Apocalyptic rhetoric and its effect on religious identity
Case study - 9 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Apocalypticism offers a unique rhetoric of violence. Israelite people experienced violence and domination for centuries under the control of Persians, Greeks, Selucids, Ptolemies, and Roman rulers. Israelite identity was challenged under these occupying forces because the God of Israel was...
Exploring success factors of 2 different positioning that lead a consumer to buy an identity product
Case study - 25 pages - Business strategy
TLSE is a small office company created in 2006, by Isabelle BERNARDINI whose activity focuses on the design and sale of a range of identity products around the city of Toulouse, France (Region Midi-Pyrénées). At first, its offer was mainly focused on textiles printed with logos and then...
Ethnic Studies Race, Identity, and Film
Case study - 3 pages - Film studies
In the application of the term representation in this scenario reflects on the establishment of positions in media studies in which objects of analysis are not selective to some instances of reality, but reflect more on issues regarding racism. These are signifying objects articulated within...
The Threat of Identity Theft in Direct Marketing - published: 06/07/2010
Essay - 5 pages - Clients and users behaviour
The digital world has become a household term, literary in all homes of the developed countries. Through the use of the internet the volume of transactions conducted online has increased a lot. Among the transactions conducted online are marketing and shopping. These transactions, not like other...
The economic, territorial, and cultural impact of the European Union on the Danish identity - published: 09/01/2009
Case study - 5 pages - European union
Created by the treaty of Rome in 1957, the European Union now has 25 member states. Over the years and decades, it has developed a wide range of policies with an emphasis on economic measures. The member states have had to adapt themselves to this new system of governance and to the presence of...
About the authenticity and unity of Indian American identity
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
France Info, a well known French radio station, reported about the federal American Government's decision to grant 1.4 billion dollars as claimed by Elouise Cobell, from Blackfeet tribe, to compensate the native land dispossession since 1887. This news reset the question of Indian American...
British Identity and Faith Schools
Essay - 2 pages - Political science
In February 2010, a report from the think-tank Civitas, the institute for the study of the civil society, claimed that some Islamic schools were promoting fundamentalist views. Therefore, British politician Ed Balls ordered Ofsted to investigate a small sample of faith schools to find out if they...
The Cajun identity
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
I have chosen this subject for my first class about Louisiana. The Cajun people just fascinate me as I consider them as the last French people in America. Paradoxically, when they speak French on television, we have to subtitle their words to understand them better. I wondered how they could...
Impact of the Media on National Identity
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
The media plays several roles in a country, its key role being to disseminate, compile, record and store information on current and past events in the country. The media is also responsible for the entertainment, enlightenment and education of its people. This role being crucial to the...
Presentation: one state, several nations - Pakistan and its identity issues.
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
In this presentation, we will not deal with the context of the independence of Pakistan in 1947. However, since Pakistan is a very young country, its creation plays a large role in the difficulties it encounters in its nation-building. The partition of India, in 1947, is the result of a long-term...
Language and Cultural Identity
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Language is the use of symbols (words) to communicate. It is the most-important cultural aspect and every culture in the world communicates with their native language (Senft, 12). Language is also a tool used by archeologist to examine past activates and provide clues about cultural and social...
The Social-Cultural Identity of Greek- Americans
Case study - 10 pages - Political science
According to some, Astoria is the largest “city” of the Greek outside the Athens-Greece. The New York's Queens Neighborhoods of Astoria, New York conjure up the image of a Greek immigrant community that has lived in it for over forty years (Hantzopoulos, 2005). For the Greeks and their...
"Paradise", Toni Morrisson (1999) - Ruby, an evil paradise: construction of community identity
Book review - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
No white masters, no black oppressed slaves but a freed black people community. In Toni Morrison's Paradise, Blacks create a small town called Ruby far from white people and their fake society. Several miles away is a convent in which five women live. Ruby was to be a paradise but twenty...
Subversion and Inversion: Kate Mansfield's Colonial Identity and Modernism
Case study - 1 pages - Literature
In a letter to S. S. Koteliansky, Katherine Mansfield wrote: “I am always conscious of this secret disruption in me” (qtd in Smith ix). This statement bears to many of the key concepts of Modernist literature - the repressed self versus the conscious self, disjunction and dissonance,...
Women in Film: African Filmmakers and Female Identity in African Cinema
Case study - 5 pages - Film studies
tradition from generation to generation. This is an essential part of how powerful the medium of film can be in Africa; it is more effective in societal change than books, literature, or anything involving literacy. African film goes beyond its function in western culture; it serves a greater...
Gender Identity
Case study - 2 pages - Psychology
Every person possesses a gender identity within their self's which nearly everyone match one's anatomic look. A person's gender indentify is either male or female or possibly something in between. This is a significant individual trait that adds to ones self-worth. It is the mode in...
The struggle for female identity in a male dominated world
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Throughout history, the female has been, at the best of times underappreciated, and at the worst of times, demonized and persecuted. While many Feminist writers believe that this particular brand of prejudice originally stemmed from the story of Eve tempting Adam to fall from grace in the Garden...
History as identity: The American past as contested terrain
Book review - 20 pages - Modern history
We look to the past to tell us who we are, where we are, and how we got here from there. History is identity, and thus it is contested terrain. Whose story is going to be told, and who is going to do the telling? The American narrative - the history of who we are, where we've been, and...
Mesopotamian skull preservation and identity
Case study - 1 pages - Educational studies
The Mesopotamians were an Ancient Egyptian culture settled on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers around 5000 B.C. Their settlement changed the pace of society as the world knew if from a nomadic hunting and gathering society to a settled agricultural superpower in which towns and city...
An identity reduced to a Burka
Case study - 1 pages - Educational studies
Every culture has defining elements. There are also stereotypes associated with each culture. Sometimes the defining elements of a culture are falsely identified. An Identity Reduced to a Burka by Laila Al-Marayati and Semeen Issa La illustrates a stereotype regarding the Muslim culture....
Nations and Identity in Contemporary Europe
Essay - 4 pages - European union
There is a controversial debate on the existence of a European identity. Before the development of the Nation-State in its nationalist form and the two World Wars, there existed a ?vague sense of cultural commonality' . We can distinguish periods of unity in the history of Europe into...
A war for identity: Vladimir Putin's image as a product of the war in the Northern Caucuses
Case study - 2 pages - Political science
Voloyda Putin stood atop a staircase looking down at the toilet that was fixated against the bottom stair of the communal apartment. He gripped the freezing metal handrail with his left hand and shifted the large wooden stick in his right. He had spotted another one. With his eye on the target...
Building up a nationalistic identity, the propaganda in Japan during World War II
Case study - 6 pages - Political science
The Meiji Revolution brought to Japan, a country relatively unknown and isolated from the outside world for about 270 years, a dynamic wave of restructuration and modernization. Unwilling to suffer from the same fate as many Asian countries, who lost their territorial integrity but also their...
Changes in corporate identity: Importance of 'image makeover' to organizations
Internship report - 2 pages - Management
From the basic wholesaler on the corner of your street to the strong multinational chocolate factory Ferrero, every organization has its own identity. According to Van Riel and Balmer (1997), identity presents the company's competitive advantage by putting forward its individuality...
Gynocriticism and 'Jane Eyre': The conflict of the female identity in language
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
When reading a novel like Charlotte Bronte's 'Jane Eyre', with both a female author and narrator, a series of implications arise by the structuring of a feminine language within the constructs of a patriarchal society, and thus, a masculine discourse; such an oppression innate to language...
Identity Construction in Ibsen's 'Hedda Gabler' and Wilde's 'The Importance of Being Earnest'
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
Both Henrik Ibsen's 'Hedda Gabler' and Oscar Wilde's 'The Importance of Being Earnest' depict the constant conflict between the individual and the society in which they live; and, more specifically, the struggle of the individual to construct his or her own identity in...
Temporal and Spatial divides and identity in 'Lucy'
Book review - 5 pages - Literature
Jamaica Kincaid's novel 'Lucy' illustrates the story of a girl with desperate desire to manipulate her personal identity. With motives so deeply ingrained in her determinedly expendable past and their manifestations in her present, her quest propels her obsessions divides past from...
Brain Swapping: Identity, Transformation and what matters in Survival
Book review - 6 pages - Medical studies
So here is your story: you are fairly unhappy with your life and who you are at present. You have always thought yourself to be a bit too tall and lanky, a little lacking on physical endurance, and much too emotionally sensitive. You feel that you have a few intellectual shortcomings as well,...
Pakistan: what is national identity?
Essay - 12 pages - Political science
With around 140 million people, Pakistan gained the status of a nuclear power in 1998, but also came to be known as a rogue state ('rogue stat') in the eyes of the United States. Under the international spotlight since the Afghan crisis of autumn 2001, and following the attacks of September...
Dual citizenship and political identity
Essay - 8 pages - Political science
Dual citizenship is of central theoretical and contemporary political concern. Although there has been some work on dual nationality, scholars have largely neglected it in favor of studies of single citizenship. At its most basic level, dual citizenship involves the simultaneous holding of more...
