MEMORANDUM OF LAW TO: Supervising Attorney FROM: Polly Paralegal RE: Jane Doe’s Asylum Case DATE: August 16‚ 2000 Questions Presented 1. Whether Jane‚ a minor‚ would be able to file a petition for asylum on her own behalf? 2. Whether Billy‚ the minors uncle and non-custodial adult‚ would be able to file a petition for asylum on behalf of Jane‚ if being a minor is an issue? 3. Whether Jane can use claims of physical abuse and being used as a governmental propaganda tool as grounds
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Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver Life. John McCain Why Does McCain mean by saying that “without courage all virtue is fragile”? It means that if we lack courage to hold on to our beliefs in the moment of testing‚ no just when everybody agrees with our opinion but also when they go against opposition‚ then our beliefs are superficial and weak and add nothing to our self respect for our virtues. Explain the concept of moral courage using an example. Is it different from physical
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CONSUMER LAW Australian Consumer Law (ACL) is a body of law that governs issues that is related to any method of retail. It is set in place to protect the welfare of the consumer and the manufacturer‚ done so through the use of contracts (both oral and written) and other means of lawful actions. Compliance is the following and meeting of rules and/or standards. Compliance can been seen throughout the marketing industry whenever there are no difficulties or complications in the industry. The Competition
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11/17/11 Legalize Gambling in California People don’t like gambling until they win‚ and people love money. The government doesn’t like gambling‚ unless they can tax it. People think of gambling and automatically like a trained gambler think of Las Vegas or Atlantic City. Gambling has been in America’s blood since before we were a country. All thirteen original colonies established lotteries to raise revenue. 48 states today that have legalized
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Mind over Matter The difference between mental illness and insanity is that with insanity the person knows right from wrong they just view it differently. Someone that is mentally insane is a person that has a mental illness that affects the brain. They do not realize their consequences or even realize if the consequence is wrong. People who have a mental illness still have a grip on reality. A person with a mental illness usually knows they have a mental illness‚ but a person who is insane
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Four Failures That Matter Jimmie L Green POS/355 July 10‚ 2014 James Johnsen Four Failures That Matter Introduction: Operating systems has come a long way and a much improvement in the way each system built. This paper will discuss the four common types of distributed computer system failures‚ which are crash failure also known as operating system failure. Hardware failure. Omission failures and byzantine failures. Included in the discussion are failures‚ which can also occur
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Today‚ an abortion is a big issue concerning all women because for years it has been said that an abortion should not be legal. Many people feel aborting an unwanted child or killing an unwanted child should be against the law. Many people do not’ know what abortion is‚ who can receive abortions‚ and why people would even choose to get them. I feel as though a woman’s body is her own to do with whatever she wants. Therefore‚ on the topic of abortions‚ I am pro-choice. First‚ before a person makes
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Mind over Matter Matt Pickering Religion 101 Brantley Gasaway Section BD Out of the myriad of religions that encompass the earth‚ one of the least understood is Buddhism. In the pursuit of a higher plane of existence‚ a Buddhist monk will renounce his worldly secular life‚ instead embracing a life of meditation and study. While attempting to achieve enlightenment‚ and therefore nirvana‚ a Buddhist must first come to eradicate his sense of self‚ effectively destroying his ego. By doing this‚
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instrumentality of law. As the law grew‚ justice also expanded into different spheres of human activities for ex: civil justice‚ criminal‚ economic‚ social justice‚ distributive justice‚ corrective justice‚ social justice and so on. The essence of legal justice lies in ensuring uniformity and certainty of aw and at the same time ensuring that rights and duties and duly respected by the people. Another essential attribute of the notion of justice is element of impartiality. One has to just and fair
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Matters of life and death In a new book‚ A Miracle and a Privilege‚ Dr Francis Moore‚ 81‚ of Harvard Medical School‚ discusses a lifetime of grappling with the issue of when to help a patient die. An excerpt: Doctors of our generation are not newcomer to this question. Going back to my internship days‚ I can remember many patients in pain‚ sometimes in coma or delirious‚ with late‚ hopeless cancer. For many of them‚ we wrote an order for heavy medication – morphine by the clock. This was not talked
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