internet had for us.It3s become #uite obvious
that people spend hours upon hours on the internet and this could have some serious health
effects" people have often died from spending days in front of the computer. 0n a lesser note,
there are things li$e bac$ problems and eye sight problems that can also develop but people
don3t want to tal$ about" or people becoming so attached to the internet that they no longer
socially interact with the rest of the world. (ll of these problems have developed with the rise of
the internet 6 so aside from all the great things the internet has achieved, there still these things
to loo$ out for8
hapiness
&appiness. It is not measurable, profitable, nor tradable. Yet, above all else in the world, it is what
people see$. They want to have happiness, and want to $now they have a lot of it. 9ut happiness,
li$e air or water, is a hard thing to grasp in one3s hand. It is intangible. 4o how does one $now if
they have it7 Is it just a feeling7 (nd if someone does not feel happy, how can they go about
achieving that feeling7
&appiness is not measured by material wealth. ( new car or television, a waters$iing boat or a
three:level house does not e#uate to joyful feelings. They are status symbols, surely, and ones
that ma$e others assume a person is happy, but they do not guarantee a happy life. The clich;d
phrase, <money can3t buy happiness,= is heard often> because it is true. /eople who have
wealth can be unhappy, just as the poor can be living on cloud nine. /ossessions can be gained
and lost, and with that comes fear. (nd fear rarely leads to happiness.4o if it isn3t ?stuff3 that
achieves happiness, then what can7 %ell, goals can. /eople need to have a sense of purpose. It
is no coincidence that /eanuts creator @harles 4chult. died a wee$ after ending his famous
comic strip. %ithout a purpose, he was lost. 9ut people that have a sense of purpose in their life
often have a feeling of satisfaction about them. They sense they were put on this planet for a
reason. To each person, this purpose can be different. 2aybe they were meant to teach. 2aybe
they were meant to mother. 2aybe they were meant to learn. (nd goals can be small things, li$e
ta$ing an extra moment each day to breathe. 9ut having progress in life, a feeling of forward
motion, can ma$e people feel happy.
9ut ta$ing that forward motion too far can be a bad thing. 4uccess at the expense of everything
else, for example, leads to the opposite of happiness. 'ife re#uires balance. (nd people that
understand that there is a balance to wor$ and play, strife and joy, are more in tune with the
universe and, therefore, better able to achieve happiness. 'ife with a dose of humor is more
pleasant. @omedians, compared to any other profession, live the longest because they
understand that laughter adds the spice to life, and ma$es daily progress worth the minor
tribulations.
4o people can be happy if they have something to strive for and something to laugh about. 9ut is
that it7 @an people with goals and a sense of humor still be unhappy7 %ell, yes. (fter all, the final
$ey to happiness is the decision to actually be happy. &uman nature can see negative energy
anywhere. /eople can fixate on problems instead of solutions. 4o at the end of the day,
<happiness depends upon ourselves.= A(ristotleB. (s 'incoln said, <2ost fol$s are as happy as
they ma$e up their minds to be.=
9eing happy with who you are and what you have, is a decision that has to be consciously made.
Coals can help lead to happiness. Finding laughter in life is important. 9ut at the end of the day, a
person needs to ma$e a choice about happiness. They need to agree they want it, deserve it, and
have it.

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