Positive And Negative Liberty

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    Metadata Law: Legislation For Australia

    History of the metadata laws Metadata laws are laws about collection of telecommunication activities of individuals or organisations. A law were initially passed to preserve the integrity of telecommunication systems and peoples implied rights. In 1960, the government introduced the Telephonic Communications (Interception) Act 1960 (Cth) to protect individual’s privacy by illegalising the interception of telecommunication systems. The purpose of this laws have shifted as it now aims to protect society

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    Conservatism

    CONSERVATISM Key concepts 1) Hierarchy and organic society * The term ‘organic society’ refers to a belief, which became entrenched in traditional conservative thought in the latter part of the 19th century. * It was a reaction against the rise of liberal individualism. * It proposes that society is more than merely a collection of individuals, but it is a single entity. * We are connected to each other through our humanity and common membership of community. * Organic society is

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    Liberty: the Freedom to Use Marijuana

    but not always, there are people all across America drinking alcohol. What happens when these people do not get their alcohol on time and as anticipated? Well, depending upon the individual's level of past alcohol use, there are varying degrees of negative consequences associated with alcohol withdrawal, e.g., headache, loss of appetite, and even seizures in extreme cases. Despite the enormous number of alcohol-related deaths each year, adults are nevertheless trusted to moderate their private use

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    Gun Control in America

    Gun Control in America Peter Z Bliss ENG/215 February 2, 2012 Kim Holloway Gun Control in America Gun control is a debate topic that comes up every election and when a major event happens that involving guns. Pro-gun lobbyists say “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people” [ (Hagan, 2007) ] the anti-gun advocates want to take away the right to bear arms. This topic has no right or wrong answer it is a preference of the individual. This is why gun control is such a fiercely debated topic

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    Roles and Levels of Government

    levels of government as they run the country and if they make a mistake on anything they are responsible for it, there will not be a positive outcome from the nation. These departments’ responsibilities are really important as they have to make hard decisions about how the country is run and how the country can be improved. All changes the department makes can put a negative view on the country. The Central Government does a good job for our country as the Central Governments jobs are split into 3 institutions

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    4-Mat Review Nouwen

    4-MAT Book Review Esther Gooding Liberty University Table of Contents Summary of book ------------------------------------------------------------------------------2 Concrete Responses -----------------------------------------------------------------------------4 Reflection -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------5 Application ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------6 Reference -----------

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    Mat Review

    4 Mat Review 1: Psychology, Theology, and Spirituality in Christian Counseling Roberto C. Piscoya Liberty University Summary The book Psychology, Theology, and Spirituality in Christian Counseling by Mark R. McMinn is a synopsis of several approaches in counseling sessions and how patients deal with their everyday life after each session, in order to create a more accurate description of how counseling actually affects the life of each patient. One of the main topics of the text deals with

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    Is It Really Worthwhile to Set Up Standard Working Hours in Hong Kong

    great depression. However, the research of them may be limited. Thus this paper serves to argue that it is unwise for the Hong Kong government to establish the standard working hour system in Hong Kong because of the possible negative influence it may bring, for example, the negative effect on the economy, the increase in production cost, and the ineffectiveness to reduce the unemployment rate. The defects of the standard working hour system Increasing the production cost If standard working hour

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    Ethics Terms and Principles

    Theories of Ethics Consequentialism (Utilitarianism) Consequentialism sees the rightness or wrongness of an action in terms of the consequences brought about by that action. The most common form of consequentialism is 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

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    Abortion

    seventy caused individuals to start to create the laws within the national courts and led to the Supreme Court's landmark decision for the case Roe vs. Wade. Where the ruling of Roe vs. Wade stated that the right to an abortion was a constitutional liberty; or at least it is during the

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