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    Retroactive rule making is when a legal rule is applied to a specific conduct that has already occurred. This results in a loss of fair opportunity to conform, to conduct, and avoid a correct punishment. Certain scholars, such as Bentham (1925) argue that specific cases tend to have retroactive rule-making in it; while others’ argue that there are holes in the legal system, which can then lead to retroactive rule-making. Most legal systems frown upon, or even prohibit retroactive rule-making…

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    Morning Ride

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    Nineteen Twenty Five During 1925, Parr secured some small, but worthwhile sculptural employment through the good offices of the architect Charles Wheeler.23 Wheeler engaged him to construct a number of small sculptures for the then uncompleted Bank of England’s building. Consequently, Parr had little time for making figurest. As noted previously, Charles and Nell Vyse were hard at work at Cheyne Row completing figure commissions, making high-fired stoneware, and continuing their research into…

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    of these timeless novels, most probably read during high school, is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”. Published in 1925, this meticulous literary work never fails to be one of the bestselling and most read novels in our present day. Roughly, “The Great Gatsby” revolves around a group of character who try to strive for their dreams in the weirdest ways. Settled in 1925 in a fictional town of New York, the story depicts the life of a man named Jay Gatsby through the eyes of the narrator,…

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    Balto My Hero

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    he was brave, smart, courageous and never lost hope even when things seemed impossible. Some people might be surprised when I say that a dog is my hero, but it is true. And in my mind he was just as or even more of a hero than a person. In 1925 there was a deadly Virus going around that was attacking children. The only place that had the medicine to cure this virus was nearly 1000 miles away from where the virus was. (nome alaska) The airplanes were shut down for the winter and the…

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    introduced the time of the dictatorial republic. This period, from 1830-1861, was a period of firm-given principle tempered by control. Moderate landowners and traders were in control of an unified government, and a 1833 constitution persevered until 1925. The Conservatives, however tested by a reinforcing liberal development started in the 1840's, figured out how to keep up control until 1873. The Liberals, united with the Radicals, accepted control from the Conservatives and the period from…

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    Chapter III My Great Grandfather David Zynger (Mosses1, Jacob1) was born in 1892 in Yanover, Poland, he describes himself as a Russian Pole, immigrated to England in 1913, and he became a British citizen and his name changed to David2 Singer, he was a ladies Tailor He was in the British Army WWW1; his regiment was the 100 1st Russian Labour Corps, then 8th Labour Battalion, his name appears in the book “The British Jewry Book of Honor”. During the Second World War David sent parcels to his…

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    Symphony, which got its introduction on 11 January 1925 by the New York Orchestra Ensemble under Damrosch’s implement with Boulanger as soloist. The debut was a win and basically propelled Copland's vocation as a promising youthful American arranger. It was likewise amid this time in New York that Copland ended up included with the Group of American authors, and with the association's diary, Current Music, which distributed Copland's first article in 1925. Moreover, Copland, alongside his…

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    teaching evolutionary studies when he took a substitute position and taught the theory to students. Events that Contributed to the Scopes Trial Events during the “Roaring Twenties” started the battle that lead to the Scopes trial. In the spring of 1925 the twenty-four year old John T. Scopes became Central High School's substitute for the school’s biology teacher who got sick (Johnson, 2007). With a 1914 biology textbook passed by the state of Tennessee, Scopes taught the program. As a science…

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    William Jennings Bryan – Born March 19 1860, Salem Illinois, died July 26, 1925, Dayton Tennessee at the age of 65. Bryan was a father of three children and happily married. His wife was Miss Mary E. Baird, and his children were: Ruth Bryan Owen, Grace Bryan, and William Jennings Bryan Jr. Born in Illinois, Bryan became a Nebraska Congressman in 1890. In the Democratic convention of 1896, Bryan with his Cross of Gold speech that favored free silver, was defeated by William McKinley to become…

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    Malcolm X Freedom Facts

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    Bracks, Lean’ Tin L. "Malcolm X (1925--1965)." Freedom Facts and Firsts: 400 Years of the African American Civil Rights Experience. Jessica Carney Smith and Linda T. Wynn. Canton: Visible Ink Press, 2009. Credo Reference. Web. 7 Dec. 2015. Malcolm forcefully pushed rights for blacks, talking on country TV and meetings to national productions if the respectable Elijah Muhammad endorsed the meeting. Malcolm national consideration made somewhere in the range of pressure with country of Islam.…

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