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01 mars 2013
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Sustainable development

Presentation - 19 pages - Educational studies

Integrate the sustainable development into our businesses HSBC takes into account social and environmental criteria in financing project. Application: HSBC encourages investment towards the sober industries in carbon - sustainable transport, renewable energies, water treatment and waste …...

27 févr. 2013
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Why is popular piety so strong in Ireland?

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

This video shows the arrival of the Pope John Paul II in Ireland on the 29 September 1979. This video clip is an extract from the live broadcast of this event by the national television channel RTE2. It seems clear that the purpose of such wide broadcast was to permit to the whole Ireland to...

27 févr. 2013
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Sample letter to a friend

Case study - 1 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...

26 févr. 2013
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What's European about Europe?

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

The text we have is an article written by James Wickham in April 2003, and revised in 2004. In this article, the author gives us a brief analysis of the European Social Model, pointing up its potential and its weaknesses. All along this text, he interrogates about the different forms this model...

26 févr. 2013
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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...

22 févr. 2013
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Amnesty and illegal immigration

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

The contentious concept of amnesty for illegal immigrants in US is one that is deep rooted in the history and culture of the American nation, a fact authenticated by the fundamental foundation of the nation by early European immigrants and “melting point” phenomena. The word amnesty,...

19 févr. 2013
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Meanings and attitudes attached to cohabitation in Poland: Qualitative analysis of the slow diffusion of cohabitation among the young generation - Monika Mynarska and Laura Bernardi

Case study - 1 pages - Educational studies

In this paper, Monika Mynarska and Laura Bernardi are trying to understand why the number of non-marital cohabitation is much lower in Poland than anywhere else in Europe, where it strongly increased for the past thirty years. They report that even though people choosing cohabitation used to...

19 févr. 2013
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Application letter

Case study - 1 pages - Educational studies

I am presently a second year student in ________ and I would like to apply to studies in an international exchange project. Thus I submit my application for the year ______ to your examination. This year abroad will be for me the realization of a long-standing project : give to my studies and my...

18 févr. 2013
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Approaches for managing indiscipline of pupils and students in primary and secondary schools' settings

Case study - 7 pages - Educational studies

Observation of the situation in the society these days would buttress the fact that it is characterized by several menaces such as: prostitution, armed robbery, bunkering, street violence/demonstration, thuggery, drug trafficking, kidnapping, raping; terrorism, swindling, just to mention few. It...

18 févr. 2013
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Natural bodybuilding

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

Nowadays, most bodybuilders use different kinds of supplements rather they compete or not. Natural bodybuilders use none. They accept the limits of their own body and only use what can be found in a daily and healthy diet to increase their performance. They NEVER use drugs or supplements. Using...

18 févr. 2013
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IMF article IV 2011 - Country report on South Africa

Case study - 10 pages - Sociology & social sciences

Advocacy about the overvaluation of the South African rand isn't completely new , since South Africa has given up the financial rand and fixed exchange rate in 1995 , and since it is also known as suffering from “Dutch Disease”, relying essentially on its huge natural resources to...

18 févr. 2013
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What for Hobbes was the 'natural condition of mankind' and why did it necessitate the Leviathan state? - publié le 18/02/2013

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

Thomas Hobbes is a British philosopher, born in 1588. Among his prolific work, one book will become one of the major founder pieces of the modern political thought; Leviathan (1651). In this work, Hobbes writes about the natural condition of mankind, and its consequences. He thus joins the...

18 févr. 2013
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What for Hobbes was the 'natural condition of mankind' and why did it necessitate the Leviathan state?

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

Thomas Hobbes is a British philosopher, born in 1588. Among his prolific work, one book will become one of the major founder pieces of the modern political thought; Leviathan (1651). In this work, Hobbes writes about the natural condition of mankind, and its consequences. He thus joins the...

15 févr. 2013
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What's European about Europe? Potential and weaknesses of the European social model - James Wickham

Case study - 1 pages - Educational studies

This text studies the case of the European Social Model. James Wickham defines and proves the existence of the European Social Model. His main idea is that this model is the main feature of the Europe's definition. He adopts the commonly recognized idea that you cannot define something otherwise...

15 févr. 2013
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European employment models in flux: Pressure for change and prospects for survival and revitalization- Gerhard Bosch, Steffen Lendhorff and Jill Rubery

Case study - 1 pages - Educational studies

In this research article, the authors are assessing the changes which European societies are currently going through, and the study their aftermaths. This article is very well crafted; this impression is strengthened by the conclusion, where you see that the four points brought out by the authors...

14 févr. 2013
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Teenage pregnancy

Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies

Each year, thousands of teenagers and young adults confront (face) the problem of an early pregnancy - wanted or unwanted. Nowadays, this phenomenon is regularly highlighted by Medias or scientific reports as an epidemic social issue in our modern society. But in many developed countries teenage...

11 févr. 2013
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The East Asian model of economic development and developing countries

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

Jong H Park is a professor at Kennesaw University, where he works at the the Department of Economics & Finance, Coles College of Business. In 1991, he got a PHD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he also graduated with a Master. The THE EAST ASIAN MODEL OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND...

11 févr. 2013
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Law of karma and reincarnation

Case study - 2 pages - Psychology

The Hindus believe in life after death. They also believe in the Law of Karma. In the Christian scriptures of the New Testament there is a saying, "What is sown by a man, that's what he sows." (Galatians 6:7). Sentence pronounced in modern science, the Hindus believe that every action...

11 févr. 2013
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The separability doctrine

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

The separability doctrine, also called the severability doctrine, states that an arbitration clause is separable from the main contract underlying it, and can thereby survive any successful challenge to the latter. This doctrine has been incorporated into numerous international arbitration...

11 févr. 2013
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The separability doctrine - publié le 11/02/2013

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

The separability doctrine, also called the severability doctrine, states that an arbitration clause is separable from the main contract underlying it, and can thereby survive any successful challenge to the latter. This doctrine has been incorporated into numerous international arbitration...

08 févr. 2013
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Public attitudes and gender policy regimes: coherence and stability in hard times - Jing Guo and Neil Gilbert

Case study - 1 pages - Educational studies

In this article, Jing Guo and Neil Gilbert are trying to assess the different types of welfare under the prism of the gender issue, widening Esping-Andersen's perspective which was focused on the male bread-winner; such analysis seems to be no more relevant given the recent move toward gender...

06 févr. 2013
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The simplest shape of meditation

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

It is known that animals in breathing longer time (the time for a single draw and exhalation) live longer. While the animals using a shorter time to breathe, to live more simply. It is interesting to note that the character and health of a person is an exact reflection of the pattern in...

06 févr. 2013
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Gender and natural disasters in Bangladesh

Case study - 9 pages - Educational studies

The issue of natural and climate-related disasters in Bangladesh is not a recent problem but its take-up as one of the key issues of the country and its integration in local and national policies aiming at finding ways to adapt the state to the impacts of natural hazards is fairly new. Even more...

04 févr. 2013
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How important is innovation in obtaining sustainable performance?

Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies

Economic globalization has promoted the increase of goods and services in the different parts of the world. These previous regions, which were unrelated from one another, are now linked thanks to the different companies that have entered. Today, companies from North America may be competing with...

04 févr. 2013
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How important is innovation in obtaining sustainable performance? - publié le 04/02/2013

Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies

Economic globalization has promoted the increase of goods and services in the different parts of the world. These previous regions, which were unrelated from one another, are now linked thanks to the different companies that have entered. Today, companies from North America may be competing with...

28 janv. 2013
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Comminution behavior of porous and nonporous minerals

Case study - 30 pages - Educational studies

Grinding operation represents an important cost factor in mineral processing plant. At least 50 to 70 of the total energy is consumed in the process of grinding and 97 of energy input for grinding is consumed wastefully, as heat and sound, while a minuscule 1 of the input is consumed in creating...

27 janv. 2013
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Analysis of armed conflicts Mr Cook - The Six-Day War - publié le 27/01/2013

Case study - 10 pages - Educational studies

Seen as an ineffaceable trauma for Arabs and a poisoned victory for Israel, the Six-Day War has been a strategic moment in the history of the Middle East. Before developing the topic, a brief reminder of the previous Israeli-Arab relations is necessary to better situate and understand what led to...

27 janv. 2013
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Analysis of armed conflicts Mr Cook - The Six-Day War

Case study - 10 pages - Educational studies

Seen as an ineffaceable trauma for Arabs and a poisoned victory for Israel, the Six-Day War has been a strategic moment in the history of the Middle East. Before developing the topic, a brief reminder of the previous Israeli-Arab relations is necessary to better situate and understand what led to...

23 janv. 2013
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Altering the reality of images

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

Go to your local supermarket and walk to the magazine aisle. Pick up a magazine and study its cover. The woman on the front cover stares back at you—her eyes bright, teeth whitened complexion flawless and her waist slim. Allow me to continue to mention that her arms are small and her legs...

23 janv. 2013
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Defining the other and its representation in media and stereotyping

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

The Other. The two words alone sound like some sort of 1980s cult classic horror-thriller film. However, let us not get too caught up with it, or go off on a wild tangent for that matter. The Other is a somewhat vague/under-explained theory laced throughout the last chapter of John Durham...