compare the most recent PPP exchange rates for the pound‚ yen and euro with their nominal exchanges rates. What differences do you observe? What accounts for those differences? PPP exchange rates are the converted currency rates that equalize the purchasing power of different currencies for a given basket of goods by eliminating the differences in price levels between countries. The following is the comparison of the PPP exchange rates for pound‚ yen and euro between their nominal exchange rates
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What impact on economic performance of the UK might the fall in the value of the pound against the Euro have been between 2000 and 2007? An exchange rate is the price of one currency expressed in terms of another. In particular‚ changes in the exchange rate can change the performance of an economy by causing a shift in the economy’s Aggregate demand levels. A fall in the UKs exchange rate is likely to increase both inflation and output however will reduce unemployment within the UK and lead
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Promt: Compare the two versions of The Seafarer by Raffel and Pound and give reasoning for why one is a better translation‚ in terms of preserving the Anglo-Saxon poetic tradition and the overall feel of the poem. It would not be possible to translate The Seafarer perfectly‚ keeping all of its patently Anglo-Saxon poetic devices intact. Because much of their poetic tradition involves the sounds of the words themselves‚ unless there were similar-sounding synonyms in modern English for each there
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Ezra Pound and TS Eliot were both expatriate Americans who were part of the early Modernist movement in the beginning of the twentieth century. The two men were great friends during this time and Pound took Eliot under his wing‚ publishing and promoting his work and introducing him to all the right people. In their early work as they are just discovering and honing their talents the idea of culture and identity was of huge importance to them both. They had both left America to travel and experience
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showed that whatever class you were in‚ whether you were born rich or poor‚ you had a chance to succeed‚ as we can see with Mr Doolittle and Eliza‚ where Doolittle is given money by Ezra D. Wannafeller and becomes middle class. When Doolittle ‘sells’ Eliza to Higgins for £5‚ Higgins offers him £10 and Doolittle says‚ “Ten pounds is a lot of money: it makes a man feel prudent like; and then goodbye to happiness.” This proves that lower class people felt that if they were to have more money than they needed
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the formation of modernism" ("Stein Holds Her First Paris Salons"). But why were these people so drawn to Paris‚ what made them leave America? Malcolm Cowley‚ an American Literary critic and social historian who became close to Gertrude Stein‚ Ezra Pound‚ and other writers from the Lost Generation‚ "suggested that a distaste for the grandiose and sentimental languages of the patriotic manifestos of the war gave [the expatriates] a common standpoint‚" and Stein gave them an environment in which they
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Poetic Voice Examination for Pound’s “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” exemplifies the differentiation between the poet and the speaker. Li Po and Ezra Pound‚ take on a persona of a river merchant’s wife‚ awaiting the return of her husband. Furthermore‚ the use of imagery makes for a very visual read. The clever way in which this poem was written grants readers the opportunity to experience what it is to be “The River Merchant’s Wife”. I found this method
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modern and romantic poetry as a result of his long relationship with the revolutionary poet Ezra Pound and his mother’s more romantic influence ("William Carlos Williams‚" par.3). Ezra Pound launched Williams as a poet in 1912 when he helped get his poetry in the English Poetry Review although‚ Williams’s mother shaped him as a man and shaped the verses he actually created regardless of Pound’s ridicule. Thus‚ Pound influenced Williams’s poetry in ways of realism and science; while in contrast Williams’
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translation should be different from general literature translation‚ which requires translators be more than just translators. 2 A Case Study Here is a case study of two translated versions of Chang Gan Xing by Ezra Pound and Xu Yuangchong respectively. 十五始展眉‚ 愿同尘与灰。常存抱柱信‚ 岂上望夫台。 Version 1(by Ezra Pound) At fifteen I stopped scowling‚ I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever‚ and forever. Why should I clime the look out? Version 2(by Xu Yuangchong) I was fifteen when I composed my
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List of literary movements From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search This is a list of modern literary movements: that is‚ movements after the Renaissance. These terms‚ helpful for curricula or anthologies‚ evolved over time to group certain writers who are often loosely related. Some of these movements (such as Dada and Beat) were defined by the members themselves‚ while other terms (the metaphysical poets‚ for example) emerged decades or centuries after the periods in
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