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The Power Of Good And Evil in Flannery OConnors A Good...

The Power Of Good And Evil in Flannery OConnors A Good Man is Hard to Find Good and bad. Right and wrong. Guilty and Innocent. These are just a few of the many themes that surround everyones life. Everyone has their own opinion about certain issues, and they depend on their values, judgment, and beliefs to see them through their difficulties. Flannery OConnor was quoted as saying I see from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. This means the meaning of life is centered in our Redemption by Christ and that what I see in the world I see in relation to that (Contemporary Authors 402). These themes are present in OConnors story A Good Man is Hard to Find. The story is about a grandmother, a good woman who goes on†¦show more content†¦. . . Her writing is about the existential struggle with the principle of destruction traditionally called the Devil (Contemporary Authors 403). The day of the trip Grandma is the first packed and ready to go. She does not want to leave the cat because as she says, he would miss her too much (O?Connor 907). This comment would suggest that the grandmother thinks highly of herself and is believes she is the most important person in the family. While everyone else is in comfortable travel clothes, Grandma is dressed formally. She had on a navy blue straw sailor hat with a bunch of white violets on the brim and a navy dress with a small white dot in the print (O?Connor 907). Both incidents are prime examples that show the grandmother?s behavior. We see that the grandmother is selfish and uncaring. She claims that she is a good person, yet she criticizes everyone and always wants to get her way. She hides the cat and lies about it to her son; she did not consider how anyone would feel about her bringing the cat. Yet, on the other hand she is very concerned with social opinion. She is dressed nicely, her excuse is that in case of an accident anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know that she was a lady (O?Connor 907). This shows that the grandmother was very concerned with people?s opinion. She acted proper, had strong virtues, values; a good woman in her view. But she was a self- centered person who judged others harshly, so that she would look good.Show MoreRelated Flannery OConnors A Good Man is Hard To Find Essay1144 Words   |  5 PagesFlannery O’Connor’s A Good Man Is Hard to Find is one of the most well-known short stories in American history. A Good Man Is Hard to Find is a disturbing short story that exemplifies grace in extremity as well as the threat of an intruder. The story tells of an elderly grandmother and her family who embark on a road trip to Florida. The grandmother is a stubborn old woman with a low sense of morality. 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Taxation Indirect Sources and Resident

Question: Describe about the Taxation for Indirect Sources and Resident. Answer: 1:-Tax Consequences of Mary Jackson:- Mary Jackson is assumed to be an Australian resident and all her incomes, earned from direct or indirect sources within or outside Australia are assessable under Australian Taxation Act. Mary is an employee under Elite Retail and ordinary source of income is mainly the salary and other allowances, paid by her employee (Anthoine 2013). Apart from the salary and allowances, her employee provides her other benefits also. Benefits, provided by the employee, are also taxable for the individual taxpayer. However, some of the benefits are not considered as assessable income and she can claim deductions against some of the deductions and allowances (Arthur 2016). The tax consequences of Mary Jackson for the salary, allowances and benefits, received by her, are discussed below: 1) The annual salary of Mary is fully taxable. 2) The expenses for transfer of furniture, paid by her employer, are taxable also. However, she cannot claim any deduction for the actual expenses, incurred for transferring the furniture (Baos-Caballero et al. 2014). 3) Elite Retail has given the laptop and mobile phone to Mary for work purpose. The costs of these items will not be considered as taxable for Sharon. 4) The telephone bill of Mary, paid by her employer, will be considered as fringe benefit for Mary and should be included in her taxable income. She can claim deduction for the 50% of the telephone bill, as 50% of the telephone usage was work related (Bull 2014). 5) The car was provided to Mary for work purpose. Therefore, it will not be considered for taxable income and any deductions will not be entitled to Mary for the car expenses also. 6) The allowance, received by Mary, for covering professional subscription is an assessable income. However, she can claim deduction for the actual payment, made for professional subscription (Burkhauser et al. 2015). 7) The loan, given at lower interest rate by the employer, is a fringe benefit. In this case, Mary has taken loan from her employer at lower rate. Therefore, the difference between the actual interest and interest, payable at benchmark rate, is assessable for taxation of Mary. However, she can claim deduction on the actual interest on the loan, as the loan was used for financing new property (Danis et al. 2014). Tax Consequences for Elite Retails:- Being an employer, Elite Retails can claim deductions for the expenses, incurred for the employees and other benefits, provided to the employees (Headey et al. 2012). However, the expenses should be claim for deductions under different sections as per the nature of the expenses. The details of allowable deductions are discussed below: 1) Salaries wages, paid by any employer, is deductible as work related expenses for taxation purpose. The company can claim deduction for Marys annual salary as work related expense from the taxable income (Taylor and Richardson 2012). 2) The expenses, paid by the company, for transfer of Marys Furniture is a living away from home allowance fringe benefit, which is paid to employees for the additional expenses, incurred in case of transfer. The company is entitled to claim this expense as a fringe benefit (Hung et al. 2013). 3) Expenses, incurred for entertainment, is not considered for deductions in case of the companies. However, in some scenarios, the companies can claim deduction for the entertainment expenses, incurred for clients, as entertainment fringe benefits (Tauringana and Adjapong Afrifa 2013). If Mary incurred the entertainment allowance entirely for the clients and fulfilled the conditions, required for entertainment fringe benefits, then, the company can claim deduction for such allowances (Jiang and Junmin 2015). 4) The costs of laptop and mobile phone provided to Mary, can be claimed by the company as work related expenses. 5) The phone bill, paid on behalf of Mary, is an expense payment fringe benefit. The company can claim this benefit fully. 6) The company can claim deduction against the expenses, incurred for the car, provided to the employee for her private or employment purpose. However, the company can claim for the operating or running expenses of the car only (Kiyotaki and Moore 2012). In the case study, no such expenses are mentioned. Hence, in this case, the company will be allowed deduction for the depreciation on the car as car expenses. 7) The allowance, paid to Mary for covering professional subscription, can be claimed as deduction under residual fringe benefit. 8) If the employer provides loan to employer at lower rate in comparison to benchmark interest rate, then it will be considered as loan fringe benefit. In this case, Elite Retail can claim deduction for the loan, provided to Mary also as loan fringe benefit (Taylor and Richardson 2013). 2:- Net Capital Profit under Normal Circumstances:- Scott is deemed a resident of Australia who is not involved in real estate trading. For this reason, the land and thee buildings are deemed his personal possession other than the trading stocks. The capital gain or loss generated from sale of Scotts building, this is computed based on the below mentioned aspects: The land was purchased before the date of 20 September 1985. For this reason, it can be considered to be a pre CGT asset as well as the lands sale will remain exempted under the taxation regulations of CGT (Krever and Mellor 2016). The building was constructed after the date 20 September 1985 and for the reason it must be considered as asset under post CGT asset. This will be computed based on the proportionate price of selling of just the building. Considering this, the buildings price of selling is deemed to be $320000 [$800000 x $60000/($60000+$90000)]. For the reason that the building was constructed before the year 20 September 1999, the buildings cost base might be determined in account to the indexation technique. Conversely, considering Scott as an individual it can be stated that he can be capable to apply discounted technique for computation of net CGT (Rognlie 2016). In this scenario, he must compute CGT under the two methods and chosen technique, this will result in decreased amount of tax. In consideration to the aforementioned aspects, the net capital loss or gain on the rental property sale that is computed under: Name of Taxpayer : Scott Type : Individual Calculation of Net Capital Gain/Loss for the period ending on 30th June,2016 Discounted Method Indexation Method Particulars Amount Amount Amount Amount $ $ $ $ a) Sale of Holiday Home : Sales Consideration 320000 320000 Less : Cost Base of the Property 60000 97055 Capital Gain on Sale 260000 222945.4 Less : 50% Exemption on Capital Gain 130000 Taxable Capital Gain (A) 130000 222945 Considering the above table, it is observed that Fred needs to pay decreased tax if he implements discounted technique. For this reason, the net capital gain of Freds rental property sales for the recent year s observed to be $130000. Net Capital Profit under Alternative Solution 1:- In case Scott decides to sell its property at a decreased price to his daughter, then the consideration of the sales for the purpose of taxation will be realized based on the acquired propertys value within market. Considering that, the property was decided to be sold at an auction, for this reason, the selling price on auction can be observed to remain under the buildings market price (Plummer 2016). In such scenario, the property sales net capital profit to his daughter will remain identical as above. Reference List Anthoine, R. ed., 2013.Tax incentives for private investment in developing countries. Springer Science Business Media. Arthur, G., 2016. Tax files: Taxation duties of executors.Bulletin (Law Society of South Australia),38(2), p.28. Baos-Caballero, S., Garca-Teruel, P.J. and Martnez-Solano, P., 2014. Working capital management, corporate performance, and financial constraints.Journal of Business Research,67(3), pp.332-338. Bull, R.J., 2014.Accounting in business. Butterworth-Heinemann. Burkhauser, R.V., Hahn, M.H. and Wilkins, R., 2015. Measuring top incomes using tax record data: A cautionary tale from Australia.The Journal of Economic Inequality,13(2), pp.181-205. Danis, A., Rettl, D.A. and Whited, T.M., 2014. Refinancing, profitability, and capital structure.Journal of Financial Economics,114(3), pp.424-443. Headey, B., Krause, P., Wagner, G. and Joint, O.E.C.D., 2012. Poverty redefined as low consumption and low wealth, not just low income: psychological consequences in Australia and Germany.Counting the Poor. New Thinking about European Poverty Measures and Lessons for the United States. International Policy Exchange Series. Oxford.[im Erscheinen]. Hung, W.S., Chen, H.C., Chung, Y.C., Li, R.K. and Tsai, C.H., 2013. Application of Profit Level Analysis to Verify Product Mix Impacts on Net Profit Changes.International Journal of Academic Research in Economics and Management Sciences,2(1), p.224. JIANG, X. and Junmin, W.U., 2015. Discussion on the Difference Between the Business Model and Profit Model.International Business and Management,10(2), pp.16-21. Kiyotaki, N. and Moore, J., 2012.Liquidity, business cycles, and monetary policy(No. w17934). National Bureau of Economic Research. Krever, R. and Mellor, P., 2016. Australia, GAARsA Key Element of Tax Systems in the Post-BEPS Tax World.GAARsA Key Element of Tax Systems in the Post-BEPS Tax World (Amsterdam: IBFD, 2016), pp.45-64. Plummer, W., 2016. Tax consolidation update: Still grappling with these rules?.Tax Specialist,19(5), p.209. Rognlie, M., 2016. Deciphering the Fall and Rise in the Net Capital Share: Accumulation or Scarcity?.Brookings papers on economic activity,2015(1), pp.1-69. Tauringana, V. and Adjapong Afrifa, G., 2013. The relative importance of working capital management and its components to SMEs' profitability.Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development,20(3), pp.453-469. 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Cultural Conservation Essay Example For Students

Cultural Conservation Essay One problem with Cultural Conservation Essay: To put it simply, and its not a problems that only conservatives very often confuse (or conflate ethics and aesthetics. When Gertrude Himmererfarf lambastes out (as she perceives it) amoral, sexually deviant and polymorpously perverse culture she is primarily responding to something that she finds culturally foreign and aesthetically threatening. I agree with her that values are oftentimes a good thing, but only when they are born of an ethical and pragmatic perspective, not an aesthetic one. The conservatives want a seemingly neat and compartment society wherein stable appearances are maintained and archaic cultural archetypes are adhered to religiously. I grew up in a world of cultural archetypes. I grew up with white businessmen going to office buildings while their wives stayed at home and their kids went to school. or , more accurately, I grew up with alcoholic, adulterous business men who lives culturally insular lives while their wives took sedatives and smoked cigarettes and vented their frustrations on there kids, and these same kids took reams of drugs, got abortions, drove drunk, and victimized the weaklings. I grew up in what most conservatives would consider a utopia; lots of money, prestige, cultural cohesion, and good conservative values. But their values were in fact aesthetics, and maintaining these aesthetics ruled and ruined their lives. Almost everyone in this suburban bourgeoisie system hated their lives, but because they had been brought up to worship aesthetic myths they felt that to question them was an admission of personal failure. What are these myths? theyre old and platitudinal but Ill trot on them again: thats money makes you happy, that society is right and that poverty is bad, that maintaining convention in every aspect of your life is the ultimate good, that aberrance from these ideas is sin. ect. Im not going to say that the polar opposites of the clich;s is true, that would be one of the failings of the radical left. I believe that for the most part these criteria are irrelevant. Money can make life easier, but it also can make life miserable. Poverty can be bad but it can also be fine. Convention has some good points and some bad points. What it all comes down to is flexibility that should allow for the well being of the individual without compromising the rights of other individuals. When conservatives trot out their litany of evils-homosexuality, single parent families, multiculturalism, ect. Im always asking why?. If people are happy being gay then whets wrong with that? it may be a lifestyle thats aesthetically different from what weve been brought up with, but so what? and single parent families? better a loving single parent family than a conventional family wherein the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue. One reason that we have such a wide variety of alternative lifestyles is that the conventional lifestyles that the conservatives champion are often quite flawed and restrictive. Restrictive mores can be terrific when applied to peoples violent impulses, but restrictiveness is terribly unhealthy when its used to get people to conform to arbitrate social archetypes. This restrictiveness can make people feel inadequate and inferior and it needs to be done away with. If someones gay, let them be gay. If your son wants to marry a black woman (or white or yellow or Muslim) then let the,. We need to love each other and support each other even if we choose to live in alternatives but harmless ways. Obviously if your son is a rapist or a wifebeater or a child molester then you need to question your support of his actions and values. Im not championing a retreat for responsibility. PRO-GAY MARRIAGE IN AMERICA Essay I believe that personal and social well being is built upon and foundation of hard work, loyalty, honesty, diligence, respect, tolerance, and other good values. But it doesnt matter what the cultural manifestation of the values looks like. It can be straight or gay or male or female or black or white or anything as long as its respectful and makes the practitioner feel well. So my advise to cultural conservatives (and others) would be to cultivate an approach to values based on principles rather than aesthetics. I would also like to say that any pronouncements on the values of others, especially pronouncements veering into the pre-scriptive realm, need to be cautious, pragmatic, logical and not just the typically hateful and reactionary vacuities that weve grown so accustomed to. .