Question 2: In what way can China’s ‘socialist market economy’ be regarded as successful and to what extent is it not achieving its promise? China is much more than just a mere country. It has been through many ups and downs and exciting changes in the Chinese society‚ from changes of dynasties to establishing a name under the ‘7 wonders of the world’ with its creation of the ‘Great Wall of China’. Its heritage and history for the past thousands of years have made China of what it is today. Hence
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there." This brings about the theme of selfishness and taking things for granted. She is saying that you don’t realize how much you want and need something until it’s not around anymore. Another theme seed is promises. In The Red Candle chapter‚ Lindo Jong says that daughters break their promises. In China‚ one stayed true to their
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Broken promises Thanks in great part to its "green" image British company Body Shop has prospered in the 80s. In the 90s the firm tried to increase its world visibility linking its image to Brazil ’s rainforest and approaching the Brazilian Kayapo Indians with a program they called `Trade Not Aid. ’ The association generated a barrage of free and laudatory media stories about the activities of Body Shop. More recently however this image has been bruised. Is the Body Shop social conscience just
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Mill would say to kill one person and let the other four be able to live. If Mill is going to obey his own theory he would say that only killing one person would be less harmful than killing all four of the people. If having one person die in contrast to having all five die a utilitarian would chose to kill one person and save four people. Mill’s decision would be solely based upon his own theory of promoting happiness to the greatest number of people. Personally I do not agree with Mill’s
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members of the community‚ comes from it obligations to be fulfilled. One of the faces of civil and rural socity‚ meeting the obligations of its members various promises and covenants‚ in old times‚ one would promise his brother what would be beneeficial for both parties. And the promise is achieving benevolence to a man by another. Promise is like a project to fix the society and the individual‚ there is no doubt that fulfilling and accomplishing it‚ has a great impact on social relations‚ positive
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consideration: 1) Consideration must move at the desire of the promisor: the act done or loss suffered by the promise must have been done or suffered at the desire or request of the promisor. The act done at the desire of a third party or without the desire of the promisor cannot be a good consideration. It is not necessary that the promisor himself should be benefited by the acts of the promise. The benefit may be intended for a third party. But the desire or request of the promisor is essential
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Illusory Promises a. Output and Requirement Contracts b. Exclusive Dealing Contracts c. Conditional Promises 5. Pre-existing Obligation a. Modification of a Pre-existing Contract b. Substituted Contracts c. Settlement of a Undisputed Debt d. Settlement of an Disputed Debt B. Bargained-For-Exchange 1. Past Consideration 2. Third Parties C. Contracts without Consideration 1. Promises to Perform Prior Unenforceable Obligations a. Promise to Pay Debt Barred by the Statute of Limitations b. Promise to Pay
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Is about the enforceability of all alteration promises (promises to pay more and promises to accept less) and by contrast estoppels does not apply to promises about the formation of initial contracts Ex. If a creditor promises to accept a smaller sum in full settlement intending the debtor to rely on that promise‚ and the debtor does rely on it‚ the debtor may have a defence of promissory estoppels when sued for the balance by the creditor. The promise will in this way‚ be enforced despite the absence
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oral complexity in the making and keeping of promises The making of a promise involves the voluntary giving of one’s word that‚ if and when a particular circumstance or situation comes about‚ one will undertake to act in a manner defined by the terms of the promise one has given. The act of making the promise‚ in other words‚ implies a willingness to keep it. What is being agreed is that‚ on the basis of something said in the past‚ one’s future actions will‚ insofar as the future is foreseeable
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Ethics essay – Kantian ethics a.) Explain Kant’s concept of duty Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher who was concerned with producing an ethical theory that was logical and absolute‚ and did not change depending on the situation‚ countering the views of John Locke and other empiricists of the time. His ethics are based on duty‚ rather than looking at the end product of an action. He thought that his theory was so important that it could be rivalled with the Copernican revolution‚ in that it would
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