Business Law - Exam #2 - Chapters 5-7 True/False Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false. _T___ 1. Some torts are crimes. __F__ 2. The victim must actually suffer offensive contact before he or she can succeed in a cause of action for assault. __T__ 3. A battery occurs only if the victim suffers actual physical harm. __T__ 4. Slander involves the oral communication of defamatory language. __T__ 5. Oral defamatory statements must be communicated to a third party
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as public goods)‚ and which a minimal government should provide. Later economists built on this idea that there may be goods with externalities (positive or negative)‚ that is side effects from their consumption or production. Next‚ we have Karl Marx‚ who conceived of history as a struggle between different types of class. Class was defined according to the relations in the forces of productionthose in a higher position could exploit those lower. In the feudal mode of production‚ the lords did
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in organisations and in our everyday lives. Kegan’s theory is made up of a number of key elements these are: • Orders of Consciousness • Subject / Object Theory • Dynamic Equilibrium • Transformation • Competing Commitments and Immunity To Change A number of assumptions underpin Kegan’s theory of adult development – Orders of Consciousness not only refer to how one thinks but generally how one constructs reality from experience. The orders are concerned with how we
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theirs‚ or impede their efforts to obtain it” (John Stuart Mill‚ On Liberty). Pick two or three of the following authors‚ and discuss how they challenge/complicate this classical liberal view‚ with reference to their political economic thought: Hegel‚ Marx‚ Tocqueville‚ Veblen. • Freedom is only pursuing our own good in our own way and it does not attempt to deprive others of their freedom or impede others in their attempt for freedom o How do these authors challenge/complicate this classical liberal
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Karl Marx is a German philosopher best known for his economic-based theories on how class conflict and historical materialism have shaped history. He outlines and elaborates on these theories in The Communist Manifesto‚ written by Marx and Friedrich Engels in London in the 1800s. This guidebook to Communism suggested a course of action for a proletariat revolution to overthrow Communism and create a classless society. Marx’s ideas on historical materialism are based on the idea that all of history
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Global Warming (A False Ideology) Global warming is defined by Google as “A gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth’s atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide‚ CFCs‚ and other pollutants”. The “greenhouse effect” is essential to life on Earth. If there were no greenhouse gases‚ the temperature of the air would be about 32°F or 18°C colder than it is now. The earth would pretty much be a frozen wasteland. We need greenhouse
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Marx and the communist manifesto I. Karl Marx (1818-83) • Had an articulated view in history‚ and constructed his own narrative of history. • At the Crossroads of modern economics‚ history‚ politics‚ and sociology. • The post-revolutionary milieu‚ the French revolution. • Industrialism II. Revolution • A revolutionary philosophy • A fundamental changes in social relationships. • Industrial revolution o Urbanization
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Shabbetai Tzvi is one of the most well-known false Messiahs in Jewish history. He was born in Smyrna‚ Turkey in 1626. He is said to have been born on the ninth of Av‚ which coincides with the date the Messiah is predicted to be born on as it is the anniversary of the Temple’s destruction. Some say his birthdate was manipulated to align with this prediction. Shabbetai Tzvi was extremely studious and mastered the Bible and Talmud by age fifteen. He was a chacham at eighteen and announced himself as
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CAN WE CONSIDER KARL MARX A SOCIOLOGIST? “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.” (Marx and Engels 2002[1888]: 219) I am beginning with the famous quote from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels to frame a question to myself about Marx’s theoretical importance and its practical implication. I had my first encounter with Marx when I was in the 11th standard of my formal education. Since then the ghost of Marx has been impelling me
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in his work. In the film “Do The Right Thing” we can tie in the idea of W.E.B. Du Bois’s double consciousness when examining the pivotal role of the character Mookie. Throughout the film Mookie is constantly walking on a thin line between two highly segregated social groups‚ which as a result leaves Mookie torn to where his place in society should stand. W.E.B. Du Bois’s concept of double consciousness is intended to describe an individual whose identity is divided into several facets‚ and in this
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