Analyze the current IRS rules related to capital gains and losses on the sale of real property. Based on your analysis, take a position as to whether you believe the current rules are fair to individual taxpayers. Recommend at least two changes that would make the rules fairer for individual taxpayers.

 
Review the Capital Gains and Losses information in the?Tax Guide 2020 Publication 17 [PDF] located on the IRS website.

Analyze the current IRS rules related to capital gains and losses on the sale of real property. Based on your analysis, take a position as to whether you believe the current rules are fair to individual taxpayers. Recommend at least two changes that would make the rules fairer for individual taxpayers.
Support your recommendation with examples of such changes and provide support for your recommendations

Analyze the effects of the historical, social, political, economic, and cultural forces onpolitics and government.

 
Discussion: Analyze the effects of the historical, social, political, economic, and cultural forces onpolitics and government.
For this discussion, we will consider how gerrymandering currently affects Texas politics, andhow gerrymandering has been used historically in Texas politics. Gerrymandering is a political strategyto redraw Congressional districts in a way that engineers the outcomes of elections to favor one party oranother.
Understand that the main intent of these discussions is to hold a dialogue. Kindly begin work onthis discussion well in advance of the deadline to insure that your classmates are afforded ample time torespond to your posts. Waiting until the last minute to complete this assignment will allow yourclassmates less time to interact with you and may defeat the purpose of the assignment.
To prepare for writing your discussion post and responses, follow these steps:
1. For a background to gerrymandering, reference course materials and watch this video thatpresents an overview on how legislators stay in power as a result of legislative redistricting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s6erd5MbEY  
2. Next, go to the Texas Tribune website that shows the new voting maps based on the 2020Census, and type in your address to view any changes between the 2010 and 2020 voting maps: 
https://apps.texastribune.org/features/2021/texas-redistricting-map/ (Links to an external site.)
    • Consider how demographic changes like race, ethnicity, or partisanship influence voting and electionoutcomes.    • Think about political motivations for making these particular changes between the 2010 and 2020maps.
3. In a concise (250-300 words) post, answer the following questions utilizing course materials,concepts, and the information above:
    • How will the demographic and geographical changes between your 2010 and 2020 voting districtchange political outcomes for elections? How does gerrymandering affect you or voters in thedistrict?
    • How do historical, social, political, economic, and cultural forces in Texas manifest in thelegislature’s and parties’ use of gerrymandering? Consider Texas’s political cultures, dominantideologies, partisanship, and social or demographic changes in this answer.
4. After you have submitted your post, respond in 100-150 words to TWO posts from your peersand offer a thoughtful response to what you have read.
    • You can respond either to fellow students’ primary post or to their response to your primary post.
    • Use course materials and concepts in your answers, too, to help you formulate your thoughts.
 

The Nursing Shortage How would you define the Nursing Shortage? What evidence would you give to support that definition? In your opinion, what are the major factors contributing to the Nursing Shortage? Of these, which do you believe has the greatest impact and why? As a leader, how might you employ the ANA’s Call to Action to deal with the Nursing Shortage in your place of employment?

In this Discussion Board, choose one of the topics below for your original post. Be certain to address each of the questions for that topic. In responses to your peers make certain you participate in both discussions.
Topic 1: The Nursing Shortage

How would you define the Nursing Shortage? What evidence would you give to support that definition?
In your opinion, what are the major factors contributing to the Nursing Shortage? Of these, which do you believe has the greatest impact and why?
As a leader, how might you employ the ANA’s Call to Action to deal with the Nursing Shortage in your place of employment?

 Topic 2: Staffing and Scheduling

Imagine that you are the leader of a department. Which scheduling model would you employ and why?
How would you compensate for lack of coverage in your chosen model? What impact would your model have on nursing retention and satisfaction. What impact might the scheduling model have on patient safety and satisfaction.
What are the differences in budgetary considerations in your chosen model?

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references.
The post and responses are valued at 40 points. Please review post and response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets criteria.

Discuss what it means to conduct business ethically and responsibly. Identify programs to aid a small Canadian business achieve its responsibilities to the various stakeholders.CLR 2: Explain how events external to a business can influence business decisions, and how environmental changes affect consumers. Identify challenges and opportunities that environmental changes provide for Canadian businesses

 
This assignment relates to the following Course Learning Requirements:
CLR 3: Discuss what it means to conduct business ethically and responsibly. Identify programs to aid a small Canadian business achieve its responsibilities to the various stakeholders.CLR 2: Explain how events external to a business can influence business decisions, and how environmental changes affect consumers. Identify challenges and opportunities that environmental changes provide for Canadian businesses

While the implementation plan prepares students to apply their research to the problem or issue they have identified for their capstone project change proposal, the literature review enables students to map out and move into the active planning and development stages of the project. A literature review analyzes how current research supports the PICOT, as well as identifies what is known and what is not known in the evidence. Students will use the information from the earlier PICOT Question Paper and Literature Evaluation Table assignments to develop 900 words review that includes the following sections: Title page Introduction section A comparison of research questions A comparison of sample populations A comparison of the limitations of the study A conclusion section, incorporating recommendations for further research

 
Literature Review
While the implementation plan prepares students to apply their research to the problem or issue they have identified for their capstone project change proposal, the literature review enables students to map out and move into the active planning and development stages of the project.
A literature review analyzes how current research supports the PICOT, as well as identifies what is known and what is not known in the evidence. Students will use the information from the earlier PICOT Question Paper and Literature Evaluation Table assignments to develop 900 words review that includes the following sections:

Title page
Introduction section
A comparison of research questions
A comparison of sample populations
A comparison of the limitations of the study
A conclusion section, incorporating recommendations for further research

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. Please be sure to cite any references used within the essay as well.
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Describe Newtonian mechanical culture and the role of Newtonian explicators.b) How did Newtonianism couple British entrepreneurs and engineers and facilitate moreinnovations in different technologies?c) describe the connection between Newtonianism and the Industrial Revolution 

    Please answer these questions in paragraph form using my included article, and outside sources. Please paraphrase instead of quotation marks. Please make it about 800 words long.   
a) Describe Newtonian mechanical culture and the role of Newtonian explicators.b) How did Newtonianism couple British entrepreneurs and engineers and facilitate moreinnovations in different technologies?c) describe the connection between Newtonianism and the Industrial Revolution 

Jessica, a registered nurse (RN), and her husband are finally leaving on their vacation trip. They pull up at a red light as it is about to change to green. They watch in horror as a large truck, moving fast down a hill, in unable to stop before crashing into a van carrying a mother and her child. The van is thrown into the air and lands in a small park. Jessica runs over to offer aid. She finds a semi-conscious woman in the driver’s seat and an unconscious 4-year-old little boy in the back seat strapped into his car seat. The mother asks Jessica if Christopher is all right before she slips into unconsciousness. Christopher is unconscious and not breathing with his head down and touching his chest. He has a gash bleeding on the side of his head caused by his tricycle flying over the back seat during the crash. A truck driver, who also stopped to give help, yells in the window at Jessica, “Don’t move him!” Jessica knows that she has to get Christopher’s breathing started. Even though the truck driver is still yelling at her not to move the boy, she gently lifts his head off his chest. Christopher, still unconscious, starts breathing immediately. Jessica stops the bleeding on his head by applying pressure using a clean handkerchief from her husband. Emergency help arrives ten minutes later. Instructions: Read the scenario above and then, answer the following questions: In your opinion, even though Jessica knew that, in most cases, an injured victim should not be moved, did she do the right thing by moving Christopher’s chin up so he could breathe? Was Jessica covered by the Good Samaritan law or was she held to a higher standard since she had a nursing license? Would Jessica have been covered by the Good Samaritan law if Christopher had not started breathing when she moved his head and he had suffered further injury from the movement? Was Jessica, an RN, legally required to stop and provide aid? Was she ethically obligated to stop and provide aid? In your opinion, is it always a good idea to stop and give assistance at an accident site before medical help arrives?

 
Scenario – Jessica, a registered nurse (RN), and her husband are finally leaving on their vacation trip. They pull up at a red light as it is about to change to green. They watch in horror as a large truck, moving fast down a hill, in unable to stop before crashing into a van carrying a mother and her child. The van is thrown into the air and lands in a small park. Jessica runs over to offer aid. She finds a semi-conscious woman in the driver’s seat and an unconscious 4-year-old little boy in the back seat strapped into his car seat. The mother asks Jessica if Christopher is all right before she slips into unconsciousness. Christopher is unconscious and not breathing with his head down and touching his chest. He has a gash bleeding on the side of his head caused by his tricycle flying over the back seat during the crash. A truck driver, who also stopped to give help, yells in the window at Jessica, “Don’t move him!” Jessica knows that she has to get Christopher’s breathing started. Even though the truck driver is still yelling at her not to move the boy, she gently lifts his head off his chest. Christopher, still unconscious, starts breathing immediately. Jessica stops the bleeding on his head by applying pressure using a clean handkerchief from her husband. Emergency help arrives ten minutes later.
Instructions:

Read the scenario above and then, answer the following questions:

In your opinion, even though Jessica knew that, in most cases, an injured victim should not be moved, did she do the right thing by moving Christopher’s chin up so he could breathe?
Was Jessica covered by the Good Samaritan law or was she held to a higher standard since she had a nursing license?
Would Jessica have been covered by the Good Samaritan law if Christopher had not started breathing when she moved his head and he had suffered further injury from the movement?
Was Jessica, an RN, legally required to stop and provide aid? Was she ethically obligated to stop and provide aid?
In your opinion, is it always a good idea to stop and give assistance at an accident site before medical help arrives?

Your paper should be:

One (1) page
Typed according to APA style for margins, formatting and spacing standards
Typed into a Microsoft Word document, save the file, and then upload the file

.As you are finishing up the course, reflect on your experience. • What topic did you find the most interesting and why? • How have your ideas and perceptions changed about business law and its scope? • How will you use the information you learned in this course in your personal and professional life?

2.As you are finishing up the course, reflect on your experience. • What topic did you find the most interesting and why? • How have your ideas and perceptions changed about business law and its scope? • How will you use the information you learned in this course in your personal and professional life? In your response posts to your peers, offer additional suggestions for how the business law concepts covered in this course may be used in their personal and professional lives. To complete this assignment, review the Discussion Rubric. Rubrics

Antitrust regulation is designed to increase competition by eliminating attempts to monopolize an industry (other than through better products or better management) as well as by attacking certain patterns of illegal conduct (i.e. price fixing and exclusionary contracts that foreclose competitor business). For this forum, discuss your belief on “tech giants” violating antitrust laws.

Antitrust regulation is designed to increase competition by eliminating attempts to monopolize an industry (other than through better products or better management) as well as by attacking certain patterns of illegal conduct (i.e. price fixing and exclusionary contracts that foreclose competitor business). For this forum, discuss your belief on “tech giants” violating antitrust laws. Do you feel Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft etc. are in violation of such antitrust regulation? 

Suppose Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company is considering divesting one of its manufacturing plants. The plant is expected to generate free cash flows of $1.5 million per year, growing at a rate of 2.5% per year. Goodyear has an equity cost of capital of 8.5%, a debt cost of capital of 7%, a marginal corporate tax rate of 35%, and a debt-equity ratio of 2.6. If the plant has average risk and Goodyear plans to maintain a constant debt-equity ratio, what after-tax amount must it receive for the plant for the divestiture to be profitable?  

• Suppose Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company is considering divesting one of its manufacturing plants. The plant is expected to generate free cash flows of $1.5 million per year, growing at a rate of 2.5% per year. Goodyear has an equity cost of capital of 8.5%, a debt cost of capital of 7%, a marginal corporate tax rate of 35%, and a debt-equity ratio of 2.6. If the plant has average risk and Goodyear plans to maintain a constant debt-equity ratio, what after-tax amount must it receive for the plant for the divestiture to be profitable?
 
Suppose Alcatel-Lucent has an equity cost of capital of 10%, market capitalization of $10.8 billion, and an enterprise value of $14.4 billion. Suppose Alcatel-Lucent’s debt cost of capital is 6.1% and its marginal tax rate is 35%.• a.What is Alcatel-Lucent’s WACC?• b.If Alcatel-Lucent maintains a constant debt-equity ratio, what is the value of a project with average risk and the following expected free cash flows?• Year 0 1 2 3FCF ?100 50 100 70• c.If Alcatel-Lucent maintains its debt-equity ratio, what is the debt capacity of the project in part b?Corporate Governance and Agency Costs1.What inherent characteristic of corporations creates the need for a system of checks on manager behavior?2.What are some examples of agency problems?3.What are the advantages and disadvantages of the corporate organizational structure?Managing Agency Conflict
 
Is it necessarily true that increasing managerial ownership stakes will improve firm performance?
How can proxy contests be used to overcome a captured board?
 
What is a say-on-pay vote?
 
What are a board’s options when confronted with dissident shareholders?