...The court will likely hold Penn State University is liable for negligence actions on the sexual harassment to young children by its former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. Under the common law, negligence is defined as failure to exercise ordinary care and caution as would be expected by a reasonably prudent person. Therefore, in order to establish a cause of action in negligence, the plaintiff must show (1) a duty on the part of defendant, (2) a breach of that duty, and (3) an injury or damage proximately resulting from the breach. The first element that a duty on the part of defendant to protect the plaintiff is sufficiently met. According to the law, the owner or operator of a sport or recreation business owes a duty to keep the premises safe for all who enter the facility or premises. The incident occurred on Penn State campus. As the owner, the university is imposed a duty of care to individuals coming to the land. The second and third requirements, that the university breaches that duty and the breach was the proximate cause of children’s damages, are in question. The plaintiff will likely be able to charge that Penn State failed to exercise control over coaching staff. In loco parentis doctrine, the relationship between a student athlete and a school is unique and special. School authorities stand “in place of the parents” and the relationship involves a mutual dependence and control by colleges over student-athletes’ lives. Thus a heightened duty...
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...In the 1670s, the English Quakers settled in New Jersey, and in 1681 was awarded to one of its leaders, William Penn, a royal patent granting him ownership of the land between New Jersey and Maryland, which Penn gave the name of Pennsylvania. The colonial government, founded in 1682 by Penn, his government consisted of a Governor appointed a 72 Provincial Council members and a General Assembly. The General Assembly, also known as the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly, was the largest and most representative branch of government, but had little political power. In 1683, 1696 and 1701 Charter of Privileges occurred. The fourth frame (Charter of Privileges) remained in force until the War of Independence of the United States. The Charter of Privileges was directed to residents of the colony, where recognized the authority of the King and Parliament on the colony, while the local government system that would propose and implement all laws were created. The Charter of Privileges increased religious freedom to all monotheistic and the government was initially open to all Christians. It also encouraged the rapid growth of Philadelphia's most...
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...“I’m trying to make a case for people who don’t have the sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging.” Imagine yourself in a foreign land. You have no idea where you are or who to turn to. Your new surroundings make you feel out of place. Imagine feeling like that for thirty days…or sixty days…or more. How are you coping? Are you sleeping well? What is your mood? My bet is that you are falling apart; That you are spiralling out of control. You want to be logical about all of this, but reason has taken a back seat to longing. “I’m trying to make a case for people who don’t have the sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging.” An individual’s interaction with others and the world around them can limit or enrich their experience of belonging. Belonging can emerge from the connections made with people, groups or community. It is something we all feel whether we mean to or not. This belonging gives us an attachment to other people or things and we can gain other certain feelings such as security, happiness, pride, sense of value and acceptance by others as social human beings. It gives us an awareness of identity and builds our self-confidence and self-esteem as we feel part of something bigger. There are also implications for not belonging, our inability to connect can lead to isolation, alienation, vulnerability and dislocated from society...
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..."Rumors" by:Jake Miller Yeah, heh, rumors Yeah, we the word up on the streets They talk, talk, talk 'bout you and me Let's start some rumors, rumors And no, I don't know where they came from But I'm always down to make some, rumors, rumors Yeah, they saw me sneaking out your crib last night 3 A.M. to catch a flight Caught me driving through your hood Paparazzi got me good We like stars, yeah baby, they astronomers Look at everybody camping out with they binoculars All up in the headlines, me and the wifey But let them gossip girl, Blake Lively I don't know where they're getting their news But I'm not mad if tonight it comes true Ooh, let's start some rumors I'mma start some rumors with you, with you I wanna start some rumors with you Yeah, rumors, I wanna start some rumors with you Yeah, rumors, I wanna start some.... Man, how the hell they spread so fast Yeah, my homie called and asked "Have you heard the rumors?" Wait what? Rumors Yeah, we the topic of the town We might as well just own it now It ain't no rumor, no, it ain't no rumor They caught us hooking up all in my whip Man, I needa tint that shit Now your cell is blowing up like "Oh my god tell me everything" We like stars, yeah baby, they astronomers Look at everybody camping out with they binoculars All up in the headlines, me and the wifey But let them gossip girl, Blake Lively I don't know where they're getting their news But I'm not mad if tonight it comes true Ooh...
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...HISTORY 1301 United States History: Discovery to 1876 Handout # The Folkways of the Distinct English Groups that Colonize America David Hacket Fisher author of Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America (1989) wrote his book to answer the great questions: “Where do we come from” Who are we? [and] Where are we going?” (Fisher. p. 3) “The answers to these questions grow more puzzling the more one thinks about them. We Americans are a bundle of paradoxes. We are mixed in our origins, and yet we are one people. Nearly all of us support our republican system, but we argue passionately among ourselves about its meaning. We live in an open society which is organized on the principles of voluntary action, but the determinants of that system are exceptionally constraining. Our society is dynamic, changing profoundly in every period of American history; but it is also remarkably stable. The search for the origins of this system is the central problem in American history. It is the subject of this book.”( Fisher. p. 4) The answer is to be found in the “folkways” which four specific groups of Englishmen brought with them to the New World. These folkways provide an empirical measure of the differences in their societies which have blended to form the “American way.” “The interplay of” the folkways of the four English speaking immigrant groups, especially their “ ‘freedom ways’ has created an expansive pluralism which is” peculiarly American. “That is the central...
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...Into the Wild - Sean Penn “Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.” At an early age children learn to feel either valued and important, or inferior and insignificant. For those whose early years were filled with physical or emotional abuse, neglect or abandonment, love will not feel natural or deserved. For these children, as normal as they may seem on the outside, part of them lives in the dark, afraid to emerge. But is it possible to close the gaps of the past? The movie 'Into the Wild' by Sean Penn is a passionate and faithful suggestion of Jon Krakauer's book about Chris McCandeless. It's the disturbing and complex story of a young idealist and seeker who was a rebellious child who renamed himself Alexander Supertramp. He gave away his $24,000 savings to Oxfam after college, went off in his old car and left his family behind, and disappeared for two years wandering the country. He where found by hunters, dead of poisoning and starvation in an abandoned bus in the wilds of Alaska. In addition to the fascinating cinematography in the movie, which is really catchy, I find the story extremely inspiring; people in the late modern society must be so tired of seeing the same things every single day. Wake up in the same bed - in the same house. Everything is the same and everybody is unhappy. We are all searching for the exact same thing. But what is it? It is the ultimate freedom, which...
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...Plymouth, to freely practice their religion. They called themselves the Pilgrims due to the fact that they believed that their journey had a religious purpose. Coming to America the pilgrims were welcome to practice their religion freely; therefore, this effected the modern day religious freedoms. Meanwhile, in this time period (1600’s), Rhode Island become a safe place for dissenters due to their plan of action policies that gave religious toleration. Then, to attract new settlers, New Jersey promised freedom of religion, which is attractive to settlers. This safe place for dissenters brought more people who wanted to worship freely. Which, also helped America have freedom of religion. In 1681, William Penn received the land of Pennsylvania as a gift. Since William Penn was a Quaker, he made Pennsylvania a “holy experiment” for the Quaker religion. The Quaker’s belief that everyone was equal, may have helped with the equal rights in America today. Moreover, during this time period, Maryland became a safe place for Catholics who were being persecuted in England. Then, from 1607-1775, almost one million people came to the colonies. The most popular cities in this time period were New York City, Philadelphia, Charlestown, Savannah, and Newport, since all of these cities allowed people to worship as they pleased. Then, from the 1720’s to the 1740’s, there was the Great Awakening. The Great Awakening was a religious revival that swept through the colonies. All of these religions...
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...John A. Moretta's biased biography of William Penn is easily a great contribution to the historiography of early Pennsylvania. “William Penn and the Quaker Legacy”, complements two earlier biographies in the Longman's Library of American Biography series, (Edmund S. Morgan's Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop and Alden T. Vaughan's American Genesis: Captain John Smith and the Founding of Virginia) by telling the story of Penn's life and career. The beginning of this book concentrates on Penn's religion, from converting to Quakerism while attending Oxford to his persistence to spread his faith across Europe. Penn had chose to follow a career as a religious leader, Despite Admiral Penn's (Father) efforts to provide his oldest son with...
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...In the first reading article, we learn how William Penn truly transformed Pennsylvania. If it were not for Penn, then Pennsylvania will not be the state it is today. Even though Penn ran into major dept., his attempts at trying to build up Pennsylvania are truly reparable since at the time, he was a one-man show. Penn was a very interesting man since he was also heavily involved with the religious side of life while balancing out an unknown career profession that would later turn out being one of the most remembered real estate transactions of anyone’s career. Penn is not only seen as one of the first successful real estate agents of all time, but also a teacher to many with his story since he truly showed us how the desire for success should...
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...who had suffered from his religious beliefs, Penn, looked upon his colony as a holy adventure. William Penn was a religious person and he settled his colony, Philadelphia; moreover, his income was from sale of lands and collection of quitrents. Suddenly, Philadelphia attracted people’s attention and made them to immigrate there and surrounding areas. Penn established a constitution, known as Frame of Government, which claims that government should...
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...On August 25th 1737, one of history's most disreputable treaties in the records of native-white relations was signed. The agreement, involving the Founder of Pennsylvania's sons and the Delaware or Lenape, was determined by “as far as a man could walk in a day and a half”. Unlike their father, William Penn, who had earned his reputation for being fair and respectful towards the Natives, Richard, John and Thomas Penn had a different mindset. After his death, his sons faced problems with their father’s debt. In order to pay off the loans, the Penn brothers and their agent James Logan made an agreement with Lenape leaders known as The Walking Purchase. By this, they would claim the land measured by the “walk” and sell it to the colonists for money....
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...William Penn was born in a foreign country but would help shape The United States of America into the resolute country it is known as today. Not only did he help form the United States by his ideas and treaties but he also founded the State of Independence formally known as Pennsylvania. William was born on the fourteenth of October in the year of 1644. His father, Sir William Penn was a commendable landowner and his mother Margaret Jasper Vanderschuren was a merchant’s daughter. Not much is known about Penn’s childhood besides the fact that he was enthusiastic about religion from a young age. When William was only thirteen his love for the Quakers began after hearing a speech from a popular Quaker leader Thomas Loe. Years later before starting college Penn served in the parliamentary navy during the Puritan Revolution. After a successful time in the war he was rewarded by an english statesman Oliver Cromwell. Unfortunately William’s award of land in Ireland he had earned during the war didn’t last very long. This was due to the fact the he soon fell out of Cromwell’s favor after taking part in the restoration of King Charles the...
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...Harsh conditions, death, poverty, the overall unsentimental nature of life, and definition of an identity are all are subjects explored by writers Lucille Clifton and John Crowe Ransom in their writings. Although the two poets came from very different lives, the unique search for identity and meaning in life unites the two writer's poems in their expression of life. John Crowe Ransom a very distinguished gentleman born as the third child to a Methodist minister was raised in a very literate family. At age fifteen Ransom enrolled in Tennessee's esteemed Vanderbilt University where he later became a founding member of the group of writers known as the fugitives. Favoring poetic modernism in the early 1900's, The fugitives focus was on philosophy, american pragmatisim and the loss of a "southern identity and culture" due to the industrialization of the time period. After graduating from Vanderbilt in 1909 Ransom went on to become an English teacher, Rhodes Scholar and later the headof the english department at Vnderbilt. Allthe while Ransom gained notoriety with scholars for his candid and unique way of examining emotional situations with little eotional pull or bias. With rootsin psychology, Ransom's poetry examines the ironic and unsentimental nature of life. Much like Ransom, poet Lucille Clifton often explored the rigityof the world, however Clifton's insight and ability to write about such rigity come from her impoverished and unprivilaged upbringing. Born in 1936 to father...
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...Differently: An Analysis of “When the Light Gets Green” Robert Penn Warren’s short story “When the Light Gets Green” is full of interesting images and themes. We led by a young boy who is looking back at an important period in his life. It is time that a child loses his innocence. The critic Paul West put it best when he said that “Most of Warren’s best stories are painful, guilt-ridden commemorations of some young person’s rites of passage.” This story is no different. We see a kid return to the farm he loves, only to be met with questions. His grandfather, Mr. Barden, is not the same as he remembered. The grandson has trouble understanding his grandfather’s sudden flaws, and by reexamining his grandfather, is not capable of loving him anymore. At the beginning of the story we follow the grandson’s memory of what his grandfather looked like. The first line says “My grandfather had a long white beard and sat under the cedar tree.” This was how he imagined his grandfather while he was at school, but when he returned he was shocked to see that the beard was actually “gray and pointed.” This opening paragraph sets the tone for the entire story. The grandson had a majestic image of his grandfather in his mind, but the passage of time sheds light on imperfections that were previously unimportant. Paul Runyon says that “’When the Light Gets Green’ is a strongly autobiographical reminiscence of his grandfather Penn.” Runyon point helps show that this story is about the coming...
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...Summary, At the beginning of the story, the main character named Forrest or in the reality (Tom Hanks) is sat on the bench specifically in the bus stop he began to tell his life story to strangers who sits next to him. In the first story that he tells, is the origin of his name which came from his relative Nathan Bedford Forrest. And the next story that he tells to the strangers is when other children is bullying him because of the leg braces that he wore. On the first day of Forrest in school, when he ride a bus he saw Jenny that he himself falls in love right away. And suddenly they become best of friends. One day, when the bullies are mocking Forrest, Forrest leg braces broke apart and Forrest discover that he can run very fast. Despite the fact that he is poor in intelligence, his speed brings him to the University of Alabama that he is one of the athletes competing for the school. After he graduated from his school University of Alabama, he and his new friend Bubba was sent to Vietnam. And while they on their patrol their platoon was ambushed. Forrest saves four of men in his platoon including the platoon leader. After which, Forrest discovers that he is good in playing ping-pong and begins playing for US army team , and eventually he starts competing in other teams. Forrest is discharged from the military and uses money from a ping pong endorsement to buy a shrimping boat, fulfilling his wartime promise to Bubba. And at the ending of the story, Forrest and Jenny...
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