Foundations are important. There is a Biblical parable about two builders. One builder builds his house on a solid foundation. When storms come, the house remains standing. The other builder builds his house on the sand. When storms come, the house falls. The truth conveyed here is that those who choose to lead a life in accordance to God’s word labor not in vain; whereas, those who choose to a...

As a result of technological changes, copyright norms have developed in opposition to existing copyright law. In this article we examine how copyright enforcement efforts, mainly lawsuits against private copying, may induce further copyright disobedience by reinforcing the moral and social beliefs against conventional copyright law. In this paper we review recent theoretical and empirical studi...

Over half a million people have died of opioidrelated overdose in the U.S. since 2000. As of 2014, an estimated 774,434 people inject drugs in the U.S., the majority of whom inject opioids including prescription opioids and heroin. The prevalence of HIV and hepatitis C virus among people who inject drugs in the U.S. is 2% and 43%, respectively. With the U.S. in the midst of an opioid epidemic c...

Abstract Social unrest is a powerful mode of expression and organized form behavior involving civil disorders acts mass disobedience, among other behaviors. Nowadays, signs most social start from the media websites, such as Twitter, Facebook, etc. In recent times, Nigeria has faced different forms unrest, including popular #EndSARS, which began on Twitter with demand that government disband Spe...

<p><em>Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi oleh penggulingan pemerintah sipil Myanmar junta militer pada 1 Februari 2021. Setelah kudeta militer, jutaan warga melakukan demonstrasi damai di seluruh negeri dan memprotes kembalinya pemerintahan yang terpilih secara demokratis. Penolakan komunitas pro demokrasi terhadap memunculkan gerakan masyarakat bertujuan untuk memulihkan Myanmar. Pen...

Australia, along with nation-states internationally, has entered a new phase of environmentally focused activism, globalised, coordinated and social media–enabled environmental movements seeking to address human-induced climate change related issues such as the mass extinction species land clearing. Some protest groups Extinction Rebellion (XR) have attracted significant political, media popula...

Optimality Theory (OT) is a formal linguistic model in which grammars consist of a universal set of violable constraints that are ranked in a language-particular hierarchy. Lower-ranked constraints are often forcibly violated in order to improve satisfaction of higher-ranked constraints. The optimal or most harmonic pronunciation of a given word is that output candidate which best fulfills the ...