the law of contract. Thus, contracts relating to partnership, sale of goods, negotiable instruments, insurance etc. are dealt with by separate Acts. What is contract? The term contract has been defined by various authors in the following manner: “A contract is an agreement creating and defining obligations between the parties”. —Salmond “A contract is an agreement enforceable at law, made between two or more persons, by which rights are acquired by one or more to acts or forbearances
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Psych 100 Telecourse The Origins of Evil To many human beings when they hear the word evil what automatically comes to their mind is the devil. Evil to me means someone that does something morally wrong that can cause pain or injury to someone either physically or mentally. I have many examples of someone that I would consider evil. One of them would be a convicted murderer, a person who has taken the life of another human being that has cause pain to the family and of course to the one whose
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Equality is an idea that is good in theory. It makes people feel good to think that everyone is on the same level and no person is better than them. That idea, that no one can be better than another person, has flaws. There will always be someone that is just a little bit better than someone at something and that, sometimes, can make people scared. So, while people preach the idea that complete equality is best for everyone and no one person should be better than another; Kurt Vonnegut shows that
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A Comparison of Ethical Theories A Comparison of Ethical Theories Every person, no matter how immoral or how moral, has a code of behavior to which they adhere. This code can come as a result of family life, learned from friends at a young age, influenced by coworkers and peers as an adult or could be a set of societal norms that a whole community conforms to. Philosophers have developed many theories regarding the reasoning behind the most common moralities, some as far back as Aristotle and
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The goal of psychotherapy is to help an individual achieve through a special relationship with a therapist, good communication within himself or herself. Once this is achieved, that person can communicate more freely and effectively with others. So we may say the psychotherapy is good communication with and between people. We can turn that statement round and it will still be true. Good communication, or free communication, within or between people is always therapeutic. Barrier: The tendency of
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DSM-IV-TR Introduction In order to understand the person that God created am going to use an analogy of a computer in comparison with the human being. Computer has two important sides; the outer part or the monitor and the inner part or the central processing unit (CPU). The Bible teaches us that man is a duplex being with two distinct aspects of a body or the outer person and the spirit or the inner person. The outer person is what everyone looks at all the time and people judge by looking
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that human beings are pushed and pulled by mechanical forces, either of stimuli and reinforcements (behaviorism) or of unconscious instinctual impulses (psychoanalysis). Humanists focus upon potentials. They believe that humans strive for an upper level of capabilities. Humans seek the frontiers of creativity, the highest reaches of consciousness and wisdom. This has been labeled "fully functioning person", "healthy personality", or as Maslow calls this level, "self-actualizing person." Maslow has
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Explain the receptionist’s role in representing an organisation The receptionist is the first person that anyone will see or speak to when entering the office and making a general phone call, therefore it is important that the receptionist makes a good impression by being professional and friendly in order to represent their company well. During a phone call it is important to answer with good morning/good afternoon and to ask how you can help because this is friendly and people will feel comfortable
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onto talking about environmentalism and the risks of waste and global warming followed by what M&S have done in plan A in relation to this Virtue Aristotle- often easy for us to assess. Have to see what is generally accepted as being the right thing for a person/retail organisation. Limitations are that a society at any particular time mat not have a clear picture itself of what is right (and proper) and what is wrong. Times in the past where societies have accepted and encouraged practices
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utilitarianism. Utilitarianism holds that one should act so as to do the greatest good for the greatest number. The good as defined by J.S. Mill would be the presence of pleasure and the absence of pain. Utilitarians are concerned with the aggregate happiness of all beings capable of experiencing pleasure or pain including nonhuman animals. They consider the principle of utility to be the act, which produces the greatest balance of good over evil. Utilitarians consider both the happiness-producing and unhappiness-producing
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