The Broken Scale

Author : Nyo' Wakai
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789956717392

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Under The Broken Scale of Justice. The Law and My Times by Nyo' Wakai Pdf

This book explores the latent and sometimes overt undercurrents that have shaped the judicial history of Cameroon since the United Nations Trusteeship period. It is an insightful account by a critical observer privileged to serve as Director of Public Prosecutions and a judge in a post-independence context characterized by dual and often conflictual legal systems inspired by French and English colonialism. Justice Nyo'Wakai demonstrates how the conflict of judicial concepts, procedures and usages have led to the Francophone judicial system trying to impose itself on the Anglophone judicial system in Cameroon. Often reduced to toothless bulldogs by new constitutional dispensations informed largely by the French colonial legacy and Francophone realities, Anglophones have bemoaned the independence of the Judiciary identified with their Anglo-Saxon heritage. In the face of such domination and the highhandedness of the Executive, only mature cool headedness and the ability to bend over backwards on the part of Anglophone legal practitioners have contained the explosive situation and allowed for a gradual evolution of the Judicial System in Cameroon.

Author : Nicholas K. R. Clausen
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1537191810

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The Broken Scale. by Nicholas K. R. Clausen Pdf

A world filled with war, Chaos and destruction, A world filled with dragons. When Hayden sets out to become a Metallic Dragon Rider he discovers that his dreams are far from reality as he gets ready for the Trials that stand between him and a dragon egg. The Trials test Hayden in every way but he finds that it is what happens after the Trials that he could not have prepared for. War breaks out as the dwarves and their red dragons descend upon Celestial City, home of the Metallic Riders. Hayden and his friends find themselves at the center of the maelstrom and all of Arvain is resting on what they choose to do next.

Author : Nicholas Clausen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 149281475X

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The Broken Scale by Nicholas Clausen Pdf

A world filled with war, Chaos and destruction, A world filled with dragons. When Hayden sets out to become a Metallic Dragon Rider he discovers that his dreams are far from reality as he gets ready for the Trials that stand between him and a dragon egg. The Trials test Hayden in every way but he finds that it is what happens after the Trials that he could not have prepared for. War breaks out as the dwarves and their red dragons descend upon Celestial City, home of the Metallic Riders. Hayden and his friends find themselves at the center of the maelstrom and all of Arvain is resting on what they choose to do next.

Author : Tom Diaz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781538138519

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Broken Scales by Tom Diaz Pdf

Humans are a species that classifies. We arrange the flow of the things and events that we see and experience, place them into categories, and erect boundaries around those categories. Among the boundaries that we erect are those that we put around groups of “other” human beings. The evil side of human classification of other human beings is that we sometimes create false categories of other people, as is often the case in racial, ethnic, and religious stereotypes. This unmindful creation of empty categories of human characteristics is what happened during two periods crucial to the construction of race in America. This is racism. The United States is in a period of deep cultural flux and conflict, much of it seen through the lens of race. Tom Diaz proposes that the everyday actions of ordinary people, in the context of extreme political and cultural polarization, distort the criminal justice system and betray the lofty ideals expressed in American founding documents and centuries of Anglo-American articulations of basic human rights. These everyday actions range across a spectrum from the armed intervention of private citizens in the forms of individual action, neighborhood watches, and citizen’s arrests, to the expectations imposed on law enforcement, in particular, and the criminal justice system in general.

Author : Nyo' Wakai
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015079150143

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Under the Broken Scale of Justice by Nyo' Wakai Pdf

This book explores the latent and sometimes overt undercurrents that have shaped the judicial history of Cameroon since the United Nations Trusteeship period. It is an insightful account by a critical observer privileged to serve as Director of Public Prosecutions and a judge in a post-independence context characterized by dual and often conflictual legal systems inspired by French and English colonialism. Justice Nyo'Wakai demonstrates how the conflict of judicial concepts, procedures and usages have led to the Francophone judicial system trying to impose itself on the Anglophone judicial system in Cameroon. Often reduced to toothless bulldogs by new constitutional dispensations informed largely by the French colonial legacy and Francophone realities, Anglophones have bemoaned the independence of the Judiciary identified with their Anglo-Saxon heritage. In the face of such domination and the highhandedness of the Executive, only mature cool headedness and the ability to bend over backwards on the part of Anglophone legal practitioners have contained the explosive situation and allowed for a gradual evolution of the Judicial System in Cameroon.

Author : George L. Kelling,Catherine M. Coles
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780684837383

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Fixing Broken Windows by George L. Kelling,Catherine M. Coles Pdf

Cites successful examples of community-based policing.

Author : Keith Robinson,Angel L. Harris
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674727427

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The Broken Compass by Keith Robinson,Angel L. Harris Pdf

It seems like common sense that children do better when parents are actively involved in their schooling. But how well does the evidence stack up? The Broken Compass puts this question to the test in the most thorough scientific investigation to date of how parents across socioeconomic and ethnic groups contribute to the academic performance of K-12 children. The study's surprising discovery is that no clear connection exists between parental involvement and improved student performance. Keith Robinson and Angel Harris assessed over sixty measures of parental participation, at home and in school. Some of the associations they found between socioeconomic status and educational involvement were consistent with past studies. Yet other results ran contrary to previous research and popular perceptions. It is not the case that Hispanic and African American parents are less concerned with education than other ethnic groups--or that "tiger parenting" among Asian Americans gets the desired results. In fact, many low-income parents across a wide spectrum want to be involved in their children's school lives, but they often receive little support from the school system. And for immigrant families, language barriers only worsen the problem. While Robinson and Harris do not wish to discourage parents' interest, they believe that the time has come to seriously reconsider whether greater parental involvement can make much of a dent in the basic problems facing their children's education today. This provocative study challenges some of our most cherished beliefs about the role of family in educational success.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Nuclear reactions
ISBN : 0677120605

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Broken Scale Invariance and the Light Cone by Anonim Pdf

Author : M. Christopher Brown,RoSusan D. Bartee
Publisher : IAP
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781607529743

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The Broken Cisterns of African American Education by M. Christopher Brown,RoSusan D. Bartee Pdf

The failure of American education to achieve racial diversity has resulted from the inability of educational researchers, policy makers and judicial officials to disentangle the complex definitions that have emerged in a post-segregated society. More specifically, the capricious aim of post-segregated educational settings leads to the confusing and often conflicting interchangeable usage of terms desegregated, integrated and diversity. This ambituity is further confounded by the imprecise definitions of equity, equality and opportunity. The proposed book will examine the role of language post-Brown v. Board of Education and the effects of that language on educational policy and practice. He also examines how the fundamental implications of language within post-Brown court cases, in pre- through post-secondary education, demonstrate the unspecified outcomes for desegregation and integration while concomitantly demand an educational continuum of equitable distribution. The arguments will further interrogate how education policy and practices implicitly contain a scholarly roadmap to forge equal opportunity and access, fifty years after Brown.

Author : Joel Cohen,Dale J. Degenshein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Judicial error
ISBN : 163425810X

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Broken Scales by Joel Cohen,Dale J. Degenshein Pdf

However rare, some injustices are "objectively" determined, often through DNA evidence, which allows us to squarely establish innocence despite a conviction. But the stories selected for this book represent a cross-section: some are such that (almost) every reader will see and acknowledge the wrong, and some interviews may leave the readers scratching his head, wondering "what was the author thinking?" By speaking with those impacted by injustices that occurred over the last 60 years--during the 1950s at the height of McCarthyism, the 1980s in Louisiana and New York when race played a large a role in how justice was dispensed and how the media portrayed the participants, the aftermath of 9/11 when many were prepared to believe the worst, and the time shortly before the Supreme Court decided that marriage could be granted to same-sex couples--this book requires readers to look at injustice in the context of our times. The stories told by the participants themselves give the reader insight into the challenges of dispensing, and even commenting on, justice. The author asks difficult questions: Is there an injustice when the game seems to have been played fairly, but the System still got it wrong? Is it an injustice when a jury, properly charged with the evidence fairly presented, convicts the wrong man? Or when people, so passionate in their own point of view, use over-the-top tactics to persuade others of their position? These interviews add to the important--and what must be ongoing--conversation about injustice in America

Author : Keith Payne
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780698409378

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The Broken Ladder by Keith Payne Pdf

A timely examination by a leading scientist of the physical, psychological, and moral effects of inequality. Today’s inequality is on a scale that none of us has seen in our lifetimes, yet this disparity between rich and poor has ramifications that extend far beyond mere financial means. In The Broken Ladder psychologist Keith Payne examines how inequality divides us not just economically, but has profound consequences for how we think, how our cardiovascular systems respond to stress, how our immune systems function, and how we view moral ideas like justice and fairness. Experiments in psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral economics have not only revealed important new insights on how inequality changes people in predictable ways, but have provided a corrective to our flawed way of viewing poverty as the result of individual character failings. Among modern, developed societies, economic inequality is not primarily about money, but rather about relative status: where we stand in relation to other people. Regardless of their average income, countries or states with greater levels of income inequality have much higher rates of all the social problems we associate with poverty, including lower average life expectancies, serious health issues, mental illness, and crime. The Broken Ladder explores such issues as why women in poor societies often have more children, and have them younger; why there is little trust among the working class that investing for the future will pay off; why people’s perception of their relative social status affects their political beliefs, and why growing inequality leads to greater political divisions; how poverty raises stress levels in the same way as a physical threat; inequality in the workplace, and how it affects performance; why unequal societies become more religious; and finally offers measures people can take to lessen the harm done by inequality in their own lives and the lives of their children.

Author : K. A. Duttweiler,Wallace R. Griffitts,Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Geochemistry
ISBN : OSU:32435077321479

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Geology and Geochemistry of the Broken Ridge Area, Southern Wah Wah Mountains, Iron County, Utah by K. A. Duttweiler,Wallace R. Griffitts,Geological Survey (U.S.) Pdf

Geologic, petrologic, and geochemical relationships of tin-bearing, rhyolitic lava flows of the 12-million-year-old Steamboat Mountain Formation in the area of Broken Ridge.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Weights and measures
ISBN : NYPL:33433066362496

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Scale Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Katharine A. Phillips
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0195121260

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The Broken Mirror by Katharine A. Phillips Pdf

Explores the symptoms and causes of BDD, in which a victim is obsessed with perceived flaws in her appearance, and describes therapies used to treat the disorder.

Author : Ivar Ekeland
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1996-06-15
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0226199924

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The Broken Dice, and Other Mathematical Tales of Chance by Ivar Ekeland Pdf

Contemplating the randomness of nature, Ekeland extends his consideration of the catastrophe theory of the universe begun in Mathematics and the Unexpected, drawing upon rich literary sources and current topics in math and physics such as chaos theory, information theory, and particle physics. Line drawings.