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    A Thousand and One Nights

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    foreignized translations of The Haroun Tales‚ in comparison with Malcolm Lyons’ domesticated translations of the same tell us that while the distinction between domestication and foreignization is certainly pertinent in some cases‚ features of both will always emerge in each text. The applicability of distinguishing between domestication and foreignization is also largely contingent upon the time period in which the text was published and the nature of the readers of each time period. In The Haroun

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    with the ideology of translation‚ the two main strategies namely domestication and foreignization are used. These basic translation strategies provide both linguistic and cultural guidance for translating culture-specific source texts into parallel target texts. Munday (2001) states that domestication is the type of translation involving mitigating the source-text foreign elements to the target-language cultural values. Domestication strategies have been used since ancient Rome and at that time the

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    The Neolithic Revolution

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    Neolithic revolution…………………………………………………………………..6 4. Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………….9 5. Bibliography…………………………………………………………………………10 Introduction The most important technological development ever to occur in human history was the domestication of plants (agriculture) and animals (pastoralism). Together these developments are called the Neolithic Revolution. To understand how the Neolithic Revolution occurred it is necessary to understand the economic system it replaced. Until the Neolithic

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    rhetorical sense‚ dogs are no strangers to humans. This is quite obvious‚ as man and dog have shared a long and close history with each other. Dogs were first domesticated 15‚000 years ago from the gray wolf (Scott & Fuller‚ 1974). Although the domestication of dogs has not been formally documented in the history books of man‚ there is reliable empirical data to support the origin of the domestic dog from wolves. Mitochondrial DNA sequence variations from hundreds of domestic dogs were compared and

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    inventive to survive‚ because one must build a warm home and make warm clothing. Whereas one can survive in the tropics with simpler housing and no clothing. The first step towards civilization is the move from hunter-gatherer to agriculture with the domestication and farming of wild crops and animals. Agricultural production leads to food surpluses and this in turn supports sedentary societies‚ rapid population growth‚ and specialization of labor. Large societies tend to develop ruling classes and supporting

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    but because they were luckier in terms of geography. Diamond focuses on the idea that the success of a society is not catalyzed by genetics or natural superiority‚ but instead by these two major themes: “The Rise of Food Production” and “The Domestication of Animals”. These two themes share a similar concept‚ Geographic Luck‚ which I will address separately. These components will later lead into the three sub-themes‚ two of which the book is named after: Discovery and Use of Steel‚ Germs and Immunity

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    Kenneth Molander Harris ASB 222 10/19/14 The Upper Paleolithic time in human history is the final segment of the stone-age following the Lower and Middle Paleolithic times. During this time‚ homo sapien sapiens appear to have made tremendous strides like no time before it. Archaeologists have found ancient bones and artifacts all around the world which help them to paint a picture of ancient humans at different time periods. Using radiocarbon dating they can find out how old these bones and artifacts

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    What is civilisation ?

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    shows humans beginning to control nature. When enough food was available‚ people started settling down resulting into more complex developments belonging to civilisation. Soon after settling down the domestication of animals began. Only 14 of the animals during that time were suitable for domestication. Some requirements for the animals (not all animals had all these attributes) were: Power used in travel and agriculture (e.g. horse)‚ relatively short maturing time‚ the ability to produce food

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    In “Hunting The Great Stag”‚ the rise in popularity of animal domestication can be seen through the large central animal in the picture. We can see that the size difference between the animal and the humans is very large. This suggests that animals were a very prized part of neolithic culture because they were a source

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    A usual side effect of domestication is that the organisms acquire a dependency so that they lose their ability to survive in the wild. An example of domestication is dogs and sheep. Dogs were domesticated for the purpose of being a companion/partner while sheep were domesticated for the production of a valuable resource: wool. Plants can be

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