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    Translators are literary ambassadors. They bring foreign works to the audience of the target language. During the past semester, I have been working to translate part one of His Excellency, The Ambassador, by Ghazzi AlQussaibi, for its popularity among Arab readers around the world. Some critics claim that the novel is actually a true story of an Arab politician. This is because the author was a renowned political figure for most of his life, where it would be within reason to assume he had a…

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    Especially significant in Huck’s “illuminating incident” (Wharton), when he makes the decision to tear up the letter, is his memory of the episode with the slave catchers when Huck is so struck by Jim’s declaration that Huck is the “‘...de ole true Huck; de on’y white genlman dat ever kep’ his promise to ole Jim’” (92) that he cannot bring himself to leave Jim to the slave-catchers. During his “illuminating incident” (Wharton), Huck embodies Twain’s belief that “all moral perceptions are…

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    or bad as long as the meaning of the ratings is clearly communicated. The most effective way to use a 5-point scale is to rate most employees as 2’s, 3’s or 4’s (solid performers at different levels of effectiveness) and treat the 1 and 5 as exclamation points that indicate a clear need for action with regard to an employee’s performance. Employees rated a 1 need to quickly improve or be managed out of their current role. In other words, performance is such a problem the company needs to…

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    thing as the Facebook post, sentences are simple, and there is no emoji. I just wrote about what I am going to do, and details. However, I did not want that audience think I am not excited about things. Therefore, for express my feeling, I used exclamation mark for making sentences more fancy.…

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    “alone, no mortal like you, ever,” (Sophocles, l. 913) they act as a representation of the thoughts of these citizens and, therefore, enables Antigone to call herself a stranger in the realm of the living at this point in her plot. Surrounding the exclamation of “I am a stranger!” (Sophocles, l. 956) are a web of issues including family and marriage, where she refers back to her mother and her father’s marriage and says to her father: “O dear brother, doomed in your marriage—your marriage…

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    Ocean Creative Writing

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    assured me there was nothing lurking beneath. I had commenced with my usual, self-taught execution of faceplants into the wave’s breaking face when I heard the scattered remains of a shout amid the seaweed saturated seaspray. Startled by his bold exclamation, I eagerly inquired “Excuse me?” to the sun-wrinkled longboarder afloat behind me. “Come further up on the board and the waves will catch themselves.” He hollered. Recognition slid into place. This was the man who had been out on this…

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    At Gatsby’s party when Nick and Jordan are looking for Gatsby they head into the library and stumble upon “Owl Eyes” a drunk man who is regarding the books with exclamations of shock. “Absolutely real-- have pages and everything. I thought they’d be a nice durable cardboard. Matter of fact they’re absolutely real,” (50). While it may appear to be just a drunk man babbling what he is saying is an example of subtle symbolism…

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    Stories of Initiation are ones that show the progression of a character from one state of being to another. In the case of “the birth-mark” written by Nathaniel Hawthorne the character Georgiana experiences initiation as she transforms from a confident woman to a woman dependent on the approval of man to determine her self-worth. At the beginning of the story, Georgiana appreciates her birthmark claiming, “it has been so often called a charm, that I was simple enough to imagine it might be…

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    Scarlet Letter Feminist

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    children to follow them around and scold them. Pearl, feeling protective of her mother, would take a stand against these children. “Pearl would grow positively terrible in her puny wrath, snatching up stones to fling at them, with shrill, incoherent exclamations that made her mother tremble…” (Hawthorne 84). Feminist women would have supported Hester and Pearl, no matter what they were going through. Overall, The Scarlet Letter is not a feminist novel because Hester is a stereotypical woman…

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    Archimedes War Hero

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    and inventors of ancient times. Although much of his life is unknown, he is still a great contributor to mathematics, in which he did modern calculus and associated mathematics to physical occurrences, Founding Hydro statistics, which include an exclamation of the principle of the liver. Archimedes has also originated an exact number for pie, explaining the spiral it's name is known for,and making a system we use today of exponents. He is know for making groundbreaking inventions such as the…

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