Extenuating circumstances

Describe your stressful circumstance in your own words. School has been my life for the past three years. I haven't had much time for anything but homework. The problem is that I really want to participate in extracurricular activities so that I can learn what kind of career I'd like to do in the future. The problem is that I'm getting a job and still have a lot of homework, so I don't know where to fit in doing fun things. Describe how your stressful circumstance could be worse than it is. I…

In the ethical theory of Kantianism, moral laws should guide people’s actions and these moral laws should be universal. In order to apply this theory to all rational beings, any supreme principle of morality must be based on reason. Since the laws are derived through a reasoning process a Kantian is able to state if an action is right or wrong but they can also explain why it is right or wrong. The First Formulation of the Categorical Imperative is: Act only from moral rules that you can at the…

Organizational Development is the study that introduces more effective ways for organizations to implement change and improve performance to effectively adapt to changing trends, cycles, and business needs. There are different variations of how this can be accomplished depending on the best approach for the organization however the end results are focused on broadening the scope of knowledge and understanding to create effective and refined processes and improve production while and employee…

and skills, sometimes this was measured by the number of births they’d witnessed or the training under a midwife (). Historically, birthing and the people who help with the process has been a female dominated field of medicine except in extenuating circumstances. However, with the invention of the forceps male doctors started to encroach on the position of midwifes bringing more certainty and opiates to ease the pain of birth. Forceps and other new tools and drugs of the modern medicine trade…

important principles of the youth justice system; to protect the well-being of the youth who has contact with the justice system and to guarantee that the consequences the youth faces are proportionate to the seriousness of their action and to their circumstances. The first principle regards the youth’s well-being, which is reflected in the belief that “young people should be detained only as a last resort”, in accordance with the UNCRC and the UNSMRAJJ 'The Beijing Rules ', both of which…

present Essendon footballers were “sanctioned with a period of ineligibility of two years as of 31 March 2015”. Currently, Hibberd is serving a provisional suspension from all competition expiring on 13 November 2016. As a result of these extenuating circumstances, Essendon have reportedly been keen to retain all 12 currently contracted banned players until the conclusion of their respective contracts. However,…

receiving a rejection letter. • The reasons given in the rejection letter should be mentioned • The tone should be humble. • There should be a good reason for requesting reconsideration. For example, the job became open again or there are extenuating circumstances that became known after the interview. • The reasons for requesting reconsideration should be stated clearly. Here is a sample reconsideration letter for the job of high school History teacher. It should be a formal business letter…

“Today, over 50 percent of prison and jail inmates in the United States have a diagnosed mental illness, a rate nearly five times greater than that of the general adult population” (188). Prisons are not equipped with doctors, physiatrists or medications for the treatment and care these people need, an issue usually followed with violent reactions from poorly coping mentally ill. The cruel incarceration of the mentally ill decreases their ability to recover from the trauma they have survived and…

Aristotle considered Oedipus Tyrannus the supreme example of tragic drama and modeled his theory of tragedy on it. He mentions the play no fewer than eleven times in his De poetica (c. 334-323 b.c.e.; Poetics, 1705). Sigmund Freud in the twentieth century used the story to name the rivalry of male children with their fathers for the affection of their mothers, and Jean Cocteau adapted the tale to the modern stage in La Machine infernale (1934; The Infernal Machine, 1936). However, no matter what…

actions and accepts responsibility for them, help to ensure she does not perform similar actions in future and enhance her rights within the juvenile process system. Youth conferencing is influenced by the welfare model, which takes into account the circumstances, family environment and any disadvantages, gender, sexuality, nationality and other factors that the court system may not, and, additionally, recognizes how these factors can influence the behavior of a child (Young Offenders Act 1997…