Pride of Baghdad: Humans and lions
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Brian Vaughan's Pride of Baghdad tells the story of a pride of lions, escaped from the Baghdad zoo, and the horrors of the humans' war they are suddenly thrown into the middle of. Vaughan uses anthropomorphism to tell the story: each lion has a distinct personality, as do the other animals they...
Bonobo sex: A review approach
Case study - 9 pages - Educational studies
Primates of the Pan genus belonging to the Hominidae family in the haplorhines that fall under Pan paniscus are commonly known as bonobos, a species that is commonly compared with chimpanzees. Their geographic distribution consists of lowland rainforests and grassland habitats located primarily...
A fatal attraction: Animal performance in Kafka
Case study - 8 pages - Educational studies
A careful study of some of Franz Kafka's most well-known creatures, and an exploration into the fantastical worlds in which they inhabit, will serve to open up an understanding of them that departs from a human-based appraisal. The pieces up for examination indispensably include his famous...
Deforestation in Indonesia
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Deforestation in Indonesia has quite a long history and is currently of major national concern. Recent estimates identify the rate of deforestation in Indonesia at between 1.6 million and 2.5 million hectares per year. (Nawir et al 2007 pg 16) While this deforestation is linked to the industries...
Archaeologies of Gender
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
Anthropology is a field which is constantly evolving and which constantly needs to be checked for proper procedure, language, interpretation, and ethics. In Socio/cultural Anthropology, essays are frequently written to aid anthropologists in remaining neutral and not reporting a biased...
Developmental stages and the development of abstract thinking
Case study - 5 pages - Psychology
In the life time of this author, they have witnessed personally the developmental stages in their life. Luckily, the author is now a student of psychology and understands and can describe their developmental history using physical/cognitive and psycho social examples in their life stages. These...
Corporate governance and ethical responsibility research paper
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
One of the top internal stakeholders within a hospital would have to be the actual doctors that run the day to day life of the patients. They make the ultimate decisions in split seconds that can save or lose the life of a patient. Doctors do make a lot of money but they can also be careless if...
Compare and contrast essay: Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket, two views on the Vietnam war
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
The First and mostly the Second World Wars have been often supported by Hollywood, which produced many propaganda movies. For instance even the classic Casablanca by Michael Curtiz had been shot in order to glorify the French Resistance and the US Army. But during the 1970s, we can observe a real...
Era to Era: The NBA's evolutionary debate
Case study - 7 pages - Sports
Is it a basketball blasphemy to think that Kobe Bryant or LeBron James are better than Michael Jordan? Then again, what makes it so that Jordan is untouchable? Of course one cannot doubt his undeniable athletic ability and unparalleled knowledge of the game of basketball. Certainly the era he...
Using the Socio-Ecological method to combat eating disorders
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Community health utilizes the ties between members of varied communities to change behaviors that lead to premature morbidity or mortality. We can use populations to analyze risk factors for those with a certain set of characteristics, but the real goal is to employ the bonds of the community to...
What factors account for the long-lasting neglect of Women in Public Welfare Systems?
Case study - 8 pages - Educational studies
Today, in Britain's full-time workforce, there is an average 16.4 gap between women and men in their hourly rates of pay . Although it varies across work sectors, the most striking is the 55 gap in the finance sector. In total 64% of the lowest paid workers are women . ‘A' 40 years on...
Describe the influx of foreign-labor migrants to Europe and the consequences for the welfare state in Western Europe
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
In Europe, the second half of the 20th century was a period of major change in all aspects of social life. It was marked by economic, social and demographic changes. Migration movements since 1945 have had an especially marked effect, both on the existing population and on newcomers, which...
Appeals of a Memory
Case study - 5 pages - Psychology
It's in every speech at the podium, every twist of the tongue, and every presentation we've ever done. Investor relations meetings, political campaigns, and weekly performance reviews. It's a part of every society that's ever risen to power since its inception, and is so deeply ingrained with the...
The Copts: more Christian than Egyptian?
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
While it is true that the Middle East is an incredibly diverse area as far as religion is concerned, the Copts represent within Egypt a particular case. Indeed, although today they only represent 10% of the population , Christians claim themselves descendants of the people of ancient Egypt, and...
The importance of Non-State Actors- A Realists Perspective
Case study - 8 pages - Educational studies
Non-state actors, do they matter? To answer this question one must first become familiar with the traditional, historical, and future trends and issues of global politics. Upon analyzing these aspects, one of the most remarkable changes occurring as a result of the dynamics involved in the...
A case study of Marilyn Monroe
Case study - 15 pages - Psychology
Most people have heard of late actress and Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe(1926-1962). Many are aware that she endured a tragic life; however, just as many are unaware of exactly how tragic it was. To briefly summarize, she was born as an unwanted, illegitimate child to a mentally ill mother and a...
Psychology research proposal
Case study - 11 pages - Psychology
The purpose of the proposed study is to determine how much of an influence being afflicted with a physical disability during childhood has on the quality of life and ability to be resilient in adulthood. Specifically, this study will focus mainly on adults who have been physically disabled since...
Generalized anxiety disorder
Case study - 9 pages - Psychology
Anxiety disorders are one of the most complex psychological disorders in existence and also one of the least understood, etiologically. It is extremely important to understand anxiety disorders from an etiologically genetic standpoint, because it often explains why those people who experience the...
Gaps in research knowledge
Case study - 9 pages - Psychology
Finkelhor, D. (2004) discovered several gaps in the research knowledge associated with the history of childhood sexual abuse. The authors affirm that the plethora of research that is currently available on adult survivors of CSA is valuable; however, they cite some weaknesses in some of those...
The good, the bad, and the ugly: Health care comparisons of three nations
Case study - 8 pages - Educational studies
Out of the three nations I chose to examine, Europe proved to have the best and most cost effective health care overall. While studying Europe, I mostly analyzed the UK's system, though I can say that most - if not, all - of the health care in other countries throughout Western Europe are...
Crohn's disease and its psychosocial implications
Case study - 24 pages - Psychology
Crohn's Disease is an autoimmune disorder that falls under a category of diseases known as Inflammatory Bowel Disease (sometimes referred to as Inflammatory Bowel Syndrome; Hanauer, S. B., 1996). An autoimmune disease is one in which a person's body determines its own cells and tissues to be...
Paranoid Schizophrenia
Case study - 16 pages - Psychology
Paranoid schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder that encapsulates a myriad of symptoms, including various states of psychosis and disorganized thought, speech, and behavior. Its etiology has not been ascertained, but evidence suggests a genetic role in its development. Those afflicted with...
The struggle with poverty
Case study - 8 pages - Educational studies
In today's society, poverty is not only a regional issue for the United States, but an issue for all countries. Many different variables factor into a country having a high poverty level, but one variable that needs to be addressed primarily is the educational dilemma. As there is a direct...
Globalization of Culture - published: 30/05/2012
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
Globalization has been known to benefit local communities through the creation of new opportunities, financial capital and culture. But it is even more famous for the detrimental effect that it has brought upon the world's poorest countries. This essay will be focusing on the examination of the...
Relational aggression
Case study - 12 pages - Psychology
Among modern children and adolescent peer relationships lies a subtle, but sinister variety of bullying that is becoming more prominent, especially among girls. It is called relational aggression and it is defined by “behaviors that inflict harm on others by manipulating their peer...
Report for French expatriates in Russia: Cultural differences and recommendations to succeed in business there
Case study - 10 pages - Educational studies
We are cross-cultural consultants and experts in Russia's business culture and we are going through this report to show how to successfully do business there. This report will facilitate the cultural integration of French expatriates in Russia and help them to succeed doing business there....
Why international agreements are necessary to protect environmental health and community health?
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
Environmental health refers to the elements present in the environment that affect and influence human public health. As established by the WHO Regional Office for Europe, the United Nations health agency, Environmental health refers to both direct pathological effect of different elements...
Anxiety
Case study - 8 pages - Educational studies
Anxiety disorders are one of the most complex psychological disorders in existence and also one of the least understood, etiologically. It is extremely important to understand anxiety disorders from an etiologically genetic standpoint, because it often explains why those people who experience the...
Buddhism
Tutorials/exercises - 4 pages - Educational studies
According to the Theravadan tradition of Buddhism, the woman violated two of the important five precepts of Buddhist ethics. By attempting suicide, she violated the first precept, which is to avoid taking life, including the life of oneself in addition to the third parajika in the Vinaya, which...
Examination of social inequality from a sociological perspective
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
The aim of this essay is to discuss the social inequality and other aspects of society from a sociological perspective. Inequalities in society have been the subject of numerous sociological studies. Various commentators from different ideological approaches have analyzed social inequality in...
