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    analyzing different translation methods token by domestic and foreign media using to translate Chinese specific words, the author finds out that foreign media usually takes foreignazation translation method while Chinese media generally takes domestication translation method. Different translation methods are the results of different translation goals, different ideologies, different cultures and different target audiences. In this paper, the author will discuss the reasons why domestic and foreign

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    its own distinctive architecture, pottery, and religious interests. In the highland Andes mountains, where life was more sedentary, groups of tribes cooperated and formed villages; thus the first nations based on agricultural resources and the domestication of animals formed. Eventually, through wars and marriage alliances of their leaders, a group of nations formed confederations. One region consolidated under a confederation called the Shyris, which exercised organized trading and bartering between

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    Civilization- an advanced human society with a high level of culture, science, and government. Mesopotamia was an ancient region in the eastern Mediterranean between two rivers named the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers. Mesopotamia is known as the “cradle of civilization” primarily because of two developments that occurred there in the 4th millennium BCE: 1) The rise of the city as we recognize today 2) The invention of writing The fertile conditions of the land between two rivers allowed the ancient

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    The Bronze Era consisted of four major river valley civilizations, the Nile in Egypt, Tigris-Euphrates in Mesopotamia, Huang He in China, and the Indus in India. These civilizations had the advantage of fertile soil and easy transportation due to the rivers that they lived by. All of these civilizations boomed when they began and survived for thousands of years, but one, the Indus Valley Civilization. Although the Indus Valley Civilization declined from 1900 BC to 1300 BC, nevertheless it was far

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    For thousands of years, mankind has been manipulating animals and plants to find out what combinations would produce the most effective outcomes. For the last 10,000 years, humans have been involved in the domestication of crops by way of selective breeding. The domestication of crops led to the cross-breeding of plants by scientists in the 1700s. All of this led to the development of more controllable practices of genetic engineering, which allowed researchers in the 1980s to create plants with

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    Many animals have adapted over time and become nocturnal for various reasons. Some of those reasons ranging from escaping predators to escaping harsh desert heats (Griffin, 2017). For example Bats, owls, and fireflies all fall into the nocturnal animal club (Griffin, 2017). Although you may also think many rodents would fall into this group, a large chunk of rodents are actually something called crepuscular meaning they are awake in the twilight hours versus being only nocturnal or diurnal. These

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    With accordance to the ppt and doc: Neolithic-Chalcolithic Europe; Tyrolean Alps; Austria/Italy; September 1991, discovery of the Iceman í–tzi among the í–tztal Mountains, dating back to 3000 BC with range starting circa 6000 BC. 1996, Alasdair Whittle wrote Europe in the Neolithic: The Creation of New Worlds which is an general overview of the Iceman and Neolithic according to the ppt. 1994, Barry Cunliffe (ed.) authored Prehistoric Europe: An Illustrated History which is also has coverage of the

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    history of GMO’s can provide a timeline and the foundation to help maintain transparency and accuracy. Early plant breeding can be divided into four historical categories: Domestication, Columbian Exchange, Green Revolution, and Molecular genetics/bio-revolution (Bushak, 2015). Approximately 9,000 to 11,000 years ago, Domestication was the act of cultivating plants which were evolved from wild species that were ideally suited for a specific

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    Jared Diamond starts off his book, Guns, Germs, and Steel with stating his attempt to answer Yali’s question, “Why is it that you white people developed much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own.” Diamond elaborates and brings to simpler terms how Yali’s question relates to many questions on the origins of humans, but more specifically, how Eurasians, the white people mentioned by Yali, came to successfully dominate the rest of the world. In the prologue

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    Civilizations traded with each other sharing their technology. A huge factor in a civilizations success was their technology. Many technological discoveries made in these cultures are still used today. These include the wheel, knowledge of horse, domestication, farming, pottery, sail boats, maps and

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