master’s business.” State v Hoshijo ex rel. White‚ 102 Hawaii 307‚ 318‚ FN 27 (Hawaii‚ 2003). Employer/employee relationships are the most common area wherein respondent superior is applied‚ but often the doctrine is used in the agency relationship. In this‚ the principal becomes liable for the actions of the agent‚ even if the principal did not directly commit the act. There are three considerations generally: 1. Was the act committed within the time and
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their beliefs. Now‚ with Lia’s birth she was in a public hospital where she was attended by doctors and given medicine. It was also sanitary there‚ unlike her house. Instead of burying Lia’s placenta‚ it was incinerated. All in all‚ the difference between Hmong birth practices and practices here in the united stated at that our birth practices are much more sanitary and much more moderate. 2. I think that the up-heavals the Hmong have been through have made them more insecure about the help of other
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1870s on Principles of Political Obligation. And the definition of joining these two words according to Green was: “to discover the true ground or justification for obedience to law”. Sophocles lifted this problem in his Antigone play‚ performed around 440 BCE‚ and Plato’s Crito recounts Socrates’ philosophical response to the
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A) Write an essay (700-900 words) in which you analyse and interpret Richard Knight’s short story “Sorry for Disturbing You”. To put your interpretation into perspective‚ your essay must include a discussion of at least two of the other items listed below. One of these must be a text. Being alone is something that some people voluntarilychose to be‚ while loneliness is an involuntary eternal state that hurts its offer. When feeling lonely‚ you feel that you do not really belong anywhere‚ and
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Praise for The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down “Fadiman describes with extraordinary skill the colliding worlds of Western medicine and Hmong culture.” —The New Yorker “This fine book recounts a poignant tragedy…It has no heroes or villains‚ but it has an abundance of innocent suffering‚ and it most certainly does have a moral…[A] sad‚ excellent book.” —Melvin Konner‚ The New York Times Book Review “An intriguing‚ spirit-lifting‚ extraordinary exploration of two cultures in uneasy
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Where are you Going‚ Where have you been? Is a short story written by Joyce Carol Oates. The story involves a 15 year old girl named Connie that is rebelling against her mother’s whishes. Connie often rides with her friends to a shopping plaza to hang out and meet other people. One evening while she is out with her friends she leaves with a boy named Eddie. On the way to Eddie’s car she sees a stranger in a convertible that tells her “Gonna get you‚ baby”. Then one Sunday after missing church Connie’s
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Humanities Prof. Smith SOCRATES Socrates was a man of many words‚ with more thoughts and questions than any man of his time. Socrates wrote nothing himself‚ leaving much of his life a mystery. As mysterious as he was‚ today we look at him as the Father of Philosophy. Most of what we know about him was depicted through works that Plato‚ his pupil‚ had written about him. These works were Crito‚ Phaedo‚ Lysis‚ Symposium‚ Euthyphyro and Apology‚ and with them being written Socrates was remembered as being
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down - Summary and Reading Log Chapter 1 - Birth Chapter 1 goes through the traditional birthing methods and traditions of the Hmong people. One of the most significant traditions is burying the placenta. The placenta has to be strategically buried in a specific spot under the homes dirt floor or when the person dies its soul has to travel back to the placenta. This chapter also introduces the characters Nao Kao and Foua Lee. Nao is husband and father of 13
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“You Must Remember This” is a podcast created by Karina Longworth‚ who is a former film critic for the LA weekly and founder of Cinematical.com. Karina not only writes the episodes‚ she also produces and edits the original copy. It really is‚ as the description calls it‚ her passion project. You can hear that passion in every word she speaks; with her sultry tone that emulates the classic Hollywood she is describing. Karina accomplishes this by making the timbre of her voice very warm‚ trailing off
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Katie Merriman Stage to Screen 1/22/13 Death of a Salesman/You Can’t Take it With You Death of a Salesman opens with Willy Loman returning from a business trip. He is an older gentleman and it is apparent in the first few paragraphs of the play that he has some sort of problem. He talks to himself and has vivid flashbacks from when his children were younger (he interacts with them) and regretfully remembers when he refused to go to Alaska with his brother‚ who subsequently discovered a diamond
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