of laws: just and unjust. Every individual in a society has a responsibility to obey just laws and‚ even more importantly‚ to disobey and resist unjust laws." The speaker asserts that each individual in a society has a responsibility to disobey and resist the unjust ones. However‚ as far as I am concerned‚ such responsibility is neither jurally valid nor practically feasible and thus does not exist. People often try to modify the laws instead of passively disobeying the unjust laws. To begin
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this part of my assignment I aim to look at poverty. I will try to explain what is meant by the term poverty‚ and the impact this is having on children and young people. I will look at what has been done nationally to eradicate the problem and try to discuss whether these measures have been effective. Sociologist and researchers have favoured two different approaches to poverty: absolute poverty and relative poverty. The concept of absolute poverty is grounded in the idea of subsistence- the basis
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It is acceptable and even necessary to to protest unjust and unfair laws‚ because it is morally wrong. People who were being punished inhumanely because it was the law‚ “My teammates and I saw a man strung up by his neck - and set on fire.(James)” Lynching was a legal crime against black as a form of punishment. This is not a law a country is suppose to allow‚ allow such a violent law against a certain race in a way to show superiority. No one has to right or liberty to take someone’s life for the
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No matter what decision that I make as the CEO of Monsanto‚ it is virtually impossible to satisfy all parties involves. Just like customers‚ stakeholder groups can vary in their opinions and may want different things from Monsanto. It is possible that a decision made may satisfy one stakeholder group and upset another. With this being the case‚ issues presented should be prioritized based on the outcome desired (Zappi‚ 2013). Monsanto’s sustainability approach "Sustainability is firmly embedded
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Poverty persists in Britain today. Discuss Sociologists disagree on the definitions‚ causes and solutions of poverty. This essay will discuss firstly the definitions of poverty‚ including Seebohm Rowntree and Peter Townsend‚ then the causes which will cover both left and right wing theories‚ and finally the solutions of poverty which will look at welfare reforms. Sociologists have in the past defined poverty in three terms‚ absolute‚ relative and essential poverty. Many longitudinal studies
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Does chocolate make you clever? By Charlotte Pritchard BBC News Eating more chocolate improves a nation’s chances of producing Nobel Prize winners - or at least that’s what a recent study appears to suggest. But how much chocolate do Nobel laureates eat‚ and how could any such link be explained? The study’s author‚ Franz Messerli of Columbia University‚ started wondering about the power of chocolate after reading that cocoa was good for you. One paper suggested regular cocoa intake led to improved
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Acid –Base Titration: A volume of 128 mL of 0.650 M Ba(OH)2 was required to completely neutralize 50.0 mL of nitric acid solution (HNO3). What is the concentration of the acid solution? Gravimetric Titration: Calculate the molar concentration of Ba2+ ions in a 500.0 mL sample of an unknown aqueous solution if 2.47 g BaSO4 is formed upon the addition of excess Na2SO4? Stoichiometry of Acid –Base Reactions: What volume of 0.800 M HCl is required to completely neutralize 35.0 g of Ca(OH)2
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Hammurabi was born 1810 B.C in Babylon‚ Iraq and ruled for 42 years. He wrote 282 laws. My personal opinion on the Hammurabi’s code is that it is unfair to all people. There are three laws I want to explain that can be shown that Hammurabi’s code was unjust. They are law 196‚ law 199‚ and law 218. Law 196 is an eye for an eye‚ if a man puts out a free mans eye then he shall have his eye put out. Law 199 on the other hand‚ is if a man puts out and eye of a slave then he shall pay one-half of its value
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The title of this article is Does the Internet Make You Smarter? It is written by Clay Shirky. The article is written in the Wall Street Journal. This journal entry is written to people who are used to the old routines of past and think that the internet is going to make the new generation stupid. This is also written to the new generation that is supposedly going to be so stupid‚ as a challenge to doing something great with the opportunity we have been given with this newfound technology. This journal
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This could then be focused by the student as follows: “Does ethanol concentration affect the activity of bovine catalase?” It is not sufficient for the student merely to restate the research question provided by the teacher. Variables are factors that can be measured and/or controlled. Independent variables are those
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