In a December 28‚ 2016‚ Minnesota Supreme Court Ruled that an employer can deny a former employee unemployment benefits if their termination resulted from a misrepresentation on their job application. In a MPR News article‚ Bob Collins recounts the story of Nina Wilson‚ a woman who worked at a mortgage services company before she was fired for lying about her educational level. After five months of employment‚ the company issued a background check of Wilson and found no evidence that she had ever
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Question: Nur Aini‚ a highly stressed-rich widow‚ was enticed into joint a group as a Way of Life (PAWOL) by Alias‚the leader of the group. Alias promised Nur Aini that by transferring‚ all her wealth to him‚ he would ensure that she is cleansed of all evil and would not be burden with any worldly problems. Believing his words‚ Nur Aini transferred all her wealth to Alias and stayed together other followers. Two years after joining the group‚ Nur Aini realized that she had been tricked into parting
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everyone is dying‚has AIDS or who is thirsty and hungry lends credence to this. Another reason for the negative perception is the so-called expect practitioners‚ and scholars who perpetuate these stereotypes to no end‚continualy feeding the misrepresentation engine.These people have place Africa at the bottom of every pole on the internatIonal scale.many of such scholars who seems to be lords of poverty dedicate their lives to joint dsaviour moment.They teach and explain the continent as a place
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Raylene Guidry Matriarchal Misrepresentation Judy Brady’s essay‚ “I Want a Wife” was first published in Ms. Magazine in 1971 in support of the feminist movement; initially the essay was written in the hopes that it would create public awareness of the unfair expectations created by the wife stereotype. During the 1970’s American popular culture‚ women seemed to have no identity besides that of being a family caretaker
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Media Misrepresentation of Females “Feminism isn’t simply about being a woman in a position of power. It’s battling systemic inequities; it’s a social justice movement that believes sexism‚ racism and classism exist and interconnect‚ and that they should be consistently challenged”- Jessica Valenti The media industry has always lagged in the department of giving women proper representation. Misrepresentation in certain media places stereotypes and gender roles on women by undermining their accomplishments
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Introduction to Business Law- Assignment 1B Advise TLC Ltd. as to any possible action they may have for misrepresentation against answer Ltd. _____________________________________________________________________ Treitel in The Law of Contract (2003) defines a contract as: “An agreement giving rise to obligations which are enforced or recognised by law. The factor which distinguishes contractual from other legal obligations is that they are based on the agreement of the contracting
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The Misrepresentation of Women in the Media Our society objectifies women and tends to value them only for their looks and the stereotypical things associated with women such as housework and motherhood. Women are driven by this pressure to do destructive things in an effort to live up to society’s expectations. The misrepresentation of women has changed massively over the years; from the characters portrayed in sitcoms of the 1950s-1970s to the representation of the modern day women today. According
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Misrepresentation Misrepresentation is a concept in contract law referring to a false statement of fact made by one party to another party‚ which has the effect of inducing that party into the contract. For example‚ under certain circumstances‚ false statements or promises made by a seller of goods regarding the quality or nature of the product that the seller has may constitute misrepresentation. A finding of misrepresentation allows for a remedy of rescission and sometimes damages depending on
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The Misrepresentation of Nerds in the Media NERDS! Everyone remembers how nerds are represented in movies and TV. The person with the giant glasses‚ pimples‚ no friends and can quote every episode of Star Trek in Klingon. The 1984 movie Revenge of the Nerds shows a group of people that fits these stereotypes. In this essay‚ I will show how the media has shown the several different types of stereotypes‚ but these are usually wrong. I will show that even if you are smart‚ or in a Science‚ Technology
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United States‚ law enforcement agencies argue that their work is greatly affected by the misrepresentation made by the electronic‚ print‚ and social media (Colbran‚ 2014). They fear that in the contemporary world‚ social media platforms such as YouTube‚ Facebook‚ and Twitter are negatively affecting their work and playing a major role in the rising cases of violence across the country. The misrepresentation of law enforcement by media has been termed as the biggest challenge that authorities have
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