...Out of the Ordinary, the Wife of Bath. Novelist and philosopher C. Joy Bell, author of “Saint Paul Trois Chateaux” and “Sun is snowing” once said, “I don’t fit into any stereotype and I like myself that way” (Bell). This is the exact description of the Wife of Bath as she is the kind of person that stands out from the rest. Although she comes from the medieval period, she has characteristics of a modern woman such as power and affluence. During the medieval period, women were viewed as subordinate creatures to men. A typical medieval woman married and began raising children soon after reaching puberty. Husbands had full control over their wives and a wife had to be loyal to her husband and obey him at all times. Blewitt described this saying; “A wife . . . must please her husband and be totally obedient to him, even when he is unjust and violent” (Blewitt 662). A woman’s sole purpose was to bear children, ". . . a wife's first duty was to provide her husband with an heir, and she could be divorced if she were barren"(Rhinesmith 601). They remained largely indoors, having no true chance to receive a formal education or hold economic or social power. The Wife of Bath is a complete opposite of the typical medieval woman. Although she married early, she is not under the control of any man. In fact, she uses sexual power to control her husbands by depriving them of sex in order to get what she wants. Another thing that distinguishes her from the typical medieval woman is that she...
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...Question 2 10 out of 10 points | | | A company declares a 4% share dividend when there are 4.0 million ordinary shares when the current market price is $1 per share. Which of the following will be the effect of the share dividend?Answer | | | | | Correct Answer: | Retained earnings will decrease by $.16 million and contributed capital will increase by $0.16 million | | | | | * Question 3 10 out of 10 points | | | Which of the following represents the maximum shares of shares issuable to the public?Answer | | | | | Correct Answer: | Authorised shares | | | | | * Question 4 10 out of 10 points | | | From an investor's viewpoint, in today's litigious environment, what would be considered the most advantageous characteristic of the corporate form of organisation?Answer | | | | | Correct Answer: | Limited liability for shareholders | | | | | * Question 5 10 out of 10 points | | | Which of the following is a sound reason for issuing a share dividend (select the best answer)?Answer | | | | | Correct Answer: | To maintain dividend consistency and capitalise retained earnings | | | | | * Question 6 10 out of 10 points | | | Which of the following is a requirement that must be fulfilled in order to declare and pay a cash dividend (select the best answer)?Answer | | | | | Correct Answer: | Sufficient cash and retained earnings | | | | | * Question 7 10 out of 10 points...
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...Professor Brown The Holocaust: History and Memory April 23, 2012 Ordinary Men In Christopher R. Browning’s Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and The Final Solution in Poland, Browning describes the story of how “ordinary men” were placed in an extraordinary situation that forever changed these men’s lives. Browning’s novel focuses on the role of the German Order Police, more specifically Reserve Battalion 101, and how they played a small, yet significant role in carrying out Hitler’s “Final Solution.” By focusing on the unit of Reserve Battalion 101, Browning aims to shed some light on how a battalion of less than 500 men could cause the deaths of nearly 83,000 Jews in the span of less than a year. Through his research, Browning illustrates how these men were not cold-blooded killers recruited for such a job, but rather a group of “ordinary” middle-aged men shaped by the situation at hand to carry out unspeakable acts all in search of a judenfrei world. When analyzing Browning’s work, the question of who were the men of Reserve Battalion 101 must first be answered. Originality, the main task of Reserve Battalion 101 was to aid in the “Germanizing” of Germany’s newly acquired regions, such as Poland, through deportations of the “undesirables” to the “east.” Places like the Łódź ghetto became the new homes for hundreds of thousands of Polish Jews, forced to live in sealed-off communities. Between November 1940 and May 1941, Reserve battalion 101 was assigned...
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...The Ordinary Men in “Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland” Name of Student Name of Instructor Name of Institution Date Submitted The Ordinary Men in “Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland” Introduction The book “Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland” was published in 1992. The book is written by Christopher Browning. It talks about the Holocaust, which involved the killing of the Jewish people by the Nazis. The event took place between 1942 and 1943. The book is mainly based on the findings of a study conducted on the causative factors made evident in the testimonies of people serving in German Reserve Unit 101. The study was carried out in the 1960s. The Police Battalion 101 was ordered to massacre and deport Jews living in Poland. At the time, the country was occupied by the Germans. The German legal investigations involved 210 of the men 20 years later. The investigations looked into war crimes in order to press charges against certain members of the government. The men who carried out these atrocities were middle-aged. Their average age was 39 years (Browning 48). Surprisingly, they seemed to have voluntarily taken part in the exercise. The reason is that none of them was coerced to participate in the killings. The men would end up following the orders given in spite of the fact that they were contrary to what they deemed right. In this paper, the author...
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...Judith Guest’s novel, Ordinary People, and movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, directed by Milos Forman, both share a number of traits that correlate with one another . Such traits include vulnerability, perfection, and emotional imbalance. Both Ordinary People and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest captivate the emotions of the audience by addressing these three traits through a point of view, setting, and imagery. Since Ordinary People has two perspectives of a father and son, the point of view in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest focuses on Nurse Ratched’s confrontation with Billy. Furthermore, the vulnerability that Con develops after the death of his brother also applies to Billy when Nurse Ratched humiliated him in front of the other...
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...us (the "Funds") will provide £● alongside investment by other venture capital funds or financial institutions (together the "Investors"). We will act as lead equity investor. 2 The investment will be at a fully diluted pre-money valuation of £● , including employee share options (both granted or committed) equal to ●% of the fully diluted equity. The investment will represent a ●% shareholding for the Investors on a fully diluted basis, following an expansion of the share option pool as detailed in paragraph 2.4. The current capitalisation of the Company is set out in Part I of Appendix 1 and the capitalisation of the Company after this proposed funding is set out in Part 2 of Appendix 1. 3 The investment will be made in the form of convertible participating [redeemable] preferred shares ("Preferred Shares") at a price of £● per Preferred Share (the "Original Issue Price") the terms of which are set out in Appendix 2. 4 [The investment will be made in full at completion.]/ [The investment will be staged with ●% being invested at completion (the "First Tranche") and ●% being invested subsequently (the "Second Tranche"). [The Investors will have the right, but not the obligation, to subscribe for the Second Tranche at the same price per share as the First Tranche at any time.] [Provided that the performance milestones referred to in paragraph 2.6 have been met, the board of directors of the Company (the "Board") will have the right to call the Second Tranche...
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...PRIVATE AND PUBLIC COMPANIES A company is any entity engaging in business, such as a proprietorship, partnership, or corporation. A company is a private company if by its Regulations, it fulfills the following conditions: • Where it is a company registered with shares, there is a restriction of the right to transfer shares • The total number of members and debenture holders do not exceed 50. This number excludes genuine employees and ex-employees of the company who became members or debenture holders during their employment, and continued to be so after their employment. The exclusion of employees is designed to enable companies to institute co-partnerships schemes without forfeiting their private status • The company is prohibited from making of any public invitations for the acquisition of its shares and debentures • The company is prohibited from making an invitation to the public to deposit money for fixed periods or payable at call, whether interest-bearing or not. Any other company is a public company. PUBLIC COMPANY A company which has issued securities through an offering, and which are now traded on the open market. also called publicly held or publicly traded. opposite of private company. A company that has issued securities through an initial public offering (IPO) and is traded on at least one stock exchange or in the over the counter market. Although a small percentage of shares may be initially "floated" to the public, the act of becoming a...
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...Magical realism is a serious fiction that conveys the different realities of a person or community in a way that the magical and the ordinary are seamlessly blended in one. There are many elements an author utilizes to create this type of fiction. Magical realist authors aim to write the ordinary as miraculous and uncover a reality of people or communities that are outside of the objective norm. Although magical realism is very similar to other genres of fiction, it has individual characteristics and elements that categorize it separately from fantasy. Authors of magical realism tend to use the literary device of personification to have ordinary objects and settings within their story, take on lives of their own in a way that is seen as normal to the characters. During the novel, Bless Me Ultima by...
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...Ordinary Men Christopher Browning’s book, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, examines how ordinary men in Reserve Police Battalion became such cruel, cold-blooded killers. During World War II, the Police Battalion 101 helped cleanse out Poland as part of the Final Solution. The Final Solution was Nazi Germany’s plan to execute all European Jews during the World War II. Most of the Battalion 101 were made up of working class or lower middle class from Hamburg area, with majority of them falling in the age between 37 to 42, which “would not seem to have been a very promising group from which to recruit mass murderers on behalf of the Nazi vision of a racial utopia free of Jews” (Browning, pg.48). As ordinary as the men of the Battalion 101 were, the question remains how most men in the Battalion became killers and what caused this behavior. Browning cities several theories to how such ordinary men could commit such atrocities, such as “wartime brutalization, racism, segmentation, and routinization of the task, special selection of the perpetrators, careerism, obedience to orders, deference to authority, ideological indoctrination, and conformity” (Browning, pg.159). Out of these theories, conformity is the most important reason how the ordinary men in the Police Battalion 101 became killers. The Reserve Police Battalion 101 was a group of ordinary men from Hamburg, with most men not having any experience in any kind of military...
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...Question 1 To first determine if RPL has any sort of tax implications regarding the profit they made during the 2017/18 tax year we must first find out if the company was in fact a business; we can find out the definition of a business from s995-1(1) ITAA 1997 and is defined as “any profession, trade, employment, vocation or calling, but does not include occupation as an employee”. To determine if they are a business in the first place, we can do so by successfully meeting atleast one of three criteria’s; - There was a plan - Goal of profit - Commercial approach As we can clearly see there was a definite intention to make a profit as they had purchased a low-end house, renovated it and then rented for a high price (later selling for a large...
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...company’s share is undervalued or overvalued. * EPS is used in earnings yields calculations which interests shareholders. * Used by shareholders to estimate future growth The formula for calculating EPS is as below; Earnings EPS =-____________________________________ Weighted Number of Ordinary shares Example to illustrate EPS Assume that a company has a net income of $25 million. If the company pays out $1 million in preferred dividends and has 10 million shares for half of the year and 15 million shares for the other half, then EPS would be given by; Net Income ($25m) – Preference Dividend ($1m) EPS = __________________________________________________ Weighted average (0.5 x 10m+ 0.5 x 15m) EPS= (24/12.5) EPS = $1.94 The International Accounting Standards (IAS), IAS 33 defines two EPS figures and sets out how both should be calculated. The two are namely; * Basic EPS (BEPS) based on ordinary shares currently in issue; and * Diluted EPS (DEPS) based on ordinary shares currently in issue plus potential ordinary shares. Basic earnings per share is calculated by dividing the net profit or loss for the period attributable to ordinary shareholders by the weighted average...
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...Catherine Morland was born to be a heroine. We all have a stereotyped image of the hero or heroine. Yet in Jane Austen's Northhanger Abbey, Morland was shown to be an extraordinarily ordinary girl. She does not display the characteristics of a great hero or heroine that we have all come to aspect. Through the use of imagery and paradox, we, the reader, are shown an ordinary young girl who grows into an extraordinary women. The passage opens with a description of the family Morland was born into. A respectable clergyman of a father, a simple mother, and ten children, we are given the image of a standard, middle class family with a few extra children to look. One that most of us can relate to, but don't really image as a breeding ground for greatness....
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...income or a capital receipt? If the lump sum is a receipt for the disposal of a capital asset s. 6-5 of the ITAA should not apply as it is not ordinary income. The lump sum will be income under s. 6-5 if the disposal of the property can be viewed as occurring in the ordinary course of the taxpayer’s business or income earning activities. To determine whether the proceeds are income, as distinct from a capital receipt, regard should be had to all of the facts of the particular case, since no one fact is likely to be conclusive. In particular, the following facts need to be considered: 1. The business or profession of the taxpayer. If his or her business or profession is such that such disposals are reasonably incidental to the conduct of such a business or profession, the lump sum is more likely to be viewed as income; the periodicity, regularity and repetition of such contracts. If contracts for the disposal of copyright are frequently entered into, it is more likely that the payment is income and not the mere realisation of a capital asset; and the existence of a profit motive. If the taxpayer’s substantial or dominant purpose in disposing of the copyright was to derive a profit, the receipt is more likely to be income. However, if the taxpayer is carrying on a business, and the receipt is extraordinary when judged in relation to the ordinary course of that business, the receipt may still be income if the principle in Federal Commissioner of Taxation v. Myer Emporium Ltd 87 ATC 4363...
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...WHICH MAY LEAD TO DISMISSAL APPROVED BY: Question 1 The following are the summarized accounts and financial information in respect of Ameen Berhad. Income Statement for the Year Ended 31 December 2007 RM Revenue: Net sales Dividend income Interest income Total revenue and gains Costs and expenses: Cost of sales Operating expenses (including depreciation) Interest expense Income Taxes RM 7,678,000 120,000 102,000 7,900,000 4,582,000 1,479,000 260,000 520,000 Total cost, expenses and losses Net Income (6,841,000) 1,059,000 Additional information on the balances for non-current assets, non-current liabilities and equity: 31 Dec. 2007 RM 2,344,000 31 Dec. 2006 RM 1,788,000 690,000 Nil Ordinary shares of 50 sen each (Note 7) 1,400,000 1,000,000 Reserves (Note 8) 1,271,000 262,000 Nil 400,000 439,000 400,000 Property, plant and equipment (Note 6) Investment 10% Convertible Debentures (Note 7) Deferred tax Other Information: 1. 2. 3. 4. Trade receivable increased by RM111,000 whereas inventory increased by RM261,000. Trade payable decreased by RM116,000 and accrued operating expenses increased by RM50,000. Interest payable increased by RM15,000 whereas income...
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...the world a better place and to make a difference that people will remember and to leave an imprint on the world. Shakespeare once wrote, “One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.” Although the typical villains in movies are easy to pick out - they're the ones wearing black and wreaking havoc - real-life villains are much harder to identify. Villains are often antisocial, wicked and...
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