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    Australia’s legal system is made on a combination of common law and statutory law. Australian common law mirrors British common law. It was developed in the courts based on precedents and is very flexible. Common law is not found in any type of legislation, but it helps guide judges when they are making decisions. It is a very flexible type of law because it adapts to changes whenever they are made. The statutory law on the other hand is made by Parliament. This could be the Federal Parliament…

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    other countries, such as Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan and even India. The company has slated her to speak to the Maori of New Zealand to open a branch outside of Auckland. She has an understanding of the New Zealand’s European Common Law. It is similar to America’s English Common Laws; New Zealand only has a few Parliamentary changes. Both countries speak English. Also both governments are members of OCED (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). OCED country members discuss…

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    In this situation there is a lot of power given to each individual who shares the common land. Because they all want to maximize their own profits it is up to each person to share the commons fairly. If a group of people from a different country, race, or ethnicity from the people who originally shared the commons joined the community a lot of prejudice towards that person may occur. This type of prejudice can be similar to the kind that Ta-Nehisi…

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    Once I reached to the Commons, it was quite crowded and quite obvious that this was the place where all of the cliques and groups of Portage High School enjoyed hanging out. I trotted around talking to people hoping to make friends. Many people gave me a lot of funny looks and…

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    Rousseau On Humanism

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    This action then affects the entire community all because of the selfishness of a single person or a group of people. One usually takes too much in order to secure him or herself. For example, if the common area is a pond, one may catch too many fish to ensure a meal for an entire month so that he or she may survive. This creates a selfishness in society, generating a cycle of these three events. According to Rousseau humans have the ability to either…

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    The Commons Tragedy

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    The Tragedy of the Commons Name of Student Institution Affiliation The Tragedy of the Commons What is the Tragedy? The Tragedy of the Commons refers to an economic problem within a shared-resource system where actions of individual users, motivated by self-interest for reaping maximum benefit from the common resource, behave in contradiction to the collective common good of every other user by spoiling or depleting the resource through their overall actions. With demand for the resource…

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    Common Core

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    Common Core Common Core is a new step process in creating a high quality education. It will help children to succeed in the state standards proficiency goals and help schools succeed also. These state standards will show what each child should be learning at their grade level; it will allow teachers to better prepare students and help them learn. The Common Core State Standards will start at an early age and focus on understanding the basic core concepts. This will give both the teacher and…

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    What is The Tragedy of the Commons? The Tragedy of the Commons refers to an essay written by Garrett Hardin; Hardin explains that humans will overuse a resource until it is no longer present, for short-term financial gain. Hardin points out many examples of this, however, he chooses to single out the fact that given free range of the land herdsman will almost always exceed the carrying capacity of the land, thus exhausting the land of its fertility. The Tragedy of the Commons is also shown…

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    Common Trajectories

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    Temporal outliers are common trajectories that follow the populated route, but with an important difference of the speed compared to the other common trajectories. For extracting such type of outliers, we make use of the average speed used by the moving objects in the populated route, we make comparison between each sub-trajectory from the common trajectories and the average speed for all common trajectories that traverse the same route with some tolerance, and we extract two essential types;…

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    The Common Cold

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    The common cold is a common viral infection of the nose and throat. It has more than 3 million US cases per year. It spreads easily, is self-treatable, is self-diagnosable, lab tests and imaging are not required, and is short term, so it almost always goes away within days to weeks. Although more than 100 viruses can cause a common cold, there are two main ones. They are the Rhinovirus, which is most active in early fall, spring, and summer. It causes 10-40% of colds. The second one is the…

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