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    enforceable in a law court.Such agreements donot rise to contractual obligations and are not contracts. Essential Elements of Valid Contracts All agreements are contracts if they are made by free consent of parties‚Competent to contract‚ for a lawful consideration and with a lawful object and are not here by expresslydeclared to be void.Thus the essential elements of a valid contract can be summed up as follows: 1.Agreement 2.Intensions to create legal relationships 3.Free and genuine consents

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    In the first part of the assignment we were asked to identify components of arguments‚ premise and conclusion‚ for the passages. Where applicable we are to highlight key words or phrases that identify a claim as a premise or a conclusion. A premise is the support for the conclusion. (Missimer‚ 2005) The first example has several premises as follows if Sue’s baby is a boy it will be named Mark and if it is a girl it will be named Margaret. Another premise is that Sue will have a boy or girl. “So”

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    cNATIONAL ECONOMICS UNIVERSITY‚ HANOI BTEC HND IN BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET | | |NAME OF STUDENT |Pham Thi Thuy Trang | |REGISTRATION NO. |1013103214 | |UNIT TITLE |Common Law

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    What is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis‚ and how valid is it? Introduction The debate on whether ‘language is the dress of thought’ originates in ancient Greece when Aristotle discussed the possibility that the thinking pattern influences to a certain degree the evolution of language (He‚ 2011: 1). The concept that language is ‘merely a reflection of thought and the objective world’ (He‚ 2011: 1) was re-examined several times throughout history; the conclusions drawn give us a new interpretation of

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    members of the audience. With the key terms explained by the first speaker‚ let us examine our motion once again. Mass media is the major contributor to teenage social problems today. In the light of our definitions‚ is this a valid proposition? Let us consider some arguments in favor of this proposition. I‚ as the opposition’s deputy minister‚ disagree with the motion because I believe that teenagers can make use of the mass media as a platform to voice out their opinions on current issues. With

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    Was the Milgram Experiment Ethical or Valid? In 1961‚ Stanley Milgram‚ a psychologist at Yale University‚ conducted an experiment on a group’s obedience to authority. This experiment has encountered intense scrutiny ever since its findings were first published in 1963; many people question the ethics and validity of the experiment. Multitudes of researchers have taken it upon themselves to determine the answers to the questions (McLeod). Based on new guidelines for ethics‚ Stanley Milgram’s experiment

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    chapters four and five to “they say” Three ways to respond to “yes/no/okay‚ but” and Distinguishing what you say from what they say. “And Yet” Gerald Graff‚ Cathy Birkenstien and Russel Durst say that “you need to be an expert in a field to have an argument at all” (p‚55). Are they referring to an actual job like a lawyer? where they are good on arguing about a certain topic. You must have some sort of topic to go off of to argue your case‚ and to make it believable for others. As for agreeing or disagreeing

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    Running head: TWO FORMS OF DEDUCTIVE REASONING – ABSTRACT AND THEMATIC – AND THE RELATIONSHIP WITH WORKING MEMORY 1 Abstract The relationship between two forms of deductive reasoning - abstract and thematic - and working memory capacity were examined. Two forms (abstract and thematic) of the Wason selection task and the Ospan test for general working memory capacity were used. Seventy eight‚ third-year‚ distance psychology students were tested in a counterbalanced experimental design.

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    Topic 2 - Week 3 1. There are two traditional approaches to theory construction that provide an insight on how theories are constructed. These are the inductive approach and deductive approach. a) Outline the steps involved in the above two approaches b) State the difference between the two approaches. 2. “The modern rational organisation of capitalistic enterprise would not have been possible without two other important factors in its development: the separation of business

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    Obama. You have justified your points‚ providing supportive reasoning behind your thoughts. You were able to link theory with practical application and real-world settings. However‚ remember that in an inductive argument‚ you cannot guarantee the conclusion. A deductive argument follows the if “this” than “that” format‚ so it must be true. Please see my attached comments regarding 1 premise/conclusion issue‚ 1 strict/loose‚ and 3 in part IIa. I would suggest the following to improve the professional

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