...Professor S. Hafezi POL300 1• _F__According to Wriston, communication/information revolution has expanded the ability of governments to control events within their territory. 2• _T__Slaughter argues that the nation-state is dying because of supranational organizations and communication/information revolution. 3• _T__Wriston maintains that the Information Age has validated the Orwell’s vision of Big brother watching the citizen. 4• _F__Wriston believes that the information revolution has outmoded old oligarchies. 5• _F__According to Wriston, nations can now easily block the flow of information across national borders. 6• _T__The U.S. reliance on information technology, according to Wriston, has made the country vulnerable to attack. 7_T__Slaughter asserts that the information revolution has produced global governance. 8• _T__Slaughter believes that transgovernmentalism has created a more effective and potentially more accountable world order. 9• _T__Slaughter cites partnership between a supranational tribunal and national courts as the most advanced form of judicial cooperation. 10• _T__Slaughter believes that transgovernmentalism provides a powerful alternative to both a new medievalism and a liberal internationalism. 11• _F__According to Slaughter, all the agents of the modern regulatory state are now regularly cooperate with their foreign counterparts. 12• _F__Slaughter maintains that comity of nations has traditionally signified peaceful...
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... and made a drum like sound when you hit the ball with it. The first paddle was also around 19 inches long, which is unheard of nowadays. As we neared the start of the 20th century, the paddles then started to become made of wood covered in sandpaper, followed by a “cork-faced” racket, which players liked because they thought it, improved their overall performance. As we neared the middle of the 20th century, the changes in the racket increased significantly due to a first time impact from Japanese technology. They tried adapting the racket so it would help a player either on the offensive or defensive side. For example, it says that they made a racket that was wide and had a “pimpled rubber” surface that was preferred by players on defense. Next, they developed a sponge type racket. When the sponge racket was implemented with rubber and was 1mm, it was said that it was more difficult to create spin on the ball. I found it interesting that they finally stuck with this type of material and instead went to a 2mm “pimple rubber racket” while they also tried ways to increase the spin and the way to defend the spin. And from then on, the table tennis paddle has stayed the same for the most part. The only changes could be customizations, where people had grips put on to the handle. According to the ITTF Handbook’s rules on the racket, it can be any size or shape, it just has to have a...
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...Moves * White * Pink * Blue * Plus one white * Plus one pink * Double pink * Black * Grey * Inside ball * Front dummy * 7 loop round to other side black (tell Dave) Application of the Moves * Receiving kick off: Shark (scoop, biggie, +1, biggie, eagle) * Mid-scrum: White-hit of base of scrum; 7 loop r2l black… Side scrum: * Front dummy… Rugby league laws: http://www.therfl.co.uk/the-rfl/rules/official_laws/5_mode_of_play Attack phase play: 1) Take 2) Take (When these guys are taking you are arranging the forth-coming play – e.g. ‘You 2 come closer run a white for me 3 & 4) White/double pink/ plus one white/plus one pink - For white; run 5m flat but 10m wide and run at the opposing defender one outside you (i.e. 10 runs towards 12 outside shoulder). - For double pink; execute the miss pink and use footwork to run at the defender and offload skills comes into hand to pop the ball to the team mate coming through for double pink. - For plus one; select and direct one taker to get flat but 8m wide of me. *If on blind side use hanz, footwork or drag the defence towards the line and pass the inside ball. Try to create the space! “All you’re doing in a game is two things: one is directing your team mates into position and telling them what to do; the second is rushing up on defence”. Remember go hard for the first 10 minutes and then conserve energy for the last 15. Last 15 minutes = 3 possible...
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...Professor S. Hafezi POL300 Take-Home Test 1 (T & F) August 13, 2010 STUDENT NAME_______________________________________ Type T or F in the space after each number. 1• _F__According to Wriston, communication/information revolution has expanded the ability of governments to control events within their territory. 2• _T__Slaughter argues that the nation-state is dying because of supranational organizations and communication/information revolution. 3• _T__Wriston maintains that the Information Age has validated the Orwell’s vision of Big brother watching the citizen. 4• _F__Wriston believes that the information revolution has outmoded old oligarchies. 5• _F__According to Wriston, nations can now easily block the flow of information across national borders. 6• _T__The U.S. reliance on information technology, according to Wriston, has made the country vulnerable to attack. 7_T__Slaughter asserts that the information revolution has produced global governance. 8• _T__Slaughter believes that transgovernmentalism has created a more effective and potentially more accountable world order. 9• _T__Slaughter cites partnership between a supranational tribunal and national courts as the most advanced form of judicial cooperation. 10• _T__Slaughter believes that transgovernmentalism provides a powerful alternative to both a new medievalism and a liberal internationalism. 11• _F__According to Slaughter, all the agents of the modern regulatory state are now...
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...forgotten about. The definition of insanity is “the mental illness of such a severe nature that a person cannot distinguish fantasy from reality, cannot conduct his/her affairs due to psychosis, or is subject to uncontrollable impulsive behavior” (Insanity). In other words, a person may live in a fantasy world and believe that things are going on around them that really are not. Also, a person may not be able to control their urges. For instance, a person may get the urge to flip someone the middle finger that cuts them off in traffic. This would be an uncontrollable impulsive behavior. Many serial killers use this line of defense as a strategy to get put into a mental hospital rather than prison. Mental hospitals give prisoners less rules and more freedoms than do Pierce 2 prisons. Some killers though, are truly insane. There is a fine line, as well as a good defense attorney, as to which side you fall on, sane or insane. Jeffrey Dahmer committed at least seventeen murders and entered a not guilty by reason of insanity plea but was found guilty of fifteen murders and found to be sane. One might ask how Dahmer can be sane after butchering so many young men and even keeping parts of their bodies in his...
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...and has the chance to be acquitted because he plans on pleading insanity. Prosecutors in this case proclaim: This just allows the defense to think through how they want to proceed…That makes it easier for the defense to plan its best case. Holmes could plead insanity and would wind up in a mental hospital indefinitely – and would never face execution, if the jury finds in his favor (Campbell). This would not be fair to the people who were injured and to the loved ones of the people who lost their lives in the shooting. Just as a kid would do anything not to get in trouble by their mother, so would a criminal who could face life in jail or execution, which is why pleading insanity shouldn’t be up to a criminal, because they would do anything to get out of jail time. The insanity plea, also known as the insanity defense, is a type criminal defense used in order to reduce their liability in court. Barry S. Edwards, a Minnesota criminal defense attorney, asserts that “It is estimated that approximately one percent of criminal defense cases raise mental illness as a defense. Of those roughly twenty-five percent succeed. So, one quarter of one percent of criminal defendants succeed with a mental illness defense” (Edwards). Therefore, meaning that almost one fourth of criminals escape severe jail time, because of a successful insanity defense. When a...
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...Duck and Cover Nuclear warfare was something that could damage all of civilization within a wide area, to know that a bomb could be set off and at anytime with no knowledge of when is a little scary. I would personally want to have some kind of idea so that I could protect my family in some form or fashion. In the video duck and cover watching the kids walking down the street and the bomb going off is scary. The video was a good form of teaching children and parents how to protect themselves if a nuclear bomb was to be set off. When terrorism struck the people had no idea of what was happening. The fact that a person or group of people considers hurting the innocent is wrong. The people that were killed in the 9-11 attack were just innocent by standers that were targeted because one person was upset with something that a past president had done. I personally think that a problem should be resolved in a different way other than violence. Terrorism threats and nuclear war are both dangerous to civilization. They both hurt and destroy innocent people and things. Unlike terrorism threats a nuclear bomb can destroy a wide variety of things and can affect civilization longer because of radiation being released, terrorist threats like 9-11 can destroy a variety of things like a nuclear bomb but it takes more than just one bomb. Terrorist threats can also affect civilization for a long period of time also, the people that lose family members can never get over that pain no matter what...
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...Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management Volume 9, Issue 1 2012 Article 31 Responding in Crises: A Comparative Analysis of Disaster Responses between Mainland China and Taiwan Chun-Chieh MA, National University of Tainan, Harvard University Recommended Citation: MA, Chun-Chieh (2012) "Responding in Crises: A Comparative Analysis of Disaster Responses between Mainland China and Taiwan," Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management: Vol. 9: Iss. 1, Article 31. ©2012 De Gruyter. All rights reserved. Authenticated | bee_and_tom@hotmail.com Download Date | 9/16/12 10:06 AM Responding in Crises: A Comparative Analysis of Disaster Responses between Mainland China and Taiwan Chun-Chieh MA Abstract The management of crisis events involves activity at the organizational and governmental jurisdiction levels and is comprised of an integrated system of practice and structure. However, because there are two systems involved in crisis response, namely centralization and decentralization of disaster management, there are differences in governmental actions in response to crisis events. This article analyzes and compares the actions of disaster responses undertaken by mainland China and Taiwan when faced with major natural disasters in order to demonstrate the different response results and defects of centralized and decentralized crisis response systems, respectively. The results showed that the efficiency of decentralized response systems is higher than...
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...Duck and Cover Arzetta Grays His/145 April 5, 2012 Michael Breakey When reviewing the video duck and cover, it would seem as though we were just as afraid of being attacked. So in precaution we reassured everyone that there were ways to be protected when a bombing should accrue. It looks as if like the government put out this video out to give the people a piece of mind, so that they would not be in a panic or rage of it happing to them. Even with the smallest bit of since people should realize that crouching down in a ball is not going to help you out in no shape or form from a nuclear bomb. When comparing this to the threat of terrorism some of the similarities were the panic and the damage to the land as well as damage to the people emotionally. I do not really think that it was many differences between the two. If only two well-armed countries are involved in the gloomy encounter, and if each set off less than 10 percent of its total nuclear arsenal over the other's largest cities, the mildest imaginable outcome is 35 million dead and 10 million seriously injured in each country, with one-half the total industrial capacity of each side destroyed. Our main enemy would be Russia in the attack if we were to go head to head. The other cultural context I got from the film I that America will do anything to make citizens feel safe even if that means dropping a bomb on a threat, or make up a implausible video to keep people in there right mind....
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...1. The platoon’s critical tasks are as follows: a. Conduct unit operations. b. Guard detained prisoners of war. c. Treat casualties. d. Perform in a Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) environment. e. Implement combat survival techniques in area of operation. 3. Use the class reference material to select the appropriate tasks for your squad to train that support the platoon’s critical tasks. Record your answers (title and task number) in the comment box. A. Conduct Unit Operations Issue Warning Order 071-326-5503 Issue a Fragmentary Order 071-326-5502 B. Guard Detained Prisoners of War Enforce UCMJ 181-101-2023 Enforce the Law of War and the Geneva and Hague Convention 181-105-2001 Conduct a Search and Seizure 181-101-4001 Search a Detainee 191-377-4254 Supervise the Processing of Detainees at the Point 191-377-4250 Guard Detainees 191-377-4256 Supervise the Escort of Detainees 191-377-4252 Process Captured Material 301-371-1200 C. Treat Casualties Evaluate a Casualty 081-831-1001 Perform First Aid for Bleeding of an Extremity 081-831-10332 Supervise Casualty Treatment and Evacuation 081-831-1058 Request Medical Evacuation 081-831-0101 Transport a Casualty D. Perform in a Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Environment (CBRN) React to Nuclear attack 031-503-1018 Protect Yourself from CBRN Contamination or Injury with MOPP Gear...
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...The Yellow Wallpaper: Narrator’s Perception Of Reality "The color is hideous enough and unreliable enough and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing. You think you have mastered it, but just as you get well underway in following, it turns a back-somersault and there you are. It slaps you in the face, knocks you down, and tramples upon you." (Gildman, p. 71) The story of the Yellow Wallpaper tells us about the madness of the “nameless” main character as she is suffering from a nervous depression. Her husband john, a physician, takes her to a leased summer home to try to relieve her with rest-cure. Rather than curing his wife from her disorder, John worsens the effects sending her into a severe depression. The role of the yellow wallpaper plays a dominant role in the story reviling her insanity through her writings, her husband’s treatments that worsen her health; and the lady behind the wallpaper. The narration in the Yellow Wallpaper is written in a unique first person point of view. Because of this we are able to see the deterioration of her state throughout the whole story. The narrator of the story is isolated from the outside world only exposed through a barred window to look out. She has no contact with the outside world, except john and their housekeeper Jennie, which leads her to writing. John does not want his wife to write because he thinks it will diminish her treatment, but she does anyway, which is exhausting for her to do it in secret. As the narrators...
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...Explore, in depth, one well-known criminal case. You may select your own case, or select from one of the following: Jeffery McDonald, Andrea Yates, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, Aileen Wournos, John Wayne Gacy, Philip Markoff (the Craigslist killer), Scott Peterson, Anthony Sowell, or Dennis Rader (BTK strangler). Your case study should focus on the following 1. Must be eight to ten double-spaced pages in length, and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. 2. Must include a title page with the following: a. Title of paper b. Student’s name c. Course name and number d. Instructor’s name e. Date submitted 3. Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement. 4. Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought. 5. Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis. 6. Must use five to eight scholarly sources from the Ashford University Library. 7. Must document all sources in APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. 8. Must include a separate reference page, formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. a.Summarize the case, including a description of the offense(s), the investigation, and the outcome (such as the trial and sentencing). b.Analyze the psychological history or path that took the criminal to commit his or her crime(s). Describe the psychological, behavioral, environmental, and cognitive factors that you believe led to the offender’s...
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...I am actually torn between both. Based on certain laws that are in place in regards to the insanity defense supports the decision to send her to a mental institution instead of the first decision that convicted her of murder and prison. Yes I believe that this is truly not a flaw but a legal alternative excuse that grants a degree of pardoning due to abnormal and uncontrollable behaviors. Yes and no. There are mitigating circumstances in some cases and living in the state of Texas there seems to be lively bandwagon that legislature seems to jump on every time some type of unsightly event occurs. I believe that Perry is more of a crime control governor and fails to see the importance of true rehabilitation especially in cases such as Andrea Yates. She works with people on a daily basis who truly have a problem that is uncontrollable and now feel that this reveals the how huge mental disability is and how it is linked to many crimes. I truly agree. If a person has impulsive or uncontrollable activities that is the same as locking up a drug addict with an addiction. These people need to be rehabilitated, not stuck in prison; help is needed. Yates is now in a mental hospital until a judge decides that she is stable enough to be released. He probably meant that the people of the jury got a bit personal in their decision and looked at the acts of Yates and its end result; her children were dead at the duty of her hands and felt she should be punished by the fullest extent...
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...corresponds to the shape of the underlying brain and is therefore indicative of the personality, (p. 89). Because of the actions of John Hinckley Congress enacted changes to the law that affected the way defense attorneys used the insanity defense in order to protect their clients in court due to concerns that some defendants had no metal disorders, and others were classified as having personality disorders. Those who support the mens rea approach argue that if the courts had considered Hinckley’s mental culpability he would have likely been found guilty because they claim he was clear about his intentions. The notes Hinckley left for film star Jodie Foster showed how disturbed he was. John Hinckley reportedly admitted that he was fantasizing about the life of a character in a famous movie. This article went on to explain that Hinckley suffered from other physical ailments that caused significant weight gain and also required prescriptions such as Valium, antidepressants, and antihistamines. In addition, “At his trial the defense successfully won a battle to introduce a CAT-scan test showing the widened suici of the brain found, according to one defense psychiatrist, in one of three schizophrenics” (Carrithers, 1985, p. 24, para 7). During Hinckley’s trial the prosecution and defense both argued that he suffered from clinical issues such as paranoid personality disorder, depressive neurosis, process schizophrenia, or dysthymic disorder. The...
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...A. Sexual harassment occurs when one employee makes continued, unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature, to another employee, against his or her wishes. Quid pro quo- In legal usage, quid pro quo indicates that an item or a service has been traded in return for something of value, usually when the propriety or equity of the transaction is in question. For example, under the common law, a binding contract must involve consideration: that is, the exchange of something of value for something else of economic value. If the exchange appears excessively one sided, courts in some jurisdictions may question whether a quid pro quo did actually exist and the contract may be void by law. Hostile environment harassment- employment discrimination consisting of unwelcome verbal or physical conduct (as comments, jokes, or acts) relating to the victim's constitutionally or statutorily protected classification (as race, religion, ethnic origin, or age) that has the effect of substantially interfering with a person's work performance or of creating a hostile work environment. Pollard was a victim of hostile environment harassment. In the case Gallagher v. C.H. Robinson, even though members of both sexes were exposed to the offensive conduct in the Cleveland office, considering the nature of the patently degrading and anti-female nature of the harassment, it stands to reason that women would suffer, as a result of the exposure...
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