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    Malcolm X once said, “There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.” Loung Ung is a victim of the 1975 Cambodian Genocide and lost almost everything that she held dear to her including her home, her parents, and two of her sisters. However, she did not let their deaths weight her down as she went on to survive the wrath of the Khmer Rouge. The Khmer Rouge started a takeover…

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    Try being forced to move away from your home country, family, and everything you know to escape an unsafe environment. About 1.7 Million out of 7-8 million Cambodians were killed due to the Khmer Rouge Genocide, not one person has been persecuted for their actions during this time. Loung Ung was forced to leave everything she knew in Cambodia including her sister Chou, to move to America. She moved with Meng and Eang, Meng is Loung’s oldest brother and Eang is his wife. She moved because of the…

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    Business Tort and Contract Law Question 1 I. Dam Good as a business entity may be legally liable for the death of the pilot and the four passengers on board under ordinary and strict liability negligence. If the elements of these heads of tortious liability can be proved on a preponderance of evidence or on a balance of probabilities, then the estates of these victims could successfully claim from Dam Goods. According to Owen, in order to successfully prove liability in negligence, plaintiff…

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    a tax return. State of Mind—A wrongful mental state, mens rea is also typically required to establish criminal liability. The mental state, or intent, is indicated in the applicable statute or law. Murder, for example, involves the guilty act of killing another human being, and the mental state is the desire, or intent, to take another’s life. When analyzing criminal law problems, students must always look for these two major elements: Guilty Mind and Guilty Act (mens rea) and (actus rea)…

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    discussed moral proportion of the ultimate punishment for ultimate evil and to what extend this proportion works well and how much pressure it induce on judges. He also mentioned the perils of the system by addressing that sometimes lawyers are under contracts that force them to have capital punishment among the cases. He also provided examples of each of the factors. Mentioning many counterarguments, Scott Turow showed that he understands the convolution of the issue and that it can be…

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    necessary to understand what “civil wrong and criminal wrong” is, so we can have a better climate to discuss what is at stake. Civil wrong is “An action with a tort, an act against another person or their property, and, a breach of the terms of a contract”. (The law dictionary). On the other hand, a criminal wrong is the breaking of rules or laws for which some governing authority can ultimately prescribe a conviction. That being said, society would address liability for civil wrong separately…

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    German law, mere agreement in the form of a declaration of intent is enough to legally bind parties. If consideration was done away with, promissory estoppel would not be needed to circumvent it. Lastly, the two could be combined, with an intention to contract or reliance being capable of constituting consideration as well as the traditionally accepted forms. However, this might lead to the confusion, with the requirement for intention to create legal relations more or less subsuming…

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    Association case was very interesting. The Aslakson family joined into a conditional sales contract in order to buy a mobile home. A conditional sales contract is a when an individual signs a contract which allows the individuals to take the property, in this case a mobile home, but will not receive the title until the buyer receive the full purchase amount. Four years after signing the sales contract the Aslaksons decided to join into a purchase agreement, which allows them to sell the…

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    1. INTRODUCTION In this report, it will be explain the authority and limitations of the Society of Construction Law Delay and Disruption Protocol, and an analysis of impact on programming techniques. 2. SOCIETY OF CONSTRUCTION LAW DELAY AND DISRUPTION PROTOCOL The Society of Construction Law has worked to promote for the public benefit education, study ad research in the field of construction law and related subjects in the UK and overseas. The SCL Delay and Disruption Protocol has been…

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    interest-based bargaining’s effect on intra-party relations. The model used to examine these relations also takes into account the trust between each party and their use of power, as these variables have effects on labor-management relations, innovative contracts, and…

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