...United States v. Gordon U.S. Army 31 MJ 30 (CMA 1990) U.S. Court of Military Appeals. (Case Brief) Procedural Disposition: On September 20 and 26 1988 Private Thaddeus D. Gordon was tried by a general court-martial and found guilty of negligent homicide, in violation of Article 134 in the UCMJ. The appellant was sentenced to a bad-conduct discharge, confinement and forfeiture of $447.00 pay per month for 6 months, and reduction to lowest enlisted rank. Although the convening authority suspended the discharge and any confinement over 3 months. This sentence was reviewed on the basis of whether the evidence is sufficient to convict appellant where appellants conduct did no proximately cause the victim’s death by the U.S. Court of Military Appeals. Facts: On June 18, 1988 Gordon, Private Hall and Private Andrews rented a small rowboat at Gelterswoog Lake, Hohenecken, Federal Republic of Germany; no life preservers were aboard the rowboat. Appellant and Private Hall had dove several times off of the boat, allowing the boat to take on water. Appellant and Private Hall also splashed each other with water after Andrews refused to row any longer, causing more water to come into the boat. The record also shows the appellant suggested, and proceeded to, stand up in the boat. The boat capsized and Private Andrews drowned. In a pretrial statement, Gordon admitted hearing Andrews confess he could not swim. In another statement appellant admitted he was aware that Andrews had a pair...
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...OTIS F. WOOD v. LUCY, LADY DUFF-GORDON, 222 N.Y. 88; 118 N.E. 214; 1917 N.Y. LEXIS 818 Fact: Lady Duff-Gordon was a fashion guru and hired Wood’s agency to have the exclusive right to her endorsement and fashion design. Lady Duff-Gordon was to handle business for Wood and in return, Lady Duff-Gordon was to receive one half of all the income. Lady Duff-Gordon placed her endorsement on fabrics without the knowledge of Wood and withheld the profits from those fabrics. Issue: Whether the contract lacks mutuality? It does not expressly bind or require the Plaintiff to actually place endorsements or market defendant’s designs. Rule: Phoenix Hermetic Co. v. Filtrate Mfg. Co., 164 App. Div. 424; the acceptance of the exclusive agency was an assumption of its duties Analysis: The circumstances supported a promise by implication that Wood would use reasonable efforts to place the endorsements and market the designs. Unless he gave his efforts neither party would gain anything from the contract. Additionally, the one-half profit arrangement was a promise to use all of his efforts in order that the contract would have value to Wood. Justice Cardozo looks to the exclusive privilege given to Wood and that acceptance thereof was an assumption of the duties to place and market the designs. With Wood’s implied efforts to assume those duties, neither party could effectively make money. Therefore, the court held it was clear from the terms and recitals and duties under the contract...
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...Jacob Joseph 2 April 2015 Mr. Rushing 1AVID Ivory Tower Ivory Tower is a 2014 American documentary film written, directed, and produced by Andrew Rossi. The film questions the value of higher education in an era when the price of college has increased more than any other service in the United States. It explores the different types of higher education and the many issues that students face in their journey.The film focuses on community colleges, four year universities, vocational schools, online courses, and less traditional forms of education, and argues that the high cost of tuition is at a breaking point. The documentary also delves into the loan debt crisis faced by college graduates and looks at how campuses are experimenting with ways to teach that don’t also bankrupt those enrolled. While the film focuses on these points, not only has it helped me a gain substantial amount of information regarding higher education in America, it has also made me question if I should continue in my dreams to aspire for more than a high school education. At the end of the film, I came to an answer, That answer is yes. The driving force and principal question being answered by the documentary is: Is college worth the cost? Out of all of the many topic discussed in the documentary, this was the one that I paid most attention to. As I watched the film and took notes, I kept this question at the forefront of my analyzation. Ever since I could remember, I knew that once you graduate high ...
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...Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc. has been engaged in the manufacture and sale confectionery products since 1896 when Austrian-born Leo Hirshfield opened a tiny candy shop in New York City. Hirshfield handcrafted a variety of products, including an individually wrapped, oblong, chewy, chocolate candy that quickly became a customer favorite. The hand wrapping – believed to be an industry first – enabled Hirshfield’s product to stand out among the competitor’s candy-counter offerings, which were sold by the scoop from jars (St. James Press, 1996). Sold at a penny apiece and affectionately named after Hirshfield’s five-year old daughter, Clara, whose nickname was “Tootsie,” Tootsie Rolls propelled Hirshfield’s modest corner store into burgeoning candy enterprise that has evolved in little more than a century into the multinational corporation, Tootsie Roll Industries. The Tootsie Roll Industry main head quarter and production plant is located in Chicago, Illinois. Its operations are also in Illinois; Massachusetts; Tennessee; Wisconsin; Mexico City, Mexico; and Concord, Ontario. Today they employee around 2200 employees. The company’s website is www.tootsie.com. Its three top competitors are listed as The Hershey Company (Ticker Symbol HSY), Nestle S.A. (shares are traded at SIX Swiss Exchange symbol NESN.VX (Nestle , 2011), and Mars Inc (privately held company). The board of Directors has appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC as the independent registered public accounting firm for...
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...Sexual Purity: A Call to Holiness INTRODUCTION The world in which Christians live today is very similar to the world that Paul taught, lived, and traveled in. Christians are surrounded by and struggle with the issue of sexual purity that believers struggled with in Paul’s day. Sexual immorality is a result of a much larger problem: the refusal of God’s call to be holy. The pagan Gentiles during the New Testament had a skewed picture of moral issues, including sexuality. F. F. Bruce provides a unique look into Greek culture and morality when he quotes Demosthenes who lived during this time period: “We keep mistresses for pleasure, concubines for our day-today bodily needs, but we have wives to produce legitimate children and serve as guardians of our homes.”1 Paul concentrates on these issues in regards to holiness in his first letter to the Thessalonians because believers needed to know how to instruct converts from paganism. The purpose of this paper is to cover these issues of sexual purity and holiness brought up by Paul in 1 Thessalonians 4:3-8. Also, this paper will cover the significant grammatical, syntactical and theological aspects within 1 Thess 4:3-8. Finally, this paper will conclude with a modern day application of these verses written by Paul to the church in Thessalonica. 1 F. F. Bruce, 1 & 2 Thessalonians,ed. David A. Hubbard, et. al., (WBC 45; Waco: Word Books, 1982), 87. 1 BACKGROUND AND HISTORICAL INFORMATION Thessalonica was located in a strategic...
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... It defines the vision and mission statements and draws the relationship between the statements and the strategic plans of the American Diabetes Association. Additionally, new programs that could be incorporated into the services that the organization offers are recommended. The American Diabetes Association The American Diabetes Association is based at Alexandria in the state of Virginia in the United States of America. It was established in 1940. It has developed into one of the key medical organizations in the US. It plays a crucial role in combatting diabetes. Its primary aim is to help in fighting the consequences of diabetes and assisting the infected patients to manage the condition and alleviate their suffering. It raises funds to support studies that aim at managing, curing, and preventing the various types of diabetes. These types of diabetes include Type 1, Type 2, pre-diabetes, and gestational diabetes (Nathan et al., 2009). The US-based Association is also involved...
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...Social Justice and Equality: Racial Profiling Galina Shlikht, Nicole Gordon and Becky Overstreet City University of Seattle Author’s Note Galina Shilkht, Student, City University Nicole Gordon, Student, City University Becky Overstreet, Student, City University Social Justice and Equality Team Outline (All) Conflict and Solutions 1. Faulty communication Sometimes criticism can be given inappropriately. This can result in hurting the feelings of group members leaving them feeling devalued. When this happens, we as a team believe the first thing that must be done is to be honest and let the group know how you feel. So we must acknowledge the conflict. The next appropriate step would be to discuss the conflict with all of the team members. After this, we should try and understand the situation and reach an agreement. One of the agreements could be that criticism be given appropriately and constructively. 2. Time management With work, kids, and living in different time zones it can be a challenge to find the time that works best for the three of us to discuss the details, questions, and/or concerns about our essay together. Our solution to this is to set up exact times and day, sort of like an online appointment, for when the three of us can be available via Facebook group message. 3. Personality clashes We all have our own way of doing things. Our styles of working might be different and sometimes this can cause a conflict with each other...
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...CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNANCE Raja Ram Pal v Hon’ble Speaker of Lok Sabha & Ors. (2007) 3 SCC 184 Presented to : Dr. Rangin P. Tripathy. Presented by : Soumyadeep Chakrabarti. Second Semester. 15/LLM/027. FACTS : 12/12/2005 - Aaj Tak – sting operation (Operation Duryadhana) -10 Lok Sabha M.P’s & 1 Rajya Sabha member – cash for query. 19/12/2005 – Star News – sting operation with Detective Intelligence Group – 1 M.P taking money in exchange for providing benefits under the MPLAD scheme. Enquiry committee formed – all found guilty – motion of expulsion initiated. PRELIMINARY QUESTIONS OF LAW : 1) Whether the writ petition is maintainable or not ? If yes then : 2) Whether the Supreme Court has the jurisdiction to decide matters relating to content & scope of powers, privileges, immunities of the legislature & its members ? 3) Whether parliament has a right to expel its members ? (Whether the internal procedures of the parliament are justifiable ?) Opposites Correlatives If P has a claim, then P lacks a If P has a claim, then J has a no-claim. duty. If P has a liberty, then P lacks If P has a liberty, then J has a duty. no-claim. If P has a power, then P lacks a If P has a power, then J has a disability. liability. If P has an immunity, then P If P has an immunity, then J lacks a liability. has a disability. Disqualification Disqualification impacts on the origin of the candidate’s ...
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...Titration is a neutralization reaction. (b) (1 pts.) What is the BALANCED chemical reaction for the titration performed in this lab demonstration? What does this balanced equation tell us that is so important with respect to this particular lab exercise, and how do you mathematically use this information in this lab? Answer: The balanced chemical reaction for the titration performed in this lab demonstration is: NaCOOH (aq) + NaOH (aq)=Na (CH3COO) (aq)+H2O (l). A basic solution has positive ions and OH- ions like Na+ and OH-. Acid solutions have H3O+ and negative ions like CH3COOH + H20 -> H3O+ + CH3COO-. When basic and acid mix, positive and negative ions will bond: Na+ + CH3COO- -> CH3COO-Na+ (aq) and the H3O+ and OH- will also bond. (c) (1 pts.) What is the name of the special piece of glassware used in this titration exercise? Why use it as opposed to, say, a graduated pipette--what is special about the glassware used...
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...University, India © Journal of Applied Case Research Accepted: September 2008 2 “BUSINESS AS UNUSUAL 1 ”: A CASE STUDY ON THE BODY SHOP “The business has existed for one reason only – to allow us to use our success to act as a force of change, to continue the education and consciousness-raising of our staff, to assist development in the Third World and above all, to help protect the environment. What we are trying to do is to create a new business paradigm, simply showing that business can have a human face and a social conscience”. - Anita Roddick (1991) 2 ANITA RODDICK STEPPED DOWN AS THE BODY SHOP CHAIRPERSON February 2002, the founder of one of the biggest cosmetics companies in the world, Anita Roddick (Anita) stepped down as the chairperson of the Body Shop along with husband Gordon Roddick (Gordon), who was a co-chair along with her. A number of controversies in the mid and end 1990’s had badly affected the company’s image as doing “business with a human face” as opined by Anita in the quote given above. Periods of losses, coupled with poorly motivated shareholders, de-motivated franchisees, unsuccessful restructuring attempts and public propaganda against the company was proving to be too strong for the company to cope up. Thus, the decision of Anita and Gordon came up after several unsuccessful attempts to find a buyer for the firm. However, they still maintained control over more than 50% of the company’s voting rights along with Ian McGlinn, a friend of the...
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...Running head: COURT OBSERVATION Park Peter Park Sacramento State University Professor Kubicek, Laurie CRJ 121 - Structure and Function of the American Courts 10 November 2015 1 Running head: COURT OBSERVATION Park 2 There is different behavior in which the United States' Criminal Justice System may be knowledgeable about each of its three-prongs of executive, judicial, and legislative parts. In particular, the judicial procedure can be particularly confusing and involve a wide assortment of encounters and sentiments as individuals are pushed through the framework once they are put into it. Customarily, individuals are very nearly in an exacting sense "pushed" through the framework as they regularly turn into an unimportant instrument moving down a transport line in a production line. The encounters of individuals who enter through the legal procedure may be effortlessly seen in the court by any onlooker. While as an onlooker, one is not getting the immediate experience of being a litigant or casualty, it is not hard to understand the emotions that get from court procedures by seeing them. The run of the mill sample of the production line like framework is most unmistakably seen amid arraignments. It is likewise where a lawyer will be formally informing the court that they are speaking to the litigant. While on the books it seems like a generally clear strategy, practically speaking, it is normally experienced to be perceptibly diverse. As...
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...“Decided,” “Undecided,” and “In Transition”: Implications for Academic Advisement, Career Counseling, & Student Retention Joe Cuseo Introduction The objective of this article is twofold: (a) to critically review research on how students’ process of decision making with respect to selecting college majors and careers relates to their persistence in college, and (b) to tease-out practical implications of this research for improving the academic advisement, long-range planning, and retention of first-year students. The majority of new students entering higher education leave their initial college of choice without completing a degree (Tinto, 1993), and national attrition rates have been increasing since the early 1980s at two-year and four-year institutions, both public and private (Postsecondary Education Opportunity, 2002). At all types of higher education institutions, including highly selective colleges and universities, the most critical period or stage of vulnerability for student attrition continues to be the first year of college (“Learning Slope,” 1991). More than half of all students who withdraw from college do so during their first year (Consortium for Student Retention Data Exchange, 1999), resulting in a first-year attrition rate of more than 25% at four-year institutions, and approximately 50% at two-year institutions (ACT, 2003). Retention research suggests that student commitment to educational and career goals is perhaps the strongest factor...
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...Ruben Alvarez Professor Salmon Namala Macroeconomics 201 16 May 2015 Outline Main Points 1) America the Relatively Beautiful The bow-tie-wearing president of Estonia, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, told a story in Davos about a young Estonian inventor he invited to tea in the summer of 2011 who told him he was moving to the U.S. in two weeks to make his fortune. His name is Hardi Meybaum, and he co-founded a computer-aided-design company called GrabCAD. Last fall the now-Boston-based company was sold for $100 million. Said Ilves: “That never would have happened in Europe.” 2) America’s economy booming again The U.S. economy is booming again—which is one reason President Obama devoted much of his State of the Union address to extolling it. “Since 2010,” Obama said, “America has put more people back to work than Europe, Japan, and all advanced economies combined.”The U.S. economy has generated jobs at a pace of a quarter million per month over the past year. The unemployment rate—5.6 percent, the lowest since 2008—is low enough that the Federal Reserve has stopped buying bonds and is making noises about lifting short-term rates this year, 3) How America was able to utilize government intervention to get out of a recession. President Bush’s Treasury secretary, Henry Paulson, engineered a takeover of housing finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which kept some credit flowing to home buyers. President Obama and his Treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, took...
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...Summary: In this article, the author-Gordon H. Hanson is trying to point out the good influences that immigrant workers have on America economy between short and long-term. First, he talks about how benefit immigration workforces can contribute their innovation can help to increase the nation’s welfare. In fact, according to National Science Foundation’s survey of Earned Doctorates show that “the share of PhDs awarded to foreign students rose from one fifth to three fourths in mathematics, computer science…” and many other aspects. As a result, the successful-skilled labor likely to earn more and spend more, which means that tax-contribution will be higher. Second, he tries to weigh out the good and bad influences of low-skilled immigration in a smaller scale, particularly the roles of balancing out workforces though out the country. He states that the low-skilled ones can help to take care of the household jobs so that well-educated portions can focus on their jobs that can help to increase the productivity growth, and they can also use their mobility to ease needs of labors at different regions. Next, he talks about roles of immigration related with the tax burden which is hard to find a complete solution. The fact is that it doesn’t matter There are a lot of debates on government spending linked to immigration, but the problem is hard to solve because of many difficult factors, for example: the cost to reduce illegal immigration is very high that can exceed the overall...
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...» Admin Sign In Quick Links Skip to main content UWA Information Services LibGuides Harvard citation style Library Site Search UWA Website Harvard citation style This guide shows students and staff how to reference using the Harvard Referencing style. Last Updated: Feb 16, 2012 Introduction URL: http://libguides.is.uwa.edu.au/harvard All examples Print Page EndNote Print Guide RSS Updates Reference formats Comments(0) Questions and comments All examples Search: This Guide ●Search Harvard all examples PDF Harvard All Examples - PDF In-text citations Two or more works cited at one point in the text If two or more works by different authors or authoring bodies are cited at one point in the text, use a semi-colon to separate them: (Larsen 2000; Malinowski 1999) The authors should be listed in alphabetical order. Two or three authors or authoring bodies When citing a work by two or three authors or authoring bodies, cite the names in the order in which they appear on the title page: (Malinowski, Miller & Gupta 1995) In-text and reference list examples Books & eBooks Material Type In-Text Example Reference List Example Book: Single Author Book: 2 or 3 Authors Book: More Than 3 Authors Book: No Author Book: Editor Book: 2 or More Editors Book: Translator & Author Book: Organisation as Author Book: Chapter or Article in Edited Book Book, edition other than first. E-book E-book: Chapter or Article in an Edited E-book Book:...
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