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Legal neutrality and customary international law in international court decisions

This discussion proceeds from the R.Y. Jennings (1996) prompt which asserts that according to the terms of Article 38 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice, international judges are expected to use the resources available to them in existing international law when rendering…

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Anne Frank's life in hiding and heroic spirit during the Holocaust

Had she lived, Anne Frank would have celebrated her eighty-first birthday in the summer of 2010. One can speculate endlessly on the woman she might have become. Perhaps, like Elie Wiesel, she would have made it her mission to educate the world about the Holocaust.

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Glenn's multivalent logic and legal traditions coexistence

In this paper, we present an analysis of the multivalent nature of legal traditions with a view of exposing the underlining principles of the concept. The relevance and significance of the multivalence to the legal tradition systems is also analyzed.

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Jewish Home Lifecare's organizational structure and management

With over 160 years experience, Jewish Home Lifecare is a leading provider of nursing and support services for the elderly Jewish community.

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Vision statement failures at Mentor Graphics over one decade

Mentor Graphics a computer design and software firm spent an entire decade grappling with developing a concrete and clearly defined vision for the organization. Over the ten-year period no less than six changes to the company's vision were introduced and subsequently discarded.

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Francis Bacon's Seated Figure: isolation and routine in domestic spaces

A self-taught painter, Francis Bacon (1909 -- 1992) found it difficult to express himself verbally when it came to his art form -- what inspired him, how he created what he created, etc.

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Analyzing participant interest through frequency distributions and descriptive statistics

Thus the category of participants who found my work to be highly interesting was coded 1, those who found it somewhat interesting were coded 2; those who found it tedious / boring, I coded 3; whilst those who found it highly disinteresting, I coded 4.

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Comedy in Chekov's "The Seagull" and "The Cherry Orchard"

When one thinks of the Russian theatre around the turn of the nineteenth into the twentieth century, a barrel of laughs is probably not the first cliched metaphor to spring to mind.

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Common law principles of tort liability and negligence

(3) What is the correct burden of proving liability of negligence?

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Hong Kong International Airport's competition and regional integration strategy

In it, the author will provide an analysis of the main issues of airport management currently faced by HKIA as well as an analysis of the economic, social and environmental impacts of HKIA on the city of Hong Kong, its region and China as well.

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