Essays Tagged: "Personal property"

"The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood.

execute Congress and the President, take away the freedom of Americans. Reading has been outlawed; personal property is not allowed and families are broken apart. The reason for this is partly becaus ...

(7 pages) 125 0 5.0 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Hackers versus Business and Financial Institution Computers: Who will win the battle?

mputers. Hackers are responsible for global scale terrorism, theft of identities, and even theft of personal property. It is not always easy to catch a hacker before he or she (yes, women are hackers ... er to allow a remote user to fish around the computer looking for credit card information and other personal data.Whether the enemy is in the cubicle across the room, in another state or country, or i ...

(10 pages) 225 2 4.5 Jul/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Computer Ethics

This essay is about retail theft and the concequences.

ly to consumers" and "theft-The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same; larceny," in short this ...

(2 pages) 58 1 4.3 Dec/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Organizing forms of Business Activity

d are developped three main types of business companies: individual holdings (enterprises, based on personal property of owner), partnership and corporations. For instance, in United Staffs in 1982 s ... have to declare itself a bankrupt and allow to separate the whole my cash assets and miscellaneous personal property between that, who I must money.But individual holdings not always come to nothing. ...

(6 pages) 94 0 4.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

the right government would supervise all individuals very carefully and there would be very little personal property. Wealth would be spread fairly even to destroy the artificial differences. There a ...

(1 pages) 43 2 2.7 Aug/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

Jean-Jaques Rousseau's "Social Contract"

the right government would supervise all individuals very carefully and there would be very little personal property. Wealth would be spread fairly even to destroy the artificial differences. There a ...

(4 pages) 117 2 4.5 Aug/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

Boudicca

The Iceni king, Prasutagas, decided that it would be prudent to make his will assigning half of his personal property to the Roman emperor. When he died the Roman officials decided to interpret his wi ...

(4 pages) 31 0 5.0 May/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > Roman History

Economic Justice

ight to vote or stand for election, liberty of conscience and freedom of thought, the right to hold personal property, freedom of speech and assembly, and freedom from arbitrary arrest and seizure. Ra ...

(3 pages) 35 0 5.0 Jan/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Detection Measures

Detection and Technological Protection MeasuresDetecting unauthorized use of personal property is easier for tangible property than it is for intangibles as there are likely to ... the authorized and unauthorized copies. This provides a significant challenge to online trading of personal property. This combined with the broad range of problems associated with assigning of licen ...

(6 pages) 51 0 4.3 Apr/2006

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

Commercial law---case study

be considered to be the issue about property. There are two kinds of properties, real property and personal property. Fixtures are objects such buildings, garden shed and fences. The legal test for a ... t 2003, p338). It is important to determine if an item is a fixture (and therefore part of land) or personal property, since fixtures will pass to a purchaser under a contract for a sale of land but p ...

(7 pages) 91 0 0.0 May/2006

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Women In Titus Andronics

ty. Women were treated more as property than as people. They had no say, no rights, and no freedom. Personal property was given more value than women. In fact, that is how women were treated, as perso ...

(2 pages) 1416 0 5.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Navy Devastator

federal property.According to the United States Supreme Court, there are three distinct types of personal property that can be found by others. These types include misplaced, lost, and abandoned p ... of the U.S. Constitution states that Congress has “the power to dispose of all property, real and personal, belonging to the United States” Article IV Sect. 3 cl2, (Opinion 1). Taking this into co ...

(5 pages) 75 3 4.0 Aug/2007

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Bankruptcy Chapter 7 and 13

law, which is better known as straight bankruptcy. When people file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy their personal property is sold for cash and then evenly dispersed to the all the collecting creditors. An ... le bankruptcy rather than foreclosing on their home. If someone can not pay their car bill or other personal property loans they file bankruptcy to prevent their personal items from being repossessed. ...

(2 pages) 101 0 5.0 Nov/2007

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Love Between Men and Women

ove. African Americans were even defined by white people as “chattel”, an item of movable personal property, (Slavery and Womanhood, Davis 170); therefore, African Americans were being judge ... The family is the basic unit of a continuous circle, (hence a wedding ring). Thus, commitment is a personal relationship with public significance, and respect between the man and the women. Marriage ...

(4 pages) 65 2 4.1 Nov/2007

Subjects: History Term Papers > African Studies - History

Awakened Isolation: A Feminist Analysis

s expected to embody (51). As the work progresses, Edna, realizing her need for self expression and personal identity, abandons the social constraints to which she is expected to conform and joins the ... ou are burnt beyond recognition?, he added, looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of personal property which has suffered some damage? (44). It is obvious to Edna?s subconscious that sh ...

(2 pages) 1161 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Passwords and How People Who Use Them Compromise Them

d access accordingly." [1] Keys to a house are not given to a stranger without consequences such as personal property and valuables being stolen, and the same applies to a password. Computer systems t ... s to a password. Computer systems that are compromised because of weak passwords can have important personal, financial and proprietary corporate information stolen. "Once an intruder with the necessa ...

(5 pages) 63 0 4.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Disadvantages of Forming a Corporation

entity, any creditors that take action against the corporation can only satisfy claims against the personal property that the corporation holds, not the personal property of the owners. Furthermore, ... tion pays federal, state, and local income taxes on its profits, its owners (stockholders) also pay personal taxes on any distributions of those profits they receive from the corporation in the form o ...

(2 pages) 40 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Accounting

The Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights

. 56). Many citizens also interpret this as the right to own a gun for protection of their life and personal property.Where did the Second Amendment originate? It was part of a long process of setting ...

(9 pages) 67 1 5.0 Apr/2008

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government

Grocery inc

of goods? (Mallor 228). The definition of goods is defined as goods that are ?tangible, movable, or personal property.? (Mallor 228) However, UCC Article 2 ?does not apply to service contracts.? (Mall ...

(11 pages) 103 0 0.0 Jun/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Transcendentalism + iPhone/modern day society (Simplify, simplify, Simplify)

asteful in his possessions.In the 21st Century people are plagued by their possessions, wealth, and personal property to show "this is who I am." Thoreau wants people to be content as they are and to ... for." Thoreau strongly stresses that people complex themselves everyday with different matters and personal issues. If Henry David Thoreau is still alive today, he would probably condemn the rage ove ...

(2 pages) 44 0 3.0 Oct/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy