Value added tax

In the NBA there is 30 NBA team and each team is valued differently. A team's total value comes down to four determining factors; sports, market, arena, and brand. Sports are the portion of a team's value attributable to revenue shared among all teams. Marketing comes from the team's city and the size of the market, which determines the team's revenue per fan. Arena is just the part that is available to the arena like; home game attendance, premium seating, events, and more. And the last one…

Jeffrey H. Cohen. 2015. Eating Soup without a Spoon: Anthropological Theory and Method in the Real World. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. In Cohen’s book, Eating Soup without a Spoon, the author writes about his experiences working for the first time out in the field. Having spent a year in the village of Santa Ana in Oaxaca, Mexico, Cohen details the process of fieldwork here, the trials, successes, and everyday life involved in anthropological fieldwork. Cohen’s intention in detailing…

debilitating an essential part of Miskitu culture that is known as pana pana laka. Pana pana laka is known as the rule of reciprocity and requires that what foods are produced are imparted to each other and everybody works cooperatively. This stresses the value set upon gift giving and the regard that accompanies it. This was an important part of the survival of not only the Miskitu people but also their culture and economy. When Dennis first arrived in Awastara it was an unmistakable part of…

interpretations of what is meant by patients’ value. For some it can mean low price, receiving what is desired, receiving quality for what is paid for, or receiving something in return for what is given. While, patients’ value to others may be patients perceived preference for and evaluation of attributes, attribute performances, and consequences. With these two definitions it is easy to infer, that patients value is either desired value or perceived value. Desired value refers to what patients…

Values we possess towards a particular subject determines our attitude and subsequently affects our behavior that generates various consequences which either affirm or refute our initial values. In context of Jews in the American capitalist economy, one could suggest that Jewish religious doctrines modeled individual values that engender favorable financial outcomes. Since the Jewish economic framework is based on the concept that wealth originates from God and that humans are mere stewards,…

Mahatma Gandhi once said, “A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.” This could not be more accurate because the people of a nation make up their own culture. Every nation in this world has a unique culture onto its self. Not one nations’ culture is totally and completely the same as another. There is only one reason for that, it is the people who live there. The people who live in these different nations have numerous things that make them special. The…

1. After reading Integrity, how would you define that word?  After reading Henry Cloud’s Integrity: The Courage to Meet the Demands of Reality, my personal definition of the word, Integrity, is having the moral upstanding to knowing the difference between right and wrong. 2. How has your definition changed since reading the book? If it has not, why not?  Before reading the book, I always have been told that the word, Integrity, follows the basis of doing something right, without anyone…

Having a strong personal integrity can have lots of different meaning to people. In the Photograph by Scott mutter there is a statue of a man with a shield. He must have did something strong and brave to have gotten a statue built after him. Maybe he went to war? Or stood up for his country or kingdom?. Whatever that man did took some bravery but he still did it and showed people what it meant to be brave and have integrity. Having personal integrity to me means standing up for what is right…

Integrity an uncommon word that the majority does not know its definition. The word integrity represents something important, that if every human were to have the world would be a better place. What is integrity? Integrity is defined as being honest, fair. By this we know that if the world followed this and lived it the world would be a much better place. It wouldn’t be perfect, but it would be better as a society and an environment. Integrity to me is being unique but being open to others…

As children, we were taught to live our life following the Seven Pillars of Character. Those pillars represented what traits a respectable citizen with strong morals should achieve. Among the commonly heard characteristics like Responsibility, Trustworthiness, and Caring, there was one that did not have such a straightforward meaning as the others; Integrity. Unfortunately, younger students never question the meaning of the word or an example of someone who displays good integrity, but we grow…