Young people and alcohol
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The consumption of alcoholic beverages has been steadily decreasing in France for several years, but an alarming new form of alcohol abuse has occurred among young people. The 'binge drinking' consists of heavy consumption of alcohol with the primary intention of becoming intoxicated in a...
Young people and alcohol in Ireland
Essay - 13 pages - Social, moral & civic education
When we speak about Ireland, we often think of its magnificent landscapes, its friendly people, its music and even its eventful history. There are a lot of stereotypes concerning Ireland, but many of them are about alcohol. Indeed, Ireland is symbolized by a lot of elements referring to alcohol...
Avortement - entre religion et éthique
Essay - 10 pages - Social, moral & civic education
A few years ago, a desperate mother ended the life of her son, the victim of a terrible car accident that made him completely paralyzed. He wanted to die, not being able to fully live his life. He was reduced to being constantly bedridden, not able to move or even talk. After several court...
Homosexuality in History
Essay - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In pre-Christian societies (from 600 before J-C to 300 after J-c) and more particularly in ancient Greece, and the Roman Empire, relationships between people of the same sex were accepted or even valorized, but within certain rules. The fact that homosexuality was accepted so well comes from a...
Racism in Anglo-Saxon countries
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Everybody has ever heard about racism, but do we really know what racism really is? We will see that in Anglo-Saxon countries, racism isn't a new phenomenon. We will point out which sorts of racism these countries have to face and will eventually see if a way has been paved to eliminate...
To what extent does the emergence and recognition of a gay consumer culture leads to an increased social acceptance of homosexuality?
Essay - 9 pages - Social, moral & civic education
'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Five gay men. Out to take over the world. One straight guy at a time''. This is what people hear and read when watching the show commonly called Queer Eye. What do gay people do to ''take over the world''? The emergence of this kind of...
Danger and music
Essay - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Shostakovich and Messiaen composed music while their very lives were in danger, and those musicians hired to perform aboard the Titanic are reported to have played until the cold gray water enveloped them. Messiaen composed while a French prisoner of war to the Germans, during World War II....
Youtube
Essay - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Youtube is an American website that was created in 2005 and as blown up in the past few years to one of the most visited sites on the web and its homepage has generated millions of dollars from advertisers. The site has become so huge that nearly 79 million users had made over 3 billion video...
The veil in schools in England and France
Essay - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
There was a general outcry in the Muslim world at the time of the announce of the law concerning the wearing of the veil in French schools. This law put an end to the controversy 'veil affair' in France but since, the same affair arose in different countries like England. The interest of...
Please Smile, the CCTV is running!
Essay - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The Closed Circuit Television system is a tool employed in most retail environments to ensure public security, especially after the September 11 attacks, but it is usually ignored by researchers. For shoppers, CCTV may be a critical factor affecting their perspective on a retail environment and...
Lighting is the most powerful tool in the hands of an able photographer
Essay - 1 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Control and play of lighting becomes the most powerful tool in the hands of an able photographer. It can be put to a variety of uses to create beautiful images. The ability to see, control and try innovations can only be matched by one's imaginative skills. There can be different types of...
Buddhism and our environmental obligation
Essay - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Within our society, there are certain innate concepts that every individual is equipped with. Virtues, morals, or the concept of "right and wrong" are just a few examples of such ideals. To help make humanity a more positive atmosphere, there are a few models one should strive to accomplish in...
Fashion industry and the size 00
Essay - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In 2006, two fashion models died because of anorexia. These two dramatic events raised the awareness among public about the link between anorexia and the fashion industry. We will analyze how they went through such a situation, and how governments and fashion industries react to such incidents....
Upward mobility of children of Algerian's immigrants in France: between inclusion and exclusion
Essay - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Eric Besson, the French minister of Immigration, triggered a debate recently centering on the question of the national identity. This debate is supposed to give a definition of the meaning of being French. This debate highlights the lack of integration that some minorities living in the French...
The alcohol consumption problem in Scotland
Essay - 1 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Industry sales figures suggest Scotland has the eighth highest alcohol consumption level in the world.' This result, based on a World Health Organization report, focuses on what Scotland's main alcohol related problems are. Both Scottish economy and people seem to depend on alcohol....
Is there a French Affirmative Action?
Essay - 14 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The debate over affirmative action is a burning issue in France, because it lays the French model of integration flat again. It deals with the 'French exception', which can be traced back to the Revolution era. It deals with very passionate subjects like school, universalism etc....
To what extent is the ageing aspect of western populations a challenge for their states?
Essay - 10 pages - Social, moral & civic education
People in western countries seem to be tending to live longer and the ageing fringe of these populations is becoming important in relation to the younger groups. This feature is often described as a problem for societies and as a challenge, or even a threat, for Welfare States. In this paper, we...
How to deal with single mothers' poverty? Marriage promotion, Welfare-to-work policies, and Welfare assistance in the US
Essay - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The living standards of single mothers is often low, and these women's welfare are not well perceived. For most of them, it is hard to take care of children and pursue a working career. They have no voice in society and are said to be not stable. This is a good example of how development can...
Russian culture in the new era
Essay - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Around the time of the burgeoning revolutionary government and consciousness in Russia, four thinkers contributed to a debate on culture, religion, art, and the state. In their works, Blok, Lunacharsky, Gershenzon, and Ivanov, all put forth their views on the role of the state and the...
From modernism to post-modernism
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Weber wrote during the period of Germany's unification and rapid industrial development. He was concerned with the role of the individual within this emerging, increasingly urban society and sought to preserve stability in what was an increasingly socially-stratified state -- between the old...
Academic knowledge and power and the social sciences
Essay - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Social science knowledge informs the way in which people interpret their experiences, and can be empowering, as in the case of political and feminist discourses. However, knowledge, employed as discourse, can also be employed in ways that disempower, and this is the focus of much of...
"Love" in Baldwin's 'Another Country'
Essay - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Another Country is concerned with the intersection of race, sexuality, and society. Throughout, its characters struggle and suffer… struggle with “making it” (whether artistically or in the sense of pure survival), struggle in their personal relationships, and suffer the...
Statistical Dossier on Immigration 2007
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
On October 29, 2007, at the Teatro Orione in Rome, the presentation of the 2007 Immigration Statistics Dossier Caritas or Migrantes took place. The event, now at its seventeenth edition, was held in the presence of mainstream media, as well as numerous agencies and experts coming mainly from...
Illegal immigration in the United States: push-pull factors
Essay - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Mexico is a two-faced country: you can be influenced by cities like San Cristobal, Oaxaca, Mexico city and start to think that Mexico is a developed country but whereas on the countryside the states remain in what we would call “the third world”. Mexico shares its biggest border with...
Euthanasia should be legalized
Essay - 1 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The legalization of euthanasia is a burning issue. The case of Vincent Humbert, in France, who asked to die with dignity spurred a controversy and divided the French society. Thus, two camps were opposed on the subject of euthanasia: those who were in favor of its legalization, and those who were...
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...
To fight against any sort of discrimination, could and should all workers be treated equally?
Essay - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Over the last few years, the issue of discrimination has become central in our society and has extended to a whole lot of areas, among which are sex, race, disability, religion and age, and the issues that were not addressed a few years ago, such as physical appearance or change of sex....
Caring or working: a matter of choice for lone mothers? Possibility to choose versus structural constraints
Essay - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
This paper will deal with lone mothers and their labor market participation. Lone motherhood, that we will define, implies to be worker and care giver at the same time. It is thus interesting to see if the Welfare States help them by giving them the choice to be care givers or workers or if they...
The asylum seekers children in immigration detention centres in Autralia
Essay - 13 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Since 1989, refugees seeking asylum in Australia who have arrived by boat have been detained by the Commonwealth Government. Australia is a signatory to the 1951 UN Refugee Convention, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child (in 1990) and the...
American Idle (Idol)
Essay - 15 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Love it or hate it, American Idol has become a seemingly immortal fixture in American culture. Pouring into our homes through high definition television on at least two nights a week, the show is more present in family life than your average workaholic, deadbeat dad. Of course the success of the...
