This paper analyses different methods of translating English and Chinese idioms，and discusses the importance of target-oriented translation approaches compared to source-oriented translation approaches and the broad sphere where target-oriented translation approaches are applied. Abstract: Translation, a cross-culture activity, is not only the transformation of languages, but also the introduction of their cultures. Language cannot exist without culture as its component. As a part of langua...
This essay sets out to explore the construction of gender identities and roles in two advertisements for hair removal products on addressed to women and the other to men. This is done through the study of how two semiotic modes (written and visual) interact in the texts to signify the bodies of the women and men being represented and their femininity and masculinity. I begin by taking a discourse-oriented approach for elucidating what it means to understand gender as a social construction. Fo...
My name is K, a single lady and I come from a Christian family. My chosen career is to study theology; I grew up to see and knew theology in my family, this makes me love theology. I have been on this theology course for many years. All I want is to learn more and more about theology, to be able to stand and defend my faith and belief in Christ Jesus and also to see, read, hear, and find out what other's believes and teaches about theology. MY EXPERIENCE Learning theology as a course is a con...
The media has every time and again been faulted for the diminishing moral standards in the way they portray the young women's bodies. It has been noted that the way both the print and electronic media treat women's bodies like sexual objects is a worrying trend the word over. Similarly the source revealed that most Television stations in the United States show their advertisements, programs and other bulletins with a sexual tilt to capture the attention of the viewers. This can be considered ...
In ancient times, primitive human's ability to adapt to the environment was relatively poor. Their social life was mainly trying their best to survive from the natural attack. In order to survive, they had to find shelter, a place to live or stay, which was considered as one kind of the basic human needs. At first, the primitive humans just lived in caves or other kinds of shelter. Long after that, humans learned to build better shelter using thatch, wood, mud and stone, which were still very...
To proceed, the phenomenon observed in Belize, is the co-existence of two varieties; English on the first hand which is characterized by overt prestige and Belizean Creole on the other hand carrying covert prestige. Despite English being the official language of Belize, Belizean Creole appears to be characterized by high status. According to Escure (1997), even though Belizean Creole "is not officially recognized as distinct from English" and is assigned a low value, it has still gained prest...
Sales of the Armani-Group in 1994 amounted to 1270 billion Lira ($787 million), up 12.4% from 1993. Garments accounted for about 850 billion Lira ($527 million) and accessories for about 420 billion Lira ($260 million). In 1996, the group sales, including sales from licensed products rose to about 2000 billion Liras ($1.3 billion). The Armani-Group also includes the sportswear company Simint, which handles all of Armani's informal lines. Armani himself holds 53% of the Simint assets. Simint w...
This question can be answered only if we know what middle class actually is or what defines the middle class. So, How do we define the middle class?. By going through the dictionary it is the "class occupying a socioeconomic position intermediate between those of the lower classes and the wealthy". But I believe its more than just a definition. The Middle class can be defined by people's values ,practices and the culture they live in, apart from people's buying power. And these values change ...
The increased use of color has brought with it new challenges and problems. Recently color image processing has occupied an emerging field of research. Though some of the work has already been done, still there is scope to improve. This paper aims the recognition of the color of the object using a statistical approach. The approach of this paper is first, to find the edge of the image for the region of interest. Region of Interest (ROI) is used for further processing pixel wise. The threshold...
A museum is a "permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment, for the purposes of education, study, and enjoyment", as defined by the International Council of Museums [1] . The UK Museums Association definition (adopted 1998) is: "Museums enable people to explore collections for inspiration, learning and enjoyment. ...
