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Western Thought and Universal Law

society with a particularly interesting view. He notes that the driving force of contemporary romanticism in the social sciences i...

Slavery in America

Although Reconstruction began during the war, the time period traditionally associated with it is 1862-1877. The political, socia...

Analysis and Cross Cultural History of Prostitution

In five pages this paper examines prostitution in terms of its historical origins and from a cross cultural perspective with socia...

Ancient Rome and Sales Contracts

Whatever their form, however, they fall into one very specific category of law. Drake (1904) provides clarification of this categ...

Criminal Justice I

doctrine established in Plessy v Ferguson in 1896 that kept the black and white races legally separate for 70 years. The aparthei...

Canadian Social Welfare and Abused Women

In seven pages this paper examines Britain's Poor Laws in this consideration of Canada's battered women's movement, its origins an...

Enlightened Age Elements of Progress, Nature, and Reason

and comparison of the volumes of literature that were produced during this era. Three of the great philosophers of this era, Thom...

Theory and Supply Side Economics

In five pages supply side economics is examined in a consideration of its Say's Law origins and the opposition represented by Keyn...

English Law

These were; Dane Law, adopted after the invasion and settlement by Scandinavian warriors, located in the North and North East of E...

English Law and Its Sources

In five pages this paper examines the importance of case law, legislative law, and common law in a consideration of English law...

Overview of Customary Law

to a time when the only law was Trial by Combat . This was how the Anglo-Saxons saw the role of justice in solving their problems ...

Three Questions of British Commercial Law

A three part English law paper addressing three specific questions relating to insolvency law, agency, and contract law. The auth...

Judiciary and the Role of Statutory Interpretation

of Britain. He suggested that these powers were separated in the following way Legislative - law creation. Executive - executing t...

Due-on-Sale in Michigan

"Except for a residential window period loan, a lender may enforce a due-on-sale clause in a real property loan in accordance with...

An Overview of an Unjust Law California's Three Strikes Law

committed the act, if their felony falls into certain categories, if they were deemed mature enough to understand their sentence a...

English Law and the Creation of Certainty in the Trading Relationship

to be excluded by terms in contracts, such as the potential to expressly exclude the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999,...

Positivist Law and Natural Law

two very separate subjects. However, there are a number of laws where there are no apparent sanctions non-compliance, therefore s...

Transracial Adoption

families differ there is the potential for a number of problems. Transracial adoptions might be considered necessitated by ...

Non-Western & Western Music

"Cubop," an "appellation (that) aptly symbolizes the new equipollent level of cross-cultural musical integration that differentiat...

Western Civilization and Hebrew Cultural and Religious Contributions

as deeply related to their existence. AS Spielvogel indicates, "According to the Jewish conception, there is but one God....God...

Christmas as a Midwinter Festival and Santa Claus' Origins

In ten pages this paper examines the midwinter festival origins of Christmas and also traces Santa Claus' origins and growing comm...

Evolution Theory of Charles Darwin

admittedly the fossil record was far from complete, nor was our understanding of it incontestable, we began to consider a process ...

HIV/AIDS and the Myths of its Origin

5 pages and 8 sources. This paper provides an overview of existing arguments about the nature and origins of HIV/AIDS, including ...

Motivation and its Origins

importance in contemporary culture and society, due to the rampant spread of obesity in the Western world, the prevalence of proce...

Early America and the Oppression of Women

established that women were not always inherently oppressed around the world, a fair question arises: what is it about Western civ...

AUSFTA Definition omf Origin

The Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) went into effect in 2005. One of the requirements for qualification is t...

The Western Influence on the Countries of Africa Africa

6 pages and no sources. This paper considers the nature of western influences on the countries of Africa. Specifically, this pap...

Educational Attainment and Social Origin

or the "subdominant cultures" who eventually settled there. The situation has become progressively more complex in modern society...

The Horrors of WWI

often referred to as a trench war. And, as one author notes, "There had never been anything like it before and there wont ever be ...

The Passover

slaves rather than honored guests. Four hundred years later, God sent Moses to the current Pharaoh with the demand to allow the H...