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Author : Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was a famous English novelist of the 19th century, known for his vivid characters and powerful social commentary. He wrote classics like Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, and Great Expectations. Dickens often highlighted the struggles of the poor and criticized social injustice in Victorian England. His storytelling combined humor, drama, and deep compassion, making him one of the greatest writers in English literature.

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26 nov. 2010
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Pathe: Internal and external analysis of the company

Thesis - 70 pages - Film studies

Pathe is a French movie company. This company was founded as Societe Pathe Freres in Paris in 1886, by four brothers: Charles, Emile, Theophile and Jacques Pathe. First, thanks to Charles Pathe, the company became a major producer of phonograph records. Then he decided to extend his...

15 nov. 2012
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"A tale so plausible, so boldly uttered": Reading the Popish Plot in Nahum Tate's The History of King Lear

Case study - 9 pages - Literature

On March 21, 1681, King Charles II appeared before the British House of Lords to deliver a speech regarding allegations of a Catholic plot against him, which had enveloped England in yet another storm of religious furor. An Anglican clergyman named Titus Oates had initially brought the...

07 févr. 2011
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Examining Brain Myths and Folk Psychology in Flowers for Algernon

Thesis - 3 pages - Psychology

In today's world, an individual's IQ (intelligence quotient) is a common measure of their cognitive ability. This cognitive ability can make them successful in education and in the workplace. In the United States, individuals in prestigious positions have a generally higher IQ (Sternberg, 1996)....

25 janv. 2025

To what extent do the challenges of post-conflict reconstruction expose the limits of the "Liberal peace"?

Essay - 4 pages - International relations

In their 2020 book War and Peace, Charles-Philippe David and Olivier Schmitt states that "The end of the conflict does not automatically mean the establishment of peace". In the present case, in the context of this study, this statement is all the more relevant when the expected peace is...

05 janv. 2025

France in NATO, in practice, not in principle?

Essay - 9 pages - Political science

In August 2011, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France praised NATO's military intervention in Libya operation, calling the Alliance "an indispensable tool" . He added that the success of the operation justified his decision to integrate France into NATO's military command in 2009, ending...

20 oct. 2024

Comparative Rights and Legal Systems

Case study - 6 pages - Constitutional law

Numerous arguments concerning the right to bear arms have always been a topic of significant concern, especially in countries such as the United States and Mexico, where it bears clear cultural and legal value. According to Charles (2022), though the two countries have the citizenship...

13 janv. 2009
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Eros in fantasy

Thesis - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education

Our study of Eros in fantasy will be based on seven short stories (A. Bierce's The Death of Halpin Frayser, Ch. Dickens's The Signalman, Hawthorne's The Minister's Black Veil, P. Highsmith's The Snail-Watcher, H. P. Lovecraft's The Festival, R. Matheson's Born...

10 juil. 2009
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Confessions of self-displacement in Great Expectations

Book review - 2 pages - Literature

One sometimes suspects, while reading Great Expectations, that Dickens could have been good friends with Bishop Tutu. One of the particular satisfactions of the novel is the often tender justice meeted out for character's sins. Very few characters who actually appear for any length of time...

09 juil. 2013
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Summary note on definition of fair and equitable treatment

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

The MST has existed pursuant to the emblematic Neer case, in which the Commission held that “the treatment of an alien, in order to constitute an international delinquency, should amount to an outrage, to bad faith, to wilful neglect or duty, or to an insufficiency of governmental action so...

11 juil. 2013
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Evolution and its theories

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

There are dozens of theories to be had on evolution and its existence. However, there are far fewer about the rate of evolution and how this came to be. Specifically two theories have been created throughout the centuries by some of the greatest scientists of all time, Charles Darwin and...

30 août 2011
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Describing Pierre Elliot Trudeau

Essay - 5 pages - Political science

Joseph Philippe Pierre Ives Elliotte Trudeau, who prefers to be called Pierre Elliott Trudeau without the final e, in order to emphasize his bilingualism and biculturalism, was born in Montreal, Quebec on October 18, 1919. Trudeau was born into a poor family that lived on a small farm in...

14 déc. 2010
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Strategy of Air France: Analysis and recommendations (2009)

Case study - 38 pages - Business strategy

Born on August 30, 1933 by the consolidation of major French airlines ‘Societe Generale Air Transport,' Air Union, the International Company for Air Navigation, Air East and ‘Compagnie Generale Aeropostale', Air France formed the largest French airline company. In January 2000, the...

11 janv. 2024

Identity And Representation of Islam and Muslims in France in the Media

Case study - 3 pages - Journalism

In Japan, following an assault on a woman by a French tourist in the Minato district of Tokyo, several social media users claimed that the perpetrator of the attack was of "Maghrebi" origin. Despite a lack of evidence, several false claims were widely spread before the actual information was...

23 juin 2021
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SWOT Analysis - Burberry

Case study - 5 pages - Luxury marketing

Initially, in 1856, it was only the British tailor Thomas Burberry who made men's clothing such as coats and raincoats. Burberry clothes were intended for the wealthy of the time, given their quality and lust. Indeed, the British Royal family granted the brand this recognition in 1955, and...

15 janv. 2009
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Outline de Gaulle's vision of France's international role and discuss the ways in which his foreign policy sought to realise this vision

Essay - 13 pages - International relations

The immediate cause of Charles de Gaulle's resumption of power (1958-1969) was the Algerian War, which had brought France to the brink of civil war and destroyed the Fourth Republic. By ending the war, de Gaulle had the chance to resurrect his proposal, first elaborated at Bayeux in 1946,...

24 nov. 2021

Crimes Against Humanity And The Principles Of Legality: What Could the Potential Offender Expect?

Essay - 10 pages - International law

Les juges ne sont que la bouche qui prononce les paroles de la loi, des êtres inanimés qui ne peuvent ni en adresser la force ni la rigueur. " Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, L'esprit des Lois, Livre XI, Ch. III, 127 (1748). " If the interpretation of laws is evil, their obscurity,...

24 févr. 2010
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Alfred Hitchcock's 'Shadow of a Doubt'

Thesis - 1 pages - Literature

Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt is an indictment of the American middle class lifestyle. This is evident in two scenes which together act as a sort of point/counterpoint of lifestyles. One is the opening sequence of the movie, in which we as viewers are slowly introduced to Uncle Charlie,...

29 sept. 2010
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Orientalism in French painting in the first part of the 19th century through Women of Algiers in their apartment by Delacroix

Essay - 5 pages - Arts and art history

I have chosen to focus on ?Women of Algiers in their apartment' (1834) by Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863). He is usually considered the most important French romantic painter. His romantic mood led him to dream of the Orient (thanks to poems by Byron) before traveling in North Africa, in search...

04 déc. 2007
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Short Forms in Film

Essay - 2 pages - Film studies

Charlie Chaplin's The Immigrant (1917) is a slapstick comedy that also addresses social issues. The film has a simple plot with four main characters, one of them Charlie Chaplin. He plays a penniless foreigner who wins money from playing cards on a ship to America. He then meets Edna...

17 avril 2015
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Socialism : Brief study

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

The socialist thought, in its origins, linked to the ideas and proposals for social reform Robert Ower, Saint-Simon and Charles Fourier; aims a society where there is no private ownership of the means of production and it eliminates the differences between social classes and plans the...

02 nov. 2011
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Integration of E-business within the company - The Redoute

Internship report - 12 pages - Business strategy

The Redoute was created in the 1820s. In the past, it was a company specialized in woolen shadowing. Its founder, Charles Pollet, named it in honor of the street where the company was originally implanted, it was the street of “The Redoute”, in Roubaix, in the North of France....

29 sept. 2010
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Intercultural Management - example of the Intel companyin China

Case study - 10 pages - Management

A culture must have several characteristics: it must be adaptive, transgenerational, symbolic, shared, learned, and patterned. Culture influences relationships and interactions between people. Thus, each culture has specific habits and behaviors. In consequence, the interaction between two...

08 oct. 2015
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College education issues : My struggle with anti intellectual

Essay - 2 pages - Educational studies

Paul Stoller's writing “My Struggle with Anti-Intellectual” is an encouragement to students on their need to think critically. According to the writer, the Huffington post readers responded furiously towards the writing. Charles Murray who is a scholar within the American...

17 nov. 2015
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Introduction to marketing

Course material - 7 pages - Marketing theories

First marketing courses were given in the USA at the beginning of the 20th century, in 1902 at the Michigan University by E. Jones and in 1905 in Ohio State University by J. Hagerty. These economists were specialized in agricultural markets. With data from local governments, they taught a mix of...

21 avril 2014
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Cross-reference study on the notion of "Leadership"

Thesis - 16 pages - Journalism

Joan of Arc's public career lasted only for two years but her history has come down through the ages, so that each year, her courage is praised on May 1st. Why is this sixteen-year-old girl engraved in our memory in such an unforgettable way? Answering to this question amounts to go over her...

20 oct. 2010
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Lieutenant Commander Edward 'Butch' O'Hare: First Naval Aviator Medal of Honor Recipient of WWII

Thesis - 3 pages - Modern history

February 20, 1942 was just another day for then Lieutenant Edward “Butch” O'Hare. Stationed on the USS Lexington (CV-2), he was dispatched on a sortie to investigate some Japanese aircraft that had been detected 40 to 80 miles away from the carrier. O'Hare climbed into his F4F-3...

27 oct. 2010
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An Analysis of Citizen Kane

Essay - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education

Citizen Kane (1941) is the first film to be co-written, directed, produced, and starred in by the same man: Orson Welles. It tells the fictional story of newspaper mogul Charles Foster Kane, with many similarities to the life and story of real-life media tycoon William Randolph Hearst....

14 déc. 2010
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International business in India

Thesis - 6 pages - Business strategy

The Maharaja Mac is unique, this burger can only be found in India. The McDonald's Big Mac is among the best selling consumer products in the world; it is even used by economists to compare market conditions in different countries, each year economists publish a chart with the different prices of...

10 janv. 2011
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The Treaty of Utrecht (1713)

Thesis - 5 pages - Modern history

This text is an excerpt from the Treaty of Peace and Friendship signed in Utrecht on 11 April 1713 between France and Great Britain. This treaty precedes that of July 13, 1713 of the agreement between Great Britain and Spain. After fourteen months of arduous negotiations interspersed with...

10 janv. 2011
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Coca Cola vs. Pepsi: Analysis and comparison of strategies

Case study - 20 pages - Business strategy

We chose to make a strategic analysis of the two evergreen giants of the cola industry - Coca Cola and Pepsi. These two protagonists of the cola market make for an interesting study as they pursue different strategies in their operations. Initially, we present the two companies and the market...