The nazi scientific experiments - Unethical experiments?
Essay - 7 pages - Sociology & social sciences
During World War II, the Nazis were responsible for some of the worst crimes that humanity has ever witnessed. Their actions were so horrendous that this period was called the Holocaust, or the "killing of the whole". The Nazis not only killed millions of innocent Jews with abandon, but...
Humanitarian intervention is merely a pretext for states national interests
Essay - 7 pages - International relations
After the Second World War in 1945, the notion of ‘crime against humanity' emerged to condemn the killing of the Jews by the Nazis. In reaction to this shock, several countries stood in favour of conveying a new way of thinking about international relations, and tried to set up a new...
The society we have described can never grow into a reality (Socrates, Book V, 473c11-d4)
Thesis - 4 pages - Political science
In Plato's work, 'The Republic', Socrates is asked to prove that justice always outweighs injustice, and that the just man is ultimately happier than the unjust man. In order to do this, Socrates begins by outlining a utopian state in which justice thrives in both the state and the...
Examine and assess PepsiCo's social performance
Thesis - 4 pages - Management
Corporate social responsibility, more than ever before, has become a pivotal issue to top leaders in companies of all sizes. The process of globalization has witnessed the importance of formulating various strategies including sustainability in most multinational companies, among which water...
In defense of my faith: Christianity
Tutorials/exercises - 4 pages - Literature
Christianity was originally a Judaist social movement that emerged in the Middle East over 2000 years ago. It originated in Jerusalem at the time of the Roman population. After the death of the founder of the religion, Jesus Christ, the movement started to spread to preaching of the apostle...
Does sexual abuse at a young age lead to becoming a sex addict?
Case study - 2 pages - Psychology
Expansion and consequent worldwide increases of at no cost trade and internationalization makes way for numerous amounts of fresh benefits given to humanity. With that in mind the aged and fresh collective inequities have made their presence known. With this happening it has permitted a...
Nietzsche and Freud on the "Oceanic Feeling"
Essay - 8 pages - Philosophy
It is indisputable that Nietzsche was a major influence on Freud's theories on psychoanalysis. Specifically within Freud's Civilization and its Discontents, and Nietzsche's essay “Schopenhauer as Educator,” there are clearly shared opinions on, for example, the necessity of examination...
Old and new worlds : What is Montaigne saying about the West in On Cannibals ?
Worksheets - 6 pages - Literature
Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne, was born in 1533, the son of a successful fish merchant. After an education focusing on Latin (he spoke it as a native), he studied law at Toulouse. He had made a career as a provincial magistrate. He travelled one year in Germany and Italy, and was mayor of...
The Covert War in "The Anecdote of the Jar"
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
There is a hidden war underneath the clever surface battles of “The Anecdote of the Jar.” The poem employs rhythm breaks, imagery, symbols, metaphors, and a rich soundscape to help the reader decipher the true conflict. This seemingly simple poem unveils a tumultuously disturbing noise...
Servant leadership
Case study - 8 pages - Philosophy
Servant leadership is a form of administration which encompasses a set of accepted leadership practices and philosophies in a given country. This form of leadership is different from the traditional one since leaders' shares powers with their subjects, respects their needs and helps them in life...
Ego Trips and Empathy Falls
Essay - 5 pages - Philosophy
Although both drastically different in philosophy, Surrealism and Russian Futurism failed to endure, but in similar ways. Surrealism, as defined by Andre Breton, is grounded in past philosophies while Mayakovsky's Russian futurism floats somewhere in an intangible future. Breton often channels...
To Run and Leap with Peasants: Idealism and Stereotype Formation in The Book of the Courtier
Essay - 6 pages - Literature
In the sixteenth century, the ideal was inseparable from the ruling class: it was a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy, the aristocracy establishing itself as the ideal while simultaneously defining the ideal. The members of the nobility lived in tightly-monitored roles. Idealism was not about the...
Between Affliction and Alcatraz
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
History is littered by the decaying carcasses of punishment, institutions that will forever be remembered for their severity, even amidst the global hunger for something worse. The tortured ghosts of this nation's blackest memories still walk the halls of Alcatraz. The billowing sails of the...
Frakenstein
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
When Mary Shelley set herself to the task of writing Frankenstein she consciously wanted to create a story “which would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature and awake the thrilling horror—one to make the reader dread to look round, to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of...
Hamartia: Of Man And God
Essay - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The human genome has twenty-three pairs of chromosomes, genes of each intricately woven into the fabric of our beings. Their amino acid constituents are programmed to function and because they determine particular characteristics of organisms, they control who we are. Are we thus compelled by...
Women Empowerment & Artificial Intelligence
Presentation - 3 pages - Linguistics & languages
Ce document sera l'allié idéal pour vos révisions du baccalauréat d'anglais ! En effet, pour préparer votre oral, nous mettons à votre disposition non pas un mais deux sujets entièrement rédigés sur les notions Idea of progress et Places and forms of power. Voici donc les sujets abordés...
Digital Evolution
Essay - 11 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
The turn of the new century has brought outstanding leaps in the realm of technology. The rapid progression of technological development has changed the way our society operates. Moreover, the influence of technology has taken over our lives as a whole. It is with this premise that indeed...
Church and Empire: Separate Roles for Separate Institutions
Essay - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Dante's Divine Comedy is a political work as much as it is a religious one. Amongst the imprecations against Florence, the Papacy, and the French monarchy, there is a dominant political philosophy that shapes how Dante characterizes the political bodies that threaten his vision of universal...
Words about God
Essay - 3 pages - Philosophy
If Martin Luther's assumptions on faith in the Word of God are correct, then humanity has nothing to doubt. But his skepticism of the Catholic Church is not a complete philosophical skepticism: at no point in his work is the notion of God questioned. Descartes does question the existence...
Tool or trifle: The moral question of style
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
“You know not what hurt you do to learning that care not for words, but for matter, and so make a divorce betwixt the tongue and the heart.” (Roger Ascham) I am thirteen. Almost every afternoon I shove a book in my pocket, a hat on my head, and I wander out into the scurry-flurry of a...
E-Leclerc in China: Fictive case - publié le 20/01/2009
Essay - 13 pages - Services marketing
The objective of this report is to introduce a marketing plan to implant E-Leclerc centers in China. Currently the French market of supermarkets is saturated. The European market is a part of international strategy of E-Leclerc. Nevertheless, China represents an “Eldorado” with a...
Complicity in Heart of Darkness - publié le 08/05/2009
Thesis - 3 pages - Journalism
On November 15 1884, the representatives of fourteen European powers and a plethora of ambassadors gathered in Berlin to decide the fate of colonial Africa. From 1884 to 1909, 5 to 21 million Africans (about 50% of the population of the Congo Basin) perished. Such collective palliation of the...
The depiction of Biblical women in the letters of Abelard and Heloise
Thesis - 10 pages - Ancient history
Abelard and Heloise sustained a reputation as great lovers for many centuries. Yet their romantic relationship was essentially over when they composed their famous correspondence; the very nature of their love affair remains unclear. Both Abelard and Heloise construct their past with common...
Waiting For Godot - Beckett: in what way does Beckett explore the dramatic tensions of communication?
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
Waiting for someone is favorable to communication. In this play which is all about waiting, we will see in what way the dramatic tensions of communication are explored by Samuel Beckett. The first part will present the difficulty of communication between the two protagonists and how Beckett...
Caring for patients in alcohol-dependent: Prejudices and attitudes against alcoholic patients
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
Alcoholic patients often uncomfortable caregivers in general and doctors in particular. Trigger behavior among health professionals emotional reactions that directly affect the nature of the therapeutic relationship. These reactions, called against-attitudes, are rooted in the relationships that...
Shylock and Lear: society's outcasts
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
Shakespeare's use of the outsider, one excluded from society especially through the removal of his identity, serves to portray the cruel and selfish aspects of humanity. In The Merchant of Venice and in King Lear, the substandard treatment and lack of sympathy Shylock and Lear encounter,...
An inconvenient truth about an inconvenient truth
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Catastrophe! Disaster! The Apocalypse! These may not be the first ideas that come to mind when a person thinks of global warming, however these are the ideas many leading scientists and environmentalists would have everyone believe. The theory of global warming has been around for some time....
Postmodern American literature: Transformation and commodification within The Crying of Lot 49
Thesis - 3 pages - Literature
A prominent theme among the writings of many postmodern analysts in characterizing postmodernism is the notion that the age of post-modernity is essentially the age of commercialism and commoditization. In his book The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, Jean- François Lyotard contends...
Art and culture in branding
Thesis - 4 pages - Business strategy
Art is the means used to produce an aesthetic creation. From the beginning of humanity, art has been the vehicle of thought, the vector of emotions. It is the graphic or sound understanding of the deep interior of our beings. Culture is defined as the data acquired and transmitted within a...
The reality in Koreeda's film Nobody Knows
Thesis - 2 pages - Film studies
As we take a cursory look of the city, we notice that the society appears to be very lively, crowded, bustling and excited. However, as we gain a deep understanding into reality, we may notice another dimension to this feeling of togetherness. The gray side of humanity is illustrated...
