THE IDEA OF NATURAL RIGHTS; A NIGERIAN EXPERIENCE Being a Paper presented at PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR SERIES OLABISI ONABANJO UNIVERSITY‚ AGO-IWOYE‚ OGUN STATE ON THE 4TH SEPTEMBER‚ 2006 AT OGD LECTURE THEATER By OMOTOSO‚ SHARON ADETUTU ABSTRACT This paper attempts a philosophical appraisal of the idea of natural rights‚ issues and problems associated with human
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the United States: * A deep recession hits the world economy. * The world oil price rises sharply. * U.S. businesses expect future profits to fall. a. Explain for each event whether it changes short-run aggregate supply‚ long-run aggregate supply‚ aggregate demand‚ or some combination of them. A deep recession in the world economy decreases aggregate demand. A sharp rise in oil prices decreases short-run aggregate supply. The expectation of lower future profits decreases investment
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America has dealt with many up and downs‚ when comes to its economy. Therefore programs like the welfare have been created and designed in order to help society get back on their feet. Yet many different questions arise throughout the country‚ when it comes to welfare aid programs. Such questions like‚ welfare benefits pays more that an entry level job? Or the welfare is being too generous to lower class people. As a result in my macro economy class each student was assigned with a very interesting article
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POWER AND ITS POWERS: The Supremacy of Power Frank Chodorov‚ an American writer and libertarian once said “The State acquires power and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.” When I was in my high school‚ I always dreamed for Utopia‚ a perfect state wherein there is no poverty and starvation. Power is delegated in every people and there’s equality‚ justice and freedom. Utopia sometime refers for World peace‚ this may sounds
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Poor Reading Culture among Nigerians The way of life of a nation is influenced by the percentage of its citizen who are literate. Cuba‚ for example‚ is adjacent to the US and has the highest rate of literacy in the world. This is among the reasons why Cuba has a vibrant economy despite decades of diplomatic conflicts with the strongest nation in the world (Henry‚ 2004). Tracy (2008) asserts that being a former British colony‚ Nigeria’s literacy culture ought to be as standardized as that
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DEMAND AND SUPPLY In the market economy‚ the interaction of the buyers and sellers determines how the market will work. Buyers demand and producers sell for a particular quantity of goods and services at a certain level of prices. To Adam Smith‚ widely cited as the father of Modern Economics and Capitalism‚ in a free market‚ consumers are free to choose varieties of commodities‚ while producers have freedom of choice the commodities for sale and its production. Market settles on the price that
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As Robert Neuwirth‚ who is a former business reporter‚ defines the informal sector or informal economy is that part of an economy that is not taxed‚ monitored by any form of government‚ or included in any gross national product (GNP)‚ unlike the formal economy. Other terms used to refer to the informal sector can include the black market‚ the shadow economy‚ and the underground economy and how he refers it mostly is System D. The original use of the term ‘informal sector’ is attributed to the economic
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International University August 2014 Session Faculty of Business‚ Communications and Law INTI International University 1 Class syllabus for Long semester Week 1-3 4-6 Topic Economics Concepts‚ Issues & tools Price Theory ( Demand & Supply) / Individual assignment/ Test 1 7&8 Applications of Price Theory ( Elasticity)/ Group assignment 9 Theory of Consumer behavior 10 Market Failure & Externalities 11&12 Theory of Firm: Production and Costs / Test 2 13 & 14 Market Structures
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This to me shows the power of love and how important it was to have offspring if you were royal so that they would be next in line for the throne. So even with Seth trying to kill his brother twice so he could become the King of Egypt‚ he was still not able to because of the fact that Osiris and Isis had a child‚ Horus‚ who became the new King when he was born. Another thing that I learned was how big of an impact fertility had on Western Goddesses. It seemed like every female goddess was viewed
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A "celebration of life" awaits when you participate in any of our Cultural Festival Tours‚ by which you can gain contact with the people of Nigeria that no ’ordinary’ trip can not afford. Argungu Fishing Festival at Sokoto Annual celebrations to mark beginning of the fishing season in Argungu‚ Kebbi State‚ is one of the most famous cultural festivals in Nigeria. Bare-hand fishing competitions among over 1‚000 Fishermen‚ equipped with a hand net and large gourd‚ is the main event of this cultural
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