The African American as minority group
Essay - 10 pages - Political science
An Inter-American Convention against Racial Discrimination would significantly increase the value of existing standards and international efforts to fight against discrimination. A regional agreement would help counteract the powerful legacy of exploitation, discrimination and marginalization...
Historical development of coal and nuclear energy in China
Thesis - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
China is today the world's largest coal producer and consumer in the world. In 2006, the raw coal output amounted to 2.32 billion tones and installed coal fired power capacity reached 622 GWe (National Bureau of Statistics of China, 2007). Chinese dependence on coal for energy and electricity...
Laws of forgiveness
Thesis - 4 pages - Political science
The factors that drive immigration control policy outcomes are plentiful as numerous scholars have attempted to explain why. Each of these offerings explain more sufficiently than others depending on the context of the outcome, whether it be countries, political systems, or types of immigration....
Beyond patriarchy
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
For many people who live in the modern world, the oppression of women is something that they would like to think of as something that is a thing of the past. Most members of the public would prefer to believe that being female doesn't necessarily mean that someone can expect to receive fewer...
Israeli police clash with Palestinians at sacred compound in Jerusalem has social implications
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
JERUSALEM - a conflict arose between Israeli police and Palestinian protesters after some Palestinians threw rocks at the officers at a holy site called Temple Mount. This site is considered to be holy for both Muslims and Jews as it carries significant religious meaning for both groups. The...
Reviewing laws after September 11th
Thesis - 11 pages - International relations
After 9/11 attacks the law making bodies all over the world observed a tremendous alter in their playback, these changes mostly affected the legal documents for those who took down the laws imposed by the legislative bodies. In another way you can say that these changes made the local governments...
The Tax Haven
Worksheets - 2 pages - International economy
The history of the tax havens is parallel to that of taxation. In fact, 2000 years ago, the first Greek storekeepers sent emissaries to some harbors to exchange the merchandise secretly with the buyer, and so, avoid the harbor taxes. But it was during the 30's and the glorious thirty that the...
Identify and Assess the Core Elements of Liberal Thinking in International Politics
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
At the end of World War I, the world was traumatized and will never be the same as it was before. Indeed, the 'Great War' was the first total war, the first large-scale slaughter. President Woodrow Wilson in his 14 points speech represents his hope for a change in international policy. In...
The principle of non-discrimination in the world trade organization
Worksheets - 7 pages - International economy
The principle of non discrimination in the frame of the WTO is one of the core principles at its base. Indeed, two ideas are at the heart of the WTO: liberalization of the market, and no discrimination of the trade partners herein. However, the notion of discrimination should first be defined, so...
Economic investigation : variations of the prices of flights
Case study - 6 pages - International economy
By analyzing the graphs, some factors which influence the price of flights can be found: - The distance: longer the distance between the departure airports from the arrival airports is, the greater the price of the ticket will be. This factor could be considered as logic because longer the...
Can India be called: « The future superpower »?
Case study - 4 pages - International economy
Nowadays, Western countries are facing the ascendance of new economic rivals, especially the two Asian giants: China and India. India is described as an emerging global power through the eyes of the journalists in the financial press, who emphasize its successful Bollywood movie industry, its...
India and renewable energy
Case study - 10 pages - Ecology & environment
With the Copenhagen Climate Conference taking place in December 2009, one of the main issues in the news currently is global warming and the way States should cooperate in order to face this problem. Since the beginning of the debate, the Indian government showed an intransigent point of view, as...
Green marketing - How to integrate environment inside companies?
Dissertation - 81 pages - Ecology & environment
Sustainable development has become an established phenomenon. Society is becoming increasingly environmental conscious, this has even been used as an electoral argument. Environmental protection is due to a movement introduced jointly by the population at large and the NGOs through a governmental...
Business ethics - The Burqa
Essay - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
A major media campaign began in France on June 2009 at the initiative of a member of the communist party joined by a majority of UMP's, who wanted to condemn the wearing of burqas and the niqab in Public schools and other public services. This campaign has been amplified by the President of...
Minority Political Incorporation in San Diego
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
As San Diego's first Latino mayor, succeeding a White Republican, the key issue of your mandate will be the political incorporation of minorities that mobilized to elect you. Your election is a beginning: minority groups legitimately expect a change in city politics: they want a true...
Partition or Consocialism?
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
Facing proliferating ethnic conflicts since the end of the Cold War (the most important ones being Rwanda and Yugoslavia)the international community needs to find new and efficient solutions to ensure peace between ethnic groups and give them political power in order to prevent new massacres and...
The Outbreak of an Ethnic - Conflict in Serbia
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
Like many other peoples throughout Europe, the Serbs form a community united by a common history and a common culture. Serbs feel specifically united by their historical sufferings, mainly the Ottoman rule until the 19th century and the persecution by the Croatian Usta'e during World War Two....
The Proliferation of Local Governments
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
According to John Quincy Adams, the sixth President of the United States, "individual liberty is individual power". Applied to local governments, this motto seems to be a good general explanation for their recent proliferation: it is a quest for independence and liberty that seems to have led...
Where dis "we" go, Thomas L.Friedman
Text commentary - 1 pages - International relations
Thomas L.Friedman is an author and a journalist who works in the famous news paper the New York Times. He is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner , is specialized in opec and has served as the chief diplomatic office of the White House, and of international economics. He is thus an important...
L'Oreal's strategy in China
Case study - 20 pages - Foreign markets
Since its creation in 1909 by a young French chemist called Eugene Schueller, L'Oreal has become one of the most powerful companies in the cosmetic industry. History Eugene Schueller established L'Oreal in 1909. Two years earlier, Mr. Schueller had developed an innovative hair-dye called...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Essay - 8 pages - International economy
As we are in a crisis period we thought that it would be interesting to understand the International Monetary Fund. The organization is one of the main elements which can solve the current crisis. Though the development of the IMF during recent years has shown a particular interest in helping the...
Is there a common European culture in diplomacy?
Essay - 5 pages - European union
At the moment, the question of culture is fundamental in the construction of Europe. The European Union is in fact searching for its identity which would be the basis to develop the political integration. Diplomacy has always played an important role in Europe: to represent and inform countries...
Relations between Norway and the European Union
Essay - 11 pages - European union
During a speech in Birmingham in 1904, British politician Joseph Chamberlain said: "The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come". Although pronounced a century ago, these words could still apply to the European integration today, and reflect Europe's move since...
Does the European construction and integration process belong to intellectual elite?
Essay - 7 pages - European union
"Building Union among people not cooperation between states". This quote of Jean Monnet underlines a specific side of the European integration history. Europe is not merely cooperation between states around an economical project, or motivated by the self-interest of states. Europe is, also, an...
What percentage of Parisian people really takes ecological measures in their daily life?
Case study - 11 pages - Ecology & environment
This report is an approach to the method of statistics. The objective is to create a study, conduct it and report on a topic. The related activities include searching for data, collecting information, gathering surveys or studies already conducted about it and finally proposing a final research...
The significance of the Schuman declaration of May 1950 for the idea of a federal Europe in the period 1950-1954
Essay - 3 pages - European union
Americans wanted a prosperous Germany, the French a weakened Germany. The French humiliated the Germans because of fear. Monnet proposed Europe. Through the Schuman Declaration, Monnet and Schuman believed that it would solve the post WWII German problem. Indeed for both political actors, the...
Economic analysis of France - publié le 13/12/2009
Essay - 14 pages - Economy general
Number of inhabitants: 64,350,759 people (on 1st January 2009), that is to say around 1 % of the global population. The population of France is growing. The demographic growth rate in France is of 0.574 % per year. The number of births is quite high in France. Indeed, there were 801,000 live...
Burmese migrants in Malaysia: from one hell to another
Essay - 8 pages - Political science
Burma got its independence from Great Britain in 1948 and became a democratic republic for only fourteen years. Since 1962, a military junta rules over Burma. That is to say, the democratic republic ended with the military coup d'Etat of General Ne Win. He founded the Burma Socialist Program...
What future for Europe?
Essay - 5 pages - European union
Europe ceased to be a concept years ago. It is now a concrete political, economical and social association of 27 states which aim to move on and improve together. Europe currently has a future and will draw it by its own means and will. Yet, Europe is taking her first steps alone. Since the...
Prevention in healthcare
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
Most developed countries have implemented healthcare systems. As reminded by Bruno Palier in The Healthcare Policy Quadrilemna, these policies were led with common objectives: "to help the sick on low incomes, then to guarantee a substitute income for salaried workers suffering from illness and,...
