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    Seamus Haney’s translation and the Fitz and Fitzgerald translation of the first Ode of Antigone differ in their portrayals of the strength and resilience of man. While both translations paint humanity as having ingenuity and power‚ Haney’s translation describes man as being able to overcome anything through hard work in conjunction with the world around him while the Fitz and Fitzgerald translation portrays man as all-powerful and in complete control of his surroundings‚ describing his achievement

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    The Real Original Sin When John Milton wrote the epic poem Paradise Lost‚ his vision about how the books would effect peoples lives‚ even to this day could not be for seen. Since these books follow the same story about the first man and women most people know the basic concept already. Milton’s story‚ like most other epics starts in medias res‚ right after Satan’s failed attack to take over heaven. With God’s knowledge of Adam and Eve’s inevitable failure questions the idea of why sin had to be

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    After the Civil War many of the “Lost Cause” advocates stated that their work was not political‚ this statement is proved correct as the majority of their work was social. The South’s desire to protect the “southern way of life” was the main cause of the “Lost Cause”. Reconstruction left behind the unfortunate legacy of unsuccessfully ending segregation among races in the South‚ as it did little to fix the issues that the Civil War was fought for. “Lost Cause” advocates stated that their work

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    The Lost Boy?s Both short stories create metaphysical ?Lost Boy? to demonstrate longing. In the short story ?Lost Boy? written by Thomas Wolfe the main character who?s described as Grover is in essence the ?lost boy? from Thomas?s past. Grover?s story is written in place of Wolfe?s late brother and Grover?s life is depicted through the eyes of four people the mother‚ the sister‚ the younger brother Eugene‚ and Grover himself. First we see Grover’s view of a childhood experienced months before the

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    he Poem Andrew Marvell’s poem chronicles his reactions to the artistic merit of John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667) in seven verse paragraphs of fifty-four rhymed iambic pentameter lines. The opening sentence forms a grammatical unit of ten lines. The remaining lines‚ marked with a grammatical pause at the end of each couplet‚ follow the poetic practice of end-stopped couplets. Initially‚ Marvell contrasts Milton’s “slender Book” with its “vast Design‚” its Christian topic of salvation history and

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    Hanem El Farahty shows the history of legal translation . It begins in the early of the nineteenth century and increasing in the twentieth century because the awareness of the importance of legal translation grows in this period. That is because of a code created by Napoleon named nopeolic code that affected other countries such as Germany. In the twenties century‚ The importance of translation reached its top in particular legal translation plays necessary role in interaction and globalization

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    will to be present in a relationship with God. In order to have a relationship with God we must posses free will‚ because free will gives us the power to have faith in God‚ and put trust in God. According to the Bible‚ and Milton’s Paradise Lost‚ Free will did not exist in the world until God influenced Adam and Eve. God told Adam and Eve that the one rule they must follow in the garden of Eden is to never eat from the tree of knowledge. Adam and Eve took this command and blindly followed

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     He then  moves on with his life by getting married‚ having children and  travelling.     Climax:    The climax is when it the story says “T​ he alder stayed  motionless in my hands and the water beneath the earth  refused to sing.” Because we knew he lost the gift at that point.     Conclusion:     When the narrator tried to put their father’s teaching in action  by holding the alder branch waiting for it to writhe‚ hoping for  the sound of gushing water. In the end‚ the branch stayed  motionless in his/her hands

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    OF WARSAW POLAND To Professor Stanisław Dubisz with friendship and respect TRANSLATION OF OLD TEXTS AS A PROCESS OF SECONDARY ARCHAISATION Abstract: In the introduction there are described terms connected with the issues of translation as an archaic stylization. The aim of study is to present creative techniques in archaizing translations of old texts. Methods and materials: author refers to contemporary translation theories‚ especially to G. Steiner’s conception of historical stylization and

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    devil in “Paradise Lost” has on the psyche makes him a more effective villain than the three monsters in “Beowulf”. Both epic tales culminate into a battle where the rulers‚ God and Hrothgar‚ call upon the heroes‚ Christ and Beowulf‚ to defeat the villains‚ the devil and the monsters. Each epic merges Christian and traditional elements of the tales that include kings‚ heroes‚ villains‚ honor and loyalty. “Beowulf” was not available during the time Milton was writing “Paradise Lost” even so‚ parallels

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