2-4 Discussion: Legacy Media and Culture

For your initial post, choose one form of printed legacy media (i.e., books, newspapers, or magazines) and give an example of how existing culture led to its creation. In your response post, give examples of how it has impacted or created culture. For example, the Harry Potter series arose as Young Adult literature, by J. K. Rowling, has a strong following and has created a subculture of fans.

Discussion Rubric:  

Your active participation in the discussion topics is essential to your overall success this term. Discussion questions are designed to help you make meaningful connections between the course content and the larger concepts and goals of the course. These discussions offer you the opportunity to express your own thoughts, ask questions for clarification, and gain insight from your classmates’ responses and instructor’s guidance. 

Requirements for Discussion Topic Assignments Students are required to post one initial post and to follow up with at least two response posts for each discussion topic assignment. 

2-5 Final Project Part One Milestone One: Topic Selection

COM126 Final Project Part One Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric

 Overview: The final project in this course is divided into two parts. Final Project Part One asks you to research and discuss the reflective relationship between 

media and culture. Then, in Final Project Part Two, you will create a presentation based on this research. 

The first step in being able to discuss this relationship is to choose a lens through which to look at and examine it. Milestone One helps you narrow your choices down and choose a category (e.g., new, legacy, and residual) and a channel (such as newspaper) on which to base your Final Project Part One. 

Prompt: For this first milestone, you will select a media channel of interest to examine how it both reflects and creates culture and society. Be sure to include the following critical elements: 

• Choose a media category: new, legacy, or residual? Why did you choose it?  
• Choose amedia channel.Examples include, but are not limited to:newspaper, movies, online dating, and radio. Why did you choose it?  
• How does the media channel you have chosen affect culture? Answer this question briefly.  
• How has culture influenced the creation of that media channel? For examples, refer back to the discussion for this module. Answer this question briefly. Guidelines for Submission:Submit your topic selection as a 1- to 2-paragraph post in the discussion topic. You will then respond to your peers with a reflection on what aspects of their topic you find interesting. You will not be graded on your response posts, but this is a great way to get help or clarification on the final project early on, so ask questions and challenge each other.  

Submit your Final Project topic selection here. This should include the media channel you have chosen and a brief discussion on how it both reflects and creates culture.

Once you have posted your initial response, review the posts of your fellow learners and respond with which aspects of their topic are of the most interest to you. You will not be graded on your response posts but this is a great way to get help or clarification on the final project early on, so ask questions and challenge each other.

Mr. Buddy Musician (SIN 27-000-061) was born in Vancouver on August 28, 1949. He has spent most of his working life as a pianist and songwriter. He and his family live at 111 WWW street, Vancouver, B.C. V4H- 3W4, phone 604-111-111

Mr. Musician’s wife, Natasha (SIn 527-000-129), was born on June 6, 1991. She and Mr. Musician have four children. Each child was born on April 1, of the following years, Linda; 2011, Larry; 2012, Donna; 2013, and Donald; 2014. Natasha’s only income during 2016 us $3480 [(4) ($160) (6 months)] in universal child care benefits

Buddy and Natasha Musicians have two adopted children. Richard was born on March 15, 1999 and has income of $2800 for the year. Due to his accelerated schooling, he started full time attendance at University in September of 2016 at the age of 17. His first semester tuition fee is $3000 and he requires books with a total cost of $375. These amounts are paid by Mr. Musician.

The other adopted child , Sarah was born on September 2, 1996 and is in full time attendance at University for all of 2016 (including a four month summer session). Her tuition is $9600 and she requires textbooks which cost $750. These amounts are also paid by Mr. Musician. Sarah has no income during the year.

Neither Richard or Sarah will have any income in the next 3 years. They both have agreed that the maximum education related amounts should be transferred to their father.

Mr. Musician’s mother, Eunice was born on April 10, 1929 and his father, Earl was born on Nov 16, 1927. they both live with Mr. Musician and his wife. While his father has some monitory issues, he is not infirm. His mother is legally blind. Eunice Musician had income of $9500 for the year, whole Earl Musician had income of $7500.

other information concerning Mr. Musician and his family for 2016 is as follows:

1. Mr. Musician earned $16, 500 for work as the house pianist at the Loose Moose Pub. His T4 showed that his employer withheld $500 for income taxes and $310.20 for EI. No Cpp was withed as he has previously filed an election to stop contributing to CPP.
2. During the year, Mr. Musician made his annual $3000 donation to Planned Parenthood of Canada, a registered Canadian charity. He had made donations for the last 5 years.
3. Mr. Musician has been married before to Lori Musician. Lori is 52 years old and lives in Fort Eri, Ontario.
4. Mr. Musician has two additional children who live with their mother, Ms. Dolly Nurse in Burnaby, British Columbia. The children are Megan Nurse, aged 12 and Andrew Nurse, aged 14. Neither Child has any income during 2016. While Ms. Nurse and Mr. Musician were never married, Mr. Musician acknowledges that he is the father of both childern. Although Buddy has provided limited financial aid by paying neither dental and medical expenses, the chidern are not dependent on Buddy for support.

required:

With the objective of minimizing Mr. Musician’s tax payable, prepare Mr. Musician’s 2016 income tax return assuming Natasha does not file a tax return. List any assumptions you have made, and any notes and tax planning issues you feel should be placed in the file