Comparing Translators Of 'The Thousand And One Nights'

Humanities are required for the development of an individual’s creativity and expression, without these skills our society would be monotonous and bland. Our nation was built on the ideals of freedom and democracy, and although math and science help us to progress economically and technologically, they don’t help individuals to express themselves to be effectively represented by our government.

Why is it that knowing our past history is so important to our society? Would it be easier to just leave what is meant to be in the past, in the past and focus on the present and future? These are questions that historians would never dare ask because history has formed what is considered our present, without it people would not know how ancient Greece came to be or when America was founded. It’s not every day that there is someone that has the courage to stand out in society, it’s usually about following the rules and falling in line with what is considered normal. When one steps out of line people will listen or wonder as to what it is for. History is made every single day from new laws being put into place to abnormal movements. We take

In his book titled, The Death of the Past, J.H. Plumb describes the importance of understanding history as a story of human progression. Plumb writes, “The past can be used to sanctify… those qualities of the human mind which have raised us from the forest swamp to the city, to build qualified confidence in man’s capacity to order his life and to stress the virtues of intellect, of rational behavior. And this past is neither pagan nor Christian, it belongs to no nation and no class, it is universal; it is human in the widest sense of that term.” History as progress enables persons to view where the entire human race has come from, where it is now, and where we still have room to grow. By viewing the overall progression of the human time line, persons can see that humans have significantly improved in many areas, such as healthcare, technology, human rights, etc. However, History as Progress also brings individuals to the realization that humans still have room to improve in many areas of life. Plumb touches on the fact that human progress and history should be all-inclusive – not belonging to any specific group of people. The scope of History as progress – the entire human race - draws me to approach history with this lens because I find inclusion central to fully understanding history. History as progress has the

The Thousand and One Nights is a story where the King, after realizing his wife to be adulterous, weds a new woman each night and puts her to death at dawn to avoid ever being hurt again. In this story, Shahrazad, the daughter of the King’s Vizier, offers to become his next wife with a plan to try and end the King’s murderous streak. In The Thousand and One Nights tales, both the father, the Vizier, and his daughter, Shahrazad utilize animals for the purpose of manipulating together tales that embody their own personal agendas. The tales, narrated from the Vizier and Shahrazad, are infused with contrasting male to female dynamics that would later reveal itself to be a vital and pertinent aspect, central to the core of The Thousand and One Nights, as a needle and thread are to a seamstress. While the male narration of the stories leans towards the females being objectified and knowing one’s place, the female narration leans toward subtle feminism with the appearance of submission. In all three stories, The Tale of the Ox and the Donkey, The Tale of the Merchant and His Wife, and The Story of the Merchant and the Demon, the narrators cunningly use animals and other mystical beings to further their own agendas while simultaneously showing their opposing views of gender relations based on the contrasting roles the creatures play.

The Humanities are a key element in my career choice of being in the film industry. They are used to describe and create the human experiences in storytelling. My inspiration for this type of career is driven by my fascination with the human condition and characteristic of our lifestyles. I am currently aiming to be a director, screenplay writer, or even working with the camera, I have always wanted to be a part of the creative process in producing stories that will appeal to all different genres. In order to do this I must be able to connect with the humankind and what we like and dislike. The artistic styles of mixing culture, racial, spiritual and psychological aspects along with so many other elements are essential to creating

Throughout time the humanities have evolved and proof of this evolution is seen in each of the different concepts that humanities cover. There are several time capsules that are rumored to contain pieces of some of the most influential art, music, architecture, philosophy, and literature in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. To find these capsules would be to travel back in time and hold in one's hands the true measure of what the humanities has accomplished during its evolution.

We need people conversant with the humanities to help reach wise public policy decisions, even about the sciences. Technology companies must constantly weigh ethical decisions: Where should Facebook set its privacy defaults, and should it tolerate glimpses of nudity? Should Twitter close accounts that seem sympathetic to terrorists? How should Google handle sex and violence, or defamatory

1) Factors that contribute to someone’s bias towards STEM and Humanity majors can (have pros and cons or advantages and disadvantages. Because both can be based on personal interest, high-paying job salaries or job opportunities and parent desires. 2) From my perspective, my bias against Humanities is that they are not valuable as much as STEM majors due to our generation. As the innovation in technology advances every day, People believe that they will be having higher opportunities in science and mathematics than those who are specialized in English, Literature History and Arts. For that reason, parents try to encourage their children to go for any STEM majors.

While majors in the liberal arts are important to humanity because they represent culture, tradition, and sentimentality, they are not life-determining. Although business and marketing majors keep the corporate world running and the economy expanding, they do not save lives. Though America’s cities require sturdy, brilliant infrastructures designed by ingenious engineer majors, they do not connect and strengthen the global community via research and scholarly forums. What does accomplish all of these things that the arts, business, and engineering cannot? A major in science, specifically in biochemistry. Due to an increasing older generation, worldwide epidemics, and unsolved cures for devastating illnesses, science majors will be the most important contributor to today’s society.

Humanities and Science, by Lewis Thomas, spins around the concept of losing interest in future prospective scientists as a result due to loss of interest of current generations. It begins with Thomas informing you of Lord Kelvin and his feelings surrounding numbers and observation. He wants you to understand that Kelvin’s feelings were “no observation of nature [is] worth paying serious attention to unless it [can] be stated in precisely quantitative terms”. His ideas unearthed many skeptics because they couldn’t understand how to quantify certain things. This is why Thomas believes the “scientific community is to blame” for everyone’s misunderstanding of them. He shows the world that science is taught like any other subject except the facts are

Just like we need to make sure U.S. doesn’t downgrade like Roman Republic, leading into total collapse and end of the U.S. era. We are not doomed to a similar outcome, as long as we take steps to prevent it. It will help if we look back at historical examples and study what happen, so we don’t end up falling like the Romans. Humanities exposes how others in the past have lived their lives and what they thought about their life. By showing the struggles they have faced, we can improve those struggles to make our way of living

Literary translation is portrayed by Weshsler (1998:p.9) as an “odd art” because “it consists of a person sitting at a desk, writing a fiction or poetry that has already been written, that has someone else’s name on it…”.In the like fashion, literary translation is considered by Landers (1999) as a unique form among all other forms that translation takes, for instance, technical, scientific, legal, and so forth, which are just some technical and specialized terms and do not make a particular relationship with the original but in literary genre, the translator should make relationship with the original text and be familiar with the author’s culture.

For instance, a journalism student who may want to pursue a career in the media is prepared to learn in various forms, analyze information, evaluate that information, and communicate it to others. The ability to do this is required in almost every career today. But wait it gets better, a journalism student is not only capable of understanding information, they also are prepared to understand humans, culture, art, and literature. The understanding of these topics tie into careers in the government, social work, medical fields, and more. For example, if an EMT arrives at the scene of an accident where a man is unresponsive he must use the surroundings and an in depth thought process in order to respond to the needs of an unresponsive person in a timely matter. While neither of these people went into disciplines devoted to the study of money they contribute to our society and our world. With that being said, studying the humanities may not promise you with a significant amount of money, but then again Oprah was a humanities major and is now worth 3.2 billion dollars.

This subject enhanced my organizational and presentation skills. Study skills project provide extensive knowledge in techniques for addressing academic task as well as handle large amount of research information. Sociology develops understanding of society as a whole and it also revaluate common assumptions that may not be true. I have acquired analytical, qualitative, evaluative and argumentative writing techniques from Sociology. Humanities define human culture and enquiries the purpose of humanity. This has developed my evaluation skills to examine varies source materials. English for academic purpose can enhance my writing and reading skills to an academic matter.

Humans have come to accept that History by mere definition is the exploration and study of history whereas the Human Sciences are defined as the in depth study of social, biological and cultural aspects of human beings. History and Human Sciences seek to influence humans through language, reason, and emotion. By looking at the title, I am coming to the conclusion that historians only focus on understanding the past and the human scientist is only looking to change the future. That conclusion is reasonable due to reasoning of the historian or the scientist. They use reasoning to do their job. In order to answer this question I am making the assumption that it states that history solely concentrates on unraveling the past, while Human