Every course you take is an investment in the “Business of You.” Take a moment to reflect on what you’ve learned over the last ten weeks and answer the following:
How will you apply what you have learned in this course in your professional and personal life?
What challenges did you have in this course, and how did you grow from them?
While you are in school, you may not think about all the wonderful tools you are acquiring. You may not realize at the time the invaluable skills you are practicing and perfecting just by taking college classes. There will be times where you purposefully apply what you have learned and there will be other times where you automatically complete tasks without even realizing you were using a skill you learned in school. Over time, these skills can become second nature. So, How will you apply what you have learned in this course in your professional and personal life? Become a master of resourcing. Being able to gather information from a wide range of sources may benefit you in your job. This talent means you can make decisions quickly and follow through effectively until you obtain the knowledge you need.
In order to fully understand the relationship between the class system and the writing system it is important to examine the formation of the written word. 70,000 years ago ‘the cognitive revolution’ began. This was the time when people started crafting spears for hunting, domesticating dogs and drawing on cave walls. The Hands Cave of Argentina shows the emergence of a species not just creative or intelligent, but aware of their potential to document their lifestyle for future generations to see. However, the cave drawings among other pictograms are subjective in meaning, unlike a language which is certain. During the Cognitive Revolution people lived a hunter-gatherer lifestyle which, unlike an empire or civilisation, did not require any documentation, much like a tribal society. This changed when people decided to farm.
The ‘agricultural revolution’ started once we decided to domesticate plants instead of moving from place to place in search of fertile grounds, we made permanent settlements. As the need to catalogue trade, farming materials and debt grew, so did the writing system. This brings us to the first evidence of a relationship between class and writing systems, found in the Fertile Crescent 9,000 years ago