...features a man who struggles to make ends meet, then in The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans, Neal Gabler writes about his financial complications. Together these two works prove the relevancy of The Death of a Salesman. Most Americans receive money when a family member close to them dies. An example of this in The Death of a Salesman appears when Charley says, “Maybe you’re in for some money” (45). Charley talks about an inheritance. An inheritance would provide money that was not budgeted and most of the time pay off debt. Then, in The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans, Gabler also waits for an inheritance to pay for his daughter’s education. He...
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...Poverty is a state of mind Growing up in a poor family can be tough, but when you are young you mostly focus on the positive things in life - or at least those are the times you actually remember. This text focuses on Bernard Hare’s childhood and teenage years. Inheritance and environment is an issue he brings up, and how he broke it. He insinuates that he, if he followed inheritance and environment, was supposed to be doing hard physical work, just like his parents, instead he rose up and got good grades, went to university, and became a social worker and now a freelance writer. He is trying to get people to do the same - to look outside of the box they have been born into. When explaining his youth, Bernard uses obvious sarcasm; “Britain then was a good place to grow up. Home was warm, school was stimulating and challenging, the “bomb sites”, as we called them – in reality slum clearance zones – made excellent adventure playgrounds, and everyone still felt good about pulling together and bashing the Germans.” (p. 8, l. 70-77). This could be an attempt to recreate the feeling of being a child, where no matter how bad times are, you still perceive and recall them as being great, or it could be mock the almost gothic feeling Britain experienced after the Second World War. Obviously, he had a dangerous childhood with “bomb sites” and games in hazardous environments. The schools were boring and non-stimulating, and afterwards he came home to a cold home, where no matter how...
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...the primary responsibility of its existence is to continue to develop the industrial society due to the fact that, in the eyes of Marxists, its main role is to perpetuate capitalism. The bourgeoisie, or higher class, remain rich whilst the proletariat, otherwise known as the lower class, remain poorer. The proletariat are socialised by the family to not question their role in society and to always remain hard working employees in order to keep society in the order that it is in now. The Marxist views of the nuclear family can be assessed in whether or not they are effective theories as they can be compared to other theorists’ views of the family. Functionalists and Feminists have varying theories on the existence of the family that both coincide with the Marxist view and also contrast with it. Marxists have concluded that one of the sole reasons the nuclear family exists is the inheritance of property. A theorist named Fredrich Engels believes the existence of monogamous marriage – being married to one person in one time – exists exclusively in society so that the inheritance of private property can be easily passed down throughout generations without confusion of which child it should go to. This aims to aid money staying within the family, which therefore means the bourgeoisie can pass down property to their heirs and the rich stay rich, while the poor who have nothing to pass onto their future generations stay poor. However, this theory has its criticisms. It can be argued...
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...only which gives everything its value.” Early in my life, I was taught to work for what I have and to have what I work for. I was taught if I did not earn what I have that it would be less appreciated in the end. My grandfather taught me early that a chore completed would be worth its weight in wages beyond a monetary value. I learned early that I should appreciate what God blesses me with and that I should earn those blessings. If I should sit by and the blessings keep mounting up without any effort on my behalf would I appreciate them at their worth? This was one of my most valuable learning’s in life. There are several television shows I sometimes stop to watch when I am scanning the channels for something of interest. These shows paint the pictures of what I consider to be wealth that was obtained easily and esteemed too lightly. We see in some of these episodes where individuals and couples squander through millions of dollars in short periods of times. They find themselves bankrupt and in more turmoil than when they did not have the extravagant means upon winning a lottery. If these individuals had worked hard for their money it would have meant more to them. Earning their means could have prevented them from squandering through millions of dollars. I know a young man who lost his parent tragically when he was ten years old. He inherited a very large sum of money. The inheritance was not set up in a trust fund that required him to wait until he had learned...
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...The inheritance tax, or estate tax, is a tax which the United States levies on the total taxable value of the estate of a deceased person. The amount of tax is calculated regardless of the method in which the assets of the estate are transferred to the person's heirs: assets included in a will, transferred automatically because the person died intestate or as an insurance benefit or account payoff. Inheritance tax is paid by the executor of the estate or by the person in charge of its assets. The United States has a consolidated policy on inheritance and gift tax so that a person cannot give away his or her estate to potential beneficiaries shortly before death in order to avoid taxation; beneficiaries would simply pay gift tax rather than inheritance tax in this case. The federal government makes a distinction between the "gross estate" (all assets) and the "taxable estate" (assets less a certain number of allowable deductions such as funeral expenses, some charitable contributions and various other deductions). In most cases, if the estate is left to a charitable organization or a surviving spouse, no inheritance tax is due. There are also exclusions for a certain portion of the estate; however, these have been frequently changed by recent tax legislation, and usually, it is worth consulting a professional to determine what amount of the estate is not taxable under current federal law. In part because these complexities make it possible for some wealthy people to establish...
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...What happens within this play? This is an African American family from the 1950’s living in the south side of Chicago. The Younger family inherits an insurance claim of $10000 after Walter senior (husband, father), whom has passed away. It seems all the family members have an idea of their own on how to spend this inheritance which leads to family conflicts throughout the play. Ultimately, Mama (Lena), puts a down payment on a home and Walter Lee loses the rest of the inherited money to his supposed friend, Willy Harris, who runs off with the remaining cash. Dreams are delayed. - Mama Walter’s and her late husband Mr. Walter’s dreamed of owning a home for all their married years. Although his death, seemed like the dream could become a...
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...10-14 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany siebert@ira.uka.de anwalt@ira.uka.de This work was partially funded by the DFG program GRK 209-------- ABSTRACT For the application of Java in realtime and safety critical domains, an analysis of the worst-case execution times of primitive Java operations is necessary. All primitive operations must either execute in constant time or have a reasonable upper bound for their execution time. The difficulties that arise for a Java virtual machine and a Java compiler in this context will be presented here. This includes the implementation of Java’s class and interface model, class initialization, monitors and automatic memory management. A new Java virtual machine and compiler that solves these difficulties has been implemented and its performance has been analysed. Although incremental garbage collection techniques can help to reduce the likelihood for a blocking garbage collection pause, they can not guarantee it. It can still occur that the collector does not make sufficient progress and does not catch up with the application. Consequently, the system can fail or require long blocking pauses to recycle memory or defragment the heap. A deterministic implementation of Java must provide means to determine worst-case execution times for Java’s primitive operations. The dynamic structure of Java, with inheritance, virtual method calls and multiple-inheritance for interfaces, poses several difficulties for the implementation. The time required...
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...Inheritance Law in Belgium and Switzerland Marieke Martens We live, we work and we die. People basically work to make money and spend it but also save it. After somebody has died what will happen to the money and the possessions? Firstly the division of the money and possessions takes place, according to the will. But what if there is now will? If there is a will or not, the possessions and money will not be inherited for free. The inheritance law is a collection of articles, which explains what happens to and with the inheritance of the person who died when there is no will and when there is a will. In this paper two countries will be compared based on their inheritance law. The first country is Belgium, which is part of the EU and has no specific advantages if it comes to being a tax paradise. The other country, which will be used in this research, is Switzerland, which is not part of the EU and is very famous for being a tax paradise. Both countries do have one thing in common: they are both West-European countries. Because Switzerland is a tax paradise it can be assumed that the inheritance law in Switzerland is more favourable than in the Belgium. This statement basically states that in Switzerland you have to pay less inheritance tax, there are better condition if it comes to making wills or not, than in Belgium, which results in a higher inheritance than in Belgium. These are the fields of Inheritance law that will be covered in the paper in order to answer he...
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...the question of what makes a person who they are, their environment, or their genes. For centuries the controversy between nature and nurture has been argued among experts. The debate is whether environmental influences or genetic inheritance is responsible for our human makeup. History of Nature versus Nurture From the thirteenth century researcher to present day, the nature nurture controversy is anything but a new topic, although techniques and biases may differ throughout the centuries. In the Beginning In 1874, Francis Galton, published his book English Men of Science: Their Nature and Nurture, which “lays partial claim to the nature versus nurture phrase” (Groff, 1998, para.1). Galton states nature and nurture, “separates under two distinct heads the innumerable elements of which personality is composed. Nature is all that a man brings with him into the world; nurture is every influence from without that affects him after his birth” (Galton, 1874). However, in 1911 a manuscript was found dating back to the thirteenth century which suggested the terms of nature and nurture as well. Previous to this, the philosophers Aristotle and Plato make the assertion of nature and nurture in the period between 428 B.C and 322 B.C. It is hard to speculate when this debate truly began. As the Pendulum Swings Though nature and nurture were speculated on, the debate did not...
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...whole paragraph 15, it is talking about how her Grandma Lily would work as hard as she could, up until she could not work anymore. This developed a central idea of Cultural heritage, the Pueblo people believes you should work until you can no longer…no matter what age you are....
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...lead. He was however, incredulous by the fact that this may not be achieved in the future of the perfect society. To this fact he gives an ingenious riposte, such societies will be under the guardianship of the offspring of the current guardians. That means what the future society will be under the guardianship of a not skill but the benefits of inheritance. In such a society, dissatisfaction is possibly the way of the day. Plato maintained that for dissatisfaction an understanding of the nature of the human being is the answer. That is, people are naturally different and they have where they fit in the society (Philosophyprofessor). In such a situation, they will be able to rule the society. A perfect society, I believe, is one that is distinctive by leaders who have the interests of the society at hand. That is, a society under the reign of guardians who are in favor of the members of the society and their needs. A society that is simply having rulers who have inherited power is liable to doom. This is because, in most cases, such kinds of people not only lack the wisdom to rule, but they are also corrupted by the benefits of inheritance that they become nefarious with power. However, in a situation where someone who has inherited power is able to stand for the wishes of the people then can lead a perfect society. The wishes of the governed should the guiding factor here. It defines what the society stands for and what it aims to...
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...Arguments of Peter Singer PHI200: Mind and Machine (ABT1315A) April 19, 2013 Singer’s goal in the article “Famine, Affluence and Morality” is to get people to think differently about famine relief, charity, and morality. These are key issues that people need to be more aware of and act on them. People who are financially stable and well off should take more of an active role by giving more. They should feel obligated in helping those in need. There are many people suffering severely, those who can help are doing nothing. People should be more willing to give help rather than being obtuse & self-centered. Singer argues it is wrong for a person to suffer from homelessness, hunger, or lack of medical attention. These needs are essential in life and without them can alimentally lead to one’s death. Another argument Singer gives is if a person is wealthy, they are more than capable to help others financially. They need to feel obligated to do so. Instead of a person spending money on extras and materialistic items for themselves, they should donate that money to the poor. The money should help with necessities for the poor and uplift them. On the same point he points out, one should not sacrifice if it would put them in harm’s way. Singer’s concept of marginal utility is that one should give as much as possible to the unfortunate; it should never create a hardship to the giver. This would be doing more harm than good. When a person contributes to the poor...
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...My parents, Bolivian immigrants that moved here to start a new life.To give their 3 children the ability to attain an education and a degree that means something.While living here, my parents worked more than 50 hours a week,my dad working 2 jobs a day, and my mom taking care of us. As growing up my parents always said that there only inheritance they will be leaving us when the pass, is a college education. They highly showed us that hard work in this country is always paid back and rewarded in all sorts of types of ways. Which is something that makes me,me, the amount of work that you put into something is what you're going to get out of it A challenge that really put my parents values they emphasized into effect was in elementary.I wasn't...
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...death toll due to Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Customary laws have been unable to address the problem which suggests that extra- legal interventions might be necessary. Social work intervention is necessary to preserve the widow’s worth and dignity as a human being, which is the principal value of social work. A widow is a woman who has lost a husband by death and has not remarried, according to The South African Concise Oxford Dictionary. Property stripping refers to depriving someone of acquired or inherited movable or immovable possessions that rightfully and legally belong to that person (The South African Concise Oxford Dic tionary; Kuenyehia 2003). This study uses stripping and grabbing interchangeably as refer ring to the same act. Basing their studies in Ikot Idem in Nigeria, Okunmadewa, Aina, Ayoola, Mamman, Nweze, Odebiyi, Shedu and Zacha (2002:106) maintain: [W]omen’s wellbeing often deteriorates quickly after the loss of their husbands, when they suffer threats of both their physical security and property. A widow often loses her husband’s property to the in-laws in accordance with family traditional rules. This study proposes to explore the widows’ experiences of property inheritance in the Binga District, in the North West of Zimbabwe. Economically, people in Binga practice subsistence farming, animal rearing, and gathering natural fruits. People also enjoy the liberty of fishing in the Zambezi River and this...
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...1 Learn Java/J2EE core concepts and key areas With Java/J2EE Job Interview Companion By K.Arulkumaran & A.Sivayini Technical Reviewers Craig Malone Stuart Watson Arulazi Dhesiaseelan Lara D’Albreo Cover Design, Layout, & Editing A.Sivayini Acknowledgements A. Sivayini Mr. & Mrs. R. Kumaraswamipillai 2 Java/J2EE Job Interview Companion Copy Right 2005-2007 ISBN 978-1-4116-6824-9 The author has made every effort in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information. However, information in this book is sold without warranty either expressed or implied. The author will not be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused either directly or indirectly by this book. Please e-mail feedback & corrections (technical, grammatical and/or spelling) to java-interview@hotmail.com First Edition (220+ Q&A): Dec 2005 Second Edition (400+ Q&A): March 2007 3 Outline SECTION DESCRIPTION What this book will do for you? Motivation for this book Key Areas index SECTION 1 Interview questions and answers on: Java Fundamentals Swing Applet Performance and Memory issues Personal and Behavioral/Situational Behaving right in an interview Key Points SECTION 2 Interview questions and answers on: Enterprise Java J2EE Overview Servlet JSP JDBC / JTA JNDI / LDAP RMI EJB JMS XML SQL, Database, and O/R mapping RUP & UML Struts Web and Application servers. Best practices and performance considerations. Testing and deployment. Personal and...
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