Song Essays

A. PREFACE Translation shift is common occurrence that we can find in translation. This thing happens because whole languages in the world have different grammatical structure. According to Peter Newmark “’shift’ (Catford’s term) or ‘transposition’ (Vinay and Darbelnet) is a translation procedure involving a change in the grammar from SL …

Nettles and Praise song for my mother both explore the themes of child parent relationships and the duties the parents have in protecting and caring for their child. Nettles is written from the fathers perspective and is about one event which occurred where his son fell in a nettle bed …

1. Does the Tucson data-mining project inappropriately violate the privacy of Internet users, or is it an acceptable tradeoff to more intelligently combat terrorism? Explain your answer. Although the Tucson data-mining project may inappropriately violate the privacy of Internet, it is an acceptable tradeoff to more intelligently combat terrorism users …

Over 100,000 copies of this single was sold around the world on its debut. Writing his own lyrics, composing music, and actor. Eminem is arguably the most talented MC in the history of rap. His recent single “Guts over fear” is a song that explains how Eminem became the artist …

A personal space is a place where one can go to be alone, it is a place that one knows like the back of their hand, and it is a place where many memories are made, some are trivial, some are heartfelt. A personal space is defined as “The physical …

By combining a teenage summer romance with a sick parent, and you’ve got everything you need for a typical, but amazing Nicholas Sparks novel. Sadly, the movie doesn’t live up to the perfectly written story for shown in the book. The Last Song tells the story of a recent high …

Okot p’Bitek worked as anthropologist, poet, novelist an even footballer which led him to go and being educated in England on law and anthropology and later literature. He differed himself from other African writers who wrote in western styles and in western point of view. He has chosen an African …

I have chosen two poems, A Song of The Republic, by Henry Lawson (1867-1922), and ‘If You Forget Me’ by Pablo Neruda (1904-1973). Both of these poems use many different techniques to reflect the context of their time and their values and beliefs. Pablo Neruda was a Nobel prize winning …

Promt: Compare the two versions of The Seafarer by Raffel and Pound and give reasoning for why one is a better translation, in terms of preserving the Anglo-Saxon poetic tradition and the overall feel of the poem. It would not be possible to translate The Seafarer perfectly, keeping all of …

The song, I Know I Can”, by raper Nas, has a positive message that encourages people, but mainly children to work hard and stay in school, so that they can be what they want to eb in life. his song’s lyrics instill a certain pride, fight and determination in the …