Question 1 What legal issues does this situation raise and what are the possible legal consequences? First legal issue- Was there a duty of care? In this case there a number of legal issues and the first and foremost of these issues is was there a duty of care? Duty of care‚ as a general rule‚ is that the defendant who owes a duty of care to all persons who it is reasonably foreseeable will suffer loss or damage as a result of the defendant’s actions. The principle law that can define duty of care
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English 112.060 October 9‚ 2012 Essay #2: “In what ways are women objectified and what are the consequences?” On any street corner or at the turn of a page there are advertisements showing men‚ women and children for various products. Whether it is trying to sell a simple beauty product or lingerie using a scantily clad model‚ the images depicted somehow catch your attention. But have we ever stopped to think what that ad is really trying to accomplish? While evaluating that photo‚ has it
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Historical Theory and Jackson’s Frontier As explained in this chapter of Davidson and Lytle’s After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection‚ a historical theory is not necessarily a clear and definite principle about something‚ rather it is an untested hypothesis. Historians incorporate many factors into their theories to help explain events and support their hypotheses‚ and these focuses affect their basic understanding of history. This is commonly referred to as “Grand Theory”—an overall explanation
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THE SPANISH CONQUISTADORS DBQ Using the following‚ documents to analyze the Spanish motives for conquest during the Age of Expansion. How did these motives influence Spanish attitudes toward the people living in the New World? Document 1 On the part of the king‚ subduer of barbarous nations‚ we notify and make known to you as best we can that the Lord our God‚ living and eternal created the heaven and earth and one man and one woman‚ of whom you and we and all the men of the world were and
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Vasco Nunez de Balboa (1475-1519) was a Spanish conquistador and explorer. He was the first European to see the eastern part of the Pacific Ocean (in 1513)‚ after crossing the Isthmus of Panama overland. Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish explorer who sailed to North America from Spain‚ leaving in 1527. He traveled from Florida to Texas on a raft‚ then walked from Texas to Mexico City. He also explored the Paraguay River in South America. De Vaca and his fellow travelers were the first Europeans to see
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Identity Essay How does one define their identity? What are the most important things in life to you? Many can not answer this question. It’s a problem many people face and try to find a solution to. Everyone is born into different cultures‚ families and even communities but how we define our identity is from our personal attributes‚ our skills and abilities that we possess and even our interests and hobbies. If there’s something about you that you believe defines you in a big way‚ this could be considered
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we usefully define marriage in universal cross cultural terms? Marriage‚ which is one of the most vital relationships of human beings‚ is a bewildering subject in people’s lives because it is hard to define‚ especially in the cross cultural terms. Cross cultural‚ according to the fourth edition of the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (2000)‚ is defined as “the interaction of differing cultures‚ or a comparison”. This means that people
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Before Columbus‚ Scandinavian sailors and European powers‚ including Spain and Portugal‚ conducted early colonization and expeditions in the Americas. Vikings arrived around 1000 AD but couldn’t establish permanent colonies due to hostile environments. The Crusades restored trade and knowledge between Europe and Asia‚ paving the way for the Renaissance and Europe’s growth. European countries‚ like Spain and Portugal‚ sought new trade routes to Asia for economic and religious reasons. Portugal under
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colonization in the Americas. The British‚ French‚ and Spanish had sought after these new found lands for many different reasons. The intentions of the British and Spanish were similar in that most of their colonists were interested in economic benefits such as agricultural colonies that would yield cash crops for business. There were other intentions of claiming strategic lands in the name of their homelands. However‚ the French Huguenots were different from the British and Spanish colonists in that
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decipher the human mind in hopes to understand the way the mind works‚ we are no closer to understanding than when research first began in my opinion. How many times do we find ourselves trying to understand strangers‚ even our closest relatives‚ especially if they were faced with a situation in which the expected outcome was far from being reached? How many times did we replay the situation over and over in our heads with the outcome based on what we would have done‚ unable to understand why the
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