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    ‘It is the normal way people talk in India’. Today‚ English is widely acknowledged as being the ‘lingua franca’ of the modern world. This phrase refers to the adoption of English as the ‘bridging’ language among communities to allow communication between people who do not speak the same language or dialect- making it the leader in education‚ research‚ tourism and the media. However‚ in recent years‚ new competitor languages have emerged to supersede English‚ particularly in multilingual contexts such

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    MODERNITY AND WEST: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE. Modernity and West are two closely tied terms. We often even use these as synonyms; in place of one or the other. The reason why these two words are so closely related is that modernity is part of the new identity that the West built for itself after having found the Americas. In sociology‚ the first and foremost clues of modernity are found in Europe‚ and it has been seen that modernity developed under the banner of Europe all along‚ therefore‚ it is

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    Group 2: 13. Characterize the dialog between Kiowa and Norman Bowker. What does their speech reveal about their personalities and “handling” of the war? (645) From the first dialog between Kiowa and Norman‚ we could assume that Kiowa is more emotional; whereas Norman is cold. Kiowa wants to care‚ he wanted to grieve. He is a Christian man. All Kiowa wanted to was talk about what he saw. Kiowa also “admired Lieutenant Jimmy Cross’s capacity for grief. He wanted to share the man’s pain‚ he wanted

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    as the foundation for making laws. Without ethics‚ there are no laws. In fact‚ ethics serve as a guiding principle for laws. It is based on these ethics that laws are created by the governments to serve as a framework to mediate the relationships between one another. They are made in order to protect the citizens. Three bodies – judiciary‚ legislature‚ and the public officials are the main bodies that create the laws. The laws have to be approved before they are enforced by the police and the military

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    checks and balances‚ a law trying to be passed through Congress is required to be presented to the Supreme Court where they make the decision if the bill is considered unconstitutional. However‚ these powers are not limited to just bills‚ court cases between client and government can also be presented before the court where such rulings for or against the constitution can be made. A historical example would include Brown v. Board of Education where the supreme court determined it was unconstitutional

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    A partnership is really the relationship that lives between persons operating business in common in a bid to always profit. In a partnership two and twenty persons jointly own the partnership property while a company owns its assets and not its members and does not always set up to make profits. As oppose to a company who always has a written Articles of Incorporation a partnership agreement could be verbal and therefore makes is difficult to demonstrate its existence. And also‚ unlike

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    for protecting ordinary citizens they felt were unexpectedly thrust into the spotlight‚ raising questions of whether reporters should have differing standards based on who they are interviewing. This requires journalists to analyze “distinguishing between procedural fairness and fairness in performance‚” as Jay Rosen told the Freedom Forum panel. Just because a journalist followed all of the rules does not mean she was acting ethically to minimize harm. Though the support at the public forum was based

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    The discussion between Socrates and Glaucon in the story of the ring of Gyges is a response to a sophist named Thrasymachus’ idea of Justice in book one of The Republic. He made three central claims about justice: Justice is nothing but the advantage of the stronger. Justice is obedience to laws. Justice is nothing but the advantage of another. Thrasymachus’ “won” this argument against Socrates; however‚ Glaucon was not satisfied with these claims. The main theory of Glaucon in the ring of Gyges

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    this declaration that slaves are more superior than poor whites because slaves are entitling as valuable property and considerable profits. The Northern and Southern states divided into their moral and political beliefs on slavery. The conflicts between the proslavery southerners and increasingly antislavery northerners‚ they viewed Africans as low status in society or other words‚ cattles. These views were caused by the regional characteristics and

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    colonist’s rights‚ which is totally unfair. There was the Proclamation of 1763 that forced them to live inside the Application Mountains. Then in 1764‚ the Tea Act made the colonists only be able to buy the British tea. That isn’t even the worst of it‚ between 1764 and 1774 the Townshend Act‚ Sugar/Stamp Act‚ and the Intolerable

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