The authority of an agent is the act which he is allowed or authorised to do by his principal‚ and which will bind his/her principal. Usually‚ the principal will only be bound by the act of the agent if the agent acts within his/her authority. There are two types of authority which an agent could rely on‚ namely actual authority and apparent or ostensible authority. Actual authority is the authority given by the principal to the agent and could be in written or oral form. The capacity of an
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History DBQ The Industrial Revolution is responsible for modern society. A lot of scientific breakthroughs and modern developments would not have been possible without the Industrial Revolution. The train was built‚ the light bulb invented. Ideas were now spreading across the world. Marxism. Socialism. Capitalism. The Industrial Revolution was a new era. However‚ the question is still raised: did the Industrial Revolution improve life in Great Britain? The Industrial Revolution improved life in Great
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Of the numerous documents that helped to influence the French Revolution‚ the Declaration of the Rights of Man provoked the Revolution in that it introduced the idea of separation of powers‚ liberalism‚ and citizen responsibility. On August 26‚ 1789‚ the National Assembly finalized the Declaration of the Rights of Man which presented the concept of a Constitutional Monarchy where the king did not have absolute authority‚ and was to be held accountable by other branches of government such as the
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The way the characters react towards the shooting of Candy’s dog reveals a lot abut the characters that we might not have expected. Carlson offers to shoot the old dog‚ complaining many times of the smell. The shooting of Candy’s dog shows the callousness of Carlson and the reality of old age and infirmity. Carlson typifies the men George describes as “the loneliest guys in the world”. He is outwardly friendly‚ but essentially selfish. He finds the smell of an old dog offensive so the dog must be
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Achal Srinivasan Lit & Comp II Cohen – [A] February 12‚ 2014 Word Trace #1 1. a. MACBETH – “See‚ they encounter thee with their hearts’ thanks. / Both sides are even: here I’ll sit i’ the midst: / Be large in mirth; anon we’ll drink a measure / The table round. / There’s blood on thy face.” (3.4) b. Macbeth is speaking to the table‚ addressing that it is full and that he is in the middle. He setates that they will drink (or make a toast) soon. The last line is to the First Murderer‚ who has just
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that led to the American Revolution. Though the colonists disliked all of these laws they took particular offense to the 1763 Stamp Act.This required certain goods to have an offical stamp to show that the customer had to pay a tax.Many of these items were paper goods‚such as legal documents and newspapers even playing cards‚Colonists were really mad because the stamp act was passed in order to pay for the british soldiers being there.Then they
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said‚ “The secret of freedom lies in educating people‚ whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.” This quote means that the government upholds their power by keeping the people uneducated and suppressing their freedom. Maximilien Robespierre was a lawyer and a politician who strongly disagreed with the French government. He was an essential figure of the French Revolution that had an immense impact on the French government. Robespierre led France during the reign of terror and soon
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The American Revolution was a war for independence by the American colonies against Great Britain during 1775 to 1783. This created a brand new United States. After that‚ American Civil War was happened from 1861 to 1865. The Union won the war. The major causes of the Civil War was the United States of America and the Confederate States of America‚ a collection of eleven southern states that left the Union in 1860 and 1861 and formed their own country in order to protect the institution of slavery
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My current worldview from a Secular Humanism standpoint is one that is not based upon any religious information or beliefs but feels as a human being there are certain morals and values that one should have based upon the fact that you are a human. You do not need any instructions to show you how to be a good person or how to make decisions; that is what the laws in your state placed by the government is for: the only real information is what you find for yourself and if you are not able to prove
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vibrating ions of the lattice. As the temperature is lowered‚ the amplitudes of the lattice vibrations diminish‚ so one would expect the resistivity also to decrease gradually toward a small‚ but finite‚ value determined by the impurities and defects. This behavior is manifested by many materials. In 1911 H. Kamerlingh Onnes discovered that as the temperature of mercury was reduced‚ its resistance suddenly dropped to an extremely small value at 4.15 K. The metal had made a transition to a new superconducting
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