Ghana's future after the oil discoveries - Four scenarios
Essay - 7 pages - International relations
Ghana seems to be destined for a bright future. According to the Ministry of Finance of Ghana, poverty fell from 52% of the total population in 1992 to 28.5% in 2006. However, challenges remain. Unfortunately, inequalities sustain and the poorest Ghanaian people do not seem to benefit from...
Get thee behind me, A-bomb: Inverted Christianity and nuclear influence in a Canticle for Leibowitz
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
It comes as no surprise that the thematic bulk of Walter M. Miller Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz is drawn from traditional Christian mythology and lore. Age-old Catholic hierarchy, the Latin language and Biblical quotations are used liberally to set an appropriately pious scene. From its...
Changing conceptions of self: Women as social and economic agents
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
History often portrays women as parties marginalized both by society and by patriarchy. Esther Burr and Martha Ballard actively fight this stereotype, but in very different ways. While both were colonial women, they had extremely different priorities. Martha Ballard was extremely involved in...
The World Trade Organization (WTO)
Essay - 8 pages - International economy
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is a multilateral trading system; in other words, it is shaped by multilateral agreements between member states based on four principles. The first principle is transparency on trade exchanges and WTO decisions. Members have a transparency obligation such as...
How Can Outsourcing to Emerging Markets Be Used to Gain Competitive Advantage? - publié le 14/04/2010
Essay - 5 pages - Foreign markets
Today, the outsourcing strategy is often implemented to create a competitive advantage over rivals. Businesses now look to achieve sustainable competitive advantages in each step of their supply chain. Outsourcing in emerging countries has become the solution in getting this sustainable...
The Relationship between the European Union and the South Mediterranean Countries: An Incomplete partnership submitted to the union's interests and fears
Essay - 4 pages - European union
The Mediterranean area presents a particular structure. The Northern part of the region is composed of Western, developed countries belonging to the European Union, such as France, Spain, Italy and Greece. The Southern part is the African coast, including Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan,...
Exploring Borders: Control, Movement, and the Challenge of the Transnational
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
Globalization is characterized by a huge increase in flows of various kinds, such as merchandises, ideas, capital and also people. Even if the free circulation of flows blurs certain borders, the human circulation remains a burning issue for Western countries. The arrival of people coming from...
"The Second Sex", Simone de Beauvoir (1949) - is the woman an accomplice to her own oppression?
Text commentary - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
“The second Sex”, by Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) was published in 1949, at a time when women were considered inferior to men. In her book, Beauvoir argues that women have historically been considered abnormal and deviant, and have been refused control over their own existence, and...
International organized crime in Hungary
Essay - 6 pages - European union
After the EU-accession on 1 May 2004, a great increase was witnessed in the turnover of the organized crime groups, which became more flexible and versatile, effectively penetrating more legitimate businesses. Especially as the borders opened up due to Schengen, it became much easier for crime...
Working as a library assistant
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
This term paper focuses on the position of Library Assistant and similar jobs within a library. It goes on to explain the job description, the skills necessary to be a library assistant, the training of the position (with other qualifications and opportunities for advancement) and the salary of...
The missing link: No child left thinking: Democracy at-risk in American schools
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In “No Child Left Thinking, Democracy At-Risk in American Schools,” Joel Westheimer asks readers a simple question: if they had “stepped into a school” and observed a classroom “lesson related to [a] country's political ideals,” would they be able to tell whether...
The evolution of the Schengen Area
Course material - 8 pages - European union
Since the introduction of free movement as an economic and fundamental right for EU citizens, the European Union has established a long list of measures, directives and other attempts to provide an open but safe area within the borders of the Union. The European security management has been...
The implementation of the Third Pillar of theEuropean Union in the United Kingdom
Essay - 15 pages - European union
The establishment of the European Union (EU) Policy within the third pillar of the United Kingdom (UK) has changed substantially over the past decades and more with the introduction of the Lisbon Treaty. Originally the UK had been reluctant to acknowledge or embrace European integration, due to...
"Cela coûte cher d'être pauvre", Julius Nyerere
Text commentary - 1 pages - International relations
Julius Nyerere is the first President of the United Republic of Tanzania. He is an atypical personage, often called an American Socialist. He's more popular in Tanzania. His nickname is the symbol of his economic policies. During the period where he was on power, his objective was to prevent...
Danger and music
Essay - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Shostakovich and Messiaen composed music while their very lives were in danger, and those musicians hired to perform aboard the Titanic are reported to have played until the cold gray water enveloped them. Messiaen composed while a French prisoner of war to the Germans, during World War II....
Handling and disposal of low level nuclear waste
Essay - 2 pages - Ecology & environment
Low level nuclear waste includes materials which are not radioactive themselves but have become contaminated because of their exposure to neutron radiations. These items find their use in nuclear power plants, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, government and private development facilities,...
On why I may move to Sweden, on for once, listen to the French
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The United States, in comparison to other industrialized countries, often falls far behind in statistics in terms of healthcare. For example, according to our Central Intelligence Agency, the United States ranks 44th with infant mortality, trailing far behind countries such as Sweden and France....
Youtube
Essay - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Youtube is an American website that was created in 2005 and as blown up in the past few years to one of the most visited sites on the web and its homepage has generated millions of dollars from advertisers. The site has become so huge that nearly 79 million users had made over 3 billion video...
The veil in schools in England and France
Essay - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
There was a general outcry in the Muslim world at the time of the announce of the law concerning the wearing of the veil in French schools. This law put an end to the controversy 'veil affair' in France but since, the same affair arose in different countries like England. The interest of...
Approche comparative des affaires : le cas du Canada et de la France
Worksheets - 2 pages - Foreign markets
As regard business life, we can notice there are a lot of disparities between Canada and France. But today, I will tackle only three points : formalism, work environment, and social ethics. In accordance with French business protocol, use first names only when invited. Use of first names has...
La Chine : le pouvoir BRIC dans le monde
Essay - 5 pages - International economy
Once upon a time, Jim O'Neill, head of economic research at Goldman Sachs, signed the report which is considered as the birth act of the BRIC's concept. Today, each BRIC countries are not equal. As David Rothkopf wrote in 'Foreign Policy': “Without China, the BRICs are just BRI, a...
Interpreting Washington's plans of African Americans in society and the political system post-slavery: The flaw of Du Bois' argument on Washington's program
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
In his autobiography, Up from Slavery (1901), Booker T. Washington, a renowned African American leader in the late nineteenth century, describes his influential life experiences and his hypotheses for black reconstruction. Washington provides detail about his childhood, his education at the...
The French-German Pair through the relationships of the German chancellor and the French president
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
After World War II, Europe was fragmented. Germany was defeated, ruined and divided by the winners of the war. France was considered as a winner and had a zone under its responsibility in Germany like the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union. In 1949, the state of the Federal...
The analysis of sex differences in body mass index among Thai labor forces
Tutorials/exercises - 8 pages - Social, moral & civic education
To analyze demographic, socioeconomic, psychological, and behavioral differences in body mass index between male and female labor forces and to determine factors affecting males as well as females body masses. The National Health Examination Survey III (NHES III), with the permission from the...
Does gender perception toward computing exist in Thailand? - A comparison study between Thai and the US
Tutorials/exercises - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Number of studies show that computing has been long perceived as a male domain. With this perception, females may experience negative outcomes in the computing-related occupation or activities, such as discrimination, pay differentials and the “glass ceiling effect”. Does this...
Environmentally conscious recycling planning: Strategies and its optimal analysis
Thesis - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
This paper describes a stochastic production planning problem for an environmentally conscious recycling technique to adequately cope with unpredictable recovery rate of end-of-life products towards a more sustainable pattern of production. The model is formulated as a nonlinear integer...
Box-Jenkins vs. artificial neural networks in predicting commodity prices forecasting the export prices of Thai rice
Essay - 8 pages - Economy general
International commodity prices are determined by supply and demand, and to a large extent, governmental interventions through trade barriers and subsidies. Forecasting rice prices has always been a great challenge to researchers because determinants of supply and demand such as agricultural and...
La politique étrangère française sous la présidence de Nicolas Sarkozy
Essay - 2 pages - Political life and election
The election of 2007 brought up a new man on the political scene of France, a former leader of UMP (centre-right party) has been elected president. Today, looking back and summarizing his two years in the office we can certainly conclude that his presidency has certainly brought a change in the...
Les énergies renouvelables au Danemark
Essay - 2 pages - Ecology & environment
Denmark is the greenest power in the world. That is to say that they are leaders in renewable energies market, but they are also opinion leader. In fact, a great part of the population is favorable to renewable energies and doesn't care if a wind farm is erected next to their home. That typical...
Can conflict be avoided in human societies ?
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
In each society, people have to face struggles and fights as soon as the day begins. They have to scramble just in order to reach and to creep into a subway. Others must cover a long walk just to bring back some water. Everyone has a daily struggle against the time, or against the crowd, or...
