Abstract
This paper looks at two issues arising from the Exxon Valdez disaster in 1989, the extent of Exxon's liability and the effect on hydrographic survey technology. It also explains why Exxon was responsible for the environmental disaster.

From the Paper
"When the foot Exxon Valdez ran aground at Blight Reef during the first minutes of March,its cargo tanks ruptured, as a consequence, nearly million gallons of crude oil spilled into Prince William Sound contaminating more than miles of seashore and defiling a ..."

Tags:Exxon Valdez, liability, hydrographic survey, environmental disasters

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This paper examines suicide arising from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, specifically as it occurs in the military. The paper considers that psychological factors, spurred by PTSD, lead soldiers in the military to take their lives. As part of this paper, some brief mention is made of the differences and similarities between non-combat and combat soldiers and between soldiers in Afghanistan/Iraq and a place like Vietnam.

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"This paper examines suicide arising from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Specifically, the paper looks at what psychological factors, spurred by PTSD, lead soldiers in the military to take their lives. As part of this paper, some brief mention will be made of the differences and similarities between non-combat and combat soldiers and between soldiers in Afghanistan/Iraq and a place like Vietnam. Tragically, when all is said and done, soldiers today do not appear to be much better treated than they were when the Vietnam War ended nearly two generations ago; similarly..."

Tags:post, traumatic, stress, disorder

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This paper explores the key issues arising from attempts to rebuild Iraq's infrastructure and the attacks made on projects by insurgent militia groups as of 2004. The paper examines the controversies and problems.

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"The military conflict in Iraq is the subject of intense debate on a worldwide scale. The problems are many and varied with the ones resulting in physical military engagement and civilian deaths being the primary focus of the news media. One topic which has repeatedly appeared in academic discourse is the challenge of re-establishing the infrastructure of the nation which is crucial to the survival and independence of its citizens."

Tags:War, in, Iraq, Rebuilding, program, initiated, by, Coalition, forces, Trouble, with, insurgent, attacks, on, project, sites

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This paper examines how the justification for Nazi programs involving involuntary euthanasia, forced sterilisation, eugenics and human experimentation were strongly influenced by views about human dignity. It looks at how the historical development of these views should be examined today because discussions of human worth and value are integral to medical ethics and bioethics. It discusses how social Darwinism was foremost amongst the philosophies impacting views of human dignity in the decades leading up to Nazi power in Germany and how Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory was quickly applied to human beings and social structure.
Outline
Abstract
Background
Major Influences
Malthusianism
Herbert Spencer
Natural Selection
Hereditary
Eugenics
The Path to Nazi Medicine
Five Beliefs and their Impact on Bioethics
The Nature of Ethics
Human Distinctiveness
Human Gradation
Life Not Worth Living
Survival Of The Fittest
Inherent Human Dignity
Conclusion
References

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"Social Darwinism was foremost amongst the philosophies impacting views of human dignity in the decades leading up to Nazi power in Germany. Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory was quickly applied to human beings and social structure. The term 'survival of the fittest' was coined and seen to be applicable to humans. Belief in the inherent dignity of all humans was rejected by social Darwinists. Influential authors of the day proclaimed that an individual's worth and value were to be determined functionally and materialistically. The popularity of such views ideologically prepared German doctors and nurses to accept Nazi social policies promoting survival of only the fittest humans. A historical survey reveals five general presuppositions that strongly impacted medical ethics in the Nazi era. These same five beliefs are being promoted in different ways in contemporary bioethical discourse. "

Tags:abortion, darwin, darwinism, ernst, ethics, euthanasia, germany, haeckel, holocaust, malthusianism, medicine, social

Abstract
In this paper the author looks at how the " No Child Left Behind Act" should more adequately address the needs of individual students. He highlights how policies enacted in the spirit of generalized legislation should be removed to allow local, state, and community governments to decide the provisions necessary for their children and schools. The paper concludes with how public awareness must be raised to accomplish these goals.

From the Paper
"Teachers forced to teach under the new system also provide the same concerns, saying that they simply do not have the resources to provide some of the services demanded by the act and instead have to lessen their individual attention to start incorporating the standardized lessons. As a response, many of the critics argue that the NCLB bill should never have been passed to affect public education and that it is a blight on an already faltering system. Others, however, take a less dramatic stance, instead offering solutions to help the system provide more individual attention rather than generalizations. "

Tags:child, student, opinion, education, public, school

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This paper illustrates how the author of "Solibo Magnificent" introduces and discusses the racial tensions and cultural oppression present in the French Caribbean through the creative use of language. The paper demonstrates how the author manages to criticize the status quo and to propose an alternate political outlook in the Caribbean, while telling a beautiful and poignant tale of a Creole-speaking storyteller.

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"Knowledge of the greater literary movement of Chamoiseau and his colleagues is necessary for an understanding of the aim of his work. The novel finds its foundation in the Creolite movement of the 1980s. Creolite was officially founded in the 1989 work Eloge de la Creolite (In Praise of Creoleness) by Chamoiseau and two other Martinicans, Raphael Confiant and Jean Bernabe as a reaction to the popular Negritude movement of the 1930-60s. Negritude argues for a cultural transfer of the Caribbean Islands from their French colonial heritage to their African roots. Yet the authors of Eloge see a flaw in this line of reasoning: it omits the Chinese, Indian, Syrian, and Lebanese ancestry of many of the inhabitants of the islands. Therefore, they attack both Negritude and the French colonial culture and instead embrace the very mixing of ethnicities that the term Creole presupposes."

Tags:africa, caribbean, colonialism, french, oppression, race

Abstract
Many underdeveloped countries have problems with boundaries that cause problems with the leaders, economy and people. Identity and attachments of regions are important in every country and countries such as Maghribi with unclear boundaries suffer from identity problems.

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" PRIVACY ISSUES IN JOURNALISM IN THE 1990S
ABSTRACT
For most of the 20th century, certainly through the 1960s, the civil tort of invasion of privacy in various forms expanded the liability of the media under state law. Thereafter, under various constitutional decisions of the Supreme Court expanding the scope of the First Amendment guarantees of a free press, the media enjoyed considerable freedom to investigate and report and/or broadcast events as they saw fit, subject to the continued vitality of certain limitations relating to the protection of personal privacy under state tort law which continued to operate within the penumbra of federal First Amendment jurisprudence.

During the 1990s, some federal and state courts tightened restrictions against particularly egregious invasions of privacy.."

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Obesity is a major problem in America. Children are becoming obese and this will lead to obesity as an adult. Obesity can lead to serious disease in children such as diabetes. It is time that America take action and stop obesity in children.

Tags:obesity, in, children

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This paper explains that the Uniform Commercial Code sets forth liability under the implied warranty of merchantability in states that have adopted only the Uniform Commercial Code instead of imposing strict liability negligence statutes for defective products. The author points out that, in states with strict liability statutes for defective products, tort liability is predicated on three specific types of defects: manufacturing defects; design defects; and failure to warn. The paper relates that, conversely, in states relying on the U.C.C., liability is predicated on contract law for breach of warranty.

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"Under contract theory, this express warranty would seem to trigger
liability for breach of warranty, in addition to strict liability under tort theory for failure to warn, one of the traditional avenues to establishing strict liability under California's definition of a defective product. Ordinarily, liability is a function of the absence of an adequate warning of potential danger. Mongo failed to provide any such warning and actually provided an express warranty as to the absence of any dangers "inherent" in cherry pies. Recent California case law would have required warnings even where the danger encountered by the consumer is natural to the product in question, such as a cherry pit in a cherry pie."

Tags:contract, mango, code, mexicali, california