A branching process in an alternating random environment
Thesis - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
A continuous-time branching process model of a stochastic population is considered in which the life-time and the reproductive capacity of the individuals are dependent on a fluctuating environment. Using an imbedding technique, an integral equation is formulated for the probability generating...
The cooperation between the criminal justice system and the drug treatment services
Essay - 10 pages - European union
The French police arrested about 15 000 drug users in 2008. The penal sanction for drug use is given in article L3421-1 in the Code of Public Health. Drugs have been consumed by many French citizens for a long time. However, since the twentieth century, this consumption has been increasing. Drug...
An unintended identity: A sub-cultural study of New York garage bands in the 1960's
Tutorials/exercises - 30 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The year is 1964, the exact day, February 9th. Many people mark the day as the historic beginning of the so called “British Invasion.” Some may even go as far to say the day changed the face of American popular music. It's significance is simple. The Fab Four, the Beatles, played on...
Habermas and Rorty - the existence of universal human rights
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
Human rights have been taken for granted in the Western world. It was asserted that they were universal and every human being was entitled to them on the ground that he or she was human. These rights are considered as inalienable since they are inseparable from the human nature. The challenge is...
Phillips and Young - the common critique of liberalism and the divergence of views on democracy, the equality and rights
Essay - 2 pages - Theories and economic notions
Our modern society has been solidly founded upon liberal principles; the Enlightenment constitutes one of the most influential political ideas in the nation-building process. Nevertheless, some criticism has emerged as our society seems to fail to provide all its citizens political equality....
What are the common classical liberal assumptions about human rights and how are they criticized by Proudhon, Marx, Engels, and Bebel?
Essay - 3 pages - Theories and economic notions
The United States declaration of rights proclaims three main rights: right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. They are perceived as intrinsic to human beings. These principles were built in opposition to the monarchy and were supposed to ensure the people their rights, in the sense of...
Paul Kowert, "National Identity: Inside and Out", 1998
Text commentary - 7 pages - Political science
The concept of national identity was emphasized from the beginning of the 1990s as a crucial unit of analysis for scholars of international relations. Indeed, the post-bipolar era is characterized by two opposite trends dealing with the identity issue. First, the resurgence of nationalist...
Intimacy in marriage: Identifying and eliminating barriers
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Intimacy is a major component of marriage that can accurately predict marital satisfaction. Many areas of intimacy are identified, but emotional and sexual intimacies are thought to be the most important within a marriage (Worthington, 1999). Intimacy is defined and discussed in relation to...
Adolescent divorce group
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In the United States, over one million children go through their parents' divorce each year (Rich, et. al., 2007). Divorce is very hard on children, and is a process that can go on for years, causing children to be more likely to engage in delinquent behaviors, and are more likely to display...
A youth friendly services program in Baltimore to promote better health
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
HIV/AIDS, Chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis are very present within the Baltimore City community and it affects the general population as a whole. These numbers and figures represent the known cases of these infections however, how many more individuals are affected and still unaware? The steps...
American business in the age of the modern corporation: Government, infrastructure and the corporation
Thesis - 4 pages - Economy general
When analyzing the history of the American corporation, it is tempting to believe that the cause of the rapid rise of large, hierarchical corporation, in a highly concentrated industry is over determined. Historians have advanced theories that explain this “corporate revolution” as...
Franco's Spain (1939-1975) and Pinochet's Chile (1974 ? 1981)
Essay - 1 pages - Political science
Dictatorship is a political regime in which an individual (or an assembly) gathers and gets all the powers. The political leader is not elected and his power is arbitrary and coercive. Violence is used as a means against any form of opposition. This political analysis will deal with Franco's...
Les gouvernements, la mondialisation et ses effets
Worksheets - 1 pages - International economy
Emerging debates come up everywhere, from USA to UK, but also in regions as historically statist as Scandinavia and Southern Europe. The reason why many voters are in fury it is due to the influence and the effectiveness of government grows. It would be easy to argue that the financial crisis is...
Google, la Chine et ses hackers
Essay - 1 pages - International economy
“We detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google.” It's with this sentence that David Drummond the Legal Chief Officer of Google has qualified the attack on the...
Le vin rouge français en Chine
Market study - 13 pages - Foreign markets
Today being global is the new trend. A company has to be global to survive in the rough and competitive environment. There are more and more competitors and to be profitable a company needs to seek for new markets. The purpose of this paper is to discuss a marketing audit and critique of on-going...
Horace Mann's 1841 report
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Horace Mann begins his “Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Education of Massachusetts for the year 1841,” by stating that he believes that education‘s befits on a people to be as certain as the passing days bring on the different seasons. He promises that he will...
Motivation & Management Final Report
Text commentary - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Several surveys reveal that there is a link between the color of the skin, the sex and harassment at work. Indeed, women of color suffer more from discrimination and harassment than white men for example and the consequences on the psychological well-being are enormous. For example, Buchanan and...
From the Great Powers to the European Union: assess and discuss the role and impact of the European influence in the Balkans
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
On the 21st of July 1774, the town of Kuchuk Kainarji in Bulgaria was the scene to the signing of the treaty that would end the Russo-Turkish War. From then on, the history of the Balkan peninsula would coincide with the receding of the Ottoman empire and the expansion of European influence....
Immigration in Iowa
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
The United States of America has been and is still an important land for immigration. Attracted by the American dream, the hope of a better life, thousands of people were displaced from their homelands into a new territory. Iowa is not a state that is an exception to this American tradition of...
Regression analysis of effective factor on people participation in protecting, revitalizing, developing and using renewable natural resources in Ilam province from the view of users
Thesis - 9 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The purpose of this study is the regression analysis of effective factor on people participation in protecting, revitalizing, developing and using renewable natural resources in Ilam province. This study is a casual comparative and applies one sample was taken from natural resources users. The...
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and its consequences
Essay - 5 pages - International economy
The agreement NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) defines a free trade area of 430 million inhabitants trained by the United States, Canada and Mexico. Signed by the presidents of these three countries on October 7th, 1992 in San Antonio (Texas), the treaty came into effect on January...
Control of the 'weapons'
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
Arms control designates restrictions to the development, production, proliferation and usage of weapons imposed through diplomacy. The goal of Arms control are reducing the risk of war, or at least reducing the number of casualties if war cannot be avoided, and limiting the costs linked to war...
Strategic Analysis of Aer Lingus - low cost airline - published: 20/04/2010
Case study - 7 pages - Foreign markets
This analysis has been made to show the various key points that define Aer Lingus as an organisation, which results in choosing the most adapted strategy when they are in a difficult phase. The airline industry is currently facing the consequences of the global economic crisis, i.e. higher...
The Common Agricultural Policy
Essay - 10 pages - European union
Agriculture, is to date, the economic sector in which the integration of the EU members has gone the farthest. The success of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), is the result of the elaboration of some basic principles aiming to establish a common market. Since the CAP implementation in 1962,...
In oil rich Niger delta, the sun never sets: smokestacks still shooting out gas flares
Case study - 10 pages - International relations
For half a century, some oil has been extracted for commercial ends in the Niger Delta. The vast reserves of hydrocarbons created several billion dollars of income for the Nigerian state, but the majority of the inhabitants of the oil production zones live in poverty. The multidimensional crisis...
An essay on Globalization
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
As early as 1967, in his book The Medium is the Massage, Canadian sociologist and philosopher Marshall MacLuhan described the world anchoring itself in a process of exchanges and interdependences melting into networks, as a 'Global Village'. This phrase gave birth to the concept of...
"The U.S. operations of peacekeeping in Africa ", A. Sarjoh Bah and K. Aning (2008)
Book review - 3 pages - International relations
The US engagement in Africa after the cold war was rather half-hearted but the 9/11 attacks led to a renewed interest in the continent, as the US now fight a war of terror and wish to prevent failing African states from providing sanctuary to terrorist groups as well as to reduce its dependence...
Africa in the International system by Christopher - A review - publié le 15/04/2010
Book review - 4 pages - International relations
During the cold war, Africa was probably the smallest concern of both the superpowers. The Afro-superpowers relationship has often been reduced to the sterile formula of African independence versus superpower imperialism. Actually, African leaders often had a certain freedom of action as they...
A new scramble for African oil? Historical, political and business perspectives
Book review - 3 pages - Political science
While Africa is often referred to as a loser in the globalization process, natural resources in oil and gas turn the continent into a very interesting one for Western oil-dependent economies. It has been suggested that Africa is witnessing a 'New Scramble' with China and the United...
The EU, Africa and economic partnership agreements:Unintended consequences of policy leverage. Christopher Stevens
Text commentary - 2 pages - International economy
This article argues that Economic Partnership Agreements will hinder the process of regional integration in Africa as African countries may be encouraged to reinforce rather than eliminate barriers to the free circulation of goods between them, because of the choices they make in the details of...
