Taming Of The Shrew Comparison - 934 Words

Comparative Essay The Taming of the Shrew and 10 things I Hate About You The Taming of the Shrew was written by William Shakespeare in 1593. It describes the life of Katherina, the difficult older sister who few people were willing to marry, and her younger sister Bianca, with her many suitors lining up to marry her. The play was later adapted into a movie in 1999 by Touchstone Pictures which was named 10 Things I Hate About You. The movie follows Kat and Bianca in high school, where they face the same problems as Shakespeare’s original characters. In the movie there are many similarities between it and Taming of the Shrew. However, there still are many differences, which can be seen throughout the plot, the characters and the†¦show more content†¦As Shakespeare’s play was set in Italy quite early on, all the names were different to those we have today. The two main sisters have the same names in both productions as there is no need to change them. Patrick and Cameron in the movie had have their name changed from Petruchio and Lucentio. Bianca and Katherina’s father was called Baptista in the play, but his name was changed to Walter for the movie. A couple of the supporting roles in the movie that have not been mentioned, include Michael, known as Tranio in the play, who shows Cameron around on his first day of school. He also helps with persuading Patrick to try to date Katherina and with providing information to Patrick about Katherina. In the play Tranio and Lucentio (Cameron) swap places so that Lucentio can tutor Bianca, giving him a chance of dating her. Katherina’s best friend Mandella does not play a role in the play, but in the movie, she is one of Katherina’s only friends. She forms a relationship with Michael later on in the movie. Gremio and Hortensio were combined into one character for the movie, who are played by Joey. Joey is an overly-confident popular kid in the movie who only wants Bianca for his own pleasure. 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A Woman And A Nail - 1294 Words

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Law Act of Interpretation

Question: 1 . Explain in plain English the practical implications of the decision of the Federal Court in Waensila v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2016] FCAFC 32 (copy attached). 2. What principles of statutory interpretations (if any) were utilised by the Federal Court in this case? Answer: 1. Introduction: This question is related with the practical implications of the decision that was delivered by the federal court in Waensila v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection.[1] In this decision, the court has overturned the interpretation of schedule 3 of the Department of Immigration and Border Patrol as the court was of the opinion that the interpretation adopted by the department was overly strict and at the same time, it was not supported by the law. In this case, the appellant was the citizen of Thailand and his wife was Australian. When you make an application for the partner visa, the applicant did not have a substantive visa. In the same way, the applicant did not satisfy criterion 3001 according to which, it was required that the application for partner visa should have been lodged within 28 days of the expiring of his visitor visa.[2] The result was that the applicant tried to prove that compelling reasons were present for waiving the requirements prescribed by schedule 3, however he was unsuccessful. In this regard, it was argued by the Department that the minister was only confined to considering the compelling reasons that were present when the application was made by the applicant. In view of this construction, any compelling reasons cannot be considered that were related with the events or the circumstances that took place after the applicant had made the application for a partner visa. Therefore while the applicant mentioned is fear of persecution to lodge a fresh application if he were to return to Thailand because he was a Thai muslin citizen. The applicant also expressed his view that he may never be able to reunite with his wife if he was made to return to Thailand. In this regard the applicant mentioned his wife's illness and the need for continuous medical attention as well as the fact that the wife was dependent on the applicant financially. But in this regard, the Department came to the conclusion that these circumstances did not exist when the partner visa application was made by the applicant and as a result, they cannot be considered as the compelling reasons for waiving the schedule 3 criteria. However the court did not agree with the interpretation of these regulations by the Department. First of all, the court stated that there was nothing in the words of the relevant sections which confined the consideration of the decision-makers to only the compelling reasons that were in existence when the application was made by the applicant.[3] Secondly, the court stated that it was obvious that the purpose behind the waiver power was to provide flexibility while dealing with the cases where the compelling reasons for not putting some of the applicants to the hardship of the requirement of leaving Australia. On the other hand, the court said that the strict interpretation adopted by the Department would seem to be contrary to the purpose of introducing this waiver power by the Legislature. The result was that the Court sent the case back for a re-hearing to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. It was seen that for some time, the applicants who were under similar circumstances, as t he applicant in the present case (unlawful noncitizens were applying for a partner visa) were generally refused the waiver of schedule 3 criteria and as a result, they had to go overseas for making the application. However in this case, all the three judges were of the opinion that there were no reasons due to which the circumstances can be limited, whether they favored the applicants are not, to the position at a time before the Minister considers that the exercise of such discretion is significant. In view of the fact that it has been nearly entirely left to the immigration Minister or a delegate to determine if sufficient compelling reasons are present for granting a waiver of the schedule 3 criteria, a strong message has been sent by the judges in this case that it is important that the decision should be exercised by keeping within the bounds of law. It can also be said that this decision is much more sympathetic towards the partner visa applicants as compared to the current po licy interpretation of the Department. Moreover, the decision will have a strong impact on how the schedule 3 is applied to the other applications. Therefore it can be said that the effect of this decision is to expand the grounds that can be relied upon by the applicants while they are applying for the waiver of schedule 3 criteria. At the same time, it also appears that as a result of this decision given by the Full Court, the chances for such applicants will increase to remain unsure while there application for visa is being evaluated. Moreover, the decision may also have a retrospective effect on the cases that have been decided previously by relying on the compelling circumstances that were present at the time of the decision. Although it is necessary that the relevant cases should be decided on the basis of the facts of each case but a power is present on part of the court to review the cases even after the lapse of the official review period of 35 days. Conclusion: In view of this decision, it is required that despite its current policy, the Department, as well as the Tribunals and the Courts will be under an obligation to follow this decision until and unless the cases overruled by the High Court. The effect of this position will be that while deciding the issue if the schedule 3 criteria can be waived in case of a certain applicants, the decision-makers will be under an obligation to consider a much wider scope of circumstances. 2. Introduction: While arriving at its decision, the Full Court had relied upon certain principles of statutory interpretation when it stated that the effect of subclause 820.211(2)(d)(ii) is that the compelling reasons on the basis of which, the waiver of schedule 3 criteria has been claimed, need to be considered that were present when the circumstances arose. The effect of this interpretation was that despite its current policy, it has become obligatory for the Department and Tribunal to consider the circumstances that were in existence when the application was being considered and not only the compelling circumstances that existed when the applicant had made the application. It has been mentioned in this sub-clause of the Migration Regulations,[4] that the schedule 3 criteria can be waived only if it is the opinion of the Department that there are compelling reasons present for not applying the criteria. However generally the practice adopted by the department was to consider only the circumstanc es that were in existence when the application was lodged. However, the effect of this practice was that the compelling circumstances that came into existence after the applicant had already lodged the application and have been raised before the Department or the Tribunal as the circumstances have a significant impact on the situation of the applicant, were not considered when such an application was assessed. But the effect of the approach adopted by the Full Court when it stated that a temporal limitation has not been imposed by the law regarding the compelling circumstances that can be taken into account while dealing with the matter of schedule 3 criteria waiver.[5] The effect of this interpretation adopted by the Court was that the circumstances that arose after the visa application has been lodged by the applicant, can also be considered by the Department and as a result, it was not only confined to the circumstances that were present when the applicant had made the application for the grant of visa. Conclusion: Therefore, in view of the statutory interpretation that has adopted by the Full Court, it is necessary that the Department and the Tribunal should consider the circumstances that arose while the application was being evaluated and not only the circumstances that existed when the application was made. Bibliography Acts Interpretation Act 1901 Migration Act 1958 Migration Regulations (Amendment) 1996 No 75 (Cth), Explanatory Statement Migration Regulations 1994 Waensila v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2016] FCAFC 32 [1] Waensila v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2016] FCAFC 32 [2] Migration Act 1958 [3] Acts Interpretation Act 1901 [4] Migration Regulations 1994 [5] Migration Regulations (Amendment) 1996 No 75 (Cth), Explanatory Statement

Slavery Essays (857 words) - Slavery In The United States, Slavery

Slavery A large majority of whites in the South supported slavery even though fewer of a quarter of them owned slaves because they felt that it was a necessary evil and that it was an important Southern institution. In 1800 the population of the United States included 893,602 slaves, of which only 36,505 were in the northern states. Vermont, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey provided for the emancipation of their slaves before 1804, most of them by gradual measures. The 3,953,760 slaves at the census of 1860 were in the southern states. Eminent statesmen from the earliest period of the national existence, such as Thomas Jefferson and George Washington regarded slavery as evil but necessary. Individuals and groups of people of almost all sects defended slavery. On the whole, antislavery views grew steadily; but many who personally held strong antislavery opinions hesitated to join actively in abolitionist agitation, unwilling to dispute what many citizens held to be their rights. Those Southern whites who didnt necessarily like slavery supported it because they felt it was the Souths right to be able to have slavery. Slavery thus became an increasingly Southern institution. Abolition of slavery in the North, begun in the revolutionary era and largely complete by the 1830s, divided the United States into the slave South and the free North. As this happened, slavery came to define the essence of the South: to defend slavery was to be pro-Southern, whereas opposition to slavery was considered anti-Southern. Although most Southern whites did not own slaves (the proportion of white families that owned slaves declined from 35 percent to 26 percent between 1830 and 1860), slavery more and more set the South off from the rest of the country and the Western world. If at one time slavery had been common in much of the Americas, by the middle of the 19th century it remained only in Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the southern United States. In an era that celebrated liberty and equality, the slaveholding Southern states appeared backward and repressive. This drew most Northerners into the abolitionist moveme nt not so much for the behalf of slaves, but how slavery made the United States look. Despite this, the slave economy grew rapidly, enriched by the spectacular increase in cotton cultivation to meet the growing demand of Northern and European textile manufacturers. Southern economic growth, however, was based largely on cultivating more land. The South did not undergo the industrial revolution that was beginning to transform the North; the South remained almost entirely rural. In 1860 there were only five Southern cities with more than 50,000 inhabitants (only one of which, New Orleans, was in the Deep South); less than 10 percent of Southerners lived in towns of at least 2500 people, compared to more than 25 percent of Northerners. The South also increasingly lagged in other indications of modernization, from railroad construction to literacy and public education. For these reasons, many Southerners felt that slavery was all too necessary because their agrarian economy was based around it. Many feared that the abolition of slavery would result in a Southern economic collapse. The biggest gap between North and South, however, was ideological. In the North, slavery was abolished and a small but articulate group of abolitionists developed. In the South, white spokesmen, from politicians to ministers, newspaper editors, and authors, rallied around slavery as the bedrock of Southern society. Defenders of slavery developed a wide range of arguments to defend their cause, from those based on race to those that stressed economic necessity. They made heavy use of religious themes, portraying slavery as part of God's plan for civilizing a primitive, heathen people. For a white Southerner to go against slavery would also go against Southern society and religion. Increasingly, Southern spokesmen based their case for slavery on social arguments. They contrasted the harmonious, orderly, religious, and conservative society that supposedly existed in the South with the tumultuous, heretical, and mercenary ways of a North torn apart by radical reform, individualism, class conflict, and, worst of all, abolitionism. This defense represented the mirror image of the so-called free-labor argument increasingly prevalent in the North: to the assertion that slavery kept the South backward, poor,