in the pre-existing Central excise duty of the Government of India and sales tax system of the State Governments. The introduction of Central VAT (CENVAT) has removed the cascading burden of "tax on tax" to a good extent by providing a mechanism of "set off" for tax paid on inputs and services upto the stage of production‚ and has been an improvement over the pre-existing Central excise duty. Similarly‚ the introduction of VAT in the States has removed the cascading effect by giving set-off for tax
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This piece seems to me like an allegory of oral tradition. Hard Rock is‚ after all‚ a legend to all the prison inmates‚ and his exploits can only travel by word of mouth. That is perhaps why ‘WORD’ is given so much importance in the third stanza. It brings attention to the fact that all legend/folktales/myths were originally passed down orally. The use of slang: "nigger"‚ "indian"‚ "son of a bitch" gives the piece its edge; the gritty‚ harsh reality of prison life. This poem is very psychological
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find In “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”‚ O’Connor seems to suggest that only through conflicts can the “good” in people be found. The way that the grandmother seems to dwell in the past suggests that she believes that it would’ve been easier to find a “good” man a long time ago. To the grandmother‚ trying to find goodness today would prove to be very challenging and possibly even useless. Through the use of symbolism‚ foreshadowing‚ and metaphors‚ O’Connor develops the story’s
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THE IMPACTS OF GOODS AND SERVICES TAX (GST) ON MIDDLE INCOME EARNERS IN MALAYSIA MOHD RIZAL PALIL1 MOHD ADHA IBRAHIM 2 Abstract The introduction of GST in Malaysia has called many arguments from various parties including academics‚ professionals and the nation (would become the taxpayers) on how GST affect goods pricesincrease or decrease. The consumers are worrying of the significant price increases on basic needs when the GST has fully implemented. With the relatively high living costs particularly
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Jasmine Robinson Professor John Burnett English 120-80669 9/11/2014 ‘’A Good Man Is Hard To Find’’ Even before the story unfolds there is simple irony that in just the title of A Good Man Is Hard To Find‚ where a nice family vacation turns into a disastrous murder. When I first began reading‚ I never thought that the story would have such an ending. The mood of the story went from normal to sad fairly quickly. There was an example of foreshadowing at the beginning of the story when the grandma
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In A Good Man is Hard to Find‚ O’Connor displays to us the theme of an unsympathetic character that is surprisingly touched when one of his victims of his senseless crimes tries to convert him and persuade him to not kill her. With O’Connor’s Catholic influenced writing‚ a closer look through the short story shows the theme of unlikely‚ undeserving characters finally understanding the error of their ways and knowing that they could change‚ through the help and belief of religion. At the end of the
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From Grace to Grotesque “A good man is hard to find” is a narrative that Flannery O’Connor‚ a spiritual southern writer‚ uses to illustrate the simplicity of religion. O’Connor narrates how the fate of a family is doomed by the actions of their grandmother and their encounter with the misfit on a family vacation trip. O’ Connor with excellent diction and imagery tells this tragicomedy to a climax‚ that creates room for debates among her readers. O’ Connor uses her main grotesque characters
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prominent of all of O’Conner’s themes is most definitely parenting. Parenting also ties into ingratitude‚ generational shifts‚ and pretty much everything else. Parenting‚ or bad parenting‚ is a strong and clearly defined theme in A Good Man is Hard to Find along with generational shifts. The grandmother wouldn’t take her “children in any direction with a criminal like” (1) The Misfit. Even with her warning bailey‚ as a clear example of generational shift‚ doesn’t “look up from his reading”
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1102 Society and Class in “A Good Man is Hard to Find” In Flannery O’Connor’s short story‚ “A Good Man is Hard to Find” the grandmother and the Misfit become the main focus even though the other characters are involved in the story. Throughout the entire story‚ The Misfit is portrayed as the symbol of evil because he was in jail; he escaped from jail‚ and he committed murders. The grandmother believes to be greater than the people that she are around because of the “good” that she portrays. The conventional
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REE STUDY GUIDE: A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND SHORT STORY SUMMARIES WITH NOTES / ANALYSIS A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND CHARACTER LIST The Grandmother An old lady with old fashioned ideas and manners. The grandmother is directive‚ talkative‚ a bit silly‚ and full of herself. She also can be manipulative. She considers herself a good person‚ and a kind one‚ and she loves her family‚ but is also selfish--though she wouldn’t see herself this way. She is not very aware. Bailey The old
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