establishment of the National Native Title Tribunal. Now Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders had the right to make native title claims but this was a very expensive‚ slow and time-consuming process making it ineffective for Indigenous people to regain ownership of their traditional land. The Native Title Amendment Act 1998 (Cth) also restricted the rights of Indigenous Australians. Since 1993‚ there have been 180 registered determinations of native title covering approximately 15 per cent of Australia’s
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they have the moral rights nonhuman animals? What kind of legal status should we give them? This debate has become hugely confusing. Some activist animal rights maintain that we must allow other animals have the same rights as humans. Of course‚ this is absurd. There are many human rights are simply not applicable to non-human beings. I would like to propose something a little different. A sensible and coherent on animal rights theory should focus on only a right for all animals: the right not to
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“The simplest toy‚ one which even the youngest child can operate‚ is called a grandparent.” I see eye to eye with Sam Levenson. Grandparents do really like simple toys. If their grandchildren care about them they will eventually get along well. If I think about my grandparents‚ I don’t think as distinct from Sam Levenson‚ so the quote is also true for my grandparents. Although I see them like simple toys‚ my grandparents are pretty different from each other‚ so the way I play with those “simple toys”
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Should a Woman Have The Right To Choose? I was raised to believe Abortion was wrong. There were always other options. My best friend‚ Kimberly‚ had a sister who used abortion as a form of birth control; we were aware of three before graduation. If she had only known her choices‚ she might have saved innocent lives. In 1994 a friend of mine found herself in an unwanted pregnancy. She had only one year of college left; she knew she couldn’t disappoint her parents by going to them with the dilemma
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“The right of a competent‚ terminally-ill person to avoid excruciating pain and embraced a timely and dignified death bears the sanction of history and is implicit in the concept of ordered Liberty.”(ACLU amicus brief v. Quill). The law of Physician-assisted suicide is legal in 5 US states. According to CNN‚ “Individuals must have a terminal illness as well as a prognosis of 6 months or less to live.” Patients should have the right to die because patients should have control of their lives and should
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Family Name First Name ………………................ …………………………. Student Number ……………………….. List Number Table Number ………………………… …………………………. COM 110 Introduction to Business Information systems Prof. Mohamed Watfa AUTUMN SESSION 2010 SAMPLE MIDTERM EXAMINATION Time Allowed: 1.5 Hours Total Number of Questions: 25 Total Number of Pages (incl. this page): 9 DIRECTIONS TO CANDIDATES 1. 2. Total marks: 100 Answer ALL questions from parts 1 and 2. Part 1 contains 20 questions for a total
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federal elections. These violations effectively exclude legitimate voters whose votes are diluted‚ and they must be shortened. Voting is a notorious representation in American community life. Besides standing for public office‚ American citizens don’t have any more civic obligations than those that are derived from their ability and responsibility to help shape the community policy. The privilege to vote is an essential vehicle for exercising civic obligations. That is the reason the augmentation of the
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dkCasey Waddell Two Officers If it weren’t for Officer Joe Waddell and Officer Mary Waddell‚ I wouldn’t have the career goal I have set in mind today. In fact‚ I would have to say they influenced my interest in the criminal justice system altogether. Once I became interested in the criminal justice system‚ I began looking at all the different career options in the field. My grandparents from my father’s side are Joe and Mary Waddell‚ and they were Florida State Troopers. My grandfather passed
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criminal justice system. Yet the marking criteria requires candidates to “Comprehensively and accurately evaluate how sentencing and punishment attempts to balance the rights of victims‚ offenders and society”. Poor question. This question starts after an offender has been found guilty and is to be sentenced. This is the key part of the Legal Studies syllabus that pertains to the question: 4. Sentencing and punishment • statutory and judicial guidelines • the purposes of punishment: deterrence (specific
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was not being pretty‚ defendant’s failure to promote the plaintiff and decision to terminate her employment. The court’s finding that there is not sufficient evidence to support the claim. “Defendant’s Motion for Summary Judgment is granted.” The legal principles The plaintiff filed a charge against the defendant under Title VII and U.S. Code Section 1981. Title VII protects individuals against employment discrimination on the basis of race and color as well as national origin‚ sex‚ or religion
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