...around the world to study foreign judicial practice and consider it when resolving domestic legal disputes. In recent years, several Supreme Court Justices of the U.S have looked to the decisions of foreign and international courts for guidance in interpreting the U.S. Constitution. This practice...
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...Levander and Guterl do not use ethos, but successfully use pathos and logos to convince the readers that hotels are more unsafe than guests realize because police can access patrons information without a reasonable cause. Ethos refers to the credibility of a writer. Neither Levander nor Guterl, are experts or workers in the hospitality field. There is no background information about the writer that would lead the reader to trust the information that they are providing. Even though large amounts of information were provided in their Are Hotels Dangerous? article, they cannot personally provide relevant information for the reader. Caroline Levander is an English professor at Rice University, and Matthew Pratt Guterl is an Africana and American studies professor at Brown University. They are co-authors of Hotel Life: The Story of a Place Where Anything Can Happen. Despite the fact they authored a book about hotels, they are not professionals on the subject of the hotel...
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...white, knowing what we should do is easy. We may not live up to our convictions all the time, but often one may find that there is no question in his or her mind of what one ought to do. Though many people disagree about the definition of right and wrong all the time it has been significant to education and business practices to consider what the concept of ethical behavior actually entails. Business ethics is the written and unwritten rules, standards and policies that businesses deal and govern the actions that occur daily within the organization, the world and the interactions between the company and the customer. There are a variety of ethical issues that are apparent within various organizations today. These issues constitute the study surrounding ethics that helps businesses keep their organizations from falling through the cracks of unethical behavior that may have been or may be popular amongst certain groups in the business workforce. Among these ethical issues falls within the idea that specifically organizations that have a diverse workforce and how they have become the conflict of interest. Conflict of interest occurs whenever an employee’s obligation or responsibility to the company is compromised by his or her interest or commitments that are not disclosed. One specific form of conflict of interest may be the concept of nepotism. For example this may involve instances such as an employee’s significant other working for an organization that may be an...
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...age of 18 to purchase "mature" rated video games. In the United States Supreme Court case known as Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, seven out of nine justices were against regulating video games, justifying it as the first amendment right of free speech. What originally raised awareness to video game violence was the assumption that the offensive content in question has a positive correlation with aggressive and violent adolescent...
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...No Gun Ban! Guns, they can be used in many ways, for good and for evil. In many ways firearms are dangerous, but there are many reasons a ban on them would be disastrous and non affective. Firearms are not just used for killing people, they are also used in self defense over one hundred thousand times a year. A gun ban would be violating rights making it unconstitutional. It would also make it much harder for one to defend himself while being ineffective in stopping people who get illegally owned guns. Even though people say that firearms are dangerous, there should not be a ban placed on them. A nationwide firearm ban would be a violation of the Second Amendment. The Second Amendment guarantees the rights to, “A well regulated Militia,...
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...We conclude that this is a conservative estimate of the proportion of false conviction among death sentences in the United States.” (Gross, 2014) a quote direct from the study which is considered a conservative estimate shows that far more than the 0.027% of convictions are potentially wrongful. Having what the public would consider such a high false conviction rate must cause headaches to new and old prosecutors and judges alike which is why I believe it is not widely known how many innocents still lay behind bars and their case behind closed...
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...This program forces universities and employers to look for minorities, including women, to fill positions. Many people have a problem with affirmative action saying it causes reverse racism, it lowers standards and that it undermines minorities that can actually achieve great heights. Now to make this clear, affirmative action isn’t just to help black people get ahead. “While people of color, individually and as groups, have been helped by affirmative action in the subsequent years, data and studies suggest women — white women in particular — have benefited disproportionately” (Kohn). Affirmative action actually benefits white women as well as all minorities in opportunities such as college admission, job searches and more, which is a side of the coin most people don’t bring up when criticizing affirmative action. In reality, these conversations tend to be as general as possible in order to not shed light on the advantages that white women still have over minorities and to make sure that people still believe that minorities are the...
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...capacity of weapons. In a time of compelling worry about national security, Americans need to perceive that one of the best dangers to national security is their own particular intensely equipped populace. Lamentably, our demonstrated failure to handle boundless firearm possession proposes unequivocally that the best approach to do this is to profoundly limit access to and responsibility for sorts of weapons. More gun control leads to fewer suicides. Between 1999 and 2013 there were 270,237 firearm suicides in the United States, accounting for about 52% of all suicides during those years. By Mar. 2014 study distributed in the International Review of Law and Economics, when firearm possession went down in the United States, general suicide rates went down. Gun related suicides represented 61% of the firearm passings in the United States somewhere around 2000 and 2010. A Dec. 2009 study distributed in Health Policy, discovered "general boundary to gun access made through state regulation can have a huge obstruction impact on male suicide...
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...The return of Reagan's 'welfare queen' New laws to make welfare claimants pay for drug tests cruelly exploit the resentments of struggling middle-class Americans Florida Governor Rick Scott is poised to fulfill a "top priority" campaign pledge and sign legislation requiring the state's approximately 58,000 welfare recipients to pay for their own random drug tests. The fiscal hawk and governor was once the head of Columbia/HCA, which perpetrated the biggest Medicare fraud in US history, and he opposed the creation of a database to track heavy prescription narcotics like Oxycontin because it would be an "invasion of privacy". This in Florida, our nation's undisputed capital of illegal prescription drugs, where dope is slung out of strip mall "pill mills". But I digress – and it's only the second paragraph. "If you go apply for a job today, you are generally going to be drug-tested," Governor Scott told Central Florida News 13 in October 2010. "The people that are working are paying the taxes for people on welfare. Shouldn't the welfare people be held to the same standard?" Thirty states took up bills to mandate drug testing for "the welfare people" during the 2011 legislative session, which is now in most states drawing to a merciful close: legislators were otherwise busy restricting abortion, worker and immigrant rights, while liberalising the right to bear arms on college campuses and destroy the environment; Florida and Texas have passed legislation making it harder for...
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...hundreds of cultures, differences and arguments can arise out of nothing. Words are one thing but the use of firearms is an entirely different topic. With less restrictive laws on purchasing and ownership a seemingly pointless feud could intensify into murder. Guns give a man power, with power inevitably comes abuse. There is a high rate of gun-related violence http://gun.laws.com/gun-rights/gun-control-versus-gun-rights The United States leads the world in gun violence and ownership. There is a direct correlation. This is perhaps the most obvious argument made in the gun control debate-guns kill people, most of the time for pointless reasons. Some statistics to back this argument up-The American Journal for Public Health conducted a study-Of the 233,251 people who were homicide victims in the United States between 1988 and 1997, 68% were killed with guns, of which the large majority were handguns. In 2005, 30,694 people in the United States died from firearm-related deaths In...
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...Case Study: Delia v. E.M.A. et al Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx University of Maryland University College HCAD 650 Fall 2012 October 5, 2013 Case Study: Delia v. E.M.A. et al This paper reviews a case study of a medical malpractice suit that resulted in a claim against the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services for their practice of recovering settlements paid for medical expenses. Legal controversies with medical impact rarely reach the United States Supreme Court because such cases must go through several levels of hearings and appeals before even being considered by the Supreme Court. Medical issues must involve interpretation of the US Constitution or federal law, and at least four of the nine justices must agree to accept a case. The Supreme Court reviews only a small percentage of the several thousand cases submitted each year. Consequently, most medical controversies at law take place in state courts. Subject United States Supreme Court Case No. 12-98. Albert A. Delia, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services v. E.M.A., a Minor, By and Through Her Guardian ad Litem, Daniel H. Johnson, et al. Later the case was changed to: No. 12-98. Aldona Wos, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Petitioner v. E.M.A., a Minor, By and Through Her Guardian ad Litem, Daniel H. Johnson, et al. The purpose of the case was to resolve the conflict between the opinions of the 4th U. S. Court of Appeals in this case...
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...Jeffrey Rosen, welcome back to FRESH AIR. So what are the particular parts of the Constitution that you think really come into play here with new technologies? , the relevant constitutional text is the Fourth Amendment, which says the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated. Therefore, we have to assume the risk that we're being monitored, ubiquitously, 24/7 for a month. But not everyone agrees. In a visionary opinion, Judge Douglas Ginsburg on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said there's a tremendous difference between short-term and long-term surveillance. So the GPS question is facing the Supreme Court now The GPS case has the potential...
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...Opening Statement: Picture yourself on the side of the road with your car broken down and no cell service... Would you prefer to gamble your life on the next person to stop being a good person? Or, would you rather be prepared in case it happens to be a rapist or murder? Without an equalizer, we are like animals, the strongest takes whatever he wants. We believe guns are very important for protection because: On average guns are used 80x more often to protect a life than to take one.(CDC) Women use a gun to defend themselves from sexual abuse 200,000 times per year.(Kleck and Gertz, "Armed Resistance to Crime," at 185) 3 out of 5 felons say they won’t mess with an armed person.(US department of justice) Arguement #1: The Second Amendment...
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...decisions as weak. Alternatively, if we think a leader should be collaborative and focused on making sure decisions arise from the group, we would view someone who is directive as aggressive or a tyrant. our beliefs about how people become leaders affect how we evaluate people’s leadership potential. Believing people are born leaders is likely to result in a focus more on selecIn the same way, tion (identify the right people) rather than on development (develop the people you get). On the other hand, believing that people are made into leaders by their experiences would be more likely to result in a greater focus on making sure people had the right opportunities to develop into leaders. Consider United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s description of how he picked law clerks, during a discussion at the American University Washington College of Law on April 24, 2009: “I’m going to be picking from the law schools that basically are the hardest to get into. They admit the best and the brightest, and they may not teach very well, but you can’t make a sow’s ear out of a silk purse.”1 He appears to believe that...
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...Groups such as the NRA argue that gun control does little to actually deter crime, therefore, why limit the right of law abiding citizens. A November, 2013 study found that, between 1980 and 2009, "assault weapons bans did not significantly affect murder rates at the state level," Likewise, "states with restrictions on the carrying of concealed weapons had higher gun-related murders." The goal of gun control should be results, not merely implementing policy for the sake of policy. Additional studies show that “States with the largest increases in gun ownership also have the largest drops in violent crimes... The effect on 'shall-issue' [concealed gun] laws on these crimes [where two or more people were killed] has been dramatic. When states...
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