OUIL401 COP - Preparatory Task

Social: 

adjective

1. 1. 

   relating to society or its organization.

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   needing companionship and therefore best suited to living in communities.

   
   

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3. noun

1. 1. 

   an informal social gathering, especially one organized by the members of a particular club or group.

   
   

   
   

In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity. - Erik Erikson

Historical:

adjective

1. of or concerning history or past events.

   
   

   • belonging to the past.
   • (especially of a novel or film) set in the past.

     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana

Political:

adjective

1. 1. 

   of or relating to the government or public affairs of a country.

   
   

   Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. - George Orwell

Technological:

adjective

1. relating to or using technology.

   
   

   
   

   
   

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness. - Mark Kennedy

Cultural:

adjective

1. 1. 

   relating to the ideas, customs, and social behaviour of a society.
2. 2. 

   relating to the arts and to intellectual achievements.

   
   Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions. - Paulo Coelho