Arbitration clause

exist in the English language. Phrases and Clauses Phrases and clauses are both used as basic building block components…

Misplaced and dangling modifiers can be a horror. Do you know what’s a modifier? It’s a word, a phrase or a clause that provides a description in a sentence. It can be an adjective, an adverb, an absolute phrase, an infinitive phrase, a participle phrase, and a prepositional phrase. You know what’s more? Without these modifiers, your sentences will be boring…

Color is Just Skin Deep: Behn, Prejudice, and Contradicting Views of Monarchy Aphra Behn’s royalist sympathies are historically known, so it is to no surprise that the royal titular protagonist of her work, Oroonoko, is a tragic figure meant to evoke sympathy. However, a contradiction seems to emerge with the portrayal of Oroonoko’s grandfather and the current reigning monarch. Oroonoko is, as expected, portrayed in a manner that invokes pity for his plight, but his grandfather is cast as an…

After reading Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson, one may ask, how does this book fit into a course addressing genus, genius, and gender? For one, this course focuses on the female geniuses of literature and how they fall into the genus, which is driven by the male gender. In this respect, the narrator in Housekeeping is a young girl, Ruth, who happens to be the genius in this story. She tells us, in quite detail, the story of how her family came to reside in the town of Fingerbone, and the…

The commerce clause, Article 1 Section 8, of the Constitution gives Congress the power to regulate commerce among the states. One would say that because of the fact that these laws are intrastate then commerce may not regulate; but that idea is struck down by the modern approach of the commerce clause. The modern approach to the commerce clause is commerce power that allows Congress to regulate and protect the channels of interstate…

Wolff wrote this scene not as a specific event, but as a scene that would occur every time he, Dwight, his mother and Pearl went to shooting competitions in other towns. His mother would do quite well, and Dwight would lose, blaming his losses on uncontrollable factors like the gun he was using. He felt intimidated by Toby’s mother and pulled into a tavern parking lot and went inside to drink, Toby’s mother followed later, and Toby and Pearl were left in the car. This isolation left Pearl and…

clinic performing late-term abortions which violate the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban (PBABA), pro-choice advocacy organizations (PCAO) are challenging the legality of the ban based on their view that Congress is exceeding its authority under the Commerce Clause. The PBABA itself states “Any physician who, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, knowingly performs a partial-birth abortion and thereby kills a human fetus shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or…

Exam 1 Essay: the Commerce Clause Since it was first established in the Constitution, the commerce clause found in Article I, Section 8 has “permit[ted] Congress ‘[t]o regulate commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes’” (Miller and Jentz 33). The real meaning of this, however, has over time, and through numerous cases changed. The one part which importance has probably changed the most, is the effects doctrine. According to Roger LeRoy Miller and…

to have two independent clauses pairing with one dependent clause. For example, “I go to work full time, and I go to school full time because I want to be successful” In this case, “I go to work full time, and I go to school full time” is a compound sentence, and “I go to school full time because I want to be successful” is a complex sentence. In the other hand, the compound-complex sentence is the sentence that has an adjective clause. Other examples of adjective clause, “The house which I…

Reading Response #1 The modern foundation of Federalism is grounded in the Constitution. However, there is no central definition of Federalism found in this document. Erwin Chemerinsky in Reconceptualizing federalism (2005) suggests federalism in the 1990’s and the early 21st century is defined by, “both the Supreme Court and Congress … restricting federal authority for the sake of protecting states ' autonomy”. These rules define the scope of authority available to the federal, state, and…