Selection of the Beach Bike Cruiser
Case study - 4 pages - Services marketing
The opening of the camping equipment company ‘Leustringue Verebleu Demamair' has been scheduled for late May. We were recruited by Christopher Mondamert for the marketing of the company website and related purchases.The following is the breakup for the purchase of bikes: 25 bikes each for...
Strategic Analysis of Michelin
Case study - 26 pages - Business strategy
The Michelin group is a global manufacturer of tires dimensioned on Euro, and headquartered in Paris. It is a multinational, whose head office is in Clermont-Ferrand in France. With 20% of the worldwide market, Michelin is the world leader in the tire industry. Its net sales in 2006 rose to 16.4...
The case study: "Garnier, take care of you" (2005)
Case study - 10 pages - Services marketing
Garnier is a French firm, owned for forty years by the L'Oreal Group, the market leader in the capillaries. Faced with fierce competition, its flagship brand Garnier Fructis saw their market share stagnate in a market that was already fragmented steeply. Two consequent threats pushed the...
"Strange fruit": Billie Holiday and the civil rights movement
Case study - 8 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Eleanor Fagan, better known as Billie Holiday, is one of the most prominent jazz vocalists of the 20th century. Among her most outstanding works is the song “Strange Fruit”, which took Billie Holiday from the realm of love songs and lighter entertainment to a status of symbol of...
The White Rose Movement
Case study - 5 pages - Political science
Most Americans never have and hopefully never will experience living under a totalitarian government, and therefore cannot imagine the difficulties and the severe consequences that resulted from opposition. It was impossible to speak openly because one never knew who might be Nazi spies or...
Reggae Music- Culture, tool for social change and communication
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
1960 commonly referred to as the sixties refers to the time denoting the complex interrelated cultural and political trends across the globe. It is referred to as the actual decade when decolonization took place in most parts of the world. In Africa, 32 countries gained independence from the...
Decolonizing the Language Garden: Narratives of Exploration and Acquisition in Jamaica Kincaid's Garden Writing
Case study - 12 pages - Literature
While acknowledging their problematic nature, postcolonial writer Jamaica Kincaid maintains a predilection for explorer narratives. Between her two most exploratory and garden-related works, My Garden (Book): and Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas, she refers to at least ten such narratives,...
The economic, territorial, and cultural impact of the European Union on the Danish identity
Case study - 5 pages - European union
Created by the treaty of Rome in 1957, the European Union now has 25 member states. Over the years and decades, it has developed a wide range of policies with an emphasis on economic measures. The member states have had to adapt themselves to this new system of governance and to the presence of...
The case of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
Tutorials/exercises - 6 pages - International relations
Refugee situations across the world have been characterized by three different outcomes: return to the country of origin, assimilation in the host country or resettlement into a third country. All of the above have proven unrealistic options for the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. This less than...
Immigrants acculturation in occidental countries
Essay - 8 pages - Sociology & social sciences
John Berry, a Canadian social psychologist, has developed a theoretical framework about the psychological concept of acculturation. Two main acculturation processes exist in Cross Cultural Psychology: integration and assimilation. Berry argues that not only integration was the mode of...
What to call the genocides of the Second World War and why?
Essay - 8 pages - Modern history
“Historians are not always trustful guides when we have to reconstitute past”. Those words, of Lucy DAWIDOWICZ -an American historian who wrote quite a lot of books about the historiography of genocides- directly aimed at criticizing historians of genocides, who treated the murder by...
Organizational change and development
Essay - 7 pages - Management
Organizational change and development go hand in hand. Organizational occur as a result of an event, structural change, development of the business or simply there is a desire for change to meet the environment requirements. Organizational change initiatives are usually from within and companies...
Economics of prostitution
Essay - 6 pages - Economy general
The market that buys and sells prostitution is very similar to other types of human interaction. It has deep roots in history and society, and has survived through the ages; resisting legal and economic uncertainties. It has become apart of Western culture just as much as much as fast-food and...
The future of archaeological thought: A debate between Ian Hodder and Lewis Binford
Thesis - 6 pages - Journalism
In their thoughts on the future of archaeological thought, Ian Hodder and Lewis Binford offer drastically conflicting perspectives. Binford argues that social history can be investigated using the processes of archaeology, yet he shows little interest in the meaning associated with an artifact...
The phenomenon of fandom: Refuting the view that consumers of mass media culture are passive cultural dopes?
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In the last century television, film and video came to dominate the mass mediated world and increasingly continues to do so today with an abundance of entertainment being brought into the homes of millions of people globally provided by the culture industry. A popular and traditional view of mass...
Neuropathic pain and its therapeutic approach
Thesis - 10 pages - Medical studies
The study and treatment of peripheral neuropathies and neuralgia has become an important field of research. The pain associated with these pathological conditions has not yet been fully understood and still have not received the due interest in the common neurological tests. The pain caused by...
Application of microbiological techniques in the analysis of water for injections
Dissertation - 48 pages - Medical studies
Microorganisms constitute the world of microscopic or sub-microscopic form of diverse life. They constitute a world of their own, full of uniqueness from different biological standpoints. These micro organisms not only contribute to the well being of mankind, they also put lives at risk due to...
T-DNA and the GUS Gene
Thesis - 24 pages - Medical studies
Development of an organism is strictly regulated by molecular and genetic mechanisms. The precise regulatory processes involving switching on or off of certain set of genes at a specific stage and place mediated by certain combination's of regulatory elements are fundamental to the...
Sufficient to have stood: Temptation in Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained and Perelandra
Thesis - 7 pages - Literature
Original sin has a curious, irresolute connection to human freedom. God?s fundamental gifts to His children?reason, imagination, free will?are the very things that give men the desire to sin as well as the ability to resist. This combination makes the Fall of Man a paradoxical event, one that...
Security challenges in wireless sensor networks
Thesis - 5 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are wireless ad hoc networks of tiny sensor nodes. As a result of advances in sensor technology and wireless communication, sensor networks have emerged as an indispensable and important new tool for multiple civilian and military applications, including patient...
The conquest of Mexico: Indigenous actions, Iberian Influence and hegemony
Thesis - 3 pages - Political science
Throughout history, nations and states sought to dominate subordinate groups under many different circumstances. In the first quarter of the sixteenth century, the Spanish Conquistadors began to conquer and colonize the area that would become Mexico (this essay will primarily discuss the events...
Same-sex marriage: A case commentary
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The case to be reviewed concerns the legality of Same-Sex Marriage, which was designed to instill and protect certain aspects of legal capacity for marriage for civil purposes. Introduced in July, 2003, the constitutional law was intended to encourage the distribution of legislative power,...
A review of Legacy of silence: Encounters with children of the Third Reich
Book review - 5 pages - Modern history
Silence has always been a persistent theme in Holocaust studies. How did so many people remain silent as millions of their neighbors were taken off and killed? Why did so few people resist, and why did so many otherwise rational people blindly follow orders and not speak up against the atrocities...
Production process and material management system in an iron & steel manufacturing unit
Thesis - 6 pages - Business strategy
The production system is the process of converting inputs of labor, capital, land and management into outputs of goods and services. The various metallurgical processes are employed for converting iron ore into steel and shaping it into different products as required by the customer, industries...
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,...
UN Security Council Resolution 1559 and US multilateralism
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
The United Nations Security Council Resolution of 1559 was adopted by the Security Council on September 2, 2004 by a vote of 9 in favor (Angola, Benin, Chile, France, Germany, Romania, Spain, United Kingdom, United States), to none against, with 6 abstentions (Algeria, Brazil, China, Pakistan,...
The origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
The origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been the subject of numerous debates. The complexity of their development over centuries has led historians to consider events as early as the biblical enmity between Abraham's two sons, Isaac and Ishmael to be an appropriate starting point....
News media : is the "fourth estate a power?
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
Today, the permanent and instantaneous flow of information pass through a wide range of channels, called 'the media'. There are two types of channels: print media (e.g. newspapers) and broadcast media (e.g. television, radio). It is precisely the capacity to create information, that is at...
The market of the bottled water (2005)
Case study - 8 pages - Services marketing
The market for bottled water has become the most dynamic sector in the universe of soft drinks, and happens to be a large market, consisting of several products with different features and functions. Mineral water and spring water are distinguished on the water market. Mineral water is...
Black life in US between 1865 and 1910
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Reconstruction is a name which was given to the period between the end of the civil war in United States when federal troops were pulled out of the south. It was during the reconstruction period when the union army occupied the south. It was also during this time when the blacks voted and the...
