U R N A L SAMPLE CASENOTES INTENDED ONLY FOR FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS AT DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW DO NOT CITE OR DISTRIBUTE This document includes five sample casenotes that the Duke Law Journal is making available to first-year students in the spring of 2008. All five received strong scores from DLJ in the 2007 casenote competition‚ although the authors may not have “written-on” to the Journal. These five casenotes represent a range of approaches to last year’s case. The Journal
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Knowledge issues: Who is right or wrong? How do we know it? Introduction One morning‚ a man was walking in the centre of Lhasa. It was the 10th march 2008; this man was holding the Tibetan flag and was screaming “Free Tibet”. After a little bit‚ the monk and the population of Lhasa joined him. The police were controlling the march. One the 14 march‚ even more people joined the demonstration. The police reacted when the Tibetans started to burn Chinese’s shops and restaurants. Those actions
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bill of rights? Some people may say it’s unnecessary while others say it’s a need for our country. I however agree that our country needs a constitutional bill of rights. I agree with the side of maintaining a constitutional bill of rights because we‚ as a society‚ need our rights to be secured. If we were not to have a constitutional bill of rights our rights will go unprotected which we cannot afford to lose in this day and age. Maintaining our constitutional bill of rights would mean we keep every
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outing and active. They won’t feel enough by just basic food and water‚ they prefer to play with ball or people‚ walk outside‚ and do for a drive. So that‚ if people who have busy schedule‚ it is better for them to have cats instead of dogs: because cats need less time to spend with them and less responsibility to take care of them. Secondly‚ cats and dogs have different characters and habits. Cats sleep a lot and being quiet usually just like soft and gentle girls; and they are harmless to
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the debate of whether animals have moral rights or not has been thrown around court rooms‚ social media‚ and protests. Arguments are made defending animals and suggesting that they should be protected and recognized in human society. Medical researchers are scrutinized and harassed by these supporters for their part in animal testing and medical investigation. Scientific breakthroughs have been made‚ which has transformed the development of modern medicine. Lifespans have elongated and lives are being
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A felon should have rights because‚ some were convicted for petty crimes‚ they need a way to survive‚ and they can’t do it with having a record‚ it’ll be hard for them to get a job because people are afraid to put their time and effort to help people out for the better. By not getting a job could lead up to stress and depression because they won’t have anything stable to keep them and their family above water. That could quickly lead to an emotional state‚ which could have them thinking about suicide
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sense to a child. It should have something to do with what he has done wrong. Discipline helps a child feel good about himself. It gives him the chance to correct his mistakes. It puts him in charge of his actions. Punishment only tells a child that she is bad. It does not tell a child what she should do instead. So punishment may not make sense to the child. Punishment usually has nothing to do with what the child did wrong. Here are some examples of what a child can do wrong. Some types of punishment
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there was no physical evidence connecting either McCollum or Brown to the crime scene. Only thing was a witness said they had suspicion‚ and that was it. When the two brothers were taken into custody they were interrogated hard. Brown’s brother didn’t have a lawyer present‚ and the police just kept interrogating him. Finally he decided he wanted to go home‚ and told a story on killing the girl. The police told Brown that his brother admitted to the murder‚ and so after five hours of hard interrogating
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How to do the right things? Lecturer Mr. Bai Lixin is a doctor of engineering. He served as IBM (China) business consulting department operation strategy chief adviser. And he is also one of the main speakers of IBM (China) BBS. He served as Vice President and Chief Knowledge Officer of Hampshire Management Consulting (China) Co.‚ LTD‚ and Business Consulting Department Manager of Andersen (Shanghai) enterprise consultation Co.‚ LTD. He once provided a strategy and management consulting
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[pic] Higher Diploma in Early Childhood Education SOSC3001EF Introduction to Sociology Topic: Homosexuals have the right to marriage Name: Ho Yi Tung Student ID: 10985375 Class: B Tutors: Dr. CHOI Kwok To Maurice Submission deadline: Dec. 21‚ 2012 I choose “Homosexuals have the right to marriage” of my individual reaction paper. Homosexual marriage has been the common topic of discussion in recent years. The campaign can to eliminate all discrimination detrimental to homosexuals has been intensified
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