Chap 9- Bilateral contract- a contract entered into by way of exchange of promises of the parties a promise for a promise. Unilateral -a contract in which the offerors offer can be accepted only by the performance of an act by the offeree a promise for an act. Implied in law contract (quasi)-an equitable doctrine whereby a court may award monetary damages to a plaintiff for providing work or services to a defendant even though no actual contract existed. The doctrine is intended to prevent unjust
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the case stated above past consideration would be the legal standard. In past consideration there is “no consideration”. Because the father promised payment for an action that already occurred, this promise is unenforceable. There was no bargained-for exchange between the two parties prior to their taking the young man in. While the father may be morally bound to his word, if the couple took him to court, the courts would not remand him to pay the $500 to the couple. Had the son or father offered
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PROJECT: THE TRIAL OF ANDREW JACKSON Adapted from a simulation by Eric Rothschild Andrew Jackson the seventh President of the United States under the Constitution, has been impeached in the House of Representatives (not really, this is fictional – JACKSON WAS NOT REALLY IMPEACHED). He will go on trial in the U.S. Senate on July 1, 1838. Here are the charges against Jackson: • Violating the rights of Native Americans, especially in his treatment of the Cherokee and Creek Indians
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about our people. Immigration to the United States started sometime during the 1800s. In 1840, the boundaries of Texas and Mexico were so different from what they are now. During the war from 1846 until 1848, Mexicans fought for the land they claimed as their own. The land from Texas to California was the place they called home and fought so hard to keep this area. After the defeat of Mexico, almost 529, 000 square miles were given to the United States and 75,000 Mexicans became American citizens because
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Genesis: | Any Change in Content or Emphasis: | | Genesis 12:1-Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will show thee: | Abraham | God’s call for Abraham to move from Haran to Canaan. | Abraham moved from Haran to Canaan—land. | Started with a call from God to Abraham. | There is emphasis put on faith as God’s call to Abraham required faith. | | Genesis 12:2-And I will make of thee a great nation, and I
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the slaves over the fact that they still took control over them. The blacks tried to escape many times but they could not. They were beaten and were kept under the control of the white masters. The North, however, appeared to the blacks as the promised land, where the thought no discrimination occurred and that the blacks could
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In their book, In Search of the Promised Land, John Hope Franklin, and Loren Schweninger put together the archives of a slave family in the old south-Sally Thomas’s descendants. Sally, a dependent slave mother of three boys, dedicated her life to free her slave-born sons and to provide them
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over the Cherokees. With Andrew Jackson's assistance, Indian Removal Act of 1830 was passed which authorized the relocation of eastern Indian tribes to lands west of the Mississippi River. President Andrew Jackson was the main supporter of the removal of Indian tribes in order to give their lands to whites. Cherokee Nation was forced from its land, mainly as a result of the discovery of gold within their territory. Both the white Americans and the Cherokees had various opinions on Indian removal -
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Hitler’s Aggressive Foreign policy One of Hitler’s aim aims was to reverse the treaty of Versailles and regain the territory loss in 1919. He also wanted to create a Germany in which all German people lived. These aims found support from the German people who disliked the treaty of Versailles and did not necessarily accept the terms of the Locarno Pact. In 1933 Germany was in a weak position By the treaty of 1919 her armed forces had been severally limited. Germany also faced “little Entente”
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TRIBULATION (Jacob's Trouble / Day of The Lord) 11. ARMAGEDDON (Return of the King of Kings) 12. YESHUA MILLENNIUM (New Eden / Promised Land / Israel / Church) 13. GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGEMENT (Unbelievers since Creation) 14. NEW JERUSALEM (New Heaven, New Earth) MARANATHA! He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. (REV 20) But the beast (AntiChrist?) was captured, and with him the false prophet (Last Pope?) who had
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