How do magazines construct identity?
Essay - 3 pages - Journalism
The many different types of magazines that are present in the market could be seen as a proof that editors are constantly looking to target an audience. Indeed, in order to secure the right type of advertisers, magazine editors have to find the right type of readers so that the efficiency and...
Operations strategy for Meryll Construction
Thesis - 10 pages - Business strategy
Meryll Construction is a medium-sized construction company primarily engaged in water works: pipe-laying /rehabilitation, leak repair, water connections. It is in the Top 5 Contractors list of its sole client, Maynilad Water Services, Inc. It is currently experiencing rising project...
Is reality real? Protecting the viewers through informative disclaimers
Case study - 26 pages - Film studies
Reality television has swept America over like an epidemic. Almost every channel has some form of a reality show. This genre began in 1989 with the creation of COPS and America's Funniest Home Videos. Only three years later MTV aired the first episode of The Real World. After that,...
Emerging Technology in Diabetes Care; Real-Time Diabetes Monitoring System
Case study - 3 pages - Psychology
The management of type 1 diabetes has evolved and with the new technology, it's easier and cheaper. Monitoring has been made easier with the caregivers getting the new technology. The Real Time Diabetes Monitoring System which has come to supplement the existing technology as well as...
Managing construction project operations
Thesis - 4 pages - Management
The efficient and effective management of a project's operations and activities require clear understanding of the overall strategic objectives of the organization. This paper seeks to demonstrate the significance of facility administration and facility finance management in the transformation...
Construction management: A case study
Thesis - 5 pages - Management
The world of construction management has grown in a multi-billion dollar industry and a force that must be reckoned with for anyone that ever has to deal with a build project. Gone are the days of elusive contractors that may or may not finish a build within the parameters of the project....
EU enlargement (past and present) has arguably been a real achievement of the integration project but how far can the EU enlarge and will any potential problems outweigh the advantages?
Internship report - 7 pages - European union
‘EU enlargement generally means increasing the size of the Union by incorporating additional members. This is a process that can take a number of years, as the candidate states attempt to align their economy and regulatory structures to those agreed to by the existing members. The decision...
The Little Green Fields - Gerard Dillon (1945) - What is the artist's real objective through this painting?
Artwork commentary - 2 pages - Paint
"To be Irish is to know that in the end, the world will break your heart." This phrase by modern Irish artist Daniel Patrick Moynihan could perfectly match the atmosphere of The Little Green Fields, a painting by Gerard Dillon made in 1945 and depicting a peaceful atmosphere typical of the Irish...
Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of rice callus with artificial miRNA construct against lipase to produce transgenic plant with lowered lipase activity
Case study - 9 pages - Biology
Lipase is a lipolytic enzyme causes spoilage of rice bran. Its removal by conventional heating and chemical approaches damages bran quality. This experiment aimed to transform Nipponbare rice callus with ami RNA against lipase using Agrobacterium tumefaciens, regenerate whole transgenic rice...
Construction of artificial micro RNA with mismatch PCR to direct silencing of lipase gene
Case study - 7 pages - Biology
Lipase is an enzyme that hydrolyzes rice bran oil into free fatty acids, causing spoilage and restricting its usage as food ingredient. Micro RNA (miRNA) is a post-transcriptional regulator endogenously produced in plants that can be potentially altered to specifically target lipase gene,...
"Fake news is the real virus!" (2020) - Fiction and reality
Text commentary - 1 pages - Linguistics & languages
In May 2020, during the early days of the pandemic, a protester in California held a sign sharing a worrying idea. By calling fake news the real virus, they meant that lies and false claims about COVID-19 were actually a bigger problem than the disease itself.
Changing mentality: An analysis of Dove's "Campaign for real beauty" (2006)
Essay - 9 pages - Business strategy
The brand Dove is part of the English-Dutch group Unilever. It accounts for 3% of Unilever's turnover. In 1957, Dove created soaps that contained 1/4th moisturizing cream, especially for sensitive skins (50% of women). Since then, Dove has always known how to appear different from its...
Dove campain for real beauty
Case study - 21 pages - Services marketing
The Dove campaign for real beauty: "Sources that are likeable or hold celebrity status are able to positively influence consumers' attitudes towards the advertisement, and the advertised brand" (Belch and Belch, 1998). This statement explains the large use of celebrities and models by...
What scholars have noted about property as a social construct mitigating human interactions that transcend legal and economic discourse
Essay - 5 pages - Business law
A.I. Hallowell (1943: 119) once stated that, “Property as a social institution implies a system of relations between individuals. Like other social institutions, it involves rights, duties, powers, privileges, forbearances, etc, of certain kinds.” While this view of property has been...
Has Blair government's constructive European engagement been undermined by the Iraq war?
Thesis - 6 pages - Journalism
Britain's relationship with the European Union (EU) has been one of the most divisive issues of British politics over the last 50 years. Yet, the election of the Blair government in May 1997 intended to change this situation and marked a significant shift in the UK's European policies. Unlike his...
Evaluation of the security transaction, the consistency of the portfolio construction and management with client's profile
Thesis - 6 pages - Finance
This year, Pro Fund is very proud to have a new client, Mr Lucent who is 47 years old. He sold his firm during the summer and received 1,000,000€ for it. He doesn't really need this money but he wanted to have a new challenge in another sector. He wants to keep the money for the future...
Construction and development of anthropology
Thesis - 10 pages - Philosophy
Often times, especially in ideological disciplines, there is a great gap between theory and practice. Not all theories apply to lived experiences and not all lived experiences can be summarized in theories. Nevertheless, this paper seeks to construct an ideal relationship between anthropological...
We are what we repeat: Repetition and identity construction in Derrida and Butler
Thesis - 4 pages - Literature
Philosophical and ideological traditions permeate everywhere from popular thought, culture, and subjective experience to science, literature, and politics. In past decades, critical thinkers have engaged in re-determinations and restructurings of philosophical traditions that presuppose or...
Familial construction in Christopher Carrington's 'There's no place like home'
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
In Christopher Carrington's No Place Like Home, the author tackles the very difficult question of what comprises a family. The question posed, liking a thread throughout the book as it attempts to be answered, is what are the issues facing gay and lesbian parents as they choose to construct a...
Who were the real revolutionaries in France in 1789: the nobility, the bourgeoisie or the peasantry?
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
In 1789, the French Revolution broke out. During the course of the revolution, various classes of French society became involved. The nobility, who had had their political power diminished prior to 1789 under Louis XIV's reign, yearned to have increased political power, and amongst them were also...
Constructive and equivalent variable cost heuristics to the multi-period fixed charge transportation problem
Thesis - 7 pages - Computer science
This paper addresses a multi-period fixed charge transportation problem (MPFCTP), which includes transportation, inventories and backlog. The transportation costs are represented in the form of a nonlinear function. The objective is to determine the size of the shipments in each period, inventory...
With global investors searching for higher returns in international markets, what is the role for investor protection in developing international financial markets and real economies?
Essay - 2 pages - Finance
Why is investor protection necessary? Who needs protection? What methods are used to protect investors from expropriation of profits? How does the legal system affect the level of investor protection? How does investor protection affect the value of companies on financial markets?
Performance based comparision of TCP variants: Reno and Sack on real test beds
Thesis - 4 pages - Computer science
One of the most important parameter of data communication is the TCP protocol. It has underwent many changes which brought into existence many variant of it like tahoe, reno, new reno, sack, vegas, westwood. Nowadays we are using TCP SACK as the tcp variant as it is better as compared to its...
Disparities regarding the construction of childhood in Forgotten and The Dumb Soldier
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
Childhood is a continually changing notion, which must be defined at an individual level as opinions regarding this subject greatly differ. This is made evident through various texts of children's literature, including A.A. Milne's, Forgotten, and Robert Stevenson's, The Dumb Soldier. The poem...
Living on mars: The real and unaltered facts of a medicated teen
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Before I begin there are a few things that need to be sorted out. For one this book began when discussions arose regarding children and teenagers being medicated without any real bases, possibly at too young of an age, and therefore that psychiatrists were not doing a proper diagnosis....
Real-World relevance of fantastic creation: An examination of "High Fantasy" and the goals of literal and historical writing.
Tutorials/exercises - 4 pages - Literature
For the most part, fantastic or otherwise impossible methods of storytelling are ignored in the world of modern and classical literature. In order to accurately appreciate the quandary of the modern “Fantasy” author, one must be aware of the commonplace practice of division and...
Climate change and politics: a real shift or status quo?
Essay - 6 pages - Ecology & environment
We will try to analyze the responses from the political field against climate change and the overall sustainable development. Climate change means significant change in the average weather, which causes a lot of perturbations on the natural system. The French president, Jacques Chirac, in a...
How can we claim that the sport at the world level became a real business in our time?
Dissertation - 28 pages - Sports
Today, it is difficult to deny that sport takes a considerable importance in our society. An importance which can be characterized at several levels: economic, social, or even cultural. Thus, we can assist different sports events all the year round, but also do our Sunday jogging, or go to the...
Twice the fall - Creating a short movie based on real facts
Speech - 2 pages - Film studies
The movie I'm about to introduce is titled Twice the fall. It traces back the 09/11 events through the story of two distinct characters, Linda Vasquez and Seth Grayson, respectively confronted with psychological and political issues. September 11th, 2001, Manhattan. The twin towers collapse,...
Places and forms of power - Can young people have a real impact on the world?
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
I am going to ponder over the notion of places and forms of power. So before all, let me introduce it. The power refers to the ability to act, to exercise an influence on something. It can be divided in several categories: there is the legislative, the executive, the judiciary power. For...
