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    defendant who seeks to avoid criminal liability on the basis that s/he was suffering from a mental disorder at the time of the alleged crime must have a defence that falls within one of the following‚ legally recognised‚ categories: Insanity‚ Diminished Responsibility or Automatism. While‚ at one level or another‚ these "mental disorder defences" share common characteristics‚ they each differ significantly. Unfortunately‚ this point does not appear to be fully appreciated in English Law." Discuss the validity

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    DISTINCTION BETWEEN BETWEEN ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION BY: ADELEKE‚ R. S. UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN sanrasheed@yahoo.com +234 8161377164 INTRODUCTION In the last fifteen years‚ much has been written about assessment

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    think otherwise. Have you ever thought‚ "what if I was raised by their cultures?" If you realize most act the way the world revolves around them. In this case if we were their children we would also eventually be those suicide bombers. In essence‚ insanity is not something we can place upon someone just by acting differently from us. We have to look at things from a much scrutinized view and take upon whatever the individuals’ situation is into account. If I say someone is insane because he dresses

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    What is the distinction between “compliance” and “effectiveness”? This was mostly covered on days 3 and 4. I will go over some real-world examples to help show the differences and explain the affects. The question also provides 4 scenarios with the Republic of Fenerbache and the CIOE. In this paper‚ I will define compliance and effectiveness‚ explain the theoretical framework of institutional effectiveness‚ use the 4 hypothetical scenarios to explain institutional effectiveness‚ and provide real-world

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    1. Makadok (2001) emphasizes the distinction between capabilities and resources by defining capabilities as “a special type of resource‚ specifically an organizationally embedded non-transferable firm-specific resource whose purpose is to improve the productivity of the other resources possessed by the firm” [4](p389). “[R]esources are stocks of available factors that are owned or controlled by the organization‚ and capabilities are an organization’s capacity to deploy resources”:[3] p. 35. Essentially

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    The Darkness Between Two Darkness is a literary device that applies to both the setting’s of The Garden Party and Araby. Both these texts share the same implications of darkness but have two diverse meanings which represent different outcomes. Darkness contributes to the representation of each text and emphasizes how the conception of darkness is seen throughout the stories. By comparing the settings in both the short stories Araby and The Garden Party‚ the paper will show how the notions of darkness

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    Topic: Hyponymy: One type of branching lexical hierarchies; and a distinction between hyponymy and meronymy Table of Content I. Introduction 2 II. Hyponymy 2 III. Distinction between Hyponymy and Meronymy 3 III. 1: Meronymy 3 III. 2: The distinction 4 IV. Bibliography 4 I. Introduction Every day we are confronted with lexical hierarchies in our correspondences‚ without actually thinking about it. One type of branching lexical hierarchies is the taxonomy‚ which structures the vocabulary

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    Introduction The simple question on the distinction between management and leadership is common‚ yet there are so many different answers that create confusion by academic research. In my research‚ I use Kotter’s definition because I find it clear and consistent with the definition by most researches that I will discuss later in the paper. Management is to provide order‚ consistency and stability so mangers are task oriented. On the other hand‚ leadership is to produce change and movement‚ seeking

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    The defences of insanity‚ substantial impairment by abnormality of mind and automatism play a vital role in avoiding criminal liability. Principally‚ the defences reflect the idea that intellectually challenged individuals should not be penalised but rather treated of their mental impairment. However the outcomes of each defence have also been criticised as ‘anomalous and arbitrary’ due to conflicting legal and medical definitions. Consequently‚ support for the abolishment of these defences has

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    conduct of its own affairs for example Brazil‚ Zimbabwe or Zambia. The Jewish people do not make a state since it is not a political unit but Israel is the state. Government is according Everyman’s Library (1973:228)‚ it is an intermediate body set up between the subjects and the sovereign to secure their mutual correspondence‚ charged with execution of the laws and maintenance of liberty both civil and

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