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The Scopes Trial  John Scopes was a teacher in Dayton, TN, beginning around 1924. He is best known for the controversy that he caused over teaching one very touchy subject to his students, Evolution. In 1925, Tennessee passed the Butler Act which made it illegal for any teacher in a public school "to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals.” John Scopes was not a…

Jacques Lipchitz, Bather, 1922 – 1925, Cubist Spirit Throughout the years there has been many sculpting artist that have develop great art work to show to the world. Just as the famous Jacques Lipchitz that made outstanding pieces of art work. Jacques Lipchitz started to create Bather in the year 1922 and finished his piece in 1925. The medium of Bather is plaster painted to simulate bronze. The exact size of the Bather is 202 by 62.5 by 66.5 cm. Bather, produced at the end of Lipchitz cubist…

Calvin Coolidge—“Silent Cal” Calvin Coolidge was the 30th president of the United States of America. He first took office when he was vice president for Warren G. Harding who had a heart attack on August 2, 1923. Coolidge was known for his quiet demeanor and nature, which was complete the opposite of his predecessor, Harding. Alfred E. Smith stated that Coolidge was “distinguished for character more than for heroic achievement” (The White House). Calvin Coolidge had many political experiences…

notice Erin subsequently serves on each tenant is valid. The requisite legal analysis vary as determined by the specific circumstances of each transaction. Applicable law 1. Lease versus licence Law of Property Act 1925 (LPA 1925) provisions establish the relevant legal foundation. LPA 1925 s. 1(1) confirms an estate for a term of years absolute as a subsisting property right. A valid fixed term tenancy must include a commencement date, with either an express termination date or means to…

Quick summary The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. John T. Scopes John Thomas Scopes came to Tennessee after college. In his first year in Dayton he was a teacher and a…

The loss of political power in 1925 to the conservatives unwittingly drove Mackenzie king into causing the king-Byng affair. Before the elections of 1925 king was especially confident in himself and his party in winning the election. The reason as to why he was so very assured in his winning the election was due to his relations with a psychic. He consulted with a psychic known as Mrs. Bleaney on whether or not he would win the up and coming election this psychic communicated with the spirits in…

Question 1 (a) Issue: To determine if there is binding contract between Leila and Julie Leila advertises about her lost gold chain and locket in the local newspaper. Julie was on the way home when she found the jewelleries in the park, recalling that they were lost items from the advertisement she read. She went to Leila’s house to claim the reward. Leila denies rewarding Julie as she thinks that Julie should have called her first. Relevant Law In the eyes of the law, it is important to know…

The Pahlavi dynasty ruled Iran from 1925 until 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown as a result of the Iranian revolution. The Pahlavi dynasty was founded by Reza Shah Pahlavi in 1925, a former Brigadier-General of the Persian Cossack Brigade. The elder Pahlavi reigned until 1941. He was succeeded by his son Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran. Following the Russian Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, the Russians no longer considered Iran as a prized territory. This left the British…

eye has the ability to show fear, happiness, and even sadness. Many writers have used a character’s eyes or their glasses as a way of providing meaning to their overall story. Examples of the use of eyesight as a motif are in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, with the large eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg hung over a city on a billboard, and in Flannery O’Connor’s 1955 short story Good Country People, where a girl’s glasses are taken off, changing her view of everything she had ever…

The land of property acts protects new land owners from people with better titles which might come forward to sue them. Land of property act 1925 s34(2) says that a tenancy in common does not exists anymore regarding the legal title of land, although tenancy in common does exist in equity. Looking at the problem question Tom’s children are Joint tenants in equity as well common law. This because…