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    uses all personal experience to persuade the reader that students should be writing in more complex and rich ways. Another tactic he used to persuade the audience is by expressing other people’s ideas including Kenneth Burke, David Bartholomae and Ira Shor’s ideas. Alford’s main purpose was to express upon readers the idea that students should be writing in more complex and rich ways with more creativity. In classrooms the teacher is there to help guide the students ' while making them think and

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    Retirement Planning Essay

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    Americans another way to save on taxes. A Roth Ira can be withdrawn tax-free, as long as the account has been open at least five years and you are age fifty-nine and a half when you begin withdrawing the proceeds. The contributions can be up to two thousand dollars per person or four thousand per couple. The beauty of a Roth IRA is its simplicity. You can contribute to a Roth IRA even if you have an employer-sponsored retirement plan. You can contribute to a Roth IRA even if you have an employer-sponsored

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    deposit box, closing the traditional IRA was the next task on the administrative plan. Earlier in the administration, while in the interim, I called the custodian of the traditional IRA to inform them of my Uncle’s death. We talked about the account, but couldn’t do anything at the time because I haven’t received approval to act as executor. So, at the end of the call, the representative said, “When you receive your approval letter call back and we’ll discuss the IRA.” After the call, I put aside the

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    Use Life Insurance

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    How to Use Life Insurance to Fund Your Retirement We are taught many things about money while growing up. Ever since we got our first piggy bank, our parents tried to teach us the importance of saving money. Mostly, we just saved it until we had enough to buy what it was that we were saving for, be it that cool GI Joe or Barbie doll. As we got older and got our first jobs, our parents encouraged us further by making sure we had a savings account and helping us figure out how much we should be saving

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    Merengue Tipico Essay

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    This paper will be comparing and contrasting Merengue Tipico music, which is a type of merengue, and bachata music of the Dominican Republic. Merengue and Bachata are the two most popular music genres in the Dominican Republic. These two kinds of music represent the Dominican Republic and its people. Many Dominicans have taken their music and traditions to different parts of the world. Mainly, the Bachata and Merengue have expanded to different cities of the United States and Latin America. Although

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    needs is not always the easiest decision to make. While investing in both traditional and Roth individual retirement accounts (IRAs) appears to draw considerable attention, differences in the rules for contributing to and withdrawing from these retirement plans places individuals and married couples in a predicament. They may choose to invest in either a traditional or Roth IRA while they may also choose to invest in self-direct, direct contribution (DB) or defined benefit (DB) plans sponsored by employers

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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

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    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 to an IRA when

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    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

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    “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;

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