The cosmetics marketing
Case study - 5 pages - Luxury marketing
The cosmetics industry is a huge and profitable market in the world. Today, this market is worth billions. In fact, according to the Cosmetics Europe and the personal care association in 2020, Europe was the largest market in the world, with 76.7 billion euros; followed by the USA with 72.3...
Pestel Analysis - The real estate market in the US
Case study - 6 pages - Services marketing
The United States' housing market is experiencing a considerable shift. As the government tries to quell the impacts of inflation with relatively higher interest rates, every other aspect of the economy from foreclosure rates to housing market prices remains in flux. As such, housing prices...
Taiwan's Semiconductor Shortage: Origins and Geopolitical Future
Case study - 6 pages - International economy
Semiconductors have become a central factor in our 21st century. As technology is used in all fields of human activity, from refrigerators to laptops, from electric cars to artificial intelligence, and from solar panels to military weapons, the need for electronic chips has grown and the demand...
The growing involvement of the European Union in the control of foreign investment in its territory
Essay - 6 pages - European union
This is what the European Commission said on March 25th, 2020 for the Member States concerning foreign direct investment and free movement of capital from third countries, and the protection of Europe's strategic assets. From this quotation, we can see that the European Union (EU) expressed...
"Fake news is the real virus!" (2020) - Fiction and reality
Text commentary - 1 pages - Linguistics & languages
In May 2020, during the early days of the pandemic, a protester in California held a sign sharing a worrying idea. By calling fake news the real virus, they meant that lies and false claims about COVID-19 were actually a bigger problem than the disease itself.
Comparing the response to cholera in Zimbabwe with SARS response in Toronto - Public health systems in crisis
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
This is an article about two diseases: cholera and SARS. Pandemics today potentially can spread from one part of the globe to another. The spread of SARS from Hong Kong where it was first identified and isolated, to Toronto (which was particularly hard hit), in part has to do with the...
How to Find Resilience after a Traumatic Domestic Violence?
Litterature review - 7 pages - Psychology
This work is a great opportunity to explore an area that is debated more every day in the media, but that required a deeper psychological analysis to understand causes and to provide keys for wellbeing relief. Domestic violence, the traumas that it causes and how we deal with them in our...
Comparison: Things we didn't see coming by Steven Amsterdam and the short story -The Dogs life by Tim Richards.
Case study - 7 pages - Educational studies
Things we didn't see coming is in the form of nine adjoined episodes which follow the life of an unnamed protagonist. Amsterdam, the author of this book, also holds other works like Cakewalk, What we know now and Best Medicine to his name. He possesses an acute sense for threats to humanity...
Environmental risks and sustainable development
Essay - 7 pages - Ecology & environment
In 2006, Davis Guggenheim and Al Gore released a movie called “An inconventient Truth: Global Warming”, and this movie basically talks about the risks associated with development. In 2007, they were honored with the Noble Peace award by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on...
The Invasion of Bacillus
Essay - 2 pages - Biology
Beep… beep… click… click … this just in: A pandemic breakout of unheard of proportions. Is it anthrax? Or clostridia? It could be, but authorities believe the culprit is Bacillus cereus (49133). B. cereus is a cousin strain to both Bacillus anthracis (anthrax) and...
Facing the inevitable: A psychological and social analysis of reactions to epidemics
Thesis - 6 pages - Psychology
In light of the growing threat of the avian flu, we thought it would be useful to investigate the psychological coping mechanisms that people employ to deal with pandemics and to try to minimize chaos by predicting these responses. Using historical accounts of epidemics, we concluded that...
The Politics of Liberty
Essay - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The new generation of American children is the first in United States history who are expected to live shorter lives than their parent generation. The trend is largely a result of poor health and not projected increases in crime or auto-accidents or some other factor. And the new generation's...
A history of the Black Death and its impact in late medieval Europe
Thesis - 9 pages - Medieval history
The Black Death was one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, peaking in Europe between 1347 C.E. and 1351 C.E, reducing the population of Europe by nearly half, and resulting in widespread socio-economic and other changes. Medieval people referred to this catastrophe as the "Great...
The function of sleep and its effects on health deprivation
Thesis - 13 pages - Medical studies
A human being spends on average 28 years of his life sleeping. The role of sleep remains obscure but the consequences of its deprivation on the health is of growing interest. It appears that sleep deprivation is associated with certain conditions related to food (obesity and diabetes) by altering...
What are the main obstacles to the provision of global public goods?
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
Global public goods are hard to define. Even though, there is a consensus about the definitions of public goods and collective goods, there exists different approaches. Public goods are supposed to be available for all and they are characterized by two principles: non-rivalry, which means that...
Glaxo Smithkline : inter-cultural overview
Case study - 10 pages - Management
In today's markets, international trends represent a large part of exchanges. In most cases, companies act on an international level: they try to sell their products all over the world in order to find new opportunity markets. They expect to find competition-advantaged resource providers on...
