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Showing 1 to 20 of 118 for “"misrepresentation"”.
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Misrepresentation of Islam and Muslims in Canadian media: a comparative content analysis of major news outlets
… which is often fueled by mass media’s misrepresentation of Islam and Muslims. Using quantitative and qualitative content analysis headlines were taken from The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, and National Post. The findings revealed that Muslims and Islam continue to be negatively …
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The impact of material non-disclosure and misrepresentation in South African insurance law : a comparative study
… the Long-term Insurance Act 52 of 1998 deal with misrepresentation, and denies the parties to the insurance contract of the common law right to cancel the policy on the ground of misrepresentation, unless such misrepresentation is material. Both Acts did not define what is material and to what …
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Misrecognition and Misrepresentation: A Critical Analysis of the Trajectory of Migrant Students - F1 Students, in the U.S.
<p>The influx of migrant students in the United States is reported to have increased considerably between 2022 and 2023. They are a significant asset to higher education in the U.S. and are authorized to study by the Department of Homeland Security. Despite their migratory legality, restrictions in …
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War in present tense : filming children of Agent Orange rehabilitation villages in Vietnam and the danger of misrepresentation
We represent the Vietnam War as a concluded event in the past; however, the Agent- Orange-affected population in Vietnam shows that war is contemporary. This population remains relatively unknown to the world - especially to the Western world. We are isolated from the Agent-Orange-affected …
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Reforming the Law on Warranties, Disclosures and Misrepresentation in Cypriot Marine Insurance: Should Cyprus Follow the UK’s Insurance Act 2015?
… areas of the law namely warranties, misrepresentation and disclosure. The thesis focuses on evaluating the UK Insurance Act 2015 (IA) and asks whether Cyprus should follow this legislation or determine its own path. The background hypothesis however stands that Cyprus is in need of …
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Misrepresentation and Construction of Meaning in Translation of News Texts in the Context of Conflict and Intervention: the Application of Systemic-Functional Linguistics
This study presents an analysis of misrepresentation and construction of meaning in the translation of news texts in the English and Russian news media. The texts analysed are published online by the U.S. and Russian media. They discuss events in contexts of sociopolitical instability, military …
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A comparative critical analysis of the concepts of error and misrepresentation in English, Scottish, Islamic, International Contract Law, and Palestinian Draft Civil Law
Although the laws of error and misrepresentation have a decisive impact on contract and contractual relationship, existing studies of Islamic jurisprudence, and the CISG have occasionally discussed or considered these fundamental topics. These legal systems do not assume the obvious approach found …
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The assessment of damages for delict in South African and German Law, with special regard to loss of use and fraudulent misrepresentation inducing a contract
This thesis deals with the question of how the existence and extent of damage, as well as well the proper amount of damages, · are to be determined in the case of delict. To answer this question most legal systems have developed different rules and principles which do work satisfactorily in most …
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Liability for negligent misstatement inducing a contract in South Africa and Germany
The law in the area of negligent misrepresentation has undergone major changes during this century, in the legal systems of both South Africa and Germany. Which remedies does one have if financial loss is caused because another made a false statement'> The legal system in South Africa stands in the …
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Liability for negligent misstatement inducing a contract in South Africa and Germany
The law in the area of negligent misrepresentation has undergone major changes during this century, in the legal systems of both South Africa and Germany. Which remedies does one have if financial loss is caused because another made a false statement. The legal system in South Africa stands in the …
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Righting and Re-Writing The Blueprint: The creation of an Afrofuturistic television series and a self-sustaining television network to disrupt the misrepresentation of the Caribbean Family in British Television Drama
This autoethnographic practice-based thesis maps the diminishing representation of the British Caribbean Family in British Television Drama, particularly the absence of the One African Family framework and the overall invisibility of the Black presence in British History. This thesis further …
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Re/presenting the self: autobiographical performance by people with disability
… of disability. The resultant tradition of misrepresentation effectively reduces disabled people to the specificities of their physical or cognitive differences, erasing or rendering invisible the disabled self. Written autobiography by people with disability offers a productive …
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When does the conduct of an employer infringe on an employee's constitutional right to privacy when intercepting or monitoring electronic communications?
… has been obtained under duress or based on misrepresentation of facts. It is contended that the interception of employees electronic communications in such circumstances would be regarded as an infringement of such employees right to privacy. The burden of proving duress or misrepresentation …
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What You See is What They Want You to See: South African Newspaper Constructions of Female Offenders
… to sensationalist reporting which results in the misrepresentation of female criminality. Many researchers have highlighted how the media portrays woman offenders and their stories and the effects of such portrayals, however, this has not been done in South Africa. This study aimed to identify how …
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Guidelines to ensure Māori Data Sovereignty in the ICT sector of Aotearoa New Zealand
… resulting in insufficient Māori control, data misrepresentation, continued systemic inequities, and the potential misuse of culturally significant data. Key barriers identified include a lack of Māori involvement in decision-making processes and limited representation in leadership positions …
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Limited liability and piercing the corporate veil: a comparative evaluation of U.S. and Saudi laws
… clear guidance on factors such as fraud and misrepresentation, outlining the circumstances under which they will apply PCV, although U.S. law lacks coherence on veil piercing.</p> <p>Furthermore, the study suggests broadening the circumstances under which Saudi courts may pierce the corporate …
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The Progression of African American Representation in Film and Television
… traits. This had led to numerous forms of misrepresentation of African Americans that ultimately perpetuated racial stereotypes and bias in society. Fortunately, the filmmakers and showrunners of today have included nuanced representations of African Americans who face everyday problems …
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Agricultural policy analysis under costly enforcement : an economic analysis of cheating
… enforcement, and the greater is farmer misrepresentation under an output subsidy or a decoupled area payment scheme. Reduced enforcement and increased misrepresentation result in lower government payments required for a given surplus to be transferred to producers. The reverse is true …
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Three Essays On Interfirm Interdependence And Firm Performance
… essay addresses the performance consequences of misrepresentation of interdependence structures in the alliance context using an agent-based simulation. The results suggest that the misrepresentation of interdependence structures plays an important role in determining performance consequences of …
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"The Thing Became Real": New Materialisms and Race in the Fiction of Nella Larsen
… Larsen mobilizes concepts of misrecognition and misrepresentation through characters’ encounters with materiality in order to challenge ideologies of race and gender. Significantly, Larsen’s stories and novels form an intertextual relationship not only with each other as a fictional body of work, …
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