Barry, J. S. (2015). The New Normal. CPA Journal, 85(3), 5. This informative journal’s purpose is to highlight the need for additional liability insurance for CPAs in public practice. Fast evolving technology poses a higher increase for data breaches. This technology along with people’s unrealistic expectations for what CPAs should be held accountable, is Barry’s reasoning for the additional insurance. To aide CPAs is preventative measures, Barry points out a new program that would decrease
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The Patriot Act, the Two Arguments On September 11, 2001, the United States suffered its most devastating terrorist attack ever. Nearly 3000 lives were lost in the synchronized assaults on the Pentagon, New York City World Trade Center, and a downed plane in the fields of Pennsylvania. In response, Congress enacted The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, and signed into law by President George W. Bush on October
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“In spite of difficulties ahead, in spite of the fact that we must work hard, I still have faith in the future. And I still have faith in America because I love America and I believe that we will continue to build a coalition of conscience that one day we will solve this problem” (King 1). According to Dr. Martin Luther King, in his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, Americans have to work together to accomplish their American Dream. Even though many people go through a lot of hard times, it should
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After the narrator gives us information that they were Republicans and Catholics, he says, “For us, Ireland was not only the utopian future and the intolerable present; it was a bitter and loving mythology, it was the circular towers and red bogs” (214). “[U]topian” is a word that average 7th graders won’t know. Most people can guess that it means perfect or good, but not in a social or political way. This can affect the understanding because they don’t know how it’s describing the future. Also, usually
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observed carrying their dead offspring. This is most likely a direct byproduct of the attachment systems. “Giving up too soon would be such a serious error that the system is designed to maintain proximity even long after an infant is dead” (Nesse 2005, 214). So, in animals, it is advantageous to form attachment systems with the living, even with the price of loosing energy searching for or carrying a dead kin
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Simple events include tossing a head or tossing a tail. (b) Joint events include tossing two heads (HH), a head followed by a tail (HT), a tail followed by a head (TH), and two tails (TT). (c) Tossing a tail on the first toss 4.2 (a) Simple events include selecting a red ball. (b) Selecting a white ball 4.3 (a) 30/90 = 1/3 = 0.33 (b) 60/90 = 2/3 = 0.67 (c) 10/90 = 1/9 = 0.11 (d) 4.4 (a) 60/100 = 3/5 = 0.6 (b) 10/100 = 1/10 = 0.1 (c) 35/100 = 7/20 = 0.35 (d) 4.5 (a) A
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History 214 May 30, 2014 Michael Kent Ward, “Teaching Indigenous American Culture and History: Perpetuating Knowledge or Furthering Intellectual Colonization?”, Journal of Social Sciences 7 (2): 104-112, 2011.doi 10.3844/jssp.2011.104.112 This article was interesting but very hard to read. Mr. Ward imposed some great questions about the way we learn Native American history, but in my opinion never answered them. While I agreed with his main argument, “.. everyone involved (teachers
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his own self-identity. (A process that many adolescent faces.) As described before the passage, being realistic about his identity makes him feel bitter. Jack doesn’t approve of himself and rather identify himself as another person. On page 213 and 214, Jack is writing his own recommendation letters from his “teachers” to get accepted by prep schools. After the passage, he describes how he and his friend would fight each other. Here, Wolff explores the theme of self-identity through hyperbole, humor
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Analysis & interpretation of financial statements – Ratio Analysis 1 Ratio Analysis Application • Ratio analysis is a means to an end. The end being to understand a company’s results for a year using its financial statements. • Ratio analysis may highlight unusual results or clarify trends, enabling various users of accounts to make informed decisions relating to the company. • For ratios to be useful, comparisons must be made - on a year to year basis, or between companies. On their own
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“The emerging epidemics of obesity in developing countries”, Retrieved on July 9th, 2012 from: http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/35/1/93.short Aboulnasr, K. (2010, January 1). Gender Differences in the Processing of Nutrition Information on Food Products. Journal of Academy of Business and Economics, 47, 528-556. Aggett, PJ et al. (2005) PASSCLAIM Process for the Assessment of Scientific Support for Claims on Foods: Consensus on Criteria. Eur J Clin Nut 44 (Suppl 1), pp. 1-30. Alice T. Yang
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