Does devolution constitute a challenge to the British political tradition?
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
In 1998, the New Labor government passed the Scotland Act, the Government of Wales Act and the Northern Ireland Act, enforcing devolution in the United Kingdom. In order to determine if devolution constitutes a challenge to the British political tradition, one needs to look at pre-devolution...
The political system of Saudi Arabia
Essay - 10 pages - Political science
The genesis of the modern Saudi state: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was formed recently after their warriors struggled against the Ottoman hegemony. But to took three attempts to actually impose their authority. The history of the modern Saudi state is based on the theological-political alliance...
Subversion and Inversion: Kate Mansfield's Colonial Identity and Modernism
Case study - 1 pages - Literature
In a letter to S. S. Koteliansky, Katherine Mansfield wrote: “I am always conscious of this secret disruption in me” (qtd in Smith ix). This statement bears to many of the key concepts of Modernist literature - the repressed self versus the conscious self, disjunction and dissonance,...
The American revolution: Case study in detail
Thesis - 17 pages - Modern history
In 1763, the Treaty of Versailles ended the Seven Years War between France and Spain against Great Britain. The victory of the latter (gain of French, Canada, of all the territories east of the Mississippi except New Orleans, and with Spanish, Florida) was certainly a matter of...
Why did the British leave India in 1947?
Thesis - 4 pages - Modern history
The independence of India in August 1947 was the result of a long process which started after the First World War. Indeed in 1919 Parliament had passed the Government of India Act which was designed to organize provincial governments in India. Then, before 1939 and the outbreak of the Second...
The development of teaching Nicolas
Internship report - 15 pages - Business strategy
The entry of Great Britain in the European Union in 1973 started the opening of the market of wine to a larger audience. This product became in a few years, a product of great consumption in England. It is on this report that the Castel group decides to make open stores in...
Privilege does not pacify: Phillis Wheatley's writing protests slavery despite status
Essay - 6 pages - Literature
Phillis Wheatley was brought to New England in 1761 to be a slave. While not every detail of Phillis' life is known, she is considered to have had a good life for someone who was legally property. The Wheatleys encouraged her education and later her career as a poet. After learning to read,...
Creation of EasyLoc
Case study - 5 pages - Business strategy
Easyloc was conceived with the aim of providing different categories of people the freedom to travel abroad without facing the difficulty of finding housing for periods of unspecified duration. This helps facilitate travel abroad through a special relationship with the agency that ensures the...
SWOT Analysis - National Society of the Prevention Cruelty to Children's Online Program
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) is one of Great Britain's largest and most financially successful charities. In many ways, when the NSPCC decided to launch a program for its donors to bank online, it was simultaneously offering too much and...
Starbucks: A Sustainable Success?
Case study - 13 pages - Business strategy
Starbucks was originally established in 1971 by three enterprising academics who shared a common love for coffee. The original strategy was to sell quality coffee and introduce consumers to drinking coffee, a concept created by Alfred Peet in the United States. In 1981, Howard Schultz, who was...
Chinese Tourism in France: developmental perspectives of the market by 2030
Market study - 35 pages - Services marketing
Given the current influx of Chinese tourists in France, and in particular its composition, how does one configure the volume of customers in China in 2030? France is the international leader in the number of visitors. In 2005, it hosted 76 million foreigners who generated 34 billion euros as...
Turkmenistan and benefits for the US
Case study - 25 pages - Political science
Turkmenistan is a country full of promises and potential for a brighter future to the world. Throughout history, the country of Turkmenistan has provided an abundance of archeological finds as well as an advance dwelling civilization. This civilization has been through many epochs and...
The United States and the World - The Reagan Revolution
Course material - 5 pages - Modern history
Ronald Reagan was elected president in November 1980. It was a return to more liberalism, to more individual responsibility, a move towards deregulation of the economy in a more and more globalized world. Reagan was convinced that this return to liberalism was the only way to overcome the...
Coke - UK Operations
Market study - 10 pages - Business strategy
Coca Cola, the American non-alcoholic beverages company which was founded in 1892 has a huge market in the United Kingdom. The largest manufacturer, retailer and marketer of soft drinks were found by Asa Chandler. The company is known as Coca-cola Great Britain (CCGB) in the UK. It...
How did the Brighton School change the way of telling stories in Cinema, using in particular a new method of editing and giving a new role to the camera?
Dissertation - 2 pages - Film studies
A freshman graduating in Cinema would probably have questions about how Cinema has evolved since 1895. Although, more precisely, the question to ask is when and what are the basis of the cinema we know today. The Brighton School started in 1898 with Robert William Paul. He built his own camera:...
Land Art of the Twentieth Century
Course material - 5 pages - Art history
The term land art refers to an art movement that was popularized in the 1960s and 1970s. It was popularly associated with Great Britain and the United States, but it included examples from other countries. Land art, also referred to Earth art, environmental art, or Earth work,...
Pestel Analysis - Lidl
Case study - 5 pages - Distribution marketing
Founded in 1973 by father and son team, Josef and Dieter Schwarz, in Ludwigshafen, Germany the original Lidl company had 3 employees and sold around 500 products. During the 1990s the company expanded and started opening stores across the European continent. Twenty-one years later the group...
The Sikhs: Case study
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
In the film Plays like Beckham Gurinder Chadha, we see evolve with humor and realism the lives of the middle class in Southall Sikh, Punjabi suburb of East London. It particularly notes the father of Jessminder officer at Heathrow airport with his turban, or parents praying before a portrait of...
Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Louisa May Alcott, Hospital Notes (1863); Mary Chesnut, A Diary From Dixie (1861-65)
Book review - 8 pages - Literature
The Civil War is just the most important thing in American cultural and social history—as well as political and military history, of course—since the War of Independence from Great Britain. It is, quite simply, fundamental to America's identity and sensibility, and it...
"Grande Politique": The foreign policy of Théophile Delcassé and the construction of a French alliance network
Thesis - 6 pages - International relations
In the beginning of the 20th century, France appeared to be a great and powerful nation in Europe. She had two main preoccupations concerning her foreign policy: on one hand France wanted to reinforce and expand her colonial Empire; on the other hand she had the will to maintain and...
The foreign policy of Théophile Delcassé and the construction of a French alliance network
Thesis - 7 pages - International relations
In the beginning of the 20th century, France appeared to be a great and a powerful nation in Europe. She had two main preoccupations concerning her foreign policy: on one hand France wanted to reinforce and expand her colonial Empire; on the other hand she had the will to maintain and...
Examine and analyze the importance of Germany in the Cold War
Thesis - 4 pages - Modern history
There was a wide spread debate between USA and USSR regarding Germany. The issue gained significance during the cold war, though there were other factors which were responsible for the development of cold war, the Germany factor was an important one. The administration of Germany, the political...
Comment from the essay "Culture and anarchy" written by Matthew Arnold published in 1869
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
Matthew Arnold, in his philosophical essay Culture and Anarchy, published in 1869, exposes his view of culture in a generally way, that is to say, that this view could and should be applied to any society or any group of men on the earth. He wrote it at a time where Bentham's Utilitarianism was...
Nespresso and its information system - E-business
Thesis - 15 pages - Business strategy
The company was founded by Nespresso Nestle Group in 1986 with the aim of offering its customers quality coffee products. Since then, the company has continued to develop a selective distribution system and manage its brand based on luxury. The company catered to the popular concept of drinking...
Multi-field approaches of the company: Strategy of Adidas
Thesis - 16 pages - Business strategy
The choice of the international group Adidas has imposed itself. Indeed, we wanted to get better acquainted with the sports market since it has steadily increased over the past years. It still represents a certain future and substantial market share in the market of sporting goods. The company's...
Decathlon: A Competitive and strategic study to develop recommendations to establish a specific communication in the bicycle market for women and children
Case study - 39 pages - Business strategy
Michael Leclercq established Decathlon in France in 1976. Decathlon was the first mass producer of sports equipment and caters to all a sportsman's needs whether he is an athlete or just a sports enthusiast. Decathlon is the leading innovator, producer and retailer of a broad range of sports...
Impact of the delays of delivery of A380 Airbus in the sector of aeronautics and the restructuring plan
Essay - 11 pages - Business strategy
These last months, the situation of the air transport has been strongly influenced by the crisis which Airbus saw, due mainly to the delays in the delivery of A380. Sonaca is also touched by this crisis, and this, because Airbus is a very important customer. Indeed, the orders for A380 were to...
Strategic case of management at the Virgin group
Case study - 16 pages - Services marketing
Virgin is a family group with varied activities, led by a charismatic and a typical boss, Sir Richard Branson. The latter is the head of a holding company which comprises over 200 companies in 30 countries, and operates on 5 continents, mainly in the United Kingdom, the USA, Canada, Africa,...
Canadian policy at the crossroads: Protecting Canada's independence in the age of globalization
Case study - 8 pages - International relations
The foreign relations of Canada are by nature, very much centered upon its southern neighbor, the United States. This is true for both trade and foreign policy considerations. In addition, Canadian governments have also had active relations with many other nations. These relationships have...
In your opinion what was the primary cause of the financial crisis/recession of 2008-2009?
Case study - 3 pages - Government finance
I believe that the main reason for the economic depression that happened to United States in 2008-2009 was as a result of failure by the insurance companies and banks. The cri8sis was mainly as a result of a combination of global macroeconomic imbalances and weaknesses that were so sever in the...
