MEMORANDUM TO: Atty. Dante B. Gatmaytan FROM: Carlo Iñigo D. Soriano RE: The murder case against Roldan Mendoza ------------------------------------------------- DATE: September 23‚ 2011 A. STATEMENT OF FACTS Roldan Mendoza has been accused of murder after killing his aunt Merlita Austria‚ her son Emmanuel‚ and daughter Emerlita in the city of Lian‚ Batangas on August 27 2011.The accused was allegedly trying to borrow five hundred pesos (P 500) from his aunt‚ Merlita‚ but the latter
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“The Case Against Tipping” was a well-written argument‚ yet there are many ways in which Lewis could fix his argument. Firstly‚ the essay was mostly based on opinion‚ with a fact or two sprinkled around. Lewis says: “If you are like most people (or at any rate like me)‚ you are of two minds about this plastic cup” (20). This usage of opinion to state that the audience was just like the author himself as well as repeatedly stating his own opinion thought the essay made his argument less believable
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opposition is that standardized tests alone do not present a fair representation of a student’s intelligence and character. Critics‚ authors‚ and researchers alike of the opposing party hold the view that standardized tests fail to measure a lot of what makes up a meaningful education (Bracey). American education policy researcher‚ Gerald Bracey‚ is widely known for composing a comprehensive list of important character traits that standardized tests largely fail to address including‚ “creativity‚ critical
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commit mass genocide would be much easier since they would be in a more concentrated area. The novel‚ Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers‚ written by Filip Müller‚ recounts the tale of an Auschwitz survivor and the life he and other Jewish prisoners had to endure behind its walls. He stated that Auschwitz was a “terrible accusation against God and humanity” (Müller 1999‚ x). This novel was written to bring light to tragedies that ensued during and
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A Second Chance Yassamine Souisri Kettering College A Second Chance Three years ago‚ my cousin Wael‚ aged 17‚ died next to me in a car accident. It was a very beautiful evening‚ I just got off work and was excited to go home and drive my new Nissan 350Z my boyfriend just got me. As I arrived to my house‚ Wael was waiting for me. I hadn’t seen him over a week or so‚ and the excitement to see him was killing me. I wanted to go out for a drive to catch up‚ as well as test drive the new car. We
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THE CASE AGAINST ACTIVE STABILIZATION POLICY Some economists argue that the government should avoid active use of monetary and fiscal policy to try to stabilize the economy. They claim that these policy instruments should be set to achieve long-run goals‚ such as rapid economic growth and low inflation‚ and that the economy should be left to deal with short-run fluctuations on its own. Although these economists may admit that monetary and fiscal policy can stabilize the economy in theory‚ they
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Summary of “The case against the banning of the word retard” In Christopher M. Fairman’s article “The Case Against Banning The Word Retard” for the Washington Post in 2016‚ he urges people to analyze the issue on the word “retard”. The author explains why removing the word from our society is something that we should not take lightly. Fairman a professor of law has been researching taboo language and its interactions with law for many years argues that the different and ever changing uses of such
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The author of the article‚ “The Second Amendment’s Second Class Citizens‚” speaks about his belief that the second amendment of the constitution doesn’t apply to black people in America. My position on this topic is that I agree with him because history has proven that black people are much more likely to be punished for practicing their right to bear arms than white people are. Prior to reading Negroes with Guns‚ by Robert F. Williams‚ my main source of knowledge of the Civil Rights Movement came
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The Second Coming – Notes The Gyre The gyre‚ a circular or conical shape‚ appears frequently in Yeats’ poems and was developed as part of a philosophical system outlined in his book‚ A Vision‚ as a model to articulates his belief that history was structures in terms of ages. He chose the image of the gyre to symbolize his philosophical belief that all things could be described in terms of cycles and patterns. The soul (or civilization‚ the age and so on) would move from the smallest point of the
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Christine R Jinks English 100 1-3:20pm T/Th Writing Project 1 (Final Draft) R. Fleming Safa January 23‚ 2012 Second Chances How many of us really do take our lives for granted? Are you comfortable where you are in your life? If you knew a date that would tell you your life is over as you know it‚ would you be able to tell yourself that you have lived a happy and fulfilled life? Or do you think maybe you’re just still young
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