Strategy of Chanel
Thesis - 10 pages - Business strategy
Created during the reign of Louis XIV in the seventeenth century, the luxury industry has grown over the years. Under the leadership of the Sun King and his minister Jean Baptiste Colbert, the best artists and craftsmen of Paris were assembled to produce premium quality goods. Over the...
Influence of Cartoons on Children
Case study - 3 pages - Psychology
Cartoons are preparatory designs, paintings or drawings intended for humor, satire or caricature. Cartoon maybe in form of continuous videos mostly appearing on television sets but can also be drawn in magazines to portray a certain message. Cartoons are non-realistic or semi-realistic drawings...
Evolution of the ski market from 2000 to 2006: Industry of winter sports and Alpine skiing
Dissertation - 73 pages - Services marketing
The main objective of this study is to trace all the developments experienced by the alpine ski market between 2000 and 2006. The underlying objectives often are of one general point of view: To present a thorough analysis of the characteristics of the alpine ski market and its trends. Thus,...
On ethics as emotivism according to David Hume and A.J. Ayer
Case study - 4 pages - Psychology
Many philosophers such as David Hume in the 18th century and Alfred Jules Ayer in the 20th century have argued that ethical judgments are, in one sense or another, dependent on emotion and do not express knowledge of any objective truths. Hume was a famous essayist,...
Limited perspectives for electric cars: Auto industry facing new challenges
Case study - 12 pages - Business strategy
The Earth is warming up. This assessment has been highlighted by numerous scientists for several decades and is currently one of the main concerns all around the world. Even if the causes are not objectively acknowledged, the fact is unquestionable: During the 20th century, the...
Is the environment an international security issue?
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
The last half of the 20th Century has been exclusively dominated by the Cold war conflict. There was little space in the analysis of the scholars in International relations for other minor issues of “low politics”, while the questions of the nuclear war and balance of...
The Gender Gap: A Brief Overview of the Theoretical Perspectives On Gender-Related Cognitive Differences
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In the fields of mathematics, engineering, and science a gender gap exists. Men still hold the vast majority of professional careers rooted in math and science in industrial countries. In the United States, for example, men account for more than three-quarters of all medical doctors, 90.3...
Human Pregnancy
Essay - 2 pages - Medical studies
Healthier mothers and babies ranks as one of the 10 great public health achievements in the United States between 1900 and 1999. At the beginning of the century, almost 1 in every 100 women giving birth in this country died of pregnancy-related complications, and nearly 1 of 10 infants...
African Influence on Jazz
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The most significant musical influences occurred in the south before the Civil War by African slaves at work. It was the migration of slaves to the south that brought a culture to America based on beats and rhythm as an expression of life. The black tradition moved to America during the course of...
Amelia Mary Earhart (1897-1937): Soaring through stereotype
Essay - 6 pages - Journalism
Amelia Earhart is one of the most significant figures in changing outlooks towards women in the early twentieth century. Her accomplishments were paramount in the opening of doors for the potential of women. Born on the 24th of July in 1897, Earhart entered a prominent family in the town...
Salvador Dalí, a source of advertising inspiration - The example of Perrier
Case study - 1 pages - Communication
Salvador Dalí is one of the most iconic Hispanic artists of the 20th century. In the same way as Norman Rockwell, one of his paintings has inspired several brands including Perrier, presented below, or even Lipton.
Decadence and Modernity
Essay - 10 pages - Arts and art history
The Decadent movement, located in France and in England during the late 19th century, can most basically be described as a stylistic transition in literature between the pervasive Romanticism of the 1800s, the Naturalism that followed it, and Modernism. As art moved away from the romantic...
Business issues in the US
Course material - 24 pages - Management
In the early 20th century when faced criticisms or a crisis large, corporations started to end their culture of secrecy and to promote the broadcasting of information towards the public. They relied on journalists, or the used posters, publicity bureaus and press agents to become...
Why Marijuana Should be Legalized?
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
Throughout the 20th century and onwards, marijuana has been considered by society as a dangerous substance that should not be cultivated or consumed. Several studies and informative materials have been provided to people to establish the claim that marijuana is unsafe for health and...
How Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' contributed to the evolution of feminism
Book review - 4 pages - Literature
Kate Chopin was an integral part of the evolution of feminism, providing early 20th century readers with feminist literature that is still highly respected and studied today. Although it is easy to approach her work, and all such work, work with textual evidence supporting a claim...
Case study of General Electric
Essay - 4 pages - Business strategy
Jack Welch was the CEO of General Electric (GE) from 1981 until 2001. He is regarded as one of the most successful CEOs of the 20th century. This essay intends to analyze Jack Welch's two-decade leadership by answering the question of what made him the "Manager of the...
Political governance and corporate governance
Essay - 15 pages - Management
The 20th century was viewed as the age of management; the early 21st century is predicted to be more focused on governance. There is a distinction between politics and governance, where the former is regarded as cooperation between people with different points of view in...
Brasserie Duyck
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
This article is about studying the case of the Duyck breweries, a company that is four generations old and that is leading the tradition relentlessly free on the French beer Market. The Duyck brewery is one of the remaining independent local breweries that try to survive at the end of the...
New British second homeowners in the French countryside: The Cathar country's case
Case study - 24 pages - Journalism
The study examined the motivations of the British buying a second home in France and more particularly in the “Cathar Country”. The research then focused on their economic impacts on the region, and their integration in the local community. Antagonism of the British second homeowners...
Absinthe
Essay - 6 pages - Journalism
Have you ever read Poe's, Maupassant's or Hemingway's works, examined Van Gogh's, Picasso's, Toulouse-Lautrec's or Manet's paintings, or even studied Baudelaire's, Rimbaud's or Wilde's pieces of art? Chances are you have, which means that you have also tasted the effects of la fée verte, the...
PESTEL and SWOT Analyses - Qantas
Case study - 4 pages - Services marketing
Qantas is one of the oldest and most recognized long distance airlines in the world. The company was founded in Queensland on November 16, 1920 by two veterans of the First World War: Lieutenants Wilmot Hudson and Paul McGinness (Qantas, 2008). After a long period of state ownership, and the end...
Hindalco and the Aditya Birla Group
Dissertation - 45 pages - Business strategy
Aditya Birla Group is India's first truly multinational corporation. A US$ 24 billion conglomerate with a market capitalization of US$ 23 billion, and has over 100,000 employees belonging to over 25 different nationalities on its rolls. Over 50% of its revenue flow from its overseas...
Psychopathy: Antisocial personality disorder and Dyssocial personality disorder
Thesis - 6 pages - Psychology
Psychopathy is one of the oldest forms of personality disorder, but it remains to be one of the least understood by both researchers and clinicians. The aim of this paper is to review the published literature on psychopathy as defined both in antisocial personality disorder and dyssocial...
Tobacco marketing in the contemporary world - published: 11/05/2009
Thesis - 7 pages - Services marketing
After being brought back from the New World and being cultivated first in Portugal during the 16th century, tobacco has gradually become a good for mass consumption all around the world, passing from a status of medicinal plant to the one of a luxury product and eventually to something...
Economic consequences of the last European union enlargement
Thesis - 20 pages - Economy general
The idea of a united Europe was once just a dream in the minds of philosophers and visionaries. Already in 1620, the Duke of Sully imagined "a body politics of all the States of Europe which could produce between its members an unalterable peace and a perpetual trade". In The 19th Century,...
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...
The subprime crisis
Essay - 10 pages - Political science
Edward Gramlich in his presentation during the Jackson Hole yearly central bankers symposium of August 31, 2007, said that, 'productivity often improves in fits and starts, in other words, booms and busts play a prominent role. In the 19th century, the United States benefited from the...
Media and terrorism: new challenges for freedom of expression?
Essay - 5 pages - Journalism
Benjamin Cardozo, an American jurist of the 20th century, used to say that "Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom?. As such, freedom of expression was recognised, as early as at the end of the 18th century, as...
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...
Conventional offset
Case study - 5 pages - Biology
It is the main printing process since the second half of the 20th century, ensuring good quality for medium and large print runs and just about any type of paper and some types of plastic (especially polystyrene). Planográfico process, originating in lithography, he makes an...
