Stand Your Ground: Should States allow it? In our violent world today‚ the ability to protect ourselves is an important factor in our lives. Police cannot be everywhere at once and that is the reason almost all state legislatures have incorporated some kind of self-defense statute for their state. The ability to use deadly force for self-defense has saved many innocent lives over the past couple of years‚ but it has also taken several. This is the reason why there has been such a great controversy
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Financial Risk Management‚ FIN3FRM Semester 2‚ 2012 Assignment 1 Q.1 An investor enters into a short forward contract to sell 100‚000 British pounds for U.S. dollars at an exchange rate of 1.9000 U.S. dollars per pound. How much does the investor gain or lose if the exchange rate at the end of the contract is (a) 1.8900 and (b) 1.9200? (2 points) Solutions: a) The investor as part of obligation for selling pounds‚ because of his obligation to sell
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Why do they call these contracts derivatives? Where is the optionality in these contracts? Weather derivatives structures commonly used are: i) cap - a call option; ii) Floor - a put option; iii) Collar - a put and a call option‚ usually with little or no premium; iv) Swap - a derivative with a profit and loss profile of a futures contract v) Digital option - an option that pays either a predetermined amount if acertain temperature or degree day level is reached‚ or nothing at all in other
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It is trite law that an insurer under a contract of indemnity insurance‚ who has satisfied the claim of the insured‚ is entitled to be placed in the insured’s position in respect of all rights and remedies against other parties which were vested in the insured in relation to the subject-matter of the insurance1. Where the insured has proceeded against the third party after the insurer had paid out the claim and without the insurer’s authority as happened in Visser v Incorporated General Insurances
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Breach of Contract: 1. How the contract was allegedly breached‚ 2. What defenses may be available to the defendant‚ and 3. What remedy (or remedies) may be available to the Plaintiff. Charlize Theron has settled the $20 million breach of contract lawsuit against her‚ according to papers filed in Manhattan Federal Court Monday. The suit was filed last year‚ when Swiss watchmaker Raymond Weil claimed that Theron had worn a Christian Dior watch during a press event in 2006‚ despite being paid
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Maroubra and Kogarah are of two Sydney suburbs in Australia. Maroubra is a beach suburb while Kogarah is a residential one. There are similarities and differences between these two suburbs. This report will compare and contract information on aspects and features of people‚ housing and services. There are some similarities and differences in people. As for population‚ Maroubra has 26500 people whereas Kogarah has only 10900 people. The two suburbs have the largest age group from 20
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Learning Contract 2 Purpose of the Learning Contract 3 Uses of Learning Contracts 3 Advantages and Disadvantages of Learning Contracts 4 Advantages 4 Disadvantages 5 Designing Learning Contracts 5 Conclusions and Recommendations 6 Conclusion 6 Recommendations….. …………………………………………………...6 References 8 Abstract Learning contracts are being used in post-secondary education. Adults approach learning as problem solving and in theory by implementing learning contracts‚ the student
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accepts the offer and they sign a contract to that effect. After the contract is signed‚ Teri learns of a Boston rule that all firefighters must live within the Boston city limits. Teri decides not to move and contacts Jack to let him know she won’t be moving after all. Jack sues Teri in municipal court‚ asking for specific performance in accordance with the original deal. Teri argues that‚ although specific performance is usually appropriate in land sales contract cases‚ the judge has the discretion
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Campbell And Bailyn’s Boston Office Case Study The ‘sub-prime’ crisis triggered by the meltdown of the US mortgage backed-securities market in 2007 was a precursor to the global financial crisis. It would drastically change the competitive landscape for all firms in the financial services sector‚ including Campbell and Bailyn (C&B)‚ one of the world’s five largest investment banks. In response to a loss of clientele to competitor firms‚ Ken Winston (C&B’s Boston Sales Office Director) assembled
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Contract Creation and Management Simulation LAW/531 Span Systems entered into a six billion dollar bilateral contract with Citizen-Schwarz AG (C-S) to develop and implement their new banking software. (University of Phoenix‚ 2002) This paper will discuss an analysis of the issues presented in the Contract Creation and Management Stimulus. C-S personnel started to protect C-S personnel because of the quality of their work. It is possible
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