Hey Dp, Its Christmas and I really want you guys to be happy. I will call this the 'celebration thread' and my way of celebrating the Christmas month would be by giving you guys great discounts on my writing services. As a start, my current prices are 80c per 100 words, but anyone who orders in excess of 15 articles at a time, will get their articles at 55c per 100 words. Moreover, I have a turn around time of 48 hours. So, by any chance if I miss that deadline, I will give you a 20% discount on your total price. My email is - If you would like to order, I only take orders at DP and my email. If you email me, just mention my thread so that I know you are from DP. I take payment in two halves. A 50% advance to begin and the remaining half after I have completed. If I cannot take your work, I will tell you and I will communicate and not keep you hanging like most writers, I have come across, do. As for my work, here are two samples. The Economic Recession History has taught us, that any catastrophic event is bound to have several underlying causes leading up to the immediate event, which ultimately results in the outbreak of chaos. In much the same way, the collapse of the Lehman Brothers—the all-powerful, American investment bank, on 15th September 2008, was only the final symptom of a prolonged economic disease that was to afflict the world in the manner of a pandemic. The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) defines economic recession as a “significant decline in economic activity lasting more than a few months.†Economic recession is generally marked by a negative growth factor in the Gross Domestic Product of a country and unemployment, among other symptoms. The “significance†of this particular economic recession is, however, far more disturbing than we had ever imagined. One of the ways in which the cause of the recent economic recession (with its epicentre in the US of A) can be explained, is by the Animal Spirits Hypothesis put forward by John Maynard Keynes in his book, The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money written in 1936. According to his theory, sudden and spontaneous optimism or pessimism on the consumers’ part, regarding their future, result in a corresponding increase or decrease in the effective demand. Economic reports declare that one of the primary reasons for the recession in the USA is increased consumer pessimism. When there is a decrease in the effective demand, the producer employs fewer inputs in terms of labour and capital, which in turn results in unemployment and reduced interests in the capital market. If there is unemployment, the income of the consumers is reduced, and consequently their pessimism about the future persists. Hence, the economic recession also persists. Secondly, if the workers’ wages are increased, their productivity also increases. Because of this relationship between the efficiency of the workers and their wages, firms were unable to reduce wages despite facing the problem of excessive labour force. Another major reason was the US trade deficit. Despite being the area with the highest rates of capital formation and productivity growth, the manufacturing sector of the United States lost 3 million jobs in the recent past. Also, the American consumers became victims of their own tendency to incur debts that largely exceed their ability to repay them from their current incomes. Thus all these reasons among many more, together with the economic illness following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, contributed towards the economic recession that has made its impact felt, all over the world. Since the USA is the world’s largest trading economy, the economies of many other countries are dependent on it. The economic recession has instilled a persistent sense of fear and insecurity in the hearts of workers all over. Students are unable to find jobs and hundreds of employees are losing their jobs overnight. The only two sectors that show some signs of stability are, perhaps, Health and Education. No amount of speculation or analysis of the economic machinery has significantly improved the situation so far. The world continues to live in eager anticipation of salvation. sample 2 Story of the Strings The very utterance of the word ‘guitar’ conjures a series of varying and fleeting images in one’s mind. Though mostly associated with the long haired, head banging rock stars, guitar also conveys or signifies various other connotative meanings as well, mostly above all the Freedom of Expression. Despite the fact that this string instrument in the modern times is perceived as a symbol of articulation of free thoughts, it has been now confirmed that guitar has its history and origin sometime in the first century in the Roman Civilizations. In spite of its germination in first century, it was not until around 1200 AD that this instrument started resembling its present day counterpart in terms of the shape, appearance and functioning, for the first time and this feat is generally credited to the Hispanics, Moors and the Norse. The saga of the modern day guitar more or less starts with Gaetano Vinaccia, a resident of Naples who lived in the mid 18th and early 19th century. Another set of important names that have been historically associated with vintage guitars are those of Antonio Torres Jurado and Louis Panormo, both having significant contributions in the make or construction of the instrument. All these were howbeit, facts related to the traditional, classical acoustic guitar. It was George Beauchamp of Texas, USA along with Adolph Rickenbacher of Switzerland who jointly founded the guitar manufacturing company “Rickenbacher†and patented Electric guitars; though the mass production was first started by “Danelectroâ€. The chronicles of vintage electric guitars witnessed an era of emergence and development of various new ideas in terms of style, design, etc. in and around the time of the Second World War. One of the pioneering names from this period is that of American jazz guitarist and inventor Les Paul. Among his groundbreaking contributions are those of striking the correct balance with a pickup, bridge and neck of a guitar leading to the solutions of problems involving the sustaining and feedback of sound. He also experimented with the effects such as phaser and delay and made important innovations which were to be popularized by musicians in decades to come. His model of guitar, manufactured by Gibson Guitar Corporation became known as the “Gibson Les Paul†and went on to become one of the most familiar instruments in different genres like jazz, blues, rock, metal and have been associated with figures like Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Gary Moore, Slash, Adrian Smith and Ted Nugent among others. The only other name that appears in the same row as Les Paul in the story of vintage guitars is that of Leo Fender of USA. His model of “Esquire†and “Broadcaster†(later changed to “Telecasterâ€) was nearly synonymous with early popular music like boogie woogie, R&B, swing, honky tonk, etc. It was however with “Stratocasterâ€, launched in the early 1950s, that he struck gold. With its solid body and bolt-on neck joint, the very name invoke names of its eminent users including Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Ritchie Blackmore, David Gilmour, Buddy Guy, Robert Cray to mention a few. Bobby.