...___________________________________________________________________________ Question Presented Robert Landon a construction worker found an old wallet on top of an air duct behind the walls while renovating the second floor of Springfield College of Law. The wallet had $324 dated back to 1972 and no other identification cards. Would Langdon be successful in having the wallet declared to be “lost property” as opposed to “mislaid” and would he be entitled to the money as the finder of the wallet? Brief Answer Robert Langdon will not be successful in having the wallet declared as a lost property and he will have no claim to the money in the wallet. According to the general rule if the property is not found in plain sight and is concealed by some external barrier or there was a substantial effort required to find it, then the property is considered to be mislaid as opposed to lost. This is on the grounds that the owner of the property deliberately hid it in a place where it could not be found easily as opposed to lost property where the owner unintentionally loses his property. In the case of mislaid property, the possession of the property goes to the owner of the premises where it was found. Whereas in the case of lost property, if the property is not claimed by the owner within 12 months, the finder has the claim to the lost property. In this case, the cash was found in a wallet covered up on top of a pipe behind a divider which obviously demonstrates that the cash was concealed deliberately...
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...Beneath The Surface A Reaction Paper On “Bayaning 3rd World” “Who is Rizal?” If you ask this question to any Filipino, they will most likely say, “He is our national hero” Or “He’s the person stamped on our 1-peso coin”. But is that all he really is? The movie “Bayaning 3rd World” is about two film makers trying to make a movie about Rizal. They found out, however, that this would not be an easy task, for their subject is a very complicated man. Rather than focusing on a single issue about Rizal, they decided to make a detective story about Rizal being the country’s national hero. They tackled several issues but focused mainly on Rizal’s retraction and Josephine Bracken. The movie was meant to be educational, but unlike most documentaries, “Bayaning 3rd World” is definitely not boring. The documentary was presented in a comical way, so that viewers of all ages would be able to understand it and grasp its meaning. I was confused at first because I didn’t know what the “Retraction Controversy” was and the two film makers started having these long conversations about it without explaining it to the viewers. But when I found out what it was all about, following the flow of the story became easy. Another controversy that arose was about Josephine Bracken, on whether she and Rizal were married or not. It was implied that if they were indeed married, then Rizal retracted for the church wouldn’t allow them to get married without doing so. It was further implied that if this was...
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...Literature Through Time Literature depicts the morals of time it shift and morphs into less power in the divine and more faith in man. Stories began being written by monks and the clergy which in time turned into regular men with stores that focused on more secular matters. English literature fills up the gap between wars, between societal change, you can see time progressing, you can see our values and morals changing, you can see history passing by. In the beginning there was Bede, a philosopher, speaker of many languages, a man who looked around him and saw a world in peril that only God could save, a man full of faith. Time passes and we see Shakespeare, a genius, a man with a queen, a man who rallied against the common, Shakespeare was a man with deep loves and a strong voice. “The Story of Caedmon”, was written during a time when Christian religious dogma was primarily hagiography, “the telling of the life of virtuous men and women that represents what it means to be a good Christian.” These stories are used as a form of reflections on one’s life as to make it better in the future. Religious dogma needed to be made more accessible to the congregation which was widely illiterate, so the stories were written with easy points and then acted out so that the congregation would not only be awake and attentive, but so that these stories of morality and faith would really sink in. “Caedmon” is probably the earliest extant of Old English poetry, Bede tells about Caedmon, an...
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...1590’s, to the fashion for sonnets, he moved closer to the cultural and literary dominance of the court’s taste—to the fashionable modes of Ovid, Petrarch, and Neoplatonism—and to the need for patronage. Although the power of the sonnets goes far beyond their sociocultural roots, Shakespeare nevertheless adopts the culturally inferior role of the petitioner for favor, and there is an undercurrent of social and economic powerlessness in the sonnets, especially when a rival poet seems likely to supplant the poet. In short, Shakespeare’s nondramatic poems grow out of and articulate the strains of the 1590’s, when, like many ambitious writers and intellectuals on the fringe of the court, Shakespeare clearly needed to find a language in which to speak—and that was, necessarily, given to him by the court. What he achieved within this shared framework, however, goes far beyond any other collection of poems in the age. Shakespeare’s occasional poems are unquestionably minor, interesting primarily because he wrote them; his sonnets, on the other hand, constitute perhaps the language’s greatest collection of lyrics. They are love lyrics, and...
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...to declare a found wallet lost property in a situation where the wallet was found sitting on a top of a duct behind a wall where the wallet appears to have been located since 1972 and has not been claimed by its original owner? BRIEF ANSWER No, it not likely that Robert Langdon will succeed in his claim to the money found by him on the top of the duct because of the location where the money was found as well as the manner in which it was concealed. Here, since the wallet was found sitting on a duct, it was likely that the original owner intentionally placed the property in this location for safekeeping, with the intent to later return for it. STATEMENT OF FACTS Plaintiff, Robert Langdon, is a construction worker and an employee for Mason and Mason Construction Company. Currently, Mr. Langdon is working with fifteen other men on the renovation of the second floor at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. His primary duty consists of plastering the walls of the law school with his fellow co-workers. In August of 2009, Mr. Langdon was working on the walls located in a far back corner of the second floor when he discovered a dusty item sitting on top of a duct that was behind the wall. Upon further inspection, Langdon found that the item was a faded brown leather wallet, which contained $324 but no other forms of identification. The dated currency caused Langdon to believe the wallet had been between the walls since approximately 1972, but he found no other evidence...
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...analyses whether Robert Langdon, a construction worker, working at the Springfield College of Law in Cleveland, Ohio, be entitled to the possession of the wallet found on top of a duct behind a wall as the finder of “lost” property or will Springfield be entitled to hold on to the money as being “mislaid”, and keep the recuperated amount once the applicable statutory time has passed? Brief Answer The Court is most likely to rule that the wallet was mislaid property and not lost property. The classification between lost property and mislaid property was established in Benjamin v. Lindner Aviation, Inc. and State Central Bank. “Property is lost when the owner unintentionally and involuntarily parts with its possession and does not know where it is,” whereas “Mislaid property is voluntarily put in a certain place by the owner who then overlooks or forgets where the property is.” There is substantial evidence for the wallet to be classified as mislaid property. The wallet was found on a duct behind a wall, which gives us an indication that that that the owner voluntarily put it there, and it is unlikely that the owner parted with it without the intention of doing so. Furthermore, the location and the manner in which the wallet was hidden, was such that it was apparently found after 43 years. Moreover, it was not found in a very conventional manner but in the process of renovating and plastering the walls, and was accessible only on rigorous scrutiny by Langdon. The setting suggests...
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...Chapters 48-50 Chapter and Web Work Activities Worth 250 Points Timely Due, Friday, April 11 @ 11:50 PM Please review your chapter readings BEFORE performing the below activities. Where applicable, please use the rules from the chapters and incorporate them into your analysis: Provide the legal rule, legal support, theories, and analysis from the text into your analysis. Use your Independent Legal Judgment and answer the questions using substantive law and legal theories. Arguments supported legally, are worth more than mere unsupported “personal opinions.” Written assignments will take more time for an individual to research and legally respond; please plan your time accordingly. These assignments will also require time to grade. • Please do NOT erase the original instructions or questions • Pease do write directly onto this file in the tables provided. The table will adjust as you type your responses. • YOU MUST BOLD or use BLUE font for your responses [not both]. • For case problems: Please FULLY answer the questions presented for max credit; apply the rules discussed in your text; incorporate the rules into your response where applicable. Argue and analyze each rule as it applies to the given situation. Use textbook/PAGE references, within the context of your response • Papers that are EASY to READ are EASY to GRADE. • Presentation is important • DO upload this completed assignment as ONE PDF file; required. Here is PDF...
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...His preference for short literary works shows it’s obvious he did not “gamble” like the rest of his fellow writers, such as his innovation of connecting art and environment. Recent critics have focused on his literary method; Poe has tackled the problem of a pieces of work relying so heavily on risque elements. Poe is known as “The Father of the Macabre,” as he is a “skilled craftsman of grotesque tales and romantic fantasies,” (shaping many into one). However, Poe was more than a horror story and poem writer, in fact his oeuvre includes editor, literary critic, satirist, hoaxer, mystery writer, pioneer in the Sci-Fi (science-fiction) genre, poet, and playwright. Poe created an “aesthetic theory, setting the basis to American scepticism through the first person narrative, “ (shaping many into one). Poes’ had a connection to the American culture and improved upon American literature through his philosophy of composition, celebrating a liaison between artistic autonomy and productivity, mainly prose fiction. he also believes that “the power of words expresses the concept of endless productivity,” (poe...
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...eventually his demise. For example, Poe was told by his fiance Elmira Shelton that he looked ill about a day before his departure for Philadelphia. So, Poe visited his doctor and friend, John Carter who recommended that he stay home and rest (D). During many times before his decline in health Poe suffered from recurrent depression, drug and alcohol abuse (A). A few days after his departure he was found “semi-conscious and was taken to a nearby...
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...and was accepted to the West Point Academy. He then published his first collection of poems that included Tamerlane and other minor poems while at the academy. Most people see this as Poe’s first poems and where he started poetry, but he actually started much before this. In fact, there are some minor poems dating back to the age of 15. Including one with the name of just simply Poetry that he wrote at this age. That poem all about him being sad and laying down on a couch. The reason he started writing these is that believed to be because of depression he had because of the loss of his first love. As Poe got older, he got better and better at writing. Some of his poems were even the most famous of their time. For example, The Raven is considered Edgar Allan Poe’s best work, even scaring people, and is the most sold of all his works. There are also poems like The Tale Tale Heart, but it was not liked at the time because people did not like sketchy poems. No copies were sold. During current times it is considered a great story now that most people know today. Another story is one by the name of Annabel Lee. This was a story based on his life where the narrator is mourning the death of his love, Annabel Lee. There are other famous works like The Bells, Hop Frog, Eldorado, and many more. These works were not looked upon well. During his lifetime most people saw him as someone who stole all his poems and a horrible poet. Poe was also a brutal critic of all literature. In fact, he was...
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...Introduction Developing Yourself as an Effective Practitioner I am doing this CIPD foundation course as I have currently been asked to be involved with the HR role in my work place as we do not have an HR department. I feel that by doing this course it will further my career and give me great opportunities for my future ahead. At the moment I work alongside my manager to help associate with the basics of HR. Activity 1 Briefly summaries the HRPM (i.e. the 2 core professional areas, the remaining professional areas, the bands and the behaviours) The CIPD HR Profession Map can be found on the CIPD website, it is an online self-assessment tool which summaries the activities, knowledge and behaviours that the CIPD believe to be required to many different HR organisations. It describes how successful and effective HR people are, and explains what HR people do and how they deal with every situation of their profession, and set out required targets to reach the, skills, behavior and knowledge required. It supports HR in every step of their career. The Human Resources map is divided into ten professional areas and eight behaviors, which describe what you need to do, and what you need to know, so that you can focus on the areas in which is most relevant to your role, and what will be your next career’s steps. There are eight professional areas and two core professional areas. The eight professional areas are, • Organisation design, • Organisation development...
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...Creativity Essay Woodrow Prudhomme Excelsior College What is Creativity? What is creativity? Webster's dictionary defines creativity as the quality of being creative. According to Sir Ken Robinson, creativity begins with imagination. He states that “imagination is the ability to step outside of your current state, to bring to life what is unprecedented to our senses.” I do believe that creativity does in fact deal with the imagination. I myself, I have an overactive imagination. The ablilty to create things with a active imagination, has endless possibilities. Fostering Creativity What does it take to foster creativity? Many things can help foster creativity, but it just depends on the person. One of the best things to do for someone, is to allow them to flourish. To help foster creativity, change the environment. Environmental change may be the key to see what someone may be good at. For someone who may be constantly moving around when they heard music, then they may request to be a dancer. If someone is forced to paint in school and do not like to paint, change their environment. The environmental change may be just what that person needs. They may be more interested in music than painting. What May Discourage Creativity? There are different things that can discourage creativity in current society. According to Sir Ken Robinson's story of the 1930s dancer, the mother thought that her daughter had a medical condition...
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...October 7, 1949, will forever remain the day of great unknowns because this day was the last day of Edgar Allen Poe's existence. On that night of October 3rd in Baltimore, Maryland, something happened to Poe, something that ultimately led to his demise. There are numerous mysteries surrounding one of the greatest writers of our times death, no one knows the true story but will all facts that have risen his death comes a little more clearer and clearer. Many say that it was drugs that killed Poe, others say it was from an assault believe on the evening of October 3rd Poe went to bar after a day of festering over the thoughts of the death of his love (Virginia), his health, and his financial woes, and began to drink heavily. After a couple hours...
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...or any matter in which definite information is required. Different Types of Report: Depending upon the subject area it might would be: laboratory reports, technical reports, and reports of a work placement or industrial visit, reports of a field trip of field work. For writing a proper reports following material should considered: • Plan your report and divide the platform in a various stages, • Careful planning of reports will give a clear concise and effective results, • Collecting the information from various truthful sources and organizing the information, • Finally structuring the reports that vary according to the various types of reports said earlier. Following are the common elements can be found in many different reports: o Title page: The authors name, module, course and the date. o Acknowledgements: Give thanks to the librarians, technicians or computer centre staff. o Contents: List all the main sections in a sequence with page numbers. o Abstract of Summary: It should be concise informative and independent of the report. o Introduction: It will include context, scope of the report, terms of reference as well as define the limits of report, give a brief general background. o Methodology: Show the way of inquiry like interviews or questionnaires. o Results or findings: If possible then show in a tables graphs, pie charts, bar charts, diagrams or any others way. o Discussion:...
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...The eeriness that surrounds Edgar Allen Poe’s life created a lot of controversy to his name. Many myths have been formed after his death at the age of 40. The wild myths includes Poe died drunk in a gutter, Poe was an opium addict, and Poe was expelled from the University of Virginia. As I said in the beginning of my sentence, all of the following statements are false. Many people still believe that these myths are actually true, even until this day! I’m here to provide the evidence to prove that these myths are just myths. Let’s begin with our first myth of Poe dying drunk in a gutter. Poe didn’t actually die drunk in a gutter. The article “Poe died in a gutter”, said he died in a Washington College Hospital. Although Poe’s medical records...
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