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Nude Paintings of Peter Paul Rubens

so intricately painted with many hues, becomes iridescent, as if vibrating at so high a frequency it is crossing the bounds into s...

The Quest for the Holy Grail and the Round Table Disintegration

before the knights can embark upon such an undertaking, they must first prove themselves to be a true knight of the Christian fait...

Statistical Analysis of the S.S. Titanic

journey to the United States. One problem is that the passenger and crew lists have been inaccurate due to misspellings and inaccu...

Overview of The Arabian Nights Translation by Husain Haddawy

under a caliph or king" which literally means "one who bears burdens" (Haddawy, 1990, p. 3). The vizier plays an important role in...

Old English and Present Day English Translation of The Good Samaritan Parable

"it" is still in evidence today in the Southern Appalachian mountains, where many OE forms persist. "Hw?t" vs "what;" "Hwyl...

Herbert Mason's Translation of Gilgamesh A Verse Narrative Analyzed

human condition then and now. Throughout the course of the story, Gilgamesh takes several physical journeys. However, the one mo...

A Woman Soldier's Own Story: The Autobiography of Xie Bingying A Critique

dominated every aspect of their lives. As a child Xie was not even supposed to play outside with members of the opposite sex, not...

Montreal and Poverty

In this paper, well examine a variety of issues pertaining to poverty in Montreal specifically, and poverty throughout Canada as a...

An Analysis of the Film, Lost In Translation

middle of filming the commercial he has come to do and the director is attempting to give him directions in Japanese using an inte...

Lost in Translation Film and Orientalism

and its heavy use of Japanese stereotypes for humor. Such depictions perpetuate racial and cultural insensitivity and misperceptio...

Ethics, the Soul, and 'Allegory of the Cave' in the A. Bloom Translation of Plato's The Republic

he had dragged him out into the light of the sun" he would be distressed. For Socrates, the world above ground represents the othe...

Analyzing An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen

In all honesty, Dr. Stockmann fails to think outside his scientific reasoning. He is, in a sense, blind to those who do not believ...

Exegesis of Psalm 137

as the historical circumstances, which inspired the psalm and whether or not the poem is a song or a prayer (Jackson). The student...

Theory of 'Indeterminancy of Translation' by Willard V. Quine

was born in Akron, Ohio and would one day be considered as "the most significant philosopher to have written in English in the sec...

Literal Interpretation of the Old Testament

were captive in Babylon and, therefore, exposed to this culture. The traditional Jewish and Christian viewpoint has been that M...

K-12 Issues of School Safety

the issue of who is liable for the safety of children while they are at the school. The schools and school systems examined will b...

'The Odyssey' by Homer Content Analysis

on which he has been marooned for twenty years, it would appear as if his ship would have nothing but smooth sailing back to Ithac...

Julio Cortazar's Deshoras

back to the past, as the young man obsesses over his mother and his search for identity. And, "Although the narrator begins by den...

Owen and Yolland in Translations by Brian Friel

attempt at absorption of the Irish culture. This move to suppress Irish culture is evident in the way that the audience is shown a...

Pragmatic Failure in Reference to Translation

human existence. Factors such as race, gender, and sociopolitical status, are all social facts and each influences a cultures lan...

An Analysis of The Long Discourses Of The Buddha: A Translation Of The Digha Nikaya

& of themselves... the mind in & of itself... mental qualities in & of themselves -- ardent, alert, & mindful -- putting aside gre...

Origin and Translations of The Qur'an

mission is to follow Gods will to the letter (Esposito, 1978). The law is therefore followed precisely. The Holy Quran expresses a...

Women in Haddawy's Translation of One Thousand and One Arabian Nights and in Muhammad's Holy Qur'an

out and to do so without question. If one did not bring to bear this responsibility, Muhammad was not reserved in instructing the...

Lost in Translation by Eva Hoffman

of such culture has been credited with bringing societies closer together and allowing people to understand and accept other lifes...

Cultural Ambivalence in Translations by Irish Playwright Brian Friel

In twelve pages this report discusses the Irish cultural ambivalence as a result of British dominance that is featured in the play...

Translation Of Ovid's Metamorphoses by Gregory Horace

around Myrrhas sexual obsession with her father, a situation that was no less unacceptable in Ovids day than it is in contemporary...

A Review of The Romance of Arthur An Anthology of Medieval Texts in Translation

A 10 page essay critiquing several essays in the anthology by James J. Wilhelm. The focus is on Arthur in the Early Welsh Traditio...

Brian Friel's Play Translations

his students have dropped out. There are also two officers who come to do their duty. One is captivated by the culture and the pe...

'Translations' and Irish Charms

cross-cultural issues; in one sense, someone born in a culture refutes it totally, in another sense, someone born in another cultu...

Arabian Nights Translation by Richard Burton

to resemble a lovely young girl, standing on pedestals of solid gold. This aspect of the stories?that one can be magically transfo...