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For this essay, you will explore the key concepts of ethnocentrism and cultural relativism and relate them to events in the real world.
Instructions:

1. Find a NEWS article that addresses an example of ethnocentrism. (A news article is an article from a media source like a newspaper or magazine tsuch as the New York Times, FOX, The Washington Post, VICE, etc. that addresses a current event. It does not include sources like Wikipedia, eHow, dictionaries, academic journals, or other information websites.)
2. Write a 300 word essay that answers the following questions:
   1. What is culture?
   2. What are ethnocentrism and cultural relativism?
   3. How does the artlcle you chose exemplify the ethnocentrism at work in the world today, and how would a cultural relativistic approach improve the situation?
3. Discuss with details and tie the findings in the article to what you learned.
4. Your essay should be:
   • A total of 300 words or more.
   • Written in complete sentences and paragraphs.
   • Proof-read for clarity.
   • Use factual information from the textbook and/or appropriate articles and websites.
   • Original work and will be checked for plagiarism.
   • Cite your sources – type references according to the APA Style Guide.
     • Essays without proper citations and/or large portions copied from other sources will receive a zero.

Problems: Chapter 8-53 (Janice Morgan) South-Western’s Federal Taxation, Comprehensive Volume (2021). Prepare the Tax Return for 2020.

Changes to Problem: Change all year-ends to one year later; that is, 2019 becomes 2020.

The following information should be helpful in your preparation of the tax return.

(1) (a) Requirement: Prepare the federal income tax return on the appropriate IRS forms. (Even if you use a software program, you must turn in manual entries on IRS forms.) Copies of those forms and instructions are available at www.irs.gov

(b) Additional Requirements: Prepare a brief top sheet summarizing the factual information in the format of the tax formula.

(2) Strategy: You might want to start with page 1 of the 1040 and manually make entries (pencil recommended). You may then need to do subsidiary forms (e.g., Schedules C). You might also want to work out the figures for the tax formula roughly first before beginning the return.

(3) Check figures:

Adjusted gross income 20,263 Itemized deductions 12,650
Taxable income  6,090   None of SE tax is deferred
(4) Check forms:  (please include in your return):

(5)  Grading:

a. Per the syllabus, this manual return is 16% of the grade; i.e., 40 points, since the four exams are worth 75 points each of the 400 possible points.
b. Actual maximum, manual return, 43 points (3 points extra credit)
c. Forms: 1040 pages 1 and 2; Schedules 1, 2, 3, A, B, C, SE; Forms 8995 and 4562 ****** i need all forms filled out**********

(6)  Additional helpful information:

a. Please use the sequence numbers in the upper right-hand corner of the official IRS forms for the proper order
b. Do not calculate next year’s estimates or any late filing penalty or interest.
c. There is a QBI deduction on Form 1040, page 1, line 10.
Tax return problem is down below:
Janice Morgan, age 24, is single and has no dependents. She is a freelance writer. In January 2019, Janice opened her own office located at 2751 Waldham Road, Pleasant Hill, NM 88135. She called her business Writers Anonymous. Janice is a cash basis taxpayer. She lives at 132 Stone Avenue, Pleasant Hill, NM 88135. Her Social Security number is 123-45-6782. Janice’s parents continue to provide health insurance for her under their policy. Janice did not engage in any virtual currency transactions during the year and wants to contribute to the Presidential Election Campaign Fund.
During 2019, Janice reported the following income and expense items connected with her business.
Income from sale of articles  $85,000
Rent                                    16,500
Utilities                                  7,900
Supplies                               1,800
Insurance                              5,000
Travel (including meals of $1,200)     3,500
Janice purchased and placed in service the following fixed assets for her business. Janice wants to elect immediate expensing under § 179, if possible.

• Furniture and fixtures (new) costing $21,000 on January 10
• Computer equipment (new) costing $12,400 on July 28

Janice’s itemized deductions include:
State income tax $2,950
Home mortgage interest paid to First National Bank 6,000
Property taxes on home2,500
Charitable contribution to her alma mater, State College 1,200
Janice did not keep a record of the sales tax she paid. The amount allowed by the sales tax table is $437.
Janice reports interest income of $4,000 on certificates of deposit at Second National Bank. Janice makes estimated tax payments of $3,000 for 2019.
Compute Janice Morgan’s 2019 Federal income tax payable (or refund due). If you use tax forms for your computations, you will need Forms 1040, 4562, 8995, and Schedules 1, 2, 3, A, B, C, and SE. Suggested software: ProConnect Tax Online.

Review the following power point and follow these guidelines:
Objective: To critically replicate you’re thoughtful of the readings and your competence to rub on them to your Health care ethics.
ASSIGNMENT GUIDELINES (10%):
Students will judgmentally appraise the readings from Chapter 9 on your textbook. This assignment is intended to help you assessment, examination, and spread over the readings to your healthcare ethics as well as become the foundation for all of your remaining assignments.
You need to read the article (in the additional weekly reading resources localize in the Syllabus and also in the Lectures link) assigned for week 1 and develop a 2-3-page paper reflecting your appreciative and ability to apply the readings to your ethics. Each paper must be typewritten with 12-point font and double-spaced with standard margins. Follow APA format 7thEdition, when referring to the selected articles and include a reference page.
EACH PAPER SHOULD INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:
1. Introduction (25%) Provide a short-lived summary of the undertone (not a description) of each Chapter and articles you read, in your own words.
2. Your Critique (50%)
*What is your response to the content of Chapter 9?
*What did you absorb about Ethics and Safe patient handling?Mention and explain two examples where you can apply them.
* What are the ethics arguments for advocacy on SPHM programs and behaviors?
*For the Professional role you have right now: what are the implications of this chapter for you?
3. Conclusion (15%)
Fleetingly recapitulate your thoughts & postulation to your analysis of the articles and Chapter you read.  How did these articles and Chapters impact your thoughts about the principles of ethics?

 Submit the final version of your paper for Final Project One, which includes all critical elements (introduction, profile, and conclusion) within a single document. It should be a complete, polished artifact containing all of the critical elements of the final product. It should reflect the incorporation of feedback gained throughout the course.
I have attached my paper on Southwest Airlines. This paper needs the POLC framework ( planning, organizing, leading, and controlling facets of management) added.  Along with making sure the “critical elements” guidelines are followed on pages 2 & 3 which is attached.
Submit assignment as a Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins with APA format in-text citations and references.

Big Data Project Proposal
· Titanic Data Set
– On the internet there is a data set available, providing the data on all the passengers who were aboard the RMS Titanic when it sank on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg in the North Atlantic ocean. Resulting in the death of 1502 out of 2224 passengers and crew.
– With 891 rows and 12 columns, this data set provides a combination of variables based on personal characteristics such as age, class of ticket and sex.
– While there was some luck involved in surviving, it seems some groups of people were more likely to survive than others.
– The purpose of the project would be to create a model that predicts which passengers survived the Titanic shipwreck.
– Variables Involved:
§ Survival (0 = No, 1 = Yes)
§ Ticket class (1 = 1st, 2 = 2nd, 3 = 3rd)
§ Sex
§ Age in years
§ # of siblings / spouses aboard the Titanic
§ # of parents / children aboard the Titanic
§ Ticket number
§ Passenger fare
§ Cabin number
§ Port of Embarkation
The data available has been split into two groups:

• training      set (train.csv)
• test      set (test.csv)

The training set would be used to create the model. The training set contains the outcome (also known as the “ground truth”) for each passenger. The model would be based on “features” like passengers’ gender and class.
The test set should be used to see how well the model performs on unseen data. The test set does not provide the ground truth for each passenger.
The outcome needs to be predicted. For each passenger in the test set, the model should be used to predict whether or not they survived the sinking of the Titanic.
SEE MORE:
DATA AND PROJECT IDEA WAS OBTAINED FROM THIS SITE:
THIS IS AN OPEN ENDED PROJECT
https://www.kaggle.com/c/titanic/overview
The project should not be either too complex nor too simple
The model doesn’t have to be perfect
These are the topics that this class encompasses:

Read/review the following resources for this activity:

• Textbook: Chapters 8, 9
• Lesson (Links to an external site.)
• Citation and Writing Assistance: Writing Papers At CU (Links to an external site.)
• Library Overview (Links to an external site.)
• How to Search for Articles – the Everything Tab (Links to an external site.)
• Article (no more than one-month old) from reputable news source such as The New York Times or The Washington Post

Reviewing the concepts of ethnic conflict and totalitarianism:
Often students are confused on what constitutes an ethnic conflict. Before you select a topic for this assignment, be sure to review the information below to gain a better understanding of what constitutes Totalitarianism and ethnic conflict.
Totalitarianism and ethnic conflict are not the same as violent act committed by a police officer that was officially deemed as being racially motivated. Ethnic conflict is when government has discriminatory policies in place. Slavery and segregation were examples of ethnic conflict. Many students confuse recent events of violence or shooting by police officers on individuals as examples of ethnic conflict. However, not all of those actions were acts of racially motivated violence.  In addition, they were committed by individuals in the execution of their job, which are subject to review and oversight (administrative and legal), and if deemed excessive and/or racially motivated, will be sanctioned and prosecuted because they would go against standing policies and laws that do not allow excessive force in the execution of police duties or racially motivated violence against others (by police or any other person). In the 1960s and earlier, we had state governments requiring African Americans to be segregated. This was an example of ethnic conflict. We do not have government policy in this country today promoting the harassment or killing of people because of their race.
If a person kills another person, it is a legal issue. If the killing took place because of the race of the person, it is also a hate crime. It is not designated as ethnic conflict. Topics centered on racial inequity such as Black Lives Matter, while important and viable topics in the context of race relations and social justice, are not the same as ethnic conflict in Totalitarian regimes and so are not appropriate topics for this assignment.
Instructions
Write a paper on a current event article that discusses restrictions on freedoms by a totalitarian state or an article on ethnic conflict within a nation. Summarize the article and explain why this issue is important to the global community. What outside influences might help change this issue? How? Is the article neutral? Why or why not?
Be sure to include a scanned copy of the article in your submission in addition to citations. Articles may not be more than one month old.
Writing Requirements (APA format). Refer to the APA manual.

• Length: 3 full pages (not including the title or references page)
• 1-inch margins
• Double-Spaced
• 12-point Times New Roman font
• Title and Reference page required
• APA cite article with link
• Scan copy of article required