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Introduction While the field of sign language interpreting has been around for decades, it is still in its infancy stages of professionalization and standardization. The role of an interpreter originated as volunteers or family members who knew enough to communicate basic information. This paper will briefly look at the developing field of interpreting. A new wave of educated and trained interpreters are entering the field and creating new standards and practice norms. The idea of team…

Everyone comes from a cultural background carrying a different set of beliefs. Much of your identity is influenced by the environment in which you grew up in and by how you were brought up and raised. Since birth, you were taught by your parents and community a standard in which ways to behave, in which ways to interact with others respectively, in which is right from wrong, the list goes on. These are just a few that are ingrained in someone unknowingly. If one were to immerse himself fully…

Greatness is only rewarded to those who seek it, not to those who wait for it to be handed out. Accordingly, producing movies based on great works of literature means translating the original work into something that not only has a great moral, but that is also visually captivating throughout the entire duration of the film. Beowulf the poem was published by an anonymous author in the 900’s and reflects the Anglo-Saxon civilization which had just recently converted to Christianity at the time of…

all implications in other poems, there is no explanation for the translator 's choices of the mihrab and rabab in preference to Muslims’ direction in prayers and the name of a traditional musical instrument respectively. This is again a literal translation of the poem to which Toorawa fails to render the intended meaning: Adūnīs uses mihrab to signify peace while rabab means harmony (Adūnīs 81). Such literalness confuses readers of the target language and eventually affects the overall coherence…

Every mentor desires the same burning passion that they received upon their speciality from their student. Whether that passion is a sport or subject in school, every teacher wishes to place a flame in the student’s body. In “Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins, Collins describes himself introducing poetry to a class of students, however Collins ideal scenario on students learning poetry is quite different from reality. Collins uses metaphors and similes to compare the traits of poetry,…

Robert Frost is one of the most notable American poets of all time. His style of writing borders both 19th Century Romantics and Moderns, using rhyme and common language throughout most of his works. Within these seemingly simple writings, however, Frost creates meaning beyond surface level comprehension. One such writing is “The Road Not Taken”, a short poem that if guided by supposition, tells of a man presented with a choice of two different roads to travel, and when he decided on a road to…

Both translations state it quite eloquently, yet in different ways. One describes her as “forgetting love due her own blood,” and the other saying “not for her children nor her dear parents had she a thought, no” (Barnard 12-13; Carson 9-10). Sappho’s frustration…

According to the American Counseling Association, “The term vicarious trauma… sometimes also called compassion fatigue, is the latest term that describes the phenomenon associated with the ‘cost of carrying’ for others” (2011). Those most vulnerable to the compassion fatigue phenomenon are those who spend the most time enabling the Deaf to move between the Deaf community and the hearing community. An interpreter’s job is to convey communication from one person to another person. While sign…

Poetry is a way of expressing emotions, feelings, thoughts or a specific passion on paper. The passion of poetry grows on people the more they continue to write. Some devices can be used to create rhythm such as repetition, syllable variation, and rhyming. Other devices such as sound, theme, imagery, etc. can be used to introduce something, someone, or a specific emotion the poet wants to introduce. Using these devices at the right time can improve a poems structure and provide a better…

Mark Twain once said: “There is no security in life, only opportunity.” This statement, relevant to many great decisions made in life, shows the instability and uncertainties found in life. Although I have received many questions and queries about my major, I remain indecisive about the major I wish to have. However, I succeeded in whittling the log of choices down to fewer options. The same goes for the possible careers, though the list itself names fewer specific job opportunities than general…