Immigration in Japan
Essay - 8 pages - International relations
For several decades, Japan has been the only industrial country in the world that did not rely on immigration. Among the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) countries, Japan has the lowest percentage of immigrants. The Japanese government has recently launched various...
Why do foreign aid programs succeeded in some countries and failed in many countries? What should do governments and societies from donor countries to make foreign programs work?
Essay - 5 pages - International economy
In recent years, abundant literature has been released to determine whether or not foreign aid was useful and efficient in eradicating poverty and promoting economic growth in developing countries. Indeed, in the last few decades, the amount of foreign aid provided from developed countries to...
What should do both societies and governments from poor countries to liberate themselves from poverty?
Course material - 5 pages - International economy
It is very important to understand that societies and governments from poor countries play the most important role in their development. Indeed, they are the masters of the development and the eradication of poverty in their countries and developed countries cannot play this part instead of them....
Globalization and work: The role of trade unions in balancing globalization - publié le 14/05/2009
Thesis - 13 pages - International relations
The trade-union teams of a company, a branch or a territory, are confronted daily with the stakes in globalization. It is the case when, because of the saturation of the mobile telephony market in Europe, Mitsubishi closes its unity of Vitré to become established in China; when to increase its...
Alstom's TGV - publié le 14/05/2009
Thesis - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Nowadays, transport plays bigger part in our society. For the last century, the transport has not ceased.. That's why I've chosen to talk about this topic. I, particularly want to talk about a French company called Alstom. But this company is quite large and has many products based on...
The Geneva Convention
Thesis - 9 pages - International relations
Since the beginning of recorded history, efforts have been made to limit the behavior during war time. Moreover, there have been many attempts to codify the rules of the military conduct as well. For example: The Chinese warrior Sun Tzu in the 6th century BCE tried to put some limits in the way...
Dangerous liaisons: On the love-hate affair between the US and France - publié le 14/05/2009
Thesis - 6 pages - International relations
A quick look at the sheer number of French books written on the United States, whether it is on 9/11, Iraq, the environment, George W.Bush or any other foreign policy issue, shows how important is the United States for France. The opposite may not be so true. France is considered like one of...
Explain the historical specificity and contemporary relevance of culture - publié le 14/05/2009
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Today, we can buy a book from a vending machine, like soft drinks and snacks. Germinal and an Ice-Tea have the same value. Culture, in a wider sense, has been taken over by the “spectacular-merchandizing-society”, for which everything, from a book to an iPod, has a trade value. The...
The Australian aboriginal culture - publié le 14/05/2009
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The Aborigines are native Australians, the first population of the country. They have been living there for more than 40,000 years and are one of the oldest populations in the world. Several archeological studies have been carried out, but they have not been able to find a concrete explanation to...
Importance and limits of the influence of ethnic lobbies on US Foreign Policy: The case of the Armenian-Americans' impact on US relations with Azerbaijan - publié le 14/05/2009
Thesis - 16 pages - International relations
The US is a nation of immigrants and the diversity of the constituencies is represented in the functioning of its political institutions. Indeed, not only is it considered legitimate for the interest groups to interfere with the decision making process, but the foreign policy does not constitute...
Is bureaucracy uncontrollable? - published: 14/05/2009
Thesis - 4 pages - Political science
More and more people are complaining about bureaucracy. Indeed, if we take the example of the current French debate about the European Constitution, we can see that a lot of politicians are ascribed to Brussels bureaucrats; the difficulties people are facing, such as unemployment, delocalization...
Translation report: Recipe language - published: 14/05/2009
Thesis - 12 pages - Social, moral & civic education
It is true that England is not reputed for its cuisine. Perhaps it is significant that there is no real equivalent for the expression bon appétit in English (waiters only say “enjoy your meal”). However, there are different specialties in England such as the famous English breakfast...
The chinese health system
Essay - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In the early decades of Communist China, the country used to be praised by the World Health Organization as it had set up as an example for developing countries for its great achievements in its health system, notably in rural areas, where it covered the major party of the population. The system...
The fair trade trend, an explanation - publié le 13/05/2009
Thesis - 9 pages - Economy general
The current functioning of the world economy suffers from more and more blatant imbalance which affects particularly the producers of tropical farm produces, the victims of the agro-industrial politics based essentially on the returns and the profit. The prices and the conditions of purchase...
Culture & leadership - publié le 13/05/2009
Thesis - 12 pages - Social, moral & civic education
First of all, it is necessary to have a clear and simple definition of culture. So, “culture can be defined as all the behaviors, arts, beliefs and institutions of a population that are passed down from generation to generation. Culture has been called "the way of life” for an entire...
"Reserve army of underemployed - Is China's pool of surplus labour drying up?" The Economist, September 4th 2008
Text commentary - 5 pages - International economy
Published in the September 4, 2008 issue of The Economist, this article is based on "Reserve army of underemployed - Is China's pool of surplus labor drying up? According to the article, China's growth model has been based on its cheap labor force, supported by its huge population. The...
The Ramsey-Cass-Koopmans model - publié le 13/05/2009
Thesis - 7 pages - Economy general
The Ramsey-Cass-Koopmans model is an economic model resembling the Solow model. The purpose of this paper is to outline the model with government, and assess the effects of government spending being tax or bond financed. We will see a result stating that it does not matter whether government...
The goddess and Mary the mother of Jesus
Thesis - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Syncretism means the merging of different forms of belief or practice. The word comes from the description of the fusion of Cretan cities, and is often used in the religious context to describe how new religious and spiritual ideas moving into a culture merge with the ideas that already exist in...
The Anti-Christ in the Bible
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
There are many figures in history, legend, and myth that tend to capture the imagination of people from different times and places. One such figure is the Antichrist. There is a general belief that the Antichrist is clearly identified in the Bible as a figure who will return, be identified, and...
Adam and Eve: A historical perspective
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
All human cultures have sought to explain how the world as we know it came into being by developing creation myths. These myths tell us a lot about the cultures that create them. For example, sometimes a Goddess gives birth to creation, and sometimes a male God creates it out of violence....
"How to help poor countries", Nancy Birdsall, Dani Rodrik, Arvind Subramanian
Text commentary - 4 pages - International relations
This article, published in the issue of "Foreign Affairs" dated July/August 2005, questions a lot of ready-made ideas about foreign aid and about the ways to "help poor countries". The main interest of this article is that it questions the foreign aid as the provision of resources from a country...
Globalization is a positive force that uniformly bolsters the economic prospects of countries and societies around the globe. Do you agree or disagree?
Essay - 3 pages - International economy
"Another world is possible". This sentence, popularized for the first time during the demonstrations in the Doha Round, aims at denouncing the rising inequalities within countries, and considers the kind of globalization currently implemented being responsible for the prevailing situation....
Safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage: Protecting languages as a vehicle of the intangible cultural heritage - publié le 12/05/2009
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The 2003 Convention for the safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage defines the intangible cultural heritage as “the practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, skills - as well as the instruments, objects, artifacts and cultural spaces associated therewith - that...
The micro foundations of the Romer model - publié le 12/05/2009
Thesis - 4 pages - Economy general
The technological progress is stated as the engine of economic growth in the neoclassical growth model, but some models like Solow model, always set the technological progress as an exogenous variable with a constant rate g. Romer model indigences the technological progress, and also shows the...
Immigrant performance in the UK and Germany - publié le 12/05/2009
Thesis - 20 pages - International relations
This paper reviews the existing literature on ethnic inequality and discrimination in the labor market, to then analyze the economic performance of various ethnic groups in Germany and the UK. Main findings are that in the UK the immigrant population as a whole performs similarly to the natives;...
The Confederate flag - publié le 12/05/2009
Thesis - 3 pages - International relations
Southern symbols, particularly the Confederate flag, have grown very controversial since the end of the Civil war. Indeed, the Confederate flag has been associated with numerous racist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, or with racist acts, such as the lynching of black people since the...
To what extent does realism naturalize war?
Market study - 5 pages - International relations
In 1991 a US-led coalition launched, with the agreement of UN, a wide military operation against the rogue regime of Saddam Hussein that had attempted to invade Kuwait in order to take over its staggering oil resources. George Herbert Bush, at the head of the coalition that was to rescue Kuwait,...
Education in the UK - publié le 12/05/2009
Thesis - 26 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The complicated nature of the current education system has its rules in school history. Until the end of the XIXth century, most children went to school intended church schools or private school established by rich benefactors. But such schools were largely confined to the sons of rich...
Has the 'war on terror' influenced Latin America and its relationship with the U.S.? What are the implications of this process for the region? - publié le 12/05/2009
Thesis - 6 pages - International relations
War on Terror was launched by the George Bush administration in respond to the attacks on September 11, 2001 on the US soil. The official term used by the US military, Global war on Terrorism refers to the various military, political, and legal action taken to curb the spread of terrorism. So, to...
Economic forecasts on French economy 2008 - publié le 12/05/2009
Thesis - 11 pages - Economy general
Today, France stands at one of its lowest confidence rate since a decade. On a global scale, world trade contracted in 2007 with only 5.5% growth compared to 8.5% in 2006. The sub primes crisis is directly hitting the global financial markets and disturbing the world economy. If we have a glance...
