INTER-GENERATIONAL ENERGY SECURITY POLICY BRIEF Purpose The purpose of this policy brief is to provide the ACT Office of the Commissioner for Sustainability and the Environment (OCSE) with suggestions on securing inter-generational equity for energy within the ACT. electricity (22%)‚ diesel (18%)‚ and petrol (16%). Solar energy accounted for below 1% of Australia’s net energy consumption (seen in Figure 1). Regarding electricity prices‚ (seen in Figure 2) Canberra has witnessed a 45% increase
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Susan M. V. New York Law School‚ No. 129‚ Court of Appeals of New York‚ 76 N.Y. 2d 241; 556 N.E. 2d 1104; 557 N.Y.S. 2d 297; 1990 N.Y. LEXIS 1413‚ April 26 1990‚ Argued‚ June 14‚ 1990‚ Decided Facts: Petitioner law student was placed on academic probation after her first year of law school. A year later‚ having failed to maintain a minimum cumulative average as required by respondent law school’s rules‚ she was dismissed after a hearing of respondent’s academic status committee. She sought reinstatement
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improvements. In the 1990s‚ Boeing introduced the 737 Next Generation with multiple changes including a redesigned wing‚ upgraded cockpit‚ and new interior. The 737 Next Generation comprises the four -600‚ -700‚ -800‚ and -900ER models‚ ranging from 102 ft (31.09 m) to 138 ft (42.06 m) in length. Boeing Business Jet versions of the 737 Next Generation are also produced. The 737 series is the best-selling jet airliner in history.[4] The 737 has been continuously manufactured by Boeing since 1967 with 6‚638 aircraft
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class. Some people decide to celebrate these differences while others shun people whom they consider to be slightly different from what society considers to be “normal.” The article “The Other and Othering” by Sara Engelund states that people who are Othered usually feel that‚ “Differences between societies are emphasized while similarities are hidden” (Engelund). Dominance‚ along with misuse of this causes the unequal treatment of the Other (Engelund). In the novels To Kill a Mockingbird and Of Mice
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Furman v. Georgia Nicholas‚ 4 Furman v. Georgia: The Death Penalty Ethan Nicholas Liberty High School AP Government 4A Furman v. Georgia was one of the many court cases that dealt with the death penalty. This time‚ the topic of the death penalty was reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1972. This particular case ruled that the death penalty was cruel and unusual punishment violating the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. ?The ban on ?cruel and unusual punishments? is one of the most difficult
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Two men grew up in the same city‚ but are similar in many ways‚ created a difference in their lives. The author Wes had factors that affected his life‚ also the Other Wes. Wes had support from his strong mother and from the military. The other Wes didn’t quite have support from his mother and Tony‚ who wanted the best for Wes‚ telling him to stay in school and out of the drug game‚ but Tony was a bad influence to Wes. Due to both Wes’s path’s they took‚ led them to their destinies. The author
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A brief background and history of African Music The African continent is the second largest continent in the world‚ and its people constitute a 10th of the world’s population with about one thousand indigenous languages spoken throughout the continent (Stone‚ 1998‚ p.2). In this context‚ it is important that a brief history of African music cannot be conclusive and is more complex than we realize. No scholar managed to offer a perspective about African culture that has not been contested. Given
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PS 241 Professor Lees 10-31-00 Components Of Law In class‚ we broke components of law up into four categories. System of social norms on which laws are based‚ a group empowered to enforce the laws‚ a legitimate system of enforcement‚ and a system for interpreting the law. Throughout this essay I’ll divide up these categories‚ and give examples of each of them. A system of social norms on which laws are based‚ generally determine what is good or bad in a society. Legalization of
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Conceptualizing the “Other”‚ Institutioinalized Discrimination‚ and Cultural Racism Masoud Kamali Department of Sociology University of Uppsala The legacy of Orientalism and creation of “the West and the rest” is deeply rooted in the Western intellectual traditions‚ educational institutions‚ and political systems‚ as well as in our seemingly “value-free” social sciences. In this note I identify category systems‚ value structures‚ and discourses – as elements of theories or paradigms – which serve
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Citation: Ashcroft v. The Free Speech Coalition‚ 535 U.S. 232 (2002) Parties: John D. Ashcroft‚ Attorney General‚ and the Government of the United States‚ Petitioners The Free Speech Coalition‚ Respondents Facts: In 1996 Congress passed the federal Child Pornography Protection Act (CPPA) which extended federal prohibition against child pornography to sexually explicit images that appear to depict minors but that were actually produced without using real children. The CPPA statute in
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