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    mean honour. Timé is essential to heroes; a life without receiving esteem from their peers is perceived as meaningless and undesirable. A hero’s timé is determined primarily by his courage and physical abilities and to a lesser degree by his social status and possessions. A key example of heroism being portrayed through timé is in book 1‚ when Agamemnon has to give back Chryseis to her father. As he has lost his prize of war‚ he therefore demands another to compensate for the loss of honour this

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    other’s truth and validity. His argument is basically dependent on certainty of God’s existence‚ despite an equal amount of uncertainty regarding that existence. Descartes states that no one is definite about the existence of God‚ nor can they know anything clearly and distinctly until they are certain about the existence of God. Assuming that these premises are accurate‚ we as humans know nothing because we cannot say with certainty that God exists. At first glance‚ it seems that Descartes has blatantly

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    attitude to war changed since WWI? Describe the language in paragraph 6. What is being empahsised? What is the purpose of the single sentence paragraphs? What lessons does Keating suggest we have learnt from war? Who does the ‘Unknown soldier’ honour? ‘A reminder of what we have lost in war and what we have gained’. How does this antithesis unify Australians? What is the purpose of the colloquial language throughout the speech? The speech expands from a soldier in WWI to encompass all Australians

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    Has Stephen J’s ‘international concern’ test from Koowarta v Bjelke – Petersen[1] been effectively rejected following the decision of XYZ v Commonwealth[2]? What practical role‚ if any‚ could the test play in future cases? By Paul McKay (87/100 – High Distinction) Abstract During the 1980’s some High Court judges suggested that the external affairs power[3] includes a power to legislate on matters of ‘international concern’. This paper will trace the development of the ‘international

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    Running head: A DECLARATION: FREEDOM AND THE RIGHTS OF MAN 1 A Declaration: Freedom and the Rights of Man A DECLARATION: FREEDOM AND THE RIGHTS OF MAN 2 Abstract This project concerns the insult on the American society by their government and the attack the freedoms and rights granted them in the Constitution. The paper touches in the top concerns of citizens by mentioning and explaining specific points of the offensive set forth by the

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    Equitable estoppel Contract Page Title / heading goes here Meaning •  An agreement that the law recognises as a contract Formation of a Contract Page Title / heading goes here Requirements •  Offer •  Acceptance •  Consideration •  Certainty of terms •  Intention to create legal relations •  Formalities Offer Page Title / heading goes here Promise •  A final proposition made by one party Ø  compare Macquarie Generation v CNA Resources Ltd [2001] NSWSC 1040 (Unreported‚ Palmer

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    Descartes doubted all his previous knowledge from his senses‚ while Montaigne doubted that there were any absolute certainties in knowledge. Although they both began their philosophical processes by doubting‚ Montaigne doubting a constant static self‚ and Descartes doubted that anything existed at all‚ Descartes was able to move past that doubt to find one indubitably certainty‚ "I think‚ therefore I am". How often do we question what is real or true? Descartes believed that doubting everything

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    spoken. It is a promise made between two or more parties that which allow the courts to make judgment. A contract has six important elements so that it will be valid which is offer‚ acceptance‚ consideration‚ intention to create legal relation‚ certainty and capacity. If the main elements are not in contract‚ it would be an invalid contract. 1.1.1 Offer The first element in a valid contract would be offer. An offer or a promise or an agreement needs to be in contract because if there is no

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    In order to answer the first part of the question‚ the term “certain” needs to be defined. It is important to note that there could be a number of different ways of defining certainty. For example‚ the definitions “perfect knowledge that has total security from error” and “a mental state of being without doubt” are very different from one another. One implies more room for error than the other. Two very specific different messages are conveyed when one says “I am certain” versus “it is certain.”

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    summation of the conflicts and juxtapositions Shakespeare makes between morals‚ ethics and philosophies; many ideas of which are introduced and foreshadowed in I i of Titus Andronicus. Shakespeare presents us with characters so set in their own views of honour‚ justice and piety‚ that it may seem there is a clear line between what is right and wrong and just‚ however‚ he systematically proceeds to blur that line through the insistence and attachment each character has to their own moral code. This brings

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