Contrastive Analysis of the Conceptual Metaphor LIFE IS A JOURNEY in English and its Equivalent in Vietnamese Department of English Ho Chi Minh University of Education Instructor: Bui Nguyen Khanh Ho Chi Minh City‚ June 19th‚ 2013 1 I. ABSTRACT Since its introduction in 1980‚ the publication “Metaphors We Live By” by Mark Johnson and George Lackoff has successfully persuaded the readers to see all metaphors in a new light. The 1980 classic maintains that metaphorical expressions
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world for the last century‚ and havent a clue as to what the Titanic is all about‚ let me update you. “RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning of 15 April 1912‚ after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. Of the 2‚224 passengers and crew aboard‚ more than 1‚500 died‚ making it one of the deadliest commercial peacetime maritime disasters in modern history.” (From Wikipedia article on RMS Titanic
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Titanic hit an iceberg‚ split in two‚ and sank on April 14‚ 1912. The sinking ofthe Titanic was caused by the iceberg‚ the captain’s carelessness‚ the design flaws‚ and the weather conditions. The size of the iceberg was about 200 feet wide and about 100 feet tall. It was located in the North Atlantic Ocean. The Titanic hit the iceberg at 1 1 :40 p.m. on the night of April 14‚ 1912‚ and sank two-and-a-half hours later "The essence of leadership is being able to see the iceberg before it hits
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Cultural Diversity Dr. Johnson 28 January 2014 Assignment 1 – Cultural Iceberg Casey Roskilly 00113044 Index Introduction For assignment 1‚ in Cultural Diversity studies‚ we were asked by Dr Johnson to type 8 – 10 pages of information regarding the Culture Iceberg theory. The four main categories we must address are: The external culture parts‚ The internal culture parts‚ The misconception about culture The impact of the family on culture.
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The Titanic’s maiden voyage was a catastrophe because the ship hit an iceberg. The iceberg had not been seen until the last minute‚ however it was already too late to slow down. A numerous amount of people that were on the ship died. From millionaires to immigrants and everything in between. It took 2 hours and 40 minutes for the Titanic to fully submerge. In those 2 hours and 40 minutes that they had to rescue people‚ only about 706 people were rescued out of the 2‚222 that were on board. The maiden
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He’s A Live Wire‚ Metaphor and Poetry The use of metaphor in poetry is one of the most important aspects of poetic style that must be mastered. Metaphor can be described as figure of speech in which a thing is referred to as being something that it resembles. From the perspectives of construction‚ poetic and cognitive function and working mechanism‚ where metaphor is constructed from human perceptual experience and is extended through imaginative processes. An important feature of cognitive
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April 14th‚ 1912‚ is a day everyone will remember‚ it’ll go down in history as a day when disaster struck. Not too far from New York. The Titanic hit an iceberg which as a result made it sink in the North Atlantic Ocean. Nowadays we look back and remember this was an important event because so many people died when the ship sank‚ partly because of the lack of lifeboats. After the sinking no ship was allowed to set sail unless there were enough lifeboats for everyone on the ship. It took nearly 3
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Introducción El Titanic era el barco más grande jamás construido. Estaba cerca de 900 pies de largo‚ con 25 pisos de altura‚ y pesaba 46.000 toneladas‚ este era considerado un barco insumergible. El 14 de abril de 1912‚ el RMS Titanic colisionó con un iceberg y se hundió en menos de tres horas. Más de 2200 pasajeros y la tripulación estaban a bordo del Titanic con rumbo a los Estados Unidos. Sólo sobrevivieron 705. De acuerdo con los constructores del Titanic‚ incluso en el peor accidente posible en el
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In the year of 1912 in the fifthteenth day of april a ship that had been thought to be indestructible‚ sank from an iceberg that had been said to be larger than the ship itself. That ship was called the Titanic. The Titanic was said to be a beauty and some might’ve said it was the largest ship they ever seen.The Titanic had about over 2‚000 passengers when it sailed in 1912 and had only 705 people saved by the ship Carpathia when it sunk. What some didn’t know was that Carpathia was the only ship
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question remains… Who or what is responsible for the sinking of the ‘unsinkable ship’? The Titanic set sail on April 10‚ 1912 carrying 2200 passengers and 1300 crew. She hit an iceberg on April 14‚ 1912 at 11:45 p.m. At first the captain thought that the ship had merely scraped the iceberg. The damage was much worse... The iceberg scraped the hull so bad the rivets used to hold the ship together popped out. The gash in the hull let water come into the ship at 10 tons per second! Of the 2200 passengers
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