Media Law Professor Thomas Brief #1 Employment Division v. Smith FACTS: Alfred Smith and Galen Black were fired from a drug and alcohol treatment agency where they worked as counselors for admitting they used peyote‚ which is an illegal drug‚ for the use of “religious ceremonies.” The use of illegal drugs violates the agencies policy and according to the agency‚ were grounds for “immediate termination from employment.” Smith and Black were denied from unemployment benefits so they decide
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we simply need a better plan to turn things around. Carrie Smith was nearly $15‚000 upside down one year and debt free the next. She shared the secrets to her success with the Huffington Post. In case you are thinking that Smith was independently wealthy and just had bad luck‚ she also shared her gross income. She was not wealthy and had to work to make ends meet each month. She brought home $3‚496 each month. The first thing Smith did was attack her credit cards. In her case‚ the credit cards
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(1799-1831) 1. Jedediah Strong Smith born on January 6‚ 1799 in Bainbridge‚ New York. 2. He was thought to have died on May 27‚ 1831 in Ulysses‚ Kansas. 3. He was a Mountain man‚ explorer‚ and trail blazer. 4. Jedediah Smith was leading a dozen men across the plains south of the Yellowstone River to open new trapping grounds but before they reach the area he was mauled by a grizzly bear. He survived but was scarred for life and wore his hair long to hide the scars. 5. He was quoted as saying
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Elizabeth Proctor and Abigail Williams are two important women in The Crucible. They are basically opposite of each other‚ which makes their characters vital to the story. Both Elizabeth’s and Abigail’s roles in the story can be determined by comparing what each women represents‚ what motivates them‚ and what they cause in the end. Elizabeth Proctor represents the only thing good left in John Proctor’s life. She is an honest women who would never lie to John‚ although he has lied to her. While she
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modest main characters. The protagonists Sam Lowry and Winston Smith both do not effectively fit into the classic ‘Hero’ type of behaviours‚ but are closer to an ordinary‚ or even sub-ordinary people which we can easily relate to. As both Nineteen-Eighty Four and Brazil mock the same obstinate government with the latter being a clear reference and a parody to the former‚ the two main central characters share similar
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The company Dick Smith‚ known‚ as Australia’s largest and most convenient electronics retailer‚ identified opportunities to grow to 430 stores in 2016 against the footprint of 393 stores as in 2015. Dick Smith operates across multiple retail sections and integrated a new Omni-channel approach that was designed and modelled to maximise convenience for customers across all platforms of trade. Dick Smiths operations initiative was to improve the returns from their sales on a sustainable basis. Throughout
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By most accounts‚ Bessie Smith was a rough‚ crude‚ violent woman. She was also one of the greatest Blues singers of the 1920s. The road that took her to the title “Empress of the Blues” was not an easy one. It was certainly not one of the romantic "rags to riches" tales that Horatio Alger made popular during her time. For a young black woman from the South the journey was anything but easy‚ and it would require a special kind of person‚ and Bessie Smith was definitely that. She was a woman who fought
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WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT AND DOLLAR DIPLOMACY - Roosevelt’s successor‚ William Taft (1909-1913)‚ did not carry a big stick - Taft adopted a foreign policy that was mildly expansionist but depended more on investors’ dollars than on the navy’s battleships - Taft’s policy of trying to promote U.S. trade by supporting American enterprises abroad was given the name dollar diplomacy DOLLAR DIPLOMACY IN EAST ASIA AND LATIN AMERICA - Taft believed that private American financial investment in China &
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Will Smith is a very inspiring young man. Smith is one person today that many kids should idol for coming from nothing he has made himself into a well known person with two Oscar nominations and four Golden Globe nominations and has also made many attempts into making this world a better place. Born and raised in Philadelphia‚ Pennsylvania Will Smith was the second child of two middle-class parents‚ his father owned a refrigerator company and his mother was part of the school board(biography). Smith
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In the opening scene of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington‚ reporters frantically go around telling and calling people that a Senator has passed away. With the death of the Senator‚ Taylor -who runs the state‚ needs to have Hopper elect a new senator. Not just any fill in senator‚ but a senator who an amateur and that will not go against Taylor. That is how Mr. Smith‚ leader of the state’s Boy Rangers group‚ is appointed senator. When Smith arrives in Washington‚ he does not get off on the right foot and
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