Managing teams - What have you learned about yourself and team management?
Tutorials/exercises - 9 pages - Management
During these different lessons and the activities we carried out, I discovered a side of myself that surprised me a lot: my ability to encourage collaboration and create a work environment conducive to constructive exchanges. This is a skill that was not so obvious to me before finding myself in...
Women representation in politics: A comparative approach between France and the Nordic countries - publié le 17/10/2006
Dissertation - 32 pages - Political science
Nowadays women are increasingly accessing to high political positions in State office. Indeed, three women recently reached the status of Head of State in different countries: Michelle Bachelet in Chile, Ellen Johnson-Sirlead in Liberia, and Tarja Halonen in Finland. Moreover, women play more...
Impact of Internet Channel on Auto Insurance Industry
Essay - 22 pages - Business strategy
The influence of the internet on insurance industry is increasing in accordance with the spread of internet retailing. Quotes submitted and policies purchased through internet channel grew 23% and 29% respectively from 2004 to 2005. The proper adoption of a strategy in line with the changing...
Experiencing Acquisition Through a Process of Culture Change in a Serbian Organization
Essay - 61 pages - Management
This study addresses the issue of culture, acquisition and change in Serbia. Specifically, the project focuses on a Serbian bank which has recently been taken over by a Greek bank and explores organisational culture in a Serbian bank. Culture can be an image created by its members. It is both a...
Reflection on Lowell's "For the union Dead"
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
Robert Lowell opens his poem, For the Union Dead, with an image of destruction, despair, and the loss of something that represents his youth. This opening stanza sets the tone for the rest of the poem. For the Union Dead is ultimately more discouraging than inspiring. Its disheartening tone can...
The relationship between the different types of suffrage and the creation (or construction) of democratic institutions in France from 1789 to 1870 - publié le 12/01/2009
Thesis - 5 pages - Political science
From 1789 to 1870 in France, not less than eight constitutions and twelve regimes followed one after another. France also experienced all types of suffrages, from the most restricted one of the Ancient Regime, to the universal manhood suffrage. This period is undeniably crucial to one who aims to...
The policy of the United States against the Afghan crisis
Dissertation - 21 pages - International relations
At the time of writing this dissertation, a native of Dubuque American soldier has died in Afghanistan. This brings the number of soldiers killed to 1747, and the statistics continue to increase. Afghanistan is geographically situated in Asia; it shares the biggest part of its borders with...
Inventory management and control
Dissertation - 42 pages - Management
Materials constitute the most significant part of current assets of a large majority of companies. On an average, inventories are approximately 60% to 70% of the current assets in any manufacturing company and 30% to 40% in any construction company. Because of the large size of inventories...
Entrepreneurship and Lean Startup
Course material - 8 pages - Startup, entrepreneurship
The word entrepreneurship was originally used for people who "take on the risk" between buyers and sellers. Later the word was used for those who undertake a task or start a new business venture - "The process of turning an idea into a business". - "Entrepreneurs assemble and then...
How to build an Offline/Online Marketing Plan?
Dissertation - 40 pages - Tourism marketing
Looking for an internship is a turning point at the end of any studies. I really wanted to find something in accordance with my personality. The work environment I thrive in is one in which I am involved in competition and challenges. I was looking for the opportunity to take initiatives and be...
Little Rock Nine
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
According to the Princeton Dictionary, progress is defined as an “advancement: gradual improvement or growth or development”. When the idea of progress or growth is brought to mind, most American's believe that extensive progress has been made in the area of...
Soft capitalism as related to therapeutic modes of work - publié le 16/05/2009
Essay - 71 pages - Services marketing
The global village concept has fuelled soft capitalism and the rise of the ethos in this field within organizations. Let us first understand the basis of globalization. While not so different from traditional villages in its desire to engage in a free exchange of ideas,...
Buddhism vs. superheroism: The risk of dualism in American culture
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
“Even though we say mind and body, they are actually two sides of one coin. This is the right understanding” (Suzuki 25). In this statement, Shunryu Suzuki, author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, is essentially summing up the concept of dualism, that is, the idea of one entity...
French Revolution and religions: How has French Revolution structured the history and the debate about religions? From the cult of the Supreme Being to the separation between Church and State
Course material - 10 pages - Political science
Cuius regio, eius religio', here is the idea that has lead French politics for more than a thousand years. Indeed, before the Revolution in 1789, catholic religion was deeply involved in the political systems, whether it was at the level of royal power or at the level of high local...
A Battle amongst our Own
Case study - 8 pages - Literature
Every day, in the United States, new members of the military are introduced to vigorous training that's designed to prepare them physically and mentally for their awaiting battles. One thing that these military training academies have failed to prepare service members for in the past, continues...
Soft capitalism as related to therapeutic modes of work
Dissertation - 80 pages - International economy
The global village concept has fuelled soft capitalism and the rise of the ethos in this field within organizations. Let us first understand the basis of globalization. While not so different from traditional villages in its desire to engage in a free exchange of ideas,...
Women representation in politics: A comparative approach between France and the Nordic countries
Dissertation - 32 pages - Political science
Nowadays, women are increasingly annexing high political positions in State office. Recently, three women reached the status of ?Head of State' in different countries. They were Michelle Bachelet in Chile, Ellen Johnson from Sirlead in Liberia and Tarja Halonen in Finland. Moreover, women...
The relationship between the different types of suffrage and the creation (or construction) of democratic institutions in France from 1789 to 1870
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
From 1789 to 1870 in France, not less than eight constitutions and twelve regimes followed one after another. France also experienced all types of suffrages, from the most restricted one of the Ancient Regime, to the universal manhood suffrage. This period is undeniably crucial to one who aims to...
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and e-Commerce
Dissertation - 56 pages - Economy general
The twenty first century has seen a lot of changes in the business world. New business models have been developed, networks have increased, and certain concepts have evolved and become indispensable. Before the arrival of supermarkets, people used to shop at their neighborhood grocery store. But...
Should Turkey Be welcomed in the EU? - published: 02/12/2010
Essay - 11 pages - International relations
Since October 2005, the accession of negotiations has been opened between the European Union and Turkey. However, the debate is still raging on Turkey's inclusion or rejection. In this presentation, we have examined whether Turkey should or should not be welcomed in the HAVE segment. This...
Art and globalization - published: 12/05/2011
Thesis - 21 pages - Arts and art history
"Art always has been and always will be important to humans", says Cynthia Freeland, professor of philosophy at the Houston University. This sentence, announced as a universal truth, shows that art remains strongly essential for human beings. It is also assured that everybody knows the importance...
Nietzsche and the Mother: A Contrast to Kantian Enlightenment
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
To what extent does Nietzsche impose his ideals on the reader or create an open and flexible world-view? Upon closing his arguments in On the Genealogy of Morals Nietzsche imagines a reader asking him “'What are you really doing, erecting an ideal or knocking one down?'” (95). He...
"A Hideously Difficult Task": An Exploration of American Racial Identity through the Works of James Baldwin
Essay - 6 pages - Literature
In a style similar to other minority works of literature, James Baldwin's writing encompasses the recurring theme of identity—what it means and from where it originates. This theme stems from incomplete identity of the black American community. Baldwin's writings try to explain the...
The role of technology in cyborg feminism
Essay - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Donna Haraway, in ‘A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century” casts the role of ‘technology' in two opposing lights: on the one hand, technology is seen as something women should (indeed must) embrace as a motivator for political...
Transition of Croatia - publié le 09/01/2009
Essay - 20 pages - Political science
According to Linz and Stephan, five interacting areas need to be in place before a consolidated democracy can exist in a state. First, there must be a free and lively civil society. A civil society is the arena of the polity where self-organizing groups, movements and individuals can express and...
Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot': Between Modernism and Postmodernism
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
Samuel Beckett's most famous play Waiting for Godot was first written in French in 1948 and translated in English in 1952, that is to say shortly after the end of World War II. At that time, the threat of the Cold War, the recent horror of the concentration camps and the invention of the...
The EU Lisbon agenda - publié le 16/01/2009
Essay - 9 pages - European union
To make the European Union "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-driven economy, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion ": that was the guideline, the “new strategic goal” of the principles EU's Head of States and Governments...
Saving souls or saving the world: The Jesuits and politics in the 20th century - publié le 16/01/2009
Essay - 17 pages - Political science
On Monday 7th January 2008, the 35th “General Congregation” of the Society of Jesus, the famous religious order founded in 1540 by Ignatius of Loyola and some followers, met to elect its 29th “General Superior”, after the demission of P-H Kolvenbach for cause of old age. The...
Impact of World War I on the American home front
Essay - 8 pages - Modern history
The First World War (WWI), the Great War that ended all wars initiated by the Allied and Associated Powers based on the opposition to the Central Powers of Austria-Hungry, Bulgaria, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire was the most destructive and by the most costly to the nations involved. What is...
Observation and analysis of attacking play in soccer.
Thesis - 6 pages - Sports
This essay analyzes the players in possession (attackers) shown in the video clip provided. It provides a description and analysis of the performance and addresses the basic techniques, skills and principles of play evident. It attempts to illustrate how the passage of play by the attackers could...
