Criminal Law: John's liability

Criminal Law, Assessment 2 Question 2. John's liability: There appears to be a number of occasions where John could be criminally liable. The first incident would be regarding the permanent post offered by the headmaster conditional to John's qualification. Another circumstance could involve the task of returning the video later than assigned, then making and selling copies of the original video. A further instance would be the use of the school's discount to hire out videos for his own personal use. The final situation would be where John takes the school's bank card and PIN number to withdraw £100. Each of these events will be discussed for any possibility of a criminal liability. The post offered by the school: In this circumstance, John was offered a permanent post by the headmaster of the school, conditional on him becoming qualified. However, John fails his final exams and the problem arises when he does not tell the headmaster. The headmaster then assumes he has passed, does not check and allows John to start work. And so, John seems to have secured the post by appearing to have qualified. Under the Theft Act of 1968, one is guilty of obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception in section 16 (2) (c), which states 'a pecuniary advantage...is to be regarded...where...he is given the opportunity to earn remuneration or greater remuneration in an office or

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Unman, Wittering and Zigo - If you were directing Scene Three, what directions would you give to the characters involved?

Unman, Wittering and Zigo If you were directing Scene Three, what directions would you give to the characters involved? Think about how you would tell them to behave, speak, move and especially how you would have John react to the news of Mr. Pelham's death. The play "Unman, Wittering and Zigo was written by Giles Cooper and was intended for radio, but was adapted for the stage. The play follows John Ebony, a new teacher in his early twenties as he deals with his new pupils, fellow staff and his restless new wife Nadia. The play concentrates on John meeting his new class and coming to terms with the fact that they claim to have killed their previous teacher. As well as dealing with his class, John encounters Cary, a fellow teacher whom he goes drinking with. He finds it hard to come to terms with Cary's attitudes to the modern world and regularly confides his doubts to Cary. John also finds it hard to live up to the everlasting demands of his wife Nadia. Scene Three is quite possibly the most important in this play, as it leads on to a lot of the event throughout the rest of the play. This is also the scene where John finds out that his class claim to of murdered Mr. Pelham, their previous teacher before John. If I was directing this scene, I would start it off with John quite formal as he takes roll, with the boys being casual as they remark on his roll call techniques.

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While Huxley presents his Brave New World as a hopeless environment lacking love and real happiness, the movie offers a glimpse of hope in its ending: it shows that a young boy voluntarily disconnects his conditioning process

Imagine a world without mothers and fathers, a place where babies are cultivated in hatchery centers and people live in a society centered on sensual fulfillment through sex and drugs. This is the world portrayed in Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel, Brave New World. In this world, the government controls every stage of human development. Each individual is selected and predestined by the State according to the needs of society; conditioning from the time of fertilization through the maturity ensures, in most cases, that each individual completely accepts and conforms to every aspect of life in the World State. Five different castes exist in Brave New World. From Alphas to Epsilons, each class of individuals are different in stature, attire, intelligence, and their contribution to society; Alphas are given the most advantage while the lower-caste members are treated like animals. Even during embryonic development, chemical and mechanical stimulations are applied to enhance or hinder the growth of the fetus. After birth, general and class-specific conditioning, through a process called hypnopaedia, teaches individuals to think, feel and act according to the will of the government. In this world, adherence to societal values is not only expected, but also enforced through conditioning and mass propaganda. Phrases such as "everyone belongs to everyone else" and "a gramme is better than

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Meeting New People.

MEETING NEW PEOPLE By Kayleigh Minihane 10x Every piece of advice parents give must be for a reason, right? I guess I am correct in saying that from a young child's perspective, adults will tell you not to talk to strangers. My parents are the same, always on the look out, behind my back pestering me about being home at a certain time. I wasn't allowed out on my own and I was told that if anyone approached me then I should ignore him or her or simply politely decline their offer. I wanted to keep my parents trust because I knew it was all for my own safety. I would never talk to people I didn't know. Except for once, the date is still unclear in my mind but this was the first time I had ever talked to someone unfamiliar. It wasn't a face to face approach but so that the person I was talking to could not see me. It wasn't by phone and it wasn't by post but by a mixture of the two. I had logged on to the Internet searching for pictures to do with my art homework and was alone in the house when I came across a sign-promoting a chatroom, which you could join instantly. After clicking on it and reading the instructions, discovering it was an AOL specialist chatroom for teenagers, I entered, after all there is no harm in it. I had no idea what to do. My screen-name was 'KAYSDAYHEY', quite a catchy one I thought and it attracted numerous people to come and talk to me. They all

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John Proctor - from the Crucible, a play by Arthur Miller.

John Proctor is a character from the Crucible, a play by Arthur Miller, Throughout the play he changes from being a troubled, self-exiled, sinner to becoming a person of high moral standards. The characters in this play are simple, common people that live in the town of Salem in the year 1692. There is a rumor of witchcraft floating about in the town that has led to accusations about many of the townsfolk. The accused are charged and convicted of a crime that is impossible to prove (witchcraft). The reasons the villains select the people they do for condemnation are both simple and clear because all of the accusers have ulterior motives, such as revenge, greed, and covering up their own behavior. The three major points I will be talking about in my essay about are as follows: 1 His entrance into the play where he is talking alone to Abigail and trying to convince himself that he is not an adulterer and that they did not have an affair. 2 when John is reciting the Ten Commandments. 3 where John tells Elizabeth that he are going to confess. In the beginning of the play John Proctor is introduced as a farmer in his mid thirties, that is not a partisan of the town, and shows a very strong sense of self-preservation. The first real conversation he has with another character is with Abigail Williams, where Abigail is trying to make John tell her that loves her, and that he will come

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Brave New World- Would we want it? Do we have it?

Brave New World- Would we want it? Do we have it? Brave New World's society is very different to our own for instance. People are made in bottles and conditioned to do predestined work. People have no family, marriage doesn't exist, and only casual relationships are permitted. People are taught to serve the higher castes, to reach the state's motto: "Community, Identity and Stability". People also are made in different grades of intelligence called castes. A typical child in Brave New World is grown on racks, (these racks can consist of thousands upon thousands of embryos because of the Bokanovsky's process; which is a process which can separate a single egg and grow up to ninety-six twins.) There they are put under different surroundings for instance they are deprived of oxygen so they aren't capable of reaching a high intelligence. One instance of this early stage of conditioning is when an embryo is still in its test tube it is turned upside down so it gets used to being the wrong way up. This embryo will later in its life become a rocket engineer. Later in the embryo's life once it has become a young child it is the subject of countless conditioning techniques this consist of sleep-teaching (while the child is asleep it has a tape played to him/her this teaches them. But if they are asked something about what was on the tape they will merely quote it not really knowing

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Examine the Way the Character of Bernard Marx Is Presented In the Brave New World

EXAMINE THE WAY THE CHARACTER OF BERNARD MARX IS PRESENTED IN THE BRAVE NEW WORLD IN THIS ESSAY, I will try and examine the way the character of Bernard Marx is presented in the ' Brave New World. ' To accomplish this I will have to look at both his positive and negative qualities. Bernard Marx is an Alpha Plus male in the ' Brave New World. ' He is intelligent but disapproves of some of the main ideas in this world. This is the result of alcohol being put into his bottle when he was being decanted. This quote proves that, " They say somebody made a mistake when he was still in the bottle - thought he was a Gamma and put alcohol in his blood surrogate. " The alcohol has also changed his physical appearance to make him look like a Gamma. A Gamma is physically very small and weak. In this ' Brave New World ', everyone is decanted from bottles. In other words, people don't have babies anymore. In the Hatchery Centre, they are taught EVERYTHING. They have no control over their lives or the ability to think for themselves. We know that this is not a good thing but because they have no experience of self-thought, they don't. There are no races, just five classes; Alpha Plus, Beta, Delta, Epsilon, and Gamma. Alpha Plus is the best class and Gamma is the worst. Everyone is supposed to mix with everyone else. No one is supposed to be alone because they are meant to have more

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It was a cold misty Sunday night as Mrs.Withers, an old widowed woman living on her own, mother of three and grandmother of two was sitting in her rocking chair which was creaking as it went back and fourth staring at her open fire

It was a cold misty Sunday night as Mrs.Withers, an old widowed woman living on her own, mother of three and grandmother of two was sitting in her rocking chair which was creaking as it went back and fourth staring at her open fire at the bright red and orange flames. Her house was in the countryside, which she had lived in since her husband and her got married. As you gradually get closer to the house there are rows of trees making it very private. They have always got enough wood for the open fire. The front garden is full of exotic flowers and gargoyles. The long path through the middle of the garden is covered in small pebbles, which crunch together as you walk over them. There is a swing for the youngsters when they come to visit. A draft was coming in from the window. She walked up to it and tried to pull it down but it was jammed. She tried once again and it came down quickly. She stared outside at such horrific weather. The wind was howling and the rain was bouncing off the windowsills. She was so mortified by the weather she shut the wooden slats. There was a loud bang at the door. Who could be calling at ten at night? She hurried over, undone the several locks to reveal her eldest daughter Elizabeth standing there in her best gown which was soaked through due to the rain. Elizabeth was always asking for assistance, that was the only time the middle aged married

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Investigating John Calvin, the founder of the Calvinist faith.

John Calvin John Calvin was the founder of the Calvinist faith, the Presbyterian denomination of Christianity today. Calvin was born and died in 1564. John Calvin was one of the chief leaders of the Protestant Reformation. From his early life and start in Protestantism, to his life in Geneva, and the Proclamation of his faith, Calvin was an incredible individual. Calvin was born in Noyon, France, near Compiegne. His father was a lawyer for the Roman Catholic Church. Young Calvin was educated in Paris, Orleans and Bourges. Calvin planned to be a lawyer as his father was, but it is likely that he never inwardly committed himself to that career. With his father died in May of 1931, Calvin was free to make his choice. He completed his doctorate in law but then came to study Greek and Latin and the University of Paris. Calvin's life then took a new direction that he refers to as a "sudden conversion". He writes about his experience in the introduction to his Commentary on the Psalms written in 1557: "Since I was more stubbornly addicted to the superstitions of the Papacy than to be easily drawn out of so deep a mire, God subdued my heart-too stubborn for my age-to docility by a sudden conversion." Therefore, by 1533 Calvin had declared himself a Protestant. In 1534 Calvin moved to Basel, Switzerland where there, two years later in 1536, he published his first

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Discuss the various ways in which Die Hard conforms to the conventions of Action Films. In your answer, you should analyse one sequence from the film in detail

Discuss the various ways in which Die Hard conforms to the conventions of Action Films. In your answer, you should analyse one sequence from the film in detail (1000 words) You should discuss: * Narrative structure * Characterisation * A particular sequence with reference to: * Mise en scene (locations, sets, actors, props, costumes, make-up, lighting) * Camera techniques * Sound and music * Editing * Special effects The conventions of action films have extreme impact on the viewer, many include: continuous high energy, truck loads of physical stunts and activity, extended chase scenes, races, rescues, battles, martial arts, mountains and mountaineering, destructive disasters, fights, escapes, non-stop motion, accurate rhythm and pacing, and courageous heroes - all which are designed for pure audience escapism placing the action sequences at the core of the film. The 1988 'modern' action film Die Hard is no exception to these conventions in which it is supported by the relation to Russian critic Tzvetan Todorov's theory that all action films follow a narrative structure divided into three parts. In the film the hero John McClane also known as Bruce Willis comes to Los Angeles to visit his estranged wife Holly at Nakatomi plaza and to spend Christmas with his children. Yet this state of equilibrium is disrupted when a group of Russian terrorists led by Hans

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