The rise and fall of Medici banking firm
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The Medici name carries a heavy significance in the world of the Renaissance, the arts, and more importantly the world of banking. Once one of the most economically, prosperous and politically powerful families in all of Europe, there estate went unrivaled by any family of their time. This paper...
Places and hotels in Jammu and Kashmir
Thesis - 13 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The paradise state of Jammu and Kashmir has two capitals; Srinagar is the summer capital and Jammu is the winter capital. In March, the secretariat starts to function from Srinagar. Similarly, in October, the secretariat moves to the winter capital Jammu. Jammu and Kashmir is the pride of India...
Tourism in Kerala
Thesis - 13 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Despite uncertainty in economic and political conditions since the 1970s, tourism continued to grow rapidly. The situation was characterized by an increase in tourist receipts. So in this context it needs to be mentioned that several countries re-organized their respective tourism departments to...
Bahrain: Tourism and hotels
Thesis - 19 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The hotel industry is one of the oldest commercial endeavors in the world. The first inns were built way back in the 6th century B.C. and were a result of the urge to travel that happened after the invention of the “wheel". Husband-and-wife teams opened the earliest inns by providing...
An introduction to tourism
Thesis - 8 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Tourism is the act of travel for predominantly recreational or leisure purposes, and also refers to the provision of services in support of this act. According to the World Tourism Organization, tourists are people who "travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for not more...
Ralph Waldo Emerson and the flower children
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
It is 1836 and a pioneering new essayist has just made his debut. His first work is entitled “Nature,” a simple and concise name for an elaborate and layered piece. It is a bizarre article, one which lionizes the natural earth and calls on the younger generations to break away from...
Idealists vs. materialists
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The 1960's were a productive era for developing contemporary anthropological theories. Several theorists emerged following the original Boasian framework and developed ethno science and cognitive paradigms. Around the same time theorists interested in exploring systems of meaning and significance...
The post boasians and British social anthropology
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
From the 1920 through the 1950's there was an effort to explain culture, but to explain it according to its effects on human behavior and development. Some theorists see things universally while other want to look at each culture as unique and thus not capable of being compared with other...
Race from a multi cultural perspective
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Currently race is an issue that is intertwined with several aspects of society. We are constantly learning what is right and wrong in society through our families, the media, and our educations and often those images are negative and racist. Racism develops and is ingrained in the structure of...
The creation of the patrilineal band
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Among the many topics studied by the anthropologist is the creation and maintaining of what is called the patrilineal band. Julian Steward offers a very distinct view of what it means to be a patrilineal band, and what it takes to keep it alive in his article “The Patrilineal Band.”...
Class and power in America
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Most Americans don't like the idea that there might be social classes. Classes imply that people have relatively fixed stations in life. Even more, Americans tend to deny that classes might be rooted in wealth and occupational roles. They talk about social class, but with euphemisms like...
Progressivism
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Progressivism, the era between 1900 and 1920, is described by historians Arthur Link and Richard McCormick as “the way in which a whole generation of Americans defined themselves politically and responded to the nations problems at the turn of the century.” These two historians believe...
Critical race theory and the hidden curriculum: Social works implications for education
Thesis - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Throughout the Philadelphia transit system stations there is a notable repetition of an advertisement for McDonald's 365Black campaign. A photo of various African American franchise owners is captioned by a phrase to the effect, “This Neighborhood is Our Business”. Within this image,...
Pre-marital sex in contemporary society
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The concept of premarital sex is one of many tensions and contradictions in our society today. Indeed, preliminary research would have one conclude that a dichotomy exists between those liberal minded individuals who advocate promiscuity and those more traditional minds of theology who strongly...
Mass media and the influence of religion on American foreign policy
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The proverbial “man from mars” suddenly plunged onto the American continent would be amazed and confused at the spectacle before him. He would soon discover that in the world's most perceived secularized society it is not uncommon to justify national interests with religious undertones...
Mandatory mediation - The issue
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
When matters of litigation are directed by the court to be done outside of the traditional court environment the parties involved are typically already in a conflict-intense claiming process. In such an atmosphere it is not surprising that each party places great weight on the outcome of the...
Calgary: A case study in residential development
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Although the Canadian city of Calgary has traditionally been an affordable place to live, substantial economic and population growth has resulted in an over extended demand on real estate. As a result, house prices in Calgary have increased significantly in recent years (Calgary Real Estate...
Sending messages: The telegraph and the convenience of modern communication
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
On the night of Sunday, 14 April, 1912, at 23:40, the HMS Titanic collided with a submerged iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean four hundred miles south of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Within three hours, the ship would sink and be recalled as the most celebrated maritime disaster prior to the...
Liberating bondage: Slavery and emancipation in the Caribbean
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Slavery in the British Caribbean was closely connected to the agricultural cultivation of sugar-cane and cotton crops in which Africans were imported to work the land in order that the goods could be exported to Europe thereby providing the plantation-owners a net return on their investment. In...
Highway 407: Public to private transition
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Alterations to travel flow resulting from urban decentralization is the effect of the increasing size of the city and its level of urbanization, and it reduces traffic volumes between origins and the central destination thereby raising volumes to other destinations. This lowers radial corridor...
Culture and global conflict
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The global recession not only impacts Western and developed countries, but its effects are also applicable to those from the Third World. On 2 April, 2009, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown declared an end to the “Washington consensus” at the G-20 Conference in London. Since the...
Language and reality
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
It is common cynical knowledge that in this world of spin, our perceptions of reality cannot possibly be divorced from the language it is presented in. But the question remains as to whether language creates or distorts reality. At the crux of the issue is really our definition of...
Women's identity: How do you find it when the world claims you were born with it?
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Women in theatre are always up or down, the virgin or the whore, over-run with emotions or a stone cold bitch. There is rarely a happy medium for women on the stage. But there is an in-between. There is a middle ground between being an extreme, and being a bore. Despite the fact that every woman...
Etica Moderno ed Il Principe - Modern ethics and the prince
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Practices that are deceitful and cunning, in the interests of retaining power, have been dubbed “Machiavellian”, no doubt for Machiavelli's political treatise The Prince. To many, this short book is a canon of all things unethical; to be called “Machiavellian” is generally...
Human water consumption and utilization
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The history of the relationship between people and water is a long and complex one. The necessity for water to sustain life has driven people to do many things: relocate to where the water is, come up with technological innovations to relocate the water to where they are, use it as a source of...
Gender imbalance and rural families: China's growing problem
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Post-World War II China produced a large number of babies as a part of the baby boomer generation. As a result, the most heavily populated country in the world experienced an exponential growth in their population unlike any other in the world. Because of the fear of depleting their already...
Merits of attention in social situations: An interdisciplinary study in dominance and power
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
As an essential part of everyday life, conversations may often seem simple and one dimensional: one person speaks, all others listen. Upon further dissection, conversations involve many processes: information exchange, information processing, language and more. While attentiveness is just one...
The attachment between college students and their pets at home
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Many first year college students under go the shock that it is to leave a pet at home. Pets are considered attachment figures. The purpose of this study is to find the relationship between college students away from home and their pets and how the relationship strain affects the college students'...
Greenpeace: Anti-corporate watchdogs
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Chuck Palahniuk's 1996 novella Fight Club narrates the experience of adult men disaffected by modern consumer culture who form underground boxing clubs before developing them into clandestine social terrorist groups aimed at destroying hyper-capitalist culture. Read as a critique on the...
Quantifying happiness: Reviewing the Harvard study of adult development
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The ancient Greeks were the first to philosophically study the good life, for example, the writings of Plato, Aristotle, and Epicurus, but the topic was also treated in other historical and cultural sources as well. In the Levant, the ancient Hebrews received the Torah (or the Book) from a...
