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13 janv. 2014
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Marital Rape: A Crime or a Conjugal Right?

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

Marital rape has been defined in various ways depending on how an individual perceives it. Individuals considering marital rape as a crime frequently define it as a non-consensual sex in which perpetrator and victim are spouses (Bennnice & Resick, 2003). Some authors have also defined it as a...

13 janv. 2014
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Probation in the United States

Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies

Karp (2002) argued that probation in the United States can be said to have originated from English criminal law during the middle ages. During these times, both adults and children were punished in the same harsh manner for crimes that were sometimes not very serious. It was common during the...

13 janv. 2014
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Socio Economic Factors Influencing Delinquency

Case study - 7 pages - Educational studies

Contemporary delinquency theories can be deployed in supporting economic deprivation as a contributing factor in elucidating many crimes, though it is directly linked to property crimes like theft (Borraz & González, 2011). However, this does not imply that the cause-and-effect association...

09 janv. 2014
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Anglo-Zulu War

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

In their quest to conquer as many countries as possible, the British engaged in a number of wars. Some of these wars claimed the lives of thousands of soldiers, while others were won with minimal loss of lives. The British found strong opposition in some battles and were either were defeated or...

09 janv. 2014
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Partnership Confliction

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

There are actually 3 partners that held vital role in the company, one of the partners, his name is Alex, and whereby holding a big share in the small business company he shows bossy, his own ego and being assertive and never listen to his partner and disobey the rules of partnership agreement,...

07 janv. 2014
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The Consequences of World War Two

Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies

A shift in the world axis of power is seen as the major result of the war. Power shifted from Europe because most of the countries had been crippled by the war and their economies were left yearning for intervention. The war had taken place against a backdrop of world depression which made it...

06 janv. 2014
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Violence of the British oppression and how Gandhi answered to it

Case study - 10 pages - Educational studies

Concerning the study of the nationalist movement in India several series of studies followed one another. It seems however in a general way that the study of the nationalist movement in India suffered from an often excessive attention carried to Gandhi leading to neglect the importance of the...

06 janv. 2014
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British civilization

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

South Africa was a country colonized by a lot of European people such as The Dutch people (the Boer and Afrikaners) and the British.This period of colonialism was the target of several battles, and one of the most famous is the Anglo-Boer War (1988-1902), which was a bloody war and a lot of...

06 janv. 2014
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Knowledge Economy

Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies

It is to analyze the market by incorporating the notion of knowledge, long ignored economics. Have focused on issues of social interactions (exchanges) that are at the heart of concerns. Indeed, microeconomics (the theory of individual shares) standard (Walras, French economist of the nineteenth...

02 janv. 2014
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Margaret Sanger: the woman who launched the sexual liberation in the United States

Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies

Margaret Sanger is born on September 14th 1879 in the State of New York. She is the daughter of Michael Henessey Higgins and Anne Purcell Higgins. She was the sixth of a family with eleven children. She followed a nursing program at White Plains Hospital in 1900. Two years later she married...

02 janv. 2014
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Is there a dependency between the weather and the number of traffic collisions?

Case study - 17 pages - Educational studies

The major problematic of our assignment is trying to find if a relation between the weather and the number of traffic collision exists. In order to answer to this question, we had access to data from "MétéoSuisse" and "Police neuchâteloise". The weather data contains multiple variables such as...

27 déc. 2013
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Oral de BAC : Global cities - publié le 27/12/2013

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

A global city is a city having a strategic position in diverse domains, mainly economic, political and cultural at the world level and establishing a dynamic node of communications. Global cities as London, the second world city after New York, and Shangai, the fifth, are the leaders in the world...

27 déc. 2013
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Oral de BAC : Global cities

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

A global city is a city having a strategic position in diverse domains, mainly economic, political and cultural at the world level and establishing a dynamic node of communications. Global cities as London, the second world city after New York, and Shangai, the fifth, are the leaders in the world...

27 déc. 2013
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Linguistic Relativity and Cultural Context

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis about linguistic relativity suggests that the differences in languages cultural and cognitive encodings affect how people think. In other words, speakers' thinking style is defined by the cultural context which shaped the language they use. The power of language on...

27 déc. 2013
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An Estate and Retirement Plan

Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies

It is of utmost importance to have a personal financial plan. By having a plan, you can avoid financial hardships and troubles in the future. A personal financial plan includes many goals. As we reach different stages in our lives our financial situations change. With this change comes a need to...

27 déc. 2013
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Humans: the Duplication of God?

Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies

Cloning is the procedure of “manufacturing” a duplicate of a genetic being. In genetics, cloning refers to the procedure of creating the same replica of the DNA of a being. Due to the cloning of the Dolly sheep President Bill Clinton in May 1997 requested the National Bioethics Advisory...

27 déc. 2013
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Canada in the "Trudeau years"

Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies

What is the Canada today? What are its values? What is its identity? What is political culture? What are its gaps? What is a Canadian? It is impossible to answer these questions without referring to the man who has deeply permeated the brand Canada: Pierre Elliot Trudeau. Born in Montréal in 1919...

18 déc. 2013
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Computer Forensics Laboratory and Computer Investigations Training

Case study - 10 pages - Educational studies

Computer forensics refers to the use of a computer expert program to collect, interpret, preserve, analyze and produce data from either volatile or non-volatile media storage devices. It is a branch of digital forensic science that is related to examining digital media in a forensic manner with...

18 déc. 2013
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Intelligent Computers

Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies

Intelligent computers are defined as machines that involve the use of intelligence and computer science concepts to execute various tasks initiated by the user. Intelligent computers are systems that are able to perceive their environments and take actions that are meant to maximize the...

18 déc. 2013
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Farsi Language

Case study - 10 pages - Educational studies

The purpose of writing this essay will be to examine the various varieties of English that exist in Farsi language classrooms and also to determine the type of English language pronunciation that Iranian learners are aiming for and the interference of Farsi language in attaining the desired...

18 déc. 2013
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Learning from poor decisions

Case study - 5 pages - Psychology

Although there are different decision making processes, we will focus on the model of Bounded rationality. Making a decision implies going through the decision-making process which is divided into different steps. We have identified four steps which will be illustrated with concrete and clear...

13 déc. 2013
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Eye problems caused by technology

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

The human eye, profound and unique is its design. The human pupil adjusts constantly, thousands of times during one day, adapting to light and the proximity of things looked at in the places visited. No doubt, though, this world has drastically changed since the eye was designed and created. In...

13 déc. 2013
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Death and Freedom

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

In a perfect world we wouldn't have to make a choice between empathy and morality, but this world isn't perfect. This essay sets out to prove that while euthanasia, including assisted dying and mercy killing, is a difficult and sometimes impossible choice to make, we should respect and honor the...

13 déc. 2013
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Passion and its different effects

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

In both Lillian Hellman's Toys in the Attic and Dan Baum's Nine Lives the characters seem to display a feverish passion concerning their interests, but the way their passion is put to use is what distinguishes them, as well as our feelings towards them. While Hellman's depiction of Carrie...

13 déc. 2013
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Psychosis, and Mood/Affective Disorders Case Analysis Paper

Case study - 1 pages - Psychology

The following describes the case study of the abnormal, violent and extreme behavior of an individual that suffered from pathological depression while taking a prescription drug that is a known selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor or SSRI known as Prozac (Barbui, Esposito, & Cipriani, 2009)....

13 déc. 2013
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Intelligence testing article analysis

Case study - 2 pages - Psychology

In the enduring and progressive field of the sciences, including the scientific study of the many dimensional factors of the brain, tangible, quantitative, qualitative, reliable, and verifiable data are regarded factual truth pertaining to yielded research information. Research data is derived...

13 déc. 2013
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Psychological Disorder: Somatoform Disorder

Case study - 2 pages - Psychology

Psychological disorders are irregularities within the mind and brain that negatively impact people and individuals worldwide. There are numerous categorizations, classifications, and descriptions of psychological disorders however even with today's modern scientific research capabilities and...

13 déc. 2013
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Gun control- To pull the trigger?

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

Gun rights advocates, or the people who believe laws should not become stricter and changes should not be made on gun use, trust that the greater good of the nation's rests when guns are more commonly used, and are used for the right reasons. As one argument, pro gunners use the second amendment...

13 déc. 2013
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Organ Transplant

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

Medical science has developed vastly to the extent that organ transplants are a routine practice in various hospitals. Unfortunately, the present techniques of procuring human organs are not meeting the demand (Thomas, 2001). A new strategy, the commercialization of the organs for transplantation...

13 déc. 2013
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Communicating in a Field Research

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

There are various personality traits dominant in individuals in the society. On of the most common traits in technical roles is that of introversion. This trait is common in most workplaces and it negatively impacts verbal communication tendencies among employees. Depending on an employee's role,...