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The article written by Kweku Smith has an abundant amount of useful information. Overall, he brought awareness to the different aspects that a second language teacher should take into consideration regarding the student they are teaching. Smith encourages teachers to take their students background into the teaching process; noting that it plays a key factor in aiding in the process of learning. He also wants to make clear that there is no prototype as to how a second language student should…

The protagonist of the play Twelfth Night is highly regarded as Shakespeare’s strongest and most developed female character by both critics and scholars. Viola is a cunning character who prompts a central issue in the play by disguising herself as a man; she provokes hetero- and homoerotic responses. Though Viola is a very intellectual woman, it is not her mind that stirs these emotions from Olivia and Orsino. Due to the soft and gentle features Viola has when in disguise, both males and females…

As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.” What makes a hero? To be known as a hero is one thing, but what is a true hero? Well, it depends on whom you ask. To some, a hero might just be a person who is courageous and brave. To others a hero might be a person that is a strong fighter and leader who wins battles; however a hero might also be considered a person who uses his brain just as much as a fighter uses his sword.…

1. Making up a new word. 2. Explaining the meaning of the SL expression in lieu of translating it. 3. Preserving the SL term intact. 4. Opting for a word in the TL which seems similar to or has the same "relevance" as the SL term. Defining culture-bound terms (CBTs) as the terms which "refer to concepts, institutions and personnel which are specific to the SL culture" (p.2), Harvey (2000:2-6) puts forward the following four major techniques for translating CBTs: Functional Equivalence: It means…

Of those philosophers who seek to define life in some way, mostly positively, there are a set of provoking souls who seek to uproot any optimistic perspective such as Friedrich Nietzsche. He sees life as a bleak, ephemeral, meaningless, and deceptive time from birth until death as he explains in the essay “On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense.” One of the subjects he especially focuses on is the topic of metaphors in language and naming empirical objects that surround us. When a human hears…

In our example, the visual message (the eye rolling and facial expression) does not agree with the audible message (the words being spoken). This is sarcasm and irony. Moreover, messages within the same medium can conflict to produce a “sarcastic” interpretation. For example, when someone is being sarcastic, their tone of voice (an audible message) conflicts with the words spoken (also an audible message); in this case the contradicting messages within one transmission medium result in a…

The first Nike shoe was designed with a waffle maker in 1971. The purpose behind the idea was to create a shoe with more traction for the runners that wear the shoe. Nike has grown from being a distributor for a Japanese shoe company, to a designing its own shoe, with a waffle maker to becoming multi-billion dollar athletic wear company. As the company has grown, so has its partnerships and advertisements, with the growth it has made came incredible opportunities to partner with incredible…

Cyber is an adjective defined as “of, relating to, or involving computers or computer networks,” and terror is a noun defined as “a very strong feeling of fear” or “something that causes very strong feelings of fear: something that is terrifying,” (Merriam-Webster.com, 2015). One can logically conclude that cyber-terror is a form of fear involving computers. As technology continues to evolve and everyday life becomes more dependent on technology, terms like cyber-terror and cybercrimes become…

Isolation 12 pm and the bell rings for recess students divide by their categories the popular ones, the nerds, and the isolated creep. As the other students observe the creep he's depicted as lonely, weak, and unhealthy. In reality, this creep is totally the opposite from what people view him from the outside and through inside he's happy, relaxed, and enjoying himself by not being around others. Different humans, unique brains, many words and divergent meanings; however, some deep and some…

flesh can either make or break someone. Starting off with what society labels the lowest class, poor. Poor is a term we use quite frequently to describe a human being, their living arrangements, and their education level. In reality poor is just a noun, so it shouldn’t be used as a verb. According to bell hooks, she remembered a time when she labeled her family as being poor and she was corrected because her father worked so therefore they must…