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For decades, scores of African individuals and their families have made the conscious decision –motivated either by cultural ties, economics, war, the environment, or political unrest – to undertake the transnational journey of relocation to France. Such a monumental, intercontinental journey carries with it significant socio-political implications for immigrants, especially with regards to families. For many Africans, France, a nation with strong historical and colonial ties to the continent of…

(i) Preface: how did Marx contribute to legal theory? According to Marx in Das Kapital, the capitalist mode of production, and indeed all precursory economic modes of production, precedes the “superstructural” social order. The prevailing legal system as an institution of the social order is consequently resultant of the wider, “infrastructural” economic requisites of the society. The social order is merely an economic subsidiary or, as Marx wrote in the latter work, merely its “ideological…

James Morrison Dr. Birdsong Political Science 10/26/2014 Alternative Energy Introduction Renewable energy is also referred to as alternative energy. This is generally, power whose source does not run out. Unlike fossil fuels, it causes no pollution. The energy leaves no residues that would otherwise cause harm. Alternative energy is a common term, used to contrast this form of energy from the traditional sources of energy such as coal power and natural gas as well as oil power. The traditional…