Big Tech, Inc. is a large private company based in Columbia, Missouri. Big Tech Inc. wishes to build a laboratory near Mizzou that would be used to develop new products that would help the general public, and this laboratory would be open to the public for general use. Big Tech wants to build the new laboratory on a vacant lot near campus that is currently owned by a Columbia resident named Susette Velo. Big Tech approached Velo and offers to buy the real estate from her at a price that is well above the fair market value of the land, but Velo refuses to sell the property because she does not want them to build the laboratory. Could Big Tech, Inc. use any of its constitutional rights to force Velo to give up her land? 

The tort of trespass to personal property is committed when someone temporarily exercises control over another person’s personal property and deprives the rightful property owner from controlling their property for a temporary period of time.  

David is concerned that his clients and coworkers are reacting toward him in a negative way. You are a coworker of David’s and recently overheard two of  David’s clients talking about changing to a different professional because David’s fingernails are often not clean and his hair not well styled. In order to help your friend and also avoid offending him with specifics, how would you BEST advise David?

A parent telling their child which one of the following is most clearly an example of direct instruction?

True or false? The #1 reason why children continue to play youth sports is because it’s fun to them.

A second grader gets scratched by her neighbor’s cat and runs home crying to her mom. The only other cat she’s been around is her grandmother’s cat, which also scratched her the last time she saw it. The little girl tells her mom she doesn’t like cats because they are mean. This is a good example of which characteristic of concrete operational thought?

True or false? A child with a BMI in the 87th percentile would be considered obese.

A third grade teacher asks the students in her class to research 10 different animals found in zoos and rank them from lightest to heaviest. This is a good example of which characteristic of concrete operational thought?

My daughter is putting together a puzzle. She has put the outer edges together all by herself, but she’s having trouble with the middle pieces. I suggest that she organizes the pieces by color first, helping her start, but letting her finish on her own. When she puts together the next puzzle, she organizes the middle pieces by color all by herself. This is most clearly an example of

An 8 year old soccer player passes the ball to a teammate and runs towards the goal anticipating a pass back for an open shot. This strategic planning is most clearly an example of which type of benefit of youth sports?