Should or should not Japan revise Article 9 of its Constitution?
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution was added during the occupation after World War II, after the defeat of the Axis alliance (Germany, Italy and Japan) by the Allies (mainly composed by British Empire, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and United States of America) in 1946. The source of...
How Nonprofit Organizations Could Assure Their Survival and Even Their Growth By Understanding Their Stakeholders?
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
Currently most of the world's population lives in democratic societies and market-based economies. However too many people are still confronting high levels of inequality, insecurity and uncertainty. The third sector, the voluntary sector or more generally the Nonprofit sector, defined as the...
Nature of Relations between the Nonprofit Sector and the State
Essay - 8 pages - Political science
The idea of civil society represents a complex concept, which includes several different roles. Stating its nature and its goals in one definition is a challenge. Usually, civil society is described as a space, different from the market and the state, where citizens can be engaged with each other...
The Kashmir conflict - publié le 18/06/2009
Essay - 16 pages - International relations
India and Pakistan form a complex and conflicting couple. They are often presented as enemy brothers because they arose from the partition of the British empire of India. The India-Pakistan rivalry remains one of the most enduring and unresolved conflicts of our time. The triangular war between...
What Will B. Obama Mean for Globalization?
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
On November 4th, 2008, Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States. He beat Senator McCain by 6.9 percentage points. For many individuals (Americans and foreigners), the outcome of this election has been regarded as a turning point for America, not only because Obama is the...
Customary law and gender renegotiation in Africa
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The Colonial Period brought various and drastic measures of control to African communities which had previously been autonomous and self-regulated. The creation of colonial governments, institutions and courts brought radical and lasting change to individual lives and African societies as a...
Greed and corruption: The emergence of corporate fraud in North America
Thesis - 4 pages - Political science
Corporations are the cornerstone of the North American economy. While they were first formed as non-profit organizations created for the public good in European societies, by the 17th century, the focus for many corporations changed and the drive to make money took precedence over working for...
Earth: The sphere
Thesis - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
Although earth looks very simple it is a complex planet, which is constructed out of three things: air, land and water. Air as we know is also called atmosphere that took 4.5 billions years to create as it is now and consisted of deadly gases in early years. It was created by erupting volcanoes,...
Predicting future life expectancy using life tables
Case study - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Life tables are extremely important. They are not only used to find things like mortality rates, but to also find such rates at different intervals during the individual's life. Agencies, governments, and researchers are expectedly attracted to this knowledge. The four different groups we...
Impact and application of affirmative action (24 slides)
Presentation - 2 pages - Political science
Affirmative action is a positive discrimination to ensure the social and economic enhancement of under represented minorities. It provides external support to remove people from the vicious circle of economic backwardness and incompetence. Affirmative action also enables in conducting private and...
From cell phones to MP3 players: How rechargeable lithium-ion batteries affect the environment
Thesis - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
Lithium-ion batteries one the most popular types of batteries used today. They are lightweight, have a high-energy density, and are less toxic to the environment than any other battery (Jensen et al. 1999). However, they still offer some undesirable effects to the environment. When not recycled...
New military technologies and the future of warfare
Dissertation - 24 pages - International relations
New military technologies are primarily a question of power, before the technological issue. It is important to see that in this case, the only actors studied are the State and the Departments of the State (Defence, research and development). It is for this reason that the main sources of...
The rich dad & poor debt: An Indian perspective
Thesis - 10 pages - Economy general
Today the world is facing heat due to sub-prime crisis. All the developed countries and developing countries have caught recessionary fever. Even the powerful economy of china has also felt ‘D' factor (downturn in the economic activities). The epicenter of the crisis is U.S.A. It is all...
Indian economy and how it has managed the global crisis
Thesis - 11 pages - Economy general
“Money which is the source of unlimited benefits, becomes the cause of calamity and unhappiness if not controlled” - Robert Shan The above quotation by Robert Shan exactly describes the reason of current global financial crisis. The current global financial crises are the cause of...
Global crisis and its impact on the Indian economy
Thesis - 5 pages - Economy general
After a long spell of growth, the Indian economy is experiencing a downturn. Industrial growth is faltering, inflation remains at high levees, the current account deficit is widening, foreign exchange reserves are depleting and the rupee is depreciating, these features can related to the current...
Effect of global crisis on the Indian economy
Thesis - 8 pages - Economy general
India a fastest developing country, also not excluded from the list of affected economies from the global crisis. Before 3-4 months everything was all right even our growth rate was reflecting the story of our growth, but suddenly major developed country so called super power nation U.S trapped...
Disinvestment of equity shares in public sector undertaking
Thesis - 5 pages - Economy general
Public sector undertakings (PSUs) are companies established by the central government under the Companies Act or as statutory corporations under specific statues of parliament. PSUs were established in the early 1950s for rapid industrial and economic growth, to create necessary infrastructure,...
Social, cultural, and political issues facing modern Israel
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The 1967 war resulted in a decisive victory for Israel over the combined forces of Egypt, Syria and Jordan. By launching a preemptive air strike, the Israeli Air Force was able to wipe out virtually all of Egypt's air force in one swift, massive attack. This guaranteed Israel air superiority...
Multinational Business in Japan and South East Asia: Keiretsu inter-firm structure
Essay - 4 pages - Foreign markets
The keiretsu structure played a major role in the emergence of Japan as a leading global economic power after the World War II. But today, keiretsu structure has become an issue in debates concerning Japan's place in the international trading system. The keiretsu structure protected the...
How can the east European economies adapt themselves to the demanding economic structure of a new European union?
Essay - 9 pages - European union
First and foremost I have to define the term east European economies, which is not clear enough to be understood. "East European Countries" is the general term that refers to the geopolitical region encompassing the eastern most of the European continent. Its borders are defined more by culture...
The problem of state aids as a possible source of unfair competition in the EU
Course material - 12 pages - Economic politics
A subvention is a refundable grant granted mostly by the State or a Local authority. It is paid by a public community for activities in which it neither takes the initiative, nor the responsibility. It is granted either to facilitate the execution of a public utility, or as help or support, if it...
The Abu Sayyaf holds the raging Philippines' economy captive
Thesis - 5 pages - Economy general
The Philippines finds itself in Southeast Asia, in a wondrous archipelago of seven thousand islands in the Western Pacific. It began as a Spanish colony but was ceded first by the Spanish to the Americans, and subsequently by the Americans to the Japanese; it eventually achieved independence on...
Arkansas state government: Political environment, institutions, and legislation
Thesis - 5 pages - Political science
The state of Arkansas' distinct political environment requires a well planned policy initiative in order to drastically change policy, such as to increase the state's income tax. With a number of costly initiatives currently being implemented, particularly in infrastructure and education, an...
Self-expression with regard to the political environment: The case of Czechoslovakia
Case study - 5 pages - Political science
Throughout history, nations have subordinated others politically, culturally and economically. The ruling regime usually used people who spoke out as an example in order to stifle the rest of the population. The ruling regime would utilize such cases to exercise their power of intimidation. This...
Non conventional energy sources: Future necessity
Thesis - 6 pages - Ecology & environment
Energy is the primary and most universal measure of all kinds of work by human beings and nature. Energy is also defined as the ability or the capacity to do work. We use energy to do work and make all movements. When we eat, our body transforms the food into energy to do work. When we run or...
A study on the origin and effect of the industrial revolution in England
Thesis - 12 pages - Economy general
The Industrial Revolution refers to the first breakthrough from a rural handicraft economy to a urban machine driven manufacturing economy that took place in England around 1780 C.E., and which, in the course of the next one hundred years, spread and established itself over much of Europe and...
Students and Inflation in France
Essay - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
These times are not only a tumultuous phase for systems and companies. It is also a difficult period for people and particularly for the precarious branch of the population of students. They are very sensitive to the evolution of the economy because their purchasing power is solely dependent on...
Clean water resource challenge
Thesis - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
Water is the main source of life and covers three fourths of all the land on earth. There lives millions of plants and small animals in the oceans, from witch billions of people depend on fish. Some nations also get fresh water from ocean water, that?s why ocean pollution is a dangerous threat....
Endangered Amazon ecosystem
Thesis - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
The Amazon Rain forest is split between nine nations, with more then half of it in Brazil. The whole Rain forest covers five and a half million square kilometers and represents more then half of all the rain forests on earth. It is estimated that its age would be at least 55 million years and...
What kind of lessons can we draw from recent international financial crises in Asia and in Latin America ?
Case study - 5 pages - International economy
It was nearly a decade ago that is probably sometime in July 1997, that the financial markets found themselves in a mess. It was understood that the consequence was the aftermath of two major crises. The baht (Thai currency) collapsed, and in its wake, the Indonesian rupiah, the Malaysian ringitt...
