Austrailian GST (Goods and Services Tax)
The GST (Goods and Services Tax) proposed by the Howard government is a
new tax which plans to add ten percent to the cost of every item
purchased whether it be a car or a pen with only a few exceptions. The
tax set to commence on July 1 2000 may still not become a reality if
the senate does not have a majority vote on the issue. The VAT (Value
Added Tax) of the United Kingdom is much the same tax adding seventeen
and a half percent to all goods and services (although there are
exceptions). This tax is currently in operation in the UK. Differences
between the proposed GST and VAT are not great but there are some
significant differences.
If and when the GST becomes a reality a range of taxes including
wholesale sales tax and provisional tax will disappear when the GST
appears. Daily consumables and services will rise as a result of the
GST. The government is promising to balance the tax by creating
household savings through lower marginal tax rates. The question is,
will this be sufficient compensation? It probably will not be. The
^Aussie battler^ will not be favoured with the GST, as the current
compensation being offered is simply not sufficient. This tax proposal
is yet to be passed by the Senate which means that the GST may not even
become a reality. There may have to be some changes to the GST for it
to be passed by the Senate without another federal election. Some of
these may be food to be exempt from the GST, more compensation for
lower income families, pensioners, etc. Although the government will
receive ten percent of every item sold, not many items will actually
rise by the full ten percent; estim! ated rises for goods and services
will often be significantly lower than ten percent. For example, food
is predicted to only rise four percent. Clothing and footwear will rise
six point eight percent but electrical goods will fall by twenty two
percent because of the current thirty two percent tax which will be
replaced by the ten percent GST. Health and education will be
supposedly GST free, but schoolbooks and uniforms will still attract
the regular GST of ten percent. Childcare will not be taxed, financial
services will be. Renting will not attract a GST but prices are
expected to rise, as landlords will have to pay extra for repairs and
maintenance of properties. The sale of existing homes will not have a
GST placed on them but new homes are expected to rise by four point
In The Yellow Wallpaper, the narrator weaves a tale of a woman with deep seeded feelings of depression. Her husband, a physician, takes her to a house for a span of three months where he puts her in a room to recuperate. That “recuperation” becomes her nemesis. She is so fixated on the “yellow wallpaper” that it seems to serve as the definition of her bondage. She gradually over time begins to realize what the wallpaper seems to represents and goes about plotting ways to overcome it. In a discussion concerning the wallpaper she states, “If only that top pattern could be gotten off from the under one! I mean to try it, little by little.” “There are only two more days to get this paper off, and I believe John is beginning to notice. I don’t like the look in his eyes.”
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As she spends more and more time isolated in her bedroom, with nothing else to occupy her mind, she gradually become fixated on the dreadful patterns of the paper and instantly foresee something else: the narrator eventually see a “strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to skulk about behind that silly and conspicuous design”(77). The narrator’s bedroom being a prison becomes more literal as from figurative when the loneliness and social negation intensifies her need for an escape from the pre-set nature of conduct created specifically for her (a mentally depressed and unwell women) by the people in her life especially by John. Throughout the story, the narrator’s psychological breakdown goes from a typical depressed mind and lacked awareness of identity, to a complete madness and reversed sense of self-esteem. She gradually changes the place she has in the physical world and fights back the social rejection she is facing by turning away from reality in exchange for a world where she has total control and can act according to her own will. The author uses the yellow wallpaper as a symbol for representing the phases of the narrator’s gradual deteriorating
The attempts the women tries so to be in vain till the end when it over boils. The women set herself free in the only way she knew how. Sometimes when people are in tight situation, or when their goals are being blocked, they react even when it doesn’t make sense. The women reacted to being closed up and oppressed and, to her family, it didn’t make
Sugar is one of the most addictive things in the world. On average you should have consumed around about 35.4kg of sugar when I reality you have consumed 163.5kg. That is about 4.5 times the recommended 6 teaspoons per day. Personally, I believe that the sugar tax should not be introduced to Australia. Sugar taxing could be beneficial however there is more reason for why it’s not. Australia is already so addictive to sugar that 60% of Australian adults and 25% of Australian children are considered to be overweight or obese. I believe that adding a few more dollars on existing retail prices of sugary drinks is not the answer. The sugar tax is not fair to those who are of low income, the sales of soft drinks are quickly decreasing and deciding what drinks are taxed is too complicated, and soft drink consumption is already falling so what is the point
The Graffiti community is, although they will not admit, a bunch of aesthetic filled souls. Everyone gathers recognition in this community. “Graffiti isn't something a normal person does, I have been through a lot of situations just cus I do what I do,” my subject explains. These artist ARE outcasts, for a good. They express culture and it is something they get a feel for. It is brilliant, even with the trouble.
In “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the author, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, through expressive word choice and descriptions, allows the reader to grasp the concepts she portrays and understand the way her unnamed narrator feels as the character draws herself nearer and nearer to insanity. “The Yellow Wallpaper” begins with the narrator writing in a journal about the summer home she and her husband have rented while their home is being remodeled. In the second entry, she mentions their bedroom which contains the horrendous yellow wallpaper. After this, not one day goes by when she doesn’t write about the wallpaper. She talks about the twisting, never-ending pattern; the heads she can see hanging upside-down as if strangled by it; and most importantly the
The flat tax would simplify the tax system because instead of filling out a variety of complicated forms, a person would only need to tell the IRS how much money they make, then give the percent of that amount. This would dissolve all of the loopholes that exist within the current system. It would cut back on the opportunities for unethical people to cheat. If the flat tax system were taken, taxpayers would save 94% in compliance costs (Website).
Although both protagonists in the stories go through a psychological disorder that turns their lives upside down, they find ways to feel content once again. In Charlotte Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," a nervous wife, an overprotective husband, and a large, damp room covered in musty wallpaper all play important roles in driving the wife insane. Gilman's masterful use of not only the setting, both time and place, but also of first person point of view, allows the reader to process the woman's growing insanity. The narrator develops a very intimate relationship with the yellow wallpaper throughout the story, as it is her constant companion. Her initial reaction to it is a feeling of hatred; she dislikes the color and despises the pattern, but does not attribute anything peculiar to it. Two weeks into their stay she begins to project a sort of personality onto the paper, so she studies the pattern more closely, noticing for the first time “a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure that seems to skulk about behind that silly and conspicuous front design” (Gilman). At this point, her madness is vague, but becoming more defined, because although the figure that she sees behind the pattern has no solid shape, she dwells on it and
With a sarcastic, monstrous, and angry tone combined with high emotion and sentimentalism, Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote the short story The Yellow Wallpaper in order to help the oppressed females recover their voice, their rights, and their freedom. She skillfully leaded the reader’s interest from a little horrible opening; then, a curious feeling about Jane’s life immediately became anger because of the unexpected climax of the narrator’s own recognition in the yellow wallpaper. The author tried to show that female would stand up and do whatever they can, even if they lose something to escape the control of male dominance as the narrator did in the story. This story is successful at portraying its authorial purpose because of its setting, types of conflict, character development, and the language effects.
Some people believe that graffiti is not a form of art. They believe People spray painting public buildings, anything in the streets and on walls. They argue Graffiti is a type of vandalism, to spray paint, public buildings. It makes many people mad if their property gets vandalized. The definition of vandalism is “an action involving deliberate destruction of or damage to public or private property”. In their opinion Graffiti is plain vandalism. Because it violates people’s property as well as any owner’s and city’s. Some of them consider street art to be vandalism unless the artist has asked the owner of the building permission to paint on their
Aristotle goes further by saying that not only is the first step to determine if a thing is real, but to determine its substance (Moore and Bruder, n.d., 63). According to Moore and Bruden, substance has a double meaning. Substance is not only referring to the individual thing but also how it compares to other things (Moore and Bruder, n.d., 63). Aristotle did not stop there and mentions how ten different categories are used to describe and view things (Moore and Bruder, n.d., 64). These categories are quantity, quality, relationships, place, time, posture, constitution, passivity, and activity. All of these categories are great and help really describe and characterize a thing or object. Also, these categories show that we are very curious human beings and it takes categories like these to really satisfy our craving of what something is.