Civil aviation

In 1996 Robert downey Jr. was caught was arrested while “driving naked in his Porsche on Sunset Boulevard, and found not only to be without clothes, but in possession of cocaine, heroin and a .357 Magnum.” (Sturniolo, 2014) Instead of going to jail for five plus years like any ordinary citizen, “his sentence had been suspended and he was placed on probation.” (Sturniolo, 2014) This was all because he was in the middle of a filming a movie. Do you believe that someone that is an allegedly a drug…

Outside of the electronic systems I feel that any court official helps make the court run efficiently. If I had to choose one individual I would chose a court administrator to be the one who has a high impact. My reason being is they are the eyes and ears for pretty much everything. These individuals are the ones who schedule trial dates and handle a majority of the official paperwork. The court administrator I feel is like the middle man to everyone. In other words the lawyers bring in lawsuits…

mixed views about what needs to be done to protect the United States from nuclear warfare as well as characteristics of ignorance, unpreparedness, and fear from Americans that lead to the preparedness for nuclear attack. Mixed views about types of civil defense that needed to take place during this time were very controversial. Nuclear warfare sparked…

An African man by the name Anais once told me a story about a young boy by the name Nicholas whom, at the age of fifteen lived with his parents seventeen miles outside of Johannesburg, South Africa. In the depths of the country, they had no neighbors. One day, Nicholas’s father asked him to drive him to the city where he had an all-day conference. His father prompted him on getting all his chores done, getting the car service before he could enjoy the city and also to pick him up at 6:00pm where…

This semester we learned about the competing notions of what a true human being is, but what is a human being? Definitions with the words “homo sapiens”, “speech”, and “living” are bound to come up. Many philosophers have taken it upon themselves to define what it means to be a human being, and although similar in ways, their thoughts differ in many ways as well. Thinkers such as St. Augustine, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean Paul Sartre, and Thomas Hobbes…

"Handout #2: Selected Statutes from the Qing Legal Codes." “Your Honor, I am Innocent”: Law and Society in Late Imperial China. http://www.exeas.org/resources/pdf/your-honor-handout2.pdf (accessed October 12, 2010). —. "Handout #3: Mourning Relationships in the Ming and Qing Dynasties." “Your Honor, I am Innocent”: Law and Society in Late Imperial China. http://www.exeas.org/resources/pdf/your-honor-handout3.pdf (accessed October 12, 2010). —. "Handout #4: Comments Made by the Autumn Assizes…

Communication Before entering this course, I was quite unsure as to what concentration of undergraduate studies to focus on. Specifically, it was to either choose between civil and environmental engineering major of studies. I was at a crossroads. Yet, I wanted to evaluate the career path more in depth to make a decision that will correlate to my values and lifestyle objectives. I began to experience some anxiety about the major courses and confusion as to which career provided the most…

October, 2014 Civil Disobedience The order of society is based on structure and organization. Laws are enforced to serve specific purposes: economically, politically and socially. With regards to this, there are unjust laws and these laws conflict with an individual’s sense of morality. Being that, a civilian’s decision to disobey an unjust law is considered unlawful in the eyes of authority; however, such decisions are honorable because moral law is more valuable than civil law. With…

EXPLAIN THE MAIN DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE LEGAL SYSTEM OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND THOSE OF CIVIL LAW COUNTRIES AND EXPLAIN THE MERITS AND PROBLEMS OF THESE LEGAL SYSTEMS A HISTORY OF TWO TYPES OF LAW The two main systems of law in the world today are common law and civil law. The system used in England and Wales is common law which has an evolving history dating from the Norman conquest of England in 1066 and the local customs of the Anglo-Saxons. English common law spread throughout the world…

When one mentions nature, people tend to think of ponds, trees, fresh air, and freedom; however, has man changed that image? Since the beginning of mankind, the human race has built contraptions beyond belief. Skip Morrow, in his article entitled “What are the Top Ten Inventions of the Last Decade?,” he writes that in the last ten years, “...Camera Phones, Mr. Clean Magic Eraser (it was a slow year, but I love this product), YouTube, Tesla Roadster 100, iPhone, HTD Dream (1st Android phone),…