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All these differences may change the main ideas of the source text because Badran gives herself the rights of the author which could produce a new work that may not be the author’s intended message. If the translator has the right to add or delete, the translated text may be different from the original because any text reflects the ideology and thought of its own author which is considered a manipulation. Dukate defines manipulation as: The translator understanding of a text which eventuates in adaptation of the message in target reader, in terms of cultural, ideological, linguistic and literary mismatches among the cultures is done by human manipulation and this entails some impact of individual factors (2007) But using this strategy, the translated text will be related to the ideology of the translator only, and this is a kind of unfaithfulness because the translator’s role is interpreting what exists not adding his or her points of view. The translation of these memoirs is a manipulation of the source text, which may happen for different purposes and which happened consciously or unconsciously according to the translator’s ideology. Hatim & Mason assert that “the translator’s intervention might be consciously or unconsciously filtered” (1997) Farahzad points out,…

The title of the secondary source is called The Genocide Question and Indian Residential Schools in Canada and the authors of the article are David B. MacDonald and Graham Hudson. The main point of this article is to question whether residential schools were a form of genocide towards Indigenous peoples of Canada. The United Nations Genocide Committee’s is used to interpret claims of genocide. This article looks at the different interpretations of the term genocide. The article then takes those…

me gave me insight on what genre conventions that they found throughout the two novels: The Namesake and The House on Mango Street. The second difficult thing was finding what secondary sources to use to back up the contemporary social issue that I mentioned. I was confused on how to integrate my secondary source into my essay and how to avoid being repetitive with my message. However, the peer review session in class allows me to see how my peers deal with the problems that I had trouble with.…

Chapter one 1. Preliminaries 1.1 Introduction Translation is the act of rendering a written text from one language into another. It is the action of interpretation of the meaning of a text, and subsequent production of an equivalent text, also called a translation, that communicates the same message in another language, which is why the outcome has to be close to the original meaning. If the goal of the translation is to understand the culture, it is more useful to comprehend the meaning.…

“foreignization”. Domestication is to reduce the foreignness or the strangeness of the foreign text to be used in target language. When a foreign text is domesticated, the reader of target language easily understands it as if it is a part of their literatures, then they are not defamilarized from the text. As indicated by Venuti, domestication is an ethnocentric reduction of the foreign text to target language cultural values. On the other hand, foreignization is to demonstrate how the…

is, “a reasoned opinion supported and explained by evidence” (122). A thesis is a concise and specific statement of an argument. Formulating a thesis for this essay will require you to find and analyze evidence (ideas and examples) relevant to your issue. Identify the issue by keywords, and determine one main question and several sub-questions to guide your research. Some of the evidence you use may come from your own experiences or observations. Some evidence may come from sources assigned in…

In the primary source, “Plan for the Erection of Government, c. 1768,” Don Jose de Galvez writes about why he believes the Spanish government should take notice and action upon Alta California. Galvez, mentions in his letter to the Marques de Croix that other foreign nations were taking interest in Alta California and they only way to protect the Spanish from “the dangers that threaten” them. This primary document made me understand more as to why the Spanish finally took action into colonizing…

Albuquerque 's article uses over thirty pictures throughout its text. The majority of them portray the physical landscape of the city in a positive style. Pictures of buildings towering in front of a clear sky make the city look attractive to visit. The pictures relate to and provide a better understanding of the text. A total of twelve pictures are present in Homyel’s article, most of which are not even from this century. These pictures are neutral, showing city maps and historical figures.…

each student to gain fluency in the general capabilities. The teacher begins to extend the general capabilities as there are lessons involving researching and locating sources. This incorporates information and communication technology (ICT). There is also much critical and creative thinking that is involved as the students are to then analyse source and as well as making comparisons. They will use their creative thinking towards the end of the unit as they will create a narrative of their own.…

Bailyn, Bernard. The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction. New York: Vintage Books, 1988. Thesis: In his preface, Bailyn describes his texts as a "preliminary effort to open up the questions and identify major themes of a very large area of history which we still only vaguely understand (xii). In chapter one he goes onto define the actual idea behind the title: " It brings together the major aspects of life in the American colonies- social structure and settlement patterns,…