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    Insurance Law

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    TEST II 1. Explain what is “Total Failure of Consideration” and explain your understanding of cases Tyrie & Fletcher ? (6/5) Answer : Total Failure of Consideration is a condition where the insured has never had anything of value in return for the their own payment The risk may fail to run‚ resulting in a Total Failure of Consideration because of : ❖ The proposal may be withdrawn after the premium has been paid ❖ The Policy may be void for mistake or because there was

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    Archetypes In Star Wars

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    Psychoanalytic Criticism on Featured Film‚ Star Wars A Myth-Freudian Criticism Star Wars is a classic movie written and directed by George Lucas that encompasses a vast array of archetypes and phallic/yonic symbols that yield fascinating "between the lines" interpretations. An analysis of such archetypes reveals a great deal of what the main characters are thinking. The synopsis of the movie is as such: The story commences with Princess Leia escort ship being boarded by Empire in hope to

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    and Dr. Ann Rogers The history of drones started in 1917 when Peter Cooper and Elmer A. Sperry invented the first gyroscopic stabilizer‚ which ensured airplanes to fly forward as well keeping balance. The first drone named Sperry Aerial Torpedo was born in 1917 which equipped with the gyroscopic stabilizer‚ and it can fly 50 miles with 300 pounds of bombs. Nevertheless‚ this very first drone had never been put into use on real battlefield. Before 1935‚ not a single drone could go back

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    warfare was introduced‚ such ships as the corvette were popular‚ and the corvette was mostly used for shipping ammunition to Europe from North America. Also‚ submarines proved deadly as they were out of radar and carried deadly bombs such as the torpedo. <br> <br>New techniques had to be used in WW2 because of the updated technology. Techniques such as ’mouseholing’ and ‘lightning warfare’ were some of the new techniques used. Mouseholing is when the soldiers would blow a hole in the wall of a building

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    USS Indianapolis

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    Here the submarine was loaded with a state-of-the-art Kaiten torpedo‚ which was contained 3‚200 pounds of explosives‚ had an underwater speed of 30 knots‚ and most uniquely carried a man‚ its was essentially a suicide bomb. When Hashimoto left Hirao he and crew roamed the Philippine Sea for a week searching for an

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    Japanese would be in the pacific. Macarthur did not have the resource to build a force capable of holding off the Japanese. The breaking point of Macarthur’s army in the Philippines was the attack on Pearl Harbor. Under cover of night‚ a U.S. Navy torpedo boat spirited Macarthur and his family from Corregidor to the southern Philippines.

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    In 1963‚ the US supported a military coup‚ which murdered Diem and put a military government in South Vietnam. In August 1964‚ sailors on the American warship USS Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin claimed they had been attacked by North Vietnamese torpedo boats. The US Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution‚ allowing the American President Lyndon B. Johnson to take direct military action in retaliation. In February 1965‚ the Vietcong attacked American air bases and killed American soldiers

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    A Separate Peace was a novel that captures the struggle of a boy trying to find himself during World War II. THe boy‚ Gene Forrester‚ quickly befriends a quirky and jovial kid‚ however the jealously and angst Gene harbors will cause him to make impulsive decisions that will inevitably change him. The novel takes place in Devon prep school in which author‚ John Knowles‚ uses to portray various symbols. Specifically‚ John Knowles uses naturalism to convey a deeper meaning to the old tree and to the

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    were terrified that little Jack was going to die. When he was in college he went to harvard. Second‚ he was in the navy and he became a lieutenant. When john f. Kennedy was in the navy he was assigned to the south pacific as commander of a patrol torpedo boat‚ the PT-109. Lt. Kennedy had a crew of twelve men whose mission was to stop japanese ships from delivering supplies to their soldiers. On the night of August 2‚ 1943 Kennedy and his crew were patrolling the waters looking for a enemy ships to

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    Do you know the incredible creature that can smell blood in the water up to 3 miles away! It is the Great White Shark. In this paper I will be discussing 3 major topics about Great White Sharks. The topics are hunting‚ characteristics‚ and survival. These topics not only tie together why Great White Sharks are such fierce and intelligent predator‚ but more importantly why they are the ruler of the ocean. In this paragraph I will be discussing skills that Great Whites uses while hunting. What they

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