Dhooge Sue and John Staton Professor of Law Journal of Legal Studies Education Volume 29, Issue 1, pages 95–125, Winter / Spring 2012 [T]is a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.( Richard Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), quoted in Philip J. Hilts, Smokescreen 185 (1996)) I. Introduction Tobacco has been an agricultural staple from the time of the first recorded European encounter
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Dhooge Sue and John Staton Professor of Law Journal of Legal Studies Education Volume 29, Issue 1, pages 95–125, Winter / Spring 2012 [T]is a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.( Richard Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), quoted in Philip J. Hilts, Smokescreen 185 (1996)) I. Introduction Tobacco has been an agricultural staple from the time of the first recorded European encounter
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THINKING ABOUT … The Hidden Traps in Decision Making The Idea in Brief Making business decisions is your most crucial job—and your riskiest. New product development, mergers and acquisitions, executive hirings—bad decisions about any of these can ruin your company and your career. Where do bad decisions come from? Mostly from distortions and biases—a whole series of mental flaws—that sabotage our reasoning. We all fall right into these psychological traps because they’re unconscious—hardwired into
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AESOP'S FABLES (84 Fables) From The PaperLess Readers Club, Houston (713) 977-9505 (BBS) Voice/Fax (713) 977-1719 1-21 22-42 The Cock and the Pearl The Frog and the Ox The Wolf and the Lamb Androcles The Dog and the Shadow The Bat, the Birds, and the Beasts The Lion's Share The Hart and the Hunter The Wolf and the Crane The Serpent and the
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Stylistic syntax 1. General considerations The object of stylistic analysis on syntactic level is sentence. Within the domain of syntax stylistics deals with the following crucial problems: 1) the stylistic potential of syntactic units of different structural design, semantic characteristics and communicative types; 2) the syntactic synonymy, i.e. the peculiarities of rendering of one and the same logical content by syntactic units with different structure, functional characteristics, expressive
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1) O you who have believed, why do you say what you do not do? How despicable it is in the sight of Allah that you may preach what you do not practice. Indeed Allah likes those who fight in His cause, positioned in rows, as if they were an edifice fortified. (As-Saff: 2-5) 2) O you who have believed, fear Allah and be with those who are true. (At-Tawba: 119) 3) O you who have believed, if you support Allah, He will support you and plant firmly your feet. (Muhammad: 7) 4) O you who have
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is increasing but unfortunately the weather conditions and the long growth of maple trees go against the trend. Ahorn will therefore take an advantage of this large demand for maple syrup by positioning itself in the higher end of the market where many consumers look for healthy and environment friendly products. Ahorn Maple Syrup can be consumed by people of all ages because the majority of people enjoy having pancakes for breakfast with a great tasting maple syrup. Our product offers not only
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SERMON -- WE BELONG TO ABBA! by Eddie Lawrence Alternate Title: YOU ARE ADOPTED! Galatians 4:3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world. 4 But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. ROMAN LAW CONCERNING ADOPTION Source-- Backgrounds of Early Christianity, by Ferguson, page 51. 1. Taken out of his previous
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Mens Rea in Statutory Offences In the field of law, it is important to understand each and every cause of each and every act. Only then can a sound judgment be given in a case. If the judge does not consider all possible aspects and possibilities, then he will draw the correct legal conclusion most of the times but, not always. One of the most important things to consider with regard to any offence is the mens rea, or the guily intention. This element of crime (mens rea) has been in the picture
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great knowledge of human nature and transformed the English theatre. Yet many facts of his life remain a mystery. Some have been acquired from painstaking looks at the records of the time, so that this summary is based on generally agreed facts. It has been said that we only know three things about Shakespeare: that he was born, married and died. He was baptised on April 26, 1564; we do not know his birth date, but many scholars believe it was April 23, 1564. His father was John Shakespeare
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