Can justice exist on the Internet?
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
The Internet has changed fundamentally our ways of living. Research director at Inria Gérard Berry tells the story of how he used to organize a party: he had to call all of his friends one by one and tell them to call their own friends, and so on. Nowadays, one Facebook message is enough ! The...
Choosing careers in health care for job security
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Despite slow recovery of economy battered by recession followed by credit crunch, overall poor economic growth and unstable stock markets, job prospects in health care is bright in the USA, UK and many other countries. In fact, health care is a very demanding sector where career growth is...
Civilizing Europe: Historical trends in violent crime
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
We have two articles which were written by Eisner in 2003 and 2008. In the first one, we focused on theoretical approaches which explain the decline of violence in the long-term. It is clear that if you look back over the last centuries, we can observe a huge decrease of violent behaviors. The...
Globalization and social class - John H. Goldthorpe
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
This text is an article written by J. Goldthrope, about social class in the context of globalization. According to the author, we can differentiate concepts from theories of globalization. There is a mere economic definition of globalization: a process by which economic activity is increasingly...
Manuel Eisner (2003 and 2008)
Case study - 1 pages - Educational studies
In these two articles, Manuel Eisner is interested in the analysis of the evolution of the violence within the societies and especially within the Western European one. He decides to take the stand of describing the “real changes in behavior rather that methodological artefacts”. For...
Is there a fragmentation of Economic and Social Rights between the Council of Europe and the European Union? Why does it matter?
Case study - 7 pages - Educational studies
After World War Two, there was all over the world and especially in Europe, new hopes for international and regional law. The Declaration of Philadelphia in 1944 which is still the foundation of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), as well as the Council of Europe (CoE) in 1948, the...
How computerized work and globalization shape human skills demands - Frank Levy and Richard J. Murnane
Case study - 1 pages - Educational studies
This text is a paper which was written by F. Levy and R. J. Murnane in order to understand a phenomenon which characterizes globalization, especially in western societies: the disappearance of works which can be made by computers or workers in developing countries (smaller wages). This process...
Can a war be just?
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
What is a just war? By definition, a war is “using an arming force to resolve a situation of conflict between two or more organized communities: clans, factions, states. It is, for each of the opponents to force the other(s) to submit to his will “(Little Larousse's definition). Thus,...
Meeting report
Case study - 1 pages - Educational studies
Monday 11 February, we organized a meeting on issues related to the development of Small Island Developing States (SIDS). For this, a mayor organized the debate between people : scientists (biologist, climatologist, environmentalist), teacher, tourist, businessman, fisherwoman, small and big...
The BP oil spill - Macondo Blowout crisis
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
This brief aims to investigate the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010 in regards to proper crisis planning, communication and management to ensure smooth business continuity after such a critical incidence. The notion that crises have a recognizable life cycle is a constant theme...
Foyle's women aid sexual violence campaign
Case study - 15 pages - Educational studies
Nowadays, domestic violence and more particularly sexual violence is a subject of numerous reflections in our society. People are more and more concerned by this taboo subject. Society is constantly evolving and now, sexual violence is a part of many people's daily lives. This phenomenon...
Indian economic crisis - publié le 03/04/2013
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
The roots of the 1991 currency crisis in India can be seen during the entire decades that precede it. As a matter of fact it lies in the large and persistent macroeconomic imbalances that developed over the 1980s. A close examination of the government expenditures, over the 1980s, suggests that...
Indian economic crisis
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
The roots of the 1991 currency crisis in India can be seen during the entire decades that precede it. As a matter of fact it lies in the large and persistent macroeconomic imbalances that developed over the 1980s. A close examination of the government expenditures, over the 1980s, suggests that...
The acceptance of homosexuality in France
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
These days, France has attended mass protests concerning the issue of the acceptance of homosexual families. Indeed, on the one hand, there are proponents of gay marriage, and another anti gay marriage. The state is in the middle of this conflict, and seeks to pass legislation that could...
International market developing: Culture dialogue under the background of globalization
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Globalization is the process of nations integration in a global economic space. However, globalization does not only apply to economics.Indeed, globalization is also the cultural field. Culture in globalization then two meaning: The first is the circulation of cultural products such as...
How is migration contributing to and reflecting the challenges of globalization? - publié le 02/04/2013
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
In the past few years, cultural and social conflicts broke out in different places of Northern countries. As it generally occurs in periods of economic and social crisis, the migrants were generally marginalized: either they were excluded by the society because of their differences (it was one of...
Go to the paddle tail route: Sometimes it's just the best way to go
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
As bass anglers we all are looking for ways we can catch more fish, many of us go the route and try to cover more water faster hoping to pick up as many bass as we can as quick as we can. We fish with fast moving lures such as spinnerbaits, topwater lures, and crankbaits, often fishing them fast...
Complexity of chronic asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: implications for risk assessment, and disease progression and control
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
This article is extracted from the LANCET and was published in September 2008. It deals with asthma and COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) and particularly about their risk assessment, their progression and their control. Two most common chronic respiratory diseases but their...
Why is popular piety so strong in Ireland?
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
This video shows the arrival of the Pope John Paul II in Ireland on the 29 September 1979. This video clip is an extract from the live broadcast of this event by the national television channel RTE2. It seems clear that the purpose of such wide broadcast was to permit to the whole Ireland to...
Sample letter to a friend
Case study - 1 pages - Educational studies
The phenomenon of climate change is as old as the planet earth itself. For ages, the temperature at the surface of the earth has varied, triggering many different climatic eras: Earth has hitherto known five ice ages, and the first of them is estimated to have happened around 2.4 to 2.1 billion...
What's European about Europe?
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
The text we have is an article written by James Wickham in April 2003, and revised in 2004. In this article, the author gives us a brief analysis of the European Social Model, pointing up its potential and its weaknesses. All along this text, he interrogates about the different forms this model...
What are the implications of climate change for development?
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
The phenomenon of climate change is as old as the planet earth itself. For ages, the temperature at the surface of the earth has varied, triggering many different climatic eras: Earth has hitherto known five ice ages, and the first of them is estimated to have happened around 2.4 to 2.1 billion...
Amnesty and illegal immigration
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
The contentious concept of amnesty for illegal immigrants in US is one that is deep rooted in the history and culture of the American nation, a fact authenticated by the fundamental foundation of the nation by early European immigrants and “melting point” phenomena. The word amnesty,...
Meanings and attitudes attached to cohabitation in Poland: Qualitative analysis of the slow diffusion of cohabitation among the young generation - Monika Mynarska and Laura Bernardi
Case study - 1 pages - Educational studies
In this paper, Monika Mynarska and Laura Bernardi are trying to understand why the number of non-marital cohabitation is much lower in Poland than anywhere else in Europe, where it strongly increased for the past thirty years. They report that even though people choosing cohabitation used to...
Application letter
Case study - 1 pages - Educational studies
I am presently a second year student in ________ and I would like to apply to studies in an international exchange project. Thus I submit my application for the year ______ to your examination. This year abroad will be for me the realization of a long-standing project : give to my studies and my...
Approaches for managing indiscipline of pupils and students in primary and secondary schools' settings
Case study - 7 pages - Educational studies
Observation of the situation in the society these days would buttress the fact that it is characterized by several menaces such as: prostitution, armed robbery, bunkering, street violence/demonstration, thuggery, drug trafficking, kidnapping, raping; terrorism, swindling, just to mention few. It...
Natural bodybuilding
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Nowadays, most bodybuilders use different kinds of supplements rather they compete or not. Natural bodybuilders use none. They accept the limits of their own body and only use what can be found in a daily and healthy diet to increase their performance. They NEVER use drugs or supplements. Using...
What for Hobbes was the 'natural condition of mankind' and why did it necessitate the Leviathan state? - publié le 18/02/2013
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Thomas Hobbes is a British philosopher, born in 1588. Among his prolific work, one book will become one of the major founder pieces of the modern political thought; Leviathan (1651). In this work, Hobbes writes about the natural condition of mankind, and its consequences. He thus joins the...
What for Hobbes was the 'natural condition of mankind' and why did it necessitate the Leviathan state?
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Thomas Hobbes is a British philosopher, born in 1588. Among his prolific work, one book will become one of the major founder pieces of the modern political thought; Leviathan (1651). In this work, Hobbes writes about the natural condition of mankind, and its consequences. He thus joins the...
What's European about Europe? Potential and weaknesses of the European social model - James Wickham
Case study - 1 pages - Educational studies
This text studies the case of the European Social Model. James Wickham defines and proves the existence of the European Social Model. His main idea is that this model is the main feature of the Europe's definition. He adopts the commonly recognized idea that you cannot define something otherwise...
