Consult more than 15565 documents with no limitation. Our subscription options

Administration, economy & politics

Filter by:

Filter by:
 
See all documents

2972 results

10 Aug 2009
doc

Rise of the corporate state

Case study - 7 pages - Economy general

Our history has been marked by intense and often violent class struggles, and the government has played a partisan role in these conflicts, mostly on the side of big business. In 1845 in New York, Baltimore, New Orleans, St. Louis and other urban areas, the richest 1% owned the biggest share of...

10 Aug 2009
doc

Class and power in America

Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education

Most Americans don't like the idea that there might be social classes. Classes imply that people have relatively fixed stations in life. Even more, Americans tend to deny that classes might be rooted in wealth and occupational roles. They talk about social class, but with euphemisms like...

31 Jul 2009
doc

Progressivism

Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education

Progressivism, the era between 1900 and 1920, is described by historians Arthur Link and Richard McCormick as “the way in which a whole generation of Americans defined themselves politically and responded to the nations problems at the turn of the century.” These two historians believe...

31 Jul 2009
doc

Classroom hegemony

Thesis - 3 pages - Political science

As students, children of yesterday and today are being brought up to believe the United States is a “Democracy”, and that we are a pluralistic society. We were taught the “working class” had a say-so in elections and that power was widely distributed. This, however, is a myth....

30 Jul 2009
doc

Critical race theory and the hidden curriculum: Social works implications for education

Thesis - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education

Throughout the Philadelphia transit system stations there is a notable repetition of an advertisement for McDonald's 365Black campaign. A photo of various African American franchise owners is captioned by a phrase to the effect, “This Neighborhood is Our Business”. Within this image,...

30 Jul 2009
doc

Soviet and Chinese influence in the Vietnam conflict

Thesis - 4 pages - International relations

The American invasion of Vietnam on March 8 1965 and the developments occurring in its aftermath wielded a serious impact on global geopolitical events in an era of ideological bi-polarity. Indeed, the war waged in Indochina throughout the 1960's captured the planets attention as it became...

30 Jul 2009
doc

The role of multinationals and the environment

Thesis - 4 pages - Ecology & environment

A traditional corporation that operates within the bounds of a sovereign area is required to comply with the legal and social institutions of that particular area. In the case of multinational corporations however, the rules are slightly different. This is, in part, because the same economic and...

30 Jul 2009
doc

Pre-marital sex in contemporary society

Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education

The concept of premarital sex is one of many tensions and contradictions in our society today. Indeed, preliminary research would have one conclude that a dichotomy exists between those liberal minded individuals who advocate promiscuity and those more traditional minds of theology who strongly...

30 Jul 2009
doc

Mass media and the influence of religion on American foreign policy

Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education

The proverbial “man from mars” suddenly plunged onto the American continent would be amazed and confused at the spectacle before him. He would soon discover that in the world's most perceived secularized society it is not uncommon to justify national interests with religious undertones...

30 Jul 2009
doc

Mandatory mediation - The issue

Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education

When matters of litigation are directed by the court to be done outside of the traditional court environment the parties involved are typically already in a conflict-intense claiming process. In such an atmosphere it is not surprising that each party places great weight on the outcome of the...

29 Jul 2009
doc

Calgary: A case study in residential development

Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education

Although the Canadian city of Calgary has traditionally been an affordable place to live, substantial economic and population growth has resulted in an over extended demand on real estate. As a result, house prices in Calgary have increased significantly in recent years (Calgary Real Estate...

29 Jul 2009
doc

Women for ballots: Exploring female under-representation in politics

Thesis - 5 pages - Political science

In spite of the tremendous political advances made by women in the Western world, clear evidence demonstrates that their participation in politics does not equal that represented by men. While women make up a little over half of the total population of Canada (51.04%), they are in many ways...

29 Jul 2009
doc

The environmental impact of aquaculture operations

Thesis - 5 pages - Ecology & environment

Human cultivation has produced habitats specialized for artificially spawning and nurturing aquatic animals and plants in fresh and marine waters. By assisting to meet the market demand for seafood consumption, aqua cultural operations have yielded clear and significant financial advantages,...

29 Jul 2009
doc

Sending messages: The telegraph and the convenience of modern communication

Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education

On the night of Sunday, 14 April, 1912, at 23:40, the HMS Titanic collided with a submerged iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean four hundred miles south of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Within three hours, the ship would sink and be recalled as the most celebrated maritime disaster prior to the...

29 Jul 2009
doc

Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario: Economic development in the 21st Century

Thesis - 5 pages - Economy general

Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, is located on the St. Marys River in Ontario, Canada, across from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, in the United States [Figure 1]. With a population of 74,945 [Statistics Canada, 2009], it is the third largest city in Northern Ontario after Sudbury and Thunder Bay....

29 Jul 2009
doc

Satisfying demand: W. S. Jevons and the law of diminishing marginal utility

Thesis - 5 pages - Economy general

W. S. Jevons' The Theory of Political Economy marks the shift from classical to the development of neo-classical economic theory in the nineteenth century. Classical political economy originated in the eighteenth century as an expansion of moral philosophy, uniting observation of facts with...

29 Jul 2009
doc

Liberating bondage: Slavery and emancipation in the Caribbean

Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education

Slavery in the British Caribbean was closely connected to the agricultural cultivation of sugar-cane and cotton crops in which Africans were imported to work the land in order that the goods could be exported to Europe thereby providing the plantation-owners a net return on their investment. In...

29 Jul 2009
doc

Keynesian economics: The transition to the Washington consensus

Thesis - 5 pages - Economy general

Recent political events concerning the international economic downturn have revived the discussion of Keynesian economic theory due to the apparent failure of free market neo-liberalism. On 26 September, 2008, French President Nicolas Sarkozy remarked that “we must rethink the financial...

29 Jul 2009
doc

Highway 407: Public to private transition

Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education

Alterations to travel flow resulting from urban decentralization is the effect of the increasing size of the city and its level of urbanization, and it reduces traffic volumes between origins and the central destination thereby raising volumes to other destinations. This lowers radial corridor...

29 Jul 2009
doc

Democratic transition

Thesis - 5 pages - Political science

On 9 March, 2009, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reported that “China will never adopt Western-style democracy with a multi-party system,” referring to comments made by Parliament chief Wu Banggou that “Communist party leadership should be strengthened and ‘the...

29 Jul 2009
doc

Culture and global conflict

Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education

The global recession not only impacts Western and developed countries, but its effects are also applicable to those from the Third World. On 2 April, 2009, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown declared an end to the “Washington consensus” at the G-20 Conference in London. Since the...

29 Jul 2009
doc

Language and reality

Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education

It is common cynical knowledge that in this world of spin, our perceptions of reality cannot possibly be divorced from the language it is presented in. But the question remains as to whether language creates or distorts reality. At the crux of the issue is really our definition of...

29 Jul 2009
doc

American Idle (Idol)

Essay - 15 pages - Social, moral & civic education

Love it or hate it, American Idol has become a seemingly immortal fixture in American culture. Pouring into our homes through high definition television on at least two nights a week, the show is more present in family life than your average workaholic, deadbeat dad. Of course the success of the...

29 Jul 2009
doc

Women's identity: How do you find it when the world claims you were born with it?

Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education

Women in theatre are always up or down, the virgin or the whore, over-run with emotions or a stone cold bitch. There is rarely a happy medium for women on the stage. But there is an in-between. There is a middle ground between being an extreme, and being a bore. Despite the fact that every woman...

28 Jul 2009
doc

Etica Moderno ed Il Principe - Modern ethics and the prince

Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education

Practices that are deceitful and cunning, in the interests of retaining power, have been dubbed “Machiavellian”, no doubt for Machiavelli's political treatise The Prince. To many, this short book is a canon of all things unethical; to be called “Machiavellian” is generally...

28 Jul 2009
doc

Human water consumption and utilization

Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education

The history of the relationship between people and water is a long and complex one. The necessity for water to sustain life has driven people to do many things: relocate to where the water is, come up with technological innovations to relocate the water to where they are, use it as a source of...

28 Jul 2009
doc

Gender imbalance and rural families: China's growing problem

Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education

Post-World War II China produced a large number of babies as a part of the baby boomer generation. As a result, the most heavily populated country in the world experienced an exponential growth in their population unlike any other in the world. Because of the fear of depleting their already...

28 Jul 2009
doc

Merits of attention in social situations: An interdisciplinary study in dominance and power

Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education

As an essential part of everyday life, conversations may often seem simple and one dimensional: one person speaks, all others listen. Upon further dissection, conversations involve many processes: information exchange, information processing, language and more. While attentiveness is just one...

28 Jul 2009
doc

The attachment between college students and their pets at home

Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education

Many first year college students under go the shock that it is to leave a pet at home. Pets are considered attachment figures. The purpose of this study is to find the relationship between college students away from home and their pets and how the relationship strain affects the college students'...

28 Jul 2009
doc

Greenpeace: Anti-corporate watchdogs

Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education

Chuck Palahniuk's 1996 novella Fight Club narrates the experience of adult men disaffected by modern consumer culture who form underground boxing clubs before developing them into clandestine social terrorist groups aimed at destroying hyper-capitalist culture. Read as a critique on the...