Trade unions in Northern Europe
Essay - 23 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Among the five countries where the unionization density is currently the highest in the world, four are Nordic European ones. Sweden (78%), Finland (74.1%) and Denmark (70.4%) constitute the group of the most unionized countries, far beyond Belgium (55.4%) and Norway (53.3%). Austria is ranked...
Letter to request a flight ticket refund
Sample letter - 1 pages - Everyday's life
Dear Ticket Refunds Service Representative: As a passenger of the flight number 7645 leaving from London to New York at 9am on Friday March 10, I would like to inform you of the distressing event that occurred. Shocked and worried by this unpleasant incident, I am requesting a refund of my flight...
Food sharing and trust: Exploring the possibility of a relationship of causality
Essay - 16 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Imagine what it would mean for businesses if they found that the money spent on the entertainment of guests had no real affect on the trust built with the other party. Or perhaps if businesses were told the opposite, that sharing food would enhance trust between two parties, they would invest in...
Psychological Factors and Sport Performance
Essay - 27 pages - Psychology
The purpose of this review is to define the physiologic?l indices of sports perform?nce, ex?mine psychologic?l f?ctors involved with sports, ?nd suggest ?ltern?tives for co?ches to ?void sports perform?nce f?ilures. The body of liter?ture which ?ddresses sports perform?nce is prim?rily...
Is education in Japan is truly meritocratic?
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
At first sight, Japanese education system seems to be truly meritocratic. Indeed, in Japanese consciousness, all are born equal. It is only thanks to their work and efforts, that they achieve their goals. As the education system is grounded on those principles, we may think that only the most...
Democratic Republic of Sao Tomé e Principe: Parties, influence groups and human rights
Essay - 7 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The islands of Sao Tomé and Principe were colonized by the Portuguese in the 16th century and were then used as a slave trading point. Later in the 19th century they began to export cocoa. After the decolonization in 1951 the country finally came to independence in 1975. A one-party-regime was...
Education in the UK
Essay - 26 pages - Educational studies
The complicated nature of the current education system has its rules in school history. Until the end of the XIXth century, most children went to school intended church schools or private school established by rich benefactors. But such schools were largely confined to the sons of rich...
The Olympic cities (2006)
Essay - 5 pages - Sports
Last decades have been marked, assuredly, by the growing internationalization of cities and this increased autonomy of local actions, beyond the national scale, is a particularly relevant frame to study the Olympic phenomenon. As a matter of fact, several scales are represented and interacting in...
Foreign language influence on studies in UK
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
My research is on “Foreign language influence on studies in UK”. The main objective of this research project is to show how international student in Staffordshire University adapt their own comprehension during their English studies. The purpose of this study is to know what the...
On the way to a successful integration on a US Campus. How can a French student succeed his integration?
Dissertation - 39 pages - Sociology & social sciences
What makes 600 000 young people from all over the world come to study in the United States? Is it the reputation of the US degrees? The efficient teaching methods or the life on campus? Studying in the United States is a myth for a large number of students in the world. A lot of movies and series...
Final assignment: Analysis of the process of modernization in the French sport: Evolution of the French football
Essay - 11 pages - Sports
Football must be one of the most popular sports in the world. Almost everybody knows what kind of sport it is. As a lot of team sports such as, its cousin rugby, football was created in Great Britain. The myth of the English sportsmen was spread and with this concept, all the modern sports (like...
Has the media helped in portraying organized crime in New York City as an Italian-American stereotype?
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
This question is being researched because when people hear words and phrases such as organized crime, the Mafia, La Cosa Nostra (another name for the Italian Mafia), and the Mob they usually believe it involves people of Italian heritage. Shows and movies such as the Sopranos, the Godfather...
How has the rise of "militant Islam" affected politics in Indonesia?
Essay - 5 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
Although nearly 90% of Indonesian population is Muslim, Islam and Islamic issues have not become central subjects of interest permeating Indonesian politics. In the past, Islam in Indonesia has usually been portrayed as moderate, pluralist and tolerant in contrasts to parts of the Middle East ....
India: The state of the children in the world's most populous democracy
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In December 2001, a farrago of representatives of intergovernmental organizations, nongovernmental organizations, the private sector, and concerned members of the civil society around the world convened in Yokohama, Japan, at the 2nd World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of...
The M word, a sociological study of menopause
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
There is a shroud of secrecy that surrounds menopause, that for so many women and especially their mothers, it is rarely spoken of beyond hushed tones. In the animal kingdom for Bonobos, it doesn't even exist; females keep procreating all their natural lives! For women of all cultures it is a...
Women, Algerians and enemies
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Victims told their stories to the Truth Commission while, in another hall, in other time, perpetrators explained their deeds. During the Algerian War (1954-1962), called “the war of independence”, French soldiers raped many Algerian women, but this remains unknown because of the...
Commentary: "Authority intoxicates, and makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud and vain."- Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Who would think that authority would be able to cook up such a dangerous recipe for human flaws? But upon closer consideration, you begin to compare the attitudes and persona of those with power and those lacking it. The empowered ones walk and talk differently. They possess an air of...
The situation of homosexuals in the Middle-East
Essay - 9 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Prejudice in the Muslim world has been present since the earliest of times, but homophobia in current terms has magnified in Islam since the 1800s. Throughout its history, Islam has been generally tolerant of homosexuals, despite verses in the Koran condemning homosexual activity. Like most...
Child prostitution throughout the world
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Child prostitution continues to be a growing epidemic in the world. While Southeast Asia has traditionally been associated as the sex-trade capital of the world, the last decade of the twentieth century introduced some African nations as emerging contenders in this salacious industry. As this...
Opening a restaurant
Market study - 54 pages - Nutrition, alimentation and dietetic
With annual sales exceeding $376 billion, the food service industry is the largest retail industry in the United States. The industry employs over 11 million people in more than 830,000 food service establishments and, on a typical day, almost one-half of all adults are food services patrons. The...
Can a Latino be a conservative?
Essay - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Anna Escobedo Cabral is treasurer of the United States of America, Carlos Gutierrez is secretary of Commerce and Alberto Gonzales is Unites States Attorney General. President George w. Bush's cabinet is, following Elena Rocha , "one of the most ethnically diverse administrations in the...
The Beijing Olympics : Preparation, Impacts and Challenges
Essay - 7 pages - Sports
Perhaps no other sporting event draws more geographically dispersed visitors, or showcases the host city as visibly as the Olympics. According to Andy Xie, an economist from Shanghai, "there is a huge psychological effect. Organizing the Olympics means that the country has succeeded, that it has...
Examining the civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's movement, and the conservative movement, which would you argue was most successful at achieving its aims, and why?
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
At the end of World War II, many movements in the United States gave rise to important changes in society. Of major importance were progressive movements for Civil Rights, against the war, or for women and gay rights. Some movements, though, were not progressive as claimed in their aims, like the...
Leaving No Child Behind?
Essay - 4 pages - Educational studies
Education has been one of the biggest priorities in the American political debate for the past few years. As schools and education have faced tremendous difficulties in certain areas and failed to provide rightful opportunities to every American kid for a long time, the federal government ran...
Where does slavery fit within the range of dependent relationships that have existed in history, and more particularly in the early modern era, and how did it differ from the others?
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Chattel slavery has not always been the alternate of free labor, as it appears these days. Indeed, different forms of dependency has seen through many centuries and including the early modern period. People were not simply slaves or free men, and different intermediary status existed in many...
Analyse of Durkheim's The Elementary Forms of Religious life (1912)
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In The Elementary Forms of Religious life Durkheim tries to study the origin of religion as a subject That is to say that a phenomenon can be understood using rational methods, deducing things based on experience. In his study, Durkheim's first point characterizes a religion of any kind...
The Responsibility of University Administration Off-Campus: How far Does Liability Extend, and Under What Circumstances Does it Exist?
Thesis - 6 pages - Educational studies
Universities and colleges in the United States have long been held legally responsible for their students, even though the circumstances surrounding this responsibility have evolved over time. The basis of this responsibility lies in the concept of in loco parentis, when a university takes the...
The Practice of Sophism in Athenian Politics, Religion, and Decision Making
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Educational studies
In this paper I will discuss the study of sophism as a system of education in ancient Greece and the ways in which it impacted the inhabitants and the conflicts of the ancient Greek society. In the first part I will discuss the subject matters that sophists taught, the reasons why young...
The Theory of Emerging Adulthood
Essay - 3 pages - Psychology
In his book Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens through the Twenties, Dr. Jeffrey Jensen Arnett details research he has conducted shedding light on emerging adulthood. Arnett can be considered at the forefront of research of this kind. According to his biographical...
The theories and practices of assimilation
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
"The main noise (…) has been about asylum-seekers and how to keep them out. But the real issue is the immigrants, and their descendants, who are already inside. Integrate these, and European societies could cope well enough with the relatively few asylum-seekers." According to this sentence,...
