English Bible translations

Macbeth: Day 1 Name: Cayleigh Hickey Class: Advanced Placement Literature (AP Lit) Date of Lesson: 4/10/17 Goals and Objectives Essential Questions: How does power corrupt people? How does blind ambition corrupt motives, particularly political motives? How does superstition affect human behavior? If you believe in fate, does that belief have any power over your future? What value does Shakespeare’s work hold for our modern world? Are the works still relevant? Standards/Daily Objectives: 11.4.4…

Freeman Tilden was considered to be an innovator in the field of cultural interpretation. Interpreting our Heritage, is recognised as the most influential, seminal book. The book includes the famed “six principles” of interpretation, with an explanation of each one. Tilden’s principles appear straightforward and quite uncomplicated, however, they are more than that, it is sophisticated and imaginative, as his writings speak and challenge the interpreter to this day. This book will offer…

Beowulf is originally written in Old English which we do not speak anymore and in order for modern audiences to enjoy the epic it had to be translated. This is the part that gets tricky. Different translations say different things that may give a completely different meaning to the text. You feel like you are missing something essential to the original story. As any bilingual person can tell you, when translating a word or phrase things get lost in translation. There are just some words you…

Assignment 3 1.Lawrence Venuti advocates “foreignizing”, as against “domesticating” translation (Venuti, Lawrence. 1995. The translator’s Invisibility. A history of Translation. London and New York: Routledge). What do you understand by these terms? What are the advantages and disadvantages of such an approach? In translation practice, foreignization and domestication are two important translation strategies that translators need to consider when approaching the linguistic and cultural…

Poem Explication of “The Apparition” The poem dramatizes an internal and external conflict. First, the speaker struggles to mentally make amends with the woman who has broken his heart. Secondly, it is unveiled in the first line that the speaker has been hurt by an external force, a female, whom he wants her to suffer the consequences for her wrongdoings. The speaker refers to the woman as a “murd’ress” in the first line (“When by thy scorn, O’ murd’ress, I am dead (1))” even though she has not…

Nowadays, if you ask a number of people if they prefer ‘books or movies’, it’s most certain that, there will be an extensive collection of different answers. For many centuries books have been the biggest source of stories that human kind has, but now, things are changing. Today’s way to get introduced to a new story is, to watch a movie. The demand for movies is constantly increasing, so, why do some people still read books? Why do a countless number of people like to watch movies? There are…

This process was significant for me because it helped me to see how lesson planning is vital when it comes to the teaching-learning process. Allowing me to properly plan ahead helped me to stay organized and keep on track, thus allowing me to teach more. Not only that, I was able to help students reach objectives more easily and spend less time on managing the classroom. This provided me to have a coherent framework for effective teaching, to be more confident when delivering the lesson, and…

From the fortune tellers in the ancient time to weather reporters we have now, people’s curiosities in their nature stimulate them to explore the coming unknowns, and the expectations they put on the future events are usually based on two things: what they wish for and what they know about. Since the former is highly subjective, and the latter is often limited, things don’t always turn out to be what we thought they would be. In “A Temporary Matter”, “Interpreter of Maladies” and “The Blessed…

Chicago World Exposition 1893 The Chicago World Exposition 1893 is also remembered by its short name World Fair: Columbian Exposition. It is a fair which was held in Chicago in the year 1893 and marks 400 of Christopher Columbus entering the new world in the year 1492. The key attraction of this fair was the centerpiece that carried the shape of a water pool. This highlighted the existence of the ship that was used by the great Christopher Columbus to tour the world. The Chicago Exposition was…

Career Application Interpreting is a complex profession, made even more complex with cross-cultural communication. According to Schaefer, non-Mexican Americans viewed Mexican Americans as second class citizens; therefore they were expected to conform to the mainstream culture (2015, p. 227). They have also faced many barriers and lack of access to employment (Valenciana, 2006, para. 6). These are important aspects to keep in mind while interpreting for Mexican Americans. As interpreters, it…