Translation. In several experiments we offer varying amounts of money for the translation tasks. The current results show that there is no clear correlation between pay and the translation quality. Almost all translations show a significant overlap with online translation tools which indicates that the workers did often not translate the sentences themselves. 1 Introduction Our group is currently involved in the development of an English↔Haitian Creole translation system for use in the earthquake region
However, the extent and speed at which money was invested in these countries in the 1980s was far greater than anyone could have imagined. The already growing countries grew even more with the investment being supplied by outsiders. Until the crisis, Asia had attracted almost 50% of the total capital investment in developing nations in the world—almost $100 billion in 1996 alone. This foreign money financed power plants, skyscrapers, airports, and a quickly growing export economy. Workers’ wages rose
Since the beginning of Europe itself Muslims and Europeans have clashed over religious and cultural styles. This hatred began during the crusades when Christian Europeans drove out and killed Muslims that had begun to immigrate to their lands. Europe had been divided since into Western Christian Europe and Eastern Catholic/Islamic Europe. Even in current day the relations between the two cultures seems to have reached new peaks of instability. In Muslim culture the ideals of the West to do not
As a skinny boy walks into the Descorde arena, the audience explodes into cheers. He’s Nick Athens, the reigning champion of this tournament. The media adores him almost as much as the other fighters despise him. I grit my teeth and finish adjusting my fighting exoskeleton, preparing to step forward, but Vivian places a hand on my shoulder to stop me. "Hey, Riley?" She gives me an uncomfortable smile, flashing perfectly white teeth. "Go out there-" "I know, Vee," I interrupt her more harshly than
Africa Africa, a continent filled with astonishing geography. It was once a home to many beautiful and strong ancient civilizations. Faced with genocide in Rwanda, invaded in the age of imperialism, its people traded as slaves, and the land wanted for its rich resources. Placing second in the worlds largest continents Africa is home to the Sahara desert, and the Atlas mountains. Located at the north coast of Africa the Atlas Mountain range spans at about 1,200 miles. The Atlas mountain range is
The age exploration in Europe began in the 1400s. The rise of strong kingdoms, the desire for trade, improved navigation technology from Ptolemy and Al Idrisi like the astrolabe, compass, and better maps with longitude and latitude, and better ships like the caravel and naus led to a new era of exploration. After the Renaissance people knew the world was flat so they started to use the water more for sailing. The first country to send ships out was Portugal; in 1420, because they were at peace and
During our class discussion last week, we discussed Assembling California, by John McPhee. In the novel by John McPhee, he states that, “We descended past the four- thousand- foot contour, moving on among volcanic rocks five times older than the tuff and of more proximate origin.” This statement by John McPhee emphasizes the age of our planet and how old we as a society are. To figure out how old we as a society are, people from all over the world have theories on how we as a society came to be.
form of self defense was inherent in patterns of human aggression, which was inspired by practice of close combat as a culture inherited from the prehuman stage. Martial arts are better known as Karakta. Martial origins are originated from Africa, asia, china and
Throughout history, foreign policies and views of foreigners differed from empire to empire. The Ottoman Turks, an incredibly long lasting, Muslim empire, were quite welcoming towards foreigners. Their leaders were tolerant of other religions and were open for foreign merchants to enter their markets. In contrast, the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan shut themselves out from the world. Under Oda Nobunaga, Japan was fair but after his death this changed. They persecuted Christians and only allowed the
When most people think of World War Two they think of the Nazis and the concentration camps. They also think of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan was part of Hitler’s Axis Powers and fought mostly naval battles with the U.S. Japan, prior to the 1940s, started to invade northern China, Manchuria. Japan gained control of Manchuria and what would be known as Taiwan after the Sino-Japanese War. You see, in America we take classes to learn about these things, for example Asian Studies
military intervention. East Asia has had many economic advances because of the United States’ assistance. It is seen as being “necessary to allow for economic growth and recovery that took place in the postwar years” (Gray, 2014, 41). The investments helped control the country, increased the supply of food, protected income distribution, facilitated technology transfer, strengthened military defense and more. The United States gave billions of dollars to Eastern Asia for the economic and military
In the article “Your World Map is Wrong. Like, Really, Really Wrong”, the author starts off by naming the weakness of the Mercator projection, which was drawn by Gerardus Mercator in 1569. It is said that the Mercator projection is not to scale, and the location of each country is different from what the Mercator projection taught scholars. For example, it gives obvious situations such as the comparison between the size of Africa and the size of Greenland. On the Mercator projection, these two appear
European Settlement of the Americas – The True Story One of the most important events in the history of the last half millennium is the European "discovery" of the Americas. The traditional story of the contact explains the Europeans' eventual success by crediting the superior technology and military prowess of the Europeans. If the traditional story mentions luck at all, it is in explaining the Europeans' good fortune at finding such a sparsely populated "pristine" continent. While it is true
e-commerce race. For example, Japan has one of largest economies in the world, which means that it has the money and resources to create reliable infrastructures for the development of e-commerce. China is also likely to become the e-commerce epicenter of Asia with its rapidly growing economy, fast building infrastructure and immense human population. Hong Kong, a capitalist territory of China, is currently one of the strongest international finance and trading centers in the world. With its well-developed
face of the earth, from the United States until the Africa. Asia, as one part of the world, also affected by the growth@of the industry Asian countries has developed from the production department, because of its cheap human resources. But the myth of Asian countries only can do what they told to do without any idea what their doing has proofed to be wrong. The myth of uncreative Asian workers has proofed wrong by the rapid development in Asia in computers and Information Technology businesses . Acer
The world is always moving and changing and humans have learned to adapt and embrace these changes. The increase in technology, and new concepts around transporting and globalizing the world there will always be a changes within a culture, food, music, politics or even transforming the whole culture into something that is modernized. The world is becoming more diverse in sharing our different customs, and there is an increase in productivity and creating connections around the world that within the
The La Grande Odalisque, a painting by Jean-Auguste Ingres (1780-1867), is the rendering of oriental woman of a luxurious harem by the French artist, however this artwork also conveys how the western world viewed the east, as well depicts the splendors Europeans is invested in and how this rendition and other related works evolved the current viewing of how society sees the Middle East. Per Jennifer Meagher, Department of European Painting, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, beforehand, the
Who is stronger? The East or the West? Do the Oriental people truly succumb to the threats of the western white man? Based on the views of the non-oriental people, the Oriental people secretly want to get dominated by a stronger force, comparing them to a woman, or just simply calling their race feminine. The show M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang is able to express different issues regarding the theory of Orientalism by hiding it amongst several conversations between characters. The play can be
East Asia from 1450-1750, including China, Japan, and Ming China, used many different strategies for empire and state building including taking voyages around the world to get ideas for their empire, having a good educational system and a strong, powerful government, including women in schooling and political events, having different views on religious freedoms and having a tough military. In “Père du Halde: The Chinese Educational System”, (Document 3), Pere du Halde talks about the Chinese Education
I have a Question for you what do you thing is wrong with society and why is the society the way it is do you even understand what’s going on in the world can you tell me what going on in the world and why it’s happening? There’s many ways you can look at this but you can get a lot of info on it. I will tell you all about why society is the way it is and why it’s this way. The Michael Jackson and the SCE.Edu and Nickel back source are going to tell us about what wrong with society. In these source