Essay on Morality

Essay on Morality Being a part of a society every human is trying to follow some moral principles that define what is good and what is bad, what is right and what is wrong. All of these determine our actions made in various life circumstances and shows our moral values as well. This essay will aim to discuss the concept of morality and describe the main issues related to this philosophical question that may be never answered. What is morality? Lots of definitions can be applied to the concept of morality. In short, morality is regarded as an attempt to define who we are from the position of some right and wrong actions we do and thoughts that we think. Throughout thousands of years philosophers have been trying to solve the issue about defining the concept of morality. â€Å"Many man many mind† approach is what can be applied to the problem. Nevertheless, it is possible to try to think over the question and reveal the common sings of morality that can be meaningful for us in a modern society. What is meant by a moral person? Can it be properly interpreted? The concepts with multiform meanings such as morality can be illustrated in the real world on practice and thus possibly defined in some way. Lets assume, you are going back home at midnight and find a purse on the sidewalk with lots of money and some bank cards with a name on it. You can find the person and return the stuff, will you do it? Or will you choose to keep it for yourself and use somebody elses money for your own purposes? Your action in this specific situation defines your morality. Your decision can show whether you act right or wrong. Still, another question arise – is it right to give the purse back to its owner if you are in need yourself? Maybe this is a sign and life supports you when you need it? No one knows the right answer, because it does not actually exist. Each of us defines from our own point of view what is right and what is wrong, and it may has nothing to do with the concept of morality as it is defined by a modern world and other individuals. Are people in a modern society loosing their moral values? Modern society is more likely to lose moral values with the time flow. It happens because of materialism that affects peoples mind and prevails moral values. Technical progress contributes to this as well. People keep on earning money and buying products they need, so they tend to try to buy everything they want. This fact devalues moral characteristics in some way and make people do morally wrong things even subconsciously just because of the materialistic way of thinking. Additionally, public manners influence others actions. Looking at someone doing something in a public place may affect others. Lets take an example with a public smoking. First of all, it is actually forbidden and should be so. Secondly, it has nothing to do with a moral manner when a man is walking with a cigarette in his hands while there are many people around, including children. The bad influence of the Internet on moral values of people is not the exception too. Today it is available all over the world, people have an access to the Internet and spend a lot of time there reading social media, comments to the blogs, political reports, etc. One can easily find a lot of bad things posted there, which harms and abuses other people. Adults may not take care of it, but children should be protected from this in the first place as they see bad words, consider them to be normal and copy the manner of communication. In conclusion People in a modern society tend to loose their moral values, which is influenced by materialism, public thinking and manners, and the Internet as well.

2012 Plan Performance Rankings Q2

Each quarter Savingforcollege.com analyzes the investment performance figures for thousands of 529 portfolios and ranks the 529 savings plans from best to worst for one-year investment performance, three-year investment performance and five-year investment performance. The top-performing 529 plans In producing our rankings, we compared the reported investment performance of a subset of portfolios from each 529 savings plan. The lower the "percentile," the better the ranking. For more details on our methodology. Here are our 529 performance rankings as of June 30, 2012. We ranked plans that consumers can enroll in directly (see below), as well as those sold through brokers). One-year performance ranking Rank State Plan Percentile 1 New York New York's 529 College Savings Program -- Direct Plan 23.29 2 Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 529 Investment Plan 24.48 3 Florida Florida College Investment Plan 27.10 4 Michigan Michigan Education Savings Program 28.22 5 Vermont Vermont Higher Education Investment Plan 30.21 6 Illinois Bright Start College Savings Program -- Direct-sold Plan 30.45 7 Georgia Path2College 529 Plan 31.05 8 Minnesota Minnesota College Savings Plan 31.17 9 Iowa College Savings Iowa 31.43 10 Kentucky Kentucky Education Savings Plan Trust 32.90 See the full list of one-year direct-sold rankings. Three-year performance ranking Rank State Plan Percentile 1 Alaska T. Rowe Price College Savings Plan 23.87 2 Alaska University of Alaska College Savings Plan 24.88 3 Nevada USAA 529 College Savings Plan 25.11 4 New York New York's 529 College Savings Program -- Direct Plan 30.00 5 Michigan Michigan Education Savings Program 30.25 6 Maryland College Savings Plans of Maryland -- College Investment Plan 30.95 7 Virginia Virginia Education Savings Trust (VEST) 36.78 8 Wisconsin EdVest (Direct-sold) 37.57 9 Maine NextGen College Investing Plan -- Client Direct Series 38.22 10 Minnesota Minnesota College Savings Plan 38.60 See the full list of three-year direct-sold rankings. Five-year performance ranking Rank State Plan Percentile 1 Florida Florida College Investment Plan 18.06 2 Utah Utah Educational Savings Plan (UESP) Trust 25.88 3 Nevada USAA 529 College Savings Plan 29.97 4 Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 529 Investment Plan 30.30 5 New York New York's 529 College Savings Program -- Direct Plan 31.15 6 Michigan Michigan Education Savings Program 31.33 7 Kansas Schwab 529 College Savings Plan 33.02 8 Ohio Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Savings Plan 33.79 9 Georgia Path2College 529 Plan 34.80 10 Wisconsin EdVest (Direct-sold) 36.87 See the full list of five-year direct-sold rankings. For broker-sold plan rankings. How to rank 529 plan performance Ranking over 3,000 investment options is no easy task, considering the wide variety of options found in 529 savings plans, and it requires a special methodology. Step one: We select specific portfolios from each 529 plan that can be compared on an apples-to-apples basis to portfolios in other 529 plans, based on their allocation among stocks, bonds and short-term instruments (money market and guaranteed investments). We've set up seven different asset-allocation categories ranging from 100 percent equity to 100 percent short-term. Step two: Within each of the seven categories, we compare historical performance of the selected portfolios and assign each plan a percentile ranking between one (best) and 100 (worst). Separate rankings are developed for one-year, three-year and five-year performances. Step three: We take the average of each 529 plan's percentile rankings in the seven asset-allocation categories to produce a combined or "composite" percentile ranking. We then produce reports showing how the 529 plans rank against each other in their composite percentile rankings. Note: We currently produce these composite rankings for one-year, three-year and five-year performances. For a more in-depth explanation of our methodology, please read our white paper. See the one-year direct-sold, three-year direct-sold and five-year direct-sold rankings. More information Links to our full report on the composite rankings for this quarter are provided below for the direct-sold 529 plans. Only our Premium subscribers have access to composite rankings for advisor-sold 529 plans, to the underlying data supporting the rankings and to separate one-year, three-year and five-year rankings for each of the seven different asset-allocation categories. In addition, subscribers can easily look up the historical performance for every 529 portfolio in every available share class by using our Fee and Performance Lookup Tool. Each quarter Savingforcollege.com analyzes the investment performance figures for thousands of 529 portfolios and ranks the 529 savings plans from best to worst for one-year investment performance, three-year investment performance and five-year investment performance. The top-performing 529 plans In producing our rankings, we compared the reported investment performance of a subset of portfolios from each 529 savings plan. The lower the "percentile," the better the ranking. For more details on our methodology. Here are our 529 performance rankings as of June 30, 2012. We ranked plans that consumers can enroll in directly (see below), as well as those sold through brokers). One-year performance ranking Rank State Plan Percentile 1 New York New York's 529 College Savings Program -- Direct Plan 23.29 2 Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 529 Investment Plan 24.48 3 Florida Florida College Investment Plan 27.10 4 Michigan Michigan Education Savings Program 28.22 5 Vermont Vermont Higher Education Investment Plan 30.21 6 Illinois Bright Start College Savings Program -- Direct-sold Plan 30.45 7 Georgia Path2College 529 Plan 31.05 8 Minnesota Minnesota College Savings Plan 31.17 9 Iowa College Savings Iowa 31.43 10 Kentucky Kentucky Education Savings Plan Trust 32.90 See the full list of one-year direct-sold rankings. Three-year performance ranking Rank State Plan Percentile 1 Alaska T. Rowe Price College Savings Plan 23.87 2 Alaska University of Alaska College Savings Plan 24.88 3 Nevada USAA 529 College Savings Plan 25.11 4 New York New York's 529 College Savings Program -- Direct Plan 30.00 5 Michigan Michigan Education Savings Program 30.25 6 Maryland College Savings Plans of Maryland -- College Investment Plan 30.95 7 Virginia Virginia Education Savings Trust (VEST) 36.78 8 Wisconsin EdVest (Direct-sold) 37.57 9 Maine NextGen College Investing Plan -- Client Direct Series 38.22 10 Minnesota Minnesota College Savings Plan 38.60 See the full list of three-year direct-sold rankings. Five-year performance ranking Rank State Plan Percentile 1 Florida Florida College Investment Plan 18.06 2 Utah Utah Educational Savings Plan (UESP) Trust 25.88 3 Nevada USAA 529 College Savings Plan 29.97 4 Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 529 Investment Plan 30.30 5 New York New York's 529 College Savings Program -- Direct Plan 31.15 6 Michigan Michigan Education Savings Program 31.33 7 Kansas Schwab 529 College Savings Plan 33.02 8 Ohio Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Savings Plan 33.79 9 Georgia Path2College 529 Plan 34.80 10 Wisconsin EdVest (Direct-sold) 36.87 See the full list of five-year direct-sold rankings. For broker-sold plan rankings. How to rank 529 plan performance Ranking over 3,000 investment options is no easy task, considering the wide variety of options found in 529 savings plans, and it requires a special methodology. Step one: We select specific portfolios from each 529 plan that can be compared on an apples-to-apples basis to portfolios in other 529 plans, based on their allocation among stocks, bonds and short-term instruments (money market and guaranteed investments). We've set up seven different asset-allocation categories ranging from 100 percent equity to 100 percent short-term. Step two: Within each of the seven categories, we compare historical performance of the selected portfolios and assign each plan a percentile ranking between one (best) and 100 (worst). Separate rankings are developed for one-year, three-year and five-year performances. Step three: We take the average of each 529 plan's percentile rankings in the seven asset-allocation categories to produce a combined or "composite" percentile ranking. We then produce reports showing how the 529 plans rank against each other in their composite percentile rankings. Note: We currently produce these composite rankings for one-year, three-year and five-year performances. For a more in-depth explanation of our methodology, please read our white paper. See the one-year direct-sold, three-year direct-sold and five-year direct-sold rankings. More information Links to our full report on the composite rankings for this quarter are provided below for the direct-sold 529 plans. Only our Premium subscribers have access to composite rankings for advisor-sold 529 plans, to the underlying data supporting the rankings and to separate one-year, three-year and five-year rankings for each of the seven different asset-allocation categories. In addition, subscribers can easily look up the historical performance for every 529 portfolio in every available share class by using our Fee and Performance Lookup Tool. 2012 Plan Performance Rankings Q2 Each quarter Savingforcollege.com analyzes the investment performance figures for thousands of 529 portfolios and ranks the 529 savings plans from best to worst for one-year investment performance, three-year investment performance and five-year investment performance. The top-performing 529 plans In producing our rankings, we compared the reported investment performance of a subset of portfolios from each 529 savings plan. The lower the "percentile," the better the ranking. For more details on our methodology. Here are our 529 performance rankings as of June 30, 2012. We ranked plans that consumers can enroll in directly (see below), as well as those sold through brokers). One-year performance ranking Rank State Plan Percentile 1 New York New York's 529 College Savings Program -- Direct Plan 23.29 2 Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 529 Investment Plan 24.48 3 Florida Florida College Investment Plan 27.10 4 Michigan Michigan Education Savings Program 28.22 5 Vermont Vermont Higher Education Investment Plan 30.21 6 Illinois Bright Start College Savings Program -- Direct-sold Plan 30.45 7 Georgia Path2College 529 Plan 31.05 8 Minnesota Minnesota College Savings Plan 31.17 9 Iowa College Savings Iowa 31.43 10 Kentucky Kentucky Education Savings Plan Trust 32.90 See the full list of one-year direct-sold rankings. Three-year performance ranking Rank State Plan Percentile 1 Alaska T. Rowe Price College Savings Plan 23.87 2 Alaska University of Alaska College Savings Plan 24.88 3 Nevada USAA 529 College Savings Plan 25.11 4 New York New York's 529 College Savings Program -- Direct Plan 30.00 5 Michigan Michigan Education Savings Program 30.25 6 Maryland College Savings Plans of Maryland -- College Investment Plan 30.95 7 Virginia Virginia Education Savings Trust (VEST) 36.78 8 Wisconsin EdVest (Direct-sold) 37.57 9 Maine NextGen College Investing Plan -- Client Direct Series 38.22 10 Minnesota Minnesota College Savings Plan 38.60 See the full list of three-year direct-sold rankings. Five-year performance ranking Rank State Plan Percentile 1 Florida Florida College Investment Plan 18.06 2 Utah Utah Educational Savings Plan (UESP) Trust 25.88 3 Nevada USAA 529 College Savings Plan 29.97 4 Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 529 Investment Plan 30.30 5 New York New York's 529 College Savings Program -- Direct Plan 31.15 6 Michigan Michigan Education Savings Program 31.33 7 Kansas Schwab 529 College Savings Plan 33.02 8 Ohio Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Savings Plan 33.79 9 Georgia Path2College 529 Plan 34.80 10 Wisconsin EdVest (Direct-sold) 36.87 See the full list of five-year direct-sold rankings. For broker-sold plan rankings. How to rank 529 plan performance Ranking over 3,000 investment options is no easy task, considering the wide variety of options found in 529 savings plans, and it requires a special methodology. Step one: We select specific portfolios from each 529 plan that can be compared on an apples-to-apples basis to portfolios in other 529 plans, based on their allocation among stocks, bonds and short-term instruments (money market and guaranteed investments). We've set up seven different asset-allocation categories ranging from 100 percent equity to 100 percent short-term. Step two: Within each of the seven categories, we compare historical performance of the selected portfolios and assign each plan a percentile ranking between one (best) and 100 (worst). Separate rankings are developed for one-year, three-year and five-year performances. Step three: We take the average of each 529 plan's percentile rankings in the seven asset-allocation categories to produce a combined or "composite" percentile ranking. We then produce reports showing how the 529 plans rank against each other in their composite percentile rankings. Note: We currently produce these composite rankings for one-year, three-year and five-year performances. For a more in-depth explanation of our methodology, please read our white paper. See the one-year direct-sold, three-year direct-sold and five-year direct-sold rankings. More information Links to our full report on the composite rankings for this quarter are provided below for the direct-sold 529 plans. Only our Premium subscribers have access to composite rankings for advisor-sold 529 plans, to the underlying data supporting the rankings and to separate one-year, three-year and five-year rankings for each of the seven different asset-allocation categories. In addition, subscribers can easily look up the historical performance for every 529 portfolio in every available share class by using our Fee and Performance Lookup Tool. Each quarter Savingforcollege.com analyzes the investment performance figures for thousands of 529 portfolios and ranks the 529 savings plans from best to worst for one-year investment performance, three-year investment performance and five-year investment performance. The top-performing 529 plans In producing our rankings, we compared the reported investment performance of a subset of portfolios from each 529 savings plan. The lower the "percentile," the better the ranking. For more details on our methodology. Here are our 529 performance rankings as of June 30, 2012. We ranked plans that consumers can enroll in directly (see below), as well as those sold through brokers). One-year performance ranking Rank State Plan Percentile 1 New York New York's 529 College Savings Program -- Direct Plan 23.29 2 Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 529 Investment Plan 24.48 3 Florida Florida College Investment Plan 27.10 4 Michigan Michigan Education Savings Program 28.22 5 Vermont Vermont Higher Education Investment Plan 30.21 6 Illinois Bright Start College Savings Program -- Direct-sold Plan 30.45 7 Georgia Path2College 529 Plan 31.05 8 Minnesota Minnesota College Savings Plan 31.17 9 Iowa College Savings Iowa 31.43 10 Kentucky Kentucky Education Savings Plan Trust 32.90 See the full list of one-year direct-sold rankings. Three-year performance ranking Rank State Plan Percentile 1 Alaska T. Rowe Price College Savings Plan 23.87 2 Alaska University of Alaska College Savings Plan 24.88 3 Nevada USAA 529 College Savings Plan 25.11 4 New York New York's 529 College Savings Program -- Direct Plan 30.00 5 Michigan Michigan Education Savings Program 30.25 6 Maryland College Savings Plans of Maryland -- College Investment Plan 30.95 7 Virginia Virginia Education Savings Trust (VEST) 36.78 8 Wisconsin EdVest (Direct-sold) 37.57 9 Maine NextGen College Investing Plan -- Client Direct Series 38.22 10 Minnesota Minnesota College Savings Plan 38.60 See the full list of three-year direct-sold rankings. Five-year performance ranking Rank State Plan Percentile 1 Florida Florida College Investment Plan 18.06 2 Utah Utah Educational Savings Plan (UESP) Trust 25.88 3 Nevada USAA 529 College Savings Plan 29.97 4 Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 529 Investment Plan 30.30 5 New York New York's 529 College Savings Program -- Direct Plan 31.15 6 Michigan Michigan Education Savings Program 31.33 7 Kansas Schwab 529 College Savings Plan 33.02 8 Ohio Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Savings Plan 33.79 9 Georgia Path2College 529 Plan 34.80 10 Wisconsin EdVest (Direct-sold) 36.87 See the full list of five-year direct-sold rankings. For broker-sold plan rankings. How to rank 529 plan performance Ranking over 3,000 investment options is no easy task, considering the wide variety of options found in 529 savings plans, and it requires a special methodology. Step one: We select specific portfolios from each 529 plan that can be compared on an apples-to-apples basis to portfolios in other 529 plans, based on their allocation among stocks, bonds and short-term instruments (money market and guaranteed investments). We've set up seven different asset-allocation categories ranging from 100 percent equity to 100 percent short-term. Step two: Within each of the seven categories, we compare historical performance of the selected portfolios and assign each plan a percentile ranking between one (best) and 100 (worst). Separate rankings are developed for one-year, three-year and five-year performances. Step three: We take the average of each 529 plan's percentile rankings in the seven asset-allocation categories to produce a combined or "composite" percentile ranking. We then produce reports showing how the 529 plans rank against each other in their composite percentile rankings. Note: We currently produce these composite rankings for one-year, three-year and five-year performances. For a more in-depth explanation of our methodology, please read our white paper. See the one-year direct-sold, three-year direct-sold and five-year direct-sold rankings. More information Links to our full report on the composite rankings for this quarter are provided below for the direct-sold 529 plans. Only our Premium subscribers have access to composite rankings for advisor-sold 529 plans, to the underlying data supporting the rankings and to separate one-year, three-year and five-year rankings for each of the seven different asset-allocation categories. In addition, subscribers can easily look up the historical performance for every 529 portfolio in every available share class by using our Fee and Performance Lookup Tool. 2012 Plan Performance Rankings Q2 Each quarter Savingforcollege.com analyzes the investment performance figures for thousands of 529 portfolios and ranks the 529 savings plans from best to worst for one-year investment performance, three-year investment performance and five-year investment performance. The top-performing 529 plans In producing our rankings, we compared the reported investment performance of a subset of portfolios from each 529 savings plan. The lower the "percentile," the better the ranking. For more details on our methodology. Here are our 529 performance rankings as of June 30, 2012. We ranked plans that consumers can enroll in directly (see below), as well as those sold through brokers). One-year performance ranking Rank State Plan Percentile 1 New York New York's 529 College Savings Program -- Direct Plan 23.29 2 Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 529 Investment Plan 24.48 3 Florida Florida College Investment Plan 27.10 4 Michigan Michigan Education Savings Program 28.22 5 Vermont Vermont Higher Education Investment Plan 30.21 6 Illinois Bright Start College Savings Program -- Direct-sold Plan 30.45 7 Georgia Path2College 529 Plan 31.05 8 Minnesota Minnesota College Savings Plan 31.17 9 Iowa College Savings Iowa 31.43 10 Kentucky Kentucky Education Savings Plan Trust 32.90 See the full list of one-year direct-sold rankings. Three-year performance ranking Rank State Plan Percentile 1 Alaska T. Rowe Price College Savings Plan 23.87 2 Alaska University of Alaska College Savings Plan 24.88 3 Nevada USAA 529 College Savings Plan 25.11 4 New York New York's 529 College Savings Program -- Direct Plan 30.00 5 Michigan Michigan Education Savings Program 30.25 6 Maryland College Savings Plans of Maryland -- College Investment Plan 30.95 7 Virginia Virginia Education Savings Trust (VEST) 36.78 8 Wisconsin EdVest (Direct-sold) 37.57 9 Maine NextGen College Investing Plan -- Client Direct Series 38.22 10 Minnesota Minnesota College Savings Plan 38.60 See the full list of three-year direct-sold rankings. Five-year performance ranking Rank State Plan Percentile 1 Florida Florida College Investment Plan 18.06 2 Utah Utah Educational Savings Plan (UESP) Trust 25.88 3 Nevada USAA 529 College Savings Plan 29.97 4 Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 529 Investment Plan 30.30 5 New York New York's 529 College Savings Program -- Direct Plan 31.15 6 Michigan Michigan Education Savings Program 31.33 7 Kansas Schwab 529 College Savings Plan 33.02 8 Ohio Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Savings Plan 33.79 9 Georgia Path2College 529 Plan 34.80 10 Wisconsin EdVest (Direct-sold) 36.87 See the full list of five-year direct-sold rankings. For broker-sold plan rankings. How to rank 529 plan performance Ranking over 3,000 investment options is no easy task, considering the wide variety of options found in 529 savings plans, and it requires a special methodology. Step one: We select specific portfolios from each 529 plan that can be compared on an apples-to-apples basis to portfolios in other 529 plans, based on their allocation among stocks, bonds and short-term instruments (money market and guaranteed investments). We've set up seven different asset-allocation categories ranging from 100 percent equity to 100 percent short-term. Step two: Within each of the seven categories, we compare historical performance of the selected portfolios and assign each plan a percentile ranking between one (best) and 100 (worst). Separate rankings are developed for one-year, three-year and five-year performances. Step three: We take the average of each 529 plan's percentile rankings in the seven asset-allocation categories to produce a combined or "composite" percentile ranking. We then produce reports showing how the 529 plans rank against each other in their composite percentile rankings. Note: We currently produce these composite rankings for one-year, three-year and five-year performances. For a more in-depth explanation of our methodology, please read our white paper. See the one-year direct-sold, three-year direct-sold and five-year direct-sold rankings. More information Links to our full report on the composite rankings for this quarter are provided below for the direct-sold 529 plans. Only our Premium subscribers have access to composite rankings for advisor-sold 529 plans, to the underlying data supporting the rankings and to separate one-year, three-year and five-year rankings for each of the seven different asset-allocation categories. In addition, subscribers can easily look up the historical performance for every 529 portfolio in every available share class by using our Fee and Performance Lookup Tool. Each quarter Savingforcollege.com analyzes the investment performance figures for thousands of 529 portfolios and ranks the 529 savings plans from best to worst for one-year investment performance, three-year investment performance and five-year investment performance. The top-performing 529 plans In producing our rankings, we compared the reported investment performance of a subset of portfolios from each 529 savings plan. The lower the "percentile," the better the ranking. For more details on our methodology. Here are our 529 performance rankings as of June 30, 2012. We ranked plans that consumers can enroll in directly (see below), as well as those sold through brokers). One-year performance ranking Rank State Plan Percentile 1 New York New York's 529 College Savings Program -- Direct Plan 23.29 2 Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 529 Investment Plan 24.48 3 Florida Florida College Investment Plan 27.10 4 Michigan Michigan Education Savings Program 28.22 5 Vermont Vermont Higher Education Investment Plan 30.21 6 Illinois Bright Start College Savings Program -- Direct-sold Plan 30.45 7 Georgia Path2College 529 Plan 31.05 8 Minnesota Minnesota College Savings Plan 31.17 9 Iowa College Savings Iowa 31.43 10 Kentucky Kentucky Education Savings Plan Trust 32.90 See the full list of one-year direct-sold rankings. Three-year performance ranking Rank State Plan Percentile 1 Alaska T. Rowe Price College Savings Plan 23.87 2 Alaska University of Alaska College Savings Plan 24.88 3 Nevada USAA 529 College Savings Plan 25.11 4 New York New York's 529 College Savings Program -- Direct Plan 30.00 5 Michigan Michigan Education Savings Program 30.25 6 Maryland College Savings Plans of Maryland -- College Investment Plan 30.95 7 Virginia Virginia Education Savings Trust (VEST) 36.78 8 Wisconsin EdVest (Direct-sold) 37.57 9 Maine NextGen College Investing Plan -- Client Direct Series 38.22 10 Minnesota Minnesota College Savings Plan 38.60 See the full list of three-year direct-sold rankings. Five-year performance ranking Rank State Plan Percentile 1 Florida Florida College Investment Plan 18.06 2 Utah Utah Educational Savings Plan (UESP) Trust 25.88 3 Nevada USAA 529 College Savings Plan 29.97 4 Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 529 Investment Plan 30.30 5 New York New York's 529 College Savings Program -- Direct Plan 31.15 6 Michigan Michigan Education Savings Program 31.33 7 Kansas Schwab 529 College Savings Plan 33.02 8 Ohio Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Savings Plan 33.79 9 Georgia Path2College 529 Plan 34.80 10 Wisconsin EdVest (Direct-sold) 36.87 See the full list of five-year direct-sold rankings. For broker-sold plan rankings. How to rank 529 plan performance Ranking over 3,000 investment options is no easy task, considering the wide variety of options found in 529 savings plans, and it requires a special methodology. Step one: We select specific portfolios from each 529 plan that can be compared on an apples-to-apples basis to portfolios in other 529 plans, based on their allocation among stocks, bonds and short-term instruments (money market and guaranteed investments). We've set up seven different asset-allocation categories ranging from 100 percent equity to 100 percent short-term. Step two: Within each of the seven categories, we compare historical performance of the selected portfolios and assign each plan a percentile ranking between one (best) and 100 (worst). Separate rankings are developed for one-year, three-year and five-year performances. Step three: We take the average of each 529 plan's percentile rankings in the seven asset-allocation categories to produce a combined or "composite" percentile ranking. We then produce reports showing how the 529 plans rank against each other in their composite percentile rankings. Note: We currently produce these composite rankings for one-year, three-year and five-year performances. For a more in-depth explanation of our methodology, please read our white paper. See the one-year direct-sold, three-year direct-sold and five-year direct-sold rankings. More information Links to our full report on the composite rankings for this quarter are provided below for the direct-sold 529 plans. Only our Premium subscribers have access to composite rankings for advisor-sold 529 plans, to the underlying data supporting the rankings and to separate one-year, three-year and five-year rankings for each of the seven different asset-allocation categories. In addition, subscribers can easily look up the historical performance for every 529 portfolio in every available share class by using our Fee and Performance Lookup Tool.

Memorial Day The Women Behind Its Origins and History

While Veterans Day in November is to honor all those who served their nation in war, Memorial Day is primarily to honor those who died in military service. This all-American holiday has its roots in unexpected places. Commander in Chief John A. Logan of the Grand Army of the Republic issued the 1868 proclamation declaring the first Decoration Day, which was celebrated with a large memorial observance at Arlington National Cemetery, with about five thousand attending.  Those attending placed small flags on the graves of veterans. General Ulysses S. Grant and his wife presided at the ceremony. Logan credited his wife, Mary Logan, with the suggestion for the commemoration. The role of his wife may explain why Grants wife co-presided over the ceremony. But the idea had other roots, as well, going back at least to 1864. A First Memorial Day In 1865, a group of 10,000 freed slaves in South Carolina  along with a few white supporters—teachers and missionaries—marched in honor of Union soldiers, some of whom had been Confederate prisoners, reburied by the freed black Charlestonians. The prisoners  had been buried in a mass grave when they died at the prison. While this ceremony can be called the first Memorial Day, it wasnt repeated, and was soon nearly forgotten. More Direct Root of Todays Celebration The acknowledged and more direct  root of Decoration Day  was the practice of women of decorating the graves of their loved ones who had died in the Civil War. Memorial Day was celebrated on May 30 after 1868.  Then in 1971 the celebration was moved to the last Monday in May, to make a long weekend, though a few states kept to the May 30 date. Decorating Graves In addition to the Charleston march and a long practice of both Union and Confederate supporters decorating the graves of their own, a particular event seems to have been a key inspiration.  On April 25, 1866, in Columbus, Mississippi, a womens group, the Ladies Memorial Association, decorated the graves of both Union and Confederate soldiers. In a nation trying to find a way to move on after a war that split the country, states, communities and even families, this gesture was welcomed as a way to lay the past to rest while honoring those who had fought on either side. The first formal observance seems to have been on May 5, 1866, in Waterloo, New York. President Lyndon Johnson recognized Waterloo as the Birthplace of Memorial Day. On May 30, 1870, General Logan gave an address in honor of the new commemorative holiday. In it he said: This Memorial Day, on which we decorate their graves with the tokens of love and affection, is no idle ceremony with us, to pass away an hour; but it brings back to our minds in all their vividness the fearful conflicts of that terrible war in which they fell as victims.... Let us, then, all unite in the solemn feelings of the hour, and tender with our flowers the warmest sympathies of our souls! Let us revive our patriotism and love of country by this act, and strengthen our loyalty by the example of the noble dead around us.... By the late 19th century, with the rise of the Lost Cause ideology in the South, the South was celebrating Confederate Memorial Day.  This separation largely died out in the 20th century, especially with the change in name of the Northern form of the holiday from Decoration Day to Memorial Day, and then the creation of a special Monday holiday for Memorial Day in 1968. Some veterans groups were opposed to the date change to a Monday, arguing that it undermined the real meaning of Memorial Day. Other cities which claim to have been the origin of Decoration Day include Carbondale, Illinois (home of General Logan during the war), Richmond, Virginia, and Macon, Georgia. Official Birthplace Declared Despite the other claims, Waterloo, New York, got the title of birthplace of Memorial Day for a May 5, 1966, ceremony for local veterans.  Congress and President Lyndon B. Johnson issued the declaration. Poppies for Memorial Day The poem In Flanders Fields commemorated fallen war dead. And it includes a reference to poppies.   But it was not until 1915 that a woman, Moina Michael, wrote her own poem about cherishing the Poppy red, and began encouraging people to wear red poppies for Memorial Day, wearing one herself. Moina Michael is featured on a 3 cent postage stamp in the United States, issued in 1948.

The American Of The United States Essay - 1438 Words

When the American colonies declared themselves independent from on their mother country, Britain, on July 4, 1776, they sought to devise a plan to govern themselves without the constraints that had been imposed on them leading to their detachment. Prominent leaders in the thirteen colonies worked together to strike the perfect balance between the rights of the federal government and the rights of the states. On June 12, 1776, a committee was formed to put together a document that would bring together the states in the form of a confederation. Within the committee, John Dickinson was chosen to head the committee. Dickinson had begun his political career in 1760 when he served as the speaker of the Three Lower Counties in Delaware. Starting in 1965, Dickinson used his journalism skills to assist in the rebellion against Great Britain. His most famous work took place from 1767 to 1768, which was a series of newspaper articles, Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania published in the Penn sylvania Chronicle. His articles protested taxation policies enforced by the British government, but insisted that he preferred a peaceful solution over going to war with military world power. In 1771, Dickinson wrote a petition on behalf of the Pennsylvania legislature, which was unanimously approved, to King George III, suggesting a compromise in the interest that both parties could avoid a drawn out war. Unfortunately, Dickinson’s civil form of protesting caused the public to lose interest inShow MoreRelatedThe American Of The United States778 Words   |  4 PagesInduction From before it begins the Untied States has been a nation of immigrants. In 1607 the Virginia company of London sent a 34 Man crew to the new world efforts to find new land. These first ever settlers were the first immigrants to enter the Untied States. 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Installation Artwork Essay What are the characteristics of an installation? When is it first seen as an important art practice? Installation art is a term that became common in the I gags. It was used to describe a construction or collection made for a specific space and it was usually only intended to be temporary. Installations ever distinguished from the more traditional sculpture as a Separate object by its physical domination of the entire space. Installations art works, do not have to be 3 sculpture or a painting, it can also be photography, a digital piece, 3 reference or a drawing. Installation, not only require the sense of sight but, sometimes also the sense Of hearing and smell, these require the viewers interaction. Installation are particularly linked with movements during the asses and asses such as Pop art, Nouveau Rallies, minimalism. One Of the most influential of the artists involved with both Happenings and installations was Allan Capron; for his installation Words (New York, Smiling Gal. , 1961) he combined numerous sheets and rolls of paper containing random arrangements f words with music played by several record-players, allowing spectators to walk right through this chaotic jumble. In the late asses and asses installations became a favored form for artists working against the notion to an art piece being permanent and collectible. Installations assumed paramount importance, given the tact that in replacing the art object with an idea by its specific context, in such works the installation as a complete entity, rather than as a collection of objects. How does the concept of installation widen our ideas about art? The Void, Yves Klein (1958) Our ideas about art, are widen by the concept of installation, mainly due to a few factors. Firstly because installation art, not only appeals to the sense of sight, but may also appeal to other senses, and because that installation art is interactive, it means that art piece may be seen differently to different individuals. Another factor is that installations are not permanent, only temporary. Appropriation can also Widen our ideas about art. Gore example Yves Kelvins The Void (1958) was a presentation of the empty white interior of a commercial gallery. A year later another sculptor associated With Nouveau Rallies, Raman, created Fullness the same gallery interior by filling the space with rubbish so that it could be viewed only through the outside window. This shows that just by viewing a space from a different perspective can completely change the meaning. While in America, Class Oldenburg The Street and Jim Diners The House (1960), each assembled from discarded items found in the streets of the city, were closely linked to performance-art events known as Happenings, which also sought to expand the realm of art by drawing the audience into the physical environment as a total entity. Minimalists such as Dan Villain, changed the viewers perception of interior spaces through the precise placement of fluorescent light tubes of different colors, or Carl And, whose exhibitions outlook sculptures were designed in part to articulate the architectural setting in which they were housed. The choice of materials and site can be very important to the form and meaning of artworks. Discuss this in reference to the work of Joseph Buys and Jenny Holler Fat Chair, Joseph Buys (1964) The choice of materials and site are very important for installation artwork, as these two factors determine what the artist can invent in this area. Materials that are used in modern installation art can range from everyday and natural materials to new media such as video, sound, performance, virtual reality and the one Of the most influential, the internet. 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Mean while, Joseph Buys often chose symbolic materials, his most common being felt and fat, symbolizing healing and magic. Hollers use of LED tubes, was important to the form of her artworks, she would have had trouble displaying and getting her message across as effectively. Due to these factors, it makes the materials and site vital for installation artworks, because they have a huge influence upon the meaning deprived from viewing and interacting with the artwork,