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HOME ESSAYS William Butler Yeats Nationalism and Myths
William Butler Yeats Nationalism and Myths
Topics: Ireland, William Butler Yeats / Pages: 12 (2783 words) / Published: Apr 16th, 2011
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Yeats, Nationalism, and Myth by Matthew Bell
The poetry and plays of W.B. Yeats often take subject matter from traditional Celtic folklore and myth. By incorporating into his work the stories and characters of Celtic origin, Yeats endeavored to encapsulate something of the national character of his beloved Ireland. The reasons and motivations for Yeats ' use of Celtic themes can be understood in terms of the authors own sense of nationalism as well as an overriding personal interest in mythology and the oral traditions of folklore. During Yeats ' early career, there was an ongoing literary revival of interest in Irish legend and folklore. Books with such titles as Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland, The Fireside Stories of Ireland, History of Ireland: Cuculain and his Contemporaries, Irish Folklore, and dozens of others were useful to the young Yeats (Kinahan XII). By 1889, Yeats would assert that, "[I had] worked my way through most, if not all, recorded Irish folk tales" (Kinahan XV). By this time, he had written an introduction for and edited, Irish Fairy and Folk Talks. Immersing himself in the rich and varied world of Celtic myth and folklore, Yeats would contribute to the literary world poems and plays that embrace his native legends while promoting his own sense of nationalism. One poem that illustrates how Yeats melds folklore and nationalism is "The Song of Wandering Aengus." In the poem, Yeats refers to Aengus, the Irish god of love. He was said to be a young, handsome god that had four birds flying about his head. These birds symbolized kisses and inspired love in all who heard them sing. Part of the story is that, at one point, Aengus was troubled by the dream of a young maiden. In the dream, this young woman is everything that his heart desires and he quickly falls in love with her and becomes love sick upon waking. He began to search all of
Cited: Kinahan, Frank. Yeats, Folklore, and Occultism: Contexts of the Early Work and Thought. Boston: Unwin Hymann, 1988.
William Butler Yeat
William Butler Yeats is widely considered to be one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. He belonged to the Protestant, Anglo-Irish minority that had controlled the economic, political, social, and cultural life of Ireland since at least the end of the seventeenth century. Most members of this minority considered themselves English people who merely happened to have been born in Ireland, but Yeats was staunch in affirming his Irish nationality. Although he lived in London for fourteen….
the 20th century. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. Yeats's father, John Butler Yeats, was a barrister who eventually became a portrait painter. His mother, formerly Susan Pollexfen, was the daughter of a prosperous merchant in Sligo, in western Ireland. Through both parents Yeats claimed kinship with various Anglo-Irish Protestant families who are mentioned in his work. Normally, Yeats would have been expected to identify with his Protestant tradition—which represented a powerful….
whatever the outcome. By eighteen eighty-six he begun to publish regularly (Foster, 52). The central theme of Yeats poems is Ireland, its history, contemporary public life, and folklore, as well as, Celtic folklore. He came to associate poetry with religious ideas and sentiments (Yeats 2, 1). He was interested in folktales as a part of an exploration of national heritage and Celtic identity. Yeats was fascinated with reincarnation, communication with the dead, mediums, spiritualism, supernatural systems….
The Style and Content of William Butler Yeats
The Style and Content of William Butler Yeats William Butler Yeats was a man who is known for his extraordinary writings of the nineteenth century, and is considered to be one of the greatest poets of the English language. Yeats was a poet with extensive knowledge and was thought to have been born ahead of his time. Throughout his poetry and literary works he uses a combination of technique and style to express his meaningful ideas. Yeats became a pioneering poet who had a revolutionary type of….
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"William Butler Yeats deals with an interesting variety of subjects and his poetry is full of powerful images and impressive descriptions. Discuss." Submitted by Hollie McLaughlin. I very much enjoy reading the poetry of William Butler Yeats. What I like about the poetry is the multi-faceted man who emerges. In Inisfree he is the searching, restless 25 year old, looking to nature as a kind of redemptive force. In 'September 1913' he is the ardent political critic of the soul-destroying materialism….
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is always through." - Robert Frost "how can we know the dancer from the dance" - William Butler Yeats "Wanting to be someeone else is a waste of who you are." Kurt Cobain "Long distance running is 90% mental and the other half is physical." Rich DavisQuotes: "Pain only hurts." - Scott Jurek "The best way out is always through." - Robert Frost "how can we know the dancer from the dance" - William Butler Yeats "Wanting to be someeone else is a waste of who you are." Kurt Cobain "Long distance….
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William Butler Yeats. William Butler Yeats was the major figure in the cultural revolution which developed from the strong nationalistic movement at the end of the 19th century. He dominated the writings of a generation. He established forms and themes which came to be considered as the norms for writers of his generation. Yeats was a confessional poet - that is to say, that he wrote his poetry directly from his own experiences. He was an idealist, with a purpose. This was to create….
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William Butler Yeats William Yeats' "Adam's Curse" is a poem that addresses a profound truth of time. Any human accomplishment such as poetry, music, or physical beauty requires much labor and is appreciated by few. He says this through an emotional recollection of a conversation between himself, his lover and her friend. I believe the meaning of the work lays waiting like a net, waiting to catch the reader at surface level. The poem is simplistic in nature, which is quite atypical….
William Butler Yeats: The Second Coming
conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. In the above mentioned stanza Yeats has stated that the falcon is turning in widening gyre and is so far away from the falconer now that it cannot be heard. Yeats has used the word "Gyre" in order to stress upon the fact that history represents chaos and confusion. In real life, the falcon returns to his master after flying, but in this poetry Yeats says that the falcon has gone far away and has not returned. He could have used these lines….
William Butler Yeats: the Lake Isle of Innisfree
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature, was both born and educated in Dublin Ireland; he was awarded the Noble Prize for literature in 1933. One of his most famous poems, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," was written early in his career as a poet. In the poem, Yeats takes the reader to a small island away from the chaos of everyday life, an island where the poet imagines he will go to live independently. The reader is transported, with the poet, to a….
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U.S. Government Repeals Crude Oil Export Ban
Inicio Perspectivas U.S. Government Repeals Crude Oil Export Ban
On December 18, 2015, President Obama signed legislation into law that repeals the 40-year-old U.S. ban on crude oil exports. Congressional leaders agreed to include provisions to repeal the export ban in the Omnibus spending bill as part of a bargain in which Democrats agreed to the repeal in return for various renewable energy and environmental protection measures. President Obama previously threatened to veto a stand-alone bill to lift the crude export ban, but accepted essentially the same measures as part of the "must-pass" Omnibus spending bill. As a result, foreign markets are now open to producers and traders of U.S. crude oil for the first time in decades.
The Legislation in Context The opportunity to market U.S. crude oil in various foreign markets has been closed since President Ford signed the Energy Policy and Conservation Act in 1975. That statute and its implementing regulations were enacted in response to the oil embargo imposed on the United States by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Since that time, the United States prohibited the export of domestic and foreign-origin crude unless prior authorization was obtained from the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security ("BIS"). BIS has routinely authorized exports of foreign-origin crude, as well as exports of U.S.-origin crude to Canada. However, BIS has never authorized the export of domestic crude to countries outside of North America.
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Njambi McGrath is a Kenyan-British comedian and actor.

Background
McGrath was born in Kenya. She grew up in Riara Ridge, near Limuru. She later moved to the United Kingdom and then to New York, where she met her husband, Dave. She speaks English, Swahili and Gikuyu. McGrath lives with her husband and two daughters in Ealing.

Career
McGrath has performed annually at the Edinburgh Fringe since 2013. Her 2020 memoir Through the Leopard's Gaze, published by Jacaranda Books, was optioned by Expectation Entertainment.

Awards
McGrath reached the final heat of the 2013 BBC New Comedy Awards and the first heat of the 2014 competition. She was nominated for Best Female Newcomer at the 2013 Black Comedy Awards. She won the 2019 NATYS: New Acts of the Year Show.

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Becoming Njambi (2021) - BBC Radio 4
The Good, The Bad And The Unexpected (2020) - BBC Radio Scotland
Breaking the News (2019) - BBC Radio Scotland

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What the Frick (2020) - Imani

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Home Features The global tax devil is in the details
The global tax devil is in the details
It appears that the international community is moving toward what many are calling a historic agreement to set a global minimum tax rate on multinational corporations (MNCs). It's about time – but it may not be enough.
Under the existing rules, firms can escape paying their fair share of taxes by booking their income in low-tax jurisdictions. In some cases, if the law doesn't permit them to pretend that enough of their income originates in some tax haven, they have moved some parts of their business to these jurisdictions.
Apple became the poster child of tax avoidance by booking profits made on its European operations to Ireland, and then using another loophole to avoid most of Ireland's notorious 12.5% tax rate. But Apple was hardly alone in turning the ingenuity behind products we love toward avoidance of taxes on the profits earned from selling them to us. They rightly claimed that they were paying every dollar due; they were simply taking full advantage of what the system offered them.
From this perspective, an agreement to establish a global minimum tax of at least 15% is a major step forward. But the devil is in the details. The current average official rate is considerably higher. It is thus possible, even likely, that the global minimum will become the maximum rate. An initiative that began as an attempt to force multinationals to contribute their fair share of taxes could yield very limited additional revenue, much lower than the $240 billion underpaid annually. And some estimates suggest that developing countries and emerging markets would also see a small fraction of this revenue.
Preventing this outcome depends not just on avoiding a downward global convergence, but also on ensuring a broad and comprehensive definition of corporate profits, such as one that limits deduction for expenses relating to capital expenditures plus interest plus pre-entry losses plus… It would probably be best to agree on standard accounting so that new tax-avoidance techniques do not replace the old ones.
Particularly problematic in the proposals advanced by the OECD is Pillar One, intended to address taxing rights, and applying only to the very largest global firms. The old system of transfer pricing was clearly not up to the challenges of twenty-first-century globalization; multinationals had learned how to manipulate the system to record profits in low-tax jurisdictions. That's why the United States has adopted an approach whereby profits are allocated among the states by a formula that accounts for sales, employment, and capital.
Developing and developed countries may be affected differently depending on which formula is used: an emphasis on sales will hurt developing countries producing manufactured goods, but may help address some of the inequities associated with the digital giants. And for Big Tech firms, the value of sales must reflect the value of the data that they garner, which is crucial to their business model. The same formula may not work in all industries.
Still, the advances made in current proposals have to be recognized, including moving away from the "physical presence" test for imposing taxes – something that makes no sense in the digital age.
Some view Pillar One as a back-up to the minimum tax, and are thus not concerned about the absence of economic principles guiding its construction. Only a small fraction of profits in excess of a certain threshold are to be allocated – implying that the total share of profits to be allocated is indeed small. But with firms permitted to deduct all production inputs, including capital, the corporate income tax is really a tax on rents or pure profits, and all of those pure profits should be up for allocation. Thus, the demand by some developing countries that a larger share of corporate profits be subject to reallocation is more than reasonable.
There are other troublesome aspects of the proposals, as best as can be found out (there has been less transparency, less public discussion of the details than one would have expected). One concerns dispute resolution, which clearly can't be conducted using the kinds of arbitration now prevalent in investment agreements; nor should it be left to a corporation's "home" country (especially with footloose corporations looking for favorable homes). The right answer is a global tax court, with the transparency, standards, and procedures expected of a twenty-first-century judicial process.
Another of the proposed reforms' problematic features concerns the prohibition of "unilateral measures," seemingly intended to curb the spread of digital taxes. But the proposed threshold of $20 billion leaves many big MNCs outside the scope of Pillar One, and who knows what loopholes smart tax lawyers will find? Given the risks to a country's tax base – and with international agreements so difficult to conclude and MNCs so powerful – policymakers may need to resort to unilateral measures.
It makes no sense for countries to give up any of their taxing rights for the limited and arbitrary Pillar One. The commitments asked are incommensurate with the benefits given.
The leaders of the G20 will do well to agree on a global minimum tax of at least 15%. Regardless of the final rate that sets the floor for the 139 countries currently negotiating this reform, it would be better if at least a few countries introduced a higher rate, unilaterally or as a group. The US, for example, is planning on a 21% rate.
It is crucial to address the host of detailed issues required for a global tax agreement, and it is especially important to engage with developing countries and emerging markets, whose voice has not always been heard as clearly as it should be.
Above all, it will be essential to revisit the issue in five years, not seven, as currently proposed. If tax revenues do not increase, as promised, and if the developing and emerging markets fail to garner a greater share of those revenues, the minimum tax will have to be raised and the formulae for allocating "tax rights" readjusted.
Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate in economics, is University Professor at Columbia University and a member of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation.
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The Facebook Messenger has been stood alone from the Facebook app for some time now, as such it's believed to be a powerful messenger service, because of its competition with its rival, WhatsApp.
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To check if the Facebook Messenger is down in your area or other users experiencing problems you can click here.
If you accidentally deleted your messages, then they are for sure gone, though not easily done like that. But if you archived them then you lucky.
Navigate to the Desktop or mobile site, click on the messages button and see all> More> Archived( provided you on Desktop), or go to your messages and click on see all messages,navigate to the bottom and click View Archived Messages( provided you on Mobile) and check if the message you can find the message you looking for.
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Het Woeden der Gehele Wereld is a 2006 Dutch film, based on the novel of the same name by Maarten 't Hart. It was directed by Guido Pieters and produced by Rob Houwer. The title translates as "The fury/rage/raging of the whole world" and is derived from a song with lyrics by René-François Sully-Prudhomme, set to music by Gabriel Fauré.

Film plot
The film is set in Maassluis and Leiden, in the time of the German occupation in the 1940s, and in the 1950s. It is about the coming of age of Alex Goudveyl (Maarten Heijmans), and about a murder.

For profit, in May 1940 Joost Vroom (Cees Geel) takes refugees (mainly Jews) on his boat to escape to England. However, the boat is attacked by the Germans. They survive, but the escape fails and the boat and the money is lost.

The Goudveyl couple has a business of second-hand goods, and profits from the persecution of Jews by cheaply buying goods of Jews who have to flee the country.

Vroom becomes police officer, first under the German occupation. He betrays Jews for profit, to recover his loss on the boat. After the war he remains police officer.

Alex loves playing piano, and is very talented. Very inconsiderately his father sells the family's piano when he is offered a good price for it, much to Alex's regret. Sometimes Alex can play piano or organ elsewhere.

Vroom is ephebophile and, for example, pays Alex for simulating masturbation with an eel between his legs substituting for his penis, so that Vroom can film it (in the book Vroom pays for seeing and touching boys' penises; the film's variation may have been chosen to allow visualisation, while keeping it decent). Alex has a gay friend William Keenids, who sometimes likes to cross-dress. We see a scene where William is in Vroom's home, with the little film of Alex being projected on a screen, and William willingly starting to undress while Vroom is filming. It is not revealed whether this is for money. In another scene, William tries to have some physical intimacy with Alex, but Alex rejects it, arguing that he is not Vroom.

Aaron Oberstein's wife died in the war. He does not know what happened to his baby son. In 1956 Vroom claims he knows who and where he is and offers to tell it for a large sum of money. Aaron brings the money at the agreed place, the warehouse of the Goudveyls. An evangelisation campaign is going on outside, while Alex plays the piano inside. Vroom is murdered by a gunshot. Alex is witness of the murder, and is afraid he will be killed later because of that.

As a student, Alex has sex with Yvonne, assistant of the professor, in an empty lecture room, at her initiative. At first Alex is willing, but when she wants more he walks away. On a second occasion, when he has Joanna Oberstein as girlfriend, he refuses sex with Yvonne. Now she threatens him with a knife. Then her boss enters the room and Alex can escape. Yvonne is fired.

Alex's parents confess to Alex that in the war they could buy their business cheaply, because the owners were deported Jews. The parents say there is another important thing to tell, but they hesitate and do not tell it yet. Soon after this, Alex's parents die of carbon monoxide poisoning.

It turns out that Alex's parents were not his biological parents. His biological mother died in the war, his biological father is Aaron Oberstein, the father of Alex's girlfriend. Thus Alex's girlfriend is his half-sister.

Aaron did not know that Alex was his son. The Goudveyl couple was childless, and Alex was illegally supplied to them by Vroom for profit. The couple was blackmailed by Vroom regarding this. Therefore Alex's foster mother murdered Vroom. Since she is dead now, the case is closed.

Cast
 Alex Goudveyl - Maarten Heijmans
 father Goudveyl - Peter Drost
mother Goudveyl - Ottelien Boeschoten
Joost Vroom - Cees Geel
Aaron Oberstein - Bart de Vries
Ruth Oberstein - Viviënne van den Assem
Joanna Oberstein - Anna Speller
Judith Oberstein - Nyncke Beekhuyzen
Arnold Oberstein - Frederik Brom
Yvonne Varekamp - Esther Waij
reverend Meewers - Peer Mascini
Inspector Graswinckel - Joost Prinsen.
Inspector Douvetrap - Frank Lammers
William Keenids - Bob Radstaak
Elisa Becker
Frederik Braem
Ruben Brinkmann
Reinout Bussemaker
Thomas de Bres
Mirijam De Rooij
Cas Enklaar
Marcel Faber
Hugo Haenen
Ad Hoeymans
René van 't Hof
Rosa Knaup
Frits Lambrechts
Kim Pieters
Tatiana Radier
Miryanna van Reeden
Arthur Roffelsen
Lizelotte van Dijk
Michel Visser

Location of filming
The filming was partly done at the Barrandov Studios

Differences with the book
(incomplete)
Joost Vroom is called Arend Vroombout in the book.
The book does not reveal who is the murderer.

True event
In 1956 a murder was committed in Maassluis during an evangelisation gathering, when Maarten 't Hart was 12 years old.

Comments by Maarten 't Hart
Maarten 't Hart commented that the film is quite different from the book. He is fine with the film, but, apart from the fact that it was based on his book, he was not and did not want to be involved in it. He especially likes how Inspector Douvetrap with his son with Down syndrome is depicted, just like it is described in the book.

External links
Official homepage at United International Pictures Netherlands

2006 films
Dutch thriller films
Films set in the Netherlands
Films shot in the Netherlands
Films based on Dutch novels
Films produced by Rob Houwer
2000s thriller films
2000s Dutch-language films
Films directed by Guido Pieters


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Recent correlational studies of lekking sage grouse suggest that male vocal display attracts females. To test this hypothesis further, the natural displays of a territorial male were supplemented with the tape-recorded display of another reproductively successful individual. Significantly, more females approached the speaker's location on days when the recording was played, and also on nonplayback days immediately following a playback, than on other nonplayback days. Analysis of male displays indicated that females were responding to the playback itself rather than to changes in male behavior. The "after-response" following a playback suggests that some females present during a playback remembered its location and approached on a subsequent lek visit. The results provide necessary support for the epigamic function of vocal display, and suggest ways in which female responses to male display may influence lek structure.


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501 Twin Peaks Boulevard
Park Hours 5 a.m. to Midnight; Restroom Hours 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Twin Peaks Trail Map (PDF)
Natural Area
Twin Peaks Road is currently closed until further notice for health precautions around COVID-19, the coronavirus.
At 922 feet in elevation, Twin Peaks is second only to Mt. Davidson in height, offers spectacular views of the Bay Area, and is a world-famous tourist attraction. Originally called "Los Pechos de la Choca" (Breasts of the Maiden) by early Spanish settlers, these two adjacent peaks provide postcard views and a treasure trove of animal and plant diversity. Most visitors to Twin Peaks drive (or take a tourist bus) to the north peak parking lot to enjoy 180-degree views of the Bay Area.
Many miss an opportunity to experience the coastal scrub and grassland communities of this 64-acre park. Similar to the Marin Headlands, Twin Peaks gives us an idea of how San Francisco's hills and peaks looked before grazing and then development changed them forever. The vegetation is primarily a mix of grassland and coastal scrub. Expect strong winds as you hike among plants such as coyote brush, lizard tail, pearly everlasting and lupine. The endangered Mission Blue Butterfly has adapted to the strong winds and flies low to the ground from lupine to lupine. Native plants provide habitat for brush-nesting birds like the white-crowned sparrow and animals such as brush rabbits and coyotes.
Trail Information
The best way to see this landscape is to hike the 0.7 mile trail network that ascend the two peaks, where you will also find 360-degree views that surpass those at the north peak overlook. Additional trails follow the southern and eastern slopes of the park; be sure to stay on established trails to avoid poison oak and minimize erosion. To extend your hike, you can continue down Twin Peaks Blvd towards Portola Drive into Glen Canyon Park for a 1.2 mile Creek to Peaks Trail hike.
Mission Blue Butterfly
The mission blue butterfly is a federally listed endangered species that still survives in a few areas of San Francisco, Marin, and San Mateo counties. In 2009, 22 pregnant female mission blues were released on Twin Peaks, the only place this butterfly has survived within the city. Look for the light blue, quarter-sized butterfly in the park's rocky grasslands, which contain the three species of lupine it uses for food and to lay its eggs. NAP has developed a recovery plan for the mission blue on Twin Peaks.
Silver lupine is one of the three native lupine species that provide habitat during different stages of this fascinating butterfly's life. The female butterfly lays eggs on the lupine and feeds on its nectar. When the eggs hatch, the newly emerged caterpillar feeds on the inner parts of the lupine leaves. Once the caterpillar has obtained enough food energy for the winter, it crawls down to the base of the plant and goes dormant. The following spring the caterpillar will emerge to feed again and return to the ground to pupate, emerging from its cocoon as a butterfly. Like many butterfly species, mission blue's larvae have a mutualistic relationship with ants. Caretaker ants stroke the larvae with their antennae, which causes them to secrete a sugary fluid, called honeydew, that the ants crave. In return, the ants protect the larvae from predators and parasites.
Street parking is widely available off of Crestline Drive and there is a small parking lot located near the Christmas Tree Viewing Area. Muni line 37 stops along Crestline Drive and Muni line 48 stops along Portola. Visitors should remain aware of their surroundings at all times. Do not leave valuable items unattended.
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