Acupuncture
Essay - 3 pages - Journalism
The term acupuncture comes from Latin acus which means “needle” and pungere which means “prick”. In China, the practice of acupuncture can perhaps be traced as far back as the first millennium BC and archeological evidence has been identified during the period of the Han...
International journalism: Freedom of the press in China - publié le 15/01/2009
Essay - 6 pages - Journalism
First, China as a growing power in the world is a country which fuels many observations and issues. And as a student in political science I need to learn more about the Asian miracle and obviously what the main obstacles remain in the Chinese race to modernity. Then, we had the opportunity,...
Sustainable development, oil and the future: the trilogy - publié le 15/01/2009
Essay - 18 pages - Journalism
Sustainable development has been extensively discussed in the past few years, and is still a great matter of concern nowadays. In fact, there is no single way to deal with this subject, except choosing a guideline of this workshop avoiding “clichés”. Its main objective is therefore to...
Women and media
Essay - 3 pages - Journalism
As women worldwide fight for that equal chance in the newsroom or boardroom, others are building their own media to make their voices heard. Critical questions are being raised: Will women's equal participation change the nature of journalism? Is women's news fundamentally different from...
Innovation
Essay - 9 pages - Journalism
Innovation is a concept widely studied in scientific literature. However, it seems that a lot of work can still be doing about it. This is not a new concept, but it is still very difficult to define, because all the studies have different opinion on this subject. Innovation is a very simple word,...
Oil depletion and use of vehicles: what are the alternative energies? - published: 15/01/2009
Essay - 13 pages - Journalism
In our modern society, oil is omnipresent in our habits and plays a significant role. It has several stakes in economical, political and strategic fields. Indeed oil is considered as the best energy source because it is easily extracted, stocked and transformed. Moreover, its energy yield is very...
Fundamentalist Islamist terrorism and counter terrorism - publié le 15/01/2009
Essay - 3 pages - Journalism
In the past few weeks, Mr Straw, leader of the House of Commons, argued that the niqab dress, a black long costume covering the whole of the body - including the face - and required by Muslim fundamentalists in Iran, is an unhelpful symbol of separateness. Since 09/11, there is a mutual...
UN peacekeeping operations - publié le 15/01/2009
Essay - 4 pages - Journalism
Peacekeeping operations (PKOs) illustrate both the successes and the difficulties of the United Nations in the fulfillment of their primary goal: "the maintenance of international peace and security." They symbolize the ambitions of the organization but also its adaptation: it is thus interesting...
Violation of Human Rights at Guantanamo Bay - publié le 15/01/2009
Essay - 3 pages - Journalism
After 09/11 terrorist attacks, the Bush Administration declared war to Al Qaeda. As Commander in chief of the Armed Forces, President Bush authorized the detention of non-American citizens considered as "enemy combatants" (Fogarty 2005, 54). A classified report prepared by Defence Department...
Space Race - publié le 15/01/2009
Essay - 9 pages - Journalism
The Space Race was an informal competition between the United States and the Soviet Union that lasted from 1957 to 1975. It involved the parallel efforts by each of those countries to explore space with artificial satellites, to send humans into space, and to land people on the Moon. Space was a...
How did the Church express itself against the tradition of the 'merry wake' in Ireland? - publié le 15/01/2009
Thesis - 4 pages - Journalism
The merry wake was a significant element of the Irish folklore and it was also quiet common throughout Europe. The merry wake was perceived as a way to allow ordinary people to challenge the Church, even if they came to mass. However, the merry wake was condemned by the Church for various...
Nuclear risk perception in La Hague: An integration of sociological risk theories - publié le 14/01/2009
Thesis - 4 pages - Journalism
Risk and uncertainty issues are especially distinct in the case of nuclear energy. Nuclear energy, as one of the symbols of the technological development of modern societies, is controversial in its nature. On the one hand, it was created to enable the unlimited production of energy, but on the...
Bill Gates - publié le 13/01/2009
Essay - 5 pages - Journalism
On October 28, 1955, shortly after 9:00 p.m., William Henry Gates III was born. He was born into a family with a rich history in business, politics, and community service. His great-grandfather had been a state legislator and mayor, his grandfather was the vice president of a national bank, and...
Profile of Mrs Sofia Augousta - A South African woman leader - published: 13/01/2009
Essay - 6 pages - Journalism
M other of two children, Mrs. Sofia Augousta (Sofia) is working in the top management of a family business in Bloemfontein (South Africa): DMN Family Trust, well known under the name N. Georgiou Business Consultants. Because people see her like a “housewife”, she is glowing with energy...
Does modern Britain owe much to the Normans? - publié le 13/01/2009
Essay - 3 pages - Journalism
“Apparently as the result of one day's fighting (14 October 1066), England received a new royal dynasty, a new aristocracy, a virtually new Church, a new art, a new architecture and a new language.”(DAVIES, 1976; 103). This sentence shows clearly the crucial influence of the Normans on...
The Japanese immigration to Brazil - publié le 13/01/2009
Essay - 3 pages - Journalism
Japanese immigration to Brazil has a long history starting early in the twentieth century when astonishing amounts of Japanese immigrated to Brazil to take advantage of Japanese government funds encouraging emigration as well as the Brazilian market. However, a deep economic crisis in Brazil...
How has the nature of war changed? Has it changed the way of making peace? - publié le 13/01/2009
Essay - 6 pages - Journalism
“War appears to be as old as mankind, but peace is a modern invention” . This quotation of Sir Henry Maine seems obvious: wars have been a common feature of mankind history. On the other hand, implementation of durable peace, and not only end of the war, is a more intricate notion. The...
Has Blair government's constructive European engagement been undermined by the Iraq war? - publié le 13/01/2009
Thesis - 6 pages - Journalism
Britain's relationship with the European Union (EU) has been one of the most divisive issues of British politics over the last 50 years. Yet, the election of the Blair government in May 1997 intended to change this situation and marked a significant shift in the UK's European policies. Unlike his...
Has British public policy been Europeanised in the period since 1973?
Essay - 6 pages - Journalism
As Johan Olsen affirms ““Europeanization” is a fashionable but contested concept.” This term indeed occupies a lot of space in all studies about the European Union and more specifically about the domestic changes incurred by the member states through the dynamics of European...
The Daily Mail's electronic version, United Kingdom - publié le 13/01/2009
Essay - 6 pages - Journalism
The news outlet I have chosen to analyze is the internet version of “The Daily Mail “, a newspaper based in the United Kingdom, very famous especially in England. It includes the daily version of this newspaper as well as “The Mail on Sunday”, its week-end's edition. Gate...
TMode: Trade show of fashion creators - published: 13/01/2009
Essay - 3 pages - Journalism
The fashion industry includes, in term of activity, the manufacture of clothes, footwear and of sweaters, shoes, perfumes and jewels. An industrial company on 10 works in the field of the fashion. Sector was little concentrated, it groups together almost 2000 companies of more than 20 salaried...
Study of an innovation: SMART - publié le 13/01/2009
Essay - 2 pages - Journalism
The innovation that I have chosen to study is the car SMART. First, before explaining the reasons for this choice, I would like to delimit the word innovation. Indeed, what is the difference between invention and innovation? One can say that innovation is the successful exploitation of new ideas,...
Qualitative vs. quantitative research techniques in tourism - publié le 13/01/2009
Case study - 10 pages - Journalism
Research in the field of tourism has not been very important until the early nineteen seventies; it has begun to spread only since that time. Marketing research is a broad concept including various techniques, but a main distinction should be done between quantitative and qualitative research...
Comparison between Confucianism and Islam in terms of Knowledge of the Sacred
Thesis - 3 pages - Journalism
Confucianism, the second major religion in China, is a religion that really caught my attention among all the religions studied in the comparative religion class. It is exceptional for the reason that it emphasizes on a single man, Confucius, who actually created a religious belief from Chinese...
Muslims and the State: A comparative study of Muslim religious needs in the educational domain in France and Great Britain - publié le 12/01/2009
Thesis - 5 pages - Journalism
Islam is one of the fastest growing religions in Europe today; it is already the second religion in Europe. There are at least thirteen million Muslims living in this area ranging from Portugal to Finland and from Ireland to Bulgaria. The sociological entity of these Muslims is very...
Is Islam an obstacle to democracy? - publié le 12/01/2009
Thesis - 17 pages - Journalism
‘On my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention', Tocqueville reports in Democracy in America. Even though religion cannot be considered formally as a part of the American political system, Tocqueville depicts it as the...
St Patrick - publié le 12/01/2009
Essay - 4 pages - Journalism
It is difficult to retrace the life of Saint Patrick, because no one is sure of the exactness of the events. Indeed, the punctuality of the facts is mixed up by a lot of legends. The historical marks are not sure and it is difficult to extract the reality of the facts. This is why it is said...
Entertainment industries and globalization: Focus on the music industry - publié le 09/01/2009
Case study - 8 pages - Journalism
For the past decades, globalization has represented the center of each and every interest from the populations, the firms, the states and the international organizations. It has invaded every aspect of our lives in a way or so, from the way we dress to the things we buy and the leisure we have....
Does reality TV have any ill effects on the participants and the viewers? To what extent? - published: 09/01/2009
Thesis - 3 pages - Journalism
This literature review deals with the contemporary topic of reality TV. It is particularly focused on the examination of the ill effects of reality TV shows for both contestants and viewers. The study found out that the appeal which encourages people to participate in such shows is the search for...
Extreme right in Belgium
Thesis - 9 pages - Journalism
In September 2006, seventeen people have been arrested in Belgium for allegedly planning attacks aimed at "destabilising" the country's institutions, 10 of these 17 people where soldiers and the federal prosecutor's office said in a statement that they are people with an extreme-right...
