Vegetarian and vegan: Living without meat
Thesis - 24 pages - Medical studies
Being vegetarian or vegan is nothing extraordinary, what is difficult is to take the step to have the energy, strength of character to stand out from the current majority and fulfill the daily difficulties associated with their choice. The difficulties are not, contrary to what many may think of...
Alienation in characters and in ourselves
Thesis - 4 pages - Journalism
Human beings are by nature social creatures. We need to be raised by others, bred by other, and also to live with others. More than one short story this semester dealt with a theme that is the opposite of community- alienation. In the three short stories “Cathedral,” “The Man...
Analyse of Chinese cultural system, its implications for cross-cultural management and the French business people who want to deal with Chinese counterparts
Essay - 17 pages - Economy general
We naturally view the world from our own perspective and critically analyze that is different. Anything does not correspond to our perspective looks "abnormal", "inferior" or we don't feel comfortable or we are "afraid". But most perspectives are "normal" and respectable. People just have...
"Flying Carpet", Steven Millhauser - "flying up to the sky"
Book review - 4 pages - Literature
Steven Millhauser is a writer of realist fiction. However, his work cannot be limited by labeling it only realistic. Another dimension is added to his short stories. They are full of interpretations. In Flying Carpet, though the story seems to be quite casual, even banal - a child trying to reach...
Study of international communications strategy of Dove
Case study - 8 pages - Management
Dove is a brand of cosmetics and is now part of the Unilever group. The trademark logo of this company is a dove, whose stylized color often varies according to the advertising campaigns. The brand communicates significantly through the media especially establishes a close relationship with some...
Conflict management
Case study - 8 pages - Human resources
We are confronted daily with situations of conflict. Indeed, tensions arise in the workplace as well as within the family. These disagreements often are due to more secret reasons and not conscious and it is sometimes difficult to terminate. After identifying the origins of conflicts, we will...
Evaluating Allan Gibbard's views on morality and objectivity in his essay 'Moral Judgment'
Essay - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In this paper, I wish to critically evaluate the views of Allan Gibbard related to morality and objectivity, found in his essay 'Moral Judgment and the Acceptance of Norms', and his book 'Wise Choices, Apt Feelings'. In these readings, Gibbard tackles many issues, but I...
Invisible Cities
Essay - 6 pages - Literature
Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities is written in such a way that while reading, we begin to see that there are two opposing outlooks which the main characters, Marco Polo and Kublai Khan, take when observing or imagining a city. It is very interesting to see how initially these two opposing...
If on a Winters Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Book review - 6 pages - Literature
The story If On A Winter's Night a Traveler is about the immersion of a reader within a story and his determination to go on with the plot and discover what happens. This is foiled within this story when the Reader constantly encounters with books that suddenly break off and have no ending. What...
The connection between Blanche DuBois and Sex
Case study - 4 pages - Literature
There is no doubt when it comes to Blanche Dubois' state of mind. On the first look she seems fragile, lost, and of course delusional. But on a further examination it becomes apparent that there is more than what meets the eye. To put it aptly, Blanche Dubois is insecure, and wants to feel needed...
Claireece Precious Jones
Case study - 2 pages - Philosophy
In Sapphire's Push, the reader is immediately pulled into the harsh life of Claireece “Precious” Jones, a sixteen year old girl who lives in an abusive household with her two children, suffering rape and incest by her father as well as sexual and physical abuse from her mother....
Opposing viewpoints: Autism is a serious public health crisis
Case study - 9 pages - Educational studies
According to Anne McElroy Dachel, Autism is now becoming an epidemic because of the increase of cases now being reported as compared to 20 years ago. Dachel, I feel is biased because her child was diagnosed with Autism almost 20 years ago and at the time of his diagnosis not much was known about...
Mythological stories
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
Have you ever heard of those mythological stories about love? I had long heard of one hour of ethics, and has since become my guiding light through life. Recently, I visited a friend of her ... The story says that in the beginning God, when he created man, he created a soul, not the body. But it...
Concert review
Case study - 2 pages - Arts and art history
The stage was opened by the first violin choir. Flutes were followed by trumpet. They walked in majestically; they paused little the flute followed and then trumpet. The band began to jump in slowly. As they began again slowly, the instruments started to warm up. This gradually created a happy...
Intuition Reliability
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Intuition is a source of confusion for most people, this is because we chose to follow it, believe it, and it ends up leading us the wrong way. At other times, one may be right based solely on following their intuition. Safe to say, intuitional judgment may work in or against our favor. Intuition...
An Analysis on the poem "How Old is my heart, how old?" by Christopher John Brennan
Case study - 4 pages - Literature
This poem basically is about a life and death. It is an old man who reflects and does introspection of his life when he was young. It seems that he regrets of what he had done in his youth. He wonders whether he had lived his life properly or not. Moreover, it seems that he was not satisfied with...
Poetry Explication Analysis
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
The author of the poem is Edna St. Vincent Millay born in Maine a small town in the United States. The Sonnet is titled “What lips my lips have kissed”. The poem narrates of various loves reaching an end and the emotional defeat associated to the loss. The poem is a sonnet as it...
Single-System Research Design
Case study - 9 pages - Educational studies
ABA design of the single-system design was applied on AM, an SSRD participant who is suffering from Multiple Sclerosis (MS). AM is experiencing depression after he was diagnosed with the problem. Multiple Sclerosis is an immune related disease that affects the central nervous system caused by...
The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dream - Nasdijj, Timothy Patrick Barru (2020)
Book review - 6 pages - Literature
The Blood Runs like a River Through My Dreams (2000) is the memoir of a man, Nasdiij (the author) who writes about his life and feelings. Being of mixed Caucasian and Navajo decent, Nasdijj feels like he does not belong to any of those groups. Nasdijj has a hard life, his dad beat him, his...
Managing teams - What have you learned about yourself and team management?
Tutorials/exercises - 9 pages - Management
During these different lessons and the activities we carried out, I discovered a side of myself that surprised me a lot: my ability to encourage collaboration and create a work environment conducive to constructive exchanges. This is a skill that was not so obvious to me before finding myself in...
The conflict in Northern Ireland
Essay - 8 pages - Political science
Nowadays, the country or province of Northern Ireland is a peaceful part of Europe, and nobody coming to visit Belfast could even imagine that one of the most recent conflicts in Europe - apparently - ended there only two decades ago - even if, of course, the memories of the elder remain. After...
Cake, Sarah Rose Etter (2008) - The isotopies
Book review - 6 pages - Literature
"Cake", written in 2008 by Sarah Rose Etter, tells the story of a husband and his wife who share a peculiar routine every two weeks on Friday nights: the husband watches his wife eat a whole cake on her own, and it gives him a lot of pleasure. This short story can be divided into three distinct...
Research Paper on Lab Rotation
Case study - 7 pages - Educational studies
For a long time, the medial scientists have tussled with the baffling incidence of many people who feel phantom limb pain in post-amputation with others not experiencing such pain. Although they have unearthed that phantom limb pain severity varies, from mild to extreme pain. In this far, the...
Language and Cultural Identity
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Language is the use of symbols (words) to communicate. It is the most-important cultural aspect and every culture in the world communicates with their native language (Senft, 12). Language is also a tool used by archeologist to examine past activates and provide clues about cultural and social...
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"....
Death and fear
Case study - 7 pages - Educational studies
When trying to understand the meaning of death and the fear that people feel about it, you can understand some of the psychological changes that the individual may come to feel an intensive care unit. This topic will address the theme of death by two authors: Kovács and Feifel. In his work on...
The ICU patient - psychological aspects
Case study - 10 pages - Biology
The ICU sets, for their intrinsic characteristics in an environment that requires great mental and emotional adjustments of the patient. It is an unknown and threatening environment, and coincide with the disease and its likely physical discomfort, and fear the possibility of death that some...
Working with Pain - Psychology
Case study - 3 pages - Psychology
Emotional pain is a feeling of vulnerability and loss in the event of a major crisis in one's life. In its gamut, it includes a feeling of losing a part of oneself, loss of control and brokenness. Emotional pain is considered a consequence of living in a complicated world resulting...
How to use rumours as a marketing tool?
Dissertation - 68 pages - Services marketing
Today, advertising a new product is totally different than it was 10 years ago. For years, consumers have been flooded by TV, radio, newspaper ads, posters and fliers and more recently, internet spam, pop ups, banners, etc. The frequency of advertising is so high that most consumers often do not...
Gender, sexuality and politics: masculinity
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
“Somehow we need to be able to acknowledge the power that men have in society without thereby feeding a myth that all men feel powerful in their individual lives…we also have to recognize our inherited sense of superiority in relation to women…” (Seidler, 1997, p.51-53).
