West Federal Taxation 2005: Business Entities, Professional Version (West's Federal Taxation: An Introduction to Business Entities)

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Edited by authors of the market-leading West Federal Tax Series, the 2005 Edition of Advanced Business Entity Taxation provides thorough and adequate coverage of all relevant tax codes and regulations, emphasizing the high-interest and multidisciplinary aspects of taxation for the second tax course. Designed with the AICPA model tax curriculum in mind, this text presents the second federal taxation course from a business entity perspective. It is an ideal follow-up to WFT: Taxation of Business Entities or any first course in taxation that uses the business entities approach. This course is intended for accounting or finance majors who take it to fulfill curriculum requirements, and for students likely to sit for the CPA or CFA Exams. Visit the Product Website @ http://wft.swlearning.com.

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The Octopus: A Story of California (Twentieth Century Classics)
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The indifference of the people is the opportunity of the despot

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"Robber barons" and the Mussel Slough Massacre

A Novel Rich with Loamy Irony

The Octopus: A Story of California (Twentieth Century Classics)
Frank Norris
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This is a turn-of-the-century epic of California wheat farmers struggling against the rapacity of the Pacific and Southwestern Railroad, which will stop at nothing to extend its domination. The company controls the local paper, the land, the legislature and, when the farmers organize to protect themselves, even manages to control their representative on the state rate-fixing commission. An unremitting tale of greed and betrayal, originally intended as one-third of Norris' never-completed "Epic of the Wheat" trilogy.

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This important book on the struggle for power and survival between wheat farmers and the Pacific and Southwestern Railroad involves the lives and deaths of many that we learn to care about deeply. The contrast between scenes of starvation and desperation and descriptions of a tycoon's dinner party are devastating. (Eleven 90-minute cassettes and two 60's)

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Ulsteen gave his decision yesterday, he continued, reading from his father's letter. "He holds, Ulsteen does, that 'grain rates as low as the new figure would amount to confiscation of property, and that, on such a basis, the railroad could not be operated at a legitimate profit. As he is powerless to legislate in the matter, he can only put the rates back at what they originally were before the commissioners made the cut, and it is so ordered.'

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The indifference of the people is the opportunity of the despot.......2006-12-18

The despot, the octopus, in Frank Norris's forceful novel is the Railroad Cy (RR), which monopolizes the transport of agricultural products and sucks the life out of the farmers: `He searched for the true romance and found grain rates and unjust freight tariffs.' More, the RR owns big chunks of the land alongside the railway, which it `optionally' sold at a modest fixed price to the farmers as a counterpart for developing and exploiting the land. But the RR breaches the contracts.
The farmers are not as indifferent as the vast majority of the masses and try to get control of the Board of Railroad Commissioners through bribery. A brutal and deadly fight explodes between the organized farmers and the delegates of the RR ...

Frank Norris sees two great evils in modern America: the lethargy of the public and the aggression of the trusts. The trusts are exploiting the masses because `they are allowed to do it'.
His analysis of the nation is devastating: `They swindle a nation of a hundred million and call it financiering; they levy a blackmail and call it commerce; they corrupt a legislature and call it politics; they bribe a judge and call it law; they prostitute the honor of a state and call it competition.'
The overall mentality of the public, the spirit of the West, equals a policy of `after us the deluge': `The miner's instinct of wealth acquired in a simple night prevailed. They had no love for their land. When the land, worn out, would refuse to yield, they would invest their money in something else.'

But, astonishingly, for Frank Norris this is all part of nature, `the gigantic engine, the leviathan with a heart of steel, knowing no forgiveness, no tolerance. Men were naught, death was naught, life was naught. Force only existed, force that made the wheat grow. It was the mystery of creation, the stupendous miracle of re-creation.'
For him, `falseness dies; injustice and oppression fade. Greed and cruelty, selfishness and inhumanity are short-lived. The individual suffers but the race goes on.' Everything (e.g., the brutal slaughter by the trusts) is for the good! Man perishes, but the wheat remains.
Frank Norris forgot that for the wheat to grow human arms are needed. Man is part of nature.

`The octopus` is a forceful, naturalistic and brutal novel, with now and then sentimental and melodramatic passages and, in any case, a controversial optimistic and contradictory end.
Not to be missed.

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I bought this book for my 13 year old granddaughter's 8th grade history class. It is on the required reading list for this year. I did not read it and am in no position to rate it.

Worthwhile, if you stick with it.......2004-03-26

Norris flounders around for two thirds of "The Octopus" until he begins telling the story. We don't know who these characters are until we're well into the novel and their lack of first names makes them hard to keep straight initially. Who is the novel's protagonist? Presley? Annixter? Magnus Derrick? I would have liked a little more character development. Presley IS Frank Norris, but we don't see him as anything more than a dilletante until nearly the novel's conclusion. We really don't know why Lyman Derrick sells out his father, or how the "league" bribes his way onto the Railroad Commission. Vanamee's obsession over his dead girlfriend adds nothing to the story. (What the heck are "heavy lidded eyes" anyway?) I expected "The Octopus" to be proto-Steinbeck. It is a story Frank Norris had to tell, but it seems he was writing to satisfy the conventionalities of his time. The conclusion that good prevails after what these people have endured may have rung true 100 years ago. Now it seems contrived. "The Octopus" is worthwhile if the reader can stick with it; infinitely superior to Zane Gray's "Desert of Wheat", which isn't saying a whole lot.

"Robber barons" and the Mussel Slough Massacre.......2004-02-12

"The Octopus" is based on little-known yet well-documented events. In the late 1870s, a number of California ranchers banded together to fight a corrupt railroad corporation that, aided by an equally crooked court system and news media, had bilked them of the property they had farmed for years. The resulting melee, the Mussel Slough Massacre of 1880, generated coast-to-coast headlines. (One newspaper editor who famously supported the ranchers and denounced the railroad was Ambrose Bierce.)

The proceedings that led to the impasse demonstrate capitalism run amok. The railroad monopoly Southern Pacific, after receiving adjoining plots from the government as a subsidy for building the railroad, encouraged farmers to develop and enhance the land, promising it would be sold to them for $2.50 an acre. Eventually, however, the railroad reneged on its agreement and offered the farmland at more than ten times the promised rate to other bidders (some of them penniless "dummy" buyers), refusing even to compensate the heavily mortgaged farmers for any improvements (homes, barns, etc.) made to the acreage. When the ranchers attended a picnic featuring a speech by a supportive State Supreme Court justice, two of the new "owners," accompanied by federal marshals and railroad representatives, sneaked into one of the homes, removed furniture and personal effects, and began taking possession. Word of this ruse reached the homesteaders, and a shootout ensued that resulted in the deaths of several of the ranchers and two of the invaders.

A seminal work of American naturalism, Norris's novel is conscientiously faithful to the basic facts of the incident, fictionalizing the characters and changing a few of the particulars (for example, instead of attending a speech, the ranchers congregate to slaughter rabbits that had been overrunning the territory). Around these details, Norris weaves an absorbing depiction of a community of Westerners, a bitter commentary on the excesses and brutality of nineteenth-century capitalism, and a denouement in which the villain gets his just deserts. He also includes re-imagined versions of other historical figures, such as the notorious train robber Chris Evans, whose story is featured in one of the more exciting chase sequences in nineteenth-century fiction. And, while others have noted correctly that the poet Presley represents Norris himself, Presley's career also mirrors the success of the real-life Edwin Markham and the publication of "The Man with the Hoe."

A few modern readers have complained that the book is just too long. (Set beside many other epic works of the period, Norris's fiction is actually both forward-looking and action-packed.) Part One, which describes each of the characters and the surrounding countryside, might seem "slow" to today's readers, but I could barely put down the book once I reached the second part, when most of the action takes place. At times, the book reads like an old-fashioned Western novel. Yet even the lengthy exposition in the first part was often fascinating: one of the most memorable (and surprisingly believable) portrayals is the conversion of Annixter from a condescending, misogynistic killjoy to an altruistic, devoted husband. Then again, the mysticism and clairvoyance of the ranch-hand Vanamee are bizarrely out of place in this novel; although "realism" wins out, much of this subplot seems a trendy dabbling with the American spiritualism that captured the fascination (and embarrassed the reputations) of contemporary authors ranging from Mark Twain to William James.

Fans of historical fiction and of American realism, then, are especially likely to enjoy "The Octopus." And, bearing in mind the unscrupulous "robber barons" who recently commandeered such businesses as Enron, Global Crossing, and WorldCom, many other readers may decide that Norris's fiction seems, even today, far more realistic than historical.

A Novel Rich with Loamy Irony.......2004-01-30

Certainly a novel with a capital "N", from a time when authors wrote grand, sweeping, "epics of the soil and those who work the soil". Norris was inspired by the work of French novelist Zola, which is funny because some of his harshest writing takes to task San Francisco society matrons attempting to appreciate French style landscape art.

I read this book after reading Kevin Starr's "Californians and the American Dream". While this novel does culminate in a retelling of the infamous "Mussel Slough" shoot out, where a group of "squatting" ranchers shot it out with representatives of the U.S. government and the Marshalls, it is most notable for its classic descriptions of California ranch life circa 1880.

The character's at the center of the Octopus are broad: Vanamee, the "Hebraic" looking sheep herder/mystic who yearns for the sweet embrace of his departed lover; Presley, the would-be poet who gets wrapped up in the affairs of the world, only to turn away from the world in the end; Annixter, the rough-hewn young rancher who is transformed by the love of a woman.

The Octopus is also notable for the supporting cast of minor characters. They reveal as much about life in California in the 1800's as do the major characters.
Still relevant for its historical value, but let's face it... the prose is dated. Also, I agree with other reviewers in that this book is too long by about a hundred pages. Probably a must read for people who are serious about the history of California.

The Octopus: A Story of California
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Frank Norris
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The Octopus A Story of California
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The Epic of Wheat the Octopus a Story of California
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Frank Norris
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Part Of Trilogy about wheat in San Juaquin Valley Important work

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The Octopus - A Story Of California
Frank Norris
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The Octopus - A Story Of California
Frank; With an Introduction by Starr, Kevin Norris
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The Octopus - A Story of California
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The Octopus - The Epic of the Wheat - A Story of California
Frank Norris
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