The "Stand Your Ground" statute states that “a person who is not engaged in an unlawful activity and who is attacked in any other place where he or she has a right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force‚ including deadly force if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony” (Sherman). Many people will say that
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IMPROVEMENT TECHNOLOGIES FOR TUNNELLING: SELECTED CASE HISTORIES Guido Pellegrino Nicholson Construction Company ABSTRACT Soil improvement technologies have been widely employed over the recent decades to overcome tunnelling problems in difficult grounds‚ their range of application growing proportionally to the technological development. The constant advancement in the different mechanical (flexible and more powerful equipment) and electronic (enhanced reliability and direct quality control) aspects
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that battle‚ I read “Common Ground” by Judith Ortiz Cofer. At first‚ I read the title and thought it’d be something for pro-equality and how people are essentially created equal. By the second stanza‚ with the line‚ “when I look in the mirror I see my grandmother’s stern lips‚” it was clear that it wasn’t a poem about being created equal‚ but about how people do share that “common ground” with people they may not have wanted to grow up like. The title “Common Ground” clearly indicates that there
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Pro-Life/Pro-Choice: The Middle Ground Black and white‚ up and down‚ right and wrong; there is always some sort of inbetween factor between all of these. But how could there be one for people who support and oppose abortion? These two topics seem like they could never be similar or intersect at all. In order for a middle ground to be found between Pro-Life and Pro-Choice on Abortion‚ it is necessary to examine the history of these two groups‚ their ideals‚ and the reason for middle ground. The history of the
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in Wayne County Ground Moraine (14‚000 to 24‚000 years old)- Ground Moraines often show up as rolling‚ strangely shaped land covered in grass or other vegetation. They don’t have the sharp ridges of other moraines. A ground moraine is made of sediment that slowly builds up directly underneath a glazier by tiny streams‚ or as the result of a glazier meeting hills and valleys in the natural landscape. When a glazier melts‚ the ground moraine underneath is exposed. Ground moraines are the most
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remember the steps for the members. Rules: set ground rules; Identify issues we would like to change; decide on what to work on first‚ Goals: what do we want to achieve? Explore the issues in more detail; Strategies/activities: work out ways of achieving goals. When social worker dealing with family issues has to develop ground rules for the family members. RIDGES steps are essential to social workers when sessions are undertaken with families. Ground rules include confidentiality‚ record keeping
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Revision essay plans 1. To what extent had African Americans made progress towards equality in the period 1945 to 1957? Progress • Education and actions of NAACP and Supreme Court - Brown decision 1954 – overturned Plessey v Ferguson - Actions of NAACP in other education cases (eg Sweatt v Painter) - Role of Thurgood Marshall‚ main lawyer in NAACP - Supreme Court more favourable to civil rights after appointment of Earl Warren as Chief Justice
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I believe that all citizens should be allowed the “Stand Your Ground” law for self-defense from harmful threats around the U.S. Crime rates in the U.S. have been rising over the last couple of years. Many people do not know how to protect themselves from a threat. Many are too scared to as they could get in serious trouble if the threat is not posing a threat to them. State legislative bodies have been pushing to expand self-defense laws in the U.S. In recent years this law has only applied
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“American Underground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center” Case Study Byron D. Stanley Governors State University Introduction American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center is a prime example of many of the issues associated with the bureaucratic system and shines a light on the importance of informal groups within public administration. The September 11‚ 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon forever changed the lives of Americans. It also exposed the workings of informal
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Establishing Ground Rules There is a variety of ways to establish ground rules within a classroom‚ firstly you need to discover which kind of ground rules are necessary for the learners‚ these ground rules can be adapted to suit the type of learners you have. The reason for using ground rules are to create mutual respect amongst the group and creating order‚ and a standard of behaviour which would be expected by every member of the group. Some ground rules are negotiable and some are non-negotiable
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