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You will write a paper approximately eight pages in length based on one of the three research options below. Note: In addition to the requirements for each option, you should specifically address how the issues of social inequality discovered through their research relate to the Saint Leo core value of community.
The paper will include a title page and reference page (no abstract) and be formatted per ASA guidelines.

Option 1: Read and analyze the New York Times daily. Choose one section to analyze every day for at least four weeks. Focus on one of the following groups: the wealthy, middle class, the working class, or the poor. Apply related concepts about your topic from Diana Kendall’s Framing Class. You must provide specific examples from at least ten articles published during the term to support your conclusions. You should begin work on this assignment immediately by choosing the section of your interest, such as the front (“A”) or Business Day section. Please contact the instructor if you want to analyze a different section. Save this section of the newspaper every day. (Note: The online version of the New York Times restricts access to portions of the site to online to online subscribers. You may access the complete New York Times using the Cannon Memorial Library online databases.)

Option 2: Read Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (listed in the optional texts section). Discuss the obstacles faced by the working poor as illustrated in this book, and research the cost of living for a single parent of two children in your city while working a minimum wage job. For example, how much is an apartment? Utilities? Bus fare? Health care? Food? Clothes? Opening a bank account? Your essay should also address how being poor is paradoxically expensive for those struggling to get by.

Option 3: Read at least two books about how to get rich. Suggestions include Suze Orman’s The Courage to be Rich, Robert T. Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad, Poor Dad, and David Bach’s The Automatic Millionaire, though any other book written for a general audience on the subject is acceptable. What are some of the assumptions these books make about American society? What do these books overlook about the American class structure? How do they employ the Horatio Alger myth? Be sure to apply key ideas from class to critically analyze the idea that anyone who tries hard enough can be wealthy.

[Please select whichever option would be better for you to write.]

If you can, please utilize the course textbook (if you cannot, that is fine):
Hurst, Charles E. 2013. Social Inequality: Forms, Causes, and Consequences. 8th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson. ISBN-13: 978-0-205-06477-9

WRITTENT ASSIGNMENT:

1. You are involved with the development of a new system that will track a firefighters location at a fire scene. The system will track the firefighters location within a building, isolating their position within the structure. The on-scene commander, as well as the fire departments central emergency operations center will use this information. Produce a context diagram for your system. Consider your system a \”black box\”.

2. Identify 4-6 top-level functions of the system in question 1. Produce a functional block diagram for this system.

Write a summary paragraph and a response paragraph for Outliers, chapter 2: “The 10,000 Hour Rule.” Follow the Guidelines on the Summary and Response Paragraph Handout and Checklist.

1: Provide a definition of security. Why have you included the characteristics that you have? What are the implications of using one definition of security over another (human security over state security for instance)?

2: What are some benefits and drawbacks to governing security through force, IGOs, and norms? Can a security issue like terrorism be governed through all three? Why or why not?

Please make one page for each. they are separate from each other

Drawing on ALL of the knowledge you have acquired in this course, conduct a gap analysis and develop a self-improvement plan that would support your “road to mastery”.

The elements of your PLDP must include the following (4 pages):

Summary of your strengths and weaknesses as a managerial leader, and the basis for your assessment;

Identification of your two weakest roles and associated competencies and why these two roles are your weakest roles;

Options available to you for improving your skills over the next 180 days.

Detailed plan of sustained improvement efforts: Describe your action improvement goals for the next 30 days, 60 days, and 180 days;

Detail plans on how you will evaluate your improvement efforts and adjust as needed;

Summarize with an evaluation of your strengths and expected outcomes.

Textbook:
Developing Women Leaders in Corporate America.
Author: Belasen, Alan T.

IMPORTANT NOTES:
I have attached the EXCEL based result of the Competing Values Framework (CVF) that i took. This identifies my strengths and my weaknesses as a Managerial leader. The information can be useful in writing about my weaknesses and competencies.

I have attached SAMPLES of two different people – (Broker and Kim)\’s Personal Leadership development Plan (PLDP) from the textbook. They can serve as guide to what is expected of this assignment.

Part 1: Please write a bio sketch based on information that I give you below:
I finished Bachelor of international business degree on Berkeley college Nyc 2011 – 2014 with Gpa 3.44 . now I\’m studying Bachelor of Architecture Technology degree on Nyit 2013 – Now with Gpa 3.02. I had work experience in a office 2011 – 2013 for marketing position in a carpet company and I had work experience in a small architecture firm for a year. if you need more information let me know please.

Part 2: Please write fan letter to dream firm: the firm I want to work with is Perkins Eastman and Architect that I\’m writing is Ty Paul. Please see link below for website of firm. I like there visuality how they look different and do unique projects. The Quin Hotel New York is my favorite it\’s so simple, elite and modern. if you need more information let me know please.

link for firm: http://www.perkinseastman.com
link for project: http://www.perkinseastman.com/project_3411258_the_quin

Also if you use any sources put it down as reference. I have attached more detail about it please let me know if you have any question.

Thank you.

Write an essay comparing male and female attitudes housework. You will need to narrow this topic down and then create a strong thesis. Here are some examples of narrower topics: comparing the changing attitudes from different generations, or comparing different ethnic groups, or comparing different ethnic groups from different generations, or you could compare the attitudes of those from your own generation. All of the evidence can come from your own experience, or from informal surveys of people you know. But whatever topic you choose, you will need to draw a clear conclusion and create a strong thesis from that conclusion, and you will need to give specific and convincing evidence to support your conclusion/thesis. Try not to say \”Society tells us this or that,\” or \”Society does this or that,\” in other words be more specific about influences. And avoid beginning your essay with overgeneralizations like, \’since the beginning of time …\’ or \’throughout history …\’

Topic

Part A

RIP Pty Ltd is a resident private company carrying on the business of undertaker/funeral director. It operates out of premises comprising office facilities, a chapel and assembly area and professional rooms. Its other assets include a fleet of motor vehicles.
For the year ended 30 June 2016 the company reported a net profit of $2.45m. Its income arises from the provision of funeral services financed as follows:
i) Fees payable under a ‘net, 30 days’ invoice.
ii) Fees payable under several external insurance contracts to which bills are issued under a ‘net, 30 days’ arrangement. For instance, some funeral costs are paid by the Transport Accident Commission, others are paid out of private life assurance plans.
iii) Fees received from RIP Finance Pty Ltd, a company providing credit under an instalment repayment plan.
iiii) Amounts paid under a funeral plan in which clients make periodic contributions to meet future funeral costs. ‘Easy Funeral Plan’ is a fixed price contract. When the agreed amount is paid, the client is guaranteed a ‘deluxe funeral arrangement’. If the contract price in not fully paid at date of death, the deceased’s estate is billed under (i) or (iii), above. The amount is not refundable or transferable. At 30 June the credit balance Easy Funeral Plan is $225,000.
From time-to-time amounts paid pursuant to the Easy Funeral Plan are not drawn upon. The clients might die abroad or remains not be recovered and no funeral service is provided. No refund issues arise.
At 30 June, the company transfers from Easy Funeral Plan amounts estimated to have arisen in connection with defaulting members (ie, members who have ceased making scheduled payments and who are not expected to make up arrears). These are credited to a ‘Forfeited Payments Account’ that has a balance at 30 June of $16,200.
Required (70% of the answer)
[Note: it is necessary to refer to appropriate case law on the issues.]
i) Refer to the decision in Arthur Murray (NSW) Pty Ltd v FCT (1965) 114 CLR 314. In your own words, briefly describe the facts, issues and conclusion in that case. [Note: Case reports and extracts of Arthur Murray are widely available or the decision may be accessed via www.hcourt.gov.au]
a. Advise RIP Pty Ltd when income is derived (i) generally, and (ii) when it derives its income from funeral services and related activities.
b. Does the Arthur Murray principle apply to the company’s accounting treatment of amounts in Easy Funeral Plan? Explain.
c. Does the Commissioner or any taxpayer have a choice in the method of accounting for tax?
ii) Advise the company of the tax treatment of $16,200 in ‘Forfeited Payments Account’ in item (iv).
Part B
i) RIP Pty Ltd holds a stock of three types of caskets as well as a range of accessories (such as religious and secular icons). In June 2016 the company prepaid $25,000 for material to be delivered in August 2016. The company obtained considerable discounts for the advance purchase.
ii) A fully franked cash dividend of $21,000 was received from RIP Finance Pty Ltd.
iii) An amount of $57,000 was paid on 1 March 2016 for two year\’s rental of storage space. The lease expires on 28 February 2018. In the company’s financial accounts an amount of $9,500 was expensed and $47,500 capitalised.
iiii) On 1 June 2016 the managing director of RIP commenced three months long service leave and was paid $22,000 in advance. In the company’s accounts the amount was debited against a Provision for Long Service Leave Account.
v) In 2013 the company’s Board of Directors decided existing accommodation was inadequate and it resolved to construct a purpose built facility. In that year $250,000 was paid for preliminary architectural designs. In 2014 land costing $1.25m was acquired and $50,000 paid to demolish an existing structure. Construction of the new premises commenced on 1 September 2014 at a cost of $2.5m. Fitting and equipment was installed on 1 June 2015; operations began on 1 August 2015. On-site car parking costing $125,000 was completed on 30 September and landscaping of the site was completed on 31 January 2016 at a cost of $40,000.

Required (30% of the answer)
Advise the company about the following:
[You must refer to appropriate sections of the legislation and relevant case law.]
i) The nature of trading stock, generally, whether the caskets and accessories would be trading stock for tax purposes and how the amount of $25,000 is treated for tax purposes.
ii) What adjustments (if any) should be made to the company’s reported profit for tax purposes in regard to items (ii), (iii) and (iv).
iii) What deductions (if any) are available for expenditure set out in item (v). Explain.

Pick a period in Western history OR a non-Western traditional society and write about the role of women in that period or society. You could, for example, examine the role of women in ancient Greek society, Roman society, medieval society, and/or in American society in antebellum South or in the industrial North before the Civil War. Or you could examine the role of women in traditional Arabic tribal society, African society, Latin American tribal society, Inuit culture, and so forth. (You can research any one of these topics through the library or by utilizing good online resources; this is a mini research project.) You can focus on one or more than one society, depending on your own interest in the research.

Resources
Read the following article that offers a brief historical overview by T. Head: Feminism in the United States: A Short Illustrated History.

Also read Chapter One of History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism, in which Judith M. Bennett argues for the legitimacy of continuing the critique of patriarchy.

150 words max