... the word "crime" when translated. Another significant loss of style is found in the novel's main character's name, Raskolnikov. "Raskol" when translated into Russian means split or schism. Raskolnikov behaves and acts like someone who has a split personality. Vital aspects of Dostoevsky's style such as symbolic representation of words are lost when the original Russian text is translated into English. Although translation ... 's true punishment was not the punishment forced upon him by the courts, but the one he brought about himself: the psychological and spiritual torment he created; t...

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... monkeys, because we share common ancestors with these groups in the more distant past. Evolution is a branching or splitting process in which populations split off from one another and gradually become different. As the two groups become isolated from each other, they stop sharing genes, and eventually ... in paleontology over the past century relate to the evolutionary history of humans. Many connecting links between along various branches of the human family tree have been found as fossils. These fossils have been found in geological deposits of intermediate age. They inform the time ...

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