The 2012 summer Olympic Games
Thesis - 6 pages - Sports
The Olympic Games was first started in the year 776 BC, according to inscriptions in Olympia. The origin of the games is mysterious. The Olympic Games was started by Heracles, who first called the game “Olympic” and established the custom of holding it every four years. The first modern...
The other in Israeli culture: Yearning for a home and a homeland
Thesis - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Do our similarities bring us together, or do our differences tear us apart? This question can be answered varyingly and astutely, across (and within) cultures and societies. Eshkol Nevo's rich novel Arba'a Batim ve Gagu'a can be construed as the author's response to this question in contemporary...
"Paradise", Toni Morrisson (1999) - Ruby, an evil paradise: construction of community identity
Book review - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
No white masters, no black oppressed slaves but a freed black people community. In Toni Morrison's Paradise, Blacks create a small town called Ruby far from white people and their fake society. Several miles away is a convent in which five women live. Ruby was to be a paradise but twenty...
Internship report at a pharmacy in France
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
A pharmacist is a healthcare professional with a mission of public service. The following paragraphs will give you a view into the life of a pharmacist. These details are compiled from an induction course conducted at the Central Pharmacy Boonefaes-Cadiou, located at Courrières. The goal of this...
Is faith compatible with doubt in Buddhism and Judaism?
Essay - 3 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
It is common to hear people speak of a religious man as a “man of faith”, as if faith and religion were two synonyms. It is true that speaking of a person's religion assumes speaking of their faith, the degree at which they believe in their religion. However, faith is not the only...
Non formal education in Morocco - giving a chance to a second-chance-system
Essay - 3 pages - Educational studies
In Morocco, hundreds of thousands of children aged between eight and fiteen years, boys and girls, either have never been to school or dropped out from it, too soon. They live in very difficult conditions, wandering in the streets, or working early in farms or in the city. This sad phenomenon is...
"The omnivore's dilemma: a natural history of four meals", Michael Pollan (2006)
Book review - 3 pages - Nutrition, alimentation and dietetic
Michael Pollan's “The omnivore's dilemma” has been very much covered by the media and announced as “one of the ten best books of the year by both the New York Times and the Washington Post” in 2006. Throughout his book, Pollan clearly shows us that what we eat is...
How could we improve the educational system in France?
Essay - 1 pages - Educational studies
Usual fuss and criticism surrounded Xavier Darcos's (former French Minister of Education) last reform. This was not surprising. Maybe the French people are not eager to accept a change in their educational system. How could we improve the educational system in France?
Les Indiens d'Amérique et les indigènes d'Alaska
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
American Indians (AI) and Alaska Natives (AN) are people having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America, and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, those who identified only as AI/AN constituted 0.9 percent of the...
The "New Age" trend
Essay - 3 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
The New Age is both difficult to qualify and describe historically. It is a spiritual movement neither recognized as a cult nor as a religion. The New Age is a form of alternative spirituality which is influenced by many practices like Buddhism, Esoterism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Taoism,...
Are human beings selfish or altruistic by nature or by cultural socialization?
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
An altruistic person acts for the good of the others. Such a person looks for the happiness of people around him/her. An altruist does not act for his/her own interest. Therefore, sometimes we can imagine that altruistic people do not act for the good of the others. In fact, altruism can be seen...
Application of data mining techniques in designing knowledge base on student competency at the post graduate level
Thesis - 7 pages - Educational studies
Maintenance of academic standards is the prime concern of any educational institution. Education at the Masters level, involves the conscious involvement of time, money and effort by the candidates. With the industrial downturn and reduction in the demand for graduates at the job market due to...
Social construction therapy models
Thesis - 5 pages - Psychology
All forms of psychotherapy, including marriage and family therapy, have traditionally followed a medical model where the therapist is the expert, who can diagnose and then treat whatever psychological dysfunction is occurring within a family. The treatment of this dysfunction was the area of...
Case study analysis with respect to Holland's theory
Case study - 3 pages - Psychology
Holland's vocational theory is described, and then the case study set forth as a summary of the subject's educational and career history as well as the subject's vocational family history. The case study is then analyzed using Holland's theory in regard to the subject's personality types and the...
Psychological report: A case study
Case study - 4 pages - Psychology
Sam Johnson was referred for assessment because he is applying for a position at Liberty University as a resident assistant. This is a demanding position, and Mr. Johnson was tested for personality characteristics conducive to succeeding as a resident assistant. Leadership skills, emotional...
Self-esteem inventories: A comparison
Thesis - 2 pages - Psychology
As multi-cultural counseling becomes more commonplace, the need for assessments that can be used across cultures is increasing. While some test authors have attempted to write assessments that are culturally non-specific, or “culture-free,” it has been proven to be nearly impossible to...
The Beck depression inventory
Thesis - 3 pages - Psychology
The most current version of the test is called the Beck Depression Inventory - II (BDI-II). The original version was authored by Aaron T. Beck, Robert A. Steer, and Gregory K. Brown in 1961, and published by the Psychological Corporation. A complete kit, which includes a manual and twenty-five...
Essai sur les musulmans (2010)
Essay - 1 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
Due to recent terrorist events in the United States, people of this country view terrorism and Islam in the same light. Moreover, with the mass of information spread out through the Medias, people around the world tend to associate terrorism and its origination with the Islamic religion. There is...
The Gender Issue: Why this issue still poses enormous problems in the American and European societies at the dawn of 2010
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
For centuries, numerous demonstrations by feminist movements have accompanied women's emancipation. Their profoundly inegalitarian status has dramatically changed. Women broke into all sectors of public life. However, we still notice today a lot of inequalities in the American society....
Global Relationship: Are Sexual Gender Roles Changing?
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
As defined by the Encyclopedia, a role, in the sociological sense, is a set of connected behaviors, rights and obligations as conceptualized by the actors in a social situation. It is an expected behavior in a given individual social status and social position. Since the 18th century, the...
Religion and society
Essay - 2 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
For centuries, religions have directed our lives and even controlled our thoughts; they have been close to power for years, and in the name of God, people who directed it got rich and powerful. Firstly, let's get back to Middle Ages. At this time, religions were widespread, everyone feared...
Internationally organized crime in the UK
Essay - 7 pages - Everyday's life
In order to answer the fundamental question of what types of actions are considered as amounting to transnational organised crime (TOC), the Europol Commission attempted to give an official definition in a report in December 2001. Indeed, it gave some guidelines to understand what characteristics...
Study on the effectiveness of corporate education service with comparison between offline and online education service using SERVQUAL model
Tutorials/exercises - 17 pages - Educational studies
In this research, we empirically evaluate the difference between off-line and on-line corporate education services in terms of their service quality levels. Especially, in order to judge the efficiency and effectiveness of the increasingly popular on-line educational service and to provide a...
Where are Queen Victoria's moral values in the modern English way of life? - published: 05/04/2010
Worksheets - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Today, if you search a definition of the 'Victorian moral values' in the Collins, you will find, 'qualities considered to characterize the Victorian period, including enterprise and initiative and the importance of family'. So, first, it's seen today as if it belongs to...
Anglo-American cultural Studies
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The notion has been widely called into questions by authors. Some have denounced a failure of the Enlightenment process, through historic changes and social evolutions. And yet, I am personally convinced that Enlightenment remains as an ideal for current societies, with the purpose of making men...
The Iran hostage crisis
Essay - 2 pages - Educational studies
The Iran Hostage crisis occurred during a protest on November 4, 1979, outside of the American Embassy in Teheran, Iran. The protestors stormed the embassy, captured 66 people, and refused to release them until Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi came back to Iran to be tried for crimes against his...
Demande de stage en entreprise
Sample letter - 1 pages - Everyday's life
Dear Sir or Madam (if you don't know the name of the contact person you're writing to) / Dear Mr or Mrs XXXXXXX Since embarking on my five-year course at (name of the school), I have determined to pursue a career in (specialités) and I am especially attracted to the fast moving, competitive...
The concept of social class according to Alfred Marshall
Book review - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The term "class? is considered a sociological concept. We must remember that our contemporary ideas of sociology and economics were not those of Marshall or any other social scientist who took part in the constitution of the different disciplines about a hundred years ago. Anyone who has...
Meeting needs of the newly-defined at-risk student
Thesis - 2 pages - Educational studies
The Term “at-risk” is not new to the field of education. It has been used since the 1980's to identify those students who were candidates for dropping out of high school, thus condemning themselves and society to a large block of unproductive, unskilled adults who would have to be...
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Book review - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Putnam is observing the decline of organization membership since the 1970s, with a sharp fall in the 1990s. Old volunteers are dying, and kids are not joining. He proves the decline of participation and trust in the American society by using polls. He concludes that social capital increased...
