To what extent, if any, are Japanese people, culture and organizations transformed in overseas contexts?
Internship report - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Japan is, and always has been, seen as a group of mysterious islands, of which people knew little about, due to its far location from Europe and America. Indeed, 250 years of almost complete isolation of the country, which started in the 18th Century (Tokugawa Era) did not help the world to...
What are the psycho-sociological reasons for the popularity of TV serials?
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Why are television serials popular? How did they become so famous? Are we attracted to them or addicted to them? There are different ways one can observe how television serials and programs became popular in the twentieth century. Television serials have suddenly changed “all the factors -...
Establishing contacts, gift giving, entertaining, dress codes and negotiations styles in Egypt, Greece and Brazil
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In every day life and more especially in business and negotiations, it is important to understand the different cultures and their particular characteristics to be a good manager or negotiator. By having competent knowledge in cross-cultural communication,international businessmen will have an...
How does Confucianism play a crucial role in everyday Chinese life?
Sample letter - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Nowadays, China is known throughout the world as one of the major global economies, the most populous state in the world with over 1.3 billion inhabitants, the second largest country if we take into consideration the land surface area; China is also well known for its amazing landscapes, and its...
Ethical theory and business Practice: Are the French strikes ethical as they defend the working conditions while they block the economy?
Thesis - 8 pages - Social, moral & civic education
This report is going to highlight an ethical case. I decided to choose the French strikes that happen every year as an example of business ethic dilemmas. Before explaining the case, I would like to summarize what is ethics and how it applies to business. Let's see an “academic”...
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...
The Vietnam War for the US film industry
Thesis - 10 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The Vietnam War represents a crucial moment in U.S. contemporary history and has given rise to the conflict, which has so intensively motivated the American film industry. Although some Vietnam movies were produced during the conflict, it has been since the end of the war that the subject has...
Business Ethics: Illegal immigration
Thesis - 9 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The aim of this Business Ethics course is to learn how to identify and respond effectively to the moral challenges and opportunities of leadership in a complex and constantly moving environment of competing moral claims. It was asked to students that we have to establish factual predicates and...
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...
Ethics and the consumer coursework - publié le 10/12/2010
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In a world where globalization seems to be everywhere, some notions such as ethics, consumer policy, involving government and others organizations emerge. The ultimate aim of this is the well-being of people, more precisely, consumers. The term “ethics” is used to define a system of...
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...
The organization of French Civil Protection (from the Maire to the Ministry of interior)
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The civil security, which has for object the prevention of all kinds of risks as well as the protection of the persons, the goods and the environment against the accidents or natural disasters was at first the business of local authorities. Communities got organized and only the mutual aid...
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...
The origins and the influence of the western quest for perfection
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
One of the most powerful values of the word 'Occident' is perfection. In order to understand how it became that important, it is necessary to look at how civilizations evolved and what conveys the creation of perfection in our everyday life. Indeed, perfection has had numerous different...
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-...
Social networking in Europe and China
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
By way of introduction, we can say that in recent years, we have noticed a sharp increase and improvement of the web tools. In passing the web 1.0, most of the websites were commercial in nature or communicative about the web 2.0 which allows users to enrich the content of websites according to...
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 has the world's largest Muslim population, today with about 200 million Muslims out of 230 million Indonesians, in other words 86% of Indonesians are Muslims- both the official definition of Indonesian national...
Islam and National identity in Indonesia - publié le 02/11/2010
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 - publié le 12/10/2010
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...
