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Taxation: November 2008
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I INTRODUCTION TO TAXATION. The federal government of the United States obtains most of its revenues from income taxes on individuals and corporations. Social insurance taxes help pay for government programs that benefit the poor, the elderly, the unemployed, and the disabled. Taxation is the most important source of revenues for modern governments, typically accounting for 90 percent or more of their income. The remainder of government revenue comes from borrowing and from charging fees for services...
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Taxation: B Corporate Income Tax
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B Corporate Income Tax. Some economists have proposed abolishing the corporate income tax and instead taxing the owners of corporations (shareholders) through the personal income tax. Other students of the tax system see the corporate income tax as the price corporations pay in return for special privileges from society. The most important of these privileges is limited liability. Whereas an income tax is levied on all sources of income, a payroll tax. In the United States, consumption taxes account for ...
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Physics: VI DEVELOPMENTS IN PHYSICS SINCE 1930
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VI DEVELOPMENTS IN PHYSICS SINCE 1930. DEVELOPMENTS IN PHYSICS SINCE 1930. The rapid expansion of physics in the last few decades was made possible by the fundamental developments during the first third of the century, coupled with recent technological advances, particularly in computer technology, electronics, nuclear-energy applications, and high-energy particle accelerators. Van de Graaff Generator. The big circle marks the location of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European particle physics l...
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Education History: XI EDUCATION DURING THE ENLIGHTENMENT
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XI EDUCATION DURING THE ENLIGHTENMENT. EDUCATION DURING THE ENLIGHTENMENT. EDUCATION IN THE 19TH CENTURY. Swiss educator Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi is widely considered the pioneer of early childhood education. His teaching philosophy, which he first proposed in the 1770s, was based on the principle that children were naturally good and that education should nurture and preserve this innate innocence. Pestalozzi established several schools for poor and orphaned children in Switzerland. German educator Fr...
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Education History: Introduction to the History of Education
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Introduction to the History of Education. EDUCATION IN PRELITERATE SOCIETIES. Before the invention of reading and writing, people lived in an environment in which they struggled to survive against natural forces, animals, and other humans. To survive, preliterate people developed skills. EDUCATION IN ANCIENT AFRICA AND ASIA. In ancient Egypt, which flourished from about 3000 bc. To about 500 bc,. Priests in temple schools taught not only religion but also the principles of writing, the sciences, mathemat...
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Education History: V EDUCATION IN ANCIENT ROME
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V EDUCATION IN ANCIENT ROME. EDUCATION IN ANCIENT ROME. After primary and secondary school, wealthy young men often attended schools of rhetoric or oratory that prepared them to be leaders in government and administration. Cicero, a 1st century bc. Roman senator, combined Greek and Roman ideas on how to educate orators in his book De Oratore. Quintilian, an influential Roman educator who lived in the 1st century ad. Education in the 13th century was shaped profoundly by the work of Italian philosopher an...
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Education History: XIII NATIONAL SYSTEMS OF EDUCATION
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XIII NATIONAL SYSTEMS OF EDUCATION. NATIONAL SYSTEMS OF EDUCATION. In the 19th century, governments in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, and other European countries organized national systems of public education. The United States, Canada, Argentina, Uruguay, and other countries in North and South America also established national education systems based largely on European models. In the United Kingdom. In the United States. Public Education in the United States. 1900; The Century of the Child.
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Education History: November 2008
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Introduction to the History of Education. EDUCATION IN PRELITERATE SOCIETIES. Before the invention of reading and writing, people lived in an environment in which they struggled to survive against natural forces, animals, and other humans. To survive, preliterate people developed skills. EDUCATION IN ANCIENT AFRICA AND ASIA. In ancient Egypt, which flourished from about 3000 bc. To about 500 bc,. Priests in temple schools taught not only religion but also the principles of writing, the sciences, mathemat...
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Education History: XV POLITICAL INFLUENCES
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In the United States. One-room schoolhouses are usually associated with earlier eras in the history of education. A few, however, like the one at Living History Farm, are still in use. This farm aims to reconstruct pioneer life in Iowa. Local and state governments have retained most of the responsibility for operating public education in the United States during the 20th century. Because individual communities often have different educational priorities and different abilities to finance public educa...
