Sales Training in Christian Dior, London
Thesis - 8 pages - Educational studies
As part of my second year ESSCA, I was asked to do an internship in the marketing function, either in the sales department, or in the purchase section. The goal is to have a direct relationship with a customer or a supplier (BtoB or BtoC), to participate actively and be essential to the...
The Treatment of Jews in Morocco
Thesis - 4 pages - Political science
Jewish history in Morocco dates back as far as 70 CE under the rule of the Roman Empire. Just prior to World War II, the Jewish population in Morocco hit its peak of 225,000 people. Today, the Jewish population of Morocco does not even number 5,500. It strikes me as very interesting that the...
Government undermines the Movement and Targets of the Black Panther Party
Thesis - 5 pages - Political science
The 1960s was a very active decade for the Civil Rights Movement. The Movement lost activists such as Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and President Kennedy was assassinated. The sixties was also a time of protests and riots. The civil rights movement repeatedly appealed to the federal government...
Being a Man in Ancient Rome
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
“The Etruscans, early Rome's powerful neighbors to the north, were known to have an interest in Greek pederasty and were one of the chief export markets for Athenian vases displaying pederastic themes.” (Hubbard 2003, 308.) It is difficult to tell whether Romans adopted this same...
Huawei: An Analysis of the company's strategies and success in UK market
Market study - 10 pages - Business strategy
"Huawei has been a success in the UK (United Kingdom) market, but has not left the kind of impression that it has left in some of the other markets. Huawei has been at the forefront of constant innovation and new product design. The entry of the company in the UK market was marked by the year...
Walking in the City Old West: The Performing Gamer and Red Dead Redemption
Case study - 18 pages - Literature
In this ethnographic moment, blogger Michael Abbott recalls the first of his many violent encounters with an anti-Semitic shopkeeper in Rockstar Games‘ Western title Red Dead Redemption (2010). He notes the Groundhog-Day-like quality of his experience: every five days, he returns to the...
Uncertainty management processes- (Collective cases from Hydro)
Case study - 115 pages - Management
Modern life is inherently uncertain - from the moment of our birth to the unknown moment of our death. Certainty has never been more elusive than in today's tumultuous times. In recent decades we have lived through shocks such as the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the...
Mindfulness is awareness of relevant information
Case study - 1 pages - Educational studies
Mindfulness is awareness of relevant information. Constant sensory input without the proper means of handling it leads to a fragmented, less effective human being. A focused, mindful person understands what information is most important to their goal and pays attention to their own actions....
Things Fall Apart
Book review - 1 pages - Literature
Chinua Achebe presents a powerful and thought-provoking account of the native tribes of Nigeria over the course of several years and the startling events that come about as a result of a perpetually changing world. It is the story of Okonkwo, a fierce warrior-like clan member, and his children,...
Understanding the Shakespearean Opus from authors Stefan, Giles, and Nicholas works
Case study - 4 pages - Literature
It is evident that Shakespeare intended to garner audience appeal while eliciting human emotions (Giles 14). In his most notable works, Shakespeare touches on all aspects of the human nature including love, hate, stigma, moral attributes of good versus evil, tragedy, greed and lust....
The Role of Sexuality and Race in This Earth of Mankind
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
“In the end the issue is always the same: European against Native, against me. Remember this well: It is Europe that swallows up Natives while torturing us sadistically…Eu-r-ope…only their skin is white. Their hearts are full of nothing but hate.” (Toer, This Earth of...
I Love Not Loving You
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
Any author to have ever written, from poetry to prose to every other genre in-between has been confronted with one universal question: where do you get ideas for your characters? And really, the answer is just as universal. It is impossible to create a completely original character, for the...
"Similarities in Dean Koontz's Hideaway and Bram Stoker's Dracula"
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
To say there are similarities between the novel Hideaway by Dean Koontz and Bram Stoker's Dracula is an understatement - there are so many plot, character and thematic parallels, with very little derivation on Koontz's part it is nearly the same story. First, the character of Vassago, or Jeremy...
All Quiet on the Western Front
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
Eight and a half million people dead and another 20 million injured, it was a disaster unparalleled in human history. There was nothing great about this "Great War" except for the death and destruction. Erich Maria Remarque's novel, All Quiet on the Western Front describes the pointlessness...
The Effects of Christ
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
One of the central themes of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, is love. Stowe felt that love could bring an end to the evils of slavery, and be a redemptive force. There is one character in this novel that embodies complete, unfaltering, and unconditional love: this character is Eva...
The Deceit of Ghosts
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
The concept of family t presently, as the world has grown smaller, children no longer have and loyalty to family has been a virtue in nearly all times and cultures of this world. Albeithe need to embrace their parents as they once did. Yet in Ibesn's play Ghosts, the parent-child relationship is...
Book review: All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
All throughout time, since man was first given the ability to write, countless novels have been written on almost every subject conceivable. When it comes to literature on history, an infinite number of subtopics become available. Some examples include, war, peace, types of governments,...
Marketing in Major League Baseball
Case study - 6 pages - Services marketing
Even before the Boston Red Sox won the World Series, people were religiously collecting their merchandise. Now, with the onslaught of newly marketed “2004World Champions” merchandise, there are even more t-shirts and hats to go around. Yet, this obsession goes beyond apparel. In the...
How dangerous are the lyrics in rock music?
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Music is an important part of people's lives because it has the ability to change one's mood, inspire one to become what he/she desires, motivate one to reach for his/her goals, and help one relate better to others. However, with good comes the bad because recent studies have shown that the...
Tool or trifle: The moral question of style
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
“You know not what hurt you do to learning that care not for words, but for matter, and so make a divorce betwixt the tongue and the heart.” (Roger Ascham) I am thirteen. Almost every afternoon I shove a book in my pocket, a hat on my head, and I wander out into the scurry-flurry of a...
A study into the history of Southern Labor Unions with an emphasis on race and gender
Essay - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In David Roediger's Wages of Whiteness, the reader is introduced to the author by an autobiographical introduction that paints the picture of a white adolescent growing up in the turbulent South. The author tells of his experiences with race in a small southern town near St. Louis where locals...
Andrew Jackson: Trial reflection
Essay - 7 pages - Modern history
Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767 in Lancaster County, straddling the state line of both North and South Carolina. Although both states claimed Jackson as their own, he himself always stated that South Carolina was his home. His parents were Presbyterian Scottish-Irish immigrants and...
What are the main causes of social exclusion?
Thesis - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Shot in black and white cinema verity style, Hate (La Haine) follows a day in the life of three aimless, violence-prone, ethnically-diverse young men who hail from the same decaying housing project in Paris. Mathieu Kassovitz won the Best Director prize for this realistic movie at the...
Why has the Franco German partnership played such a pivotal role throughout the development of the European Community
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
After the end of the World War Two, France and Germany experienced hostile relations. Indeed, from 1945 to 1950, the two countries were both traumatized by the souvenir of their mutual occupation. On the French side, the Nazi's occupation had created a feeling of revenge, and on the German's one,...
"What is queer theory and how does it explain the production of knowledge about sexuality?"
Essay - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Introduction Applied to homosexuals, queer was initially a term of homophobic abuse, and while it retains that meaning, it is also now used as a neutrally descriptive term. (As an ethnic label, black has made the same semantic journey.) Queer is also provocative: a pejorative and stigmatizing...
Reputation versus business
Thesis - 4 pages - Journalism
When rapper Nas Escobar and entertainer Sean “Puffy/P.Diddy” Combs recorded the video to the song “Hate Me Now”, Puffy backed out after a copy of the video was sent to MTV and asked Nas' manager and Interscope Records executive Steve Stoute to remove the part of the...
H & M's strategy
Thesis - 11 pages - Business strategy
H&M offers fashion apparel while maintaining a focus on low prices. The company has more than 1069 stores spread across 21 countries. All H&M stores are owned and solely run by H&M. The company has approximately a hundred designers who work with a team made up of 55 pattern designers, about 100...
The Alliance Theater : A case study
Tutorials/exercises - 54 pages - Business strategy
Team Alliance initial objective is to focus on the key points that would help us gain more knowledge regarding the motivations and decision-making processes of the Alliance Theatre's 18-35 year old target market. Currently, Alliance Theatre's patrons are composed of 35-50 years old, more females...
The influential music of Puerto Rico
Thesis - 6 pages - Journalism
The music of Puerto Rico is more than a positive or negative influence, though it is more of a reflection of self, of emotion, and the lifestyles of the more poor than famous. This music, being partially responsible for the influences of the Spanish and as well as the American culture, has...
Mimetic rivalry in 'Envy' and 'Safe conduct'
Thesis - 8 pages - Literature
Mimetic desire is the desire of an object, not because of a rational choice to fulfill one's own needs, but instead because that object fulfills the needs of a rival subject. It is meta-desire, desire of someone else's desire. Mimetic desire develops out of an attempt to imitate the rival...
