Fifth journal

Jhorman Calderon
Foreign Languages
English VII
Martha Muñoz
Journal # 5
METAPHOR AND WAR

I like this topic a lot; I’ve never thought that I’m going to read such as interesting topics in this class. It was a big surprise for me!
First of all, I want to say that throughout the history we can see the changes in the countries that in most of the cases depend of the kind of conception (philophical, political, economical etc.) that every time have brought to mankind.
Reading this text I realized that this world is in the top of a big conflict that in my opinion it started with the first man that lived in the earth.
Now, according to the differences between metaphor and war in politics. I consider that some words have no sense when people with high level position try to hide their bad acts in the administration of a state to support safely the country they are leading; but when they can no hide their government mistakes, they immediately change the reality with many conceptions as we can call metaphors.
In my opinion a metaphor is the skill to influence others and of course it’s relative to be able to make many interpretations of a particular situation; I mean that when we are in front of a metaphor is very complex to differentiate what is true from what is no true.
Following the before paragraph, in public administration it’s used to be called “paradigmatic changes” that’s why a war is the immediately consequence of doing a metaphor mistake.


In international politics, a state is usually conceptualized as a person, engaging in social relations within a world community.
Now, talking about the “fairy tale” I think that it show to us the unfair treatment that innocent people receive in this world where everything are systems with different method of force to apply justice. (Conceptions too)
I think that the globalization let us understand how this world constitute connections to establish differences in power and domination, but, the principal argument of each country to defend their political, social and economical interest depend of the ideological trend that they have chosen to govern their community in order to be superior and competitive in all ways as a country or as person.
For example the president of the USA said that he was in the Persian gulf to “protect freedom, protect our future, and protect the innocent” and he said that he must push Sadam Hussein back” but we know that his only pretention was to be the owner of the best petroleum that exist in this world in the Persian Gulf. So everything was a metaphor or in my own words a “paradigm” that changes the history and customs in the Middle East.
To conclude this journal I want to say that being professional we need to be very efficiencies and efficacies with the purpose to not be ignored, especially when we must take a transcendental decision.







7th April 2009
METAPHOR AND WAR
George Lakoff

UNKNOWN WORDS

Stranglehold: llave, dominio
Backward: hacia atrás
Manhood: madurez, hombría
Acclaim: aclamar
Mesh: malla
Theft: robo
Arson: incendio provocado
Cunning: astuto, malicioso
Ruthless: implacable, inexorable
Warfare: guerra
Draftee: recluta



QUESTIONS FOR DICUSSION

3. For you, what’s the perfect system to govern Colombia?
4. Have you ever been in trouble for having a metaphor in your mind?

QUOTES

- Metaphorical thought is commonplace and inescapable.
- It is important to distinguish what is metaphorical from what is not.
- Experts in international relations have an additional system of metaphors.
- Saddan is certainly immoral, ruthless, and brutal, but there is no evidence that he is anything but rational.
- The U.S. does not have anything like a proper understanding of the issue of Arab dignity.

OPINION

We are the consequence of metaphors and wars in our daily life. I learnt that what we want to get depend of the acts which confront the circumstances at any time.

It’s very important to have a global vision of the reality to take part in the solutions against the problems that are coming up…