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    should we say: some employers haven’t been careful. With technological advances happening basically every month‚ some people take a while to adapt or get too fascinated and begin to over use it or use it inadequally. Alison Stein Wellner’s text Lost in Translation discusses the negative impact that technology has had in face-to-face communications at work. Wellner observes that “new research indicates that overreliance on e-mail can degrade an organization’s interpersonal communication.” (Wellner 374)

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    A TEXTBOOK OF TRANSLATION Peter Newmark W *MRtt SHANGHAI FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION PRESS 9787810801232 A Textbook of Translation Peter Newmark SHANGHAI FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION PRESS A Textbook of Translation Peter Newmark Prentice Hall NEW YORK LONDON TORONTO SYDNEY TOKYO First published 1988 by Prentice HaH International vUIO Ltd. 66 Wood Lane End‚ Heme! Hempstead. Hertfordshire‚ HP2 4RG A division of Simon &i Schuster International Group (0 1988 Prentke Hall

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    Exile in the Road

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    Exile not only forces a person into isolation but also instigates an enlightening journey in which the person learns to draw certain conclusions about society. For instance‚ in The Road‚ the man and the son are completely isolated from the rest of the world by their status of being the “good guys;” however‚ this experience shows that although evil is more powerful than good‚ it does not triumph in the end. Cormac McCarthy shows this belief about humankind by proving the two key components of exile

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    Cultural Memory: Quickly glancing at “memory” it seems to be something passive‚ something that is stuck in the past and will not physically reappear. It is something that has happened and is stuck in time‚ along with people‚ places‚ smells and etc. If you take a closer look at “memory though‚ it reveals that it is dynamic and connects all intellectual and emotional dimensions together. Cultural memory is symbolic. It is a memory that is passed from one person or one generation to the next. It is

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    include the film ‘Lost in Translation’ by Sophia Coppola made in 2003‚ the Seamus Heaney’s poems ‘Digging’ (1998) and ‘Personal Helicon’‚ and finally the illustration ‘Globalisation’ (2012) by Michael Leunig. All three delve deeply into the interplay between internal choice and external circumstance. While they do explore how circumstances can influence choices‚ ‘Lost in Translation’ has a secondary investigation of how choices can impact the circumstance. ‘Lost in Translation’ is a film that explores

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    Rachel Hoffman Superstition

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    Allison Hoffman‚ is a reform Jew who is in the midst of a pregnancy. As a reform Jew‚ Ms. Hoffman takes pride in her enlightened‚ rational‚ science and fact based beliefs. She is not superstitious‚ nor does she use halacha as a guide for living her life. Like many reform Jews‚ she may equate the two as one and the same. The problem for Ms. Hoffman is that during her pregnancy she has developed some nasty superstitions. Like many women who are carrying a fetus inside their body‚ Ms. Hoffman has

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    The Seafarer Exile

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    Exile in Anglo-Saxon Lyrics There are several elements Anglo-Saxon lyrics contain‚ but as seen in poems such as “The Seafarer”‚ “The Wanderer”‚ and “The Wife’s Lament”‚ exile is one of the most prominent elements. Anglo-Saxons wrote about exile because it was something they all feared. They were terrified of the thought of being left alone‚ or being kicked out of their own home. Anglo-Saxons placed a tremendous amount of emphasis on a sense of belonging‚ which is why exile was such a threat to them

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    The Exile And The Kingdom

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    a detangled former missionary awaits his replacement‚ barrel makers strike‚ a prisoner is foisted on a schoolmaster‚ an artist works amidst ever-changing chaos‚ and an engineer visits inhabitants near the site of a future dam.”(Oak Harbor‚ 2007) Exile and the Kingdom‚ I think this is a strange‚ excellent and brief book. Actually there are also other strange stories: like Haruki Murakami’s Sleeping Woman‚ Blind Willow‚

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    Translation

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    Extra material for chapter 4 Van Leuven-Zwart’s comparative–descriptive model of translation shifts1 The most detailed attempt to produce and apply a model of shift analysis has been carried out by Kitty van Leuven-Zwart of Amsterdam. Van Leuven-Zwart’s model takes as its point of departure some of the categories proposed by Vinay and Darbelnet and Levý and applies them to the descriptive analysis of a translation‚ attempting both to systematize comparison and to build in a discourse framework

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    KS EVA

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    Shelly Deviana Hakim (29113362) YP 50 B Economic Value Added of PT. Krakatau Steel (2014) EVA is an internal management performance measure that compares net operating profit to total cost of capital. Economic Value Added attetmps to capture the true economic profit of a company. If EVA is more than zero (EVA>0) which is means value creating or inversly (EVA<0) means that is value destroying. Calculation EVA of PT. Krakatau Steel for 2014 start below. 1. Define the WACC Item Book Value % to MV Cost

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