...Axia College Material Appendix F Summary, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation Review the four paragraphs below. There is one paragraph matching each of the following types: summary, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Once you have read each paragraph, complete the following chart to identify the type of paragraph for each. |Paragraph Number |Type of Paragraph | |1 |evaluation | |2 |analysis | |3 |synthesis | |4 |summary | 1. Alice Axia’s article discussed overlooked tax deductions. It talked about some of the most commonly missed deductions. Whereas her use of statistics seemed to bolster her arguments, it would have been nice to see her elaborate more about the specific deductions missed. She could have talked about what recourse, if any, a filer would have once he or she realized there was an overlooked deduction. She also should have focused more on why the deductions were overlooked, as that would have made the article more effective. 2. Alice Axia informs us of ways in which we can reduce our tax obligations in any given year. Based on studies she cited, there were cases in which some tax filers were unaware of various deductions they were eligible to claim. In some cases, those...
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...Our Children Education? During this study I get to understand how the economy is affecting the education and the future of the young generation, which includes our children. It also affects the consumers and freedom to spend without feeling fear of struggle in a short and long term. The economic challenges are different in all the districts and states, as strategies for collective bargaining. Our children of all ages will be affected, and they will be obligated to work to pay their own education while attending college if they if we want them to have the education our children deserve. Us, parents will have to work more to afford the costs of our children’s education, during our children are in primary and secondary schools. I learned what is the superintendents’ job and what they need to do to improve our children’s education. What strategies they will use for our benefit (the benefit of the community). The economy could recover eventually, but it could take more than four years. This Depression has happened before in Washington State. I believe that if they could recover back then we could see an improvement again. We want excellent schools for our children, and they could be provided with a good education for the children to be successful in life. According to Sims (2004) “As members of a community, we want a high-quality school system so that we can attract and develop new businesses. As citizens, we want our nation to have a world-class educational system that enables...
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...Introduction Higher education is an important resource for career focused people here in the United States. In order to attend college, most students have to take out loans in order to cover the cost of attending. However, the rising rate of student loan defaults has recently become a serious issue that needs to be addressed. Economists agree that the rising amount of student loan default can prove to be a good indicator when seeking to predict future payments on student loans (Ismail, Serguieva, & Singh, 2011). Recent studies have shown that the growing rate of student loan default on higher education loans could cause another financial crisis in the United States because the loans are government backed, the cost of higher education is on the rise, and unemployment rates are on the rise preventing repayment. Taking on student loans can feel like and endless cycle of entrapment to the borrowers and they are often left with the belief that they have no other choice than to default on their loans. It is impossible to say with 100% certainty where the culpability lies for this unfolding crisis. One point of view is that the students may be at fault for not fully understanding the magnitude of the debt they are taking on by applying for these loans in the first place. Another point of view is that possibly the schools may be at fault for not offering more instruction to the borrowers about the loans and charging higher prices for tuition. Perhaps the fault is with the loan issuers...
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...Introduction This paper will discuss the two main causes of state budget deficit; overspending and not enough tax revenue as well as the impacts states continue to feel from the recession. The paper will also make recommendations to resolve state deficit. Overspending Figure 1 Figure 1 Currently, government spending in many states is much higher than tax payers can sustain. A major factor to state overspending is the forgetfulness of state officials that the government is supposed to exist to serve citizens not the other way around. One state in particular, California, is a prime example of state overspending. Figure 1 demonstrates California’s Total Expenditures from 1995-2012. There are five main areas where the California legislature failed their citizens when it comes to spending. The first area is their complicated institutional framework. Having a complicated institutional framework increases the cost of operating the government. For example, California pays for multiple administrators to do the same type of work in different departments. They also have additional administrators to coordinate the overlapping work of the different departments. Another area where California fails is their lack of coordination for their health and human services, this lack of coordination results in the second largest source of California’s government expenses. There are 33,000 employees in the health and human services organization of the government, $83 billion...
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...Walker Kyle # 7. Social Security is a government program supported by a dedicated tax, like highway maintenance. You can say that assigning a particular tax to a particular program is a waist of time, but in fact such assignments have both legal and political force. The purpose of that tax increase was to maintain the dedicated tax system into the future, by having Social Security’s assigned tax take in more money than the system paid out while the baby boomers were still working, then use the trust fund built up by those surpluses to pay future bills. That strategy was highly successful. The date at which the trust fund will run out, according to Social Security Administration projections, has receded steadily into the future: 10 years ago it was 2029, now it’s 2042. As people high up, and others have pointed out, the SSA estimates are very conservative, and moderate projections of economic growth push the end date into the indefinite future. It is primarily funded through a dedicated payroll tax. During 2011, total benefits of $736 billion were paid out versus income (taxes and interest) of $805 billion, a $69 billion annual surplus. An estimated 158 million people paid into the program and 55 million received benefits, roughly 2.87 workers per beneficiary. Reform proposals continue to circulate, due to a long-term funding challenge faced by the program. Starting in 2011 and continuing after, program expenses are expected to exceed cash revenues. This is due to the aging...
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...illustrating the supply and demand in this market. 2. What is the equilibrium Price and Quantity in the market? 3. Now suppose the government imposes a special tax on these computers. Describe what would happen in this market in terms of the supply and demand curve. 4. Disregard the new tax in part three. Now assume that the government imposes a price ceiling of $100 in this market, as a result of protests of price gouging by the sellers. What would happen to the price and quantity in this market? 5. Disregard the events of part four. Assume that the manufacturers of this product lobby the government’s lawmakers, in terms of this product being an essential for college students but they are considering halting production due to the lack of profits. The lawmakers agree and now set a price floor at $150. What would happen in this market? 6. If consumers’ expectations were such that they were concerned about the economy and jobs, what would you think would happen in this market? I. II. The Equilibrium price is at $125/computer and the Equilibrium quantity sold/bought is at 1,750. III. If the government imposes a special tax on the computer, computer prices will go up and with that increase according to the law of demand, demand will go down and there will be excess supply. The tax increases the cost of production hence profit declines...
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...photographs, cards, tapes, recordings, or other documentary materials regardless of physical form or characteristics prepared, owned, used, in the possession of, or retained by a public body. Records such as income tax returns, medical records, hospital medical staff reports, scholastic records, adoption records, records related to registration, and circulation of library materials which contain names or other personally identifying details regarding the users of public, private, school, college, technical college, university, and state institutional libraries and library systems, supported in whole or in part by public funds or expending public funds, or records which reveal the identity of the library patron checking out or requesting an item from the library or using other library services, except nonidentifying administrative and statistical reports of registration. The FOIA does not require a public body to create a record that doesn’t already exist. If part of a document can legally be shielded from release, that doesn’t mean the entire document may be withheld. The agency must separate the exempt data and release the rest of it (this usually means taking a marker and blacking out some information). Re-argument of U.S. supreme court on federal income tax After the World War 1 the secretary of the treasury advised to have a widespread propaganda that entails convincing the public to let go of the needless pleasures that exist. The most important feature that was highlighted...
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...Administrative Agencies This write-up expounds on Group Four’s perspective of how agencies in the United States of America affect our lives. The group has provided a list of agencies that play similar and at times very different roles in ensuring the quality of life we have come to expect is never compromised. The write-up explains some of Group Four members’ real life experiences, offering recommendations as to how one should address the negative impact(s) a particular agencies has had on his or her life. Lastly, the write-up explains the role of the courts in address any negative experiences any individual may have had with any of the agencies and the limitations of the courts’ review of the agencies decisions that lead to the negative impact. Which agencies regulate some aspect of your lives? The longer the list, the more interesting this exercise should be, so take some time to brainstorm a thorough answer to this question. Federal Agencies CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention EEOC United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission EPA United States Environmental Protection Agency FAA Federal Aviation Administration FCC Federal Communications Commission FDA Food and Drug Administration FDIC Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation FED Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System FTC Federal Trade Commission HHS United States Department of Health and Human Services HRSA Health Resources and Services Administration IRS Internal...
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...He said that it is the role of government to help industries if they find. He believes that state has a key role in increasing opportunities and reducing poverty because if any industry finds itself in difficulties then it also affects unemployment. He believes that state has a key role in increasing opportunities and reducing poverty. Conservative traditionally believes on low taxes. They believe that taxes on income and company profits should be kept to minimum. So it is a natural conservative instinct to want to cut taxes. But the David Cameron and his shadow chancellor asserted that the tax cuts cannot be made at the expense of the public services. In other words they see it as most important that health, education, social services and so on should be protected even if public opinion asserts that tax should be reduced. In education it is conservative...
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...environmental factors influence the likelihood that students will graduate and graduate college ready. Black and Latino boys are overrepresented in special education classes, those who have been suspended and expelled. They also have less access to academically rigorous curriculum. All of these factors help explain the lagging graduation and college readiness rates among New York City’s students of color. Provide more funding and support for programs already in place to target schools with high concentrations of black and Hispanic males. Young Men's Initiative (YMI)...
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...strategic recommendations to the bio-technology pharmaceutical operations of XYZ Pharmaceutical Inc. Included in the recommendation will be training, human resources, and regulatory considerations. In a past analysis of Zephyr Teachout’s article “Will the Web Kill Colleges?” it was concluded that the Chaffee’s argument regarding the future minimization or extinction of the traditional brick and mortar college is a very real possibility. Furthermore, He explains the increasing utilization of online based college courses and in fact many course becoming hard to attend except in an online environment. Teachout’s argument regarding the proliferation of online college is supported with several examples. Teachout compares online college to newspapers concerning how information is shared. Why would a student commute or even move to attend class when they can attend class in the comfort of their home or from a Starbucks? In addition to rapid information retrieval, online college can be offered much cheaper than most brick and mortar. A non-tenured professor can be paid less and can coordinate the coursework of students worldwide. Maintaining non tenure facility dramatically decreases the overall administrative cost for a college thus...
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...Axia College Material Appendix A Midterm Exam • Access the Week Four Electronic Reserve Readings located under the materials section of your student website. • Read this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings. • Write a paragraph of approximately 100 words for each section listed below. 1. Using the critical thinking skills you have gained so far and referring to the materials provided for this assignment, identify two possible strategies that Thomas Hutchinson or Samuel Adams likely used to develop and improve their thinking as those historical events unfolded prior to taking a stand and acting according to their beliefs. Samuel Adams may have used strategy one: analyzing a single statement for what is means by asking yourself if the statement makes sense and if so responding with a yes or no answer. Adams was not only an extremist but a political writer speaking to issues that directly affected colonies like the Stamp Act and tea distribution from East India. Both of these events affected many colonists in a negative way because the Stamp Act added taxation to certain products, while India tea imports, caused some colonists to lose money from their own tea sells. Adams would have had to ask himself why these acts where just or unjust by analyzing them individually in a literal sense. He publicly came to the conclusion that these acts were unjust because they both caused colonists to lose money and also put a damper on their personal values and liberty...
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...carefully construct answers to the questions posed on specific issues raised by Mr. Brasel in the power point slides he provided to the class. The history of Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield can be dated back to when the men first met in the seventh grade. Both Cohen and Greenfield grew up in Merrick, Long Island and quickly became friends during Junior high school. After high school, Jerry finished college. His goal was to attend medical school to become a doctor, but he could not get in. (benjerry.com). On the other hand, Ben applied and was accepted to several colleges, but always dropped out of them. The beginnings for the development of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade were launched in 1977 from the front porch of Jerry’s parent’s house. Neither Ben nor Jerry knew anything about running or opening a business, but both men knew about food and shared the great passion of eating. They pondered on what type of business they would start. The men came across an AD in the local newspaper for an ice-cream-making course offered through a local college. There was a $5 fee associated with the course. Due to the extreme poverty in which Cohen and Greenfield were brought up in, they decided to split the fee and took the course on ice-cream-making from Penn State University. The two men combined their life savings of $8,000 and took out a loan for &4,000 from a bank. With this money, Ben & Jerry leased and renovated an old gas station in a town...
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...education and the welfare state. One way in which the conservative party has changed is through taxation. Traditionally the conservative party was known for believing in lower taxation rates. However the current conservative party has changed some of their policies and perhaps become more centralist on taxation. An example of this is proposing a new taxation scheme where people who earn under ten thousand pounds a year are exempt from paying tax; also a bigger ‘crack down’ on people who earn a larger salary. Therefore this means that they would pay more tax. This signifies deviation from traditional conservative principles; this can probably be labelled as part of the modernization of the party since Cameron has become leader. Another way the party has deviated from traditional conservative principles is through education. In contrast with the traditional condescending view on education by the conservatives, under Cameron there has been a strong emphasis on the idea that everybody should be able to go to university if their ability allows them too. This supports labour’s policies on scholarships to students from disadvantaged backgrounds and also attempting to establish more apprentiship jobs and work experience jobs to encourage young people who perhaps wouldn't go to university to learn skills that would...
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...Hum/111 Mid Term Axia College Material Appendix A Midterm Exam * Access the Week Four Electronic Reserve Readings located under the materials section of your student website. * Read this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings. * Write a paragraph of approximately 100 words for each section listed below. 1. Using the critical thinking skills you have gained so far and referring to the materials provided for this assignment, identify two possible strategies that Thomas Hutchinson or Samuel Adams likely used to develop and improve their thinking as those historical events unfolded prior to taking a stand and acting according to their beliefs. A strategy that they used would be a maintained critical attitude throughout the problem solving. When using a critical attitude and maintaining it can help improve your thinking skills. This is crucial because improving your thinking depends on the habits and attitudes of others. When problem solving this involves careful observation, interpreting, evaluating, and more, which can be difficult if distracted by emotions. The second one I think they may have used would have been Summarizing. Summarizing can help a person visualize all key elements. Samuel Adams may have used an analytical process. He assessed both sides of the issue and all consequences of their actions before he planned what he would do. 2. Explain the importance of building a foundation for critical and creative thinking when evaluating historical...
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