Abstract We investigate the use of Amazon Mechanical Turk for the creation of translations from English to Haitian Creole. The intention is to produce a bilingual corpus for Statistical Machine 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
Eighteen, I have decided, is an interesting age to be. For the first time in my life, the things I want to learn outnumber the number of hours in the day to learn them. The effect, somewhat to my surprise, is a kind of buoyancy. Transcendence is too fancy a word for this change. And yet it does feel sometimes as if I have lifted up off the surface of things like a balloon straining at its tether. In junior-high school I caught my first real glimpse of "the big picture." That is, I began to
The Technological Tower of Babel: Electronic and Digital Tongues in Media Society Works Cited Missing Anticipate the moment at which all your personal electronic devices - headphone audio player, cellular telephone, pager, dictaphone, camcorder, personal digital assistant (PDA), electronic stylus, radiomodem, calculator, Loran positioning system, smart spectacles, VCR remote, data glove, electronic jogging shoes that count your steps and flash warning signals at oncoming cars, medical monitoring
called Atbash. They did it by reversing the alphabet, they used the last letter of the alphabet in place of the first, the next to last for the second, and so on. Atbash is exemplified in the Bible, Jeremiah 25:25, where "Sheshech" is written for Babel (Babylon). As you can see, cryptography has been used for many years and is continuing to become more high tech. The term cryptography is sometimes restricted to the use of ciphers, that is, to methods of transposing the letters of plain text (unencrypted)
The purpose of this essay is to briefly compare some key elements of the Christian and Buddhist worldview as pertaining to the concept of God, the soul, suffering, and their view of religious concepts. Concept of God First let’s look the idea of God. According to the Christian religion God is divine and is Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Omniscience and that man was made in his image. Christianity’s approach is that man was created by an external God in which the goal of the Christian’s life is
of the spirit from which he may survey larger horizons that those of his class, race and nation. This is a necessary human enterprise. Without it man could not come to his full estate. But it is also inevitable that these towers should be Towers of Babel, that they should pretend to reach higher than their real height; and should claim a finality which they cannot posses," quotes Sylvan Barnet in his introduction to Christopher Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus" (xiv). Doctor Faustus lives in such pretension
biblical version of the story from the ancient version. In both versions of the flood story something angers God (in Genesis) and the gods (in Gilgamesh). "The uproar of mankind is intolerable and sleep is no longer possible by reasons of the babel" (Gilgamesh 12). The Gilgamesh reason seems very illogical. The Gods decide to destroy mankind because they are making too much noise. It seems that the gods didn't think over their decision wisely. They are gods, wouldn't they have the power
covenant with Noah, promising that God would never destroy the earth by flood again. 6.) What motivated the people to build the Tower of Babel? a) The people were proud of what they had accomplished on their present land, so they didn’t want to obey God’s command to spread abroad the earth. The disobedience of the people motivated them to build the Tower of Babel. 7.) Trace the steps of disobedience in the story of the Fall of the human race. Compare and contrast this with human behavior today. a)
warns man that knowledge brings more regret than it does value: "He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow" (Ecclesiastes 1:18.). Throughout the history of mankind, man has been faced with the temptation to reach the level of God. The Tower of Babel is the first attempt by man to become as powerful as God when man tries to build a tower that reaches the heavens. " 'Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name; lest
Identity in the Tower of Babel and Creation Stories God recognizes that human beings are not specifically good the moment He creates them; for unlike His other creations, He does not pronounce them as such. But also unlike His other creations, they are the only ones created like something else, like God, in His image. If they are truly to exist and be good, they must become separate from God, as the other creations are separate and categorized. It takes some human action to get them out of the
Genesis: An easy approach to understand the structure of Genesis is observing its content and style. The book divides into two sections: Genesis 1-11 and Genesis 12-50. The former is the Ancient History covers the time between creation and the tower of Babel. The time its covered is more than the total time of the rest of Bible recorded. The second part of Genesis is history of Israelite Fathers. Time in this section slows the pace and focus on a man, Abraham and his family for four generations. Its tells
Beowulf: Themes and Motifs Beowulf is the most important work of Old English literature, and is well deserved of the distinction. Throughout the epic, the Anglo-Saxon storyteller uses many elements to build a certain depth to the characters. Just a few of the important character elements in Beowulf are Wealth & Honor, Biblical & Paganistic, and Man vs. Wild themes. Many of the characters in Beowulf are, like in most epics, defined by their status. But, in addition to status, the Anglo-Saxon
Human beings have a thing for pushing limits. It’s one of the things that make us great, after all. Technology is all about testing limits, and without human tendency to want to be greater society today might not have the internet, television, radio, or even electricity. We, as a society, have a fierce desire for advancement that has lead us to make more scientific advances in the last hundred years than we did in the previous two hundred. However, everything has a cost, and the boundaries that
Language. It is a method of communication by the human beings. Language is being done by either speaking or writing consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional system. Language is very important; it is essential to everything we do in our daily life. We use language to express our feeling to people around you, what we need, what we want and the question we would want to ask and understand. The most widely spoken language on the world is based in the most populated country on the
Recorded in the Old Testament, the Tower of Babel explains how mankind began to speak the various languages that exist today. Following the Great Flood all of Noah's descendants spoke just one language and decided to build in their city a tower that would reach the heavens. God becomes aware of their tower and as a result changes their languages so that they could no longer speak to each other, which stops the building of the tower. Consequently, without being able to understand each other, all of
The tower of Pisa Submission one The tower of Pisa is a well known masterpiece of architecture and it is considered the crowning glory of Pizza. It is the tallest building structure in the whole of Europe and a real example of the medieval engineering . The tower of Pisa is also known as the bell tower and it is a part of a big complex that includes four important buildings. The tower was built by Guglielmo and the sculptor Bonanno and the tower was made of some storeys and its final point is
Great Pyramid, which was flatter than most other pyramids, could have served as a platform. The Great Pyramid’s ties to the Tower of Babel also help support the fact that the Great Pyramid was an astrological observatory. The Tower of Babel is supposed to have been built in order to see the sky. Since the Great Pyramid is supposed to be an imitation of the Tower of Babel, it can be thought to be built for a similar purpose. The Great Pyramid of Giza baffles those who try to decipher its significance
techniques, symbolism, imagery and context. Urbanisation in Metropolis is accentuated through religious iconography and philosophical ideologies. The Metropolitan populace delineates an urban agglomeration where urbanisation is symbolised as the Tower of Babel. In the scene where
construction of the Tower of Babel was an act of defiance against God ordered by the arrogant tyrant Nimrod. Since biblical times the Tower of Babel has served as the archetype for bold and defiant projects that challenge natural order and human scale. Netherlandish artist Pieter Bruegel (1525-1569) was concerned with turning this audacious construction into an allegory of his own. Between 1563 and 1568 Bruegel produced at least three paintings of the Tower of Babel. The earliest, a miniature
and that we live as his creations, to worship and adore him. Jose Luis Borges likes to conduct thought experiments with his stories and one theme he uses quite often is the nature of reality. Borges created a perplexing universe in “The Library of Babel” that plays with the idea of never being able to grasp certain concepts because of the limit of what one can perceive. In this Library, there is an almost infinite amount of hexagonal rooms each filled with a set amount of books and every book