An introduction to tourism
Thesis - 8 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Tourism is the act of travel for predominantly recreational or leisure purposes, and also refers to the provision of services in support of this act. According to the World Tourism Organization, tourists are people who "travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for not more...
A look at how to plan a banquet menu
Tutorials/exercises - 22 pages - Social, moral & civic education
British law defines hotels or inns as “places where a bonafide traveler can receive food and shelter, provided him in a position to pay for it and is in a fit condition to be received. “ Hence, a hotel must provide food and beverage and lodging to travelers on payment and has in turn,...
Bush vs. America: The 2000 presidential election
Thesis - 6 pages - Political science
The 2000 presidential election was a groundbreaking event in American history. The entire country had an opinion on who they believed should lead America into the next millennium. The candidates were both strong politician and who were well known inside their parties and amongst the American...
Why Women Can't Run the World: International Politics according to Francis Fukuyama
Text commentary - 7 pages - International relations
Humans are like chimps. The social-constructionist theory was a wrong methodology to study human behaviors and the social sciences should turned towards sociobiology. So males are more aggressive than females, it is engraved in their genetic code and this is the cause of insecurity around the...
Economic development in Nigeria: The role of agriculture, FDI and trade relations with China, India and the USA
Case study - 15 pages - Economy general
Nigeria is one of the countries in Africa which have a large economy. It is also one of the most populated countries in Africa with the highest number of labor. The country is well endowed with mineral resources compared to other countries in Africa. It is the largest oil producer in Africa and...
Financial Integration and Cross-Border Banking Mergers in the European Union
Essay - 13 pages - European union
On March 30, 2005, the Dutch bank ABN Amro launched a bid to acquire the small Padua-based Italian bank Antonveneta. ABN Amro clearly had a number of reasons to make such an offer: it was trying to expand its activities in the European Union through mergers and acquisitions, while the Italian...
How to Negotiate With Chinese People?
Case study - 5 pages - Foreign markets
Thanks to the China's rapid development, French businessmen are more and more interested in importation to the country. It could thus be an advantage to set up subsidiaries in China. Though, French people are generally considered reliable by Chinese people, they still need to adapt themselves to...
Ralph Waldo Emerson and the flower children
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
It is 1836 and a pioneering new essayist has just made his debut. His first work is entitled “Nature,” a simple and concise name for an elaborate and layered piece. It is a bizarre article, one which lionizes the natural earth and calls on the younger generations to break away from...
Political Marketing In French Political Party
Essay - 9 pages - Political life and election
"Political marketing is a phenomenon where parties develop political manifestos based around the results of qualitative and quantitative marketing research" ("Political Marketing, A global perspective, D.G. Lilleker & J. Lees-Marshment). However, political marketing is not just that. This...
Business Ethics
Case study - 8 pages - Foreign markets
Africa is one of the richest continents in term of natural resources such as oil, gold, diamonds, wood, and many other treasures. The continent also ranks as the poorest country in the world. Since the beginning of the 1990s, the African continent acquired a central position in the worldwide oil...
The practice of money laundering and politically exposed people
Tutorials/exercises - 20 pages - Political science
The practice of money laundering has long since been regarded as a criminal offence though it is primarily during recent times that the practice has been undertaken on such a scale as to pose a genuine threat to the international political and financial orders. This is due to its association...
Did the city of Toronto and the province of Ontario ban the right 'pests'?
Case study - 14 pages - Ecology & environment
Recently, a lot of attention has been paid to the issue of cosmetic pesticide use in Canada. For years, chemical pesticides were readily sprayed on gardens and lawns across the country, with very little consideration given to the fact that they might be harmful to the environment. However, with...
Why people don't recycle
Case study - 7 pages - Ecology & environment
You and your fellow U.S. citizens “produced 4.4 pounds of waste per day during 2000. This is the equivalent of over 1600 pounds of trash per year per person or more than 220 tons of waste being generated each year.”1 Although recycling has been increasingly integrated into many...
Jordanian politics
Case study - 8 pages - Political science
The IMF and World Bank have both praised the economic and political reforms Jordan launched in the 1990s. The reforms touched “domestic taxation/subsidy polices, trade liberalization polices, monetary/financial sector polices, exchange rate polices, price reform and privatization,”...
Idealists vs. materialists
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The 1960's were a productive era for developing contemporary anthropological theories. Several theorists emerged following the original Boasian framework and developed ethno science and cognitive paradigms. Around the same time theorists interested in exploring systems of meaning and significance...
The post boasians and British social anthropology
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
From the 1920 through the 1950's there was an effort to explain culture, but to explain it according to its effects on human behavior and development. Some theorists see things universally while other want to look at each culture as unique and thus not capable of being compared with other...
Race from a multi cultural perspective
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Currently race is an issue that is intertwined with several aspects of society. We are constantly learning what is right and wrong in society through our families, the media, and our educations and often those images are negative and racist. Racism develops and is ingrained in the structure of...
The creation of the patrilineal band
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Among the many topics studied by the anthropologist is the creation and maintaining of what is called the patrilineal band. Julian Steward offers a very distinct view of what it means to be a patrilineal band, and what it takes to keep it alive in his article “The Patrilineal Band.”...
Impact of the economic boom on Irish society (2006)
Case study - 16 pages - International economy
"To be Irish in 2006 is to be living through an unprecedented social experiment" (Holmquist 2006). This statement exemplifies the Irish economic performance in the 1990s. It puts an end to the years of high spending and taxes, an increasing inflation, low growth and soaring unemployment. Since...
Integrating law and economics
Case study - 11 pages - Economy general
The subjects of both law and economics are two very dissimilar things, however, when used together, can be quite effective. The integration of the two also would be beneficial in meeting certain political, social, and cultural objectives. Combining both law and economics would be an essential...
The government has dealt with domestic issues in America
Thesis - 6 pages - Political science
As a young child, my political issues were few and far between in my daytime play ground issues, however, eventually, the news took over much of the talk when Bill Clinton and Bob Dole were running for President during the campaign of 1996. I wanted to know why my parents where so into Bill...
Urban conflict resolution
Book review - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Herbert Kohl's “36 Children” is a brutally honest account of his experiences and reflections as a sixth grade teacher in an elementary school in Harlem, New York City, during the 1960's. First published in 1967, “36 Children” describes the startling poverty, prejudice and...
The rainforests: Deforestation and conservation
Thesis - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
Deforestation is a very real and very serious problem which we are being faced with around the world. Unfortunately, environmental issues are often put on the back burner in our government's policies. Although the destruction of our environment has been a pressing concern for many years, this...
Critical review of free trade debates
Thesis - 5 pages - Economy general
George Grantham, a professor of economics at McGill University, used examples from manorial England to show that the Ricardian concept of comparative advantage through free trade was not applicable during the pre-industrial period. According to the author, the English economy was characterized...
Coal in the North American Rocky Mountains: A mined resource
Thesis - 2 pages - Ecology & environment
Coal was formed millions of years ago in the cretaceous and tertiary periods, in swamps where ancient plants decomposed and filled swamps with bark, leaves and stems. In oxygenated, moving water, the plants were completely broken down by bacteria, but in stagnant water only certain chemical...
Rise of the corporate state
Case study - 7 pages - Economy general
Our history has been marked by intense and often violent class struggles, and the government has played a partisan role in these conflicts, mostly on the side of big business. In 1845 in New York, Baltimore, New Orleans, St. Louis and other urban areas, the richest 1% owned the biggest share of...
Class and power in America
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Most Americans don't like the idea that there might be social classes. Classes imply that people have relatively fixed stations in life. Even more, Americans tend to deny that classes might be rooted in wealth and occupational roles. They talk about social class, but with euphemisms like...
The BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, and China)
Worksheets - 2 pages - International economy
GNI per capita is the dollar value of a country's Gross National Income. It is a country's final income in a year, divided by its population. Although the BRICs (countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China) are likely to become larger and more powerful force in the world economy,...
To your mind, what should we do in order to reach a sustainable development? A votre avis que devrions nous faire pour atteindre un développement durable?
Speech - 2 pages - Ecology & environment
During the nineteenth century, some writers like Jules Verne had warned about the fact that natural resources wouldn't last forever. In order to survive, humanity will have to reach towards a more sustainable development. This term describes a development that takes care of the next...
Drug war: the Failed War
Essay - 1 pages - Political science
The war on drugs has been around since the days of Nixon. We now see a greater influx of purer drugs at a cheaper price. Though the government tried to fight against this growing menace to the world of drugs, the Drug War was not a success and nor is America better off for it. Legislators press...
