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12 déc. 2012
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A legal perspective on digital property: Laptops in United States customs and border protection

Case study - 29 pages - Educational studies

In this paper we will strive to answer several legal questions regarding the search and seizure of digital property at the United States border by U.S. customs officials. In a hypothetical scenario, a defendant crossed the border with illicit materials such as child pornography saved in a folder...

29 nov. 2012
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Cybernetics: Enhancing the self and society

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

Brain implants are the gateway to making high science fiction reality; a technology that can increase the capabilities of human beings, something that can build upon the abilities already inherent and then even add some more. Utopias where mental illnesses don't exist wouldn't need to be read...

29 nov. 2012
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Soccer

Worksheets - 2 pages - Sports

“Some people believe football (soccer) is a matter of life and death. I'm very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.” - Bill Shankly Everyone has different hobbies that they are passionate about, and find entertaining or...

29 nov. 2012
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Theory comparison paper

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

The basics of this situation are that two people, Jack and Jill, met through their mutual friend, Brian. Jack and Jill become close friends very quickly and start spending a lot of time together. Eventually, Jack develops romantic feelings for Jill; however, he is afraid to reveal his secret to...

29 nov. 2012
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Alternate modes of personal travel

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

Purdue's campus in West Lafayette is trying to achieve something that at this moment in time seems impossible. They are trying to make it a bus-free campus. However, given how public transportation has became a part of life just as much as breathing and eating it is understood that this is a task...

29 nov. 2012
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Privacy is a matter of knowledge

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

The idea of companies keeping tabs on us through technology is something that up until a few years ago was reserved solely for conspiracy theorists and science fiction writers. Thoughts that our computers were filming everything we were doing, that vending machines were actually Chinese spy bots,...

29 nov. 2012
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Human augmentation and its impacts on society

Case study - 15 pages - Educational studies

Within this paper, the implications or reasons for supporting human augmentation are discussed. Facts are presented about our current technology that allow for human augmentation, as well as hypothetical reasons why people are for or against future technologies that can make human augmentation...

28 nov. 2012
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Sample curriculum vitae

Sample letter - 1 pages - Educational studies

It is with great pleasure that I write and express to you my interest in your intriguing medical writing opportunity. My hope is that after you read this letter, and review my CV, you will appreciate the unique skills that I possess, and my potential to be an invaluable asset to your company....

26 nov. 2012
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General outline for a targeted cover letter

Sample letter - 1 pages - Educational studies

(Your Contact Info) - Be sure to include your name, address, phone number (Business Info) - Be sure to include the company name, address, phone number if applicable and what department's attention it is going to. Dear Mr./Ms. Last Name: In your opening paragraph yourself and reference the...

26 nov. 2012
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College without a cell phone

Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies

Students across the United States of America enjoy talking on the phone. This is a known fact. Many students also enjoy texting on the phone to friends, parents and peers. This comes as no surprise to teachers who have caught student's texting their friends, parents and peers multiple times in...

26 nov. 2012
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Strength, pride and soul

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

“They said we could take only what we could carry, so we carried strength, pride, and soul.” This is the introduction to the book, Only What We Could Carry, which talks about the lives of Japanese Americans during the turbulent time of World War Two. With only minutes to pick out what...

26 nov. 2012
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And the ground shook: Natural disasters

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

Natural disasters have been occurring since the beginning of time. The earliest recorded natural disaster was recorded in the year 1138 (Willis, 1928). It happened in Syria, Aleppo. An earthquake killed 230,000 men, women and children; and those are just the deaths that we know about (Willis,...

23 nov. 2012
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Gender inequality in the workplace: One of America's many workplace challenges

Case study - 4 pages - Psychology

What does the number 60,743 mean to you? Most people wouldn't be able to place this number off the top of their head. According to the author of The Face of Discrimination, by Vincent J. Roscigno, that is the number of cases of sex and racial discrimination cases of employment. (15). These are...

22 nov. 2012
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Environmental quality and concern in selected neighborhoods in Stockholm Municipality

Case study - 15 pages - Educational studies

Three different neighborhoods in Stockholm Municipality were chosen to compare whether lower income groups had less or more concern on the environment than high income neighborhoods. These districts were Ostermalm (High income), Hammarby Sjostad (Middle income) and Rinkeby (low income). These...

20 nov. 2012
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Techno fitness

Case study - 12 pages - Sports

The new line of exercise equipment that I decided to create is a range of innovative fitness products. Very interactive and fun, the line includes an elliptical trainer, a treadmill and a stationary bike apartment that brings much more innovation than the existing market. This includes a LCD...

16 nov. 2012
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External environment and social responsibilities

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

A big influence on internal business environment is the external environment. No business can choose to ignore the outside factors, if it aims to succeed in the today's corporate world. Corporate culture should embody what it takes to succeed in the environment. If the external environment...

16 nov. 2012
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Group formations

Case study - 3 pages - Psychology

A group can be defined as an association of two more individuals who interact and work independently to achieve particular objective. Groups can be further divided into two categories, formal and informal groups. Formal groups being those groups that are formed by an organization, whereas...

16 nov. 2012
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Smoking case study

Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies

The article “Illicit Smokes up 25% since tax rise” by Eli Greenblat talks about the effects of increase taxes on the illegal trade and smuggling of cigarettes in Australia. It was published on March 1, 2011; exactly a year after the Australian government increased the taxation on...

08 nov. 2012
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Principal of sociology

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

Famous American sociologist C.Wright Mills explored how sociology should be studied by the individual's perspective this is now known as Sociological imagination. According to Exploring Sociology “sociological imagination is defined for the ability to perceive how dynamic social forces...

05 nov. 2012
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Pride of Baghdad: Humans and lions

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

Brian Vaughan's Pride of Baghdad tells the story of a pride of lions, escaped from the Baghdad zoo, and the horrors of the humans' war they are suddenly thrown into the middle of. Vaughan uses anthropomorphism to tell the story: each lion has a distinct personality, as do the other animals they...

05 nov. 2012
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Bonobo sex: A review approach

Case study - 9 pages - Educational studies

Primates of the Pan genus belonging to the Hominidae family in the haplorhines that fall under Pan paniscus are commonly known as bonobos, a species that is commonly compared with chimpanzees. Their geographic distribution consists of lowland rainforests and grassland habitats located primarily...

05 nov. 2012
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A fatal attraction: Animal performance in Kafka

Case study - 8 pages - Educational studies

A careful study of some of Franz Kafka's most well-known creatures, and an exploration into the fantastical worlds in which they inhabit, will serve to open up an understanding of them that departs from a human-based appraisal. The pieces up for examination indispensably include his famous...

19 oct. 2012
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Deforestation in Indonesia

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

Deforestation in Indonesia has quite a long history and is currently of major national concern. Recent estimates identify the rate of deforestation in Indonesia at between 1.6 million and 2.5 million hectares per year. (Nawir et al 2007 pg 16) While this deforestation is linked to the industries...

18 oct. 2012
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Archaeologies of Gender

Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies

Anthropology is a field which is constantly evolving and which constantly needs to be checked for proper procedure, language, interpretation, and ethics. In Socio/cultural Anthropology, essays are frequently written to aid anthropologists in remaining neutral and not reporting a biased...

10 oct. 2012
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Why does caste play such a prominent role in Indian politics?

Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences

India is widely seen as one of the most promising emerging power in the world with China. The country is the largest democracy in the world; it has benefited from a strong economic growth over the last decade and counts more than a billion inhabitants. However India will have to face several...

09 oct. 2012
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Sample cover letter for internship

Sample letter - 1 pages - Everyday's life

As a French student pursuing a degree at the Political Science Institute in Lille, France (Sciences Po Lille), I am required by my College to complete a year abroad for my third year of undergraduate studies, either in a foreign university or on an internship. The internship seemed an obvious...

05 oct. 2012
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Developmental stages and the development of abstract thinking

Case study - 5 pages - Psychology

In the life time of this author, they have witnessed personally the developmental stages in their life. Luckily, the author is now a student of psychology and understands and can describe their developmental history using physical/cognitive and psycho social examples in their life stages. These...

05 oct. 2012
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Corporate governance and ethical responsibility research paper

Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies

One of the top internal stakeholders within a hospital would have to be the actual doctors that run the day to day life of the patients. They make the ultimate decisions in split seconds that can save or lose the life of a patient. Doctors do make a lot of money but they can also be careless if...

25 sept. 2012
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Sungkyunkwan University

Case study - 15 pages - Educational studies

Before our departure to Korea, I already had a great image of the summer session. And when I lived it, it was much more exciting and interesting than expected. That's why I recommend it to all students who like Asia and who want to experience it. Interesting courses were combined with...

21 sept. 2012
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Gender conflict and domestic violence in country western music

Case study - 9 pages - Educational studies

A woman is abused by her domestic partner every nine seconds in the United States, according to the Family Violence Prevention Fund1. Even though domestic abuse is thus extremely common and frequent, it is rarely alluded to in music, with the notable exception of the country western genre....