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NO UNICORNS PLZ...I mean Uniforms XD Imagine that you wake up in the morning and you have to go to school. You put on the same clothes that you were wearing yesterday and walk to school. You open the door and you see a million people, all wearing the same exact outfit as you. It feels just like yesterday and the day before that. That is what everyday would be like if our school had uniforms. I know that many kids in public schools are against having uniforms in school. I also agree because I think that uniforms are a commitment, they don’t allow you to express yourself as freely, and they are boring and drab. Normally, when you get home from school you sit down and do your homework. Not anymore! You have to give your clothes to your parents so they can wash them or you have to wash them yourself. Â  This takes time away from your homework. One reason why we shouldn’t have uniforms is they are a big commitment for both the students and their parents. Everyday when you get home from school, your parents have to wash your uniforms so you can wear them the next day. Your mom or dad might have better things to do than wash your clothes every afternoon. Also, your parents have to purchase your uniforms. Usually, the uniforms aren’t cheap, but you have to buy them anyway, even if you are graduating that year. On top of that, you have other clothes that you could wear. When you are wearing the same dirty clothes over and over again, you have nice, clean clothes in your closet that you can’t wear to school. If you just bought a ton of new clothes for back to school, then you figure out that your school is having uniforms, you would have just wasted a lot of money. Those are some of the reasons why I think uniforms are a big commitment. ... ...y and every new school day will seem different and exciting. Also, as I said before, it would be hard to find your friends. When you walk into a busy room, you can’t see your friends and they are in uniforms so, they could be anywhere! Without uniforms, people can easily locate their friends by the clothes they wear. Although, with uniforms, you are lost in a sea of people trying to find your people who are wearing the same thing as everyone else. That is why I think uniforms are boring and plain. So, I think that uniforms are a very big commitment, they don’t allow students to express themselves, and they are boring. All of these are reasons why I strongly believe that schools shouldn’t require students to wear uniforms. I really think that uniforms will just cause more problems for students and their parents. So, would you want your school to have uniforms or not?

Case Scenario: Grocery, Inc. Essay

Scenario: Grocery, Inc. is a retail grocery store chain based in Any State; U.S.A. Grocery has stores throughout the United States. Grocery has written contracts with many different vendors to purchase the products they sell in their stores. Vendors range from individuals to international corporations. Tom Green works as the produce manager for the store in My Town, U.S.A. Jeff Fresh, 17 years old, is spending his summer vacation working for Tom in the produce department. Assignment: Using the scenario above, give detailed answers to the following questions: 1. Does Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) apply to the contracts between Grocery and its vendors? Do common law contracts apply? Explain, in detail, why or why not. Your answer should compare and contrast common law contracts and UCC Article 2 contracts. Article 2 of the Code applies only to transactions in goods. The sale of goods is the transfer of ownership to tangible personal property in exchange for money, other goods or the performance of services. The law of sales of goods is codified in Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code While the law of sales is based on the fundamental principles of contract and personal property it has been modified to accommodate current practices of merchants. Therefore, the situation depends on whether or not a contract is for the sale of goods. If it is not, then the principles of common law that were discussed in Part 3, Contracts, apply. If the contract is one for the sale of goods, then the Code applies. 2. Grocery contracted with Masterpiece Construction to renovate the store on Main Street in My Town. Masterpiece, unable to complete the renovation within the six-month time limit due to a sudden increase in jobs, sub-contracted the entire job to Build Them To Fall. Grocery was unaware of the sub-contract. When Grocery realized (due to the poor quality of work) that Build, not Masterpiece, was handling the renovation, Grocery petitioned the court for an injunction and then sued Masterpiece for breach of contract and specific performance. Masterpiece argued that it had a right to delegate  the duties of the contract, or in the alternative, to discharge the contract due to commercial impracticability. Who wins? Explain your answer. In such a case as this one, Grocery would win a suit for specific performance but not necessarily for breach of contract. The only situation that would restrict Masterpiece from delegating the duties to another company is if the actual contract specified that Masterpiece had to perform the work. If the contract did specify that Masterpiece had to perform the work, they would be responsible for breach of contract; otherwise, they would have the right to delegate the work to a third party without penalty. Though Masterpiece might have had the right to sub-contract the renovation to another company, it does not release Masterpiece from liability. When a delegatee (Build) accepts an assignment from a delegator (Masterpiece), the delegatee assumes responsibility for performance. This assumption does not release the delegator from liability but instead, creates a situation where both the delegator and delegatee owe duties to the obligee. If a situation arise, such as this one, and the delegatee refuses to pay, the delegator can still be held responsible. The only way Masterpiece can lose the title of obligor and not be considered liable for specific performance is to be discharged from performance by novation. A novation is â€Å"a particular type of substituted contract in which the obligee agrees to discharge the original obligor and to substitute a new obligor in his place† (Mallor, Barnes, Bowers, & Langvardt, 2003). If Build and Grocery both agree to the novation, Masterpiece would have no further obligation under the contract and Grocery would have to hold Build responsible for performance. 3. At the end of the summer, Jeff Fresh had earned enough money to put a down payment on a car. He decided to continue working part time during school to earn money for the car payments. Jeff purchased a car from Smooth Sales Used Cars. Smooth did not ask Jeff how old he was; the salesman assumed he had reached the age of majority. Jeff paid the down payment and signed the contract stating that he would make payments of $200 each month. Six months later Jeff lost his job and could no longer make the payments. Jeff took the car back to Smooth and said he wanted to cancel the contract and that he wanted his money back. What are the possible outcomes? Explain your answers. As a minor, Jeff is entitled cancel the contract by disaffirming it and receiving the amount he paid for the car in exchange for returning the car back to Smooth Sales Used Cars. As per the textbook, â€Å"Upon disaffirmance, each party has the duty to return to the other any consideration that the other has given. This means that the minor must return any consideration given to him by the adult that remains in his possession.† Jeff should receive his down payment and $1200 back from Smooth Sales Used Cars. Since the car is not considered a necessary, the following law for minor does not apply. â€Å"The minor’s recovery of the full purchase price is subject to a deduction for the minor’s use of the consideration he or she received under the contract, or the depreciation or deterioration of the consideration in his or her possession.† Necessaries are basics things needed for survival and not supplied by the minor’s parents. Examples of necessaries a re food, clothing, shelter, medical care, tools of the minor’s trade, and basic education or vocational training. 4. Grocery has a written contract with Cereal, Inc. to purchase 20 cases of cereal per month at $22 per case. The contract does not state the types of cereal or how the 20 cases will be divided up between Grocery’s 20 stores in Any State. After a flood, Cereal suffers severe water damage in its warehouse. With the exception of Soggy Flakes, Cereal does not have enough undamaged cereal to comply with its Grocery contract. On the day delivery was due; Grocery receives 10 cases of Soggy Flakes at the three stores located in My Town and two stores in Your Town. Twelve days before delivery was due, Grocery had requested, by facsimile, that 15 cases containing a variety of cereals be delivered to the five stores listed above with the remaining five cases going to Grocery’s warehouse in Corp Town. Grocery wants to reject the shipments of Soggy Flakes and cancel its contract with Cereal. Discuss Grocery’s rights under contract law. Cereal argues that based on the gap-fil ling rule, it had the right to modify the terms of the contract. Analyze the gap filling provisions of UCC Article 2 as they pertain to the terms of this contract. What rights and/or defenses, if any, does Cereal have under contract law? Analyze the remedies available to Grocery and/or Cereal. Explain all answers in detail. There are two sides to this scenario in which both parties have a valid reason to alter as well as even terminate the contract. From the Cereal, Inc perspective, if unforeseen conditions cause a delay or the inability to make delivery of the goods and thus make performance impracticable, the seller is excused from making delivery. However, if a seller’s capacity to deliver is only partially affected the seller must allocate production in any fair and reasonable manner among his customers. Cereal did abide by it and delivered the 10 cases of Soggy Flakes due to the fact that those cases were not destroyed, leaving them deliverable. However, the seller (Cereal, Inc) has the option of including any regular customer not then under contract in his allocation scheme. When the seller allocates production, he must notify the buyers [2-615]. When a buyer receives this notice, the buyer may either terminate the contract or agree to accept the allocation [2-616]. The Code recognizes the fact that parties to sales contracts frequently omit terms from their agreements or state terms in an indefinite or unclear manner. The Code deals with these situations by filling in the blanks with common trade practices. In this case, no length of time was addressed in the contract for Grocery to continue purchase products from Cereal. With this, Grocery did have a right to terminate at any given point of time. 5. Tom Green spent his time away from work on his hobby, model trains. His train set was very large and consisted of rare and one-of-a-kind trains. One day, while visiting with a fellow train hobbyist Harry, Tom said, â€Å"When I retire in two years from Grocery, I’m going to sell my trains and spend the rest of my years traveling on real trains.† Tom then told Harry that he was the only person he planned to offer his trains to because he knew Harry would take good care of them. Harry said he looked forward to the day when he could buy the trains. Harry then spent the next two years and most of his savings building a new 2,000 sq. ft. room onto his house to make room for the trains. When Harry told Tom that he was building the new room, Tom just smiled. Tom also heard that Harry had borrowed money from his aunt to buy the trains. When Tom retired, he sold his trains to David. Harry sued Tom claiming breach of contract, or in the alternative, for promissory estoppel. Wh o wins? Explain your answer. Promissory estoppel is when a person relies on a promise made by another even though the promise may not be sufficient to be considered a contract. The elements of promissory estoppel are a promise, reliance on that promise, and injustice that comes from that promise. These elements are apparent in this situation. Tom told Harry that he was the only person that he wanted to leave his trains to, that was the promise. Harry saying that he looked forward to buying the trains and then building a room for them was the reliance on the promise. Finally, Tom selling the trains to someone else is the injustice and the breaking of the promise. Harry should not be suing for breach of contract, but rather for promissory estoppel. There is no official breach of contract in this situation, but it is a clear example of promissory estoppel. If the lawsuit were for promissory estoppel, then Harry would win. The lawsuit being for breach of contract might cause Harry to lose because it is not complete breach of contract. 6. Organic Farms shipped a truckload of peaches to Grocery using an independent trucker. In route, the truck broke down and the shipment was delayed three days. The peaches were spoiled when they arrived. The terms of the contract were F.O.B. Who bears the risk? Explain your answer. Under F.O.B. terms, the seller is responsible for the costs and the risks associated with transporting the goods to the designated area assigned by the buyer. Once the shipment arrives at the designated area, the buyer assumes responsibility for the goods and any shipping of the goods that might occur afterwards. Since the goods were still in route to the destination (Grocery), Organic Farms is responsible for the loss and Grocery is not obligated to pay anything. Organic Farms might be able to recover the loss from the independent tucking company but this does not affect the destination contract that places the risk of loss on Organic Farms. Organic Farms would still be required to compensate Grocery for the loss, while they potentially seek reimbursement from the independent trucking company. 7. Discuss the different warranties that apply to Grocery’s business. Explain your answer in detail. There are several different warranties present in Grocery’s business. The first is express warranties. Express warranties are present because the goods conform to the description and because oftentimes, samples are available of the goods. Implied warranty is also present in this situation because the goods in Grocery’s business are merchantable. Finally, implied warranty of fitness is present here. This is apparent because the seller, Grocery’s store, knows that there is a purpose for the buyer to buy the goods. Grocery’s store also knows that the buyer is relying on the goods that are being sold and that the buyer is relying on Grocery’s for the goods. 8. Supplier, Inc., a large wholesaler, had a contract with Grocery. Supplier sued Grocery for breach of contract when Grocery failed to place an order for goods by a specific date as specified in the contract. Each order was to be worth at least $550. Grocery contended that the contract Bill Green signed was a standard preprinted supply contract without specifics regarding time of order and quantity. Green had authority to sign a standard supply contract, but could not authorize specific terms. This was unknown to Supplier. Supplier argued that the terms were â€Å"boilerplate† and could therefore be modified by acceptance. Supplier offered oral testimony at trial to prove that Green agreed to the modifications. Is there a contract? If so, what are the terms? Explain your answers. Also, discuss the use of Supplier’s oral testimony at trial. In this case, there is no contract since the quantity is not specified. When there is indefinite quantity, the buyer does not have to buy from the seller even if there if a minimum purchase amount required and therefore, the quantity required is illusory and unenforceable. As per the textbook, â€Å"it is fundamental that a contract is unenforceable if it fails to obligate the parties to do anything.† The oral testimony from Supplier Inc. cannot be used. Any modifications to a sales contract needs to be in writing. Verbal modifications will not be enforceable. References: Business Law: The Ethical, Global, and E-commerce Environment (12th ed.). Jane P. Mallor, A. James Barnes, L. Thomas Bowers, & Arlen W. Langvardt McGraw Hill, 2004 Burr Ridge, IL University of Phoenix Material: Case Scenario: Grocery, Inc, Susan Brown Parker. Retrieved from http://www.phoenix.edu

Essay about Past Political Controversies - 2078 Words

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The Culture Of The World Essay - 841 Words

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Service Delivery - 1673 Words

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BlindFaith Essay, Research Paper Blind Faith In the narrative # 8220 ; Cathedral # 8221 ; by Raymond Carver, the chief character, goes through a major personal transmutation. At the beginning of the narrative, his sentiments of others are filled with stereotypes, favoritism and bias. Through interaction with his married woman # 8217 ; s blind friend Robert, his attitude and mentality on life alterations. Although at first he seemed afraid to tie in with a unsighted adult male, Robert # 8217 ; s surpassing personality left him with virtually no pick. During Robert # 8217 ; s visit, he proved to be a normal adult male, and showed the talker that by shuting his eyes, he could open his head. The talker # 8217 ; s bias was about overpowering at the gap of the narrative. # 8220 ; His being blind bothered me, # 8221 ; he said. # 8220 ; A unsighted adult male in my house was non something I looked frontward to. # 8221 ; He had neer truly come in personal contact with anyone before who was blind, and seemed to hold no thought of what to anticipate. He true gathered a stereotyped head set about unsighted people from films, presuming they # 8220 ; moved easy and neer laughed. # 8221 ; The character # 8217 ; s bias was besides apparent when he asked about Robert # 8217 ; s deceased married woman. Upon hearing her name Beulah, he asked, # 8220 ; Was his married woman a Negro? # 8221 ; Immediately, his married woman seemed offended at the inquiry. The paragraphs that follow are of import to the narrative. The talker informs the readers that his married woman told him the narrative of Robert and Beulah. He does non, nevertheless, reveal whether Beulah was in fact black or otherwise. 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The talker witnessed the deepness of conversation Robert had with his married woman, as if he wasn # 8217 ; t even in the room, and it seemed to trip some green-eyed monster. Most of the alterations that the talker underwent in his apprehension of Robert were because he realized that Robert was â€Å"normal.† The talker was surprised to see # 8220 ; a face fungus on a blind man. # 8221 ; He had # 8220 ; ever thought dark spectacless were a must for the blind, # 8221 ; yet Robert wore none. He had # 8220 ; read the blind didn # 8217 ; t fume, # 8221 ; but Robert filled ashtray after ashtray in his place. The talker watched as Robert Ate, cognizing where everything was on his home base, and being wholly self-sufficing. Robert drank Scotch, merely like the talker and his married woman. Surprisingly, Robert could even state if the Television was colour or non. An unexpected but of import portion of the narrative was when the character and Robert # 8220 ; smoked pot # 8221 ; together. The talker said, # 8220 ; I could state he didn # 8217 ; t cognize the first thing. # 8221 ; The talker showed Robert how to smoke. Although Robert had neer smoked earlier, he gave it a opportunity. This served as a ground for the character to give Robert a opportunity and seek to associate to him as a individual. It seems as if the writer intentionally portrayed the chief character as somewhat stupid or uneducated. He was obviously uneducated about different races and disablements. The writer besides intentionally used short sentences with simple words as the character # 8217 ; s linguistic communication to demo his limited accomplishments. He was besides portrayed as unworldly when he could non accurately or efficaciously depict a cathedral for the unsighted adult male. Due to this, the character and Robert were proven even more likewise. Robert was uneducated about cathedrals because he had neer seen one. 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Ted Hughes Poetry The Contrast between Vitality and Death Essay Ted Hughes famously quoted What excites my imagination is the war between vitality and death. This is a key factor in the effectiveness of nearly all of Hughes early work the stark contrast between life and death, vitality and lethargy. In poems such as The Jaguar, Roarers in a Ring and Six Young Men, there is a severe and often brutally sudden transition between the two extremes. I found all of these poems, particularly The Jaguar, intriguing and enthralling; the respect that Hughes has for animals and humans who live their lives to the full is admirably enormous. In The Jaguar, the poet describes his disregard for the majority of the animals in the zoo he visits because they have accepted captivity and surrendered to a life free from care, excitement and interest. Most of the animals have lost the magic of their natural instincts. He disdainfully describes them with words like indolence and sloth and uses the simile like cheap tarts to describe the parrots. This insinuates that they are willing to strut and show off to anyone, as they have lost any sense of pride and self worth they once had. However, there is one creature that excites and captivates the crowds, and as the title of the poem suggests, has also left a lasting impact on Hughes. Instead of lazing around idly, the sleek black Jaguar spins from the bars and hurries enraged. Despite being deprived of his natural environment and his freedom, the Jaguar is full of movement, actively bursting with power and energy. Hughes is markedly enthralled by the way that the Jaguar seems to create his own space, even within the confinement of his cage describing the creature as having the world rolling under the long thrust of his heel. 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This simile is effective as it creates a real sense of awe and amazement; children cannot often be captivated so strongly, suggesting the subject is something truly incredible. Contrarily, he implies that the majority of the cages contain nothing but sleeping straw, and visitors tend to rush past such animals without even noticing their existence. As well as the movements of the crowds, the difference between lively and lethargic is very much highlighted by the metaphorical language used. The curl of a snakes body is described as a fossil not only appropriate because of the coiled shape but also because it gives the impression of being very old and in a state of inertia. Similarly, the apes are of no interest to the crowds because their only motions are idle actions to pass the time; they merely yawn and adore their fleas in the sun. To my surprise, even the tigers and the lions are too fatigued with indolence to excite an audience. The simile still as the sun demonstrates the arrogance and immovability of the Lions, and also illustrates their colour. All these static, lazy images are countered by the rage, strength and ferocity of the Jaguar who does not limit his spirit to the boundaries of his cage. The pace and rhythm of the poem is quite fast with short sharp words, often monosyllable to stress the simplicity of the trouble-free animals. In contrast, the pace slows down in the third verse when talking about the Jaguar, with considerably longer sentences and words such as mesmerised. Roarers in a Ring is a more subtle observation, in the form of a narrative. It is Christmas Eve and a group of farmers are attempting to conceal their sorrow with alcohol and false laughter. The situation the poet describes is immediately identifiable, making it all the more hard-hitting. The poem begins on a cold note, describing a starving fox a symbol of the harsh realities of nature and death. Descriptions like The moor foamed like a white running sea create an atmosphere that is bleak, cold and uninviting. In the second verse the farmers huddle around a fire, which instead of sounding cosy, sounds as if they are hiding from the outside world. Later, it is suggested that their unceasing laughter is not genuine but is like a ball being tossed in the air. Instead of actually being happy they are forcing themselves to laugh because there is nothing else they can do, and ultimately because they are afraid. The poet talks as if he is watching them and says, You would have thought that if they did not laugh, they must weep. He is saying that they are scared to drop the pretence of joviality, as they dont want to face the prospect of sober misery. Thinking rather than laughing loudly means they must realise what their fate is lest silence drink blood. In contrast to the way they toss laughter, and their lives up, towards the end of the poem there is a strong feeling of downward movement, with lines like bottomless black silence through which it fell and blindly, rowdily balanced, took their fall. Despite their apparent liveliness, there is a constant undertone of sorrow. In the sixth verse the poet depicts how the farmers grand bellies shook and then suddenly the line Oh their flesh would drop to dust at the first sober look. This cruelly reminds the reader how vulnerable and weak they are compared to the sharpness of the air new as a razor and the power of the moor and the world in general. The poem draws to an end with the deaths of the farmers, and pointedly closes with the insignificance of this; as the world went whirling still it carries on unchanged by their absence. Another of Ted Hughes poems entitled Six Young Men displays a more direct change from descriptions of the life and the mens enthusiasm to their tragic deaths in the First World War. The poem observes a photograph taken forty years ago which pictures the six men who died only months later. The mens expressions are timeless and although the men are very much dead, the photo is undoubtedly alive The men were at the peak of their lives and the contrast between their vigour and anticipation with the tragedy of their death is shocking. Hughes describes each of the young men in turn by how they looked in a photograph, their beautiful surroundings, their camaraderie and lust for life itself. However, at the end of each verse, a brief yet cuttingly effective line reminds the reader of the mens fate their faces are four decades under the ground ends the second verse and Forty years rotting into soil ends the fourth. This pattern is repeated, as the poet touchingly recalls how their clothes would not be fashionable today, but at the time their shoes shone, which reflects their respectability. It also makes an alarming contrast as in life they had taken pride in their appearance but in death, they have spent forty years rotting in the soil. There is a more detailed description of how the men died and Hughes reveals that he knew them and also the scene in the picture. It makes the reader wonder what relationship he was to them. I speculated whether he had lost all these friends in the war. Was he the one behind the lens who had taken the picture? The poem reflects on the passing of time, and it is states that nothing lasts. The tone of the poem is bitter but invariably becomes more softly spoken when Hughes is recalling memories of the men going on a Sunday jaunt. He reflects on the irony of their lives and talks about the mangled last agony one of the men suffered in hospital, while for some nobody knows what they came to. In the last verse, the poet claims that six celluloid smiles are no less alive than any man, but at the same no less dead than a prehistoric creature. Hughes feels very strongly about the photograph; it is a paradox, a contradiction that that they should be smiling, when with hindsight he sees too many reasons why they should not. Hughes remembers them twice in death shot by rifle or trying to save a friend, and preserved in his cherished photograph which has not wrinkled their faces or hands, and they live in his memory, young forever. All of these poems touch on the contrast between vitality and death, either comparing the two directly, or focusing mainly on one of them. It is obvious that Hughes found victory in the untamed will of the Jaguar, and admiration for the remarkable lust each of the Six young men had for life whereas he scorned at the farmers who led pitiful, timid lives which ended as uneventfully as they had existed.