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    party or some forbearance‚ detriment‚ loss or responsibility‚ given‚ suffered or undertaken by the other”. In relation to Rent a Tents contract with Susie the terms of the contract are that in return for Rent a Tent providing a marquee for the birthday weekend Susie will pay £2‚000. This is a binding contract as the several requirements to make a binding contract are‚ offer and acceptance‚ intention to create legal relations and consideration. ‘. However Rent a Tent then approached Susie and

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    behaviourism to social constructivism. Learning environment has change from a traditional four wall classroom to virtual online environment. Despite of the change‚ social and cultural dimensions has always been a very crucial element to take into account to promote better learning in any context at any period of time. In this reflection paper‚ I would discuss on the social dimensions of learning. The social learning theory‚ the learning approaches in line with this dimension and learning in the social context

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    pass algebra‚ thousands of students are denied diplomas. Many try again and again -- but still get Fs.” This was the opening line in January 30th’s LA Times that was to catch the readers attention for Duke Helfand’s‚ an LA Times staff writer‚ The Vanishing Class: A Formula for Failure in L.A. Schools. Helfand’s article is blaming the L.A. School Board’s decision of making mandatory that all high school students need to pass algebra before earning there diploma‚ the reason for such high drop out rates

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    Nakisa Pirooz SLWK-200 September 26‚ 2013 Reflection Paper 1 “I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else’s freedom‚ just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity‚” is a famous quote in “Long Walk to Freedom‚” by Nelson Mandela. Young African Americans arrested for drug possession are forty-eight times more likely to end up in prison than Caucasians are. Racism applies to other races as well from all

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    as “an individual who has entered or works under (or‚ where the employment has ceased‚ worked under). The ERA defines ‘contract of employment’ as “a contract of service or apprenticeship‚ whether express or implied‚ and (if expressed) orally or in writing. The variance between the two is Contracts of Service and Contracts for Service. To begin with‚ the difference a Contract of Service is‚ where an employer and an employee have a relationship that is continuous. The employer has a duty of care

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    Society: A Review of Social Contract Theory The Social Contract Theory works as a rule of moral constraints in society for the common good. For Rachels’ perspective‚ “The Social Contract Theory: The right thing to do is to follow the rules that rational‚ self-interested people would agree to follow for their mutual benefit.” (Rachels 158) Based on “self-interested” criteria‚ people “need another enforceable agreement” to last harmonies which are built on this social contract. (Rachels 88) However

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    The oceans have risen and fallen throughout Earth’s history‚ following the planet’s natural temperature cycle‚ and now we are in a new warming phase‚ where the oceans are rising again after thousands of years of stability. As long as we continue to power our global economy by burning fossil fuels that pollute the air with heat-trapping gases‚ we are contributing to the increase in global temperatures. Consequently‚ the ice sheets in places like Antarctica and Greenland are melting‚ thus causing the

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    In the Social Contract‚ Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s key viewpoint is that all men are born free‚ but end up being in chains everywhere in the course of their lives (Rousseau and Cole 2 ). Rousseau argues that modern political states repress the basic freedoms which men possess as their birthright. These political states then lead men into the civil society in which the civil freedoms of men are not secure. Most importantly‚ Rousseau points out that the legitimacy of political authority can only be a

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    “Without a social contract there would be no morality...” In this essay I will be debating whether moral motivation is purely existent as a result of a ‘social contract’ through an insight to conflicting philosophers’ hypothesis. The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes supported the idea that a social contract is necessary in order for a moral society to be attainable. Hobbes argued that morality would be non-existent within ‘a state of nature’. This is a society that lives in the absence of a social

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    THOMAS HOBBES AND HIS THEORY OF SOCIAL CONTRACT Human beings live in a world that is full of rules‚ regulations and most of the time they don’t have chance to refuse or change them. The majority of the world population lives in territories where there are official‚ organized institutions called “states”. human beings lived freely in nature without a central‚ binding power long period of time in history. Thomas Hobes who tried explain necessity of the state explain the transition from

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