Abstract
This paper examines how Class Act's revenue from an agreement with Broadway Venues could be realized. It explores the background of the situation and alternatives. It also recommends an accrual method of recognizing the revenue.

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"Companies regularly enter into business agreements where payments are made over a period of time. Such agreements can take the form of leases where the payments are regular and made over a long-period of time or ..."

Tags:Class Act, case study, accrual

Abstract
This paper examines how the Patriot Act (2001) was set forth to deter terrorist crimes and reduce the likelihood of such criminal actions. The paper then looks at the arguments that have arisen that indicate that the Act also presents an invasion into the private lives of the country's citizens and works against the privacy set forth in the nation's Constitution. The paper debates whether the Act actually abuses individual Americans' right to privacy and looks at the controversies associated with the Act including policy terms of race, gender, and class issues. Concluding the paper is a summary of findings and an assessment of the Act's implications from a social work perspective.

Outline:
Introduction
Overview of the Patriot Act
Controversies and Opposition
Conclusion

From the Paper
"Opponents of the Act believe it is more practical to have increased security in the areas which are likely to be entry points for potential terrorist, and other, related areas, than to allow monitoring of all aspects of a person's life. For example, our government can view our most personal information at will (American Civil Liberties Union, 2003). Such information includes, but is not limited to, medical files and employment records. Indeed, we need a strong policy in effect to reduce the risk of terrorist entry and attacks, but at what cost? Organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) pose questions, including: Should all American citizens have to put their lives under a microscope? Does this not punish the nation as a whole in an effort to assert power over potential threats? "

Tags:constitution, terror, race, class, government

Abstract
This paper examines how the Tax Reform Act of 1986 divided Americans according to class lines and how their particular allegiance varied according to where they lived, in what business they were employed (or not employed), and what they believed to be the purpose of government. It analyzes the theory of "Supply Side Economics," in which cuts in capital gains taxes for the wealthy would provide a stimulus for the entire economy, and how benefits accrued from the excess capital would "trickle down" to the masses. It concludes with how together with other tax cuts, the rich would grow richer, while the poor and the not-so-rich would alike grow poorer.

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"But wealthy industrialist, arms manufacturers, and oil tycoons do not make up the majority of voters. The growing population of the warm areas of the South and West, coupled with the rapid rise of the Christian Right gave Reagan Republicans a huge and powerful new foundation of public support. Suddenly, politics was no longer a Northeastern preserve. With the reapportionment of congressional seats, and Ronald Reagan's landslide victory in the 1980 Presidential election, the liberal views of the Eastern elite gave way to Christian fundamentalism and all its attendant precepts. The evangelically-inclined populations of the South and West gave the new Republicans the edge they needed."

Tags:supply, side, economics, capital, gains, economy

Abstract
The paper explains the purpose of the Fair Labor Standards Act that was to protect the workers of America from being taken advantage of through excessive and unpaid overtime. The paper discusses, however, the recent legislation that placed exemptions upon the act thus failing the majority of individuals who need the protection, while protecting those who already were making sufficient income. The paper contends this act has effectively become another tool of modern capitalism with which to maintain the status quo.

Outline:
The Fair Labor Standards Act
The Erosion of the Fair Labor Standards Act
Exemptions
Requirements of Exempt Compensation
Conclusion

From the Paper
"The purpose of the Fair Labor Standards Act is to protect the workers of America from being taken advantage of through excessive and unpaid overtime. While the act at its base was and is well-intended, as will be discussed in the next passage, recent legislation has placed exemptions upon the act, thus ruling out a great majority of those employees who need the protection. Having struggled for more than one hundred years prior to the establishment of the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938, the United States' labor movement was finally successful in obtaining both the eight-hour day and the forty-hour work week. The Act attempted and for the most part protected each of these objectives of labor, by using the legislative stick of overtime pay, which was set at one and a half hours of pay for each hour worked over forty in a given week."

Tags:overwork, overtime, compensation, capitalism

Abstract
This paper examines how one of the biggest problems facing the black middle class youth today involves destructive cultural patterns: a resistance to academic achievement as acting "uncool", a celebration of "ghetto" street culture, and the normalization of criminal activity and drug and alcohol dependency. It contends that ,because the black middle class youth are surrounded by and espouse certain destructive cultural patterns, the group, in general, suffers downward social mobility.

From the Paper
"Besides the street culture that holds back black middle-class youth, there is also the tendency for many teenagers or people in their early twenties to shirk work and school. As Jay MacLeod, in his book Ain't No Makin' It put it, "to be bad is the main criterion for status in this subculture." Although MacLeod's study focused on working-class youths, what he has to say deals very much with the black middle class as well. MacLeod would disagree with my sentiments because the Brothers, although espousing an "achievement ideology", still did not fare much better than the Hallway Hangers."

Tags:poverty, ghetto

Abstract
The paper discusses how the HEA is particularly significant in terms of funding for higher education. The paper explains that it provided higher education to middle and lower income students. The paper examines how it greatly impacted the effort to empower and educate minority groups in the United States. The paper relates that for the first time, the general public received the opportunity to improve themselves through further education.

From the Paper
"The Higher Education Act (HEA) of 1965 was signed into law on November 8 of that year. Before this time, higher education was a luxury that could be afforded only by the rich and the privileged, hence mainly by the white upper-class population of the United States. President Johnson understood the need to provide lower and middle income families with the opportunity for higher education as well. This would not only serve an empowerment function for the beneficiaries of the Act, but would also be beneficial for the manpower and employment sectors of the country as a whole. By providing higher education to middle and lower income students, the country can make use of otherwise latent and lost talents in order to uplift both the community and the country itself. As such, the Act was particularly important for financing higher education since the 1940s."

Tags:middle, lower, class, minority, opportunities

Abstract
This paper examines the effect of Chartism on Britain's class system and looks at the changing political aspirations of the laboring poor. It explores the ramifications of the 1832 Reform Act, the Industrial Revolution, the Poor Laws of 1601, classical liberalism and Malthusian influences. It traces the birth of Chartism and its subsequent demise.

From the Paper
"Prior to Chartism, the concept of a "working class" had not existed. British society could be split into two; the elite and the non-landed classes. The latter group included not only the poor but also the middle classes in the form of professionals such as lawyers, clergy and the military. The Industrial Revolution then swelled the ranks of the middle class with the management level staff of the new northern industries."

Tags:chartist, class, classical, liberalism, malthus, working, society

Abstract
This paper examines the main theme in "Black Picket Fences" that middle-class African-Americans have far more trouble than their white counterparts because of the inequalities that still plague public schools, standardized testing that may indeed be culturally biased toward whites, income disparities, and a paucity of community services due to the negligence of citizens and public officials to address the race issue. The paper also discusses the point made by the book that many people act as if race no longer matters. It explains that affirmative action programs are being cut and as many more African-Americans assume positions of power and become wealthier in general, the needs of the poorer and struggling blacks become white-washed away.

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"Sharlene looked at me with her big, watery brown eyes. "No," she said emphatically, with a definite doleful tone in her voice. "I have never felt like I fit in here." Sharlene, who is 31 years old and has two children, is a black woman that falls into what Mary Patillo-McCoy calls the "black middle class." However, unlike the men, women, and children that Patillo-McCoy interviews for her book Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class, Sharlene lives in a predominantly white neighborhood. Her neighbors are not all Anglo-Saxon or WASP; some of them are Hispanic-American and Asian as well. However, Sharlene is one of the few people in a two-block radius of African origin. Because of this, Sharlene feels completely disconnected from her community."

Tags:neighborhood, husband, idealistic, optimistic, racial, equality, socio-economic, groups

Abstract
This paper explores the changing face of motherhood among London's working classes during the Victorian era and uses Ellen Ross' book, Love and Toil: Motherhood in Outcast London 1870-1918 as its source. It explores the Infant Welfare Reform movement, the Education Acts of 1906 and 1907 and the 1908 Children's Act and considers their implications on the lives of mothers.

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"In a parlor in a London suburb Hampstead maybe plump, pink-cheeked children gaze with anticipation at a roast goose, whilst their adoring mother looks down at them with obvious motherly love and affection. This rosy picture of family life was popular in Victorian Britain. However, move this little cameo some four miles to, perhaps, working-class Hackney and the scenario changes dramatically. Replace the goose with a plate of bread and dripping, hollow the children's cheeks and look hard for mother. It is likely that she is out at work but even if she were present, the love and affection in her eyes would probably be replaced with fatigue and fear for the future. The attitudes of mothers towards their children varied depending on which class "mother" belonged to. However, the working class attitude to motherhood was destined to change, slowly but significantly, due to the Infant Welfare Reform movement."

Tags:class, employment, love, middle, poverty, slum, toil, working, poor, economy

Abstract
This paper is a discussion of the book "The Politics" by Aristotle. In this book Aristotle introduces the idea of a middle class, and argues it's significance for the good of mankind. Aristotle argues that the middle class is the most suitable class to be rulers since unlike the rich who do not want anyone to rule them, or the poor, who do not have the means to rule, they live in the middle and have seen the best qualities of both the rich and the poor.

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"The poor, conversely, cannot be good rulers because their attributes usually consist of being overly indigent, weak, or lacking in honor. These qualities make it difficult for the poor to follow reason, and they usually become malicious and base in petty ways. If the malicious were given the entitlement to rule, it seems that their hateful and wicked ways would cause a tyrannical, or master/slave society. As was said before, the poor are full of envy for the rich and could, perhaps, attempt to revenge on those they resent. Either the rich or the poor can commit Acts of injustice. Whether it is through arrogance or malice, both are groups likely to act against the best interest of the city. The middling class must rule because both the rich and the poor, if given the claim to rule, are likely to cause nothing but injury to the cities."

Tags:11, ancient, aristotle, best, book, chapter, middling, philosophy, political, politics, regime, rulers