The establishment of Swedish/German Company "Kunstwerke" in China
Case study - 7 pages - Foreign markets
This business report deals with the difficulties in the establishment of Swedish/German Company "Kunstwerke" in China. The aim of this report is to give as many solutions and recommendation as possible, to ensure the good setting up of Kunstwerke. It will allow the readers to understand...
Wallbum: New decorative product
Market study - 16 pages - Brand management
The Wallbum project (contraction between wall and album) is an innovative concept of decorative art, that we would like to launch in Portugal, which allows customers to change and renovate their daily environment in a very simple way. The customers can either give us an image that our...
Why has the Franco German partnership played such a pivotal role throughout the development of the European Community - publié le 15/01/2009
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
After the end of the World War Two, France and Germany experienced hostile relations. Indeed, from 1945 to 1950, the two countries were both traumatized by the souvenir of their mutual occupation. On the French side, the Nazi's occupation had created a feeling of revenge, and on the German's one,...
All Quiet on the Western Front
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
Eight and a half million people dead and another 20 million injured, it was a disaster unparalleled in human history. There was nothing great about this "Great War" except for the death and destruction. Erich Maria Remarque's novel, All Quiet on the Western Front describes the pointlessness...
An American right: Hunting in America
Thesis - 5 pages - Journalism
I walk slowly, observantly, through the hardwoods stalking the white tailed deer I stumbled upon earlier in the hunt. I am focused to the left, on the other side of a patch of bramble, looking for the outline of a huge deer, straining my eyes more as I step closer and closer to the red vines....
Understanding the intercultural management - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 9 pages - Management
Today, most companies operate in the international market. Small and medium sized firms that export to the big multinationals, all have to deal with foreign partners. For these relations to be constructive, it is essential to understand the cultural context of the targeted country. Indeed, this...
Iranian revolution - Islamic revolution and catalyst for the resurgence of political Islam throughout the Middle East.
Case study - 9 pages - Political science
With the Ottoman Empire's downfall in 1919 and the 1991 first Gulf War, the 1979 Iranian revolution is widely considered as a landmark in Middle East's history. Its impact over the political dynamics of the region, especially Islamic ones, was notable and has led some to conclude that such an...
Function of the Requiem in "Death of a Salesman"
Essay - 10 pages - Literature
Arthur Miller (1915 - 2005) once revealed as regards his writing of Death of a Salesman that he “wished to create a form which, in itself as a form, would literally be the process of Willy Loman's way of mind”, and in this respect, the setting of the whole play actually stands for a...
Why has the Franco German partnership played such a pivotal role throughout the development of the European Community
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
After the end of the World War Two, France and Germany experienced hostile relations. Indeed, from 1945 to 1950, the two countries were both traumatized by the souvenir of their mutual occupation. On the French side, the Nazi's occupation had created a feeling of revenge, and on the German's one,...
Rodin and Otterness: Revealing Form through closed sculpture
Essay - 3 pages - Arts and art history
If one were to elongate the neck, legs and arms of August Rodin's “Thinker,” the result would look something like Tom Otterness's “The Crying Giant.” But it is precisely this aspect of the sculpture that makes the “Crying Giant” a less effective closed sculpture....
Study of DC drives
Tutorials/exercises - 50 pages - Physics
In general practice in industrial applications machine tools make use of motors for their feed applications where in, speed of this motors are controlled in conventional methods i.e., Ward-Leonard system, multiple voltage control, rheostatic control method etc. However, these methods are...
Strategic analysis of "Yahoo!"
Case study - 20 pages - Management
There are more Yahoo! Mail users around the world than two times the population of Mexico” (Yahoo! Website, 2008). One cannot deny the success of Yahoo! over the last decade. However, the reason why Yahoo! is catching a lot of media attention today does not lie in its success but more on...
Undoing Gender (Butler, 2004) review and Gender theory applied to Plastic Bodies
Case study - 11 pages - Linguistics & languages
The theory of gender developed by Judith Butler applied to the works of Sheila Press Bright Plastic Bodies reveals a differentiated interpretation of what our society can still call toy, but it should rather call artefact. An artifact as it is a witness of our civilization, but also object that...
Socrates and the importance of philosophy and the examined life
Thesis - 4 pages - Philosophy
Those who have studied Socrates know that his thesis is: “the unexamined life is not worth living.” (Plato: 443). This is a statement that he says in his defense after he has been found guilty of corrupting the youth of Athens, making the stronger appear to be the weaker, and for...
The comparison of He's just not that into you, Book vs. Movie
Book review - 4 pages - Journalism
Both the book and movie He's Just Not That Into You by Behrendt and Tuccillo give realistic advice to women, on how to date men. Many women have always been confused about knowing how men feel about them and what goes on through men's heads. For centuries females have been making...
Strategic analysis of "Yahoo!" - published: 29/09/2010
Case study - 20 pages - Management
There are more Yahoo! Mail users around the world than two times the population of Mexico” (Yahoo! Website, 2008). One cannot deny the success of Yahoo! over the last decade. However, the reason why Yahoo! is catching a lot of media attention today does not lie in its success but more on...
Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner
Case study - 2 pages - Philosophy
Epistemology is the science of how we know. It strives to draw connections in order to clarify abstract concepts such as “meaning” and “reality”. These are broad subjects and each has many of its own sub-divisions. “Meaning” and “reality”, however, are...
Monograph: Description of a pathologic case
Case study - 11 pages - Psychology
Within the framework of "psychopathology at the workplace", we were asked to write a monograph, that is to say, a detailed study about a person we met and the analysis of his/her psychological structure. I was a bit apprehensive about writing this paper. Indeed, it is not an easy task to write...
Oral English Baccalaureate - 5 subjects
Presentation - 6 pages - Philosophy
I am going to talk about the notion of locations and forms of power. First of all, I would like to give a quick definition of that notion. The power is strength exerted or capable of being exerted. In politics and social science, power is the ability to influence the behaviour of people....
The drama of discrimination in Henry James' The Ambassadors
Book review - 4 pages - Literature
The Ambassadors is clearly a novel: the novel is free, and has the most elastic form. We could be tempted to say that there is no drama in the work. In fact, drama has different meanings. First, it is the name of theatrical plays of a particular kind or period. Secondly, it can mean a situation...
Career endeavors: A look at a career in logistics
Case study - 5 pages - Logistics
This report will include several aspects of a logistics career field in an appealing approach. First an introductory paragraph labeled Art Teacher to Logistics Major will explain the reasoning for my writing. Following that, the next header, History of Logistics, is self explanatory. Who You Need...
The European Court of Justice and the rule of Precedent
Case study - 5 pages - European law
The rule of precedent is the legal principle under which judges have to follow the judgments established previously by upper courts. The Latin translation of "stare decisis" gives an unequivocal definition of the concept as it means "to stand by that which is decided". Precedent underpins...
Opposing viewpoints: Autism is a serious public health crisis
Case study - 9 pages - Educational studies
According to Anne McElroy Dachel, Autism is now becoming an epidemic because of the increase of cases now being reported as compared to 20 years ago. Dachel, I feel is biased because her child was diagnosed with Autism almost 20 years ago and at the time of his diagnosis not much was known about...
Turkey: between Empire and Republic, between Ottomanism and Kemalism
Essay - 45 pages - Modern history
Thus the purpose of this work will be to try and assess the claim of total rupture of Kemalism with the legacy of the Ottoman Empire and to examine the origins and nature of Turkish nationalism and its influence on the structure of Turkish society. The first chapter will treat the issue of...
It's Funny because it's True: The Role of Comedy in the Alternative Media
Essay - 8 pages - Literature
Humor is a powerful tool that can be harnessed by the alternative media in an effort to give a voice to the disenfranchised and to attract an audience for alternative thought. For the purposes of this project, “alternative media” is an amorphous term that can be applied to any...
Identity sags in transition
Case study - 6 pages - Journalism
In February of 2005, the state of Virginia proposed a “Droopy Drawers” bill. The House voted 60-34 for this bill (Bellantoni), but was later shot down by the Senate. If passed, one would have been facing a fifty-dollar fine for sagging. “It's not an attack on baggy pants,”...
The underclass, illustrated in David Simon's TV series: The Wire & Treme
Case study - 4 pages - Literature
Poverty in the United States, and especially the notion of under class, are well represented in David Simon's TV series. First, The Wire focuses on the city of Baltimore, and studies a drug dealing organization, and the Baltimore police department trying to put an end to it. This drug dealing...
The drama of discrimination in Henry James' The Ambassadors - publié le 25/01/2007
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
The Ambassadors is clearly a novel: the novel is free, and has the most elastic form. We could be tempted to say that there is no drama in the work. In fact, drama has different meanings. First, it is the name of theatrical plays of a particular kind or period. Secondly, it can mean a situation...
What are the main milestones in the emergence of the Palestinian problem and the Arab-Israeli conflict? - published: 12/01/2009
Thesis - 5 pages - International relations
“In a higher phase of communist society ... after labour has become not only a means of life but life's prime want ... only then can ... society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability to each according to his needs!” (‘Critique of the Gotha Programme', p. 569)....
Venezuelian Foreign Policy
Essay - 25 pages - International relations
Articles on the subject of Venezuelan foreign policy are abundant, and easily available. Every political action, speech, or voyage of President Chavez is diligently covered by the media. It is because of the availability of such detailed information, that I decided to study a diversity of...
