Extenuating circumstances

Can you keep a secret? Confidentiality agreements are so much more than a simple promise not to tell. In a mediation, the confidentially clause is what protects the mediator, creates privacy for the mediation, and the provide opportunities for open dialogue in the mediation process. The confidentiality agreement offers protection for the mediator by offering limitations in the event the mediation escalates to court. Meaning, unless certain requirements are met, a mediator cannot be called to…

A quiet Christmas night in 1998 in the affluent neighborhood of Los Altos, California rolled around, celebrations having just finished and adults and children alike heading to the comforts of their beds . The houses stood in an eerie silence, foreshadowing the grim despair that was soon to follow. Shawn, a 16 year old juvenile, stabbed his father with a kitchen knife, inflicting wounds to his face, neck and arms. Shawn’s mother vividly describes waking up to the blood covered body of her…

In addition, to my initial and subsequent training at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) which covered U.S. Code: Title 8 - ALIENS AND NATIONALITY, U.S. Code: Title 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, statutes governing immigration law in the Immigration Nationality Act (INA), Administrative Decisions from the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), handbooks, guides and policy memorandum used in performing my duties. In addition, I have thirty plus years of practical hands on…

The reason why I didn't meet my academic goals was because I tried to New my financial aid late instead of early to register classes. This is the biggest reason why I couldn't meet my academic goals last year. This was my fault because I didn't know how financial aid worked or I wasn't aware of that every school year you have to renew your financial aid. So spring 2015 semester I registered classes and I signed up for classes I liked and wanted to take but I didn't know that if I couldn't renew…

Previous research conducted by Ben-Shakhar, Bar-Hillel, and Kremnitzer (2002) implicated the validity of the GKT when correctly governed by the main criteria of Daubert, which is a standard used by a trial judge to make a preliminary assessment of an expert’s scientific testimony based on reasoning or methodology. These criteria include testability, known error rates, peer review and publication, and general acceptance. Measuring the physiological changes applying a GKT, which is considered the…

The principle of lex talionis was an appropriate and just manner of maintaining order and civilization in ancient Mesopotamian society. The law suggested appropriate equal and equivalent settlements for civil, criminal and domestic matters. The code delineated suitable redress for a number of issues of the day. As the law of retaliation, lex talionis, reflects the idea that a punishment should fit the crime and that a victim is due equal compensation for his loss. Also referred to as the…

Before an individual is healed from a disease or sickness, doctors must first target the root of the cause. Once that is resolved, the doctors are able to cure the source from the sick patient, which would benefit the survivors of sickness to perform his or her daily lives as healthy and without worry anymore. Capital punishment works in the same way. Until the government allows for the death penalty, innocent lives (the sick) are not able to fully live freely because the criminals (the disease)…

Trump’s views align with pro-life supporters and he believes that abortions should only be allowed in extenuating circumstances such as rape, incest, or jeopardy of maternal health. However, according to Trump, other aspects such as abortions without reason in the first trimester should not be allowed. Trump, as well as his running mate, Mike Pence, have stated in…

The United States have a lot of laws that dictate what we do in our everyday life whether we like it or not but one of the majors laws that benefits us is the first amendment which gives us the ability to express openly what we want with out persecutions. The laws of the first amendment of the U.S constitution permits freedom of press, this allows the media to not be censored by the government. With that being said, the government doesn't have the right to control things published by the press.…

are conditioned to believe that to be a hero is to endure the most challenging of circumstances and to still come out on top; taught that to be righteous and victorious in your willing participation as you seek to accomplish a goal is of the highest esteem. In Terrence Des Pres’ The Survivor, Des Pres proves that to be a hero is simple, but to be a survivor, to not only endure and outlast incomparable circumstance but to keep the spirit alive and maintain some semblance of normalcy…