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23 Jan 2015
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Commitment: Why are we committed?

Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies

The notion of commitment is inseparable from the founding ideology of democracy. To grasp this, it is necessary how Habermas explains the basic idea of democracy is the free participation of all citizens in public affairs. This principle is a legitimate control of political authority to the...

20 Jan 2015
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Developments in the image of death: Walt Disney

Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies

The image of Death in the films of Walt Disney before his death was concealed. This was seen in the films of Neige White and the Seven Dwarfs, Bambi or Sleeping Beauty. But these days, the image of death is it not more explicit? Maybe it had to Hays code [66] applied from 1934, well after the...

20 Jan 2015
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Bambi the Lion King: Anthropomorphism as idealized representation

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

It is through different animal figures that Disney also manages to show the Mort. Indeed, it seeks to develop in the animal world e human part to better reveal death. It is primarily through Neige White and the Seven Dwarfs Walt Disney used for the first time this process of anthropomorphisation...

19 Jan 2015
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Propaganda of American values

Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies

The concept of self-made- man is an institution in the United States. This is the basis of their system. Indeed, Americans assume that everyone is able to succeed if given the means, whatever the origin of their social. Maggie account boxing to become someone. Red and Whit uses nt music not be...

19 Jan 2015
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Life Event

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

My significant event in life that I will not forget happened when I was eleven years old. My father kicked me out of our house. The main thing that triggered all this according to me was the fact that my father moved in with my step-mother, and since she was pregnant, there was a need for more...

19 Jan 2015
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The changing role of Retail

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

So many questions are arising regarding the changes taking place in today's retail environment and the viability of the model that was used in traditional retail. Diamond, Ellen & Steve (2000) assert that the most pressures in the marketplace include consumers levels of spending tend to remain...

19 Jan 2015
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How to Secure Online Payments?

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

PayPal is the most popular platform that is used to carry out online transactions globally. It is easy to use, and the members are able to send money to anyone or purchase anything they want. The main requirement for PayPal services is an email. PayPal is described as the simplest and safest...

19 Jan 2015
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Oil and Gas Contracts & Regulation research paper

Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies

Production of gas is a highly costly venture that requires vast resources in both finances and expertise. Producers of gas even in situations where they own gas fields, have to rely on other investors for transportation and sale of their gas. Thus, this essay discusses the terms of Gas...

19 Jan 2015
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Culler - Tourist is interested in everything as a sign of itself

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

Culler (1981, p106) noted ‘The tourist is interested in everything as a sign of itself. He insinuates, in simple terms that the tourist is looking for certain preset characteristics in places they visit that denote the people's culture. For them, these behaviors they have previously seen or...

19 Jan 2015
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Should urban foxes be excluded - United Kingdom?

Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies

Foxes are wild animals that scavenge in the urban areas and have over the years adapted to the city environment. They have broad adaptability, are widely distributed and can live in diverse habitats. They usually move in a huge pack in search of food in places where resources are scattered. They...

16 Jan 2015
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Communication strategy

Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies

Due to globalization and rapid economic growth, multinational firms are becoming very prevalent. Due to this, managers are faced by intercultural communication challenges. According to Hofstede (1980), culture is the software of the mind and as such it has the ability to influence behaviors and...

16 Jan 2015
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Spatial identity in Veronis, L. (2007) - Strategic spatial essentialism

Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies

In her literature review, she focuses on anti-essentializing approaches that distinct groups use to define a common space such as diaspora and hybridity, and border crossing notions especially transnationalism. The African Americans chose the margin of the society as a place where they made a...

16 Jan 2015
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Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) - Globule business environment

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has been traditionally defined to mean a firm or a corporation from one nation investing physically into building a manufacturing factory in another country. The direct investment in physical structures such as buildings and equipments distinguishes FDI from...

16 Jan 2015
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Welles and Citizen Kane literally stylistic approaches

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

Welles has forged a dramatic style that combines techniques such as extreme deep focus, different camera angles such as low angles that reveal set ceiling and the unconventional lighting and deep shadows anticipating the style film noir. Most of these styles had been used individually in other...

16 Jan 2015
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Calculating differential and integral: Calculating the ancient and middle ages

Case study - 7 pages - Educational studies

It is often said that the calculation was invented by two great mathematicians of the seventeenth century, Newton and Leibniz. "In fact, the calculation is the product of a long evolution that has not been started or completed by Newton and Leibniz" (COURANT, 2000, p.481). Its beginning dating...

16 Jan 2015
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

Cognitive behavioral therapy is a psychotherapeutic way of addressing maladaptive actions, cognitive contents and processes and dysfunctional emotions through several goal-oriented, precise methodical techniques. Study shows that CBT is an efficient treatment for other panic attacks, but there is...

16 Jan 2015
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Anpo: Art X War: The Art of Resistance

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

This paper is set out to examine and explore the history of the Japanese culture and how it came to be used to display their resistance towards the Americans presence in Japan. The American presence had been brought about by the signing of Anpo between Japan and America after the end of the...

14 Jan 2015
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Should urban foxes be excluded - United Kingdom? - published: 14/01/2015

Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies

Foxes are wild animals that scavenge in the urban areas and have over the years adapted to the city environment. They have broad adaptability, are widely distributed and can live in diverse habitats. They usually move in a huge pack in search of food in places where resources are scattered. They...

14 Jan 2015
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The Russian political system

Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies

In the 1990s, Russia seemed to be a good example of the disadvantages of federalism in times of transition. Several republics that were ethnic-based challenged the central government which appeared not to be able to counter their sovereignty claims. Since the elections carried out in 2000,...

14 Jan 2015
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Supermarket Chains

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

The consumers can have the benefit from the supermarket. In references to analysis, the four brands take more than seventy-five percent of the market share particularly Tesco since it has the biggest market share with regards to the UK market. Because of market supply done by several...

14 Jan 2015
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Education: Impact of internet

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

Internet has brought significant change to education particularly in making research much easier. In addition, internet has supported online education and increased the audience relying on the internet for learning particularly higher learning. Teachers have also made use of online videos to...

14 Jan 2015
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Is Facebook better than twitter?

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

Everyone has come across the terms Facebook and Twitter and also had a chance to use on or both the social media applications. According to Buffardi and Campbell (2008), these two terms stir up opinions, experiences and feelings since some love Facebook or Twitter than life itself while some do...

14 Jan 2015
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Personality Theorists of Psychology: Carl Rogers

Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies

Carl Rogers is one of the most famous American psychologists and among the founders of the humanistic approach to psychology. He was born in the 8th of January 1902 in Illinois and died on February 4th, 1987 of a heart attack. Rogers received his Ph. D in psychotherapy in 1931 from the University...

09 Jan 2015
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Vincennes Zoo: Case study

Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies

The Colonial Exhibition in the early arts summarizes the three main goals of world exhibitions. According to anthropologist, they tried to deliver a "encyclopedic discourse"(Over the life of the colonized, their cultural specificities), exposing masterpieces to legitimize colonization and the...

09 Jan 2015
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Boredom: Is there a cure?

Case study - 5 pages - Psychology

Ask yourself this question which is essential when we know that we will be interested in the school boredom. Indeed, many people believe that it is possible that the school is no longer boring. But can it really cure boredom? The authors believe that a cure boredom admits outnumber those who...

09 Jan 2015
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The Republic, Community, Privatization

Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies

We must first clarify that it is not a question of opposing a multicultural society to a "monocultural" society. Our society is multicultural, and is a long time. She characterizes not only France since the 30 boom. We have always had several cultures cohabiting in our territory. The problem is...

09 Jan 2015
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Beowulf Heroic Code

Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies

Holt & Tom (26) claim that one of the main critical agreements is that Beowulf is a heroic poem from which there is the emergence of the great Geatish warrior as an embodiment of the Germanic heroism characteristics. Beowulf is always on toes to pull out extraordinary courage and strength in the...

08 Jan 2015
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Connotations associated with boredom

Case study - 13 pages - Educational studies

If boredom has a rather negative connotation is that a priority the most general sense, boredom is to feel the pain of absence. Boredom is a dismal state of life. The trouble is lack of beauty. Ugliness is evidence of boredom [Nahum-Cluster, 1995]. The subject bored does not feel "brilliant"....

08 Jan 2015
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Boredom : Case study

Case study - 10 pages - Educational studies

As "the school boredom" does not exist as such, it seems worthwhile to explore other fields of knowledge, philosophy, literature, psychology to try to learn more about the concept. Indeed, if "the school boredom" was never defined, boredom, he has inspired many developments. It will obviously out...

08 Jan 2015
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Social boredom

Case study - 7 pages - Educational studies

We did not mind in the same way in a classroom, and a Sunday rainy afternoon. However, it can be noted some similarities to what V. Nahum-Cluster [1995, p. 34] calls "the ordinary social nuisance" and refers to the following performances: "ordinary social boredom makes us think so loose, the...