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13 janv. 2014
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Philosophy and the City

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

The renaissance of interest in Plato among contemporary scholars may be as a result of at least three factors; First, is the increasing interest in soul as a way of understanding human behavior, which includes behavior in organizations. Secondly, is the changed attention to things historical in...

13 janv. 2014
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Renewable Energy Resources

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

The use of renewable energy sources is one of biggest arguments of the twenty first century. On the one side there the supporters of use of this energy for numerous reasons while n the other hand there are those opposed to the ideology. It is a controversial topic with each side providing...

13 janv. 2014
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False memory aspects of recall and recognition

Case study - 12 pages - Educational studies

False memories maybe defined as either remembering events that never happened or remembering them quite differently from the way they happened. There are many factors that can influence false memories like misinformation and misattributing the original source of the information. Also existing...

13 janv. 2014
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Death and its significance

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

Death is the ending of life. When one's life ends or is over, then they are considered dead. According to Fred Fieldman, for one to be able to completely comprehend death, then one has to be able to fully understand life (1992). Death has been known of its iniquity and obscurity. This has always...

13 janv. 2014
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Sample recommendation letter

Case study - 1 pages - Educational studies

I write this letter to recommend Duong Cong Doanh for admission to the postgraduate program -Master in Economics at University of Turin. I have been working with him since 2011 at Faculty of Business Administration, National Economics University - Vietnam. Doanh was a bright student. Based on...

13 janv. 2014
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Personal development plan

Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies

Evaluation is important stages in the self-development cycle as it would assist me discover whether it is worth in the realization of my career goals and those of the organization (Pedler 2001). The requirements of my job as a spinal research coordinator involves the liaising and coordinating...

13 janv. 2014
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Casual explanations of child abuse

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

The topic, which is always under discussion and attracts the attention of scientists of different fields of investigation, is child abuse. According to the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA): Child abuse is any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker,...

13 janv. 2014
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Eradicate crimes committed by homeless individuals and the related gangs in the United States

Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies

According to the recent research by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the number of homeless individuals across the country has grown to over 600,000; however, a worrying trend associated with the increase in homelessness is their involvement in crime (Saul, 2013). An...

13 janv. 2014
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Sexual Predator Laws of Texas

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

Texas law defines a predatory act as “…an act directed toward individuals, including family members for the primary purpose of victimization” (CSOT, 2007). Under the Texas Sexually Violent Predator Act, the State has the burden to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the person is...

13 janv. 2014
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The cultural effects of an aging population

Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies

The improvements in nutrition, health care, and medicine have lengthened the lifespan of Americans but with this good fortune come new challenges for our culture. The elderly population in particular is expanding at an unprecedented rate. Today, those over the age of sixty five represent around...

13 janv. 2014
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Marital Rape: A Crime or a Conjugal Right?

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

Marital rape has been defined in various ways depending on how an individual perceives it. Individuals considering marital rape as a crime frequently define it as a non-consensual sex in which perpetrator and victim are spouses (Bennnice & Resick, 2003). Some authors have also defined it as a...

13 janv. 2014
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Probation in the United States

Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies

Karp (2002) argued that probation in the United States can be said to have originated from English criminal law during the middle ages. During these times, both adults and children were punished in the same harsh manner for crimes that were sometimes not very serious. It was common during the...

13 janv. 2014
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Socio Economic Factors Influencing Delinquency

Case study - 7 pages - Educational studies

Contemporary delinquency theories can be deployed in supporting economic deprivation as a contributing factor in elucidating many crimes, though it is directly linked to property crimes like theft (Borraz & González, 2011). However, this does not imply that the cause-and-effect association...

09 janv. 2014
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Anglo-Zulu War

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

In their quest to conquer as many countries as possible, the British engaged in a number of wars. Some of these wars claimed the lives of thousands of soldiers, while others were won with minimal loss of lives. The British found strong opposition in some battles and were either were defeated or...

09 janv. 2014
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Partnership Confliction

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

There are actually 3 partners that held vital role in the company, one of the partners, his name is Alex, and whereby holding a big share in the small business company he shows bossy, his own ego and being assertive and never listen to his partner and disobey the rules of partnership agreement,...

07 janv. 2014
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The Consequences of World War Two

Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies

A shift in the world axis of power is seen as the major result of the war. Power shifted from Europe because most of the countries had been crippled by the war and their economies were left yearning for intervention. The war had taken place against a backdrop of world depression which made it...

06 janv. 2014
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Violence of the British oppression and how Gandhi answered to it

Case study - 10 pages - Educational studies

Concerning the study of the nationalist movement in India several series of studies followed one another. It seems however in a general way that the study of the nationalist movement in India suffered from an often excessive attention carried to Gandhi leading to neglect the importance of the...

06 janv. 2014
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British civilization

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

South Africa was a country colonized by a lot of European people such as The Dutch people (the Boer and Afrikaners) and the British.This period of colonialism was the target of several battles, and one of the most famous is the Anglo-Boer War (1988-1902), which was a bloody war and a lot of...

06 janv. 2014
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Knowledge Economy

Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies

It is to analyze the market by incorporating the notion of knowledge, long ignored economics. Have focused on issues of social interactions (exchanges) that are at the heart of concerns. Indeed, microeconomics (the theory of individual shares) standard (Walras, French economist of the nineteenth...

02 janv. 2014
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Margaret Sanger: the woman who launched the sexual liberation in the United States

Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies

Margaret Sanger is born on September 14th 1879 in the State of New York. She is the daughter of Michael Henessey Higgins and Anne Purcell Higgins. She was the sixth of a family with eleven children. She followed a nursing program at White Plains Hospital in 1900. Two years later she married...

02 janv. 2014
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Is there a dependency between the weather and the number of traffic collisions?

Case study - 17 pages - Educational studies

The major problematic of our assignment is trying to find if a relation between the weather and the number of traffic collision exists. In order to answer to this question, we had access to data from "MétéoSuisse" and "Police neuchâteloise". The weather data contains multiple variables such as...

27 déc. 2013
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Oral de BAC : Global cities - publié le 27/12/2013

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

A global city is a city having a strategic position in diverse domains, mainly economic, political and cultural at the world level and establishing a dynamic node of communications. Global cities as London, the second world city after New York, and Shangai, the fifth, are the leaders in the world...

27 déc. 2013
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Oral de BAC : Global cities

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

A global city is a city having a strategic position in diverse domains, mainly economic, political and cultural at the world level and establishing a dynamic node of communications. Global cities as London, the second world city after New York, and Shangai, the fifth, are the leaders in the world...

27 déc. 2013
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Linguistic Relativity and Cultural Context

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis about linguistic relativity suggests that the differences in languages cultural and cognitive encodings affect how people think. In other words, speakers' thinking style is defined by the cultural context which shaped the language they use. The power of language on...

27 déc. 2013
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An Estate and Retirement Plan

Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies

It is of utmost importance to have a personal financial plan. By having a plan, you can avoid financial hardships and troubles in the future. A personal financial plan includes many goals. As we reach different stages in our lives our financial situations change. With this change comes a need to...

27 déc. 2013
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Humans: the Duplication of God?

Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies

Cloning is the procedure of “manufacturing” a duplicate of a genetic being. In genetics, cloning refers to the procedure of creating the same replica of the DNA of a being. Due to the cloning of the Dolly sheep President Bill Clinton in May 1997 requested the National Bioethics Advisory...

27 déc. 2013
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Canada in the "Trudeau years"

Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies

What is the Canada today? What are its values? What is its identity? What is political culture? What are its gaps? What is a Canadian? It is impossible to answer these questions without referring to the man who has deeply permeated the brand Canada: Pierre Elliot Trudeau. Born in Montréal in 1919...

18 déc. 2013
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Computer Forensics Laboratory and Computer Investigations Training

Case study - 10 pages - Educational studies

Computer forensics refers to the use of a computer expert program to collect, interpret, preserve, analyze and produce data from either volatile or non-volatile media storage devices. It is a branch of digital forensic science that is related to examining digital media in a forensic manner with...

18 déc. 2013
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Intelligent Computers

Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies

Intelligent computers are defined as machines that involve the use of intelligence and computer science concepts to execute various tasks initiated by the user. Intelligent computers are systems that are able to perceive their environments and take actions that are meant to maximize the...

18 déc. 2013
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Farsi Language

Case study - 10 pages - Educational studies

The purpose of writing this essay will be to examine the various varieties of English that exist in Farsi language classrooms and also to determine the type of English language pronunciation that Iranian learners are aiming for and the interference of Farsi language in attaining the desired...