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Importance of Personal Finances Jonathan Woods Liberty University Online ACCT 301-B08 LUO 201520 Week 7 According to the National Financial Educators Council, youth across America are slowly becoming illiterate when it comes to their personal finances. A study was introduced by Beierlein & Neverett (2013) through Harris Interactive for the National Council of Economic Education that stated, “Participants, 3,512 adults aged 18 and above and 2,242 students in grades 9-12, took a 24 question

Cynthia Ozick (1928 - ….) Cynthia Ozick was born in New York City on April 17, 1928. She was the second of two children. Her parents, Celia (Regelson) and Wiliam Ozick immigrated to the US from the northwest region of Russia. The family came from the Litvak (Lithuanian) Jewish tradition which was a tradition of skepticism, rationalism and antimysticism. Her parents owned a pharmacy in Pelham Bay section of Bronx. They worked very hard, usually fourteen hours a day. Cynthia delivered perscriptions

The Human Stain Philip Roth Entry 1 Already I can tell that this book is more difficult than most other novels I have read. It seems as though Roth is in favor of using long sentences and complex vocabulary. I sometimes had to reread sentences a few times because there was difficult vocabulary I needed to look up and the sentences were long. I needed to read each sentence piece by piece to make sure I could understand what the author wanted to convey to the reader. Although the text seemed overwhelming

In the short story, The Conversion of the Jews, Philip Roth discusses the constant oppressive behaviour that religious figures have, and the rebellious attitudes of the youth. Rabbi Binder is a one sided person who is never open to the views of others. He sees Ozzie Freedman, the questionable protagonist of the story, as his mission to enforce religion and to never allow free thought. Philip Roth points out the hypocrisy of religion in his short story, The Conversion of the Jews, where he shows underlying

History of the Traditional IRA The Individual Retirement Account, or IRA, was formed in 1974 under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) (Holden, Ireland, Leonard-Chambers, & Bogdan/Investment Company Institute, 2005). When the Traditional IRA was first created, it had two functions: the first was to give tax benefits to workers who contributed to an IRA without an existing employee retirement plan, and the second was to allow funds in an existing employee retirement account to be relocated

Bernard Roth, a Professor at the d. school in California, has an impressively valid outlook as to why all reasons given are bullshit. Roth provides numerous examples of people who use regularly use excuses to manage everyday life; however, he also plays the devil’s advocate when stating that excuses may help you in the current situation but will it assist you at all in the long run? In the second chapter of his book, Roth classifies the use of excuses into several categories; ethically, logically

“Life Vs. Reasons” Bernard Roth, a Professor at the d. school in California, has an impressively valid outlook as to why all reasons given are bullshit. Roth provides numerous examples of people who use regularly use excuses to manage everyday life; however, he also plays the devil’s advocate when stating that excuses may help you in the current situation but will it assist you at all in the long run? In the second chapter of his book, Roth classifies the use of excuses into several categories;

Fred Schepisi’s Six Degrees of Separation (1993) and Robert Benton’s The Human Stain (2003) are two films from the post-racial era that each accurately depict the lives of two tragic, passing characters. Paul, portrayed by Will Smith in Schepisi’s film, passes not on the basis of race but of social class and sexuality. Within Benton’s motion-picture, Coleman Silk, Anthony Hopkins, passes as a professor and dean of a university through the use of a racial masquerade. The stories that follow these

America’s Social Security Program’s Change Over Time America’s Social Security Program is much different from any other financial security system around the world. The initial framework for America’s Social Security Program modeled German and Bismarckian financial security programs, and its primary goal was to regulate “mandatory social insurance financed from payroll taxes” instead of a model similar to the United Kingdom’s “flat-rate benefits subject to a means or earnings test” (Hoskins). In

“Somebody Got Murdered” Nowadays, Americans find violence entertaining. It is recorded, viewed, and shared constantly. In Don DeLillo’s short story, “Videotape” a young girl recorded a man that was shot while driving in a car; the video was shown on the news repetitively. The short story revolves around a man at home attentively watching the video; he continuously called on his wife to watch the video with him. This videotape represents how everyone is being desensitized to violence, how there