Assignment 1: Employment-At-Will Doctrine Ian Keller Strayer University Law‚ Ethics‚ and Corporate Governance LEG 500 Professor Joyce Weddle April 21st‚ 2013 Introduction Jennifer is a recent college graduate who has been hired by an accounting firm. In the short time she has been employed with the firm she has discovered a number of behaviors she feels could be inappropriate regarding the employment-at-will doctrine as well as some liabilities with the employer. She has brought this up only
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The Doctrine of respondeat superior is Latin for “let the master answer”. It is a rule of law stating that an employer of a negligent employee is responsible for the employee’s actions‚ if the incident occurs within the scope of the employment or agency. It is a type of liability‚ which allows a third party to be held liable for actions done by an employee at the time of his or her employment. The employer can be held liable and does not have absolute immunity in lawsuits filed against them. Usually
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Going to a new country can seem strange. Who knows what kind of things you’re going to experience good or bad. Your experience could differ depending on your mind set. The essay “Coming to America‚” by Matthew Gooi was funny and interesting for me. This reminded me of when I went to a new country. Mexico‚ It wasn’t nothing like the states‚ and the culture is very different. My two weeks in Mexico was not pleasant and I don’t plan on going back. Everyone in my family always told me that Mexico
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Coming to America Three years ago‚ I came into a world full of dreams‚ but these dreams can take you down if you don’t pay good attention. I am the first born in my family. Before I came here‚ I was so afraid to come to a new country‚ which I didn’t know any thing about. I was somehow confused‚ and the biggest fear that I had was about adapting to a new culture. After some days of being at home‚ I was taken to school where I met so many student‚ teachers‚ and other nonteaching staff. Although I didn’t
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1). Several factors played into the coming of the 1920’s flapper‚ one of the largest factors being World War I (The Society Pages para. 1). Many men that went to war as a United States soldier unfortunately did not return; consequently‚ this left many women without a husband (The Society Pages
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knocks me out is a book that‚ when you’re all done reading it‚ you wish the the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.” -pg. 18 J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye is coming to age story with an unhappy ending that captured the adoration of people across the decades from 1951‚ when it was first published‚ to the present. While Holden himself is an unlikable protagonist‚ he is a relatable one. He doesn’t want to grow up
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As a kid or a teenager you tend to play sports such as basketball but as you start to come of age you tend to slowly let those types of things go. A basketball in this story represents growing up and coming of age. One day Bobby’s friends call him and ask him if want’s to go to the court and play some basketball after Bobby just put feather down for a nap. Bobby goes ahead and says sure not thinking about Feather so he hurries and grabs his basketball and goes out the door. He starts walking towards
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Americans should ask ourselves‚ “How can we keep Lincoln’s promise to care for our veterans?” Using the authority of the government and the American people we can keep Lincoln’s oath of caring for our veterans and their families. After combat‚ veterans coming home face many challenges‚ including health care‚ finical problems‚ and education. To begin with‚ millions of regular people are being treated first‚ while the veteran waits months to be treated. In a passage‚ it gives a statistic that concludes
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Silva begins discussing what she calls “insecure intimacies” in chapter 3 of Coming Up Short‚ by introducing singles who think that maintaining a potential relationship is too risky. One example would be Kevin who is a white male working as a customer service representative at a grocery store. He believes that searching for a partner is not a priority since his job is so time consuming and he feels as though maintaining a relationship to which he would ideally invest a lot of his time‚ would be too
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In the story "John Adams and the Coming of the Revolution”‚ author David McCullough discusses how John Adams was asked to defend the British soldiers in court of the soldier’s accusation of man slaughter‚ following the Boston Massacre. Being such a problematic case that could ruin his reputation‚ John Adams accepted to defend the soldiers because of his experience in difficult cases‚ and his strong principles and beliefs. John Adam’s reputation did not even tarnish because of how skillfully he handled
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