Doing business with Egyptians
Thesis - 6 pages - Journalism
If you are eager to do business or to invest in a foreign company, you have to be aware of some things about how is the business environment in the country you choose and how is the reality. That information is mainly related to the economy, culture, legislative and political fronts. That means...
The Blue Grass Band
Thesis - 2 pages - Journalism
The internship started mid- January and lasted until the end of May. We worked as an independent team for the Bluegrass Band. The primary objective of this internship was to provide the band with three dates for them to perform in California, especially in Los Angeles and San Diego. Indeed the...
Maurice A. Bercof - The Art of Negotiating
Thesis - 6 pages - Journalism
Maurice A. Bercoff is a Bachelor of Law, PhD in Economics and a Statistics graduate; and fluent in four languages. He developed his systematic approach to negotiations in Harvard, Wharton Business School and the Kennedy School of Government. He has more than thirty years of experience (in Europe...
Suitable area for Paris to get a French global city region
Thesis - 9 pages - Journalism
As Saskia Sassen well defined it, a global city region is a region that “overlaps the global city” . Today, it can be admitted that Paris has a lot features that make this city close to a “global city”, such as the central corporate functions, and the “highly specialized...
Asian business culture
Thesis - 9 pages - Journalism
Since the last decade the Northeast Asian economies such as Japan, South Korean and Taiwan have had a remarkable growth and an important development into world-class economic powers. They have emerged from an “array of political and social challenges such as world and civil wars, massive...
The British monarchy as of 2008
Thesis - 6 pages - Journalism
The British monarchy is a shared monarchy which can trace its ancestral lineage back to the Anglo-Saxon period. The British monarch or Sovereign is the Head of state of the United Kingdom and in the British overseas territories. So the British monarch is also head of state of sixteen other...
The UK food market
Thesis - 37 pages - Journalism
The population of UK is set to increase by over 2 million to almost 62 million over the next 10 years. Increased life expectancy and declining birth rates are leading to an increasingly elderly population and this trend is set to continue as the large numbers of 'baby boomers' reach...
The BBC
Thesis - 3 pages - Journalism
Everybody, even one who has never seen or listened to an Anglophone broadcast, has alteast once, heard of the British Broadcasting Corporation, the famous ‘BBC', or the nicknames ‘Beeb' or ‘Auntie'. In fact, the BBC is the biggest broadcasting company in the world, with 26,000...
Thomas Frank's "What's the matter with Kansas?"
Thesis - 6 pages - Journalism
Introduction Thomas Frank has been deeply astonished and revolted with the myth of the “two-nation” America which has been cultivated by various opinion makers - especially popular journalists. This observation motivated him to look for this true America that so many op-eds and public...
Barbara Ehrenreich's "Nickel and Dimed"
Thesis - 5 pages - Journalism
As a response to both Bill Clinton's introduction of the “Welfare Reform” putting an end to what he called “Welfare as we know it” and to the journalistic tendency of writing articles on the people far from the ground, Barbara Ehrenreich - of course a bit forced by her editor...
The tourism industry in India: A general overview
Tutorials/exercises - 40 pages - Journalism
Tourism is a very complex industry due to its multiple activities that satisfies the need of the tourist. Tourism includes transportation, accommodation, food, catering, tourist attraction as well as organizers like tour operators and travel agents. Moreover, a tour consists of different...
British press
Thesis - 2 pages - Journalism
The Quality Press: Most famous and important serious newspapers in Britain are: 1. The Daily Telegraph 2. The Guardian 3. The Independent 4. The Times The different format: Originally newspapers had a broadsheet format. Such as Daily telegraph which is one of the only two remaining British...
Modernity of African music
Thesis - 5 pages - Journalism
People listen to music for different reasons. For me it's an introspective individualistic process. I examine the artists' lyrics in hopes that their expression will help me learn more about myself and life, in general. For others, music is the notes strung together to compose an orchestra. For...
How satiric is Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal"?
Thesis - 4 pages - Journalism
Satire, as defined by Bennett and Royle, is “the humorous presentation of human folly or vice in such a way as to make it look ridiculous” . It generally retains the appearance of rigorous logic, buttresses premises and arguments supported by formally correct proofs and eventually leads...
"Nixon and the prisoners of war", 7th January 1971, New York Review of Books, by Jon M. Van Dyke
Book review - 2 pages - Journalism
This is an article published in 1971, on January the 7th, in The New York Review of Books. Written by Jon M. Van Dyke, this article deals with the Nixon administration policies about the prisoners of war during the time of Vietnam War. According to Jon M. Van Dyke, the US government uses the...
Complicity in Heart of Darkness
Thesis - 3 pages - Journalism
On November 15 1884, the representatives of fourteen European powers and a plethora of ambassadors gathered in Berlin to decide the fate of colonial Africa. From 1884 to 1909, 5 to 21 million Africans (about 50% of the population of the Congo Basin) perished. Such collective palliation of the...
The errors of the Puritans
Thesis - 7 pages - Journalism
The document we're going to talk about today is a set of extracts from Richard Hooker's work Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity written in 1593 (the 3 dots suggest that they were cuts in the text). Actually, this is his main work and it consists of eight books that were published during the...
Comment on the article "Can India fly?", from The Economist n°8480, 2006
Thesis - 4 pages - Journalism
"Indian Business has much to celebrate", says the author of the article "can India fly?—now for the hard part", published in the june 3rd 2006 edition of The Economist. India has been recently swept by great optimism, thanks to its phenomenal economic growth. Indian GDP growth hit of 7% in...
Walter Ong, orality and literacy
Thesis - 3 pages - Journalism
Walter Wong's Orality and Literacy provides the reader, who by definition is a member of the literate world, with insights into the rich oral cultures that spawned the chirographic (writing) and the typographic (print) cultures that followed. In a world steeped in literacy for many centuries,...
The paradox of American democracy (Chap. 1), by John B. Judis
Thesis - 3 pages - Journalism
John B. Judis is a senior editor at The New Republic, where he is working since 1982. He graduated at the University of California at Berkeley in 1965 and taught philosophy there later on. He was an active leftist activist during the 60es and founded the leftwing journal The Socialist Revolution...
McIntyre, W. David. British Decolonization: "When, why and how did the British Empire fall?"
Thesis - 3 pages - Journalism
In this book David McIntyre, Professor of History at the University of Canterbury, gives a detailed account of a most important episode of British and global history, that is the fall of the British Empire. The decolonization process that took place mainly after the Second World War was sudden...
Six feet of the country, by Nadine Gordimer
Essay - 3 pages - Journalism
How does Nadine Gordimer denounce Apartheid in this short story? Judging from this text, do you think she uses literature as a political weapon? In “Six Feet of the Country”, a short story written in 1956, the South-African white author Nadine Gordimer tells the story of a white man and...
Social cognitive processes mediating the relationship between exposure to television's sexual content and adolescents' sexual behavior by Steven C. Martino, Rebecca L. Collins, David E. Kanouse, Marc Elliot, and Sandra H. Berry
Thesis - 4 pages - Journalism
The article I chose to study is from the volume 89 of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, published in 2005 by the American Psychological Association. It deals with a research supported by National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. I chose this one since, like the...
The USA patriot act: The un-American way
Thesis - 5 pages - Journalism
On September 11, 2001, the United States was attacked by a foreign terrorist Muslim group called Al-Queda directed by Osama bin Laden, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, as well as, others. President George W. Bush appeared on television screens at the Oval office to address the American public after the...
The magic of thinking big
Thesis - 13 pages - Journalism
This wonderful book authored by Dr. David Schwartz reveals the secrets of SUCCESS. The SUCCESS for which we strive all our life only to find that at times that harder we try to achieve our goal…the more difficult it gets. In this world where only the toughest survive and flourish, we need a...
Reputation versus business
Thesis - 4 pages - Journalism
When rapper Nas Escobar and entertainer Sean “Puffy/P.Diddy” Combs recorded the video to the song “Hate Me Now”, Puffy backed out after a copy of the video was sent to MTV and asked Nas' manager and Interscope Records executive Steve Stoute to remove the part of the video...
Asking questions about the popular sphere, media and democracy.
Thesis - 7 pages - Journalism
An important question, right now, according to a recent Globe and Mail article, as well as chatter heard recently while riding the grid-lock streets listening to a taxi driver's radio, is if daily newspapers collapse, is this a sign that democracy is in trouble? Perusing the numerous blogs of...
The rhetoric behind personal ads
Thesis - 5 pages - Journalism
Many people search for that one person to spend the rest of their lives with. People do this in a variety of ways and placing a personal ad in the local newspaper is only one such way. Men and women daily check personal ads in the hope of finding that “perfect person” or just for a...
Childe`s materialist approach to archaeology and proof of his use of scientific method
Thesis - 4 pages - Journalism
Processual archaeology, also known as New Archaeology, which came to dominate the field in the 1960s presented a critique of past archaeological work, that it, fundamentally, was non-scientific. The debates and arguments that exist within the field of archaeology often seem to be limiting, as...
Coffee in Italy and the United States
Thesis - 9 pages - Journalism
Coffee has been grown, processed, roasted, and brewed for thousands of years. This age-old drink has become increasingly popular within the last decade due to the attractiveness of the modern coffeehouse (Shultz 1999:76-77), along with increased global marketing. Yet this popularity is perceived...
