...in a place where he or she has the right be, they have no obligation to haven and have the right to stand their ground. A quick breakdown of this law is that it give a person legal cover in the event that they find themselves in a certain situation in which their survival, or the preservation of their family necessitates them to stand their ground and use a weapon for defense. This law can be referenced back to the Supreme Court case Beard v. United States, 158 U.S. 550 (1895). It is defined in this case that, “A man assailed on his own grounds, without provocation, by a person armed with a deadly weapon and apparently seeking his life is not obliged to retreat, but may stand his ground and defend himself with such means as are within his control; and so long as there is no intent on his part to kill his antagonist, and no purpose of doing anything beyond what is necessary to save his own life, is not guilty of murder or manslaughter if death results to his antagonist from a blow given him under such circumstances (www.justia.com). In Houston, Texas a “Stand-your-ground” case has brought a lot of attention, but also a lot of controversy. In this case Raul Rodriguez was found guilty of killing his neighbor over a dispute over loud music. Rodriguez who was a retired firefighter got angry because of the loud noise coming from his neighbor’s house while they were having a birthday party. He confronted his...
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...The effects of populations and noise go hand-in-hand, or have a cause and effect relationship. If there are larger amounts of people in a smaller space, there will be more noise. The amount of noise a human can tolerate changes from each person’s own perspective. Most people have a desired level of noise, and a desired amount of personal boundaries. Cultural factors affect the way human beings determine what is appropriate personal space, or what is uncomfortable for each individual. Environment has a huge impact on what one considers privacy. The comfort level in which individuals interpret their own privacy varies, also has to do with how one is brought up and what their personal culture has taught him or her or privacy. For example, in certain cultures the people feel it is appropriate to keep the women covered up as much as possible. Traditional Muslims wear head pieces that cover everything except their eyes. African tribal groups will show their women wearing next to nothing, they may have their breasts exposed or it may be customary for the whole tribal community to wear nothing at all. If there is no stigma taught by the social norms of that society, then the people do not feel as though they are exposing themselves. Individuals are a product of their environment. If what they are doing is taught to be right, then they will not have the feeling that they are doing something wrong. Human territoriality is the predisposed feeling to control one’s own surroundings and...
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...Argumentative Essay Bailey Tollefson WR097/EL113W 11/26/15 There is a tremendous issue in America with teens driving. A big reason why is because car crashes are, “the number one killer of teens in the United States” (“Safe kids Worldwide,” 2014). Many parents realize the danger that their kids are in once they get their license, and get freaked out. This is because teens are inexperienced, they easily get distracted, and most do not realize the importance of safe driving, and how unsafe driving can affect their lives. Teenagers have little experience once they get their drivers licenses. This is a major problem, because when you are young you feel invincible. This certainly is not the case. In 2013, 2,163 teens in the United States ages 16–19 were killed, which means that six teenagers died each day (“Get the Facts,” 2013). These crashes were mainly from lack of experience. “The first 500 miles for teenage drivers are the most crucial. During this time, they are 10 times more likely to be in auto crashes than adult drivers” (“Teenage Car Accidents,” 2012). A big concern for driving at night is reduced road visibility. “In 2009, 61 percent of teen crash deaths occurred between 6 P.M, and 6 A.M… this is primarily due to a combination of the visibility challenges caused by dark conditions, and slower response time brought about by fatigue, and a lack of experience driving under such conditions” (Canfield, 2013). Also animals are more active at night, which would lead to...
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...Argumentative Essay By: Bailey Tollefson Teens Driving There is a tremendous issue in America with teens driving. A big reason why is because car crashes are, “the number one killer of teens in the United States” (“Safe kids Worldwide,” 2014). Many parents realize the danger that their kids are in once they get their license, and get freaked out. This is because teens are inexperienced, they easily get distracted, and most do not realize the importance of safe driving, and how unsafe driving can affect their lives. Teenagers have little experience once they get their drivers licenses. This is a major problem, because when you are young you feel invincible. This certainly is not the case. In 2013, 2,163 teens in the United States ages 16–19 were killed, which means that six teenagers died each day (“Get the Facts,” 2013). These crashes were mainly from lack of experience. “The first 500 miles for teenage drivers are the most crucial. During this time, they are 10 times more likely to be in auto crashes than adult drivers” (“Teenage Car Accidents,” 2012). A big concern for driving at night is reduced road visibility. “In 2009, 61 percent of teen crash deaths occurred between 6 P.M, and 6 A.M… this is primarily due to a combination of the visibility challenges caused by dark conditions, and slower response time brought about by fatigue, and a lack of experience driving under such conditions” (Canfield, 2013). Also animals are more active at night, which would lead to...
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...RIAA and Associated Record Companies: Embrace the Digital Music Era Our forms of music have drastically changed in correlation to current cultural advances. We have gone from vinyl records to cassettes, which were very popular in the 1970s followed by the revolutionary digital technology of a compact disc. Now, we are in an era that is progressively becoming more and more digitized with different audio formats through the Internet. Every day, thousands of people with a computer or access to one participate in peer-2-peer networks to share digitized formats of music, videogames, movies or other applications (“Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing”). The shift of music from compact discs to mp3’s has financially affected the music industry. Not only is money lost on the decreasing sales of outdated CD’s, but also on litigation circling the issues of copyright. Any downloaded music, videogames, movies, or applications from peer-2-peer networks sites are protected by copyright law and once downloaded are now considered copyright infringed. Over the years, The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and its associated record companies have taken much time and spent a good amount of money to conduct investigations and prosecute individuals involved in illegal music file sharing and copyright infringement. However, the Internet has proven to move faster than the prosecutions of individuals responsible for illegal music downloading, which, in the long run, has had very little effect...
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...Project X is a movie about three seniors who fly under the radar in high school. Costa and Thomas are best friends. Costa is loud, outgoing, and wants more than anything to be popular and have people know his name. Thomas is quite the opposite, he is more reserved and only concerned about a girl he likes. Thomas’ parents decide to go away for the weekend, which leaves the house free for Thomas’ birthday party. Thomas has many reservations about the party but allows it thinking that the girl he likes will show up. After many invitations are extended people begin to arrive. Things go from a controlled environment to absolute chaos, with the use of sex, drugs, and alcohol. In this paper I will discuss the movie as well as its relation to drugs and alcohol have with Biology. Costa invites people over to Thomas’ to celebrate his eighteenth birthday. They have their friend Dax film it all. Costa believes that for the party they need alcohol and marijuana, so they have to find it and pick it up. While picking up the marijuana they steal a garden gnome from the dealer’s house not realizing what was inside. Back at the house people started to arrive and what begins as a small get together, quickly turns into a large gathering. All the kids are drinking alcohol, smoking marijuana, and partying; when one of them decides to try and hit to garden gnome with a baseball bat. As he tosses it in the air he swings and smashes it into smithereens, sending hundreds of ecstasy pills...
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...Count: 1,894 I have been asked to advise James, Stephanie, David and Vaughan on any rights and liabilities they may have arising from the relevant facts, considering also any relevant defences which could be argued and giving full legal reasons from the relevant facts. Such advice as will be given is made in consideration of the legal principles set out below. Vicarious Liability This concerns an employer’s liability for the tortuous acts and omissions of employees. [1] An employer is vicariously liable for wrongful acts done by the employee in the “scope of their employment”[1] [2] If a wrongful act of an employee has been authorised by the employer, the employer will be liable [3] An employer is liable even for unauthorised acts, if they are so connected with authorised acts that they may be regarded as modes of doing them. The test is whether the wrongful act may be considered a mode of performance, or whether it is so removed from an authorised act that it may be deemed independent. Duty of Care The general principle is that “a person is not liable for damage to another through his or her negligence unless a duty of care is owed” [2] [4] “The law concerns itself with carelessness only where there is a legal duty to take care. A person owes a duty to take reasonable care to avoid acts or omissions which he or she should have reasonably foreseen would be likely to injure his or her ‘neighbour’, that is, another person ‘closely and directly...
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...discuss how the study of Public Legal Education would help school managers analyse the following; i). Public Nuisance ii). Negligence of girl child iii). Abortion Practices iv). Examination Malpractice Without rules and regulations, society would be impossible to have because freedom without boundaries results in anarchy which means total confusion. From birth, human beings’ lives, safety, health and peace are controlled by law. It is for this reason that this piece of work seeks to critically discuss how the study of public legal education would help school managers analyze public nuisance, negligence of the girl child, abortion practices and examination malpractices. According to Johari (1989), law is a set of rules which society develops for itself to control the behaviours of its members towards one another. Migel et al (2005) defines public as something that is not owned privately but in common, while legal is a word used to refer to issues, things, activities or information to do with how or what the law requires (Cooper, 1978). For a rule to be recognized as a law there should be a way of compelling people to obey it and this is done by imposing penalties or punishment to the law breakers and rewards to the wronged persons. Rules which make up laws, the institutions that administer the laws, the principles, ideas, theories, practices, procedures and techniques that develop over the years in dealing with the law make up the legal system (Turner, 1986). In Zambia...
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...SHOULD DRIVING LICENSE BE RAISED TO 21 ? The legal age to obtain driving license is 17 years. Everybody endeavor to obtain driving license at this period life will be better to raise driving age because young drivers are the main cause of road deaths. In addition, if driving age is 21, number of deaths will decrease and roads become safer. Another reason, teens text and drive and put themselves and other people in danger. Teens are increasing car wrecks. They are also increasing their injuries. Teens don't know much of the consequences that come with driving. They party and drink, and when they drive drunk, that's another wreck and death waiting to happen. Teenagers can simply be distracted by lots of things while driving such as, loud music and talking in phones etc. Moreover they are not fully developed especially the frontal lobe part of their brain which is the part responsible for weighing risks and making judgments. If the driving age was raised thousands of innocent soles would be saved. In conclusion, Young driver’s especially male drivers are likely to overestimate their ability to drive at faster speed that’s leads to major accident to reduce this only strategy to raise the age of driving license. Teen drivers are every adult’s nightmare. The driving age at the moment is 17 it should be raised to 21 to overcome some of consequences and risk factors in teenagers. With lack of experience and maturity, both parents and fellow drivers are frightened to share the...
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...Broken Window Concept Gerardo de Lago Abstract Modern policing have taken various forms as police chiefs looks for better ways to protect their communities, within all the available policing theories we analyzed the Broken-window concept. This policing process was defined on the 1980’s and applied to city areas where abandoned areas and disorder where obvious and led to crime controlled areas and the corresponding citizens fear to walk their own community streets at night. The theory compares the abandoned areas as parks, bus stops and empty building with an empty house where a first window is broken and if not promptly fixed other windows will be broken and very soon the house will be vandalized, doors broken open and interiors painted with graffiti. When community rules are not clear and follow by all members, a small portion will take advantage and create fear on the citizens. The basic assumption is that unattended behavior will lead to breakdown of community control. Broken Window Concept Broken-window concept is part of several different concepts developed to find a applicable strategy to overcome crime on communities, this concept is based on the hypothetic idea of an abandoned building in which someone just broke a window, the theory states that if that initially vandalized window is not promptly fixed another one will be broken and very soon the whole building will be attacked. During this paper we will discuss the basis of this theory and why the broken-window...
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...U37 USB Studio Recording Microphone The U37 is a side-address microphone. When recording, speak or play into the side of the mic that has the CAD logo. The U37 has two switches on the front. The first switch allows you to decrease the sensitivity of the microphone so the sound quality is clear for extremely loud sounds. For example, the switch should be in the “-10” position for loud voices, percussion and other high sound pressure level devices. The “0” position should be used for normal voices and string instruments. If the recording is unclear or distorted set the switch to “-10” and re-record. The second switch on the U37 is designed to reduce pickup of deep-bass sounds. The switch should be in the “Normal Bass” mode in most cases. However, if you want to remove wind noise, ventilation noise, or decrease the low frequencies in a recording, the switch should be in the “Bass Reduction” position. Bass settings Normal Bass Bass Reduction 6. Select the “Audio” tab. Confirm that under the “Sound recording” section the “C-Media USB Audio Device” is selected. (The “Sound playback” should remain your usual sound output device). (Default playback device) Before using the U37 in your favorite audio or communications application you must confirm that the computer’s operating system recognizes the U37. Windows XP recognition instructions 1. Plug the U37 into the USB port on the computer. (When using a USB hub, check with the hub manufacturer to be sure the hub supports a device...
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...saw the group sway from their rap rock influences for a heavy sample based sound. Run-DMC then released "Back From Hell" amidst a slide in their sales and a change of perception in the hip hop world. The whole album made the group look outdated. Personal problems began to rise due to the group's first real taste of failure. All three members were invovled in life changing incidents. McDaniels was losing a battle to alcoholism, Mizell in a major car crash and surviving two gun shots and Simmons was indicted in a rape case although charges were dropped...
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...One day this spring, a psychiatrist named Dorothy Lewis got a call from her friend Betty, who works in New York City. Betty had just seen a Broadway play called "Frozen," written by the British playwright Bryony Lavery. "She said, 'Somehow it reminded me of you. You really ought to see it,'" Lewis recalled. Lewis asked Betty what the play was about, and Betty said that one of the characters was a psychiatrist who studied serial killers. "And I told her, 'I need to see that as much as I need to go to the moon.'" Lewis has studied serial killers for the past twenty-five years. With her collaborator, the neurologist Jonathan Pincus, she has published a great many research papers, showing that serial killers tend to suffer from predictable patterns of psychological, physical, and neurological dysfunction: that they were almost all the victims of harrowing physical and sexual abuse as children, and that almost all of them have suffered some kind of brain injury or mental illness. In 1998, she published a memoir of her life and work entitled "Guilty by Reason of Insanity." She was the last person to visit Ted Bundy before he went to the electric chair. Few people in the world have spent as much time thinking about serial killers as Dorothy Lewis, so when her friend Betty told her that she needed to see "Frozen" it struck her as a busman's holiday. But the calls kept coming. "Frozen" was winning raves on Broadway, and it had been nominated for a Tony. Whenever someone who knew Dorothy...
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...------------------------------------------------- EVENT PLANNING STUDENT PORTFOLIO ------------------------------------------------- EVENT PLANNING STUDENT PORTFOLIO EVENT PLANNING WORK BOOK EVENT ASSIGNMENT WORK BOOK & MANUAL MY EVENT STORY The most memorable event in my life was…. | The most memorable event in my life was the Traditional wedding Ceremony of my friend Nneka Ochonogor, it took place in Asaba, Delta State Nigeria, on the 23rd of March, 2013. It was a memorable event because there was a cross match of Cultures and ideas, owing to the fact that the groom was not a Nigerian, compared to the bride who was. The event was attended by the family of the groom, who came all the way from England. The parents of the groom had to be dressed in the usual traditional attire, fit for the traditional rites, though It was a struggle to have the head gear of the grooms mother in place because it kept going off at intervals owing to the size of her head.After the traditional rites (payment of dowry) the bride was unveiled as the tradition demands, prayers were said by the oldest man in the bride’s family and it was all merriment and dance. The grand reception was held in a hall(Orchid Hotel) in Asaba and I had the opportunity to witness an opulent and electrifying decoration by one of the best Event Planners from Abuja Nigeria(Red Diamond Events) There was so much class and elegance, the hall was a masterpiece and I felt and imagined...
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...Florida’s law Stand your ground is giving todays citizens a right to kill. Every day we read about a new case where this law justifies the killing of another person. This law was made up to protect criminals and people who choose to kill when they could have easily avoided the whole situation. Shoot first and ask questions later should have been the name of this law. Walking home from the convenient store, playing your music in your car at a gas station, or even going to the movies and asking someone to keep it down has become a scary task. How is it possible that you run the risk of getting shot or killed by doing these everyday normal tasks and the person responsible for your death gets off Scott free with no repercussion for their actions? Having the right to protect yourself when you are seriously in harm’s way is necessary, but useless acts of violence is what todays people are doing and justifying it in court with the Stand your Ground law. This is turning innocent people into targets for angry individuals to take their frustrations or dislikes out on. I want to have the right to walk down the street with a hoodie on and not fear for my life. Gun laws have been restricted over the U.S since the Sandy Hook shootings; however Florida still hasn’t caught up with these actions and still provides an out for over zelles gun toting outlaws. In this paper I will cover a few cases that show how the Stand your Ground law is just a way of getting away with murder and not providing...
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