Lab 2: Considering Language

The first time I watched this newscast, I had no idea about what was being said or what was going on. I did realize that there was a story about an ex-president, and there was a story about homosexuality. In the story about the homosexuality, the picture of the man they showed while introducing the story was the man that was part of an interview. The fourth story was about the United States president, Obama. I had no idea what is was about. There was a story about the winter weather in New York. I do not feel that I could tell someone about what was going on in this newscast. Biases could be created by the people who are affected by the stories and the language that is spoken.

The second story is about a ex-national football player in Germany, named Hitzlsperger, who made his homosexuality public during an interview. He encourages players to be open about their homosexuality because they are still a good football player no matter what their sexuality is. Hitzlsperger made sure that people knew that it is important to talk about their homosexuality openly. There was a story about Chancellor Merkel traveled to Washington D.C. to visit with President Obama to discuss the relationship of Germany and the US and the spy actions of the NSA. They covered a story about the cold polar air that affected the mid-west in the US. They talked about the cold temperatures in New York. The ships and boats had to break through ice. The news anchor said that having a daily routine is not possible until the weather subsides. The only way I knew who these people were was the close captioning that translated each word. Now I know enough that I could tell people what was going on in the newscast. In the Obama story, I noticed that the anchor made sure that people knew that the NSA spied on the Chancellors cell phone. It made me think that they were making sure that people knew the NSA is bad. the differences that I realized was that I could actually know what was going on in the newscast. I actually enjoyed some of the stories. Language is a very fascinating thing. I never had the patience to learn a new language, but some people could use closed captioning to help learn certain words.

In my future occupation, I could use the ability of knowing a second language to help as many people as I can. Being a MRI technician, I can be presented with many different races and languages. I want to become a better person by helping people become healthier. This lab made it difficult to capture the details of a newscast that was in a different language that I was not familiar with. The close captioning made it easier to know that was being said in the newscast. It helped me know what the anchor was even talking about. Some of the sentence structure in the closed captioning was not good, but that is how other languages work sometimes.