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Ours is a society that tries to keep the world sharply divided into masculine and feminine

July 16th, 2010   by Mac

Not because that is the way the world is, but because that is the way we believe it should 'Be. It takes unwavering belief and considerable effort to keep this division. It also leads Us t

foolish judgments, particularly about language.

Because we think that language also should be divided into masculine and feminine we have become very skilled at ignoring anything that will not fit our preconceptions. We would rather change what we hear than change our ideas about the gender division of the world. We will call assertive girls unfeminine, and supportive boys effeminate, and try to change them while still retaining our stereotypes of masculine and feminine talk.

This is why some research on sex differences and language has been so interesting. It is an illustration of how wrong we can be. Of the many investigators who set out to find the stereotyped sex differences in language, few have had any positive results. It seems that our images of serious taciturn($i!ifiW)male speakers and gossipy garrulous(1$1?f 6fy)female speakers are just images.

Many myths associated with masculine and feminine talk have bad to be discarded as more research has been undertaken. If females do use more trivial words than males, stop talking in mid-sentence, or talk about the same things over and over again, they do not do it when investigators are around. None of these characteristics of female speech have been found. And even when sex differences have been found, the question arises as to whether the difference is in the eye—or ear—of the beholder, rather than in the language.

Pitch provides one example. We believe that males were meant to talk in low pitched voices and females in high pitched voices. We also believe that low pitch is more desirable. Well, it has been found that males tend to have lower pitched voices than females. But it has also been found that this difference cannot be explained by anatomy.

If males do not speak in high pitched voices, it is not usually because they are unable to do so. The reason is more likely to be that there are penalties. Males with high pitched voices are often the object of ridicule. But pitch is not absolute, for what is considered the right pitch for males varies from country to country.

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Universities continue to function as institutions

July 15th, 2010   by Mac

Universities continue to function as institutions in which the cultural heritage is preserved and transmitted to a new generation, but during this period of growth a large number of universities also took on new roles as centers in which the arts were performed, exhibited, and created.1 As part of their task of teaching skills as well as knowledge, universities added active writers, composers, musicians, painters, sculptors and other artists and performers to their teaching staffs. A number of universities established or expanded museum, music and theater programs as the means of training students and also of improving the cultural environments of their cities and states. A-mong the most notable examples of such programs was the Tyrone Guthrie Theater associated with the University of Minnesota, which became nationally known for the high quality of its stagings and performances. 2 The new cultural activities of universities served in important ways to decentralize cultural production in the United States and make live performances of the arts available to a far wide audience.

7 Government support for the arts also took the form of aid and planning for new cultural centers in the nation's cities. In the course of extensive urban renewal many cities sought to concentrate or revive their cultural institutions by constructing centers for cultural activity in inner city locations. New York City established the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, with facilities for opera, theater, music, film, and other arts, and Los Angeles developed its Music Center. In 1971 the federally sponsored John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was opened, to mixed critical reception, in Washington D.C.

Both privately and publicly supported cultural institutions have become increasingly involved in the cultural and social issues of society as a whole. Although the cultural activities of universities were not directly affected by the political controversies and turmoil (SSL) on many college campuses, the resulting cutbacks in state aid and private donations placed a strain on the financing of higher education that curtailed (gij ||) the growth or sometimes even threatened the survival of many cultural programs.3 Museums and cultural centers in inner cities suffered declines in attendance and revenues because patrons (±M) became reluctant to enter high-crime areas in which these centers were located.4

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Exactly where we will stand in the long war against disease by the 2050 is impossible to say

July 14th, 2010   by Mac

1) But if developments in research main-their current pace, it seems likely that a combination of improvedattention to dietary and environmental factors, along with advances in gene therapy and protein targeted drugs, will have virtually eliminated most major classes of disease.

From an economic standpoint, the best news may be that these accomplishments could be accompanied by a drop in health-care costs. 2) Costs may even fall as diseases are brought under control using pinpointed, short term therapies now being developed. By 2050 there will be fewer hospitals, and surgical procedures will be largely restricted to the treatment of accidents and other forms of trauma (^r-$f). Spending on nonacute (Utt-lpfW) care, both in nursing facilities and in homes, will also fall sharply as more elderly people lead healthy lives until close to death.

One result of medicine's success in controlling disease will be a dramatic increase in life expectancy. 3) The extent of that increase is a highly speculative matter, but it is worth noting that medical science has already helped to make the very old (currently defined as those over 85 years of age) the fastest growing segment of the population. Between 1960 and 1995, the U. S. population as a whole increased by about 45% , while the segment over 85 years of age grew by almost 300%. 4) There has been a similar explosion in the population of centenarians, with the result that survival to the age of 100 is no longer the newsworthy feat that was only a few decades ago. U.S. Census Bureau projections already forecast dramatic increase in the number of centenarians in the next 50 years: 4 million on 2050, compared with 37,000 in 1990.

5) Although Census Bureau calculations project an increase in average life span of only eight years by the year 2050, some experts believe that the human life span should not begin to encounter any theoretical natural limits before 120 years. With continuing advances in molecular medicine and a growing understanding of the aging process, that limit could rise to 130 years or more.

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In a perfectly free and open market economy, the type of em->yer—government or private—should have little or no impact on the rnings differentials between women and men

July 13th, 2010   by Mac

However, if there is icrimination against one sex, it is unlikely that the degree of dis-nination by government and private employers will be the same.1 ferences in the degree of discrimination would result in earnings 'erentials associated with the type of employers, it seems most like-tiat discrimination by private employers would be greater. Thus, 3 would expect that, if women were being discriminated against, i/ernment employment would have a positive effect on women's •nings as compared with their earnings from private employment. 3 results of a study by Fuchs support this assumption. Fuch's re¬ts suggest that the earnings of women in an industry composed en-ly of government employees would be 14. 6 percent greater than earnings of women in an industry composed exclusively of private ployees, other things being equal.2

In addition, both Fuchs and Sanborn have suggested that the jet of discrimination by consumers on the earnings of self-em-yed women may be greater than the effect of either government or rate employer discrimination on the earnings of women employees, test this hypothesis, Brown selected a large sample of White male i female workers from the 1970 Census and divided them into three 3gories: private employees, government employees, and self-em-/ed. (Black workers were excluded from the sample to avoid pick¬up earnings differentials that were the result of racial disparities.) wn's research design controlled for education, laborforce partici-ion, mobility, motivation, and age in order to eliminate these fac-i as explanations of the study's results. Brown's results suggest : men and women are not treated the same by employers and con-lers. For men, self-employment is the highest earnings category, i private employment next, and government lowest. For women, order is reversed.

One can infer from Brown's results that consumers discriminate inst self-employed women. In addition, self-employed women / have more difficulty than men in getting good employees and r encounter discrimination from suppliers and from financial institu-s.3

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Chimpanzee, Washoe

July 9th, 2010   by Mac

The status of animal language has been altered dramatically in recent years by the accomplishments of Allen and Beatrice Gardener (1971) and their chimpanzee, Washoe. The Gardeners decided that trying to teach chimpanzees to talk was hopeless because chimpanzees have great difficulty in the instrumental use of their voices. Instead, they began to teach Washoe American Sign Language developed for use by deafmutes, which clearly was within a chimpanzee's manipulative capacities. American Sign Language uses complex hand gestures that stand for words, and has its own grammar that is similar to but distinguishable from English.

Over several years, Washoe has learned at least 130 signs that she both understands and uses herself. This has been demonstrated in controlled tests , in which objects or pictures of objects are shown to Washoe and she makes the appropriate sign. Although she is not perfect, she typically gets about fifty right out of one hundred and her errors are usually mistaking one animal for another or one object for one that is quite similar to it . If she were responding by chance , she would only get one or two right out of a hundred since many different items are shown and she knows so many different signs. But it is important to remember that this accomplishment is only quantitatively superior to that of many other animals who learn the meaning of words or signals . The critical difference is that Washoe not only understands but uses these signs.

However, the truly significant achievement is that Washoe spontaneously produces combinations of signs that she has never "heard" before. Since the construction of sentences is the essence of language, this is a great step forward in animal language. Washoe knows how to say "open," "door," and "window". Sometimes, entirely on her own, she will make the sign phrase for open- window and open-door. The Gardeners have counted 294 different two-sign combinations that Washoe uses, and she probably has made others. Some of these she may have learned directly from the Gardeners , but they assure us that many of them were produced by Washoe on her own. Thus, this chimpanzee has mastered 130 meaningful signs and uses them in sentences of two or more signs in order to communicate. Moreover, as she has grown older and more experienced, Washoe has begun producing longer sign combinations. And other chimps have also learned many signs.

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Defense for Workaholic

July 8th, 2010   by Mac

Somebody ought to defend the workaholic ( HI f^ <££ ) . These people are unjustly accused , abused , and defamed — often termed sick or morbid .

One- third of American business and commerce is carried on the shoulders of workaholics . The ratio might exist in art and science too.

Workaholics are the achievers, the excellers. There is a national conspiracy (IPH;S) against excellence — an undue admiration of commonness and mediocrity . It is as though we are against those who make uncommon sacrifices because they enjoy doing something.

Some popular psycologists say that the workaholic has an inferiority complex which leads to overcompensation . This is certainly not the case. Inferiority, or low esteem describes laziness more accurately than it describes dedication.

We do not seem to realize that very little excellence is achieved by living a well-balanced life . Edison, Ford, Einstein, Freud all had single-minded devotion to work whereby they sacrificed many things, including family and friendship. The accusation is made that workaholics bear guilt by not being good parents or spouses. But guilt can exist in the balanced life also . Consider how many "normal" people find at middle-age, that they have never done anything well — they are going to settle for less than what they could have become.

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My Father's Evening Star

July 7th, 2010   by Mac

DURING MOMENTS of sadness or frustration, I often think of a family scene years ago in the town of Yakima, Washington. I was about seven or eight years old at the time. Father had died a few years earlier. Mother was sitting in the living room talking to me, telling me what a wonderful man Father was. She told me of his last illness and death. She told me of his departure from Cleveland, Washington, to Portland, Oregon ... for what proved to be a fatal operation. His last words to her were these:"If I die it will be glory, if I live it will be grace. " I remember how those words puzzled me. I could not understand why it would be glory to die. It would be glory to live, that I could understand. But why it would be glory to die was something I did not understand until later.

Then one day in a moment of great crisis I came to understand the words of my father. "If I die it will be glory, if I live it will be grace." That was his evening star. The faith in a power is greater than man. That was the faith of our fathers. A belief in a God who controlled man in the universe that manifested itself in different ways to different people. It was written by scholars and learned men in dozens of different creeds. But riding high above all secular controversies was a faith in One who was the Creator, the Giver of Life, the Omnipotent.

Man's age-long effort has been to be free. Throughout time he has struggled against some form of tyranny that would enslave his mind or his body. So far in this century, three epidemics of it[1]have been let loose in the world.

We can keep our freedom through the increasing crisis of history only if we are self-reliant enough to be free — dollars, guns, and all the wondrous products of science and the machine will not be enough. "This night thy soul shall be required of thee.

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Walden

July 6th, 2010   by Mac

t a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider1 every spot a possible site of a .house. I have thus surveyed the country on every side within a dozen miles of where I live. In imagination I have bought all the farms in succession2, for all were to be bought3, and I knew their price. I walked over farmer's premises4, tasted his wild apples, discoursed on husbandry with him, took his farm at ,his price, at any price5, mortgaging it to him in my mind; even put a higher price on it, — took everything but a deed of it6 — took his word for his deed7, for I dearly love to talk, — cultivated it, and him8 too to some extent, I trust, and withdrew when I had enjoyed it long enough, leaving him to carry it on. This experience entitled me to be regarded as a sort of real-estate broker by my friends. Wherever I sat, there I might live, arid the landscape radiated from me accordingly9. What is a house but a secfes10, a seat? — better if a country seat. I discovered many a site for a house not likely to be soon improved, which some might have thought too far from the village, but to my eyes the village was too far from it. Well, there I might live, I said; and there I did live, for an hour, a summer and a winter life; saw how I could let the years run off, buffet the winter through11, and see the spring come in. The future inhabitants of this region, wherever they may place their houses, may be sure that they have been anticipated12. An afternoon sufficed to lay out the land into orchard, wood-lot, and pasture, and to decide what fine oaks or pines should be left to stand before the door, and whence each blasted tree could be seen to the best advantage13; and then I let it lie, fallow perchance, for a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

My imagination carried me so far that I even had the refusal of several farms, — the refusal was all I wanted, — but I never got my fingers burned by actual possession. The nearest that I came to actual possession was when I bought the Hollowell Place14, and had begun to sort my seeds, and collected materials with which to make a wheelbarrow to carry it on or off with15; but before the owner gave me a deed of it, his wife — every man has such a wife — changed her mind and wished to keep it, and he offered me ten dollars to release him. Now, to speak the truth, I had but ten cents in the world, and it surpassed my arithmetic to tell, if I was that man who had ten cents, or who had a farm, or ten dollars, or all together.16 However, I let him keep the ten dollars and the farm too, for I had carried it far enough; or rather, to be generous, I sold him the farm for just what I gave for it, and, as he was not a rich man, made him a present of ten dollars, and still had my ten cents, and seeds, and materials for a wheelbarrow left. I found thus that I had been a rich man without any damage to my poverty.

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How to Work Better

July 5th, 2010   by Mac

one wants to look silly or do the wrong thing at a new job. It is

important to make the right impression-not the wrong one-from the very first day. You will face new people. You will be in a new place. It may be difficult to know what to do. Here are seven tips to help you make it through the first days at a new job:

1. First impressions can last forever. Make sure you make a good one.

Before your first day, find out if your new job has a dress code (rules about

what you can wear to work). If so, be sure to follow it. No matter what, al¬

ways be neat and clean.

2. Get to work on time. Employers value employees who come to work

right on time. Give yourself an extra 15 minutes to make sure you arrive on

time.

3. Pay attention to introductions. One of the first things that your su¬

pervisor may do is to introduce you to co-workers. These co-workers will be

important to you. They are the ones who will answer your questions when the

boss is not around.

4. Ask plenty of questions. Make sure that your supervisor has told you

what is expected of you. If he or she has not told you your job duties , ask for

a list. Set daily and weekly goals for yourself.

5. Do not take too long for lunch. What is the lunch-hour policy at your

new job? You can find out from your supervisor or your company's personnel

department. For example , do people eat at their desks or does everyone take

a full hour outside the workplace?

6. Do not make personal phone calls. You should never make personal

phone calls to your friends and family unless it is an emergency.

7. Never be the first one to leave. Observe how your co-workers behave

around quitting time. It does no look good for you to be eager to leave.

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