An inconvenient truth about an inconvenient truth
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Catastrophe! Disaster! The Apocalypse! These may not be the first ideas that come to mind when a person thinks of global warming, however these are the ideas many leading scientists and environmentalists would have everyone believe. The theory of global warming has been around for some time....
The role of education in national development
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
There are various diseases in the world today, which include the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Cancer, Gonorrhea, Syphilis, Poliomyelitis, Smallpox, Measles and others. The diseases are known by the damages they inflict on their victims. They are also curable using relevant drugs...
Multiculturalism in Canada
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Despite the ostensible commitment which Canada has made to multiculturalism via making it an official policy as well as in the sense that it has become enshrined as a Canadian value, Canada has nonetheless failed in an overall sense to bring these notions to fruition. This is highly problematic...
Changes in Toronto over the past ten years
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Toronto is known, the world over, as a haven for multiculturalism, a true ethnic and social melting pot. The city is often called the most ethnically diverse city in the world. While this remains a source of identification for the city, the face of this multiculturalism has visibly changed over...
Foreign direct investment (FDI) as an attractive option for companies
Thesis - 4 pages - Economy general
Companies choose to venture into international markets since they want to maximize returns for their shareholders. Entry in foreign markets could prove to be a risky proposition. Foreign direct investment has many benefits. It enables the parent company to establish its operations in foreign...
Has neo-functionalism become obsolete?
Thesis - 5 pages - Political science
Neo-functionalism, a theory of European integration, fell into disuse after events in the 1960s: ‘Neo-functionalism is frequently represented as a theory of European Union past with comparatively little to say to European Union studies present.' However, after the acceleration of the...
Globalization: Its impact on economies
Thesis - 7 pages - Economy general
Globalization has made the world smaller. Trade barriers have fallen yet the full effects of globalization are yet to be visible especially in the developing countries. Globalization has also increased the risk appetite which has resulted in financial meltdown in previous decades. With the...
Title: Impact of oil price rise on economy: A case study of Europe
Thesis - 3 pages - Economy general
The economies of Western Europe faced teething problems which was further aggravated by the price rise in oil in 1973. Europe, which experienced decline in economic growth throughout 1960s, had barely recovered when the oil price started to rise. The steps taken by government proved ineffective...
The U.S. economic crisis and possible solutions
Thesis - 10 pages - Economy general
The U.S. economic cycle was due to many factors that had roots for over a decade. Much of what has been seen was due to the high levels of confidence built over the years as a result of healthy and fast growing economy, and to the improper steps taken by many of the financial institutions as...
A study on the slowdown in the US real estates and its impact
Thesis - 6 pages - Economy general
Recession in US has affected the other countries also along with it. US is the leading trader with many countries. Hence if the us economy slows down it would ultimately affect the other countries also. To get in further details it's important to know the meaning of recession. Recession is the...
How Black Panthers party empowered the black community and the causes of its demise
Thesis - 5 pages - Political science
The topic I wish to know more about is the Black Panther Party's acts of empowerment in the Black community and what led the party to its demise. The emergence of the Black Panther Party began some 40 plus years ago, which makes it a part of the post-Civil Rights era, pertaining to contemporary...
Tea ceremony: A history of tea and the tea ceremony
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The history of tea began in the Pre-Classical period before 618 AD. Myth says that an emperor in ancient China named Shen Nung was the first individual to drink tea (The History of Tea 1). Shen Nung was an herbalist and scientist that required his drinking water to be boiled. This hygienic...
The problem of increasing tourism in Fulton, Missouri
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The main source of concern is increasing tourism in Fulton, Missouri. Mikhail Gorbachev's planned speech at the Winston Churchill Memorial at Westminster College in Fulton will officially bring an end to the Cold War. It will also be the anniversary of the 1946 Winston Churchill “Iron...
The credit crunch and its impact on the property market in the UK
Thesis - 8 pages - Economy general
The report provides an evaluation of the consequences of the credit crunch for property in UK. It demonstrates that the credit crunch is having a comprehensive impact on investment, development and occupational markets and due to effect of credit crunch on the wider economy the result for...
Food aid, distortion, and the WTO
Thesis - 14 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The first of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals is to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. Specifically, this goal aims to “halve the proportion of people who suffer from hunger. Yet, today 963 million people are hungry. To help fill the apparent void, the international...
Antidumping - The obstacle in free trade
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Many countries are hesitant to sign the draft agreement of World Trade Organization. There has been wide spread protests whenever the conference of World Trade Organization is held. Protests are carried out to demand tighter environmental standards for MNC's and developed countries but little...
Cross-culture aspects of play and childhood development models
Thesis - 8 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Piaget (1962) described play as imitating and practicing behaviors, oftentimes associated with symbolic . Play happens through the assimilation of facts, events or behaviors, or through the distortion of reality, in order to put reality back together. Sometimes child play involves the...
Teacher empathy and its impact on bullying in schools
Thesis - 23 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Bullying has been a difficult term to define, particularly before state legislatures began to define bullying in precise language for the purpose of law-making. Oftentimes, it was left up to teachers, or individual students, to express their own qualitative and subjective definition of the...
Understanding epidemiological transition
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The epidemiological transition, also referred to as the health and mortality transition in our text book, is the change from deaths occurring at young ages because of communicable diseases (or infectious diseases) to deaths occurring at old ages because of degenerative diseases (or noninfectious,...
Human rights report within Somalia
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The subject of human rights in the international system is still a relatively new phenomenon, but one that is in dire need of undivided attention. In specificity, the occurrence of human rights violations requires attention and solution. Although there are countless cases of equally disastrous...
Chinese politics through ages
Thesis - 8 pages - Political science
In recent years China has gained a lot of international attention due to its rapidly growing economy. China is now emerging as the leading world power of the 21st century due to its briskly growing economy. China is one of the oldest countries in the world, it is rich in both history and...
An overview of the African Americans
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The study of African Americans has been a prominent point of interest since the arrival of blacks in what was to become the United States. Since their arrival to America via the Atlantic Trade, blacks in America have been faced with incredible and often inconceivable challenges in every aspect...
Characteristics & performances of exports in India
Thesis - 9 pages - Economy general
India has registered outstanding growth performances in recent years. Its growth along with that of China has been anticipated to help sustain growth of global economy as economic prospects world over are not bright. Indian economy grew at more than 8% after 2003. India's trade has shown...
The French energy market
Thesis - 8 pages - Economy general
On July 2007 started the last step of the opening up of the energy market in France, i.e., of the electricity and gas markets. This process started in 1996 when the European Union decided to open up its market and liberalize it, in order to create one single market without monopoly. It was a big...
Business cycles in France
Thesis - 8 pages - Economy general
The INSEE released one of the most concerning figures about the French economic environment: the opinion of the households has never been so low since 1987. In fact, tightening credit conditions, higher oil and primary goods prices, and the American financial crisis are undermining the mood of...
France's view on the US President Bush
Thesis - 7 pages - Political science
He is known as an execrable communicator, with a crippled syntax, reputed for his multiple blunders which the French media are only too eager to report: At the time of his visit to Europe in June 2001, the press thus awaited Bush resolutely, attentive even to the minutest blunder that the...
Why a chewing gum dropped off on the floor constitutes a public nuisance? How could we solve this problem
Thesis - 14 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Ecology is today a very important subject in our lifestyle, in the context of sustainability. Pollution has become a scourge and we must find solutions to counter it, but there is one type that doesn't have real and durable solution: the one caused by chewing gum. Chewing gum is present on many...
Exporting products from United Kingdom to Russian market
Thesis - 5 pages - Economy general
We are a British company specialized in luxurious umbrellas. Our turnover was of £845,000 in 2007. Nowadays we export our products in all of Western Europe; our biggest customers are France and Italy. Our firm is now a big company and it is carrying on to growth. We wish to extend our market and...
Conditions of the labor market that encourage foreign investments in Central and Eastern Europe
Thesis - 9 pages - International relations
Today, a well known economic phenomenon is that the foreign investments in the Central and Eastern Europe have been flooded, since 1989. Amongst many other economic data, we could include that in 2003, 29 billions dollars were invested by foreign companies. This figure is not easy to achieve,...
Russia's security policy
Thesis - 6 pages - Political science
Russia's security policy is undeniably complex, a system of political, economic, and social networks that influence the identification of potential threats, and anticipates the steps necessary to strengthen the state's infrastructure. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has had the...
