Enterprise user interface and technology comparison
Tutorials/exercises - 19 pages - Computer science
The Enterprise User Interface (EUI) is a lightweight user interface for next generation of Web applications. It would extend the capabilities of the current Web browsers by incorporating the key strengths of the thick/full client environment while maintaining a lightweight user interface. EUI...
Gender race and ethnicity in relation to youth rights
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
One of the last groups that it is still legal to discriminate against in America is the youth. Most feel as if the youth are an acceptable group to discriminate against being that they are seen as less mature and less ready to take on the responsibilities of the adult world. While it is certainly...
United Kingdom Immigration Laws, asylum laws and anti terrorism Laws
Essay - 5 pages - International law
In recent years, public attention has been focused on asylum seekers, but their numbers have fallen sharply. They are now less than 40,000 a year of whom only a quarter are given permission to stay in Britain, yet only one in five is actually removed. Meanwhile, other forms of immigration have...
Sailing the wine -Dark Sea
Case study - 4 pages - Literature
In his book sailing the Dark wine sea, Thomas Cahill tries to give the reader an insight into Greek society and civilization through the lives and words of politicians, playwrights, poets, philosophers and artistes through an immaculate narrative. The book sailing the dark wine sea tells of some...
The essence of apartheid
Case study - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Apartheid in South Africa is seen as something so common that it is in the Constitution. It is the only nation in the world that skin color determines the conditions of life and survival of people, despite the many historical justifications, the Apartheid violates all the conditions of human...
Barriers that Cause the Success of Ethnic Minority Students
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Ethnic minorities are groups in an institution, state or country that have national and cultural traditions that differ from those of the major population. Ethnic minorities face physiological, emotional and social challenges while undergoing their studies or at the workplace all over the world....
Disney, a Global Culture
Case study - 9 pages - Services marketing
In this case study, we will look at the way Walt Disney has developed its business worldwide, the subsequent local reactions, its success and failures and ultimately the relevant modifications essential for the company. We will analyze the Walt Disney business model, and its three international...
The economic policies of the ghetto
Essay - 5 pages - Economy general
Ghetto poverty is still the problem of 7 million of people, among the 30 million poor in the United States. It is a pressing issue, above all when we take into account media coverage that is given to these areas of social and spatial segregation. A mistake would be to consider only Black...
Connection between Human and Nature
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
It is true that there is a link between the natural world and man, not just for satisfying his or her fundamental needs but also in his quest to appreciate the order in which natural world was formed. The appreciation of the order in which natural world was created is seen in the ability of man...
The evolution of modern US society
Case study - 4 pages - Literature
Every country has a distinct turning point. Evolution is necessary for the growth of any nation. The modern society of the United States is an exemplification of this. There were several events and individuals that help mold the modern American society. The evolution of modern U.S. society...
Women face greater challenges than men in their attempts to climb to the top of the corporate ladder
Essay - 6 pages - Human resources
Women m?ke up close to ? h?lf p?rt of the U.K. workforce, ?nd this proportion is likely to grow. Working women ?re ? diverse group (e.g., White women, minorities, women with children, immigrants, older workers) with widely v?rying needs, v?lues, experiences, ?nd expect?tions. However, working...
Leandro v. State of North Carolina, 488 S.E.2d 249 (1997) - Educational Equity in North Carolina: The Leandro Case and Its Impact on Achieving a Sound Basic Education
Case study - 11 pages - Educational studies
Amid the complex web of North Carolina's educational framework, two persistent issues exist - the challenge of achieving educational equity and the struggle to provide a high-quality academic environment to all students. In a multicultural context where people from different communities and...
Mutations of Vancouver's Chinatown: Spatial redistribution and new territorial logic's
Essay - 7 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Large cities tend to be inhabited by minorities, immigrants and trans-national communities. In order to study this new dynamic, I have chosen the city of Vancouver (British Columbia) in Canada. Actually, I will be spending my 3rd year in the University of British Columbia in Vancouver; that is...
A Race to the Finish : A struggle for equal rights
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
The United States, despite its libertarian ideals and emphasis on equality, has more than once turned its back on its own citizens. Slavery, the most bruising, shameful mark in the history of this democracy, divided the American culture even after the Civil War ended and the slaves were freed....
The alternate approaches of the Black Panthers and Martin Luther King Jr.: From within or without
Essay - 8 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Citizens of the United States will always be able to take pride in their country for its place as first true democracy in world history. Every citizen (a term which has carried with it countless shifting definitions) has always had the right to vote and determine his or her own course in the...
The response of the Republican administrations of the 1950s and the Democrat administrations of the 1960s to the domestic problems they faced
Case study - 8 pages - Political science
Burning bras, rebel “teenagers”, rioting black Americans, burning cities, angry students and happy hippies are only a few amidst a veritable panoply of symbols of an exploding and ebullient young America struggling to find itself throughout the vibrant fifties and sixties, an era of...
Key Landmark Decisions of the United States of America Supreme Court
Case study - 4 pages - Civil law
Two landmark decisions of the United States of America Supreme Court, Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896) and Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966) have a played a key role in anchoring constitutionalism and have provided a varied interpretation of the constitution in everyday judicial...
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...
Violence in South Africa
Essay - 13 pages - Journalism
While South Africa is one of the richest countries of Africa, why is there so much violence? 25 of the biggest African firms are South African, and its economy is the largest and the most developed on the continent. It grows by 5% every year. Yet, South Africa has a high rate of unemployment and...
Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
Since the very beginning of the play, we realize the essential role of dreams and reminiscences in Willy Loman's life because he seems to live in his own world. Indeed, as soon as he comes back home, we learn that this day, he wasn't able to drive all the way to the place he was supposed to go...
Civilization
Course material - 47 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
No empire other than Great Britain brought to its colonies the technological tools (railroads, modern medicine) and the political ideals (capitalism, the rule of law) that made possible the development of stable and egalitarian societies. This explains why 54 nations, most of them former British...
Hydrodynamic modeling of circulating fluidized bed
Tutorials/exercises - 89 pages - Physics
Fluidization is an operation through which fine granular solids are transformed into a fluid like state through contact with a gas or liquid. Under the fluidized state the gravitational pull on granular solid particles is offset by the fluid drag on them, thus the particles remain in a semi...
Development of Complex Sales: Which Strategy Should Airport Systems Integrators Follow to Develop Their Sales in Saudi Arabia?
Thesis - 79 pages - Business strategy
This subject comes from Automatique & Industrie Company, which is airport sytems integrator for ground, terminal and control tours. The airport market involves exportation of activities for systems integrators companies. The MENA region is full of potential markets. Overall, Saudi Arabia Kingdom,...
Investigating the frequencies of gene and genotype in the human population
Thesis - 21 pages - Biology
Mendelian genetics is built on the work done by the "father of genetics", Gregor Johann Mendel (1822-1884). His contributions to the study of inheritance paved the way for our basic understanding of how traits are inherited from one generation to the next. He was also instrumental in applying...
Plessy Vs Ferguson, 1896
Law case - 5 pages - Civil law
Slavery was 'politically' abolished during the Civil War in 1863 by the 'Emancipation Proclamation' of President Lincoln, who used his formal powers in order to deprave the south of its first source of income. This was rather a pragmatic declaration than a real political decision....
Do you agree with Mernissi that the modernizing Moroccan society she studied in the 1970s provided no norms for heterosexual interaction between the sexes? - How far is this applicable to other Moslem societies you have read about?
Thesis - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Gender interactions in the Moslem world and in Western societies are often opposed in terms of the woman's place in society. The Cultural differences between the two worlds can be underlined but it is not the subject of sociology to evaluate which one of the both ways of gender interaction is the...
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...
The cultural identity and the assimilation of the Jewish Community in the Global Cities
Essay - 21 pages - Sociology & social sciences
My name is Charles Terdjman, I am a 3rd year student in Sciences Po Paris, and I would like to present my comparative research about the Jewish Community in the Global Cities. Sincerely interested in the social and political studies, I wanted to analyze a social or religious minority for this...
Racism and discrimination against the Black population in the US
Essay - 8 pages - Modern history
The blacks in Africa lived together in tribes and with the families staying together in the village and leading a life based on strong morals. Each tribe had developed a culture and their native language. According to most Europeans, the Africans were ignorant, pagan savages who needed to be...
The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas (2017) - What historical events and context gave rise to this novel?
Text commentary - 2 pages - Literature
Angie Thomas's novel "The Hate U Give" is not merely a fictional story; it is a profound reflection of historical realities that have shaped contemporary society. The novel, which centres on the life of a young Black girl, Starr Carter, who witnesses the police shooting of her unarmed friend,...
