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Boxing Champ Mike Tyson's Facial Tattoo - ️️Copyright Broad Application & Provisions (USERRA) - ️️-The USERRA covers all employers (public and private) and applies to U.S. employers operating in foreign countries -Military plaintiffs can sue the employer AND individual employees who were acting in an official capacity for the employer -There is no statute of limitations for bringing a lawsuit -Veterans can be terminated from their employment only "for cause" Business Trus...

Defenses to Trespass - ️️Warranted Intrusion: person who enters has a justification for entering land without permission. - To assist another person in danger. - To retrieve one's property (not absolute). • License to enter land: a licensee has permission to enter the land for a certain purpose. - Licenses are revocable by the property owner. (think tix at a movie theatre) Causation in Fact - ️️Causation in Fact is the actual cause of negligence. It is an act or omission wi...

Under OSHA, an employer with ____ or more employees must keep _____ on every work related injury or disease. - ️️11, records every employer, regardless of how many employees they have, must _____ any work related deaths or 3 or more hospitalisations within ____hours of the incident! - ️️report,8 workers compensation - ️️laws that establish an administrative procedure for compensation of workers for injuries that occurred during the court of employment t/f fault is not relevan...

employment at will exceptions based on tort theory - ️️-Tort action an employee may file if an employer improperly discharges an employee. -MOST COMMON action -In limited situations when employer's discharge is deemed abusive, the discharge of an employee may also lead to suits for: *Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress *Defamation *Fraud ERISA - ️️-Management Standards for private retirement plans -Record-Keeping; -Investment of Funds; -Vesting (Most common rules a...

move away from the large positive charge - ️️if a positive test charge is placed close to a large positive charge, the test charge will ____________________ energy - ️️on an equipotential line, there is no change in ___________ pontential difference - ️️there must be a ____________ ___________ between two points for a current to flow between them work per unit charge - ️️what best describes potential difference (V) potential - ️️points A & B are both on the same equipot...

Determine the work done on the crate by the normal force exerted by the floor. - ️️0. The object is not parallel to the normal force elastic collision - ️️one in which there is no net loss of total kinetic energy Freebie: Tension pulls - ️️ Gravity straight down exerts a torque or nO? - ️️It does not exert a torque How can a driver steer a car traveling at constant speed so that the acceleration is zero? (Assume that the road is level. Select all that apply.) on a circula...

In the lab, when we change the number of loops in the tangent galvanometer coil, what do we expect to happen? a) The radius of the coil changes. b) The direction of the current changes. c) The deflection angle changes. d) The permeability changes. - ️️c) The deflection angle changes. If you move the switch from one side to the other of a double-pole-double-throw switch (going past the middle), which statement best describes what happens in the circuit? a) The power goes from on to of...

An astronomical telescope with the setup described in the lab manual forms an ____ image. a) upright b) inverted - ️️b) inverted An astronomical telescope with the setup described in the lab manual forms an ____ image. a) virtual b) real - ️️a) virtual A light ray travels from the air into a clear plastic, making an angle of 40o when with the normal to the interface on the side of the air but an angle of 24.5o on the side with the plastic. What is the index of refraction of the...

if an image is formed by a thin converging lens, under what circumstances is it virtual? - ️️when the object is closer than f if you block a portion of a lens when viewing an object, what happend to the image? - ️️some of the rays are blocked so the image quality is reduced image distance - ️️distance between image and lens In an object-lens-image system, if there is no viewing screen, what is the image like? - ️️virtual and upright in an object-lens-image system, where ca...

PHIL 101 EXAM PACKAGE DEAL

Who was Plato's top student - ️️Aristotle Who was the first to argue his points? - ️️Paramenides Who wrote 'Phaedo' and 'Republic' - ️️Plato Who wrote 'The Apology' and 'Crito" - ️️Plato Why do we learn? - ️️We have forgotten or we are not certain Zarathustra - ️️Persian who announced the god Ahura Mazda - the creator full of goodness Zeno's Paradox - ️️a philosophical problem that shows change is impossible since any move from po...

• Polity - ️️law-abiding democracy...and it's possible. (it's actually the best IF all the citizens are well-educated in the business of governing and they take turns governing) • Skepticism: - ️️You should doubt (a few, some, many, all) of the claims people make. • The Anthropological Argument - ️️o Premise: Different societies believe in different values. o Conclusion: Therefore there are no objective values. • The Life of the Philosopher - ️️He gazes upon ...

Brahman - ️️The ultimate reality both of ourselves and of the universe; a unity underlying all individual selves and things Buddha - ️️Means "Enlightened One." He is said to have found a path for overcoming suffering. Cause and substance - ️️The two Greek Metaphysical issues Confucius - ️️(551-479 BCE) A Chinese philosopher known also as Kong Fuzi and created one of the most influential philosophies in Chinese history; ethics of community; not trying to preserve trad...

• Would it be better if there just weren't any predators? (Including better for Mr. Bunny?) - ️️o No, there's a balance in nature such that if you take out a piece the system won't work. (So it would mean there are no bunnies either) • You can have an infinite temporal series of contingent things - like an infinite series of ancestors - but without a necessary being - something that cannot fail to exist - you - ️️can't explain the existence of the whole contingent se...

God and the laws of morality (The Euthyphro dilemma) - ️️God is perfect Goodness, and all value is a reflection of His nature. • Does God conform to an external order of morality or value? • Does God invent morality or value? (Divine Command Theory) • No and NO!!! Why no? - ️️• If He conformed to them, then He'd be limited by them. • If He invented them, o morality would be arbitrary, which is almost unthinkable. o He would transcend them and "good" would mean ...

What are Plato's 2 realms of existence? - ️️1) Realm of Becoming (Earthly) Appearance, Change, Temporal, Plurality, Impure 2) Realm of Being (Heavenly) Reality, Changeless, Eternal, One of a Kind, Pure/Absolute Of Plato's influence, which one focused on the philosopher of becoming? What does this focus on? A) Parmenides B) Heraclitus - ️️B) Heraclitus - Reality is dynamic, always changing - Things come into existence, and things go out of existence - Plurality of things e...

Augustine def of knowledge vs Descartes' - ️️true belief you get from direct access to the thing known ... Descartes: true belief cannot be doubted (raised bar way higher than Augustine) Two ways to know (following the example of mathematics) - ️️intuition deduction intuition - ️️just "see" intellectively that something is indubitably the case. deduction - ️️move from indubitable premises through indubitable principles to indubitable conclusions. Descartes' vi...

Logical Problem of Evil - ️️The existence of God is logically incompatible with the existence of evil and suffering (deductive) Evidential Problem of Evil - ️️If omnipotent, omniscient, and all benevolent God exists...then why is there suffering and evil? Not omnipotent - ️️Is God willing to prevent evil but not able to? Then He's ______________________ (Epicurus) Then whence cometh evil? - ️️Is God both able and willing to prevent evil? (Epicurus) Why call him God? - ...

"Thinking connects us to the world in a way different from senses" - ️️Descartes Two issues with Descartes philosophy of substance - ️️Metaphysical issue and epistemological issue Descartes metaphysical issue - ️️We are both material and mental; we have bodily substance and consciousness/thought What is the essential property of our body? - ️️Extended Who likes radical doubt? - ️️Descartes Who is renewing Aristotle's substance? - ️️Descartes

What does Rousseau say about reasoning together? - ️️This will help OR hinder each person's chance at freedom How does liberty stay on course in transition from the state of nature to the civil state? - ️️It is still there, it just shifts contexts; you lose the purity of nature, but not the point of conscience What is moral liberty? - ️️The freedom from impulse of appetite. Slavery is if you are always responding to impulse or appetite. Moral liberty is self-mastery. We dem...