1. In Ancient Egypt in the Old Kingdom, the more important a person was

•Buy a beautiful home in Georgia

•Ride a motorcycle

•Learn to swim

•Road trip across the USA

•Visit all the Caribbean Islands

•Be a Registered Nurse

•Volunteer more

•Reach my goal weight

•Pay off Student Loan Debt

•Learn to play a musical instrument (preferably the organ in church)

Based on the above bucket list: Please answer below questions:

1. How do the wishes/goals on your bucket list relate to your values and identity? How would they help you achieve “ego integrity”? Are some wishes/goals more important in terms of fulfilling ego integrity than others, and if so, why? Discuss specific examples from your bucket list. Describe ego integrity in your response before applying it.

2. What other developmental tasks or conflicts from Erikson’s psychosocial theory are reflected in your wishes/goals? If you haven’t yet resolved some of the tasks from earlier stages in your life or your current stage in life, you might find that you have a wish/goal that relates to fulfillment of the task. You can consider any stage, such as identify vs. role confusion (the task for adolescence), intimacy vs. isolation (the task for young adulthood), and generativity vs. stagnation (the task for middle adulthood). Make sure to relate specific wishes/goals from your bucket list to specific developmental tasks.

3. Do you think you will have the same bucket list a decade from now? What about two decades from now? Why or why not? When answering these questions, assume that your wishes/goals have not yet been fulfilled.

4. Apple and Bob Johnson (both age 45) are married taxpayers who file a joint return. They have a son, John, age 10. During 2018, they had the following receipts:

During 2018, they also have the following payments/contributions:

Please help Johnsons to calculate the following items on their 2019 Form 1040

1. Their AGI
2. Their taxable
3. and the following itemized deductions:

Q33: Which political ideology opposes government regulation on business and the environment?

- liberalism

- conservatism

Q34: Which political ideology is about a belief in extensive government intervention in the economy and progressive taxation?

- liberalism

- conservatism

Q35: Which political ideology is further to the left than the mainstream Democratic Party?

- libertarians

- republicans

- socialists

- moderates

Q36: Which of the following methods will generate a simple random sample for probability sample?

- Standing on the street corner and handing out public opinion surveys to people that pass by.

- surveying the top experts in the field of politics to predict the outcome of an election

- using a random number generator to select people from rolls of registered voters to predict the outcome of the election

- using chain referrals to get more people to interview from the first set of people you interview

Q37: Which of the following is an example of the social desirability effect?

- someone answers an online survey 100 times to try to show the results

- someone misunderstands the meaning of the word "welfare" on a survey

- someone claims to attend church more than the actually do

- someone completes a paper survey but then forgets to mail it in

Q38: In 2016, election pollstors used models of likely voters that left out rural, blue-collar voters who supported Trump. The resulting inaccuracy in their poll results was due to...

- push polls

- selection bias

- the bandwagon effect

- social desirability effects

Q39: The purpose of a push poll is:

- influence public opinion

- create a larger sample

- measure public opinion

- solicit ideas

Q40: A candidate who has momentum (leading in the polls) has an easier time raising campaign funds. This is an example of...

- selection bias

- the bandwagon effect

- political socialization

- social desirability

Blake and Valerie Meyer (both age 30) are married with one dependent child (age 5).

Blake’s gross salary from his corporate employer was $70,000, and his Section 401(k) contribution was $6,300.

Valerie’s salary from GuiTech, an S corporation, was $29,400.

Valerie owns 16 percent of GuiTech’s outstanding stock. Her pro rata share of GuiTech’s ordinary business income was $13,790, her pro rata share of GuiTech’s net loss from rental real estate was $8,100, and she received a $12,000 cash distribution from GuiTech.

Blake received a $12,000 cash gift from his grandmother.

Valerie won $6,400 in the Maryland state lottery.

The Meyers received a distribution from their investment in Pawnee Mutual Fund that consisted of a $712 qualifying dividend and a $3,020 long-term capital gain.

Blake paid $12,000 alimony to a former spouse.

The Meyers paid $14,200 home mortgage interest on acquisition debt and $2,780 property tax on their personal residence.

The Meyers paid $7,000 state income tax and $4,200 state and local sales tax.

Valerie contributed $1,945 to the First Baptist Church.

On the basis of the above information, compute the Meyers’ federal income tax (including any AMT) on their joint return. Assume the taxable year is 2017. Use Individual tax rate schedules and Standard deduction table. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your final answers to the nearest whole dollar amount.)

1. AGI=

2. Taxable Income=

3. Mr. and Mrs. Meyers regular taxable income (after applicable credits)=

4. AMT=

5. Mr. and Mrs. Meyers total tax liability (including ATM)=

Blake and Valerie Meyer (both age 30) are married with one dependent child (age 5).

Blake’s gross salary from his corporate employer was $70,000, and his Section 401(k) contribution was $6,300.

Valerie’s salary from GuiTech, an S corporation, was $29,400.

Valerie owns 16 percent of GuiTech’s outstanding stock. Her pro rata share of GuiTech’s ordinary business income was $13,790, her pro rata share of GuiTech’s net loss from rental real estate was $8,100, and she received a $12,000 cash distribution from GuiTech.

Blake received a $12,000 cash gift from his grandmother.

Valerie won $6,400 in the Maryland state lottery.

The Meyers received a distribution from their investment in Pawnee Mutual Fund that consisted of a $712 qualifying dividend and a $3,020 long-term capital gain.

Blake paid $12,000 alimony to a former spouse.

The Meyers paid $14,200 home mortgage interest on acquisition debt and $2,780 property tax on their personal residence.

The Meyers paid $7,000 state income tax and $4,200 state and local sales tax.

Valerie contributed $1,945 to the First Baptist Church.

On the basis of the above information, compute the Meyers’ federal income tax (including any AMT) on their joint return. Assume the taxable year is 2017. Use Individual tax rate schedules and Standard deduction table. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your final answers to the nearest whole dollar amount.)

1. AGI=

2. Taxable Income=

3. Mr. and Mrs. Meyers regular taxable income (after applicable credits)=

4. AMT=

5. Mr. and Mrs. Meyers total tax liability (including ATM)=

Conduct research on New York City's large soda ban. Pretend you work at the Paradise City attorney's office. Draft a law that restricts the sale of large sugary drinks in Paradise City. Make sure to define the types of drinks and types of sellers restricted by the law.

Example Statute: Title XXXIV (Links to an external site.) ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES AND TOBACCO Chapter 564 (Links to an external site.) WINE 564.03 Wines; sacramental and religious purposes.— (1) For the purpose of this section the term “wine” is hereby defined to mean wine, vinous spirits, or vinous liquors. (2) Any religious order, monastery, church or religious body, or any minister, pastor, priest, or rabbi thereof, may purchase wine for religious or sacramental purposes from any duly licensed wholesaler or retailer within the state, by obtaining a permit from the division for such purchases herein provided. (3) The division shall issue said permit upon sworn application, stating the name of the applicant, the religious purpose for which the wine is to be used, the amount to be purchased, and from whom the purchase is to be made. (4) The division for good cause may refuse to issue said permit. (5) Said wine and the sale thereof, when sold as herein provided and used for religious or sacramental purposes, shall be exempt from all other restrictions, regulations, and taxation now provided by the laws of the state for the sale and distribution of wine. History.—ss. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ch. 20978, 1941; s. 7, ch. 29964, 1955; ss. 16, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 4, ch. 72-230; s. 29, ch. 79-11. Note.—Former s. 562.49.

Religious Rowan worked for many years for a hotel restaurant as a waitstaff person. The restaurant had a family-style menu and was closed on Sundays. The restaurant was owned and operated by the hotel and primarily served a family oriented clientele. The restaurant was acquired by a national chain that changed the dynamic of the restaurant, making it into a bar and pub that was open 7 days per week.

Religious Rowan is a devout conservative churchgoer and does not believe in working on Sundays, because that is a time for church, nor does Rowan believe in the consumption of alcohol. Rowan told the new employers that due to religious beliefs, working any Sunday shifts and/or taking orders and serving alcohol to clients would be impossible.

The employer agreed that Rowan could always have Sundays off but insisted that Rowan get certified by the state to be able to sell alcohol as that was a new requirement of the waitstaff position. Rowan refused, and because there were always several other waitstaff personnel available that could take and serve alcohol orders, the restaurant said that was fine, because Rowan was otherwise an excellent employee.

Rowan was able to serve for 3.5 years in the same role with the accommodations of not working on Sundays or being involved in selling or serving alcohol without a problem. However, a new restaurant manager came in and determined that in order for the restaurant to improve its efficiency of operations, which was a goal the new manager was hired to implement, Rowan could still skip Sunday shifts but could no longer be accommodated by not participating in the sale of alcohol to customers as that pulled other waitstaff off of their assigned tables and was not perfectly efficient. Rowan refused to get licensed to sell alcohol or to serve it and was subsequently fired for insubordination. Rowan then sued for the failure of the hotel to accommodate her religious beliefs. How should the court rule and why?

Can someone provide me a feedback on the discussion post below. This is a marketing management class. Thanks

I had a brief phone conversation with a general manager of Harley Davidson Orlando South J. Smiley

What is the company’s pricing objective? For this question

Maximum Current Profit

Many companies try to set a price that will maximize current profits. They estimate the demand and costs associated with alternative prices and choose the price that produces maximum current profit, cash flow, or rate of return on investment. This strategy assumes the firm knows its demand and cost functions; in reality, these are difficult to estimate. In emphasizing current performance, the company may sacrifice long-run performance by ignoring the effects of other marketing variables, competitors’ reactions, and legal restraints on price.

Product-Quality Leadership

A company might aim to be the product-quality leader in the market.33 Many brands strive to be “affordable luxuries”—products or services characterized by high levels of perceived quality, taste, and status with a price just high enough not to be out of consumers’ reach. Brands such as Starbucks, Aveda, Victoria’s Secret, BMW, and Viking have positioned themselves as quality leaders in their categories, combining quality, luxury, and premium prices with an intensely loyal customer base. Grey Goose and Absolut carved out a superpremium niche in the essentially odorless, colorless, and tasteless vodka category through clever on-premise and off-premise marketing that made the brands seem hip and exclusive.

How sensitive are the company’s target customers to changes in price? (I suggest that you give them options on this question such as “highly reactive to price changes,” “moderately sensitive to price changes,” and “low sensitivity to price changes.”)

Moderately sensitive to price changes

Do they have some target segments that are less price sensitive than others?

Yes being that Harley Davidson is a status brand and something people aspire to own, many feel that owning their Harley signifies having made it. And often it is a gift of joining the club and people of the retired and higher incomes are attracted. Higher set income tend to be less price sensitive

How much consideration does the company give to competitors’ prices when setting their own?

Harley Davidson sets the price to be followed by others

What method of pricing do they use to arrive at the final price for the customer? So after listening and paying attention to what J. Smiley had to say and just having dealt with Harley Davidson I think it very safe to say that the method of pricing they use is Percieved Value.