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    Explain the purpose of employment law and how it is enforced. Choose an area of employment you are familiar with and state whether or not you believe the objectives of this law are met in practice and whether or not its enforcement is effective. 1.1 Explain the aims and objectives of employment regulation The role of employment law is to achieve social justice and protect employees. There are two distinct branches of law‚ which include criminal and civil law. Criminal law in concerned with

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    Civil disobedience is a blessing and a curse. My definition of Civil disobedience is saying or doing some type of action‚ that can lead you to punishment. Most countries do not operate like America‚ people in those countries get killed or jailed for Civil disobedience. Civil disobedience‚ could also mean having power where you could make the life others feel threatened. One of the best examples in my lifetime of Civil disobedience‚ is the attempted assassin of a young girl named Malala Yousafzai

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    Arizona law enforcement has abused civil forfeiture by seizing large amounts of property. Table 1 represents the total amount of state forfeiture funds received by law enforcement for the years 2000 to 2014. Arizona law enforcement has forfeited approximately $412 million in property. On average‚ forfeitures in Arizona are yielding law enforcement $27 million per year (Carpenter et al.‚ 2015‚ p. 50). Civil forfeiture incentivizes law enforcement in Arizona to seize property because there is no limit

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    were to be an animal‚ I would be an African Lion. The African Lion is an animal that describes my strengths and attributes perfectly and has characteristics that I would love to call my own. The African Lion has been called “the King of Beasts” for centuries‚ due to its majestic appearance and the fact that it is at the top of the food chain. I too would like the respect the African Lion receives and the title that it has been given. If I were an African Lion I would be able to bake in the African

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    TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE OF ABC LAW FIRM Olga Piedra Nyack College Cohort 30 Transformational Leadership Course Dr. Claire Henry‚ Professor November 11‚ 2012 Table of Contents Introduction 3 Project Overview 3 Scope of Work 3 Wake-up and Mindset 4 Change Management Model 5 Deliverables 5 Drivers of Change 6 Targeted Benchmarks for Success and Measures 7 Transformational Change as a Business Model 7 Chart of Transformational Change (Figure 1.1) 8 Transformational Change of the

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    Should make laws about climate change.We should make laws.People say that it won’t help but it will because it will save millions of lives.It can save animals habitats‚ it will stop rising oceans‚ stop the ice caps from melting. There should be a law about climate change. It saves animals habitats. It stop the ice caps from melt were polarbears live. it will stop all of the rare life not being extinct. Also it will stop poisoning the ocean. It can kill Millions of wild life in the ocean and land

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    fathers feared a government that would become too authoritarian. To contrast this‚ they allowed the right to protest in the First Amendment. However‚ protesting usually does not do enough. Often‚ civil disobedience is necessary to provoke conversation about sometimes immoral societal norms. Many examples include Edward Snowden‚ Chelsea Manning‚ Rosa Parks‚ and others. Each of them has been a controversial figure in their time‚ but each has brought the ethics of American law into question. In the 1950s

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    judges were to make law then they would be contradicting this doctrine. The legislative supremacy disqualifies the courts power to review the validity of legislation‚ refer to British Railway Board v Pickin . The objective of judges is to not make law but simply declare what the law had always been. Acts of Parliament are the highest form of authority and the courts hands are tied by it. But through the doctrine of precedent‚ the judicial function of declaring and applying the law has a ‘quasi-legislative

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    In President John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address‚ he provided what is quite possibly one of his most famous quotes: "My fellow Americans‚ ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what can you do for your country." This was followed up by‚ "My fellow citizens of the world‚ ask not what America will do for you‚ but what together we can do for the freedom of man." Exactly 44 years after Kennedy’s Inaugural address‚ it might be worthwhile to revisit the implications of this statement. Can

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    Writing Prompt 22 I do not agree with the gun control laws because it is taking our rights as citizens away we have the right to own any kind of gun or as many guns as we want. Just because you take away assault rifles and high capacity clips is not going to stop people from killing. People will always kill other people there’s no way to stop it completely and taking the citizens guns is just going to start a war. Most major shootings that occur are by the hands of someone mentally unstable.

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