Essays on Translator

Second Language Acquisition Theory

Struggles My father is a known businessman, he used to travel to the various countries around the world especially Europe for business purposes. My father has difficulty communicating in English because it is not his first language. He had hired a translator who accompanied him in all his journeys. Unfortunately, the translator passed away, his death devastated my father because they were close companions. The translator had values that made my father happy like kindness, honesty and calmness. My father contemplated on how he could go on his business trips without his translator and companion. It was difficult to ...

Communication Breakdown Cases

Introduction Communication between the nurse and the patient is central to compassion, empathy, and care. However, the instances of communication breakdown are enhancing, and there is a surge of complaints in recent years concerning the attitudes of staff members. This paper reviews three case scenarios with an aim to explore the possible reasons for communication breakdown. A holistic discussion on these factors along with the suggestions is expected to impart a good idea of fundamental communication problems that have existed in different healthcare settings. a. The communication broke down because of the careless approach by the nurse towards a ...

The Old Testament discipline studies with its supporting archaeological, philological, literary technicians and historical are composed on the edge of new times which contains both threats and promises. It states that biblical texts were given fair opportunities to talk as a witness to the reality the bible was acknowledged to describe. This text was imperiled to appropriate scrutiny obtained from the textual criticism science, syntax, morphology, criticism form, and lexicography. The advantages obtained from these researchers were not without the significant benefits garnered from external control multitudes. Archaeology was good in the vanguard setting the Old Testament scholars pace ...

1. Translator’s Task According to Benjamin Walter The task of the translator consists in finding that intended effect [intention] upon the language into which he is translating which produces it in the echo of the original (Benjamin, Arendt and Zohn 76) 2. Decline of Storytelling One reason for this phenomenon is obvious: experience has fallen in value. And it looks as if it continues to fall into bottomlessness. Every glance at a newspaper demonstrates that it has reached a new low, that our picture, not only of the external world but of the moral world as well, overnight ...

Step 1: Developing the elevator speech

Pomegranate Phone is the one device that puts more things in the palm of your hand that you ever thought possible (Pomegranate | NS08). This comfort has been aided by the following features:

Step 2: Developing the key and supporting messages

Key message 1: The product’s built-in projector can project virtually everything in vivid white screen. Supportive message 1: This device takes meetings to a whole new level as it can be used to project business presentation up to a 72-inch screen size. Again, it enables the projection of movies to be more visible on High Definition resolution. It is like having a home theater in the ...

Communication is an important element to gain understanding in whatever situation a person is in. It is especially effective if spoken using a common language. In this world, there are 700 million people who speaks English, and this language has been the most widely spoken and written language . This figure accounts for approximately 63% of the population in the world and I am part of it . Learning English as one of my spoken languages does not stops when I finished my bachelor degree in 2010 from King Faisal University. I believe that improving ...

Language is an integral part of health care, and it’s paramount that the patient and the nurse have a clear understanding of each other. A healthy Communication between a nurse and patient enable a nurse to get hold of accurate information on patient's health history, symptoms, and any allergic reaction. With this information at hand, a health practitioner can formulate a treatment plan and evaluate the outcomes of the treatment on the patient (Kroll, 2014).

Therefore, it is paramount for a health practitioner to find a translator to make sure there is no miscommunication between the practitioner and the patient. This is because if ...

Introduction

Dona Marina, also called Malintzin, or La Malinche (1496-1529) was an American Indian originating from the Nahua (Aztec) ancestry. Malinche played a very important role during the conquest of Mexico by the Spanish. She was believed to be a princess of the Aztec language (Nahuatl) speaking tribe and was sold as a slave in her youth to the coastal traders because of the family politics.

Malinche’s father, who was a rich and powerful Aztek chief, died when Malinche was still a young child and therefore, her mother got married for the second time and gave birth to a son with her new husband. In ...

An American immigrant leaves his or her mother country in search of business opportunities as well as expectations of a superior lifestyle associated with America. These particular expectations are often hinged on the fact they could achieve better lifestyles via better work and schooling opportunities in the United States. Nevertheless, this isn't always the situation. These particular immigrants experience a lot of issues from their new surroundings such as language climate and lifestyle which, to a large extend, influence their successes or failures in the United States. They influence their economic as well as social standing within their new environment and, therefore, ...

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Compare and Contrast to Natural Language Processing

Computational linguistics is relatively new and fast developing science. In the future the results of the researchers’ work on it may bring changes to many aspects of life and economy, such as businesses, marketing, professional services, etc. Computational linguistics collaborates with many disciplines, such as Psychology, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, etc. Natural language processing (NLP) is a field of artificial intelligence, computer science, and linguistics dealing with the interactions between human (natural) languages and computers. NLP is related to the field of human-computer interaction. A lot of challenges in NLP involve understanding of natural language, ...

Purpose: I will compare two English translations of the myth “Pyramus and Thisbe” from Ovid’s Metamorphoses (8 CE).

Translator No. 1: Michael Simpson, year of publication (2003) Translator No. 2: Elaine Fantham, year of publication (2004) Thesis: After reviewing the two translations, I will argue that the version by Michael Simpson is superior to the version by Elaine Fantham. I tend to prove the claims by critically analyzing certain texts from the passage and how the meaning is brought out for the reader to understand. In carrying out the analysis, special attention will be on book four. We shall look at the love relationship between Pyramus and Thisbe, the reaction of the society about ...

The company

The company provides a hardware/software solution that can deliver language instantaneously. This enhances meeting efficiency and promotes communication ease and speed across globally distributed organizations. One would be able to speak, and the person in possession of the translator device or software would be able to hear and/or see the information in the desired language.

Mission Statement:

We assist our customers’ global success through instantaneous language conversion by providing comprehensive solutions, exceptional value, and unsurpassed service with ease.Value Statement:

The company is committed to:

- Partnering with customers, employees, contractors, and other stakeholders - Providing a user friendly experience - Contravention of language barriers - ...

[Client’s Name] [Client’s Professor] [Client’s Subject] [Date Passed]

According to One World Nations Online, Spanish, next to English, is one of the most widely spoken languages in the United States as well as in the world. Including second language speakers, there are currently more than four hundred million people who speak Spanish. When we say ‘Spanish’, one of the attributes we can connect to it is the notion of romance or of love. Love, however, is about communicating and the primary tool of communication is language. It makes sense therefore to conclude that ...

Aristotle was one of the greatest Greek philosophers. He wrote on many areas including, meteorology, climate, biology, animal anatomy, psychology and ethics. His philosophical works focused on logic and the use of inference and deduction. He also wrote a number of works on the arts including the structure of the Greek Play. For the ancient Greeks, the tragic play was the greatest form of drama, and Aristotle ideas of Greek Tragedy and the tragic hero were based on the views of the times. According to Golden, Aristotle’s defined a Greek Tradgedy as, ". . . an imitation of a noble and complete action, having ...

Ipv6 Deployment Case Studies

Figure 1: Graphical internet usage trend 9 Figure 2: IPv6 tunneling 11 Figure 3: Data routing 13 Figure 4: Internet protocol suite 15

Introduction

In the midst of the number of IPv4 addresses almost entirely depleted, the realization of IPv6 has become a prime concern for many organizations. However, it is not possible to, immediately, change the whole thing over to IPv6 without a few transitions. This Paper takes a look at the ways that can be used to successfully transit to IPv6 from IPv4 among other deployment issues.

Section 1: IPv6 deployment strategy

The global IPv6 deployment recently made a significant milestone on the internet. ...

(institution’s name) Have you ever considered the origin and significance of the language with which you communicate on a daily basis? For some, this method of communication is merely a fact of life with little import beyond facilitating an exchange of information. Only when they come in contact with another language or dialect do they briefly consider that another system of communication exists. However, language serves a much larger purpose than simply interaction. Ultimately, language serves as the culture boundaries through which one views their society as well as the secrets of their native environment. Language at its core ...

Reiman (2007) defines communication as the process of information transfer from one character to another. Hence, nonverbal communication is a type in which wordless cues are sent and received between persons (Reiman, 2007). In most instances, visual cues are used in nonverbal communication. Thus, nonverbal communication is seen as a nonlinguistic transfer of information that is achieved through auditory, visual, kinesthetic and tactile channels. On verbal communication stretches beyond kinesthetic or body language. It also includes physical appearance, proxemics, hepatics, paralanguages and gazes. This paper reports some of my experiences of nonverbal communications I witnessed during a previous marriage/wedding ceremony. Marriage ...

When comparing Western thought to the Eastern thought of Taoism, a ready example would be to contrast Newtonian physics to quantum physics. In Newtonian physics the laws governing celestial bodies are simple and understandable. One states that objects in motion stay in motion and objects at rest stay at rest unless an outside force acts on them. In quantum physics, the black and white of Newtonian physics turns grey. Electrons exists in a state of both being and not being and are governed by unpredictable laws that make it impossible for science to exactly pinpoint their location, which the appearances seeming ...

A faithful translator is a mediator between multiple world cultures.Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source language text by means of the equivalent target language text, but has nothing to do with just word-by-word reproduction of what is said or written in the source language. A gifted translator or interpreter should be aimed at creating a comprehensive and adequate copy of an original, in order to convey the message hidden under the veil of foreign language words flow. The actual process of translation is a complex work that include a careful search of full or partial equivalents in the target language ...

Cross cultural communication barriers in provision of health care are global problems have been reported in various parts of the world. In provision of personalized care, it is necessary for nurses to consider the cultural identity and needs of patients in their care. It is therefore imperative for the nurse to play an ethical role in providing culturally acceptable care to the patients. The establishment of nurse patient therapeutic connection is dependent on the ability to communicate and share a common interpretation (McCarthy, Cassidy, Graham & Tuohy, 2013). Consequently, the therapeutic communication ought to be a focused and objective association that takes ...

Introduction

Hermeneutics refers to a theory of text interpretation that is mainly concerned with interpretation of wisdom literature, as well as philosophical texts. It is an extremely wide filed as it is concerned with various disciplines such as verbal, nonverbal and written communication. In the modern world, hermeneutics has become extremely useful. It has become an extremely significant tool in the study of human sciences. It has also had extensive influence to the main languages on earth. However, it has been challenged as most reliable research approach by the existence of other methods such as positivists approach defined as the interpretative ...

Perhaps it is a little bit clichéd today, but the world is increasingly interconnected. Modern, affordable air travel has increased people’s capacity to travel to far-off lands for both business and pleasure. Furthermore, the rise of the Internet has facilitated contact and communication with diverse cultures, which not too long ago would have seemed impossible. Finally, the British Empire, and its successor in global hegemony the United States of America, along with Hollywood and the Internet have cemented the use of English as a lingua franca in International affairs and business. Despite the rise of English, significant portions of ...

Introduction

Multi-axis milling machine typically refers to computer aided machine that helps in rotating tools used in milling away excess parts of metals in the manufacturing process. The machine supports rotation around single or multiple axes and able to support 3-5 axes translation. In the recent years, various computer softwares have been made available to help in automation of the multi-axis milling machine (Elber,1992). The enhancement of the global technology and multinational enterprise, more reasonable research and development have made most of the producing organizations to adjust, design and configure these tools to match the supply chain system. ...

The article that will be the focus of this essay is “Using Video Games and Kickstarter to Learn the Cherokee Language”. The news clip is about a new development by Don Thornton, a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, which uses video games to teach a language. Thornton introduced the “Talking Games”, the first commercial 3-D video game that aims to teach a language. The purpose of Thornton in developing this new medium of instruction is to help preserve the indigenous language of the Cherokee Indians, his ancestors. He realizes that learning a language can be very boring especially if traditional methods are ...

Understanding the criminal justice system of other countries provides valuable information, which can be used by a country as a way of reducing crime. A country’s approach to crime prevention may be ineffective due to lack of considering social factors that play an crucial role. Foreigners who visit foreign nations need to be aware of the extent of their rights especially in countries that have a different national language. Additionally, understanding the criminal justice of other countries allows the one’s country to improve on certain aspects of its criminal justice system. The foreign country of interest is Japan, and this ...

Summary

Wystan Hugh Auden: Wystan Hugh Auden was born in 1907, in York, England but his parents moved to Birmingham when he was young. Auden was overly intelligent and was transformed by the poetry of Robert Frost and Thomas Hardy Michael Hamburger: Michael Hamburger was a translator, a poet and a critic born in Berlin in 1924. Hamburger has translated the works of very many poets from German to English. William Carlos Williams: William Carlos William was born on the 17th of September, 1883. William was a poet renowned for his collection that include Spring and All (1923), Kora in Hell (1920), ...

The Hunt for Red October Annotated Bibliography

Part I

“The Hunt for Red October” by Tom Clancy highlights the fact that submarines played a significant role in cold war politics . It is particularly significant that this book reflects real world events, the mutiny aboard the Storozhevoy and the defection of Captain Jonas Pleskys of the Klaipeda . Tom Clancy’s approach to war is an intellectual power game rather than a horrifying detailed recitation of physical injuries . It shares aspects of underwater strategies like crazy Ivan where a ship tries to discover if another is following it, and move into battle position if it is. It is also about the ...

IT and Public Policy

Introduction Information and Communication Technology covers a wide area; generally information as well as wireless. In general, ICT refers to the role of combined communications as well as the assimilation of telecommunications, which makes it easier for creation, access, storage transmission and manipulation of information. Lately, ICT forms part of the basic needs of humans because without it life will never go on smoothly. Arguably, the world is becoming lesser than we may realize. Currently, it is possible to communicate individuals of various fashions, customs, traditions as well as languages, thanks to advancement in technology. From my point of ...

Abstract

Information Technology, IT is the technology that is used to acquire, store, organize, and process data which is provided by people in a computer systems to a form that can be used in specified applications, and disseminate the processed data. Thus, information is processed data based on which decisions can be taken and appropriate actions initiated while data is the raw material fed into the computer. Conclusively, information is processed data that improves our knowledge, enabling us to do work more efficiently. The main purpose of IT is to process the data through a series of instructions to give out the ...