Facts New London‚ CT declared a "distressed municipality" due to decades of economic decline. State and local officials targeted New London for economic revitalization. State authorized bonds to support planning activities including a state park and private development. Pfizer announced that it planned to build on the Fort Trumbull area. Fort Trumbull comprises 115 privately-owned properties. Development plan encompasses seven parcels: 1. Waterfront conference hotel at the center of a small
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Synopsis and Summary In this article from The New York Times‚ Gretchen Reynolds talks about the relationship between exercise and dancing‚ relating to the white matter in our brains. The University of Illinois gathered 147 volunteers‚ both men and women and gave them tests for their cognitive abilities and reaction time‚ along with taking an in-depth MRI. Over a six-month span‚ the people were broken up into three different groups‚ each group doing different activities‚ but doing them for an hour
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Alvin York was arguably one of America’s most decorated World War I soldiers. Sergeant York is a movie about his life and heroic acts. He struggles between his religious beliefs and patriotic duty. Originally from a small town in Tennessee‚ the movie starts by depicting York as a young farmer supporting his mother and siblings. He works very hard on the farm‚ so when he was denied a very good piece of land he almost takes out revenge. When he gets struck by lightning during a rainstorm‚ he goes
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somewhere. The most important defense to a libel or slander case is someone telling the truth‚ which is an absolute defense to an action of defamation. I am going to discuss the 1964 case New York Times versus Sullivan shows how a public figure attempts to bring an action for defamation. In 1960 the New York Times published “Heed Their Rising Voices” a fundraising advertisement for the civil rights movement. “Heed Their Rising Voices" was a fundraising advertisement signed by civil-rights leaders
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Responsive Paper Three Cups of Tea Mortenson’s New York Times bestseller Three Cups of Tea challenged me in many different areas and gave me a different outlook on the way other countries deal with poverty. To me the most challenging thing to understand about the book is how someone like Mortenson can go from a mountaineer to being such a great humanitarian. God’s plan for Mortenson wasn’t to be a mountaineer at all; his plan for him was to do great things in impoverished countries. The way that
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Wendell Holmes‚ that the United States press is unlike any other in the world. Lewis rejects the First Amendment absolutism when discussing his argument about shield laws. As discussed in the book‚ a shield law is legislation designed to allow news reporters the right to refuse to testify to information or give up their sources of information obtained during the newsgathering process. Lewis refers to the case of scientist Wen Ho Lee. Lee was described in various press stories that he was a atomic
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3.3. The Museum of the Moving Image‚ New York‚ US Information for this section is taken from http://www.movingimage.us/ 3.3.1. Online Collections – Description and Analysis The collections database is found directly via the ‘collections’ button on the homepage of the museum’s website. The visitor is redirected to the online collections portal‚ which has the options ‘browse’ and ‘for researchers’ (see Image 16). This indicates that the potential user that the museum envisions may either come from
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16.02 DEFAMATION — ELEMENTS OF DEFAMATION PER SE WHERE PLAINTIFF IS PUBLIC FIGURE OR STATEMENT RELATES TO ISSUE OF PUBLIC INTEREST OR CONCERN In this case‚ the plaintiff claims that the defendant harmed the plaintiff’s reputation by making a false statement about the plaintiff. To establish this claim‚ the plaintiff must prove five elements. The plaintiff must prove that each of the following four elements is more likely true than not true: (1) the defendant made the following statement: [insert
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variant. Burger king failed to effectively target the cost conscious consumer and instead promoted its premium burgers. b. Failure to communicate brand values. c. Lack of funds II. OBJECTIVES MARKETING STRATEGIES a. Increase sales by 8%. b. Gain 1.5 percentage points in market share c. Increase visit of new customers
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humiliation for the plaintiff. On the other hand slander case involves plaintiff claiming false or misleading statement that was verbally expressed about the plaintiff and it resulted in an economic or monetary loss for the plaintiff. In the Orlando v. Cole case‚ Orlando sued Cole for slander because Cole verbally expressed his point by speaking to the reporter and didn’t express his point through written statement. If Cole expressed his idea through a written statement or printed public defamation
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