Scopes was a twenty four year old teacher at Rhea County High School in Dayton. He was described as a modest‚ friendly‚ helpful‚ and shy. There is a discrepancy as to why he agreed to participate in this trial. When Scopes agreed‚ he told how he had taught from Hunter’s Civic Biology‚ the Tennessee approved textbook that contained a chapter on the evolution of man and Darwin’s theory of natural selection. He also admitted that every other teacher taught from that book as well. * Scopes believed
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there are two issues to be discussed. The first issue is what have Don breached his directors’ duties under the act in good faith and best interest of the company as well as disclosure personal interest. The second issue is possible remedies for Bryan while he has been conducted unfair and oppressive. ISSUE 1: WHAT HAS DON BREACHED? Fiduciary duties to disclose personal interests Directors are under both fiduciary and statutory duties to avoid conflicts between their personal interests and the interests
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subsidized apartment with her two minor children. The following month Speelman’s probation was revoked‚ and she was sentenced to 75 days in jail. BHA was aware Speelman was on probation. She then arranged for her 19 year old daughter‚ Audrey Larson‚ to care for her children at her apartment. BHA was not notified Speelman had been incarcerated or of the new occupant in the residence. Office Lowell English‚ BHA’s police liason‚ was responding to a complaint about Speelman’s children running around the apartment
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Traditionally the law of torts in Australia and many other common law countries (e.g. England‚ Canada) have been reluctant to impose upon bystanders a general duty to aid the proverbial baby drowning in a puddle of water‚ ’ though there have been several exceptions to the general rule which the courts have distinguished‚ usually where some sort of prior relationship exists between the parties. Protagonists of a duty to rescue ’ tend to base their arguments around the idea that contemporary morality demands
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it becomes natural to see it‚ like other systems‚ as composed of parts that are interrelated and whose operations have consequences for the system as a whole. The functional orientation has long been implicit in biology and physiology‚ as well as in the social sciences of anthropology‚ economics‚ and sociology. Social scientists as diverse as Malthus‚ Marx‚ Durkheim‚ and Weber have engaged in describing the interrelationships between social phenomena. This paper will address functionalism from
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I believe students should be able to have fun during spirit week‚ and have activities that actually make sense. I mean this is our LAST year of high school and we all want it to be the best. I remember last year some of the spirit days didn’t make sense and there were many complaints. If im voted into office‚ you can guarantee that the idea pitches for days such as these will be ones that the student body as a whole can enjoy. Another idea would be to have a "Sport Day" . A day set aside for "Students-vs-Teachers
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Youth Tried As Adults: Justice or Misguided Justification? When juveniles are exposed to state penitentiaries and sentences up to life in prison without parole‚ do these adolescents learn anything or even achieve the ability to fully understand the crimes they have committed? The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s research indicates that the prefrontal cortex‚ the part of the brain that contributes to a person’s judgment and reasoning‚ is not fully developed until a person reaches his or her
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Security Council The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is the organ of the United Nations charged with maintaining peace and security among nations. While other organs of the United Nations only make recommendations to member governments‚ the Security Council has the power to make decisions which member governments must carry out under the United Nations Charter. The decisions of the Council are known as United Nations Security Council Resolutions. The Security Council is made up of 15 member
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Student council is a curricular or extra-curricular activity for students within grade schools around the world. Present in most public and private K-12 school systems across the United States‚ Canada and Australia these bodies are alternatively entitled student council‚ student government‚ Associated Student Body‚ Student Activity Council‚ Student Council Association or S.C.A. Student councils often serve to engage students in learning about democracy and leadership‚ as originally espoused by John
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States. Throughout history and into today laws and social patterns have oppressed various races‚ one of the most heavily oppressed groups has been the African American population.
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