Why is the ruthless totalitarian regime, described in Orwell’s novel purging Oldspeak and imposing Newspeak? What assumptions are being made about the relationship between language and thought?

The aim of the Newspeak is to decrease the words and language being used. They would like people's thoughts and mind to be in control such that it is made easier for it to be understood. The conclusion derived from relationship with thought and language is made smaller from the diction used, the less the thoughts of people will become.

Real Life Situation

Situation- The 2010 bomb blast at Kyadondo rugby club, during the World Cup Final which the Somali Islamist movement al-Shabaab were responsible for.

Knowledge Question- To what extent should the government of a country be held responsible, for attack on their citizens?

Knowledge Questions

Mr Moussay's grandfather says that the fruits on his trees are ripening earlier and earlier in the year and that this must be due to global warming.

Topic: Global warming.

Implicit question about the situation: Does the ripening suggest an increase in global warming?

Open-ended question about knowledge in the context of the real life situation: Why does the increase in Global Warming cause the fruits to ripen?

Open-ended question about knowledge using TOK concepts: How does Mr. Moussay's grand father use his experiances over the past, to come to a conclusion that global warming causes fruits to ripen in a more rapid manner?