Chapter 6: One Last Time Before You Go: The Conclusion and Final Review
Chapter 6: One Last Time Before You Go: The Conclusion and Final Review
Putting it All Together
Here, finally is our complete analytical essay of Charles Justice’s “The Ultimate Communications App,” with conclusion and revised introduction:
Example
Speaking to an audience of first year university students in Canada, Charles Justice in “The Ultimate Communications App” presents language as a new “communications app” that can inspire worldwide “cooperation,” overcome any “conflict” and produce an equally accessible and beneficial “commons.” Through this novel presentation of language, Justice argues that while humans have become distanced into “occupying different places” through technological, agricultural and domestication evolution, it is the shared historical fact that humanity grew from the same original roots of collective language construction that unites every modern person to their human counterparts around the globe. Reiterating his definition of the common as “a level-playing field,” Justice concludes with a call to arms extolling humans to use all aspects of this “new app,” language, to grasp their ethical responsibility not only to each other but to “share” in the present concerns of a globalized population of humans in the entire “Earth’s biosphere.”
In his coy opening paragraphs, Justice describes the many uses of language as if they are features of a “new communications app” he “just invented.” Justice notes how language use “facilitates an expanding network of people” and “opens up incredible possibilities for creativity and cooperation.” Such clever itemization of language’s many features enables Justice to establish effectively language as a human tool that has at its root the human desire to connect and work together. Though centuries of migration and conflict may have turned the world into a “Tower of Babel” in which populations are divided by different languages, “all of us living today have a common history” in which language was developed first and foremost to create community.
Justice stresses that such a created community is often defined by “a commons,” which he defines thusly: “A commons is a level-playing field. Everybody gets to breathe air, and we have that in common with most other species.” He establishes language as one of the first such commons, “available to everyone free” and a “common way for us to share information and create enduring knowledge.” Thus, whether it is being used to foster cooperation or perpetuate conflict, language has always been a commons accessible to all members who wish to contribute meaningfully to their community.
Justice defines language as “A method of communication that is available to virtually all humans to use;” a “common property, available to everyone free.” Justice thereby establishes language as a common human right and desire—an inherent need that is obvious even in the simple naming and describing of a “proto-language” like “Me Tarzan, you Jane”: “Once you begin to share info