What is the main reason almost all large companies are corporations? corporations are untaxed by state and federal governments, so all profits go to the investors. corporations are protected from failure by federal law and therefore they provide guaranteed safety and profits for their investors. corporations can attract millions of dollars of financial capital from many people because the owners have limited liability. by law, after a given period of time or after acquiring substantial size, businesses must become corporations.

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the following are seventeen of the approximately 2,300 american slave narratives collected by the federal writers project. students should be encouraged to consider the process through which these narratives were created, and the accompanying  lesson plans  have been formulated to raise issues of authorship and credibility.

these narratives are not the direct transciptions of the interviews, and the forms they take differ from narrative to narrative. according to rawick, scott bond's narrative appears to have been dictated rather than a simple response to questions. charles williams' autobiography is his own work, originally written in pencil in a series of notebooks. both the bond and williams narratives are of much greater length than the rest.