The paradox of poverty in Nigeria: Junior engineers, technicians and scientists (jets) as panacea
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Among the countries in the world, Nigeria is one with a high level of poverty. The case of Nigeria however presents a glaring paradox. The country is rich but the citizens are poor. Despite the abundant human and natural resources in Nigeria, majority of the citizens are living in poverty. It...
Is Minorities' bond to the past a burden or a blessing?
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
African diaspora narratives have one thing in common: their richness. They cover the plural aspects of a culture and underline the complexity of an uprooted people identity. Mirta Yanez's “Of Natural Causes” is representing of this controversy. The story focuses on a group of Haitian...
Civil War and Reconstruction: The Freedmen's fight for an equal share of the American Dream
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The analysis of the way emancipation was acquired is revealing of the reason why the freedom the slaves obtained turned out to be so limited. The context must be taken into account. The reasons why the war started and was going on were not clear so clear anymore. Making emancipation a result of...
John Brown: An ambiguous and controversial anti-hero
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The subject of terrorism is extremely touchy, particularly in the US where it is especially since 9/11, the nation's number one fear. It is seen as a threat incompatible with the ideals of a free country which laws are supposed to be respected by all individuals. Only negatives connotations come...
Automated to Death? - Safety concerns with automated systems
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
This is very interesting article which brings our attention towards the safety concerns with automated systems. Several incidents are discussed in the article that is related to automation of the respective systems ranging from the metro crash in Washington DC to the presence of faulty...
Food Industry and Obesity: A study
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Obesity and the growing trends of unhealthy lifestyles have penetrated the U.S in epidemic proportions. Two-thirds of the adult population is overweight, of those, one-half is diagnosed as obese. U.S citizens are becoming increasingly vulnerable to excessive weight gain consequently from poor...
A balance of surveillance and privacy
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In the twenty-first century, we have technological capabilities that are far superior from twenty years ago. New technology has opened the doors for surveillance techniques to vastly improve. The government now has ways to watch any person at any time, track them by GPS, and listen in on their...
Ethics and the consumer coursework
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In a world where globalization seems to be everywhere, emerge some notions as ethics, consumer policy, involving government and others organizations. The aim of that is finally the well-being of people, more precisely, consumers. The term “ethics” is used to define a system of moral...
Is there a right to health in Europe?
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In opinion surveys, European citizens put health, that is to say, the protection against risks of illness, at the peak of their concern. However, health is not defined in terms of European law. The European Commission has just recommended harmonization, without specifying what could be the...
Identity and nationalism in West Africa since 1990: A case study of Ivory Coast
Case study - 20 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The democratization of West Africa started in 1990 and was led by Houphouet Boigny. The process revealed social cleavages in the case of groups that could not find a sufficiently powerful voice to express their opinions. Since then, there has been a process of nation building that is backed by...
Chapter 6, Case for Analysis: Jack Welch of General Electric: A Neutron Bomb or a Motivator?
Case study - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The 13th edition of Organizations: Behavior, Structure, Processes is based on the proposition that managing people, structure, and processes in organizations is a challenging, compelling, and crucial set of tasks. There is nothing boring about managing organizational behavior. Traditional...
Is liberalism compatible with paternalism?
Internship report - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Paternalism and liberalism seem to be two very interlinked concepts in modern societies. It is true for both economical matters and social matters. For example, our Western 'liberal democracies' governments can provide huge amounts of money during the crisis to refund the banks-...
Islam and National identity in Indonesia
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Because Indonesia's culture is strongly linked to the Islamic religion - Indonesia is the world's largest Muslim population, with today about 200 million Muslims out of 230 million Indonesians , in other words 86% Indonesians are Muslim - both the official definition of Indonesian national...
An Analysis of Citizen Kane
Essay - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Citizen Kane (1941) is the first film to be co-written, directed, produced, and starred in by the same man: Orson Welles. It tells the fictional story of newspaper mogul Charles Foster Kane, with many similarities to the life and story of real-life media tycoon William Randolph Hearst. The...
The place of Islam in the Chechen conflicts
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The mass-media often give us the image of Chechnya as being a “Jihad land”, in which the war against Islamic terrorism is led. In fact, the lack of valid information from Chechnya can be misleading and it does not actually guarantee an accurate report of the advances of Chechen...
The Horror and the Holocaust
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Darwin's Origin of Species outlines the natural selection that occurs amongst the relations between species of animals. Darwin sought to answer the question: “How and why are new species created?” He came to the conclusion that the fittest will survive and reproduce. Darwin...
Cause of Fannie Mae's Conservatorship
Thesis - 18 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Everyone should have a home despite their economic struggles. Fannie Mae was founded on this premise during the Great Depression in 1938. The issue evolving from this seemingly beneficial and civil service sponsored by the government is the risk involved with lending to subprime borrowers. The...
Daisy Bates: The engagement of a woman into the Civil Rights Movement
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Daisy Bates was a woman who decided to not submit to the white violence that black people were facing in the South. She is an interesting case because of her evolution from hatred to activism. Scholars do not usually stress the role that Daisy Bates played within the Civil Rights movement...
Tourism in South Africa
Internship report - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
South Africa is the leading destination of the Africa continent with 9 million international tourists. The country is really opened up to tourism in during early 90's, at the end of apartheid regime. This activity, although recent, has known a considerable growth, due to an important rise...
Abortion: Women's Rights
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Picture this situation in a grandmother's old tale. Her story reflects perfectly one of the main problems of illegal abortion. Way back in 1920, when she was 16, her friend was pregnant as a result of incest. Incest refers to having sexual relations between persons who are so closely related that...
Reinventing the Color Line Immigration and America's New Racial/Ethnic Divide
Book review - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
"The problem of the twentieth-century is the problem of the Color Line". Writer and social reformer, W.E.B. Du Bois said at the beginning of the 20th century. At that time, the color line corresponded to a Black-White divide. However, from the end of the twentieth-century to the beginning of the...
"The Second Sex", Simone de Beauvoir (1949) - is the woman an accomplice to her own oppression?
Book review - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
“The second Sex”, by Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) was published in 1949, at a time when women were considered inferior to men. In her book, Beauvoir argues that women have historically been considered abnormal and deviant, and have been refused control over their own existence, and...
Statistical Dossier on Immigration 2007
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
On October 29, 2007, at the Teatro Orione in Rome, the presentation of the 2007 Immigration Statistics Dossier Caritas or Migrantes took place. The event, now at its seventeenth edition, was held in the presence of mainstream media, as well as numerous agencies and experts coming mainly from...
Illegal immigration in the United States: push-pull factors
Essay - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Mexico is a two-faced country: you can be influenced by cities like San Cristobal, Oaxaca, Mexico city and start to think that Mexico is a developed country but whereas on the countryside the states remain in what we would call “the third world”. Mexico shares its biggest border with...
Inequality in America
Worksheets - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
An apparent and striking observation that has been noted in virtually all of our readings by far is the shocking extent to which America's low-income citizens are denied of an equal status, let alone any, a political representation. Dahl reminds us frequently that the moral foundation behind...
Issues of urban renewal: the example of a former industrialized city: Lille in France
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
I have chosen Lille, a large city located in the North of France. Lille is a symbol of the industrialization of many European cities in the 18th and 19th centuries. Indeed, Lille was an important center of textile manufacturing industry. In the 19th century, Lille was the second largest textile...
Narcos and Maras: the transnationalization of crime
Essay - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In this presentation, we are going to deal with a very sensitive subject, which affects Latin America. It is quite a controversial issue, which also creates a lot of fantasy in occidental minds. Although people may frequently exaggerate, it is an unquestionable fact that Latin American has known...
The political and social upheaval in France in 1968
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In May 1968, France experienced a political and social upheaval that shook the regime to its foundation. May 1968, also called May 68, is the name given to a series of events that started with a student strike in France, which broke out at a number of universities and high schools in Paris. In...
Being black in France and in the United States : a comparison
Essay - 18 pages - Social, moral & civic education
"Penser et agir par nous-mêmes et pour nous-mêmes, en Nègres..., accéder à la modernité sans piétiner notre authenticité". That is how the famous thinker of the "Négritude", Leopold Sendar Senghor, described the challenge that fell on black people in the whole world at the dawn of the 21st...
Panoramic photography
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
A panoramic photograph differs from a conventional photograph as it is wider and covers a large area to look at, such that you have to stoop to scan the picture and be able to appreciate its details. It showcases the scene in its entirety. Scenes of epic dimensions like cityscapes, beaches, a...
