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This Essay will explore how judge made law (Stare decisis) evolved in England and Wales through the doctrine of legal precedent. Judicial precedent is regarded as the most important source of law that offers predictability, uniformity, equality, certainty and convenience. Judicial precedent though has negative attributes. Case law is notoriously slow to change through rigidity and only repealed through an appellate court or legislation. Legal precedent is known by the Latin ‘Stare decisis et…

William Shakespeare was said to be born on April 23, 1564, also known as St. George’s Day (Ackroyd 3). Shakespeare was baptized two days later on April 26, 1564 in Holy Trinity Church (Life par. 2). He grew up in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. His father, John Shakespeare, was a glove maker (Life par. 2). Shakespeare was very lucky to survive; nine percent of children died within a week of being born and eleven percent died within being a month old (Ackroyd 4). Shakespeare is known to have…

across the sector and impact it has on support services offered to students. I have years of experience of delivering very well established service on a string budget and there is a strong commitment to bring that experience with me to Lewisham Southwark College. Experience of working with people from diverse backgrounds.…

important literary piece of the Medieval period written in 1392 by Chaucer, is considered his greatest achievement although the work is fragmented. The Tales begins in Chaucer’s day, the fourteenth century, in a quintessential English town named Southwark. Inside this town is a pub named the Tabard Inn, owned…

Public Health System The United States current system of health services is unbalanced and focuses more on curing an illness instead of prevention. It has been suggested that socioeconomic status is linked to health status and improvement will come from the effective application of public health techniques instead of focusing on persons already disease ridden. A scientific discipline within public health is epidemiology. This discipline studies the relationship between causative agents,…

Elizabethan Theatres The Globe Theatre, a London playhouse, was built in 1598 by James Burbage, with the help of his friends and family. Most of Shakespeare's plays, such as “Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear, and Hamlet,” were first played in this theatre (Alchin). It was burned down in 1613, rebuilt in 1614, and destroyed by the Puritans in 1644 (”Globe Theatre”). A cannon that was fired during a performance caused the thatched roof, made up of straw, to catch fire,…

1. The thesis statement in The New York Times article is the one that says that little was known about Shakespeare’s life and that all people could know about him was from his plays. 2. Anon is a shorter way to say anonymous. Anon is also a Greek author who had little recognition and his name became a synonym for anonymous. Nobody knows about Anon’s life, his appearance or his personality, only about his works. There is a comparison of Anon to Shakespeare because scholars know little about…

Satire Used In Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales (The Use of Juvenalian and Horatian Satire in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales) In Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, he writes of many different characters, this includes a prologue of each describing themselves, and their tale they have to tell to the rest. It is quoted from a historical context, “Chaucer served in a variety of positions as diplomat and civil servant, including as a Member of Parliament, comptroller of customs, head of secret…

Introduction The myths surrounding rape and sexual violence currently lie not only within our society but have infiltrated our police, legal system and legislation due to archaic and outdated misconceptions. Important institutional apparatus reform to reflect the current societal change in attitudes towards this crime has resulted in an increase in conviction rates. Most notably the reform of evidence and procedural rules regarding the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act , the Youth Justice…

If you were to survey a group of individuals on the street about which modern marvel seems to be the most revolutionary, answers back would vary. Some would reply the computer, perhaps the fact that humans can travel hundreds of miles within a single day thanks to air travel. Nevertheless the range in replies, it would not be surprising to not hear the very thing that has spared the life of each individual: the modern sanitation movement. Largely left in the past, the heros in the battle against…