Disability: Whose rights are right?
Thesis - 4 pages - Political science
The Fourteenth Amendment to The Constitution of the United States guarantees all citizens equal rights and our nation's song talks about a land where we are free. Yet, unless equal means having no access into most public buildings and activities, or even worse left, by fearful relatives, to rot...
Men and women: A comparison
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The lack of equality between spouses does not foster romantic love but rather deterioration of a relationship. Modern relationships are based on the formation of romantic love which dictates three requirements including equality between man and woman. Marriages where inequality is...
Being black in France and in the United States : a comparison
Essay - 18 pages - Social, moral & civic education
"Penser et agir par nous-mêmes et pour nous-mêmes, en Nègres..., accéder à la modernité sans piétiner notre authenticité". That is how the famous thinker of the "Négritude", Leopold Sendar Senghor, described the challenge that fell on black people in the whole world at the dawn of the 21st...
What are the common classical liberal assumptions about human rights and how are they criticized by Proudhon, Marx, Engels, and Bebel?
Essay - 3 pages - Economy general
The United States declaration of rights proclaims three main rights: right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. They are perceived as intrinsic to human beings. These principles were built in opposition to the monarchy and were supposed to ensure the people their rights, in the sense of...
Women's Rights are Human Rights: An overview
Thesis - 5 pages - Constitutional law
Women make up 70% of the world's poor population and 65% of the world's illiterate. On average, women are still paid, 65 cents to every dollar earned by men in the Western countries. Women form a marginalized group, and these statistics only paint a fraction of the picture. Still, women...
Cultural question of wage discrepancies between professional women and men
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Women earn, on average, 20% less than what men earn in North America. It was not until 1920, across North America, that women were given the right to vote. Today, more women than men are enrolled in professional post degree programs in Canada and the United States. Today, women comprise 46% of...
Question of wage discrepancies between professional women and men
Essay - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Women earn, on average, 20% less than what men earn in western nations. It was not until 1920, across North America, that women were given the right to vote. Today, more women than men are enrolled in professional, post degree programs in Canada and the United States. Today, women comprise 46% of...
Team Effectiveness - How can it be achieved? An analysis of the team attributes that could contribute to team effectiveness
Tutorials/exercises - 4 pages - Management
Theory holds that working together brings better results than working alone. Team structures often account for organizational success in the contemporary corporate environment. Modern organizations favor team structures and teamwork viewing them as key elements for organizational success. This...
Examining Social Justice, Opportunity Disparities, and Policy Interventions on the ethical implications of income within free markets
Essay - 5 pages - Economy general
The problem of internal income inequality within the market system is very complex, urgent, and problematic regarding the ethics of the functioning of such an economy, raising the issue of social justice and equal opportunities in the U.S.A. The necessity of free markets that guarantee economic...
How canadians see multiculturalism
Essay - 24 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Canada is described as a multicultural society whereby different ethnic groups live together and try to respect their different cultural background. Canadian ethnic mosaic includes, in addition to the founding French and British groups, a large number of German, Chinese, Black, Dutch, Italian and...
The civil rights movement - From counters to subs
Essay - 7 pages - Modern history
The Emancipation Proclamation abolished slavery (speech by Lincoln Sept.23nd 1862 ? 13th amendment in 1865); the 14th amendment declared everyone equal and the 15th gave the right to vote provided some very restrictive conditions were met. Between the Civil War and the 50's, however, the South...
Examining the Positive and Negative Aspects of Affirmative Action
Case study - 4 pages - Political science
When one examines even the earliest hunter gatherer societies it becomes evident that women have always worked alongside men. Yet as societies began to progress away from the hunter gatherer lifestyle, women's work started to become less recognized despite its obvious importance. As time moved on...
Development economics - Sharecropping
Essay - 6 pages - Economy general
In sharecropping contracts with cost sharing, why is the cost share borne by the tenant equal to the output share accruing to him? Sharecropping is an arrangement or system of farming, prevalent in many Less Developed Countries in which a tenant works on land which he does not own, giving the...
How does progress affect our modern societies? Does it have positive or negative effects?
Essay - 1 pages - Sociology & social sciences
I'm going to deal with the notion of the idea of progress. First, I'd like to define the notion. Progress can be linked to an improvement in the technical and scientific fields. In the social field, it refers to a betterment of life's conditions. Particularly, social progress means...
Is there a French Affirmative Action Policy?
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
Affirmative action was born in the United States. It was originally designed to favour Black people, whose ancestors where slaves. Then, such programs extended to other underprivileged categories of the population: the disabled, the women, the Latinos. The first to use the phrase...
Affirmative action
Thesis - 7 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In the dictionary, an affirmative Action is said to be an active effort to improve the employment or educational opportunities of members of minority groups or women. Affirmative action has been the subject of increasing debate and tension in American society. It is an attempt by the United...
Liberalism: What are the main concepts of liberalism?
Essay - 4 pages - Philosophy
Liberalism is a philosophy, or political movement that has, for an aim, the development of individual freedom. Since the concept of freedom evolved over time, liberalism evolved as well. However, some core assumptions never changed. First, let us consider how all the core concepts of liberalism...
How does education determine people's life chances?
Thesis - 6 pages - Educational studies
In order to answer the question, "How does education determine people's life chances?"… I am going to look at education in the sense of learning opportunities provided by the state and concentrate on issues of social class, race and gender. Life chances is a very vague phrase which could...
Plato as a proto-feminist: Tendencies towards the development of feminist thought
Thesis - 6 pages - Literature
The idea of Plato's Republic being one of the true first pro-feminist arguments seems to have some steam in modern times. However, there seems to be major flaws with these theories. The fact that modern feminism is not grounded in Platonic feminism is perhaps the most striking issue. For, if...
E-Horoscope
Dissertation - 43 pages - Computer science
First, a horoscope is an astrological map of the heavens keyed to the time and place of a specific birth. It is a kind of a map that appears as a two dimensional chart. It shows positions of the Sun, the Moon, and planets at the precise moment of your birth. The earth moves from west to east &...
If you were given a chance to create an ideal society, what would it be?
Essay - 2 pages - Philosophy
It always seems dangerous to talk about an 'ideal society' because this is exactly what all the totalitarian and authoritarian regimes have been looking for. It has also been the ultimate purpose of all politics since Antiquity and one of the biggest dream of humankind. First of all, an...
Gender discrimination in the workplace
Thesis - 5 pages - Human resources
Even today, there is discrimination between men and women in the workplace. The salary for a man and a woman holding the same station is not the same. Women find it harder to reach senior positions in the organization. Since 1967, the participation rate of women in the professional field has...
Monetary Policy: Efficient Markets Hypothesis
Case study - 15 pages - Economy general
The efficient markets hypothesis does not constitute a good approximation to reality, and is often violated to a substantial degree in financial markets. The efficient markets hypothesis states that the price of every stock equals the value of the stock, so no stock is a better buy than any...
A clash of civilizations in France?
Case study - 10 pages - Political science
Huntington's influence in international relations (Graham 2004) necessitates a deconstruction of his, and question whether it is still applicable today. However, it is essential to define Huntington's civilization: the “...highest cultural grouping of people and the broadest level of...
The Dissenting Opinion of Justice Sotomayor in Relation to the case of Brown v. Board of Education
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Racial Discrimination is a heavy matter that has affected America since its conception until the present day. Historical battles have been fought and the country has lost many of its admirable and noble leaders starting with our very own founding father Abraham Lincoln and the likes Martin Luther...
Civil rights movement in America
Case study - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Despite the stop of slavery in the United States at the end of the 19th century, African Americans were still subjected to regular discrimination, were forced to use separate schools and public utilities from the better-quality ones of the whites, and they could not fully exercise their voting...
What are the main milestones in the emergence of the Palestinian problem and the Arab-Israeli conflict? - published: 12/01/2009
Thesis - 5 pages - International relations
“In a higher phase of communist society ... after labour has become not only a means of life but life's prime want ... only then can ... society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability to each according to his needs!” (‘Critique of the Gotha Programme', p. 569)....
Case Study: Gazprom
Case study - 14 pages - Business strategy
Gazprom believes that its people are the reason that the company is being so successful. “There would be no revenues without our people” as Anne Sheen, the Human Resources Manager said. There are already 80 people at the moment, from the two who started the company seven years ago, the...
The rise of feminism
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Organized efforts by women to achieve greater rights occurred in two major waves. The first wave began around the mid-19th century, when women in the United States and elsewhere campaigned to gain suffrage-that is, the right to vote. This wave lasted until the 1920s, when several countries...
Anthropological Analysis of an Egalitarian Society (The Lahu people)
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Until recently, according to an innumerable amount of anthropologists and feminists, a gender egalitarian society was simply a utopian ideal (Du, 1-6). It was a concept unattainable to any individual society unless certain concessions were made, such as the view that women and men have...
