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Dylan Thomas and September 11th, 2002.
A paper which discusses the relevance of Dylan Thomas' poetry to society today, especially after the terrorist attacks of September 11th.
700 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 24.95
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By examining several of Dylan Thomas' poems, the paper shows how his continuous themes of the unity of life, the continuing process of life and death, and the life-link between generations are all relevant to society today, despite the fact that Thomas has been dead for over 50 years. The paper shows that in the wake of September 11th, his works, though not exactly comforting, do provide an outlet for a nation suddenly forced to deal with the harsh realities of life and death.
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"A final strength of Thomas?s work is that he asks hard questions without proposing easy answers. He accepts death in the sense that he knows it is a part of life and must be, but he offers no platitudes about its goodness or rightness. Indeed, in one of his most famous poems, he urges, ?Do not go gentle into that good night. / Rage, rage against the dying of the light.? In another poem, ?Out of the Pit,? he questions, ?[W]here?s God?s my Shepherd, God is Love? / No loving shepherd in this upside life.? In his avoidance of the ?quick fix,? Thomas respects his own?and his readers??fear and hatred of death while acknowledging its reality. "
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Nature in Dylan Thomas? Poems., 2001.
A discussion of how Dylan Thomas uses symbols and images of nature in his poems to express how he feels towards death and childhood.
2,631 words (approx. 10.5 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 79.95
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This paper analyzes the works of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and how through analysis of some of his poems, two ideas are constantly presented and expressed through the symbolizm of nature. The first is death, viewed as the end of life but at the same time as the beginning of a different type of existence and how all the elements of nature become one with the same essence and soul. The second is childhood when life is pure and innocent just like nature.
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Introduction
Thesis Statement
Thesis Statement Support
Poems Analyzed
Dylan Thomas?s Style
How He Writes
Poem Analysis
?Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night?
?And Death Shall Have no Dominion?
?Poem in October?
?Fern Hill?
Conclusion
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"Dylan Thomas uses symbols and images of nature to express how he feels towards death and childhood. Some poems which clearly picture this idea are ?Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night?, ?And Death Shall Have No Dominion?, ?Poem In October?, and ?Fern Hill?. In the first two poems there is a contradictory belief of death, as the author Anthony Thwait points outs the end of life and as the beginning of a different kind of existence. The other two pieces of work portray life in the countryside as being similar to heaven and childhood as being the moment when life is pure and innocent, according to the previously mentioned writer."
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Patriotism, Ignorance and September 11th, 2002.
A look at national patriotism and ignorance in the wake of September 11th with an emphasis on corporate training and development.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 8 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper investigates the current cultural demonstrations of patriotism and ignorance that have come about as a result of September 11th, and compares and contrasts the significance of these events to others found in America's history, as well as the independent impact of September 11th itself. A focus on corporate training and development is used to direct the later half of this paper.
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Spirituality and Dylan Thomas, 2001.
This paper studies Dylan Thomas, the poet and the persona, and how he was greatly influenced by spirituality.
2,460 words (approx. 9.8 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 74.95
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This paper examines Dylan Thomas and his poetry by analyzing his work through spiritual glasses. It describes the influences of spirituality versus religion. It studies his work "18 Poems" which he wrote in 1934 and how it brought him immediate recognition. It excerpts his poems and analyzes them. It concludes that Dylan Thomas was a very spiritual person influenced mostly by Christian, Jewish and Catholic images.
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"Every poet is, in a sense, two people: the poet and the persona, or presence, that speaks through the poetry. With Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) both poet and persona tend to scintillate into the sublime and the ridiculous. With the aid of what Thomas called Comrade Bottle, they could unleash themselves into the depths of the subterranean and the grotesquely morbid. Some of Thomas? early verses were unintelligible, so in love with words was he; and critics have often disagreed on valid interpretations of Thomas? work (Ferris, 2000, p.95). As well, the disagreements carry over to valid interpretations of the poet?s life. How much of his drunken, often tactless prattle was for the sake of the song, and how much was the poet?s gift?and torture?of seeing so much and feeling so deeply that it was all he could do to fend off madness? In a 1933 South Wales Evening Post essay, he wrote: ?the borderline of insanity is more difficult to trace than the majority of people, comparatively safe within the barriers of their own common-sensibility, can realise? (Bedford-St. Martin?s, N.D. 2). "
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The Poetics of T. S. Eliot and Dylan Thomas, 2005.
This paper compares the personalities and traditions in the poetics of T. S. Eliot and Dylan Thomas.
1,205 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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This paper explains that the poetics of Dylan Thomas and T. S. Eliot demonstrate the manner in which Thomas challenges and re-figures the previous aesthetic ideas of Eliot. The author points out that, whereas Eliot views tradition as a cultural accumulation of literary works within which the writer participates, Thomas shatters these historical bonds. The paper relates that, although both authors strive to achieve an emotional complexity and depth in their work, Thomas refuses the sublimation of the poet's personality to the literary medium by embracing the medium itself with the entirety of his personality and composition as an act of celebration rather than repression. The author underscores that, through his playful love of all the elements and structures of language, Thomas is able to achieve an emotional depth rooted in the medium of literature without the sacrifice of the poet's personality.
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"The value Eliot places upon tradition necessitates the depersonalization of the poet and the perfection of the medium of language to sufficiently express the concentration of the past and its convergence with the experience of the present. The personal experiences and emotions of the poet are too subjective to contain the enormity of what the present represents to literary history, so therefore he must engage in "a continual surrender of himself as he is at the moment to something which is more valuable." The poet is envisioned as a catalyst that collects and transforms his emotions and experiences into a new compound that is greater than the sum of its parts."
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Dylan Thomas and Symbolism, 2006.
Examines symbolism in the poems written by poet, Dylan Thomas.
1,588 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 51.95
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When one examines the early poems of Dylan Thomas, the contents and techniques of his volumes, with a few exceptions, beckon symbolic gestures. Conversely, other works by Thomas, also rich with symbolism, contain contrasts in diction and leave one to wonder if his critics are correct. Though to classify Thomas in any way might seem a futile task, the aim of this paper is to provide an examination of the similarities and contrasts of symbolic representations found in his early poems and in the poem "There was a Saviour." The paper shows that while the early poems of Thomas are a cornucopia of symbolism paralleled in content and style, "There was a Saviour" contains an exposition and subtexts that rarely meet in any similar fashion.
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"In the analysis of "There was a Saviour," the peculiarity of its language compels us to set about constructing a meaning for it, and allows us to wonder how it is that the diction contain many contrasts not only within its own reading, but among his other poems. The poem in its entirety presents considerable difficulty. Even the syntax is difficult. The striking thing about the syntax is the peculiarity of the tenses and pronouns. Unlike the linear fashion that his other works exhibit, in reading "Saviour" it is difficult to make out what point in time we are supposed to be made aware of."
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Dylan Thomas, 2004.
Examines the life and poetic career of Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas.
1,171 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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Poet Dylan Thomas possessed tremendous talent and was blessed with immense gifts that made him a professional success at a relatively young age; however, his personal life was often disappointing, and his relationships were more often than not in a state of shambles. This paper examines Thomas's history and discusses his alcoholism and his tragic death. The paper also discusses the poet's eulogy to his father, "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night", written when the father was upon his deathbed.
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"Having examined the life of Thomas and the influence his father had upon his passion for poetry and prose, it is easier to read the meanings behind the lines of his poem, ?Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.? Jonathan Westphal in his critical essay published in ?The Explicator? explains that to appreciate the poem as a whole, one must understand line 16, ?And you, my father, there on the sad height,? which Westphal calls a ?mysterious and melancholy phrase.? Westphal believes that Thomas? emotions were more fierce and complex than most critics credit. Westphal says that most often it is suggested that ?the sad height? is a bier, however, he believes that Thomas was ?advocating active resistance to death immediately before death, not sad mourning after it.? "
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Sociology and the September 11th Attacks, 2002.
A research paper which explains the September 11th terrorist attacks using the media, social and psychological theories.
2,380 words (approx. 9.5 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 72.95
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This paper begins with a brief statement describing the September 11th terrorist attacks on the U.S. The paper then looks into distinct views that the media has put forth regarding the similar historic as well as tragic event. Furthermore, the paper applies the social theory of suicide by one of the most eminent social theorists, Emile Durkheim to the terrorist attacks of September 11. Hence sociological as well as theoretical analysis of the event under consideration provide a deeper insight into the much-neglected perspective on the issue.
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"With skyscrapers falling apart, media could not help but make headlines as well as big bucks. However, it did a great job in presenting various viewpoints thereby uncovering the possible motives behind such ruthless act of violence. Many believed and shared the similar notion with the media saying that all of it happened as a result of the rat race for the ?viral power? (Arthur & Kroker). However, most of the people be it experts, scholars, social scientists as well as politicians considered these attacks a form of religious fanaticism. Some of the experts from the medical line of profession and many psychologists as well as psychiatrists thought the reason why some of the people could go to such a length to accomplish their vested interested and get motivated so much so as to take away their own precious lives can be the psychological illnesses as well as the obsessive commitment to one?s religion."
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Poet Dylan Thomas, 2005.
This paper discusses poet Dylan Thomas and his poem "The Force that through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower".
1,465 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 48.95
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This paper explains that the poetry of Dylan Thomas demands to be read aloud especially his poem "The Force that through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower" in which the Welsh force dominates every syllable and needs to be heard forcefully. The author points out that it is important to remember that Dylan lived during WW I and II and the Cold War; much of his poems seem to have a dark, almost wintry side to them, some of them dealing with the havoc of fire bombs,air raids and the bruised bodies of soldiers and civilians alike. The paper concludes that, although written generations ago, this poem still exerts a magnetism in its few, short lines: Even with all the hi-tech and modern machinery in the 21st century, man is still a slave to nature.
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"Even in this early youthful poem, there is a rage within the poet- a force that is angry and not at peace with Nature, resenting that factor of growing old, growing apart, having lovers leave and/or die. This can easily be seen in the two-time use of the adjective "crooked": first, the crooked rose, indicating a slow decay, and then the crooked worm, which tends to indicate the worms that invade one's mortal remains, even getting under and through the shroud, the sheet.
Thomas, the poet, mourns a dead lover, and, perhaps to soothe her as well as to be at one with what will happen to him one day, says "How at my sheet goes the same crooked worm." We cannot escape our fate of death and decay. It is all around us. It is an insurmountable force that impels us through life. Yes, we can stop of "smell the roses", but roses die before we do, and then, we await the following spring's revival, only to see the force of nature rob us of the presence and the smell of that new "green" rose, as well. It is in imagery that Thomas is forceful."
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September, 11th, 2006.
An in-depth discussion regarding the September, 11th terrorist attacks.
3,158 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 91.95
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This paper takes a look at September, 11th 2001, when two planes crashed into the World Trade Center. According to the paper, intelligence agencies report that Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden were responsible for this barbaric act, which killed thousands and affected millions. The paper goes on to review the '9/11 Commission' set up to investigate this horrific event.
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Introduction
Disaster
Responsibilities
Motives
Reactions
International and Public
International Reaction
Local Public Response
Aftermath Strategy
Domestic Front
International Front
Federal Response
Government Account Office Response
Imminent Threats
Modification of Building Codes
Psychological Impact of 9/11 and Bioterrorism
Conclusion
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"The economic activity of Lower Manhattan, which is considered to be the third largest business district of U.S, was damaged considerably because of terrorist attacks. Thirty percent (28.7 million sq. ft) of Lower Manhattan office space was either damaged or destroyed. The 41-story Deutsche Bank Building, neighboring the World Trade Center, was damaged extensively; the building was considered to be unfit for habitation and was subjected to demolition."
"North American airspace was sealed for several days after the attack. The air travel reduced significantly after it's reopening, as the threat of terrorist activities still prevailed and people were much under psychological impact. The attacks led to nearly a 20% cutback in air travel capacity, and severely aggravated financial problems in the struggling U.S. Airline Industry."
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Post September 11th Economy, 2006.
An analysis of the impact of the September 11th terrorist attack on the U.S. economy.
1,300 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 11 sources, APA, $ 43.95
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This paper studies how the terror attacks on September 11th affected the U.S. economy and the response of its fiscal policy. The author examines several contributing factors: (1) U.S. monetary policy; (2) fiscal policy; (3) supply side theory/policy; (4) inflation; (5) unemployment and (6) business cycles. In each of these areas, the paper demonstrates how monetary and fiscal policy worked together to provide ample and rapid stimulus during the economic downturn. The paper also contends that the impact of 9/11 on overall aggregate demand was mitigated somewhat by the increase in government spending aimed at bolstering homeland security and fighting the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Introduction
Monetary Policy
Fiscal Policy
Supply Side Theory/Policy
Inflation
Unemployment
Business Cycle
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"After 9/11, the Fed injected liquidity into the Federal Reserve System as a stabilizing measure. As evidence, one need only look at the statistics released by the Fed at or around 9/11. Every Thursday, The Fed releases a spread sheet to the public that describes factors affecting balance reserves. On September 5, 2001, the face amount of marketable U.S. government and federal agency securities held in custody by the Federal Reserve Banks for foreign official and international accounts was $719,895 million, a change of $ +3,191 million for the week. On September 12, 2001, the face amount of marketable U.S. government and federal agency securities held in custody by the Federal Reserve Banks for foreign official and international accounts was $ 721,991 million, a change of $ +2,096 million for the week. On September 19, 2001, the face amount of marketable U.S. government and federal agency securities held in custody by the Federal Reserve Banks for foreign official and international accounts was $727,796 million, a change of $ +5,913 million for the week. As demonstrated, the Fed injected an additional $7,901 million in securities into the system to cope with the looming threat of recession caused by 9/11."
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September 11th, 2002.
This a journal entry about the author's personal experiences on September 11th.
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This paper discusses one person's experiences on September 11th as the terror attacks occurred in New York and Washington. It includes personal reflections written as a journal entry. The paper also includes some of the different ways that the attacks affected the author, including writing letters to the editors of major newspapers and magazines about their personal feelings of despair.
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"I resolved, however, to put my thoughts on paper. I began penning several letters to editors of national newspapers and magazines. I pored over my writing, and when I put words on paper, I felt that mine were the only words that would bring our world from the brink of further disaster. We all lost something dear on September 11th, and for me, that something dear was my peace of mind. I truly felt that our carefree days were over, and without the knowledge and understanding I would impart to the world through my essays and letters, those carefree days would never return."
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The American Red Cross and the September 11th Terrorist Attacks, 2002.
This paper shows how the American Red Cross was successful in dealing with the September 11th terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
2,018 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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Since the terrorist attacks on America, the activities of the American Red Cross have expanded extensively. This paper discusses how the voluntary organization had in the past proven to be an efficient disaster relief organization; however, the writer asserts that never have their skills being so essential and tested since the events of September 11th, particularly in New York City. The paper then looks at the activities of the Red Cross in its advocacy of those in danger of negative backlash, notably Arabs and Muslims.
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"The ?International Red Cross? which has branches in over 175 countries of the world, works to provide extensive refugee relief activities to the victims of drought, war and ethnic conflicts all over the world. It was through the commitment of Clara Barton who organized the ?American Red Cross? with its headquarters in Washington, which received the support of millions of Americans who donated their time, talent, and financial resources to this voluntary organization. And since 1943, the month of March has been considered to be ?Red Cross Month? to recognize the lifesaving efforts of the organization."
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Dell and the Aftermath of September 11th., 2001.
This paper highlights Dell's success in spite of the destruction caused by the September 11th crisis.
1,475 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 48.95
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This paper provides an overall look at the success of Dell computers in the aftermath of the September 11th crisis.
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"By the end of the quarter, Windows XP was shipping in 46 percent of consumer PC's. Sixty-two percent of desktop computers were sold with Pentium 4 chips. Mr. Dell estimated that 164 million PC's worldwide were more than three years old, and 450 million PC's contain chips running at less than 700 megahertz, about a third the speed of the fastest processors on the market today [2].
"We would expect that in the spring and in the summer, there is going to be a lot of upgrade activity going on among corporations," he said. "Certainly factors like the economic stimulus being debated right now would have some impact on that." James D. Ragan, a senior equity analyst with Crowell, Weedon & Company, a Los Angeles brokerage firm, said Dell's aggressive price cuts, which drove average system prices last quarter down $50, to $1,800, were inflicting pain upon its competitors. He said Dell should reap the benefits in the future."If you believe we're going to get a meaningful recovery, that's certainly good news for Dell shareholders," Mr. Ragan said."
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September 11th, 2002.
A personal account of how someone saw the terrorist attacks on September the 11th in the United States.
800 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 0 sources, $ 28.95
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This paper discusses the events and reactions that took place after the September 11th attacks. Muslim reactions, the spirit of patriotism that arose and political differences are discussed.
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"On a bright late summer morning, people across America got up and prepared to go to work, school and errands as usual. They had no way of knowing that just around 9 a.m Eastern time, our world was going to change forever. Once we all started to ask why and how such a horrific thing could happen, some causes-and some hidden enemies to the United States-showed themselves.We know that Islamic extremists (al Qaeda) consider the West in general and America in particular to be a nation of "infidels," basically "unclean." And we know that many of these al Qaeda activists, led by Osama bin Laden, allegedly have never "forgiven" infidel Americans from trampling their lands during the Gulf War-and this is their given reason for wanting to strike back. They call their actions in killing Americans part of a "jihad," or "holy war." A Muslim who dies under the circumstances of bringing about the death of infidels is a hero and a martyr."
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