The tourist potential of Portugal
Thesis - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Portugal is a very charming and welcoming country. It stretches along the Atlantic coast and has beautiful beaches and historic towns especially in the region of the Algarve. The country has maintained its hinterland, with its wild life and beautiful landscapes. Portuguese culture and its ancient...
The history of the moving image and American sexuality: Devices to enable and sabotage the Capitalist agenda
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The paper will focus on the history of the moving image and construction of American sexuality during a specific period of American history. The view will be articulated by seventy-five years of the twentieth century: the years 1920 - 1995. While the paper will focus on this entire period, focus...
The life and death of politics in The Kite Runner
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The politics and government are the backdrop and the context within which to understand the narrative. The government and the family are also posed as mirrors of one another; if the government is in disarray, the family is in disarray. The instability of political power/structure is reflected in...
It's just the culture industry: What's the problem?
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Adorno and Horkheimer's fundamental problem with the culture industry is that it exists. Their essay asserts that the culture industry as such, is a fascist democratization of individuality, ideologies, art, culture, and life. Both men are also deeply frustrated to the degree to which people fall...
Lessons of the First Afghan War: Historical parallels to Afghanistan today
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
When the British attempted to invade Afghanistan in the First Afghan War, their resulting defeat was, to the world, a lesson of the consequences of a forced Afghan invasion. History repeats itself in many places, such as the Soviet-Afghan War, where nations attempted to invade, but failed in...
Contemporary normative assumptions about power and the rise of public health
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Post- Nietzschian scholarship explores the structural role of power. These authors assume that power is embedded in a complicated system that constrains or enables actors. Previous authors, such as Machiavelli and Kautilya, rested their claims on the inherent power of the sovereign. Moreover, the...
The cultural revolution: Goals and realization
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
If one is to analyze the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution through the lens of primary sources, it is critical to understand that almost nothing printed during that era can be taken at face value. In the political culture established under Chairman Mao, one constantly had to display his...
Taking pictures of children
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
To capture an image of childhood requires the skill of a craftsman, the eye of an artist and most important all the enlightened insight and best instincts of a friend. Taking pictures of children, irrespective of their age is a complex and a fascinating subject. It is a subject that is...
Pictorial photography
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The word ‘pictorial photography' is not understood very clearly and needs a little explanation. A simple shot which can be a simple image is a photograph but when it has some evocative feeling or a special mood in it, it is called a ‘pictorial photograph'. What distinguishes the two is...
Fashion photography
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Fashion photography is surely one branch of photography which witnesses more frequent changes in trends than any other. Fashions tend to change rapidly; what is photograph in good taste today may be considered ‘whacky' and in silly taste within a few years. To verify this statement, one just...
Architecture photography
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In a broad sense, in architecture photography all kinds of buildings are included. They can be romantic temples or the forts of Rajasthan. Buildings are photographed either to document a mere fact or to depict objects of art. Both these approaches may call for different techniques but technical...
Nuclear weapons and world order
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In his opening remarks at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington DC on April 13, President Obama said, “Two decades after the Cold War, we face a cruel irony of history - the risk of a nuclear confrontation between nations has gone down, but the risk of nuclear attack has gone up.”...
Guns and liberty in the United States
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Concealed carry refers to the practice of carrying a handgun or any other weapon in public, either concealed on one's person, or in the vicinity. Forty-eight American states have passed laws allowing citizens to carry concealed arms in public. The laws differ slightly form state to state. Whereas...
Exclusive breastfeeding
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Every new mother is advised to breastfeed her baby. “Mother's milk is the best source of nutrition for the first six months of life.” leaps out in large letters from cans of baby formula and food. TV Ads on the subject are many and every health centre and doctor tells prospective...
Impact of terrorism on the world order
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Terror knows no boundaries, faith, religion or righteousness. The only face of terrorism is incident of crime and violence that intend to disturb world peace and order. Ever since the September 11 attack in the United States, terrorism and terrorists have often been used interchangeably to denote...
The persistent health weaknesses in prison
Thesis - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Successive reforms have attempted to promote equal treatment for inmates and the general population, but it appears that access to health care remains problematic. Section A of this document will study the living conditions of the detainees and their health, and section B will focus on the...
Dutch health care system
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Universal Health Care refers to access to affordable and high-quality health care to everyone who needs it. This system of health care is commonly known as a single payer system. The Dutch system provides “The dose of efficiency and equity that the current health care system in USA, so...
Social problems in England
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Every society, as good as it seems, has many problems. Although England is generally regarded as a high-class place, a playground for the rich, there are many social problems within their society. The gap between the rich and the poor is enormous, and often the plight of the poor and middle class...
Capital punishment and death penalty
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Capitol punishment, or the death penalty, is the killing of a person by judicial process as a punishment for an offense. The crimes that usually result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capitol offences. In simpler terms, the act of murder will result in the death penalty for the...
Unprotected sex and teens in the USA
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
There are many factors that affect teenager's sex lives. The Guttmacher Institute reports that “nearly 75 percent of teenagers have had intercourse by the time they turn 20; only 15 percent report remaining virgins until the age of 21.” This is an incredible rise in numbers; in just 15...
A user's guide to the United States department of education: www.ed.gov
Essay - 1 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The United States Department of Education website can be found at www.ed.gov. Organized and specific, the tabs cover all desired topics. There are tabbed resources specific to: Students, Teachers, Parents, and Administration. The site's main failure is that it contains too much information; it is...
Vegetarian only in the dining hall
Essay - 1 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The suggestion of making the Emerson College's dining hall containing strictly vegetarian and vegan cuisine is a very bad idea. It is a bad idea for the students, the faculty, and the institution as a whole. In Bridging the Vegetarian Gap, an article written by Eileen Curtis in July 206, the...
Global health-care
Thesis - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The image of cities seems somewhat paradoxical. While economically and socially developed cities are often considered a place of employment, infrastructure and support they are also considered responsible for undermining environment and health. Cities have the reputation of being dirty, stifling...
Public health and environment
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Public health and the environment seem related and the search for causes of diseases therefore takes place through the study of the characteristics of geographic settings. Of course, the geography of health has undergone a strong evolution in time. New horizons in the field were in the 1970s....
Starting a career in advertising: Survival tips for an account executive
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The lure of working in advertising is almost too much to resist for any person who considers herself even slightly creative. The thought of being associated with all the glamour, the joy of being involved with the process of creation of effective, entertaining advertising appealing to a wide...
Adam vs. Eve
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
For centuries, it has been a man's world. Women had been confined to performing less serious roles in organizations and were often seen playing the role of secretaries or such positions. However, the last two decades have witnessed a spurt in the number of women making it big in the workplace....
Spare the rod; but don't spoil the child
Essay - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The most precious assets of a company are its employees. They represent the foundation and stand by the company through thick and thin. However, in unforeseen circumstances, it does happen that an employer needs to take punitive action against an erring employee. This might act as a deterrent...
The taste of good wine
Essay - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Italy, along with France, has been one of the world's largest producers of wine for centuries. Prior to this, the Romans and the Etruscans had been cultivating vine. The Romans covered a large part of Western Europe with regard to this activity. Wine is produced throughout the Italian...
Negotiations with Nepal
Essay - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
I present this report as a negotiation that I have undertaken during my trip to Nepal on a humanitarian mission with the Association Solidarité France Nepal. The association is aimed at making Nepali people take charge of their development. It includes building new schools in villages,...
The social responsibility of business: Why is it stigmatized?
Thesis - 8 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Energy costs can represent 15-20% of total expenses or even the raise in the product's cost for some businesses. This is especially true for companies producing steel, cement, sugar, paper and fertilizer. Energy is used in the form of coal, oil, gas and water. A major concern for these...
