role in developing the skills including listening‚ speaking‚ reading‚ writing and translation. Vocabulary is regarded as a foundation for the mastery of the language and it goes without saying that great importance should be attached to vocabulary. Hence‚ learners are supposed to enrich their vocabularies for the sake of proficiency in the language learning. However‚ as for most Chinese non-English majors‚ English vocabulary has been their big concern. Facing the pressure of passing CET 4 and CET
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Course/Number Institution Date Instructor Name Uses and Gratifications Theory Uses and Gratifications Theory (UGT) according to West and Turner (2007) is a mechanism of getting to know the reason and how individuals keenly look for specific media to meet their particular needs. As opposed to other media theory that seeks to understand what the media do to individuals‚ UGT seeks to understand what individuals do with media. UGT as argued by McQuail (2010) is an audience-centered means
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Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation centers on the lives of two characters‚ Bob Harris (Bill Murray) and Charlotte (Scarlet Johansson). Bob is an aging actor and movie star from Hollywood‚ who struggles with a mid-life crisis. His visit to Tokyo is to film whiskey commercials as well as make appearances on some of the popular Japanese talk shows. On the other hand‚ Charlotte is a Yale graduate‚ who is also struggling with her life; she does not know what she wants despite being married to her husband
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COMM 2312: Technical and Professional Communication Instructor: Ms. Neva Alexander Section: 201 Name: Najd K. Alabdullatif ID: 201001058 Major: Finance Assignment 3: Career Specific Manual (10%) Goal: My goal is to open my dream elementary school in Khobar City. It will be different than normal schools here in Saudi Arabia. I want it to be the first school in Saudi where the kids can learn and have fun at the same time without any strict instructions or boring rules. Also‚ I
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Cultural Heritage of Pakistan Turkish Influence On the Subcontinent Submitted by: Abdus Samad Khan Submitted to: Prof. Qamar Abbas The invasion of the Turks at the turn of the eleventh century from Central Asia had wide-ranging results on the historical background of Medieval as well as advanced India. The Turks built the politico-military control over significant areas of the nation and fortified the Religion Islam that they professed and sustained the Islamic refinement
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The Odyssey Translations Essay The Odyssey is an epic poem‚ written in classical Greek‚ describing Odysseus’s adventures in his ten year attempt to return to Ithaca after the Trojan War. Since this 2‚500 year old book was written‚ there have been several English translations that are believed to be the closest interpretations to the original version of The Odyssey. Alexander Pope‚ Emile V. Rieu‚ Robert Fitzgerald‚ and Robert Fagles each wrote a translation of his own. These translations are read and
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Literary Translation as a Creative Act Literary translation implies the translation of all genres of literature‚ which include prose‚ drama and poetry. Literature is described as ’an apparently nebulous body of knowledge in oral or written form‚ an imitation of life‚ which reflects civilization and culture‚ and which covers every angle of human activities-culture‚ tradition‚ entertainment‚ information among others.’ It is one of the great creative and universal means of communicating the emotional
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outstanding translations‚ two of which are by Burton Raffel and Seamus Heaney‚ different ways of writing are portrayed. Grendel’s description is written quite differently in both translations. Heaney’s translation is more similar to the Anglo-Saxon style of writing than Raffel’s translation. In Heaney’s translation‚ he uses a kenning to describe the Danes whereas Raffel uses simple wording to get the same story across. Heaney calls The Danish people “Ring-Danes” to get his translation to be closer
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The Criteria used for selecting and sequencing the grammatical items in the Third Intermediate English Textbook in Saudi Arabia BY Mohammed S. Alkhamali M.Ed TESOL student Collage of Education King Saud University Riyadh 1 Introduction This paper tries to answer the question ‘ with reference to a syllabus or a textbook you are familiar with‚ identify and discuss critically the criteria which appear to have been used in selecting and sequencing its content.’ To answer this question we
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where a cultural bond is shared. This can be due to shared values‚ culture‚ norms‚ roles‚ and geographical location. A society can have a shared culture‚ but also remain stratified and be unequal. Stratification is the separation of humans into hierarchies. Conflict Sociologists argue that there is a conflict in society due to different groups having different interests. Theories such as Marxism and feminism‚ as mentioned in Item B‚ are both conflict theories that argue differently the causality
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