Definition: A tort‚ in common law jurisdictions‚ is a civil wrong which unfairly causes someone else to suffer loss or harm resulting in legal liability for the person who commits the tortious act‚ called a tortfeasor. Tort is derived from the latin word “Tortum”. Although crimes may be torts‚ the cause of legal action is not necessarily a crime as the harm may be due to negligence which does not amount to criminal negligence. The victim of the harm can recover their loss as damages in a lawsuit
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School Internet Censorship: Protected or Freedom? As of 2013‚ 71 percent of the United States population age three and over use the internet on a daily basis (“Fun Facts”). This time allows people to look at anything they want. They can find almost everything and anyone within minutes. They can steal identities‚ make bombs‚ and find anyone’s personal information at any given time. Many of the people that use the internet are children and teens. Children and teens should know internet safety to protect
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Analytic Skill Level: AICPA Legal 8. A store manager may delay a suspected shoplifter if the manager has probable cause to justify delaying the suspect. ANSWER: T PAGE: 106 TYPE: = MISC: AACSB Analytic Skill Level: AICPA Legal 9. Slander involves the oral communication of defamatory language. answer: t PAGE: 106 TYPE: N MISC: AACSB Analytic Skill Level: AICPA Legal 10. Defamation involves wrongfully hurting a person’s good reputation. answer: t PAGE: 106 TYPE:
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"Approximately as many as 1-5 pregnancies end in an induced abortion" (World Health Organization). Seeing this fact‚ it can be seen that many women decide to get abortions for a multitude of reasons. So why should anyone who can’t or doesn’t make the choice see that this operation should be deemed illegal? So the point is that abortions should be available to women everywhere because it can help a woman’s mental health‚ women who are raped don’t have to be reminded‚ and this procedure is safer when
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Fonseca interviews three Bulgarian women‚ who reveal their struggles for “a sense of place.” Their struggle” has everything to do with the human landscape‚ and in respect of its large Gypsy population‚ Bulgaria is barren—a tundra of human intolerance.” In Bulgaria Fonseca sees with her eyes the outcast life that these people live‚ how they are being treated like they don’t even exist because of some unwritten laws‚ how some Bulgarians – doctors for example discriminate them and are or afraid to
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Adam Hochschild’s King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed‚ Terror‚ and Heroics in Colonial Africa presents insight into the nature of a Central-African fiefdom owned entirely by a single European man: Leopold II‚ King of the Belgians. Recorded history of the Congo began with Portuguese arrival on the west-coast of Africa in the late 15th-century; further colonization was limited to the coastline as equatorial diseases and terrain proved too hospital for Europeans‚ leaving the Congo Basin unobtainable
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\d May 16th‚ 2014 “Look at her‚ Moor‚ if thou hast eyes to see: She has deceived her father‚ and may thee.” Othello is a play written by Shakespeare that presents a gendered society in which women are inferior to men. Unmarried women are regarded as their fathers’ property‚ while when married‚ continuously have allegations made towards them due to the jealousy of their husbands. The women in Othello end up betraying their husbands‚ without actually being at fault. In Othello‚ women are always
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**************** **************** English 1010 15 September‚ 2013 Religious Practitioners aren’t Perfect We have many religions all over the world. Christianity‚ Buddhism‚ and Islam: the people who believe in these religions do share many similarities in their beliefs. Some attend church once a week and others go several times a week. All the people who believe in these religions have one thing in common; they all try to be and struggle with being perfect everyday of their existence. However
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that SNS’s provides more harm than good to the users and non-users. Firstly‚ social networking site raise the issue of defamation. Defamation is defined as the act of defaming‚ false or unjustified injury of the good reputation of another‚ as by slander or libel; calumny. Through the social network‚ cyber defamation is easily spread within a click. The spread of the defamation were caused by the number of friends that the users connected with. Moreover‚ this defamation also spread widely by the usage
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manipulation of people and the spread of death becomes insane and inhumane. She has lodged false charges on countless villagers already‚ but she doesn’t seem to be satisfied. As John Proctor tries to stop this insanity going around Abigail‚ she slanders him and accuses him. It is ironic since she states earlier that she loves John Proctor‚ but just after a few months she is able to turn her back against John Proctor. The whole thing starts with Abigail’s background. She is an orphan‚ and she has
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