Essays on Nephew

Sea Oak is a short story that depicts several characters living in poverty-stricken areas across the United States. Some of the characters explicitly express their desire to have a better life. One of the important aspects of the story is the fact that a character dies and resurrects temporarily. The author George Sauder’s has combined fiction with reality so as to demonstrate the extent to which individuals will go in a bid to escape poverty and suffering. By contrasting fiction and reality, the author has demonstrated that suffering is part of life and, therefore, inevitable. Even with assistance ...

Audre Lorde’s Litany for Survival and James Baldwin’s Letter to my nephew fall into different literature categories. The first work is a poem and the second is an article written in the form of a letter. But these writings have several similarities. First, both works were created by African-American writers. They also address the same topic of marginalization and people’s reaction to this process. Authors made similar comments about the anxiety caused by the destruction of usual environment. “When the sun sets we are afraid it might not rise in the morning” (Lorde, n. d. l. ...

Identity has become an unavoidable part of people’s lives. Our identities have become our vectors and are defined by what we do and the reasons behind the acts. As much as people may want to believe that their identity is irrelevant, in reality, they often affect the way other people perceive them. There are many aspects of one’s identity. Therefore, every action that a person takes can have different meanings and implications to different people and thus people have become concerned about shaping their identities. Shaping and defending our identities has become more real to us than ...

The character of Hattie Troutman goes through her own road trip to self-realization while literally doing a road trip with her niece and nephew. In the beginning Hattie is a free spirit who leaves Paris out of a sense of obligation to her family, versus an actual desire to go and help. When receiving the call from her niece informing her of her sister’s depression and the need for help, Hattie reacts in a unique manner. While many people would be in a panic, and seeking the next airplane, this is not the case with Hattie. Instead she ...

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One of the most conspicuous thematic elements of the films made in the Asian region is the conflict between the individuals and the social influences or practices. Many directors hailing from different Asian cultures have come forward to make films dealing with such themes. These films have also gained much critical acclamation and popularity all over the world as they are very aptly made to reach out to the emotions and aesthetic sense of the masses. If one explores a few iconic films of Asia, it would become very clear how the makers have inserted elements of dichotomy in ...

Racial inequality is one of the most discussed and urgent problems in the USA. At first, non-white people fought for their freedom, for their human right to be equal with white people. And now, while other countries believe that in USA there are no racial discrimination, non-white people still suffer from unfair distribution of opportunities, powers, rights, and economic resources. Consequently, we can blame 300 years of physical, cultural, and political discrimination as a reason for current inequality. Different politicians, researchers, and writers are trying to come up with the theories, ideas, and historical background of racial identity of ‘ ...

(Retelling the original story ‘My old Home’ by Lu Xun using Jun-tu’s perspective) This year the winter is back again with a whole new version of snowstorm made from the snow and memories of the good old days. The New Year eve is approaching and I am still worried to get a grasp of some steady money resource for ensuring a full meal for my family of seven, including myself. Suddenly, my fifth, Shui-sheng came running to me and asked if he was going out with me. “You and I will be going to visit my master Hsun’ ...

Dear Journal,

Today, I am meeting with my supervisor to go over my memorandum form and expectations from him and myself. Initially, I was trying to intern at either the Schofield Barracks Health Clinic or Tripler Army Medical Center. The positions that we were discussing was assisting Group Practice Managers, Health System Specialist, or anyone whom were considered Health Care Administrators. The process to communicate with them and to have my orientation and required documents completed and turned into the Red Cross, took approximately 3 weeks. When I was thinking I was going to start immediately after my requirements were taken ...

Irrelevance of Marriage: Debunking Patriarchal Values in “Pride and Prejudice”

Introduction Marriage is irrelevant in the modern society. It has become an atavism of the patriarchal concept that is no longer important today. Marriage is the remnant of the past, which a lot of people confuse with one of the standards characterizing good life. Moreover, while a lot of males pretend they are scared, confused, and resistant to tie the knot, marriage was constructed only for the sake of men. In the past and today marriage is still presented as the main goal and dream for women, implemented in numerous vague sitcoms, romantic movies, and symbolism of the pop ...

The novel Rain of Gold is a book that has widely reflected on two major vices that have taken root in the society: social inequality and discrimination. Social inequality is the biased treatment of various individuals based on life circumstances, mostly those they have no control over, such as race and gender. Discrimination is treating people or a group of individuals differently from other people or groups, mostly unfairly and basing it on stereotypes. The novel Rain of Gold sought to promote social inequality and discrimination through the restrains faced by two families coming from one culture and into ...

Introduction

Nursing is generally concerned with care. As such all characteristics analyzed about this discipline should relate to the concept of care. This task aims at analyzing four major attributes of nursing in relation to a story of personal experience. The attributes to be analyzed in this case include loving kindness; patience; commitment; and openness/attendance to mysterious and unknown happenings of life and death or allowing miracles to take their course. The aim of this paper is particularly to provide insights into what is expected of a nurse in caring for and about persons in need. The story being analyzed involves a nurse’ ...

The territory of the modern Romania in the middle ages was captured by the Slavs (VI century), Bulgarians and Hungarians in the IX century, the Mongol-Tatars in the XIII century. In the XIV century, the territory of present-day Romania was formed by two feudal principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia, which were conquered by the Ottoman Empire in the XVI century. In the XVI century, the Transylvanian principality was founded, which has left the Hungarian authorities and recognized the suzerainty of the Turkish sultan. In comparison with other Balkan territories, captured by the Ottomans, Moldavia, Wallachia, and Transylvania retained greater ...

I once interned at a nonprofit organization that ran after-school programs for children who came from families of modest means. It was a very good organization that served children in Kindergarten through 5th grade right at their school. We prided ourselves on providing educational activities that taught the children useful life skills. We didn’t just throw crayons at the kids and then ignore them until their parents came to pick them up. The entire time I worked there, the staff drummed it into me that the safety of the children was the most important thing to consider. They said ...

Introduction

Challenges are part and parcel of the daily living and most of the times they come unprecedented to an extent that if one is not adequately prepared to deal with them they can cost us a lot of previous successes. It is the case with Linda Grump. She is very old but has managed to have a very successful cattle and llama ranch but following her physical injury after breaking her limbs, she is left in a very uncomfortable position. The worst part of it is that she has nobody she can rely on to take care of her property even after ...

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During the riots of Los Angeles, Angela King was one of the survivors. King Angela was among the leading characters of twilight Los Angeles 1992. She was heavy drinker and used too drank too much like her mother. She has anxious personality; she used to exaggerate things and quarrels over small issues. Being a serious drinker she has a heart full of mercy for mankind. At a teenage she was separated from her siblings and each of her siblings was sent to different house to dwell. Being separated and away from the loved ones made her kindhearted and lovable ...

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The main antagonist in the Theban plays, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, Creon undergoes a major character transformation. This is clearly indicated in the three roles he takes up in respective plays. In Oedipus the King, Creon is the loyal brother-in-law who is accused by the former of murder. He is depicted as a lover of his family and of the people of Thebes. In Oedipus at Colonus, this nature slowly fades away and he becomes devious and deceptive. As a king, Creon, a noble statesman finds himself between a rock and a hard place while he decides to stand for the ...

William Wallis’ poem “Family” is devoted to the theme of family togetherness, calm family life, and childhood memories. The author of the poem narrates from the nephew’s perspective showing his emotions as a child visiting his aunt. The picture drawn by the poet reminds of an episode of calm family life having good and bad moments. Probably, the author tried to describe his sensations related relationships between close relatives. Wallis succeeded to get the reader to see a peaceful picture of family life from the first rows. The poetic form used in the poem is free verse (Padgett 27). Free ...

This paper discusses an episode (particularly episode 1 of season1) of the British TV series Downton Abbey. Downton Abbey is a period drama show which is set in the fictional Yorkshire country estate and follows the aristocratic lives of the residents living at Downton Abbey. Till date there are 5 seasons released in the UK each having 7 to 8 episodes. Each season can be viewed as a mini drama series. Structurally the series is quite similar to that of a drama presented in the theatre. There is a script (referred to as a screenplay as it is viewed on a TV screen) which ...

The play, ‘The Importance of Being Earnest' by Oscar Wilde which is a ludicrous comedy where we are shown people running away from their community commitments. There is a lot of satire that has been brought out by the writer in most marriages. In some marriages, people are concerned about the name and advantages that come with it. Some look for wealth while the others aim is nobility that is associated with their counterparts (Hörz, Stefanie 94). Jack opted to propose to Gwendolen at the absence of her mother and her cousin, Algernon. However, Gwendolen is not ready to accept ...

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Introduction "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" was Charles Dickens last novel. Unfortunately, by the time Charles Dickens died on 9 June 1870 the novel was unfinished. Despite the fact, the story named after Edwin Drood, it focuses a lot on his uncle John Jasper. John Jasper is an opium addict, and a choirmaster who is in love with his nephew’s (Edwin Drood) fiancée Rosa Bud. Rosa bud is also a pupil to John Jasper, which quickly brings forth the conflict in the story. To make the conflict even more intriguing, Neville Landless also falls in love with Rosa Bud ...

This paper discusses an episode (particularly episode 1 of season1) of the British TV series Downton Abbey. Downton Abbey is a period drama show which is set in the fictional Yorkshire country estate and follows the aristocratic lives of the residents living at Downton Abbey. Till date there are 5 seasons released in the UK each having 7 to 8 episodes. Each season can be viewed as a mini drama series. Structurally the series is quite similar to that of a drama presented in the theatre. There is a script (referred to as a screenplay as it is viewed on TV screen) which ...

In "Confessions of an Economic Hitman," John Perkins tells the story about how he and others like him were able to have a huge impact on the world today in ways that many of the elite in society would rather keep secret. The story involves a lot of deceit, murderers, and traitors who are motivated by greed and power. Perkins gives details on how strong countries have the power to exploit another and even goes so far as to influence their politics. He explains how some countries are willing to go to extremes such as robbing another country of their natural resources, ...

The Hrafnkel saga is based on Christian ethics and morals, a view that after a period of increasing criticism has lost a great deal of its initial convincing force. Hrafnkel was the son of a Norwegian man called Hallfreor, who was one of the original settlers of Iceland. Hrafnkel, with the permission of his father established his own settlement and selected an uninhabited valley for his farm and named it ‘Noble home’ and the valley was subsequently named after him, ‘Hrafnkel’s valley.’ He believed in a god called Freyr and had erected a large temple, where he performed lavish sacrificial ceremonies. He dedicated the ...

“There is a way to be good again” ( Hosseini K. 2003) a line delivered by Rahim Khan to Amir in order to encourage him to help Hassan’s son escape Afghanistan and finally free him from the guilt of his past. The powerful quotation showing how personal salvation can be achieved through saving another person, but the case of Amir in the Kite Runner is complex because before he did something good, he once did something he regretted. In the case of Amir, the main character in the Kite Runner, did saving his nephew be enough to consider him a ‘good’ person ...

The aim of this essay is to present you with the analysis and the reflections drawn upon the reading of a slam poem. Slam poetry in general is considered to be a relatively new kind of poetry. It was born around the 90’s. It was in 1987 when the first National competition on Slam poetry was organized. There have been ongoing competitions ever since along with other events celebrating this poetry genre and making it known to a wider range of readers, listeners and poetry lovers. Slam poetry is poetry based on being recited. Poets recite their poems and the audience ...

While visiting the sweatshop in Accra, which belong to one of his business partners, Ghana President’s nephew saw Imoida as she was minding her business sewing buttons for masculine jackets. As he glanced the beautiful sewing girl, the President’s nephew, Oroonoko, was blurred. He starred at her as if he was asking himself “how did the Queen of the Night end up working in a sweatshop?” He asked his friend who owned the sweatshop for a personal favor, requiring choosing a girl from his employees, pretending that he needed a new maid for his Accra residence, where he lived with his ...

Introduction

According Haas, Gerba and Rose (1999), Quantitative microbial risk assessment, the major purposes of a business management organ is to reduce resource wastage in the operations. These include wastages caused by risks exposed to business by both internal and external hazards. Risks therefore would refer to the capacity of harm in expectation that might occur to a business within a given duration of time within the business’ accounting period. Managing risks is therefore fundamental for the business management to be able to avoid losses. The process of risk management begins at risk assessment. Risk assessment is the managerial process of carrying ...

I. Introduction Journalists have a responsibility to the facts of an event. This is an aspect of journalism that is often lost in the sensationalism that often follows the news in the modern era. Ethics and standards in journalism are principles that give the journalist a structural framework for conducting the practice of reporting on events, people, or places; they are designed to help the journalist navigate specific situations and challenges that journalists often face. Journalists do not exist in a vacuum; they are people with their own opinions and feelings about the things that they are reporting, and it follows ...

Liberty. Among the most widely putative theories of liberty is that there must be a single predominant formula under which all the comprehensible locutions about personal freedom and liberation. The pervasiveness of this notion largely influences Gerald MacCallum’s classic article, “Negative and Positive Freedom”. The author provides that the need for freedom of an individual is realized once an element of constraint is determined. These elements of constraints prevent individuals from becoming or becoming something. Liberation is a triadic relation between individuals, constraints, and ends. To ensure full liberty, the constraints to the “ends” should be completely inexistent. These insights ...

This paper will reflect over one of the classic literature works of King. It will reflect the interruptions of the one haunting message from the book. It will reflect over interviews and reviews regarding the book. Last it will prove why this book is a true haunting of horror and science fiction. There will not be certain of events that will proceed. This will focus on aspects of the book that gave Goosebumps. The reason it is not being presented in chronological order of events for this is a reflection. The haunting of wheel of fortune was one that gave ...

William Shakespeare wrote Hamlet more than four hundred years ago. Yet, it was not the first mention of Danish Prince in the literature. The history knows about the Prince Amleth, a character, preserved by 13th century chronicler Saxo Grammaticus and retold in 16th century. Actually, this means that the tragedy of Hamlet is not new. Yet, Shakespeare made it look modern in the eyes of his contemporaries. Furthermore, the story of Hamlet, his revenge and his love seems to look modern even in 21st century. Nowadays, the play of Hamlet is one of the most famous and most staged plays ...

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The term Glorious Revolution refers to the way in which the Parliament asserted its right over monarchy. The Glorious Revolution consists of different events that took place from 1685 to 1689. The events started with the death of Charles II. This event culminated the Bill of Rights in the year 1689. The death of Charles II occurred on 6 February. The Catholic James II succeeded Charles II. The fears of Catholicism and different attempts to exclude James II surrounded the event. Despite these events, the succession occurred successfully. The Parliament of James was loyalist. When the House was recalled, ...

What is the meaning of life for Scrooge at the beginning of the novel, what is the meaning of life for the Bob Cratchit family, what makes them happy; What seems to be Marley's message about freedom, what ways was Scrooge free, was there a progression, what message does this novel have about personal freedom of choice; what is Scrooges' moral character

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‘A Christmas Carol’ is perhaps the best known novel by Charles Dickens and is full of incredible comparisons and motifs which permeate it and fill it with a great beauty. The redemption of Scrooge and the comparison with Tiny ...

Plot summary

Heart of Darkness is set in colonial Africa and revolves around Marlow, a meditative sailor, and his expedition through the Congo River to meet Kurtz, an optimist with myriad abilities. While working as a riverboat captain for a Belgian company trading in Africa, Marlow meets face to face with high handedness and cruelty meted against the natives in the Company’s stations. They are forced into hard labor, and are heavily overworked and mistreated by the Company’s agents. Marlow turns up at the central station under the care of general manager and discover s that his steamship had been grounded and ...

‘Charlie and the Chocolate factory’ is one of the famous novels of silver age. It is written by Roald Dahl (Dahl 02). He was born in 1916 in Wales of Norwegian parents. His initial education was from England and then he started to work in Africa for the Shell Oil Company. After the ‘immense bash on head’, he started writing and during the World War II sustained as a RAF fighter pilot. He is considered as one of the most well known and most successful writers of children literature. Roald Dahl found the ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ as ...

The aim of this essay is to present you with an analysis and detailed description of Daisy Miller’s character. Who is Daisy Miller? She is a young girl, holding the leading character in the short story ‘Daisy Miller’ written by Henry James. Henry James, though born in America, has been considered more of an English rather than an American writer who has gained wide credibility within the borders of the literary community. He is a writer prominent for his writing style which depicts details of his era, criticizes indirectly the faults of the society and social structure of his time ...

The Screwtape Letters is a fictional work written by Christian apologist C. S. Lews. The book consists of an ongoing correspondence between two demons. One of the demons, Screwtape, is trying to teach the younger demon, his nephew Wormwood about his understanding of God. Obviously, a demon’s understanding of going to be distorted. Screwtape uses convincing arguments to teach his nephew Wormwood that God loves for people only for his own sake. But through his distorted views comes Lewis’s real views that he is trying to convey through Screwtapes distortion. The first time love in mentioned is Screwtape, ...

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When the European settlers came to North America, it was already inhabited by an indigenous group of people. In the 19th century white Americans came with the idea of Manifest Destiny and in order to realize their idea of possessing the entire continent of North America, they began removing Native Americans from their ancestral homeland into reserved territories for the Indians. The US government initiated the One Big Reservation policy in 1851 and according to this policy Native Americans were to shift into 'One Big Reservation' but the constant migration of European settlers, the evolution of transportation technology which ...

Analysis of “The Playboy of Seville” and “The Libertine”

Introduction Tirso de Molina’s Playboy and Thomas Shadwell’s Libertine are play that explicitly conveys men’s utter malice resulting from lack of conscience. Both playwrights were written during the seventeenth century thus highlighting cultural dissipations of the time some of which are similar to present times. Themes in both plays help underscore other moral decadence like corruption, murder, rape, sexism, and injustice. Molina and Shadwell highlight similar depravities using different approaches, while Shadwell uses more explicit and overt language to illustrate his characters depraved personalities and social menace, Molina uses implicit yet concise approach to emphasize ...

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Robots have been commonly used to automation of tasks. With the enhancements of business process automation, robots provide a means of doing tasks, which have hitherto been done manually. The current trend of robot enhancement is to attempt to make robots behave like humans. The author of Rossum Universal Robots play brings out this aspect as the developer of robots, Rossum, tried to behave like God. He is regarded as mad in the play (Wyllie, 2006). This clearly depicts the degree in which robots have been developed. The effort to create human beings from robots will in the end subvert ...

The person that I interviewed for the purpose of this assignment is my 12-year-old nephew who is in 6th grade. I love my nephew so much and we spend quite some time with him. Through experience, I have learned that he has the gift of courage (NIRV 1 Corinthians 12). The reason that has made me believe that my nephew has this gift of the Holy Spirit is in the way he handles scary instances that would have otherwise be considered overrated for him. He walks alone in places that even an elderly person would compromise. Despite his parents ...

Love is an ever-present theme in people’s lives; everyone would like to have it because it makes them feel happy and satisfied. Some of couple would get married because they think that marriage is the continuation of a love affair. However, this begs the question: what is marriage? Everyone has his or her own conception of marriage, which can become problematic when two people with differing opinions marry. Some people assert that marriage like a besieged city: inside the city, people want to come out, but outside the city of people want to go in. Other people think that marriage ...

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The film, The Secrets of my Success, is a viewed as a comedy that presents a young and determined business man who continues his business ambitions by strategizing on business oriented plans that consequently brings his company into a better position and outweighing the competitors. By just reading an email that passed through his hands, Fox devises a defined and brilliant project of streaming his uncle’s multinational corporation. The film presents the ladders that brilliant business individuals should undertake in moving a company to better heights. However, one can clearly see the integration of personal issues in business where Britney interacts sexually with a fellow ...

According to Knight (114) Aristotle is known as the Greek Philosopher who left a mark in the philosophical word. He learnt most of his philosophical ideas from Plato. In fact together with Socrates and his teacher Plato, most of the western philosophy is attributed to them. His philosophies were the first to left a mark in the western philosophy physics. Indeed even his student Alexander the Great became just as good as he was. Aristotle’s writing covered a wide range of topics including politics, morality, metaphysics, logic, aesthetic and science. Aristotle’s physics was quite impressive and they shaped the medieval ...

Michael Pichinte, 39, and his nephew Christopher Pichinte, 20, were arrested in San Bernardino County, California on October 31, 2012 and charged with murder, carjacking and robbery. Their victim was Eduardo Martinez III, 40, of Victorville, California, who was found dead along the side of the road. Police gave out no real details about the suspects or their motives and only stated that they had “found evidence linking the two to the murder.” Sabrina Martinez praised her deceased husband as “the most loving, sincere, respectful, honorable and loyal person that I have ever known” and said that “his whole ...

Reflection Paper

Conflicts are a natural consequence of interactions because of the diversity of the people who constitute the environment. Though people naturally tend to look at conflicts from a negative perspective, it is an undeniable fact that conflicts are normal and necessary in any functioning organization. When well resolved, conflicts have a way of releasing a persons creative energy and reorienting them to engage more on productive activities . For proper conflict resolution to take place, there must be a process of genuine negotiations among the conflicting parties for purposes of bridging the gap that was created by the conflict, and charting a new way for the ...

A Reflection Paper

Motivation Breakthrough: A Reflection Paper

The Motivation Breakthrough video was a real eye opener for me. Everything that Dr. Lavoie said made sense and I wish that more parents and teachers could watch the video and learn from Dr. Lavoie’s talk.

Two things that especially struck me was the ineffectiveness of rewards and punishment. Both techniques were used on me by my parents when I was a kid and it seemed to work for me because I have always been a motivated student. However, I now understand why my nephews are not as equally motivated as the other. In particular, my ...

I have reviewed your memo regarding our client Howdy Brewster which describes his business activities and the recent events which may impact his 2011 Federal Tax Return. Here is a review of the factual information about Brewster which pertains to the income tax questions. His business is an eight hundred fifty acre farm and dairy operation. About 150 Holstein milk cows are part of the dairy operation. Approximately 150 Black Angus steers are raised to sell. Brewster has one part-time employee. He employs his two teen-age sons for the daily farm work. The land has been in the family for ...

I have reviewed your memo regarding our client Howdy Brewster describing his business activities and the recent events which have occurred that could have an impact on his 2011 tax returns. His business is a farm and dairy operation on 850 acres of land. The land has been in the family for close to 125 years. There are three existing houses on his property.

Mr. Brewster recently signed a contract with Aztec Oil and Gas Pipeline to allow the company to lease a portion of his land in order to run a pipeline; Aztec will need access to maintain the pipeline over its ...

RE: Howdy Brewster

I have reviewed your memo regarding the case of Mr. Howdy Brewster. In 2011 Howdy signed a contract with the Aztec oil and Gas Company to build a pipeline across his property for the pipeline to cross over his property so that it can maintain its useful life. He received a given amount of $9,200 after the contract was signed and to resolve the issue with the neighbor paid an amount of $7,500 in so that the boundary can be sorted out with the neighbor as well. In September the same year, Howdy dammed a stream to have more water available ...

The 2006 film Babel, directed by Alejandro Gonzales Innarito, was written by Guillermo Arriaga from his own story idea. The film stars an ensemble cast, including Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael Garcia Bernal, Adriana Barraza, Elle Fanning, and others. The music features an Academy Award-winning original score by Gustavo Santaolalla, featuring both incidental music and original songs.

This film is a straightforward, gritty drama, which takes place in many different countries, including the United States, Morocco, Japan and Mexico, demonstrating several characters' seemingly interrelated lives and conflicts in the present day. In Morocco, an American couple (Pitt and Blanchett) are ...

Introduction

Nursing practitioner is frequently faced with ethical dilemmas during their service delivery. These ethical dilemmas are usually hard to tackle or make decisions on due to their sensitivity nature which is concerned with human life. Nevertheless, various regulatory bodies or organization have developed some principles or regulations to be followed by these nursing professionals in cases where they face cases which are hard to tackle. The first and main principle which a nursing or any other health provider is supposed to adhere to is the Hippocratic Oath. This is an oath which every health service provider is subject to. Hippocratic ...

The estate plan is intended to reduce the amount of both federal and state tax payable on the gross estate of the clients. The estate plan seeks to develop efficient gifting plans by the clients to specific beneficiaries and effectively reduce the amount of tax that is payable from the gifting plans to the minimum. The estate plan should enable Rich distribute his estate to all his beneficiaries without any conflict of interest arising from the remarriage of his wife after his death. The estate plan seeks to revise the client’s will to be more effective and ...