The modernization of Russia through the urban transformations in the cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
In the second half of the 19th century, Imperial Russia went through a lot of changes. Reforms of serfdom, administration, clergy and lot of others caused changes in the society and the formation of a new organization within the different social classes. The country was also going through a new...
Effects of Globalization on the Innovative Activities of Firms in India
Case study - 3 pages - Economy general
Globalization has forced many emerging markets to innovate new ways to remain competitive and attract investments in those countries. India represents a major emerging market struggling with major economic challenges that have resulted to the use of innovative technologies and strategies to...
Modernization and Globalization in Bangladesh: A Case Study
Essay - 8 pages - International relations
Many hailed the 2004 opening of Bashundhara City, a world-class shopping mall located in Bangladesh's capital city of Dhaka, as yet another indicator of the country's consistently expanding economy. This was the first Western-style mall to open in the country and accordingly it has created quite...
On the role of rural development
Essay - 8 pages - Geography
The evolution of the development agenda regarding rural areas over the last century, and especially during the last forty years, is striking. It has shifted focus from global modern economic growth through industrialization to a concern with the sustainability of the livelihoods of the...
Did government policy influence the development of large local firms and/or business groups in South Korea? What have been some of the long run benefits and problematic legacies of such policies? - publié le 15/05/2008
Essay - 14 pages - Economy general
The South-Korean state's industrialization programs achieved national economic ob-jectives through the use of government economic policies, defined as “measures by which a government attempts to influence the economy” (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2008). This paper focus on three...
23 things they don't tell you about capitalism (Thing 9) - Ha-Joon Chang, 2010
Case study - 1 pages - Political science
In this text, Ha-Joon Chang strongly contests the idea according from which we are currently in a post-industrial age. Such statement derives from the current disappearance of the manufactory industry in the developed countries in favor of the tertiary sector and thus of a service economy. This...
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...
What are the implications of climate change for development?
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
The phenomenon of climate change is as old as the planet earth itself. For ages, the temperature at the surface of the earth has varied, triggering many different climatic eras: Earth has hitherto known five ice ages, and the first of them is estimated to have happened around 2.4 to 2.1 billion...
The child sex trade in Asia
Essay - 3 pages - Philosophy
References to Asia often bring to mind the stunning beauty of the Orient. Rich cultural tradition coupled with unique design and architecture make Asia appear to be an almost mythical culture to Western citizens. While it is indeed true that Asia is associated with an exotic culture deeply...
Being a Jew after World War II: What it means to be Jewish in America today
Essay - 7 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Judaism as an identity has become a different concept than Judaism as a religion. Skepticism has formed as a result of advances in science and industrialization, and religion has changed. Judaism is unique in its definition of what makes one Jewish: rather than being based on belief and...
Continual change
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Throughout our history, we have been a nation of change. This change intensely manifests itself during 1865-1935. During this period, the United States experienced Reconstruction, the rise of industrialization, a massive influx of immigrants, territorial expansion, and technological and...
Evolution of the Czech Agriculture after the Arrival of the Czech Republic in the European Union (2004)
Market study - 17 pages - European union
Despite an agricultural sector which is well developed for a country of the post soviet union, the Czech Republic is mainly an industrial country which is one of the healthiest countries of eastern Europe and which joined the European Union during the biggest expansion of the European...
The American diplomacy around the protocol of Kyoto
Essay - 15 pages - Ecology & environment
During the past forty years, the issue of global warming has gradually been established as the priority of environmental debates to become a major issue in our society for the twenty-first century. The proliferation of conferences, books, and films on this subject reflect the growing interest....
Social Security in Algeria
Course material - 9 pages - Social, moral & civic education
On the eve of colonization of Algeria by France, the concepts of public health and social security barely existed. The colonial regime of the time introduced Social Security in Algeria to organize the medical benefits of military settlers and for the Algerian Workers' Algerians service. "...
Cosmetics and intercultural strategy marketing: L'Oreal's sales strategy vis-a-vis the cultural diversity of eye make-up
Case study - 21 pages - Services marketing
Today, the cosmetics market is a particularly flourishing market. New firms are emerging and being introduced to this growing market. Makeup has become a consumer product, and has declined as a luxury item, as it is now distributed by major brands. This product, which is a must for most of the...
At the heart of the Lyon Silk market: Stakes and challenges of international prospects
Case study - 29 pages - Foreign markets
Our initiative cleary describe the historic interweavings between our city of Lyon and the international market of the silk. The story of the silk begins dates back to the Chinese tradition in XVIIth century BC and continues with three millenniums of exclusivity in the course of which China...
Stephen Crane and the Red Badge of courage
Essay - 6 pages - Literature
Born in 1871 to a Methodist preacher and social leader, Stephen Crane started his short, but compelling life in the Civil War torn society that was America- or more specifically, Newark, New Jersey. His parents held a belief, commonplace in their era, that valued God, acknowledged free will and...
Impacts of air pollution on forest ecosystems
Essay - 10 pages - Ecology & environment
Air pollution problems are international in scale. All forests worldwide experience some degree of air pollution exposure above preindustrial levels. Atmospheric transport processes do not recognize geographic borders, but sources of pollutants, the pollutants of concern, and the speci?c effects...
Sustainable development, oil and the future: the trilogy - publié le 15/01/2009
Essay - 18 pages - Journalism
Sustainable development has been extensively discussed in the past few years, and is still a great matter of concern nowadays. In fact, there is no single way to deal with this subject, except choosing a guideline of this workshop avoiding “clichés”. Its main objective is therefore to...
Assessing the impact of oil on the Norwegian economy
Essay - 3 pages - Economy general
Describing Norway as a wealthy nation almost comes close to using a truism. In terms of Gross Domestic Product per capita, Norway was the 19th richest country in the world in the seventies, and is now ranked second among worldwide, just after Luxembourg. (Halvorsen & Sterno 2008 :28). The picture...
Changes in the lives and roles of women 1300 to the present
Thesis - 5 pages - Journalism
The lives and roles of women have changed monumentally since the 1300s. Today, women in the West and Southeast Asia enjoy benefits, like legal rights and educational opportunities which were not available to the women before them. This paper will analyze the many changes in the lives and roles of...
Life as a 20-something in New Zealand
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The New Zealand economy has recently been and continues to be re-structured. The government's goals appear to be to move the country towards industrialization and a place in the global economy. Agriculture continues to be the basis of New Zealand's economy, though this is changing as the...
At the heart of the Lyon Silk market: Stakes and challenges of international prospects - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 29 pages - Economy general
Our initiative cleary describe the historic interweavings between our city of Lyon and the international market of the silk. The story of the silk begins dates back to the Chinese tradition in XVIIth century BC and continues with three millenniums of exclusivity in the course of which China...
The introduction of apartheid in South Africa
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
Effective African colonization began with the Dutch at first were very friendly relations, becoming violent later. The Dutch also called Boers found several foci of resistance as the Hottentots, Bushmen and further north the Xhosa (were farmers, practiced animal husbandry, possessed large tracts...
What were the implications of WWI for the history of the international economy in the 20th?
Case study - 8 pages - Political science
The Great War (1914-1918), which occurred because of political and geopolitical issues in Europe, came as an exogenous shock to the international trade. Indeed, the world never had been so well integrated than before the outbreak of this major conflict. The Great War engaged the twentieth century...
The working class before the First World War
Case study - 1 pages - Political science
The places the working class came from were often characterized by a high level of trade unions and a large amount of strikes. However, only a small part of workers used to be involved in working-class organisations at this time. People of the working-class are those who have no other way to...
Structure and effects of the 1970 EEC-Malta Association Agreement
Case study - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The Maltese culture is adorned with influences which somehow over time managed to constitute the definition of a Mediterranean Country. Be it Arabic influences in our language, the Mediterranean diet or the European influences on the way we think, this small island is a fragment of a mixture of...
Sustainable development, oil and the future: the trilogy
Essay - 22 pages - Ecology & environment
Sustainable development has been extensively discussed in the past few years, and is still a great matter of concern nowadays. In fact, there is no single way to deal with this subject, except choosing a guideline of this workshop avoiding “clichés”. Its main objective is therefore to...
The weaknesses of Stalin's rivals contributed more to his rise as a dictator than did Stalin's own strengths as a leader - A comment.
Thesis - 2 pages - Political science
Few dictators in modern World History have been as feared and rivaled as Josef Stalin (Iosif Dzhugashvili); being probably one of the most discrepant leaders in the 20th century, he served as the head of the Bolshevik party and Soviet government, Lenin's companion-in-arms and organizer of the...
'When China changes the world": Erik Izraelewicz
Book review - 5 pages - Economy general
"The snake has initiated its transformation", said Erik IZRAELEWIZC playing this animal metaphor to evoke China, stripped of its skin spotted with communism and protectionism, which finally awakened. Modern cities developed there, and have tripled in volume in recent years. Cities like Shanghai,...
