Differences between the instructions on beauty products across nations: France and Britain - published: 17/05/2009
Thesis - 5 pages - Journalism
Initially I didn't have any idea about the topic I wanted to talk about, but realizing that I had purchased many beauty products in Ireland and that I used to read its directions, I decided to take more of an interest in it. I just thought it was pretty funny to read these instructions without...
Designing a centrifugal pump for agricultural purposes - published: 17/05/2009
Thesis - 7 pages - Journalism
The purpose of this project was to calculate the dimensions of a centrifugal pump, for a determined application, to write a report and then to make an oral presentation, in English, to an auditorium. Therefore, this is a complete project from the choice of the specifications with documented...
Doing business with Egyptians - publié le 16/05/2009
Thesis - 6 pages - Journalism
If you are eager to do business or to invest in a foreign company, you have to be aware of some things about how is the business environment in the country you choose and how is the reality. That information is mainly related to the economy, culture, legislative and political fronts. That means...
The Blue Grass Band - published: 16/05/2009
Thesis - 2 pages - Journalism
The internship started mid- January and lasted until the end of May. We worked as an independent team for the Bluegrass Band. The primary objective of this internship was to provide the band with three dates for them to perform in California, especially in Los Angeles and San Diego. Indeed the...
Maurice A. Bercof - The Art of Negotiating - publié le 16/05/2009
Thesis - 6 pages - Journalism
Maurice A. Bercoff is a Bachelor of Law, PhD in Economics and a Statistics graduate; and fluent in four languages. He developed his systematic approach to negotiations in Harvard, Wharton Business School and the Kennedy School of Government. He has more than thirty years of experience (in Europe...
Suitable area for Paris to get a French global city region - publié le 16/05/2009
Thesis - 9 pages - Journalism
As Saskia Sassen well defined it, a global city region is a region that “overlaps the global city” . Today, it can be admitted that Paris has a lot features that make this city close to a “global city”, such as the central corporate functions, and the “highly specialized...
Asian business culture - publié le 16/05/2009
Thesis - 9 pages - Journalism
Since the last decade the Northeast Asian economies such as Japan, South Korean and Taiwan have had a remarkable growth and an important development into world-class economic powers. They have emerged from an “array of political and social challenges such as world and civil wars, massive...
The British monarchy as of 2008 - publié le 15/05/2009
Thesis - 6 pages - Journalism
The British monarchy is a shared monarchy which can trace its ancestral lineage back to the Anglo-Saxon period. The British monarch or Sovereign is the Head of state of the United Kingdom and in the British overseas territories. So the British monarch is also head of state of sixteen other...
The UK food market - publié le 15/05/2009
Thesis - 37 pages - Journalism
The population of UK is set to increase by over 2 million to almost 62 million over the next 10 years. Increased life expectancy and declining birth rates are leading to an increasingly elderly population and this trend is set to continue as the large numbers of 'baby boomers' reach...
Essay about sin city (Franck Miller & Robert Rodriguez) - publié le 14/05/2009
Thesis - 5 pages - Film studies
I am going to talk about Sin city, an action, detective and all in all fantastic film released in 2005, directed by Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez, and Quentin Tarantino (but only for the sequence in Dwight's car, in which he talks with the policeman Jackie, while he (Jackie) is dead). Sin city...
The BBC - publié le 14/05/2009
Thesis - 3 pages - Journalism
Everybody, even one who has never seen or listened to an Anglophone broadcast, has alteast once, heard of the British Broadcasting Corporation, the famous ‘BBC', or the nicknames ‘Beeb' or ‘Auntie'. In fact, the BBC is the biggest broadcasting company in the world, with 26,000...
Thomas Frank's "What's the matter with Kansas?" - publié le 14/05/2009
Thesis - 6 pages - Journalism
Introduction Thomas Frank has been deeply astonished and revolted with the myth of the “two-nation” America which has been cultivated by various opinion makers - especially popular journalists. This observation motivated him to look for this true America that so many op-eds and public...
Barbara Ehrenreich's "Nickel and Dimed" - publié le 14/05/2009
Thesis - 5 pages - Journalism
As a response to both Bill Clinton's introduction of the “Welfare Reform” putting an end to what he called “Welfare as we know it” and to the journalistic tendency of writing articles on the people far from the ground, Barbara Ehrenreich - of course a bit forced by her editor...
The tourism industry in India: A general overview
Tutorials/exercises - 40 pages - Journalism
Tourism is a very complex industry due to its multiple activities that satisfies the need of the tourist. Tourism includes transportation, accommodation, food, catering, tourist attraction as well as organizers like tour operators and travel agents. Moreover, a tour consists of different...
British press - publié le 12/05/2009
Thesis - 2 pages - Journalism
The Quality Press: Most famous and important serious newspapers in Britain are: 1. The Daily Telegraph 2. The Guardian 3. The Independent 4. The Times The different format: Originally newspapers had a broadsheet format. Such as Daily telegraph which is one of the only two remaining British...
What is the right balance to strike between freedom of and restrictions upon artistic expression?
Essay - 1 pages - Arts and art history
Dictionaries commonly define the concept of censorship as a reality that certain texts (especially books), images, films or shows should be banned. Censorship is a form of regulation, created by the law, wherein books, letters, films, and other works of art have to be submitted to an examination...
Modernity of African music
Thesis - 5 pages - Journalism
People listen to music for different reasons. For me it's an introspective individualistic process. I examine the artists' lyrics in hopes that their expression will help me learn more about myself and life, in general. For others, music is the notes strung together to compose an orchestra. For...
The American TV series as an entertainment product (2007) - publié le 11/05/2009
Thesis - 4 pages - Film studies
In September 2006, the traditional film du dimanche soir was deposed on the first two hertziennes French channels by three TV series. These three TV series are American ones: CSI (Les Experts), Without a Trace (FBI, portés disparus) and ER (Emergency Room, Urgences). After having being seen as a...
How satiric is Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal"? - publié le 11/05/2009
Thesis - 4 pages - Journalism
Satire, as defined by Bennett and Royle, is “the humorous presentation of human folly or vice in such a way as to make it look ridiculous” . It generally retains the appearance of rigorous logic, buttresses premises and arguments supported by formally correct proofs and eventually leads...
The godfather: Francis Ford Coppola's master piece
Essay - 3 pages - Film studies
Before adapting Mario Puzzo's roman, the Godfather, to cinema, Francis Ford Coppola had very little legitimacy in Hollywood and had everything to prove. After months of bitter fights against the Studios which produced the film, the Godfather was eventually released in 1972 to an impressed...
Salt of the earth
Essay - 1 pages - Film studies
The upheaval triggered by Salt of the Earth may come as a surprise to the modern viewer. As the New York Times film critic of the time put it: "it is somewhat surprising to find that Salt of the Earth is, in substance, simply a strong pro-labor film with a particularly sympathetic interest in the...
The ballad of Gregorio Cortez
Essay - 1 pages - Film studies
The intrigue of the film ?The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez' may seem casual and unexceptional to the modern viewer, even though it is based on a breathtaking true story. The film was shown in theaters in 1982 and didn't meet with great success, despite a paradigmatic plot of the spirit and...
Ridley Scott, George Lucas and Tim Burton: their visions of architecture in their Sci-fi films
Essay - 2 pages - Film studies
Being allowed to do an essay on three different film-makers is an opportunity not only to analyze their different ways of seeing the city and its architecture, but also of showing it through their movies. I have voluntarily chosen to compare three Anglo-Saxon film-makers who have very different...
The US cinema industry (2005) - publié le 09/05/2009
Thesis - 3 pages - Film studies
When I try to imagine a typical American family, the first image which comes to mind is that of a perfect family with beautiful (their teeth have to shine) and rich parents and beautiful and healthy children, who live happily in a small house somewhere in the countryside in a small village. A...
"Nixon and the prisoners of war", 7th January 1971, New York Review of Books, by Jon M. Van Dyke - publié le 08/05/2009
Book review - 2 pages - Journalism
This is an article published in 1971, on January the 7th, in The New York Review of Books. Written by Jon M. Van Dyke, this article deals with the Nixon administration policies about the prisoners of war during the time of Vietnam War. According to Jon M. Van Dyke, the US government uses the...
Complicity in Heart of Darkness - publié le 08/05/2009
Thesis - 3 pages - Journalism
On November 15 1884, the representatives of fourteen European powers and a plethora of ambassadors gathered in Berlin to decide the fate of colonial Africa. From 1884 to 1909, 5 to 21 million Africans (about 50% of the population of the Congo Basin) perished. Such collective palliation of the...
The errors of the Puritans - publié le 08/05/2009
Thesis - 7 pages - Journalism
The document we're going to talk about today is a set of extracts from Richard Hooker's work Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity written in 1593 (the 3 dots suggest that they were cuts in the text). Actually, this is his main work and it consists of eight books that were published during the...
Comment on the article "Can India fly?", from The Economist n°8480, 2006 - publié le 07/05/2009
Thesis - 4 pages - Journalism
"Indian Business has much to celebrate", says the author of the article "can India fly?—now for the hard part", published in the june 3rd 2006 edition of The Economist. India has been recently swept by great optimism, thanks to its phenomenal economic growth. Indian GDP growth hit of 7% in...
Ambivalent London: "Match Point", Woody Allen - publié le 07/05/2009
Thesis - 8 pages - Film studies
Match Point is a movie which was directed by Woody Allen in 2004. It was shot in London. This movie tells the story of Chris, a man looking for a new life. Throughout the movie he seems to find it. As a coach in a private tennis club, he becomes friend with Tom Hewett before going out with his...
Walter Ong, orality and literacy - publié le 07/05/2009
Thesis - 3 pages - Journalism
Walter Wong's Orality and Literacy provides the reader, who by definition is a member of the literate world, with insights into the rich oral cultures that spawned the chirographic (writing) and the typographic (print) cultures that followed. In a world steeped in literacy for many centuries,...
