Strategic Marketing for Super Bowl
Market study - 4 pages - Services marketing
Super Bowl advertising has produced some of the most memorable and effective commercials in the history of television. (Pitner, 2009). I remember my first Super Bowl experience in 1991 when we were watching a Washington Red Skins game. I was only 5 at that time, but the advertisements were...
Summary note on definition of investor
Case study - 2 pages - Finance
Since the provision on the settlement of disputes in the BIT offers to the investor a choice between local courts and ICSID arbitration only, we have to look to these two sources for a definition of investor that is relevant to the needs of the present case. Evidently, in the former alternative...
Psychological article critique: 'Childhood Family Violence History and Women's Risk for Intimate Partner Violence and Poor Health' by Bensley, Van Eenwyk, & Simmons
Case study - 1 pages - Psychology
This study investigated the association between a history of childhood family violence and subsequent adult physical health, mental distress, and intimate partner violence. The sample consisted of 3527 women living in Washington State. Data were obtained from the Behavioral Risk Factor...
Facebook Analysis
Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy
Upon receiving notification of a $500,000 inheritance, financial advisors made several recommendations. However, the inheritance may be best invested in common stock of a publicly traded registered security. After consultation with a financial advisor Facebook, Inc. was chosen as a potential...
Starbucks case study: Its current situation
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
This paper looks at the history of Starbucks as well as the current situation of the company. The focus of the paper is on the principles on which the company was created and this is tackled in the background section of this paper. Besides the background, this paper identifies that Starbucks has...
All is fair in Love and War
Essay - 3 pages - Philosophy
House of Cards is not a show about several different characters that simply live and work in a semi-connected world; it is about Frank Underwood, the House Majority Whip, and how everything and everyone exists to serve his ambitions. Everyone in the series is defined by their relationship to...
Physician-Assisted Suicide
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Physician-assisted suicide is suicide, in the traditional sense of taking own life, assisted by a physician. In recent times, there has been an increase in debates regarding the subject, especially after medical assisted suicide was legalized in Arizona and Washington (Engdahl, 2009)....
Book Summary-Revolutionary War of America
Case study - 1 pages - Business law
The setting of the story is the Revolutionary War of America that took place in the late1700s. The book tells about women's contribution and how the war affected them. Berkin expresses a deep admiration for women in these hard times by describing their priceless contributions. The characters...
Miscommunication during and after attack of Pearl Harbor
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
The foundation of the attack of the Pearl Harbor occurred on December 7, 1941. The information in this paper discusses the lack of communication during and after the attack of Pearl Harbor. Details such as communications from Washington D.C. to Pearl Harbor conflicts in communication, and...
Benjamin Banneker, African-American mathematician, astronomer, and inventor
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
Benjamin Banneker was an exceptional African-American mathematician, astronomer, and inventor. He was born near Baltimore, on November 9, 1731. He was the son of a slave man and free black woman, however, grew up as a free black and demonstrated his abilities in mathematics while attending school...
History 9067/3: International History, 1945 - 1991
Case study - 5 pages - Modern history
On first reading, Source A agrees with the hypothesis that “The United Nations Secretary-General has never possessed any independent power.” For example, it says that “Trygve Lie had to operate in a UN which was still very much an ‘East-West structure.” - this seems to...
Harlem Renaissance Poets: Essay & Poem
Case study - 5 pages - Literature
Gwendolyn was recognized for as a versatile and significant artist in the Harlem Renaissance. She was a graphic artist and maintained her profile as an activist among the Harlem activists on African-American art due to her proficiency in writing using poetry or prose. She used the Harlem...
Theory of Political Power, From The Prince-Niccolo Machiavelli's Book
Case study - 3 pages - Political science
Niccolo Machiavelli, born in Italy on May 3, 1469 was a known political philosopher and diplomat during the Renaissance, and famous for his political treaties, The Prince (1513), which has become the cornerstone of the modern political philosophy. Niccolo provided an opinion on how a ruler should...
The American bureaucracy on national security
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
In his book The Power Game, Hedrick Smith speaks of the foreign policy game in the United States as a “bureaucratic tribal warfare”, using a tribal metaphor to describe the fierce fights which take place in Washington, DC. The notion of bureaucracy emerged in the early 20th...
Power and Independence of Hmong Women in Laos and America
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The Hmong are an ethnic group indigenous to the Southeast Asian peninsula. They typically live in the mountainous regions of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. They are rice farmers who are well known for their embroidery and the color of their dress, which gives its name to the different Hmong clans....
A Fictional History: Shakespeare, England and the Importance of Historical Fiction
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
It is almost amazing, the overwhelming feeling of disgust that infiltrates a high school classroom whenever the subject is history. A kind of primitive competition to find the few kids who actually enjoy the class and bribe them for photocopies of notes and exam answers suffocates like a humid...
Animals Rights and Human Wrongs in a Fast Food Nation
Book review - 5 pages - Philosophy
The abolitionist movement in slave-era America was clear-cut and its ethos was simple: Free all slaves in the name of human rights. Looking back centuries later at those who argued for slavery, most would find holes in their argument that Africans were meant to be slaves because of their racial...
From Tall Tale to Political Expression
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
If you read Washington Irving's tale of time, Rip Van Winkle, and Mark Twain's story of deceit, The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, you will find a ball of fantasy and tall tales with truth and logic buried in the middle. In comparing these two tales, one must look at what...
A Race to the Finish : A struggle for equal rights
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
The United States, despite its libertarian ideals and emphasis on equality, has more than once turned its back on its own citizens. Slavery, the most bruising, shameful mark in the history of this democracy, divided the American culture even after the Civil War ended and the slaves were freed....
The history of Philadelphia
Thesis - 6 pages - Modern history
By the late eighteen the century, America was well on its way to establishing its own national identity. While the cities and towns that were born during this time period each manifested their own unique culture and heritage, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania became the political and economic heart of...
Handmaid of God: The Developing Social Class of the Virgin Mary
Essay - 7 pages - Ancient history
Although the Virgin Mary is depicted in the gospel text and other religious literature as primarily a humble “handmaid of God,” imagery in medieval representations of her tend to downplay that aspect of her personality. Instead, social class is what is most often emphasized, with the...
Leadership and the valley forge encampment of 1777-1778 ( Maps included )
Essay - 4 pages - Medieval history
The 19th day of December in 1777 marked significantly on the history of United States of America for this was the day when George Washington together with 11,000 soldiers encamped in Valley Forge, a “2,000 - acre Pennsylvania community […] twenty miles northwest of...
Nordstrom Inc
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
John W. Nordstrom was only 16 years old in 1887 when he left his home country of Sweden to fulfill the American Dream in New York City. With no English speaking ability and only five dollars in his pocket, Nordstrom had a hard time making ends meet by laboring in mining and logging camps as he...
The PLO: Still a threat?
Essay - 6 pages - International law
When the historic "Gaza and Jericho" first agreement was signed in September 1993 at the White House in Washington, D. C., in the presence of Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Chairman Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Rabin and President Clinton, uproar and discontent were exhibited...
Starbucks Corporation
Thesis - 15 pages - Business strategy
Starbucks Corporation is one of the world's fastest growing companies. Originally founded as a single store in Seattle, Washington in 1971, Starbucks now operates more than 15,000 coffee shops across the globe, with an average of 220 locations in each of the 50 U.S. states. Starbucks'...
The Bergsonian martial artist : Bruce Lee's philosophies on the martial arts
Essay - 6 pages - Philosophy
Bruce Lee, international film star, martial arts master, and founder of Jeet Kune Do, received his undergraduate training in Philosophy at the University of Washington in Seattle during the early 1960's. He studied Eastern and Western Philosophy, as well as the history of thought. It is...
Unholy Acts: The exile of Pope Shenouda in the context of Egyptian Religious Politics
Essay - 13 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Soon after the end of Ramadan in August 1981, more than one hundred thousand Egyptian Muslims gathered in front of Abdin Palace in Cairo, ostensibly to celebrate the end of the fast. Western newspapers, however, reported that what appeared to be a prayer gathering had a political, as well as...
Biodiversity in forests
Essay - 7 pages - Biology
Interest in biodiversity began in the mid-1980s with the Biodiversity Symposium, held in Washington, DC, sponsored by the National Academy of Science. Within increasing human populations and rising demands for resources and living space, the need to conserve biological diversity rose to...
Assess the significance of the Watergate scandal
Thesis - 4 pages - Political science
Born in 1913 in California, Richard Nixon became the 37th president of the United States in 1968, after being governor of California in 1950, then vice-president at the side of Eisenhower. This republican president earned a big success at the beginning. He indeed managed to end the war in Vietnam...
Leadership : Review of the literature
Essay - 19 pages - Human resources
Research on leadership has been part of organisation behaviour for the last one hundred years and is seen as one of social science's most researched subject (Antonakis, Cianciolo and Sternberg, 2003:5). It is believed that in 1896, the Library of congress in the USA had no book on leadership but...
