1-Betty Haley and Jerry Filpi have lived together for over 3 years. They are not married but tend to pool their money to pay bills, buy groceries, etc. Thinking of a better life, Betty used the pooled funds to buy a lottery ticket and won $4.2 million. The lottery commission told them the payout could be to only one person, so they executed a “separate ownership agreement” which provided an equal interest for each of them in the ticket. Will Betty be required to pay gift tax on the transfer of a one-half interest in the ticket to Frank? Your solution should be based on a Letter Ruling or TAM which should be cited in your response.2- Eyvette operates Henry Auto Parts as a sole proprietorship. The business is growing due to maintaining a large inventory of quality parts that are reasonably priced. She is outgrowing her current warehouse which she leases from State Street, LLC. State Street, LLC was formed about ten years ago and is owned by two sisters who are heavily invested in real estate. Eyvette’s lease ends in seven months and she is ready to take on a larger warehouse space. After meeting with her investment advisor, she is considering buying a building. Leasing has its benefits but also many drawbacks. Investing in real estate is very appealing to her – equity growth and no landlord sounds appealing. Eyvette finds a suitable building for $1.0 million. After meeting with the bank, she learns that a down payment of $250,000 will be required. The balance can be financed. Her problem is that the only place she has that kind of cash is in her self-directed IRA. She doesn’t want to take a distribution because of the tax and penalties (she is 55 years old), so she is considering acquiring the building inside her IRA. Then her business could be the sole tenant and pay rent to her IRA. Sounds perfect! However, her financial advisor told her there might be problems with her IRA acquiring this type of asset, so she was referred to you. Would you advise Eyvette to buy the building in her IRA and then rent it as the sole tenant? Your conclusion should cite the relevant IRC Section(s) and any other sources you think are applicable

Pick the following topics, and write a report of approximately 1,250 words (excluding bibliography) in response to the question posed for your chosen topic. Further instructions are available on Brightspace; please ensure you review instructions for the outline and peer review.
Note: you are not required, but are permitted  to cite material outside of the linked/provided content in the Essay 1 instructions. If you choose to cite material outside of the linked material and outside of course material, then please provide bibliographic information in a consistent, clear format that contains enough information for your reader to identify the date, venue, and author of the piece. 
Topic A – Social media for children
Is it ethical for Facebook or another company to run a social media platform designed for children?
See two media pieces attached on the topic. One is a descriptive piece describing a planned but postponed technology. The other is a piece that urges the reader not to merely accept that new technologies are inevitable, in the context of the question about social media for children.
Further Instructions
To do well on this assignment, you must:

Answer the question. Your essay should clearly indicate the position you will be arguing for in a thesis statement in the introduction. Is the action or policy ethical or not? You cannot do well on this assignment by offering a conditional or hypothetical claim. I suggest you begin your essay by explaining to your reader what your position is on the question.
Justify your answer with ethical arguments. Your essay must present a case for why the answer you picked is correct, rather than simply asserting that it is. Your answer must take a stand on whether something is unethical or not; essays that only argue for why something is or isn’t legal or prudential will not receive full marks.
Apply the Sociotechnical System Perspective. Your essay must use the sociotechnical systems perspective to describe the different aspects of the case. See the Huff reading for more information. You needn’t mention every element of the system, but you should mention all that are ethically relevant.

Ethics and Professional Responsibility: Sochi Olympics case study – Considering the PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct. Project managers are expected to abide by the Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct established by the Project Management Institute (PMI). But sometimes the decision to do so is difficult. There are situations where executives in the company you work for, or external stakeholders, may act in an immoral or unethical manner for either personal gain or company gain. Although you, as a project manager, may not personally act in this unprofessional manner, you may be drawn into it by decisions made by the company’s hierarchy. What if you like the company you work for and do not want to leave? What if you had no knowledge that this behavior was happening until well into the project? What if you are asked to be part of this behavior while managing a project? What if this behavior is forced on you by the stakeholders after the project begins? Assume you are the project manager employed by a company in the private sector. Your company has one or more contracts for venues at the Olympic Games. You have been assigned to manage one of the projects and believe that there may be some corruption that could directly involve you in the future. As an example, an IOC official asks you to help her scalp tickets to some events with the promise that she will share the profits with you. What should you do? You have been assigned to manage one of the projects. Partway through the project, your senior management informs you that you must request (without any real justification) more money from the OCOG because one member of the OCOG wants a larger kickback. What should you do? Partway through your project, one of the government stakeholders tells you that the government will pay you only 75 percent of the remaining cost, and the other 25 percent will be withheld as a kickback. What should you do, assuming that you need the remaining 25 percent to complete the project?Partway through the project, your senior management tells you to sacrifice quality to keep costs down to compensate for the corruption. What should you do?

Rhetorical Analysis Rough Draft/Workshop discussion (please note DEADLINES in description)Argumentative Essay Discussion BoardThis discussion board was created to give you an opportunity to share your rhetorical analysis rough drafts and get some feedback from the class. I will also provide you feedback on this as quickly as possible in my private comments.Drafts that are too short, overly broad/vague, off topic or showing no effort to incorporate the readings and worksheets will not receive full credit.Discussion PromptOnce you have finished your rough draft of the rhetorical analysis paper, you should upload it here. Ideally, it should already include your Works Cited page. I would recommend cutting and pasting the text directly in to the text box (as I think you will make things slightly easier for your classmates), but if that (for instance) causes too many formatting issues, feel free to attach it to your comment instead.If you do not post a rough draft, you will not be able to earn a grade higher than 70% on the final draft, regardless of how good it is.After people have uploaded their drafts, you are to pick two classmates and comment on their posts–at least one paragraph each giving them feedback about their drafts. Rules & Guidelines:1. Be nice. Start with something they do well. Talk about a particular part in the paper where they make a good point, are convincing, interesting or informative (or something else they do well).2. Give them helpful feedback: specific, linked to specific passages in the paper, relating to one of the important parts of the paper discussed in the worksheets you used while writing the paper. Try to pick something they are struggling with and that you really felt you understood well while working on your own paper. Be nice about this, as well, but also be honest. DO NOT neurotically tell them each and every thing they’ve gotten wrong. This, generally, isn’t helpful to people, even if it feels helpful.3. Do not comment on any paper that’s already gotten some feedback, if there are papers which have received none. If you are the tenth comment on a paper and some have gotten none, I will be cranky.

you will attend a concert EITHERIN PERSON OR stream a concert(s) ONLINE. You will then write a review of that concert. 

Find in person concerts HERE. 
Find streaming concerts HERE.

Both Concerts MUST Be “Formal”
No stadium/festival concerts or concerts featuring pop artists (EDM, pop rock, hip hop, modern country, etc).  Music should reflect the course’s content.
Appropriate genres include:

traditional jazz
opera
symphony orchestra
chamber music (like a string quartet or piano recital)
“world” music (i.e. Japanese classical, Indonesian gamelan, etc), experimental, etc.
Pop, rock, hip hop, reggae, and other popular style concerts, and outdoor, cafe/restaurant performances are NOT acceptable (with the exception of pop concerts on the Cuyamaca College Performing Arts Concert Series).

IN PERSON CONCERTS MUST BE PRE-APPROVED BY THE INSTRUCTOR!
THE WRITTEN REVIEW
1. Provide 1-2 paragraphs describing the concert you attended and the music performed in formal, academic language.

2. Give TITLES of pieces/songs and GENRE or type of music played (jazz, baroque, opera, romantic, etc).

3. Give the HISTORY of the music played.

4. What instruments were played?

5. Write about the performers themselves: where are they from, what is their background, what do they play?

6. What is your own response to the performance and the music? Like it? Love it or Hate it? Why?

7. Write about the substance of the performance and the music and your response to it ONLY. (I don’t need to know what you had for dinner or how traffic was getting to the venue.)
ONLINE CONCERTS
Choose from these videos to review for your Concert Reviews #1 &2. Make sure you watch a minimum of 40 minutes by combining videos. Please do your best to figure out the name of the piece and the composer! All of these YouTube concerts are acceptable for your Concert Reviews. Email if you have questions.
LA PHILHARMONIC: DUDAMEL CONDUCTING (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!)
https://youtu.be/Ros66y1aZ-E