To what extent could European culture, and more specifically German culture, be an element of resistance to the Walmart model in Germany?
Case study - 4 pages - Management
Walmart, a global "supermarket giant", is an American company created in 1962. In the late 1990s, this company was the second-largest producer in the world, behind the oil company ExxonMobil. However, from 1991 and under the pressure of shareholders, Walmart developed its activities...
Change: Factors contributing to an individual's resistance
Essay - 5 pages - Human resources
In an ever-changing world, it is inevitable to experience change in everyday life. Change may occur in diverse ways (either planned or unplanned). One's ability to adapt to change goes a long way in influencing the impact it creates on the individual and/or the organization. One change that keeps...
Anpo: Art X War: The Art of Resistance
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
This paper is set out to examine and explore the history of the Japanese culture and how it came to be used to display their resistance towards the Americans presence in Japan. The American presence had been brought about by the signing of Anpo between Japan and America after the end of...
How Ajax Minerals and Perrier dealt with various types of resistance workers and supervisors
Case study - 5 pages - Management
In the Ajax Minerals' case, the sources of resistance to change were the workers and supervisors. These employees would not be willing to follow any directions given by the management regarding the impending change. According to the case, supervisors and hourly workers were satisfied that...
OPEC's effective resistance to strong western powers
Case study - 3 pages - Political science
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was one of the first organizations of the developing world to effectively resist Western superpowers. Before OPEC, Western countries colonized developing nations and exploited their natural resources with little resistance from these...
The French resistance
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The resistance of the French people against their occupiers grew as the war dragged on and led to sheltering of the increasingly persecuted Jewish population. The Jewish people who fled from throughout Europe to France, had been trapped when France signed the armistice in 1940. The Third...
Resistance in Southern Europe
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Understanding resistance also means asking what constitutes an act of resistance in such regimes. Roseman in particular examines this issue. In "How We Built the Road...", she considers the ways in which Spanish Galicians reconstruct history on a local level (through folklore,...
Dorothy Day (Part III): Nonviolent resistance
Thesis - 5 pages - Literature
The Catholic Worker Movement founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin whose aim is to “live in accordance with the justice and charity of Jesus Christ.” As the name indicates, the Catholic Worker Movement was heavily influenced by Catholicism, yet not restricted to simple preaching of...
Exploring the dematerialization of the body: Gender roles in cyberspace - Imagination as resistance or global extensions of consumer capitalism
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
This is a research paper which will investigate the relationship between architectural space, i.e. the home, the work place, the gendered body, in relation to the cyber-body as utopian space or new mechanism of containment and surveillance and re-inscribing of the dominant capitalist ideology....
Should body mass or lean body mass be used to calculate and prescribe resistance loads for the wingate test?
Thesis - 7 pages - Medical studies
The purpose of this study was to determine whether assigned loads for the Wingate anaerobic cycle ergometer test (WAnT) test should be based on lean body mass (LBM) or body mass (BM) and to define optimal loads for eliciting maximal peak power output (PPO) which was used as the performance...
Emerging antibiotic resistance among the uropathogens
Essay - 6 pages - Business strategy
Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a frequently encountered condition seen in clinical practice. It is a broad term that encompasses asymptomatic bacteriuria and asymptomatic infection with microbial invasion and inflammation of urinary tract (Kunin, 1964) . While UTI affects patients of all ages...
Native Canadian education experience in early Canadian history: The industrial school and its legacy in the residential school - Considering oppression and resistance.
Thesis - 10 pages - Educational studies
This paper will explore Native education in British North America, focusing on the structural disadvantages which Native children faced in a society whose goal was assimilation of Native people to white, Christian values, at the expense of their own cultures and languages. This was a...
Morality in the Resistance: overview through "Your Name is Renee: Ruth Kapp Hartz's Story as a Hidden Child in Nazi-Occupied France", by Stacy Cretzmeyer
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
The 1940's will forever remain a significant period in French history. It was during this time that World War II occurred and Germany managed to take over three-fifths of mainland France. The remaining land became known as Vichy France. With such a strong a German presence and influence, even in...
Ambivalence and Photography: Resistance or Exchange in Edward Said's After the Last Sky
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
In his essay Picture Theory on the relationship between photograph and text, W.J.T. Mitchell refers to concepts he coins as the “rhetoric of resistance” and the “rhetoric of exchange and cooperation” (Mitchell, 41). The terms “rhetoric of resistance”...
How do the international conferences participate in resisting the globalization movement?
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
Globalization is a phenomenon that appeared in the early 20th century. It refers to an increase in the interdependence of the economies, societies, cultures and politics. Globalization has disrupted the face of the World since its apparition. Indeed, international relations are now dominated by...
The Depiction of Women's Struggles Against Patriarchal Power Structures in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments - Proposal
Dissertation - 6 pages - Literature
The document is an outline of a thesis about Margaret Atwood's depiction of women's struggles in her works. The project explores the depiction of women's struggles against patriarchal power structures in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and its sequel, The Testaments....
Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Uzbekistan
Essay - 3 pages - Medical studies
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis is an extremely threatening disease for an individual and a country to contract. TB patients in the Central Asia Region are ten times more likely to have MDR-TB than rest of the world (1). Uzbekistan especially should address their alarming rates of MDR-TB...
The European Union and its International Role - Towards a European Federation? (From the European Conference in The Hague to the Rome Treaties, 1948-1957)
Course material - 6 pages - Modern history
Already during the war, many Resistance groups asked themselves how to stop the cycle of recurring European wars. After 1945, many groups and associations suggested going back to the European ideas of the 20s, which included the concept of a European Union (Briand Plan of 1930). They...
Stakeholder Communication Plan
Case study - 3 pages - Communication
A consolidation of Northern Medical and Wellness Medical into a single firm, Northwell Medical, has positioned it at a crossroads where it could transform. Claudia Leung, Medichek's renowned CFO, is stuck with the responsibility of jointly developing a virtual medical products and services...
Change Management: the role of Human Resources
Dissertation - 8 pages - Human resources
With the significant potential for swift change within the modern business field, as technological innovations improve and consumer demands change, organizational managers occasionally make difficult choices to restructure. For individuals at ease with job responsibilities and their lives, and...
Case-Based Learning - Sepsis
Case study - 3 pages - Medical studies
A 34-year-old nursery schoolteacher at 34 weeks' gestation contacted her community midwife complaining of a sore throat, feeling shivery and achy skin to 'flu-like' symptoms. She also reported nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and generally feeling unwell. The midwife arranged for...
Insights and Strategies in Optimizing Organizational Management Dynamics
Case study - 6 pages - Management
Effective organizational management is critical in ensuring success in competitive business environments. This paper adopts three case studies critically analyzing their approach and concepts in organizational management. The three case studies presented above provide critical points in the...
The International Criminal Court and the Peace Process in Northern Uganda
Essay - 9 pages - International law
The Juba Peace Talks that started in July 2006 in Southern Sudan seem to be one of the best chances to bring an end to the 20-year-long raging conflict in the region of Northern Uganda. Known for its unbelievable atrocities, the war has by now caused the displacement of more than 1.7 million...
What can we do to resist beauty ideals?
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
Our bodies, and our ideas about the size and shape of our bodies, are shaped by both ourselves and our culture. How we view our bodies and what personal worth we ascribe to ourselves because of our bodies and the standard of perfection society sets for us is called the beauty ideal. This bar for...
Resist drug abuse
Thesis - 9 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Resist Drug: it is learned that often, young people and adolescents are introduced to drugs by friends or people they admire. In adolescence, the influence of peers is very strong. Thus, for "being in the loop" to be "cool", they commit acts that they would not have committed otherwise. Adults...
Jane Eyre and the struggle to reconcile societal expectations
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
In the Victorian era, the essential aspect of a woman's life revolved around her family's domestic sphere and the home she came from. Women from the Middle class were raised to be innocent and pure, sexually undemanding and tender and obedient and submissive. They were presented in this manner to...
World History, Volume 2: from 1400, Chapter 5: Foundations of the Atlantic World, The Atlantic Slave Trade - Kordas, Lynch, Nelson & Tatlock (2022) - Artistic Reflections and Socioeconomic Impacts of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Text commentary - 2 pages - Pre-modern history
The Atlantic Slave Trade, a pivotal yet dark chapter in human history, stands as a testament to the complex interplay of socioeconomic factors and human morality. Such a period that metamorphosed into the commoditization of human life had not only determined the economic landscapes of continents...
The similarities and differences in the development of labour movements in different parts of Canada
Dissertation - 5 pages - Micro-economy, job-unemployment
The labour history of Canada can be traced back several years to 1812 when Halifax formed a union for the tailors. Just four years later, the formation of labour unions was deterred by the Nova Scotian Union which passed the Anti-union Act. Such has been the trend in the Canadian labour movement....
The escape, manhunt, and capture: A population's test of resilience and Law Enforcement's tenacity
Presentation - 4 pages - Linguistics & languages
You will understand this title that we have chosen to describe in the most accurate way an event. Indeed, we will discuss a murderer who escaped from prison on August 31, 2023. The event happened in Chester County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. By escaping from the prison, he has created a...
The development and failure of the European system (1815-1945)
Course material - 7 pages - Modern history
There was a European system before the current European Union. Its roots went back to the 17th century and the Westphalian peace of 1648. It reached its maturity during the 19th century, after the Vienna Congress, and under the impression of 25 years of revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. It was...
