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ESL 21 A
10/02/07
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Symbol is Powerful
Symbol is an icons, shape, figure that represent something in general meaning, for example the stop sign are used in many country; even though there are some country who put the stop sign and ignoring it. Usually, this is happened because there is lack of awareness of people to the law.
Symbol can be made because there is people; people make symbol in different reasons, to show power, to have something to hold on, to show pride, to make something easier, to communicate, or to send a message.
Symbol is very powerful, single symbol can make interest to people, t can get people attention, and somehow it has a lot of meaning to some people. For example the skeleton symbol can mean toxic substance or warning. Why people use symbol instead alphabet on the street, because it much easier to see, easy to understandGood!, and can reduce the danger of people live especially for a driver car.
In the past symbol were constructed because it connecting from emotion as human being and this prove the sense of a natural of human being. For example when
People angry they intend to make fuzz??? and the fuzz object it symbolize that something happen. It's easy to predict by other people about what was just happen. That's why Anthropologist whose jobs to find symbol or skeleton and interpret is meaning can open up/awaken the science doctrine/ way to see beyond the human knowledge. One of the ways to open up the different between reality/ not is with symbol mathematical numbering which symbol is using to solve the problem.
"Meaning precedes explanation" ( Evangelous Chistous). The Quote MeansCapitalization that the symbol intend more than what the symbol makerWOrder. Because, the personal experience, thought, cultural of different people. Now, in this quote also proved that there is no certainty in symbol meaning or meaningless unless the symbol maker and the symbol interpreter share the same experience. That's why sometimes there is a mistake that Anthropologist made in reading/interpret, the symbol. But, for some people think it doesn't matter the meaning of the symbol once one's believe on it has meaning to itself, unless one's tried to get the symbol maker perspective.??? The quote by (Hobart: 1982) said " as Harold Bloom remarks" the word meaning goes back to a root that signifies "opinion" or "intention" and is closely related to mean "moaning" he also said " the meaning of a word can only be understood by knowing the meaning of the sentence of which it is a part, yet the sentences meaning depends on both that of the word and the text in which it is situated, which both illuminate and are illuminated by historical and cultural context of the author and reader, and vice versa. And we must enter in at some point on the circle, that is believe in it, in order to understand the rest and eventually the
Whole" this quote also proves that the differ meaning in symbol is powerful to one's meaning. Now, once symbol had been revolutionized, and a lot people use the advantage of it; in more complex perspective, there are symbol in politics, symbol in space, and symbol for food.
In politics symbol for example the cold war between two country is symbolize by and eagles and a bear which represent the American as an eagle and bear as an Union-Soviet or the crown that Queen Elizabeth use represent the monarchy system/ the hierocracy, which Queen Elizabeth represent as a leader, that people can trust and the higher rank system.
In space for example will be the bedroom system for the husband and wife, the guest cannot go into husband and wife room. In symbol food, for example in some country there are rule which nuclear family has toWChoice get together when eating to represent the family and prevent the fission. Somehow people can have a misunderstanding of symbol and lead to a war because the conflict idea or symbol can be really powerful that its control people. But its not the symbol is the idea of people represent and stand for which make such a negative or positive situation.