41. State whether each of the following payments is a tax. Explain your answers. a. To incorporate his business‚ Alex pays the state of Texas a $2‚000 incorporation fee. The incorporation fee is not a tax. Alex receives a direct benefit from the payment of the fee - the privilege of operating his business as a corporation b. The city paves a road and assesses each property owner on the road $4‚000 for his or her share of the cost. The payment of the assessment is not a tax. The assessment
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Leaders and Followers: The roles we each play Helen Windon NURS-6110-6 The Nurse Leader: New Perspectives on the Profession July 10‚ 2011 Instructor Name Leaders and Followers: The roles we each play Introduction Throughout nursing history there have been great leaders. In every nurses career there are leaders we work with that we come to admire and may even attempt to emulate. As I continue my journey to becoming a Masters prepared nurse I will need to step up as a leader. It is a
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The activity of an entity can be structured into units independent from a budgetary point ofview‚ also called responsibility centers. The responsibility centre may be defined as “a set of elements dependent on each other‚ which form an organized whole‚ having a degree of autonomy in the use and optimization of the resources they possess”. Responsibility centers include: the revenue centre represents the organizational link in w hich the activity is appreciated as value according to the revenue
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“In the context within which you teach explain your role‚ responsibilities and relationships in lifelong learning” The environment‚ or context‚ within which I am teaching is that of the ‘lifelong learning’ sector. This has been defined by the Department of Education and Science1 as “ ... the lifelong‚ voluntary and self motivated pursuit of knowledge for either personal or professional reasons” A key element of the training environment within this sector is recognition of the fact that
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understanding of things better. My parents believe that staying home is a pleasant thing; however my generation assumes that having a social life is an important aspect. Back in my parents’ days‚ social life existed in form of dinners and functions with other families. But these days’ people like to party and dance. Talking about freedom‚ parents always try to prevent kids from travelling and exploring new things. This generation finds exposure to new things a way to gain knowledge and experience such as:
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1. Threat of Substitute In Porter’s model‚ substitute products refer to products in other industries. The price elasticity of a product is influenced by substitute products. As more substitutes become available‚ the demand becomes more elastic since customers have more alternatives. Generally‚ substitute is able to reduce demand for a particular product because there is a threat of consumers switching to the alternatives. (Porter M. 1980) Chains of convenience stores are emerging in the market
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theme I will explore within my chosen poems. Nature is defined as the phenomena of the physical world collectively‚ including plants‚ animals‚ the landscape‚ and other features and products of the earth‚ as opposed to humans or human creations. However this simply states that nature and humans are opposites‚ and one opposes the other. The poems I have chosen question this definition of nature and put it to humankind to answer the question‚ are we one with nature‚ or merely manipulating it to our
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Lab: Spectral Analysis Analysis 1. What causes each line to appear? Each line is able to appear because an excited electron was unstable and had to fall back to a more stable energy level‚ creating energy in the form of light. However‚ to understand this‚ one must understand what causes an electron to be excited. So from the very beginning‚ a person named Max Plank proposed a theory that energy is emitted and absorbed in quantities called “quanta.” Einstein then came along and said that light
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INTRODUCTION What is Culture? Every organisation has its own unique culture based on the values of people who direct that organisation. Overtime it changes according to their preferences or the changing market place conditions. Eventually this influences the decision-making processes‚ the style of management and what everyone determines as success. Interpreting and understanding the organisational culture can both enable and constrain what organisations are able to use to assist change and eliminate
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All throughout the world there are many different genres of music being played and listened to at all time of day. Music has a way of distracting people‚ making them forget about the world and just focus on what makes them happy. Each person has their own taste in music‚ the music that makes them happy. Therefore‚ the songs of the world have defiantly shaped our culture. Would our culture be the same without it? Most people would say “no” because music is a huge part of our culture and without it
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