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The text is adapted from the 1949 Geneva Conventions. Any breach of the law is bound to be committed by one or more individuals and it is normally they who must answer for their acts. Nevertheless, if the author of the act contrary to international law is an agent of the State, which is indubitably the capacity of members of the armed forces who take others prisoner or are responsible for guarding them, it is not his responsibility alone which is involved, but also that of the State, which must make good the damage and punish the offender. To the extent, however, that individual men and women acquire “international” rights and obligations as they do in connection with the laws and customs of war, so are they invested with the capacity of committing international offences, for which they personally may be held responsible, as well as the State to which they belong.
According to the text, under the Geneva Conventions, who or what of the following could be held responsible for violation of the rules of
war?
The text is adapted from the 1949 Geneva Conventions. Any breach of the law is bound to be committed by one or more individuals and it is normally they who must answer for their acts. Nevertheless, if the author of the act contrary to international law is an agent of the State, which is indubitably the capacity of members of the armed forces who take others prisoner or are responsible for guarding them, it is not his responsibility alone which is involved, but also that of the State, which must make good the damage and punish the offender. To the extent, however, that individual men and women acquire “international” rights and obligations as they do in connection with the laws and customs of war, so are they invested with the capacity of committing international offences, for which they personally may be held responsible, as well as the State to which they belong.
According to the text, under the Geneva Conventions, who or what of the following could be held responsible for violation of the rules of war?
The following is an excerpt from Jane Austen’s novel Mansfield Park (1814). The novel’s protagonist, Fanny Price, returns home after many years of living with her wealthy relatives at Mansfield Park. Of her two sisters, Mrs. Price very much more resembled Lady Bertram than Mrs. Norris. She was a manager by necessity, without any of Mrs. Norris’s inclination for it, or any of her activity. Her disposition was naturally easy and indolent, like Lady Bertram’s; and a situation of similar affluence and do-nothingness would have been much more suited to her capacity than the exertions and selfdenials of the one which her imprudent marriage had placed her in. She might have made just as good a woman of consequence as Lady Bertram, but Mrs. Norris would have been a more respectable mother of nine children on a small income.
According to the text, Mrs. Norris is
The following is an excerpt from Jane Austen’s novel Mansfield Park (1814). The novel’s protagonist, Fanny Price, returns home after many years of living with her wealthy relatives at Mansfield Park. Of her two sisters, Mrs. Price very much more resembled Lady Bertram than Mrs. Norris. She was a manager by necessity, without any of Mrs. Norris’s inclination for it, or any of her activity. Her disposition was naturally easy and indolent, like Lady Bertram’s; and a situation of similar affluence and do-nothingness would have been much more suited to her capacity than the exertions and selfdenials of the one which her imprudent marriage had placed her in. She might have made just as good a woman of consequence as Lady Bertram, but Mrs. Norris would have been a more respectable mother of nine children on a small income.
According to the text, Mrs. Norris is
The trillion-dollar question is, when the ink dries, will the European Union be listed in the chapters of current events? Or will it be relegated to the annals of academia, its skeleton but a diplomatic case study of oil and water, its ashes little more than a Kennedy School lecture on the perils of collaboration between square pegs and round holes?
What is the main concern of the text?
The trillion-dollar question is, when the ink dries, will the European Union be listed in the chapters of current events? Or will it be relegated to the annals of academia, its skeleton but a diplomatic case study of oil and water, its ashes little more than a Kennedy School lecture on the perils of collaboration between square pegs and round holes?
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“I’m Nobody! Who Are You” is a poem by Emily Dickinson, published in 1890.
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know!
How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one’s name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
“I’m Nobody! Who Are You” is a poem by Emily Dickinson, published in 1890.
I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there’s a pair of us! Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one’s name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog!
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
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The following text is adapted from William Shakespeare’s 1609 poem “Sonnet 12,” in which he addresses another person.
When I do count the clock that tells the time,
And see the brave day sunk in hideous night;
When I behold the violet past prime,
And sable curls, all silvered o’er with white;
When lofty trees I see barren of leaves,
Which erst from heat did canopy the herd,
And summer’s green all girded up in sheaves,
Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard,
Then of thy beauty do I question make,
That thou among the wastes of time must go
What is the main idea of the text?
The following text is adapted from William Shakespeare’s 1609 poem “Sonnet 12,” in which he addresses another person.
When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; When I behold the violet past prime, And sable curls, all silvered o’er with white; When lofty trees I see barren of leaves, Which erst from heat did canopy the herd, And summer’s green all girded up in sheaves, Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard, Then of thy beauty do I question make, That thou among the wastes of time must go
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