Knowledge, power and development
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
United Nations report 1951: rapid economic progress and painful adjustments Truman: ‘fair deal' - the US and the world have to solve the problems of the underdeveloped areas (misery, food inadequate, poverty, disease…). He develops the idea that humanity has the knowledge to relieve the...
Knowledge, power and development - publié le 24/05/2013
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
United Nations report 1951: rapid economic progress and painful adjustments Truman: ‘fair deal' - the US and the world have to solve the problems of the underdeveloped areas (misery, food inadequate, poverty, disease…). He develops the idea that humanity has the knowledge to relieve the...
Chemistry in everyday life: Artificial sweeteners
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
Who would ever think that some basic products of our daily consumption such as diet beverages, fruit juices and chocolate drinks contains dangerous substances for our health. Many consumers are not aware of the danger of these additives. In our individual essay, we will engage a discussion about...
What do executives have to do in order to create a moral corporation? - publié le 21/05/2013
Case study - 7 pages - Educational studies
What is morality in corporation? By definition, morality is the “principle concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior”. In corporations we can apply this definition to the interactions between employees but also toward the company's objectives. In...
What do executives have to do in order to create a moral corporation?
Case study - 7 pages - Educational studies
What is morality in corporation? By definition, morality is the “principle concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior”. In corporations we can apply this definition to the interactions between employees but also toward the company's objectives. In...
Establishing an Australian manager & his family in Shanghai
Case study - 8 pages - Educational studies
With lager multinational organisations' pre-occupation with increasing their profit & market share (Kobrin 1996 cited in Lewis 1997), globalization and internationalization is clearly the next step to achieving these objectives (Brewester 1988 & Guzzo et al. 1994 cited in Brewester 1988). However...
School dress codes and uniforms
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
School dress codes have been a highly controversial topic for quite a long time now causing the legislative authorities a hard time. It seems that ever since Mary Beth Tinker, a 13-year old junior high school student decided to join a group of students that were protesting about the Vietnam War...
Social and cultural history: elites, the middle classes, and cultural change
Case study - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
World War I has been seen as the revenge of the ‘Ancien Regime'. Arno Mayer argued there was a ‘persistence of the old regime' because pre-industrial elites in France, Germany, Russia and Britain successfully resisted change. The argument is a restatement of Wehler's Sonderweg thesis,...
Case of studies abroad - Finland
Case study - 15 pages - Educational studies
For this part of my report, I'm going to present you Finland in different aspect. And, to compare, I'm going to present you Estonia and Leetonia too because these countries are near Finland but there are different in lots of aspects. Finland, officially Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country...
Homeland/organizational culture analysis
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Culture can be understood as values, beliefs, characteristics, or customs of a society or community that can de described by everything from religion, arts, social habits, and language. The American culture is unique and widely influenced by many types of individuals. America is the land of...
Filibuster reform
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Change is an inevitable part of life. Changes are made daily, weekly, monthly, and even yearly. Without them progress would be impossible. However, it is necessary that certain portions of the original object are still relevant in any change. An example of change being necessary may be...
Psychological issue of addiction
Case study - 2 pages - Psychology
Humans are affected by multiple factors everyday. Psychological issues are prevalent in many people's everyday life. They vary between each person. Chris Herren is an example of someone dealing with psychological issues. It is illustrated in the documentary about him. The movie, Unguarded,...
Affects of the Roman Civilization on Modern Society
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Nations may be influenced by a variety of elements. No nation will come into existence without the assistance of another. Rome was a civilization that greatly influenced other nations. These influences are plentiful. In addition to the influences being plentiful, they are long lasting. The...
Leadership: Implementation and analysis
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
Leadership, the action of leading a group of people or an organization. Often confused and associated with intimidation and insecurity, in my opinion, I am an individual who would like to be viewed as not a leader, but one who leads. When applying leadership to one's career, one is lead to one...
Case of Qatar: Reducing the oil and gas dependency through the hosting of mega-sport events
Case study - 6 pages - Sports
Qatar has built through sport and tourism an image of innovative development, economic power and luxury. Sport events such as golf, horse racing have been developed as instrument to build an image of elitism and affluence. Sport is a very important part of a plan to build the image of Qatar, lead...
Ethical issues regarding social networking
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
The popularity of social networking sites is a relatively new phenomenon Within the past 10 years several evolution have been made. Most are positive, but some are negative. With this phenomenon there has also been several sites that have reached iconic status. Some have reached this status for...
Government involvement in childhood obesity
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Everyone will die at some point. However, this date may be postponed by certain actions. Healthy eating choices are a primary action that will ensure a longer life. This is a practice that is established in the households of America. Therefore, to prevent unhealthy eating habits and obesity,...
Border control solutions
Case study - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The United States is at risk. We face several issues that put our citizens in immediate danger. Many of these issues can be found by reviewing the topic of border control. Border control is a threat to the security of our nation. It allows illegal immigration to occur, drug smuggling and several...
Interactions between Native Americans and White European Settlers
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Interactions between Native Americans and White European Settlers can be traced back to the late 1400's. (Dempsey) These groups shared many similarities and differences including but not limited to: lifestyles, methods of hunting and traveling, cures for various illnesses, and methods of...
Gun rights
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
The United States Constitution grants all Americans the right to possess guns. This right has been the topic of several disputes throughout the history of the country. Recently this right has been challenged again. This is due to several instances of violence occurring within months of each...
Slavery in its entirety
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
There are many events that occurred in the past that are hard to imagine today. Some of these events are easier to envision because of the stories that have been saved for centuries. Slavery is one event that is hard to believe occurred. Due to several journals and records it is possible to...
Galileo and his contribution to science
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Galileo was born in Pisa, Italy on February 15, 1564. When he turned eleven he was sent to monastery and when he told his father that he was interested to become a monk he was immediately withdrawn and sent to study medicine in the University of Pisa. When he turned twenty he discovered something...
Provide a description of the various market entry strategies into a foreign country and critically discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas” (jack welch, 2009) Now all the countries are sharing their market together and that because of the...
Can justice exist on the Internet?
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
The Internet has changed fundamentally our ways of living. Research director at Inria Gérard Berry tells the story of how he used to organize a party: he had to call all of his friends one by one and tell them to call their own friends, and so on. Nowadays, one Facebook message is enough ! The...
Choosing careers in health care for job security
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Despite slow recovery of economy battered by recession followed by credit crunch, overall poor economic growth and unstable stock markets, job prospects in health care is bright in the USA, UK and many other countries. In fact, health care is a very demanding sector where career growth is...
Civilizing Europe: Historical trends in violent crime
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
We have two articles which were written by Eisner in 2003 and 2008. In the first one, we focused on theoretical approaches which explain the decline of violence in the long-term. It is clear that if you look back over the last centuries, we can observe a huge decrease of violent behaviors. The...
The plague of the obesity
Presentation - 40 pages - Educational studies
Obesity is an excess body fat with health consequences like diabetes cardiac disease or cancer. It is the result of an imbalance between calorie intake and energy expenditure. People who have a chromosome 16 X 1 copy - 30 % more risky than none copy. People who have 2 copy x chromosome 16 - 70 %...
Globalization and social class - John H. Goldthorpe
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
This text is an article written by J. Goldthrope, about social class in the context of globalization. According to the author, we can differentiate concepts from theories of globalization. There is a mere economic definition of globalization: a process by which economic activity is increasingly...
Rivalry in football, the sponsor's derby - To what extent can sponsors handle rivalry in football?
Case study - 6 pages - Sports
Sponsoring is often seen as an opportunity to a company to get involved in a sports club, an athlete or an association. In football, the club associates its image, values, history to the sponsor. Furthermore, a paper published by Gwinner and Eaton in 1999 showed that in customers minds an...
Manuel Eisner (2003 and 2008)
Case study - 1 pages - Educational studies
In these two articles, Manuel Eisner is interested in the analysis of the evolution of the violence within the societies and especially within the Western European one. He decides to take the stand of describing the “real changes in behavior rather that methodological artefacts”. For...
