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    GRANT v AUSTRALIAN KNITTING MILLS‚ LTD [1936] AC 85‚ PC The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council The procedural history of the case: the Supreme Court of South Australia‚ the High Court of Australia. Judges: Viscount Hailsham L.C.‚ Lord Blanksnurgh‚ Lord Macmillan‚ Lord Wright and Sir Lancelot Sandreson. The appellant: Richard Thorold Grant The material facts of the case: The underwear‚ consisting of two pairs of underpants and two siglets was bought by appellant at the shop of the

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    CRIMINOLOGY 101 D100 INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINOLOGY Instructor: Barry Cartwright Felix Cheu 301137655 Situational Crime Prevention Felson’s ten fallacies about crime tell us that common crimes are quickly and easily committed and everyone could be criminals when the temptation of a criminal act has outreached the incentives of obeying the law (Sacco & Kennedy‚ 2008‚ p.15-16). When a person sees an illegal opportunity to acquire something valuable‚ e.g. unattended goods‚ with very

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    Part A: Background of the persuasion Persuasion is crucial in personal relationship‚ professional life and in the society. In personal relationship‚ the emotional persuasion strategy is crucial in maintaining intimacy‚ a wide variety of occupations need persuasion skills in achieving career ladder. And in the society‚ persuasion skills are of practical uses to reach several goals. By examining the importance of persuasion through the speech of Donald Trump‚ political goals could be achieved by

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    In Thomas Sowell’s article‚ “The Fallacy of Fair”‚ he makes it clear that he believes many of the people who utilize the term fair in politics do not truly understand it’s meaning. He urges the idea that society is often blamed for the results of the handicaps that life bestows upon groups or people‚ leading society to attempt to level out the playing field for those on the bottom end of the totem pole. This concept in itself portrays the real injustice considering it skews the reality of a group’s

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    Human Rights Act 1998 has impacted on the judicial understanding of precedent Human rights are inalienable rights in which people are conferred with by birth. The state being the guardian of such rights have an absolute obligation to protect the human rights. Prior to the Human Rights Act 1998‚ a Uk citizen who had a grievance of a violation of a human right‚ had to complain to the Euoropean Court of Human rights in order to obtain redress. Comparatively‚ it can be said that by the enactment of

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    Guilt By Association The first fallacy is an example of Guilt by Association (no Latin name). Guilt by Association is when a stereotype is used as evidence to support an argument. The character who committed this fallacy in Twelve Angry Men was the Stockbroker. The Stockbroker said‚ “He is from a slum. Slums are breeding grounds for criminals.” The Stockbroker committed a fallacy when he brought up the fact that the accused man is from the slums because his argument was that this would give him

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    The second half of chapter six delves into more fallacies that can hinder rational‚ logical thought and the open process of argumentation. This lesson helped me to understand the difference between the red herring and the straw man fallacy. I was able to understand how to recognize an ad hominem. As I read the text‚ it became apparent to me that I often fall victim to both the ad populum and the appeal to pity. The fallacy I found most interesting in this lesson was equivocation. In the last lesson

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    Base Rate Fallacy Base rate fallacy is when probabilistic inference is made based only on data relating specifically to the situation but ignores additional background or general data relating to the instance of the situation that sometimes leads to wrong conclusions. Base rate fallacy is a “paradigmatic Bayesian inference problem” (Bar-Hillel‚ 1979). If we consider a situation where a hit and run occurred at night in a city where there are 2 cab companies and a cab was suspected to have been involved

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    Examples of Fallacies (1.) Appeal to Authority: An example of appealing to authority can be found in many television commercials. This fallacy is used on television by many companies trying to sell‚ or gain profit‚ by using athletes‚ or well-known figures to advertise their product for them. They do this in order to persuade consumers to buy their goods‚ due to their idols using them; even though‚ many of the famous people aren’t qualified to give expert opinions about the product. A commercial

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    Examine the ways in which Hardy uses the natural world to convey his feelings about love. Throughout Neutral Tones‚ Hardy effectively communicates his feelings about love using the natural world and its (neutral) colours and characteristics. His use of rich imagery of the natural world produces a melancholic note about love‚ which resounds through the whole poem portraying the end of an affair between Hardy and his former lover. The backdrop of the poem is set in the first stanza as a ‘winter

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