Gordian Knot

Delivery of Punishment Jordan T. Sharp Charles Sturt University Word Count: Australia’s colonial beginnings can be described as a penal settlement where our population grew due to the result of the punishment of offenders through transportation from England and Ireland. Australia early penal settlements are described as brutal places for most convicts, for many. Transportation was less onerous than the life of a pauper in the British Isles. In the early nineteenth century there

The Stream of Consciousness was introduced by William James over 100 years ago. It means that our consciousness moves ahead with continuity. James suggested that this theme can serve as a major focus for psychology. (James, 1890). Isn’t it strange, though, that psychology almost never speaks of this dimension? We might talk about emotions, perceptions, actions or desires, but almost never about “the inner thought flow.” James foresaw the difficulty of studying these phenomena. He stated that to

Trouble facing affording housing may be broadly recognised as the practice as a relatable point housing issue in the UK. Regardless of how one picks on measure those problems, it will be obviously broad and developing more worse around the most lower income tenants. However, how one considers and measures housing affordability matters of policy making and in addition, as well as public perceptions of the range and the nature of the issue. This essay will discuss the concept of affordability as

Md. 114, 121-27 (1995); Missouri v. Hunter, 459 U.S. 359, 368 (1983) (holding that the intent of “[l]egislatures, not courts, prescribe the scope of punishments”); see also Anne Bowen Poulin, Double Jeopardy and Multiple Punishment: Cutting the Gordian Knot, 77 U. Colo. L.Rev. 595, 596-97 (2006) (arguing that it is improper to rely of principle of double jeopardy in the multiple punishment context because the analysis renders the Constitution subservient to legislative

If parties enter into a contract that is reflective or derives from a mistake, under common law the contract may be void or voidable. The basis of this decision depends on the type of mistake. Shogun Finance Ltd v Hudson presented a unilateral mistake, in which only one party is mistaken, and in this case, a mistake as to the identity. The difficulty lies when judges must decide whether a contract is void or voidable, which will only protect one of the two arguably innocent parties, the original

was quick to conquer Sardis, a Persian city in Asia Minor, and the Ionian city-states, which he freed from Persian control and installs a democratic government. Next, Alexander traveled to Gordium, where he untied, cut with his sword rather, the Gordian knot, making him ruler of Asia. This action was just one symbol of Alexander’s greatness. Alexander continued his conquering of Persia by taking over the Phoenician ports, making the Persian navy no longer powerful. Gaining control of Tyre was Alexander’s

She unties the Gordian knot of complex, extra-marital relationships by her pen, through the concept of human relationships. One can easily understand Indian life, its cultural religious, mythical and social values after comprehending the concept of relationships, which is

This paper has been brought forward against American scholar Katrina Wyman that large emitters should take responsibility for providing immigration rights to all climate change displaced person. Wyman depicts climate change displaced persons identical to other vulnerable people that insist her to say that there may be a moral obligation to assist financially and technologically to all vulnerable people to relocate them in their home countries, but there is no obligation on emitter countries to treat

Promised a helping hand, security, and affordable living, residents of Chicago’s public housing soon found themselves in dilapidated, drug-infested, crime-filled, isolated centers of despair. During a time in which most American citizens could easily turn their eyes from the struggles of the poor, Sudhir Venkatesh’s Gang Leader for a Day took readers into the depths of the world in which the poor resided. Through Venkatesh’s work, readers are inadvertently introduced to broader sociological concepts

Introduction “You are a racist!” James Cone shouted furiously to his teacher when studied theology at Garret Seminary. “You talked for weeks about the bad things that Catholics in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were against Protestants in Europe, but has not said anything about the violence used by Protestants whites against blacks in the south of the country, today in 1961”. His cry of indignation against a white origin Professor was the explosion of feelings hidden for a long time.