Silvia Vazquez BUS 2310-01 Case Brief April 1, 2014 Case name: BUSH v. GORE, 531 U.S. 98, 148 L.Ed.2d 388 (2000) Facts: In 2000, Al Gore, the former Vice President of the United States was facing George W. Bush for the presidential election. On December 8th of 2000, a local court in the state of Florida forced the city of Palm Beach to manually recount almost 10,000 ballots. This recount was imposed because the voters in Florida had problems with the state’s electronic voting machines. This
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which indicates that there was an emerging demand for sustainability and that consumers would be willing to pay a premium for it. So with this information on hand, Clorox first order of business was to revitalize their Brita water filtration system. Al Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” increased consumers sensitivity about bottled water which led to Clorox’s realization that their Brita filtered water could replace millions of water bottles thrown away each year. Their second order of business
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attacks of September 11th, 2001 came as a huge surprise, shocking the world and immediately taking over the news all around the world. For the first time in history, all non-emergency civilian aircraft in the United States were grounded for three days. Al-Qaeda is an international Islamist extremist terrorist network founded in the late 1980s by Osama bin Laden, who was killed in a U.S. military operation on May 1, 2011, and others who were involved in the war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan
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plead for a solution to cease these actions of brutality. ISIS is one of the many terrorist groups that was founded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. In detail, the powerful militant group consists of Middle-Eastern Iraquians and Syrians. In 2004, the organization known as “Al Qaeda’ in Iraq formed, leaving traces of ISIS intel. Abu Musab, who was originally in Osama Bin Laden's Al Qaeda network, founded the militant group. In 2006, the founder Zarqawi was killed in a U.S air strike.
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with them one's principles. Sincere dialogue should strengthen one's faith while breaking down barriers. The Qur'an makes it clear that the attitude of the Muslim should be "Whosoever wants, let them believe; and whosoever wants, let them disbelieve" (Al-Kahf:
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To what extent can the bombing of Dresden (1945) be perceived as a war crime according to international law today? The analysis that is set out hereafter presents the case that there is a strong argument that the Dresden bombing CAN be perceived as a war crime. There have always been elements of controversy attached to it for a few important reasons with the main issue of concern being why this city was chosen as a target after five years of war. Some of the reasons proffered are as follows: a)
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9/11 was the largest terrorist attack in modern history. With 2,993 deaths and over 8,500 injuries, the United States would never be the same. From all of the firefighters that risked their lives and many losing their lives, to all of the unknown heroes that were in the building when it collapsed, the same thing was going through everybody's mind, to get back to their families. Race did not matter, gender did not matter, sexuality did not matter. No matter who the person was next to you, the goal
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multicultural and multi-ethnic country that has prospered over the last half a century. They adopted the latter and were the first country to have implemented multiculturalism as an official policy in 1971, which was in response to immigration (Spoonley et al., 2005, 89). The government and the community have taken strides in integrating people into their society, and also urges them to take an active role in aspects of their social, cultural, economic and political affairs. But to do so, they have had a
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Haram’s growth and remaining though it is difficult to verify as all the funding and transactions are informal. Some experts state that it is a domestic phenomenon, others that it is a transnational phenomenon because of its links with groups such as Al Qaeda. It has some transnational aspects related to training, recruitment, weapons, but it remains, on the whole, a domestic issue, sometimes crossing the
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being talked about by the scientist like Antarctica. Smith also builds credibility by showing the audience how the data was received. The data was received by a laser that calculates density, temperature, and depth of the ice block being examined. Al Gore uses scientists’ graphs and statistics to build his credibility while, Smith shows the data gathering method and being with the ice to build his credibility. Not only does Smith uses multiple medias to establish credibility to the audience, his
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