...Emily Nole Professor Bruce Poteet English 161 4 November 2014 “A Good Man Is Hard To Find,” and “Good Country People” Literary Analysis Flannery O’Connor’s works are perfect examples of distortional point of view, and literary irony. Through her work “Good Country People,” O’Connor uses her humor and uses distortional point of view through her characters Hulga, Mrs. Hopewell, and Mrs. Freeman to “humble and expose the biases of the overly intellectual and spiritual bankrupt.” Through her work “A Good Man Is Hard To Find,” O’Connor uses her humor and uses distortional point of view to convey and emphasize that we each experience reality, however distorted, through the unique, sometime morally-distorted lens of individual perception, through...
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...years, allowing to the Ecuadorian government to invest in health, education, housing, and some projects for the strengthening of the country. However, it is necessary to control and reduce costs as subsidies. There are subsidies, which are targeted to certain groups of the population according to their characteristics. For example, the Solidarity bonus is a subsidy that is targeted to people in the poorest municipalities in the country and whose income is too low. By the other hand, there are also generalized subsidies, which do not make a proper distinction between groups with different characteristics in the population since they reach all citizens. For example, the electricity subsidy in Ecuador This research shows how people who live in the center of Guayaquil is affected by the reduction of the electricity subsidy since this tool has become in the last seventy years the most used in country due to its versatility, cost, availability, and ease of use. These characteristics make it essential in the human activities either in factories or in the houses since the electricity allows turning on appliances or machines for working or facilitating the lives of people. However, removal of fuel subsidy as gas (LPG) and gasoline and reducing this subsidy are the measures taken by the government in order to have a sustainable development in the country. THEORICAL FRAMEWORK All governments around the world use subsidies in order to achieve the objectives of their politics. The...
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...sector laws. Commercial law governs sale and distribution of goods, and proper procedure for payment of transactions. Many nations operate under civil codes that are made of detailed statements regarding commercial law. In the United States (US), commercial law is regulated by Congress under the power granted to it to regulate interstate commerce, and by state governments under jurisdiction of police power. The commercial laws in the US were adopted from 17th century principles of the law merchant and were first incorporated into common law. The US federal government has attempted to have some form of unified commercial law in passing the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC). Domestically, commercial laws are of interest to consumers, as the laws are usually applied to regulate consumer law. In the US, the consumer credit industry is regulated under the commercial arm of statutory law. Credit is what allows a consumer to finance a purchase over time instead of paying the entire cost at the time of the transaction. Credit cards are a common form of consumer credit used by consumers in most parts of the world. Individuals, businesses, and banks also provide this financing through mortgages and various loans. International trade law- Is the body of laws and agreements that governs how countries do business with each other. The economic health of many countries depends, at least in part, or the ability to import and export goods. International trade laws set out...
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...Department Global Imbalances: In Midstream? Prepared by Olivier Blanchard and Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti1 Authorized for Distribution by Olivier Blanchard December 22, 2009 Disclaimer: The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and should not be attributed to the IMF, its Executive Board, or its management. Before the crisis, there were strong arguments for reducing global imbalances. As a result of the crisis, there have been significant changes in saving and investment patterns across the world and imbalances have narrowed considerably. Does this mean that imbalances are a problem of the past? Hardly. The paper argues that there is an urgent need to implement policy changes to address the remaining domestic and international distortions that are a key cause of imbalances. Failure to do so could result in the world economy being stuck in “midstream,” threatening the sustainability of the recovery. JEL Classification Numbers: E21, E22, F32, F33, F36, F41 Keywords: Current account deficits, saving, investment, portfolio choice. Authors’ E-mail Addresses: oblanchard@imf.org ; gmilesiferretti@imf.org 1 One of the series of “Seoul papers” on current macro and financial issues. We are grateful to Caroline Atkinson, Nicoletta Batini, Tam Bayoumi, Christian Broda, Matthieu Bussière, Paul Cashin, Nigel Chalk, Menzie Chinn, Stijn Claessens, Charles Collyns, Carlo Cottarelli, Irineu de Carvalho Filho, Uri Dadush, Jörg Decressin, Kemal Dervis, Nicolas Eyzaguirre, Stan Fischer...
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...web-bots and are hence vulnerable to attack. We present an approach to use human-like handwriting for designing CAPTCHAs. A synthetic handwriting generation method is presented, where the generated textlines need to be as close as possible to human handwriting without being writer-specific. Such handwritten CAPTCHAs exploit the differential in handwriting reading proficiency between humans and machines. Test results show that when the generated textlines are further obfuscated with a set of deformations, machine recognition rates decrease considerably, compared to prior work, while human recognition rates remain the same. CAPTCHA is now almost a standard security technology. The most widely used CAPTCHAs rely on the sophisticated distortion of text images rendering them unrecognisableto the state of the art of pattern recognition techniques and these text-based schemes have found widespread applications in commercial websites. The state of the art of CAPTCHA design suggests that such text-based schemes should rely on segmentation resistance to provide security guarantee, as individual character recognition after segmentation can be solved with a high success rate by standard methods such as neural networks. The security of a text-based CAPTCHA designed by Microsoft and deployed for years at many of their online services including Hotmail, MSN and Windows Live. This scheme was designed to be segmentation-resistant, and it has been well studied and tuned by its designers...
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...Our present progressive income tax system requires a complete overhaul into a flat tax structure. Efficiency throughout all related markets would increase, reducing distortions, and creating greater than ever incentives to work and create capitalist opportunities. It also presents the potential of solving our country’s budget deficit issues. Our current system stymies innovation and the desire to persevere by forcing a higher tax bracket on those who earn more, causing more individuals to pursue avenues of evading taxation, either through legal or illegal means. Even though the flat tax appears as too burdensome to the poor – or as a contributing factor towards the establishment of a “black market” - a flat tax is simply a more equitable system that will solve the federal deficit issues in the United States. Efficiency would rise from five sources. The first is a change of the tax base from income to consumption. The second is the establishment of a more comprehensive tax base, which eliminates the differential tax treatment of various assets and forms of income. The third is the lowering of tax rates, which raises the rate of return to working, saving, and investing. It also reduces incentives to avoid or evade taxes. Next is the reduction of compliance costs , allowing companies to lower their budgets for record keeping return filing, the salaries and training of employees performing these tasks and the costs to obtain the advice of external accountants and tax...
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...enterprise is interconnected with many others companies with the only purpose of make easier and with the lowest cost each process; that reasons involve the human capital because as the companies have to be more competitive and being always developing new products, human capital have to be more prepared and be competitive always. Multinational enterprises are now key factor in growth of developing countries; also they are, sometimes, providers of training, new skills, information and new technology from countries that are host of them, this trend is a positive one. But the same idea can affect the human capital when they are more prepared and needs more preparation to continue innovating and develop processes, that is when big companies move again to another developing country looking for low costs for different activities but that do not need to be specialized. One thing that is important is that global companies do not look only for work with low cost, for them is important that the new country where they are going to invest have potential for future expansion or at least a good infrastructure and be available to implement technological advances; all of that to help to save time and money. We can conclude that what multinational corporations have imposed as tendency in the human capital is make the lowest effort and investment for the better results with fewer compromises. * What are the effects of the Indian government policies on the Indian BPO industry and on MNC...
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...Hofmann Com/470 John Murphy Conflict Diagnosis in the News Paper Immigration has been a front running story in the United States for years, why don’t we let them in American or why should we let them in America, and or why don’t they just follow the rules to get in American. All of the questions are asked by America and there is always conflicting answer to go with those conflicting question. This paper will be analyzing the conflicting reason why people what or do not want immigrates in America using conflict diagnoses and the conflicting resolution of the immigrations conflict in America. Conflict diagnosis will be cover a number of things like describing the conflict, identify the cause of the conflict, analyze interests, Characterize the conflict, Consider trust, Identify impediments to settlement, Identify/maximize the Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement (BATNA), and Consider diversity issues (Zee Pedia , 2014). This conflict of can be described as the American people vs the American people, the American people vs the American government, and the Immigrants vs the American government these are all the parties involved in this conflict. Next step is to understand why each group believes in what they believe to cause the conflict. Why do immigrants what to come to America so bad, so bad to risk not only their lives but their children and their wives/mothers lives? Most immigrants say the same thing “Immigrants chose to come for various reasons, such as to live...
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...EFFECTS | 6 | * EXPECTED INFLATION | 6 | * UNEXPECTED INFLATION | 6 | HOW TO STOP INFLATION? | 7 | INFLATION IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES | 8 | * GERMANY | 8 | * FRANCE | 9 | * MEXICO | 10 | * USA | 11 | * GREECE | 12 | CONCLUSION | 13 | REFERENCES | 14 | INTRODUCTION The main objective of this paper is to explain the behavior and the effects of the inflation from the financial crisis in several countries talking about inflation and the causes and effects and later comparing different significant countries. The economic crisis from 2008 to 2011 is known as the world economic crisis that began that year, originates in the United States. Among the main factors causing the crisis would be high raw material prices, the overvaluation of the products, a global food and energy crisis, high world inflation and global threat of a worldwide recession, also a credit, and trust and mortgage crises on the markets. The root cause of all crises according to Austrian business cycle theory is an artificial expansion of credit. The origin of the crisis comes from the strong expansion on the mortgage credit in the United States, in a low interest rate in nominal terms and negative rate in real terms. Mortgage credit expansion required and increase in demand which mean lowering the terms of loans, giving them to people with dubious reputation but willing to accept in a higher rate that made extraordinary profitable this operation. Everything rested on...
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...Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) commonly known in our culture as “acid” belongs to a group of drugs known as hallucinogens. Hallucinogens, when taken, may cause severe hallucinations that could last anywhere from six to twelve hours or even longer depending on purity & dosage. These hallucinations are by definition “profound distortions in a person’s perceptions of reality.” The use of hallucinogens is not a new phenomenon. Psilocybin (magic mushrooms), peyote, & mescaline (extracted from the peyote cactus) have been dated back thousands of years to ancient Indian religious ceremonies; that still continue to go on till this very day. An archeological excavation in Mexico uncovered ancient writings, preserved by lava, that indicate the use of hallucinogens as long as four thousand years ago. Hallucinogens are nothing new at all. Hallucinogenic drugs, especially LSD, were prominent in the hippie culture of the 1960s & 1970s, but their popularity declined during the 1980s, giving rise to harder drugs such as cocaine & heroin. In 1972 it was reported that five percent of our nation, mostly under the age of eighteen, had experimented at least once with LSD. In 1974 that number had leapt to seventeen percent, & by 1979 the numbers went up to twenty-five percent. These numbers dropped as heroin and cocaine gained popularity in the 1980’s, but in the 1990’s the popularity of LSD grew once again. In 1992 nine percent of high school seniors had...
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...Krause's map of Africa makes a factual argument, which is that Africa is bigger than it looks on Gerardus Mercator's map. Any fact becomes an argument whenever it is controversial on its own (Lunsford and Ruszkiewicz 153). Krause's map challenges Mercator's projection published in 1569, causing disagreements about the true size of Africa. He uses the corrective information to argue against “rampant Immappancy” and makes people realize how Mercator projection distorts the sizes of countries on the map (“The true true size of Africa”). Thus, Krause's map of Africa makes an argument. Krause's map also arouses the public to understand more about this mysterious land--Africa. Because many maps distort the size of countries such as UK, China, and...
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...globalization, and financial liberalization has become a major tendency that attracts a lot of people’s attention in world economic development since the 1980s, the financial liberation and reform has become a necessity for China to develop it’s financial market and economy wellbeing. 1. Introduction China, as one of the fastest expanding economy in the world, is largely owing to the economic globalization, and financial liberalization since the 1980s. Economic globalization refers to the fact that economic resources (goods, capital, labor, technology, information and other transactions) flow from one country to another. This tendency makes connections among country’s economy around the world, and help strength the economic relationships between one country’s economy and the whole world economy. Since 1970s, financial liberalization is another major trend which has swept the world and become the mainstream of financial innovation in developed western countries. Many emerging market economies have imitated, with the development of...
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...Economics GDP: it’s the market value of the final goods and services newly produced in a fixed period of time within the geographic boundaries of a country. Fundamental Identity: GDP=total production=total expenditure=total income (wages+profits) Expenditure Approach (supply=demand): Y= C+I+G+NX (G= government purchase, that is different from public expenses, because government spending includes also transfers). What happens if price rise over time? Also if the quantity of the output does not increase the GDP seems to increase (price x quantity). To overcome this problem we need to distinguish between real GDP and nominal GDP. Economists calculate real output by using for every year the same constant price as weights. GDP (y1) = Q(1) x P(0) we are using year 0 as base year, and we use this year also for the next years. However in this way we don’t take into account the added value of technologies, in fact, as the computer industry, pc have raising price because they became better in the years. For this reason government to calculate GDP started to use “chain weight”. It means calculate the growth for example between the year 3 and 4, by using Y3 prices and by using Y4 prices and taking a geometric average. Different indexes: 1. Laspeyres Index: initial period prices 2. Paasche Index: final period prices 3. Fisher Index: Geometric average (GDP uses a chained Fisher Index) Fisher index is useful because it deals with substitution bias and it eliminates...
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...values to various goods and services not sold in the market place, like food for personal consumption. Many goods and services are bartered in both low-income nations (because they have little cash) and high income countries (because people wish to reduce reported income and thus pay less income tax.) Transactions like this are said to be part of the underground economy. Question 5 The underground economy is the part of the nation’s income that because of unreporting or underreporting is not measured by official statistics. A general rule for the underground economy is that the higher level of taxation and the more oppressive the government red tape, the bigger the underground economy will be. The existence and level of an underground market is important to managers because they want to pay the least amount of taxes back to the government. The underground economy however, can result in distortions of economic data, which managers must take into account when making business decisions using off of the data attained. Question 7 Income Distribution is a measure of how a nation’s income is apportioned among it’s people, commonly reported as the percentage of income received by population quintiles. Income distribution is important to marketers in international companies because it is part of a simple calculation of total population and income distribution based off of GNI. This calculation may be all that is needed to indicate that particular country is not a good market, although...
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...A carbon tax is a tax imposed on the carbon content of fuels. It is a form of carbon pricing. Carbon taxes are a possible cost-effective means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. From an economic outlook, carbon taxes are a type of Pigovian tax.They help to address the problem of emitters of greenhouse gases not face the full social costs of their actions. Carbon taxes can be a degenerating tax, in that it may directly or indirectly affect low-income groups disproportionately. The regressive impact of carbon taxes could be addressed by using tax revenues to favor low-income groups. A number of countries have implemented carbon taxes or energy taxes that are related to carbon content. But some are taxed on energy products and motor vehicles rather than on carbon dioxide directly. In June 2010, Julia Gillard defeated Rudd in a leadership challenge thus becoming Prime Minister of Australia. Shortly afterwards she called a federal election. During the election campaign Gillard stated that she supported a price on carbon emissions and that she would prosecute the case for action for as long as she needed to win community support. However, she also indicated that she would not introduce carbon pricing until there was a sufficient consensus on the issue, and she specifically ruled out the introduction of a "carbon tax".(Paul Kelly and Dennis Shanahan, 2010) When it was introduced on July 1, 2012 its primary goal is to reduce the country’s total emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs)...
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