Essays on Exemption

Georgia recognizes the doctrine of employment at will. Employment at will means that in the absence of a written contract of employment for a defined duration, an employer may terminate an employee for a good cause, bad cause, or no cause at all, so long as it is not an illegal cause . An employer cannot terminate an employee for discriminatory reasons, a breach of employment contract, or in retaliation for exercising their employee rights. Discriminatory reasons include race, color, sex, religion, national origin, etc. In order to better understand how at-will employment works, I will provide three different scenarios ...

Abstract

The criminal justice system in the United States provides Constitutional guarantees for all who are subject to the laws of the land. The three most controversial aspects of this system today are Search and Seizure, arrest, and interrogations. While these three aspects are the foundation of police action throughout the nation, there are several unresolved problems in how each of these processes is in use today. The presence of the law is not always the same as upholding it. The cases which made the case for the citizens are moving into obscurity with modern variations of the problems making ...

Japan is often referred to in the field of international relations as the Land of the Rising Sun. With its economy being the third largest in the world, suggesting that this country and its inherent culture plays a significant role in the planet and especially in the region would indeed have some merits. The objective of this paper is to focus on Roland Barthes’ book about Japan as an Empire of Signs and the validity of the points he raised about the country, using other works such as that of Sofia Coppola’s lost in Translation, among others. The ...

MEMORANDUM

Re: Sally Reporteur’s News Story on the Reform the Electoral College Movement FACTS Sally Reporteur recently graduated from a prestigious journalism school. Soon after graduation she found a position as reporter for a local news station. Based on her educational background, and the small staff at the news station, her supervisor gave her a fairly significant amount of discretion to find, investigate and write her own news stories. Like many people of her age group, Sally was quite adept at using information technologies for both her work and in her private life. One day, while she was chatting ...

Introduction

The primary objective of this term paper is to examine the intended and unintended consequences of the Split Roll taxes in California. Also, the term paper will address how commercial and residential property owners will bear the costs of Split Roll taxation system. Finally, I will offer alternatives to the Spilt Roll taxes and why I think they are ideal choices. I don’t support the Split Roll taxation since it would treat commercial property unfairly. Leaving out residential property in the current taxation system is not ideal since all individuals should be subject to a standard tax system. ...

Introduction

For a long time, consumers in the United Arab Emirates suffered from unfair competitive practices that they experienced as a result of companies looking to gain the best profits. The companies thus took advantage of the fact that there were no existent rules and regulations that could control the unhealthy competition in the region. Unhealthy competition is act as a barrier to new firms joining that would automatically provide services that are price friendly to the users. Additionally, consumers are supposed to receive quality goods and services from the companies. However, in the presence of weak regulations with regards ...

Homestead exemption meant that peoples’ homes would not be taxed at a full charge although some of their households could be tax-free. In Texas, the current family exemption is $15,000, meaning that if one’s home tax is valued at $100, 000, they would only pay taxes of $85,000 (Texansforprop1.com). Proposition 1 would extend that exemption, meaning that one would even pay less tax than their actual house value. Proposition 1 achieved four things. First, it ensured that property tax was decreased by increasing the homestead exemption from $15,000 to $25,000. Second, it ensured that ...

Population health concern and Advocacy Overview

The discussion over the dissemination of the HPV vaccine presents is of the most controversial issues in the country. The issue also attracts debates on sexuality in children and compulsory vaccination for school going children. The politicized argument exists at a time when there are many people infected with the HPV virus. Such statistics play an important role in influencing this advocacy campaign. My policy proposal advocates for the dissemination of HPV vaccines to middle-school children. This campaign proposes an administration process that follows a two-time schedule. In the first round, the children will receive the first dose as ...

Political Science

About the Company Opello Tyres is a brand name synonym with great comfort and design, which provides great driving maneuvering and experience. Opello is a tyre manufacturer and retailer having market presence in more than 45 countries. Opello has made a strong brand reputation in the tyre industry based on their 35 years of experience in building tyres of cars, trucks, two-wheelers, etc. Opello has approximately 130 corporate offices and 12,000 employees based in different parts of the world. At the end of the 2015-16 financial year Opello’s turnover was $4.88 billion. Opello is traded on the ...

Affiliated Institution

Appendix: Introduction Objective P. 3 Program Details & Classification P. 3-4 Obstacles Facing Stakeholders. Citizens. P. 4-10 Immigrants. P. 10 Employers & Workforce. P. 10-12 Options for Individuals without Affordable Coverage. P. 12-13 Conclusion. P.13 References. P. 14 Introduction The purpose of this report is to analyze the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that was passed by the Congress in March 2010. In this document, we are going to discuss the program’s objective, how it affects the different stakeholders within the American Society, what are the pros and cons and what are the barriers for its implementation (or consequences); we will ...

For the past few decades, there has been an increase in natural calamities that have been as a result of human activities. An increase in the overall atmospheric temperatures, rising sea levels, melting glaciers, mass extinction of entire species, flash floods and fluctuating weather patterns have become a common occurrence. Scientists raised alarm over this issue and slowly global warming has become a stark reality and imminent threat to the survival of humanity in years to come (Oreskes, 2004). With this in mind, there have been several global meetings aimed at charting the way forward and coming up with ...

The Streamline Sales and Use Tax Agreement (SSUTA) is an effort by the states in U.S to simplify and modernize state administration as well as the sales from the locals and use tax laws (Nicely). The SSUTA came about as a response to the decision of Supreme Court in the United States of making the collection of sales and use taxes from the unenforceable sellers of the states. Therefore, the Congress decided to simplify the nationality of the sales tax. Moreover, the agreement of the streamlined national sales and tax use have provided for some voluntary systems that can ...

Redundancy Principle

Ruth Clark is a science undergraduate who has also served as a former president of the International Society of Performance Improvement. She was also a member of the American Educational Research Association. She now works as a teacher, a speaker and a writer. She has dedicated her time to research in instructional technology and has written on effective e-learning, with the aim of developing it professionally. She came up with six principles of effective e-learning with regard to the use of the various multi-media in teaching and learning. These principles are redundancy, contiguity, modality, coherence, and personalization and multimedia ...

Judith Thomson's critique on abortion is almost surely the most extensively anthologized paper on the subject. It was issued one year prior to Roe v. Wade and Thomson disagrees in it for what may superlative be portrayed as a reasonable pro-choice position. The paper is not always simple to pursue; while the personal arguments are comprehensible, the general thread is occasionally less obvious.

Thomson starts by allowing for the characteristic anti-abortion argument. The critical principle, she articulates, is characteristically an assertion that the foetus is completely a full human being from the instant of conception. She upholds that this is false, ...