Cancellation

The story begins with the description of the ‘sad city’ (’the saddest of cities, a city so ruinously sad that it had forgotten its name’) where lived 'Haroun' together with his father, the well-known storyteller 'Rashid', ‘whose cheerfulness was famous throughout that unhappy metropolis’ and his mother, 'Soraya', who then runs off with their neighbor, ‘Mr. Sengupta’. Thereafter Haroun finds it impossible to concentrate on one thing for more than 11 minutes (his mother left at 11 o’clock), and…

Question 1 A mere puff means a ‘promise made to customer in a business context will not be enforceable if the business can show that the promise was clearly not intended to be taken seriously by customers’ (book). Example an advertisement contains a promise made by car manufacturer that the car has the capability to transform into a robot , this kind of promise will not be legally enforceable by the promise and will not be taken seriously. Case: Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co [1893]. The…

Gaining a patient consent prior to the medical procedure has claimed simple yet imperative process of patient care for nursing professionals as some of the legal implications can occur that may lead to a negligence on clinical care, risk the nursing registration or even criminal assault that is resulting a litigation, if it does not proceed accordingly. Patient’s consent can be obtained in various ways, such as implied, verbal or written forms are available and most importantly, different types…

Beijing disappeared in 8 of March in 2014. After the few months, during the MH 370 crisis still haven’t solve Malaysia Airline met a second bomb of MH 17 crashed. During the year of 2014, Malaysia Airline continuing trouble in the passengers’ cancellations or withdrawn reservations at least 20%. As many passengers switched to another airline company during the crisis. For example, to attend the World Cup held in France in July, the Samoan women’s rugby group changed their plan from taking flight…

as Fire fete and Destra Garcia’s Queen of Bacchanal (QOB) according to the carnival event calendar from the national carnival corporation of Trinidad and Tobago. Tickets sales did not turn out as well as it was supposed to therefore there was a cancellation of these two fetes in particular. Fire fete on the other hand did not see it fit to continue with plans since ticket sales had drop by at least 40%. In this scenario demand for tickets in these events were not there because patrons deemed…

An overview of most recent services and algorithms used by smart assistants - Google Now, Siri and Cortana Introduction <> The brain of Cortana is all in Bing, so Bing powers Cortana. All the cloud services and all you can find on Bing, Cortana knows; for that reason she becomes smarter and smarter every day. Actually, when the user is doing speech recognition, when the user is talking to his phone, the focus is only on what Cortana says, but the user assumes that she will understand,…

according to the show’s opening, “explore[s] brave new worlds, seek[s] out new life and new civilizations, and boldly [goes] where no man has gone before.” (SOURCE) Although the “Original Series”, as it later came to be called, was doomed to cancellation after three seasons, five other series were eventually produced, along with a plethora of movies (including two “reboots” from 2009 and 2013) based on the aforementioned Original Series. Overall, Star Trek’s resultant popularity led to an…

In today’s age technology is booming in our society. Specifically, with the younger generation, it seems like children are becoming more “tech savvy” even at a young age. These children are basically born with technology in their hands, so it is natural that the world of technology is being intergraded into the educational world. Technology started its journey into the educational world in the 1980’s, so this idea is not a new one, but something that has been around for awhile. We have been…

The time is early summer in a year in the first decade of the 20th century. “The Garden party” by Katherine Mansfield unfolds at the estate of a well to do upper class family on Tinakori in Wellington, New Zealand, which Mansfield lives in 1898, at the nearby home of poor lower-class family, and on the road between the two dwellings. Mansfield, grew up in Wellington, attended school there, further her education in England in 1903, returned to Wellington in 1906, and return to England.…

The case that I would like to draw from my own experience to study is the case of Wing Lee Street (永利街). Not only that I had been physically there to Wing Lee Street as field observation, I had also paid attention to the full development of the cancellation of the redevelopment plan of Wing Lee Street. And of course, I also had watched the important film Echoes of the Rainbow filmed at this street that had indeed changed the fate of the whole street. In my opinion, I think Wing Lee Street is…