Essays on Slander

1. Support or criticize the statement that rude gestures (e.g., showing the middle finder to a police officer, etc.) would constitute fighting words or a threat towards a police officer. Justify your position Gestures are part of communicating in our everyday life, and they can be interpreted positively or negatively. The variations in the interpretation of gestures occur due to cultural, religious, ethnic and environmental differences. Some gestures are generally rude and inappropriate no matter the context in which they are used. Rude gestures are annoying and offending. They are intended to offend the other person to whom it ...

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The English legal system is based on elements of the Christian Bible and its tradition. This comes with some moral concepts like lying about other persons and spreading false information. Defamation is made up of libel and slander. Whereas libel is a false and damaging comment written down, slander refers to such a statement spoken orally. The purpose of this paper is to conduct a critical analysis of the concept of defamation and how it relates to media law.

Basically, every human being has a right to a reputation. Reputation is a kind of personal right that embodies a ...

1. What is the definition of a tort? Tort is “a wrongful act, not including a breach of contract or trust, that results in injury to another's person, property, reputation, or the like, and for which the injured party is entitled to compensation.” (Merriam-Webster) 2. What are 2 types of damages you may receive if you are successful in a torts cause of action? “Legal damages can encompass economic losses, such as lost profits, as well as punitive damages, which are awarded to plaintiffs as a way of punishing malicious wrongdoers. “ (Wrongful or Tortious Interference with Contracts.) 3. Name ...

Moogk, P. (1979). "Thieving Buggers" and "Stupid Sluts": Insults and Popular Culture in New France. The William and Mary Quarterly 36(4), 524-47. In this article, the author evaluates the emergence of a popular culture of cursing and its impact in the New France. According to the author, the cursing culture in New France originated from the increased interactions with the people from Canada, France, New England, and West Indies. Moogk takes into consideration various instances involving the use of insults, which people would otherwise consider amusing incidents that have little significance. Throughout the article, Moogk demonstrates the ...

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Brief Overview In the work of a school counselor, ethical code of conduct plays a central role identifying the quality of the profession. A failure to comply with the ethical rules may lead to the disciplinary and legal consequences that will affect the career as well as the entire educational establishment. It is essential to remember that school bears a list of responsibilities for the life and well-being of children and adolescents that are both legally and ethically safeguarded by the state and the entire community. Consequently, the educators have to preserve a balance between their personal beliefs and ...

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Christian life is a journey, that is made under the God’s law, in the world that God created, and the presence of the God himself. The faith in God is the milestone of Christianity. But what does God mean for the faithful? How is he perceived? And what role does he play in the ethical deliberation of every Christian? God, or, as found in the Bible, Lord, is proclaimed by the Christian reality as a supreme being, but not an impersonal force like those of nature (Woodhead 45). He is supremely a holy person. The personality of God ...

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Defamation is the publishing of a statement regarding a person’s reputation to the effect that the statement lowers the person in the estimation of right thinking members of the society. The offence is divided in two different torts; slander and Libel. The earlier distinction between the two indicated that libel involves publications made in printed form while slander is basically oral defamation. However, with recent technological advancement, the approach is that libel occurs when the defamatory statement is in permanent form while slander has to make statements which are not recorded or not in permanent form. In order ...

Nurses have a moral obligation to protect a client from slander by withholding personal information concerning the illness itself or any other known social problems, which may be assessed or diagnosed. Information must only be shared or discussed among staff members if it is associated directly with a nursing intervention. ‘The nurse has a moral obligation to do good, and the patient has a right to expect that he or she will derive some benefit from that good.’ (Legal Issues in Nursing). Precisely, to professionally link roles and image the issue of ethics becomes dominant as personal perspectives are considered. My personal philosophy is ...

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James Scott focuses on the measures that people put in place in order to avoid dominance. He based his study on peasants within Malaysia. He further made a study in Vietnam after a war out break and wrote on various ways in which individuals tend to avoid power. He majorly argued that the low class people in the society normally prefer a patron- client kind of relationship whereby the rich tend to protect the poor (Scott, 1987). Thus when this fails to happen the inferior individuals tend to rebel. Scott has since then expanded his study to the lowly in society within ...