Carlyle uses the metaphor of enchantment to convey his criticisms of British society. Paraphrase each of the following passages from his commentary. In each example, what characteristics of social life does this metaphor communicate? on the condition of England (lines 5-13). on life in the workhouse (lines 35-43). on the limits of wealth (lines 77-86).

Consider the following examples of fallacies. a. Identity the premise(s) and conclusion of the argument. b. Briefly describe how the stated fallacy occurs in the argument. c. Make up another argument that exhibits the same fallacy.

(Straw man) The mayor wants to raise taxes to fund social programs, so she must not believe in the value of hard work.

A college student is considering a subscription to a social-networking Internet site that advertises its cost as "only 87 cents per day." What is die cost of membership in dollars per year? - How many conversion factors will you need to use to solve the problem? - How do you choose die appropriate conversion factors?

Choose the letter of the correct term or concept below to complete the sentence. a. puberty b. asynchrony c. gender identity d. gender role e. identity crisis f. social learning theory g. clique h. conformity i. gender stereotypes j. anorexia nervosa. A person’s __________ is the standard of how a person with a given gender identity is supposed to behave.

Hughes' Trailer Manufacturer makes utility trailers and has seven employees who are paid weekly. For one payroll period the withholding tax for all employees was $\$ 1,661$. The total Social Security tax withheld from employees' paychecks was $\$ 608$, and the total Medicare tax withheld was $\$ 142$. What is the total tax that must be deposited by Hughes?

Tony makes an hourly salary of $11.50 for 40 regular hours of work. For any time worked beyond 40 hours, he is paid at a rate of time-and-a-half per hour. Last week, Tony worked 46 hours. Find each of the following for this period. a. Tony's gross pay b. Social Security tax c. Medicare tax

A cash payments journal, page 18, and general journal, page 10, are provided in the Working Papers.

Calculate departmental payroll taxes for the pay period ended October 8. No employees have earned more than the social security tax base. Unemployment taxes are due on the following earnings for this period: Audio, $1,568.00; and Administrative,$1,628.00.

Whose voice does the speaker of this poem hear, and how does he describe the sound?

SOCIOLOGY: Educational Status A study estimated how a person's social status (rated on a scale where 100 indicates the status of a college graduate) depended on years of education. Based on this study, with e years of education, a person's status is $S(e)=0.22(e+4)^{2.1}$. Find $S^{\prime}(12)$ and interpret your answer.

Robert Clowney’s weekly gross earnings for the week ending September $5$ were $\$800$, and his federal income tax withholding was $\$102.95$. Prior to this week, Clowney had earned $\$24,000$ for the year. Assuming the social security rate is $6\%$ on the first $\$100,000$ of annual earnings and Medicare is $1.5\%$ of all earnings, what is Clowney’s net pay?

Suppose you want to design a study to examine the relationship between stress and illness, but you cannot use the Social Readjustment Rating Scale. How would you go about measuring stress? How would you measure illness? What would you need to do in order to tell if there is a cause-effect relationship between stress and illness?

Salvador Nuncio 's monthly retirement income is made up of $1,900 from his employer-based pension fund and$900 from social security. He also has an IRA worth $150,000. What percent of his IRA must he withdraw if he wants his total retirement income to be$42,600 a year?

Edgar Henneman earned $\$ 96,000$ in wages last year. What was the cost to Edgar's employer of providing these legally required benefits: net FUTA tax of $0.8 \%$ on the first $\$ 7,000$ of wages, SUTA tax of $7.6 \%$ of the first $\$ 9,500$ of wages, social security tax of $6.2 \%$ on the first $\$ 87,900$ of wages, and a Medicare tax of $1.45 \%$ on all wages?

Xander and Pedro are at an ice cream social. For every scoop of ice cream, Xander uses $\frac{1}{8}$ cup of fruit topping. Pedro uses one more tablespoon of fruit topping than the number of scoops. For which person, Xander or Pedro, is the relationship between the quantities of ice cream and fruit topping proportional? Explain.