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Culture change and Ta-Nehisi Coatesâs âThe Case For Reparationsâ May 22, 2014. In “The Case for Reparations,” the long-brewing cover story of the June issue of the Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates makes a painstaking argument that the gap in wealth, achievement, and a wide range of health and wellbeing outcomes between black and white Americans is the result of deliberate policy decisions.
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27f. The Southern Argument for Slavery Some slaveholders believed that African Americans were biologically inferior to their masters. During the 1800s, this arguement was taken quite seriously, even in scientific circles. Defenders of slavery argued that slavery had existed throughout history and was the natural state of mankind.efenders of slavery argued that the sudden end to the slave economy would have had a profound and killing economic impact in the South where reliance on slave labor was the foundation of their economy. The cotton economy would collapse. The tobacco crop would dry in the fields.
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- Contemporary Examples. 1  As reparation, the court ordered $563 to be paid out to Yang and required the clinic to post an apology on its website. China’s Electroshock Gay-Conversion Case Nina Strochlic December 18, 2014. 2  Three years on, the demands for some kind of reparation have reached fever pitch.
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Restitution For the physics term representing energy lost in a collision, see Coefficient of restitution. The law of restitution is the law of gains-based recovery. It is to be contrasted with the law of compensation, which is the law of loss-based recovery. Obligations to make restitution and obligations to pay compensation are each a type of legal response to events in the real world. When a court orders restitution it orders the defendant to give up his/her gains to the claimant.
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- Gaunilo, in effect, tries to provide a reductio of Anselm’s argument. In outline, Gaunilo’s reply to Anselm goes like this: If Anselm’s proof for the existence of a greatest conceivable being were sound, then we could give a sound proof for the existence of a greatest conceivable island. We cannot give a sound proof of the existence of a greatest conceivable island.
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- The district court held that the prisoner's failure to allege physical injury caused his claim to be barred by the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) to the extent that he sought damages for mental and emotional injury, but not to the extent that he sought nominal, compensatory and punitive damages.
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THE CASE FOR ANIMAL RIGHTS The first is how the theory that underlies the case for animal rights shows that the animal rights movement is a part of, not antagonistic to, the human rights movement. The theory that rationally grounds the rights of animals also grounds the rights of humans.
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Taking Reparations Seriously Mr. Coates’ argument for reparation does not argue the case for slavery reparations, but for a discussion of what has actually happened in American history, and he focuses not on slavery but on redlining and housing discrimination. The people affected by redlining and housing discrimination are still with us.
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- FALLACIES OF RELEVANCE: These fallacies appeal to evidence or examples that are not relevant to the argument at hand. Appeal to Force (Argumentum Ad Baculum or the Might-Makes-Right Fallacy): This argument uses force, the threat of force, or some other unpleasant backlash to make the audience accept a conclusion.
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Restitution Claims: Getting your own back Whilst parties often talk of a restitution claim in the same way they would talk of a contract claim or a tort claim, unlike the latter two, restitution is the remedy rather than the cause of action. There are various bases for seeking that remedy, but by far the most common is unjust enrichment.
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- In rejecting this argument, Scalia quoted a concurring opinion in a Fifth Circuit decision, stating that, with the type of tax shelter at issue, the basis misstatement and the transaction's lack of economic substance are inextricably intertwined, so attributing the tax underpayment only to the artificiality of the transaction and not to the basis ...
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- Evidentiary standards for an award of emotional distress vary by district and circuit. The evidentiary support necessary to prove a claim of emotional distress as an element of damages in a consumer law case is subject to standards that vary greatly by circuit and district. We describe
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- I have suggested that the predominance of the desire to seek retribution provides a plausible explanation for the nonsurvivability rule, and that the desire to effect general deterrence is less salient than prevailing rationales for punitive damages (28) would imply.
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- One argument is that interest is the reward for saving; a compensation that the creditor pays the debtor for the latter's temporary loss of the use of capital. Another is that interest is the payment for the loss in value of money due to inflation.
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Speciesism Ryder, Singer, and other opponents of speciesism have claimed that it is exactly analogous to racism, sexism, and other forms of irrational discrimination and prejudice. 1  An influential argument against speciesism, advanced by Singer, rests on what he calls the principle of equal consideration of interests (PEC). This is the claim that one should give equal weight in one’s moral decision making to the like interests of all those affected by one’s actions.
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Reparations for slavery debate in the United States Any proposal for reparations must take into account the role of the newly formed United States government in the importation and enslavement of Africans, as well as that of the older and established European countries that created the colonies in which slavery was legal.
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Argument preview: Court to consider scope of criminal restitution statuteâ Cortney Lollar What counts for purposes of federal habeas, the state contended, was whether the bottom-line decision of the state court — not its reasoning — flouted federal law. Silence on a federal issue raised does not contradict federal law, it said.
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The Case for Reparations In 1783, the freedwoman Belinda Royall petitioned the commonwealth of Massachusetts for reparations. Belinda had been born in modern-day Ghana. She was kidnapped as a child and sold into slavery. She endured the Middle Passage and 50 years of enslavement at the hands of Isaac Royall and his son.
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- 47 Even when this is not in fact a ploy to call existing development programmes “reparations” and a means not to spend any resources on reparations, it warrants close scrutiny. Most development programmes concentrate on the production and provision of basic goods, which all citizens are entitled to as citizens.
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- The purpose of Kennedy’s argument is to show how America can improve its educational system, workforce pay rates, the hunger crisis, and the economy. Kennedy explains how he will attempt to solve these issues.
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- and arguments in the case of Brown v. Board of Education. Through the lesson, students gain insight into decision-mak-ing at the Supreme Court, learn about the people behind the case, construct a persuasive argument, and evaluate the sig-nificance of Brown v. Board of Education. NOTES AND CONSIDERATIONS
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- F. Arguments for Utilitarianism 1. One attraction is its simplicity and intuitive appeal. 2. Here’s a relatively natural argument for the consequentialism part of utilitarianism: (P1) Doing the right thing can never make the world a worse place than doing the wrong thing. (P2) If doing the right thing can never make the
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- 8promotion of international human rights standards in public service, law enforcement, the media, industry, and psychological and social services.Moreover, it is not only in doctrine, but also in practice, that a right to reparation is becom-ing firmly established.
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Round 1 : Palindromic Rheumatism The difficulty in characterizing palindromic rheumatism is simply that this is an extremely rare disease. Depending on which report you read, it has a prevalence of approximately 1/8 to 1/20 that of rheumatoid arthritis.Unlike rheumatoid arthritis, which affects mostly women, men are equally affected by palindromic rheumatism, and their age range can span from the 20s to the 70s.epending on which report you read, it has a prevalence of approximately 1/8 to 1/20 that of rheumatoid arthritis. Unlike rheumatoid arthritis, which affects mostly women, men are equally affected by palindromic rheumatism, and their age range can span from the 20s to the 70s.
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Appeal to Pity Fallacy: Definition & Examples Exceptions to Appealing to Pity. Not all uses of an appeal to pity are fallacious. There may be examples where an appeal to pity is closely linked to the subject of the argument or is the actual evidence for the acceptance of the claim. Let's use an example from before but with a slight change:
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The Case for Reparations Tools and necessities were advanced against the return on the crop, which was determined by the employer. When farmers were deemed to be in debt—and they often were—the negative balance was then carried over to the next season. A man or woman who protested this arrangement did so at the risk of grave injury or death.