Answers Question 1: rationale behind regulation of armed conflict Question 2: Briefly outline fundamental principles governing conduct of warfare on land. Principle of Military Necessity That principle which justifies those measures not forbidden by international law which are indispensable for securing the complete submission of the enemy as soon as possible. This principle limits those measures not forbidden by international law to legitimate military objectives whose engagement offers a
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Becca Peterson December 14‚ 2014 Analytical Writing Theresa Schnieder Armed Teachers A recent tragedy in a Connecticut elementary school has Americans looking for a better way to protect its school-age children. The brutality that occurred in Sandy Hook elementary school shook Americans to the core‚ making many people push for stricter gun laws. One proposal that has become popular is to allow faculty to have access to a gun in the classroom. “In response to the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary
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Role of Media in Combating Corruption In our democratic system we have the role of three important organs i.e. Legislature‚ Judiciary and Executive. These organs of state are assigned with different roles viz. making laws‚ deciding legality or illegality and Implementation of laws respectively. These three arms of the democracy are given their respective areas to work on and with the sole objective of service of people or welfare of the common masses. The relative dependence or independence of
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‘The Great Train Robbery’ filmed in 1979 must have been one of the movies that set out the example for all of the others. However‚ the movie does not only contain the characteristics of the adventure movie‚ but also a western and drama. It has all of the needed factors for the audience to be on the edge of the seats throughout the whole film. Even though it is based on the real story‚ we are not quite sure how it might end until the very end. ‘The Great Train Robbery’ was distributed by
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taken to prevent corruption on the most corrupt continent of the world? Of the world’s most deceitful countries‚ Africa‚ with its underdeveloped growth and poverty in many regions‚ is considered the most corrupt. The two thirds of countries‚ that are measured most corrupt in the world‚ are located in sub-Saharan Africa. Millions of Africans today live below the poverty line because of the disease of corruption. The African continent will not be able to find a solution to corruption on condition that
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avenues for even far move advanced technologies to help support the life styles we have come accustomed to. Is this then better than before when we were thankful just to have light and running water in the house? Education is by far better today than a hundred years ago! The fields of learning have been opened up to boys and girls equally to seek out far greater possibilities than were even imaginable a hundred years ago. Yet‚ with this privilege of learning has came a decline in our education system
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Police Corruption and court cases are very common and prevalent. A common pleas judge reversed 53 narcotic convictions Friday which is based on investigations of police in drug units (Writer‚ 2013). Judge Shiela Woods- Skipper overturned convictions that were based on the testimony of former Jefferey Walker who was arrested in May as part of an FBI corruption inevestigatgion (Writer‚ 2013). The District Attorney in the case Robin Godfrey requested the reversals in the hearing he said afterward that
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CORRUPTION Corruption is defined as the misuse of any power of public consequence for private gain. Corruption is not something new‚ as per Arthasastra of Kautilya ( around 3rd century B.C) : “Just as it is impossible not to taste the honey(or the poison) that finds itself at the tip of the tongue‚ so it is impossible for a government servant not to eat up‚ atleast‚ a bit of the king’s revenue.” “Just as fish moving under water cannot possibly be found out either as drinking or not drinking
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Is being a bully or a bystander worse? I know that being a by standard is worse. The reason is you are watching a kid get hurt by another kid. The bystanders should go tell a teacher or an adult. Bullies are bad also but I would feel a lot worse watching an innocent kid get hurt. These are some of the reasons students are bullied. Some kids are bullied because of their race and others their religion. They may be bullied because of their friends or the people that they like to hang out with
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act of adultery. Despite his choice of guilt over shame‚ Mr. Dimmesdale’s private self-inflicted inner turmoil that is exacerbated by the tortures of Roger Chillingworth‚ ate away at his physical being and mental state‚ causing much greater suffering than Hester’s public shame of the scarlet letter. Much of the suffering‚ physical and mental‚ that Arthur Dimmesdale endures is self-inflicted due to the immense weight of his guilty conscience. Fearing that he would not be able to bear the punishment
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