Worldwide threat assessment of the French Directorate-General for External Security
Essay - 7 pages - International relations
- The year 2018 has been a really eventful year with unexpected changes in terms of international affairs and regional complexity. - The election of Donald Trump as President of the United States has been a game changer, discombobulating the international order as his predecessor left it. -...
The Latino community in New York City - publié le 02/05/2007
Essay - 4 pages - Geography
Traditionally, the media tend to focus their attention on the Latino migration in States such as Texas, California, New Mexico, in other words on southern states close to the Mexican border. The East Coast seems to be completely forgotten as it remained as the gateway for the Europeans in...
To what extent does multiculturalism in developed liberal democracies adequately address the issue of religious diversity? - publié le 15/01/2009
Essay - 9 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In recent years diversity in developed liberal democracies has deeply increased. Indeed, in European countries, as in America or in Australia many migrants came to work. Whereas the first migration movements happened within Western countries (e.g. many Italians and Poles came to France to...
Monarch Conservation and Justice in Mexico
Essay - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
Monarch butterflies are among the most charismatic of endangered fauna. Because of not only their visual beauty but also their enchanting migrations, they have achieved striking popularity especially among Northern conservationists. While these migrations may be spectacular, they...
Museum of the Native Americans - publié le 13/01/2009
Thesis - 4 pages - Ancient history
As opposed to most other exhibitions on Native Americans, the one held within the Native Americans National Museum puts the emphasis on the present life of Indian Americans. They are not classified as a memory of the past anymore but as part of the current American society. However, their past is...
What distinguishes diaspora members from simple migrants?
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
The highly motivated Chinese and Indians working hard to become prosperous in the United States or Europe, and the haggard Palestinians living in refugee camps have much in common. They are, with the Jews, Japanese, Africans, Afro-Americans, Kurds, Greeks, Gypsies and numerous other groups,...
Ethnic entrepreneurship
Case study - 13 pages - Business strategy
The recent growth of new ethnic populations in Western societies raised lots of issues. In fact, the ethnic activity is not any more a question of historic interest; nor is it the concern of the company. Because new ethnic populations grew at the same time as Western economies, they are in a...
"Reserve army of underemployed - Is China's pool of surplus labour drying up?" The Economist, September 4th 2008
Text commentary - 5 pages - International economy
Published in the September 4, 2008 issue of The Economist, this article is based on "Reserve army of underemployed - Is China's pool of surplus labor drying up? According to the article, China's growth model has been based on its cheap labor force, supported by its huge population. The...
People's Republic of China and Chinese Overseas: how did the Chinese "traitors" became developers of their country?
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
The chinese people have had a long tradition of migration, nevertheless, the intricacy of the chinese diasporic phenomenon and the fact that it is made up of complex elements of migration, makes it difficult to understand. Moreover, the consideration of the great ethnic, linguistic...
Ethnic entrepreneurship - publié le 09/07/2012
Case study - 13 pages - Business strategy
The recent growth of new ethnic populations in Western societies raised lots of issues. In fact, the ethnic activity is not any more a question of historic interest; nor is it the concern of the company. Because new ethnic populations grew at the same time as Western economies, they are in a...
Museum of the Native Americans
Essay - 4 pages - Medieval history
As opposed to most other exhibitions on Native Americans, the one held within the Native Americans National Museum puts the emphasis on the present life of Indian Americans. They are not classified as a memory of the past anymore but as part of the current American society. However, their past is...
The ancient culture and history of the Mayan civilization
Thesis - 12 pages - Ancient history
The Mayan civilization was a densely populated and highly advanced civilization that thrived in Mesoamerica from the second century B.C.E., until the arrival of the Spanish in the 15th Century B.C.E. They had their base in the Yucatan and spread over present-day southern Mexico, Guatemala,...
Software business models for AUTOSAR automotive world standard (rapport de stage, 2006)
Internship report - 12 pages - Computer science
AUTOSAR (AUTomotive Open Standard ARchitecture) is a promising initiative that aims at establishing open standards for automotive E/E architecture. AUTOSAR compliant basic software ensures independency of the application software from the underlying hardware and allows modularity as well as...
Aboriginal Australians - Black response to white dominance 1788 - 1980
Essay - 8 pages - Modern history
It seems that a sad hallmark of indigenous peoples is their oppression and systematic elimination at the hands of foreigners. The Native American marginally survives today after centuries of conflict with Europeans. The Ainu of Japan were nearly entirely wiped out by half a millennium of...
Why do many British families of South Asian background prefer arranged marriages?
Thesis - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The tradition of Arranged Marriages was practiced by kinship groups in the South Asian sub-continent centuries before migration to Britain took place during the 1950's. Initially, migrants came to Britain to earn wages (Shaw; 2000;13), However, the tradition of arranged marriages has...
The modernization of Russia through the urban transformations in the cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
In the second half of the 19th century, Imperial Russia went through a lot of changes. Reforms of serfdom, administration, clergy and lot of others caused changes in the society and the formation of a new organization within the different social classes. The country was also going through a new...
A study on how weather affects populations
Thesis - 7 pages - Ecology & environment
The impact of the weather and climate on a place has always been significant in history. In fact, hostile weather has been responsible for wiping out entire species and human civilizations. The last ice age made northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere inhospitable, and the flood mentioned in...
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...
Software business models for AUTOSAR automotive world standard (rapport de stage, 2006) - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 12 pages - Computer science
AUTOSAR (AUTomotive Open Standard ARchitecture) is a promising initiative that aims at establishing open standards for automotive E/E architecture. AUTOSAR compliant basic software ensures independency of the application software from the underlying hardware and allows modularity as well as...
The modernization of Russia through the urban transformations in the cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
In the second half of the 19th century, Imperial Russia went through a lot of changes. Reforms of serfdom, administration, clergy and lot of others caused changes in the society and the formation of a new organization within the different social classes. The country was also going through a new...
Cultural influence for foreign nations, Indonesia
Essay - 6 pages - Educational studies
Islands of Indonesia, in ancient times lies in the trade route between the two ancient trade centers, namely India and China. It lies in the path of international trade provides a huge influence on the development of Indonesia's ancient history. The presence of Indians on the islands of...
Analysis of E-business at Dell, HP and IBM
Thesis - 10 pages - Management
It is now recognized that new technologies, especially Internet access, tend to modify communication between the various players in the professional-consumer relationship. E-business (electronic business) is a broad concept that could be synthesized by the use of electronic means (especially...
Cells Involved in Immunity
Presentation - 22 pages - Medical studies
Development of T & B Lymphocytes Thymus-derived cells (T lymphocytes) mediate cellular immune responses; bone marrow-derived cells (B lymphocytes) are involved in humoral immunity. Both T and B lymphocytes are derived from precursor or stem cells in the marrow. Precursors of T cells migrate to...
Implication of federal trademark dilution act to U.S. Business
Essay - 4 pages - Business law
Intellectual property has become a global concern in these last few decades due to the increased trade brought about by the internet. In an article posted at Focus, Field (2006) reported that in the United States alone, for example, studies in the past decade have estimated that over 50 percent...
Hungarian history and culture - publié le 16/01/2009
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
The Carpathian basin is composed by the Carpathians, the Alps ands the Dinaric Alps. This geographical situation makes present-day Hungary as a singular country, a land with melting-pot cultures from different ages. Finally, the Magyars has sealed the curse when the prince Árpád has conquered the...
Critical analysis of 'A Lesson before Dying'
Essay - 5 pages - Literature
Ernest J. Gaines wrote the novel, 'A Lesson before Dying' in which he highlighted the problems faced by the blacks during the 1940's in the South. However, the contextual time for the novel covers a whole century into until 1964. He writes about the complete devastation faced by the...
Commentaire sur un texte et une image (LLCE Anglais 2ème année)
Text commentary - 5 pages - Linguistics & languages
Our purpose is to compare and contrast a text and a painting, whose common theme is an unwillingly migration of farmers due to unbearable environmental or/and economic circumstances. The text is an excerpt of Steinbeck's novel “The Grapes of the Wrath” (published in 1939), which...
History of Italy - From Antiquity to Renaissance
Time lines - 45 pages - Medieval history
From the twelfth century BC to the late Bronze Age central Italy was dominated by two centuries of civilization itself. "Apennine?, lived on the stretches along the mountain chain of Apennines, and raided the farmers and ranchers of the plains, living in huts and caves. The dead were buried in...
Climatic Change and its effect on Food Production
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
The agricultural sector plays an important role within our country's economy. Other than agriculture providing us with food, agriculture also comprises of seafood, and livestock which all together contribute an estimate of $200 billion dollars annually to our country's economy (Brian & Matt...
Refugee Mental Health and Social Justice - Research Study
Dissertation - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The plight of refugees is often characterized by harrowing tales of displacement, fleeing conflict, persecution, and other traumatic experiences that leave lasting scars on their mental well-being. With the huge pandemonium of mass migration, refugees deal with many tasks both physically...
