...Theory & Contemporary Issues 2012 Printing Session 2 Suggested Solutions Level 4 Certified General Accountants Association of Canada 100 — 4200 North Fraser Way Burnaby, British Columbia Canada V5J 5K7 www.cga-canada.org © CGA-Canada, 2012 All rights reserved. These materials or parts thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner without the prior written permission of the Certified General Accountants Association of Canada. Printed in Canada Every reasonable effort has been made to obtain permissions for all articles and data used in this edition. If errors or omissions have occurred, they will be corrected in future editions, provided written notification has been received by the publisher. Assignment 1 — Session 2 (Winter) This assignment is based on Modules 1 through 5 and is due at the end of Module 5. It is worth 5% of your final course grade. General instructions A. If this is your first time using the Online Learning Environment, check out the Course Orientation and the quick tutorials in the Support Centre. You will find general assignment FAQs in your Assignment Submission/Group Work area. B. Prepare your answers to these assignment questions in Word and save them as one Word document on your hard drive. For the recommended format and filename, see the Assignment Submission/Group Work/FAQ area. If this assignment Word file requires you to paste Accpac.RTF reports, Excel.xls sections, or other files, you are strongly...
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...The contemporary age lasts from 1950-present. With the globalization and post industrialism people change their lifestyle and the whole society changes. Quality of live rises because of the more free time and salaries. Secondary school is now free and that means that people takes a higher education than earlier. The contemporary age has also brought more tolerance to ethnical groups, homosexuals and different religions. In the 1960s begins the youth culture and the term teenager arrives. Young people starts to go against the mainstream and make small subcultures. One of the main reasons of the youth culture is the legendary band The Beatles. Men let their hair grow and women wear miniskirts. Lot of the Britain population is immigrants and after the 1960s there be-come more respect between the ethnical groups in society. The economy in the contemporary age has a back down when the coalminers and car and steal plants closes and the number of unemployed rises. In 1984 the miner’s strikes because of Margaret Thatcher wants to close down the coalminers. The years where Thatcher is the leader is marked by the privatization of the public services such as water and electricity. But they still have public support for health and education and therefor they can maintain the Welfare State in a more liberal and reconstructed form but it still has an important role in Britain daily life. In 1968 many years of peace in Northern Ireland breaks down. The two groups of Irish people be-come...
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...What is fascism? Fascism is a hard ideology to define because nearly every modern government or political movement has been called ‘fascist’ by somebody. (The writer has directly addressed the essay question in the topic sentence of the first paragraph, noting how it can be identified as being ambiguous, and how it is difficult to define.) I contend that fascism was a political movement unique to the early 20th century, especially in Europe, because its worldview was shaped by events and philosophical ideas from the late 19th century until the interwar period. (Evidence that the writer has considered the words meaning in terms of context and knowledge of what periods of time are referred as) Some people have called states like Saddam Hussein’s Iraq ‘fascist’, but I believe that there is a big difference between authoritarian dictatorship and genuine fascism. (Additional evidence of acquired knowledge, saying that it is the writer’s belief that there is a difference between the two terms ‘authoritarian dictatorship’ and ‘genuine fascism’.) So how did fascism originally develop? (There is a conversational tone, to the topic sentence of each paragraph, asking relevant key questions that the writer has considered. Note, how this afforded question is compatible with the main essay question. The conversational tone, is effective in portraying the fact that the writer has attempted to acquire and integrate knowledge. The first sentence of the second paragraph, has...
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...role in society and how does a medium such as a magazine manage to create this appealing world? In today’s capitalist society it seems everything is trying to sell you a hyper reality, a brief moment in which you can become something else or live vicariously through somebody else. And yet while we want it we don’t think about how it is created. The advertisement is no fluke; millions of dollars are spent to achieve the perfect model, clothing, light, even the placement of the logo. Finally by analyzing this image it is not only the composition of the advertisement, but the impact it has on its readers. It is this incredible insight into the societal roles, class, and insecurities that sell this brand to the everyday consumer; and in return this brand sells the audience an identity. Media has become a vital tool for companies because of its incredible ability to persuade its audience. The various components of the advertisement play on what Aristotle coined as the three main tools of persuasion “ethos- our perception of something (do we respect it ect...), pathos-our emotional connection to something despite its intangible state, and logos- our logical inductions and deductions in reasoning” (2). The advertisement is striking and complex because it disregards typical gender roles and would possibly earn a level of both intrigue and respect from a female audience. Not...
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...Vintage Fashions are a way of retaining individuality in the age of fast fashion-discuss In the age of fast fashion and mass production of garments vintage fashions have become increasingly popular as a way of escaping contemporary stereotypes and retaining individuality. However the acceptance of this ‘vintage look’ has made the fashion industry adopt it as a way of creating new collections therefore making it more accessible and less individualising than it originally was. The meaning behind vintage fashion has changed drastically in the last 50 years, formally being associated with poverty and the lower class, due to the fact that second hand clothing was very dirty and was often contaminated with diseases such as the plague. Even though this was the case second hand clothing was necessary for many people before the rise of ready to wear fashion, as emphasized by Caroline Evans (2007) “Second-hand dress has historically been associated with low economic status and class; long before there was a ready-to-wear industry, the second-hand trade clothed the poor, often in third-, fourth- and fifth-hand clothing”(2007:249). Clothes were very highly valued; they were passed down in wills and given as gifts, this was due to the fact that clothes were very expensive as all clothing was hand made. However in the 1960’s with the introduction of mass production when clothes were no longer as expensive they were also no longer one of a kind. After WW2, the age of make do and mend...
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...9 chapter current controversies and issues Introduction The Clash of Values in Social Policies Welfare Euthanasia Government: How Much Support for the Needy? Target Populations: The Struggle for Support The AIDS Epidemic The Homeless Welfare Recipients Professionalism in the Human Services The Role of Human Services Workers Whom Do Human Services Workers Serve? A Basic Reading and Thinking Skill Ranking American Values References 324 Human Services in Contemporary America - © Cengage Learning c u r r e n t c o n t r ov e r s i e s a n d i s s u e s 325 INTRODUCTION You may have gathered by now that the human services field is quite complex. Complete agreement regarding philosophies, methods, goals, services, funding, or anything else just does not exist nor, from our point of view, should it. There are times when controversies and differences are stimulating, healthy, and valid and lead to creative solutions. At other times, they are repetitious, meaningless, and destructive. Too frequently they consume time, energy, and resources that might better be used providing needed services. To this end, we highly recommend that students become familiar with the books in the Opposing Viewpoints series, published by the Greenhaven Press, that deal with issues of concern to human services workers. The purpose of this chapter is to present a sampling of basic controversies and issues in the field of human services that have not yet been resolved and may never be resolved...
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...“He created the situation which led to his downfall in 1922.” “The Conservatives kept him in power only as long as they needed him.” Which view about Lloyd George in the years 1918 to 1922 is the more convincing? Before analysing the separate statements it is perhaps rather prudent to look at a little bit of background as it could be argued that Lloyd George was already perfectly positioned to fall even before the 1918 election. It is important to keep in mind that Lloyd George was in a rather unique position of ‘a Prime Minister without a party’ due to the split of his own Liberal Party in 1916. This being the case, Lloyd George was always in a precarious position that could, in theory, be taken away in an instant should the Conservatives decide to do so. Should one subscribe to this idea then the former statement is made redundant immediately which inevitably makes the latter the more convincing case. However if one does not subscribe to such a belief then the situation becomes rather more complex. The Conservatives had not been in government on their own since 1905 and there was a severe lack of confidence in the party, even if they would have had a majority by proxy had they fought the election on their own (the Liberal party split had caused too much damage to the party and Labour wasn’t big enough to present a realistic threat). The general feeling had been summed up in 1918 by Arthur Balfour: “Our party, on the old lines, will never have any future again in this country”...
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...values and morals this country was built on, lastly same sex marriage will not produce a fruitful union. First, God created the institution of marriage between opposite sexes. A nation build on Christianity and under god, religious beliefs found to be just as important as the political one on equality. Traditionalist argue that marriage between a man and a woman should not be changed because of “prism of contemporary American society” (Campbell & Robinson, 2007, p. 131). This is the refracting of understanding of scripture. As Montgomery (2003) states in Kingston-Whig Standard “God is still the supreme ruler of this land, and neither the multicultural program of liberalism nor the strong homosexual political machine can change that, no matter how hard they try” ( para. 8) . Regarding the war on gay marriage the public opinion constitutes a “hard case” for the cultural war of gay marriage (Campbell & Robinson, 2007, p. 134).Indeed conservatives give a strong argument for gay marriage using equality and rights while, traditionalists use the moral use to oppose gay marriage, both use God to argue this point. God made the rules, and they cannot be changed no matter how hard the politicians try. Marriage is a union between a man and a woman. Marriage...
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...Although President Reagan himself always denied these allegations, as a Republican candidate and as a former California governor he took benefit of Carter’s troubles. Then on Election Day, just over one year after the hostage predicament began; President Reagan defeated Carter in a landslide. With the win of the election, in part probably due to the fiasco of the Carter administration inability to bring the hostages home. On January 21, 1981, just a few hours after President Reagan's first inauguration, the hostages were out. The Hostage’s had been in captivity for 444 days. I still believe that President Reagan was underrated, misconstrued, and probably one of the most notable Presidents in the modern history. As you continue to read this essay, you will learn both some good and bad parts of President Reagan’s legacy. One thing by far the most renowned gathering occurred in 1979, when Weyrich led a New Right delegation, including Phillips, McAteer, and another Weyrich associate and preacher, Bob Billings, to the Virginia coast to retain a well-known Baptist minister into the New Right. The major reasons why the New...
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...What is the Value of Cultural Studies? Why is it relevant on a media/ communications programme? Firstly what is cultural studies? Cultural studies is devoted to understanding how a society creates and shares meaning. So, cultural studies searches to understand how meaning is brought about, constructed and dispersed throughout all social structures, practices, beliefs within each certain culture. It is important to remember that cultural studies is a holistic analysis, taking the social whole into consideration, including and combining every known theory from political theory, feminist theory, social theory, media theory and so on. ‘This approach analyses culture in order to understand the lives, experiences, consciousness, values and struggles of particular groups in society’[i] There are a number of important concepts when it comes to cultural studies. Society creates meaning for everything that exists. All of these meanings are constructed; therefore they are only perceptions of reality. our understanding of meaning and view of the world has been created by the society in which we are surrounded in, brought up in and bred in. who plays the major role in all of this, who makes meaning out of what we see and learn? Is it the man on the side of the road who believes god is real, because he came from a religious background? Or is it the politician that we all elected and trust will tell us what’s right and wrong, and what really means what. Culture then goes on to...
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...Critical Thinking MoMA PS1: What was the purpose of my visit? Ambling along Jackson Avenue in Long Island City, I attempt to locate the site that would be the material for my next assignment. Easily enough I was able to come across what would lead me directly to it- 5 Pointz: The Institute of Higher Burnin’ standing out in its kaleidoscopic mastery of aerosol art. The outdoor exhibit is an old warehouse that features the works of world famous graffiti artists and allows for quite the contrast to the museum that is located on the opposite side of the street: MoMA PS1. Founded in 1971 as an art and urban resource institute, PS1 serves as the leading contemporary art center in New York and since 2000, became an affiliation with the Museum of Modern Art. Sizeable alabaster walls and open space directed attention to the fresh, contemporary artistry that hung on the walls of the former classrooms of PS1. With the echo of every creaky step, I slowly browsed the exhibition of Henry Taylor, open-mindedly losing myself in his alluring pieces and for the sake of this paper, desperately trying to grasp a sense of his style and meaning. Comprised mostly of portraits, his exhibition majorly demonstrates an influence by his immediate surroundings and according to his MoMA PS1 profile: Taylor presents himself to the world of art “offering a refreshing, idiosyncratic perspective on culture and politics using everyone and everything around him as source material”. His work could be described as...
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...Maheshwary 0800206 INTRODUCTION : Many Bollywood movies have explored various social issues such as child marriage, polygamy, dowry system, casteism and terrorism. However, homosexuality, a taboo subject in Indian society and religion, has yet not been fully explored in Bollywood. “Homosexuality refers to sexual behaviour with or attraction to people of the same sex or to a homosexual orientation.” Gay refers to male homosexuality whereas lesbian refers to female homosexuality. Jab pyaar kiya to darna kya, Jab pyaar kiya to darna kya, Pyaar kiya koi chori nahi ki, Chhup chhup aahein bharna kya.. The above song is from the movie Mughal-E-Azam can be translated as ‘What is there to be afraid of if you have loved? You have only loved someone and not stolen anything, then why you are hiding and sighing’. This song may well apply to the homosexual couples in Indian society who despite of their love for each other can’t come out in a society which disapproves of such relationship and the imposition of heteronormativity. Heteronormativity is the cultural bias in favour of oppositesex relationships of a sexual nature, and against same-sex...
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...Contemporary Issues in Eastern Religions Contemporary Issues in Eastern Religions Common Characteristics between Buddhism and Hinduism Buddhism is closely related to Hinduism, they both share some important beliefs. They both believe in reincarnation and the cycle of samsara - birth, life, death, and rebirth - and in the influence of karma on the circumstances into which you will be born in the next life. They both believe that the ultimate end is to escape from the cycle of rebirth. However, they are quite different in some very fundamental ways. For Hindus, there is an eternal soul that does not change, in essentials, from life to life. The material bodies it inhabits are like clothes. Buddhists believe that there is no core soul - that your experiences, actions, and intentions (your karma) constantly act upon you and you are constantly changing in response, so that the cycle of samsara is a long process of becoming. They also have different beliefs regarding the escape from the cycle of reincarnation. For Buddhists, achieving enlightenment, seeing the true nature of phenomenon and of oneself, eliminating all craving and desire releases you from the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. For Hindus, realizing the oneness of existence, achieving mental peace or perfect unselfishness, perfect detachment from the world, or perfect knowledge of oneself, or the realization of unity with god releases you from the cycle of rebirth. As it relates to salvation...
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...In the contemporary dispute over homosexuality within the Church, how and in what balance can the Anglican three-legged stool of Scripture, tradition and reason be used as a starting point for the benefit of the whole Church and gay and lesbian people in particular? The issue of homosexuality is a vital one for all churches. The Anglican Church is one of those that contains proponents on both sides of the argument and one of the ways it has viewed revelation is to see it being arrived at through a three fold cord- Scripture, tradition and reason. The essay’s main concern will be with experience and the dialogue of the interpretive community. This is because in an area of strong disagreement dialogue and the interpreters themselves are the keys to how both Scripture and tradition should be used. Natural law seems to be philosophically dead and yet the naturalness of an act is still used by some as an argument against homosexuality. As for science, it has offered no firm conclusions about why some people are homosexual. Therefore this essay will not cover these areas. SCRIPTURE “Slavery seeks refuge in the Bible only in its last extremity…. Goaded to frenzy in its conflicts with conscience and common sense, … it courses up and down the Bible, ‘seeking rest and finding none.’ The law of love, glowing on every page, flashes through its anguish and despair.” (Theodore Dwight Weld, The Bible Against Slavery: or, An Inquiry into the Genius of the Mosaic System, and the Teaching...
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...different groups of ethnicities and religions in the United States of America. They face and overcome troubles because of the diversity they have in the world. Judaism is a diverse religion with strict beliefs and rituals and it adds strong cultural roots to the United States. The Hispanic ethnicity is also very distinct, and they have had multiple racial discriminations throughout history. The experiences the two groups have gone through help makes them stronger because of the hardships they both have had to endure. In Judaism there are 3 different categories to live by which are: orthodox they believe that all of the practices in the Torah which it is practical to obey must be obeyed without question. Conservative and Reform, they believe that the ancient laws and practices have to be interpreted for modern life with inclusion of contemporary sources and with more concern with community practices than with ritual practices. Reform which allows everyone to sit together, men and women, and both Hebrew and the local language are spoken in services. Orthodox Judaism differs from other religious groups they strict when it comes to their religious beliefs and worship practices, but they are still very diverse when it comes to their core beliefs and rituals. They go to the synagogue, which is a Jewish house of worship or temple, three times a day, wear kippah (skullcap) at all times, eats only kosher foods, and are very ritualistic when it comes to observing holidays and important events...
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