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    Briefing Paper 1: Critical Thinking Hertz Corporation V. Friend Critical Legal Thinking What is Diversity of citizenship? Diversity of Citizenship is when a law suit involves citizens of a different state or a citizen of a state and a citizen of a foreign country. This allows the plaintiff to bring the case to either state or to Federal Court. What is the public policy for recognizing diversity of citizenship jurisdiction to federal courts? The policy for recognizing diversity of citizenship to

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    Characters in the medieval society reflected as in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales were that most of who was in control and trusted was corrupt. In a seemingly order of the higher the position and the more responsibility an individual had, the more flaws that could be highlighted about them. Also in most cases, the more better someone's financial stance was, the more corrupt they were . For example all the higher classed church members, like Friar Huebert, were flashy in clothing and greedy as

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    power which corrupts the whole system by oppressing the other animals and exploiting them. Even though the pigs abuse their power, the naive animals are the reason why the pigs rose to control because the working animals were tricked by the pig’s corruption of language, persuaded by their propaganda, and were naive time and time again. One reason why the pigs are still in control is because the animals were tricked by the pigs was when they

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    Power can have the persuasive action in undoing the moral ethics of one’s character. This can be seen throughout history with the Russian Revolution and can also be proven by the actions of Napoleon in the allegory, Animal Farm, by George Orwell. As Lord Acton said “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” A leader does not begin wanting to do wrong, they start with the best intentions, but power is a tricky thing. As someone gains more and more power, they increasingly become

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    The Outsiders Essay In S.E. Hintions novel “The Outsiders” The socs were more of a disgrace and menace to the society then the greasers and they used it against them. The socs could easily do something rebellious and blame it on the greasers because the police saw them as pests to the society. They were seen as the menace of society but is that all really true? Sure they don’t look like the nicest people but there's more than what meets the eye. One of the socs Cherry is friends with a greaser

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    “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth” -JFK. The general argument of former President Kennedy’s quote, is that conformity in itself will bring no good, and will only cause a person to become submerged. Some conformists may think that conformity is something usual and acceptable. They may think that because conformity is a global notion since they were never introduced to anything other than that. The Egyptians, much like the animals of Animal Farm, by George Orwell, were both

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    first published in 2010. This novel is about three boys brought up on the dumpsite called Behala. The adventure starts when the boys discover objects owned by Jose Angelico. The boys then go out on a quest for justice for Jose Angelico in a world of corruption. Mulligan uses characterisation to show his characters values. Senator Zapanta values money, Rat/Jun Jun values survival and Jose Angelico values justice. Through the characterisation and the values it is easy to filter the good and bad people.

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    poorly. First of all, according to the political cartoon by Keppler and Schwarzmann, business owners paid their workers $6-11 a week (Doc A). This conveys that business owners were not giving enough money to pay their workers. Also, in the article of the Homestead Steel Mill by PBS.org it states,"… for the rest of the year, they worked like animals,"(Doc F). This reveals that in Carnegie's Homestead Mill, many worked

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    Corruption is typically defined as dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power. Taking a look at the film Shadows of Liberty, corruption is defined with the use of mass media in the United States. The Shadows of liberty website summarized their film as, “In highly revealing stories, renowned journalists, activists and academics give insider accounts of a broken media system. Controversial news reports are suppressed, people are censored for speaking out, and lives are shattered as the arena

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    competitive disadvantage as most of the opponents of the act argue, it is not the best way to combat corruption because of its vagueness, neglect of cultural differences, and intrusiveness to other countries’ sovereignty. Condemning the FCPA because it reduces U.S. firms’ competitiveness against other foreign firms is unjustified on both economic and moral grounds. The latter is rather self-explanatory: corruption is inherently bad; sustaining competitiveness at the cost of performing unlawful actions

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