Geography, Demography, Social Issues, Education and Culture in the United States of America
Course material - 20 pages - Sociology & social sciences
(...) One of the characteristics of US climatic conditions is the constant fear of violent climatic happening such as hurricanes (in the Southeast, particularly during the fall), violent wind storms known as "tornadoes" (the Midwest), or flooding due to heavy rainfall and storms in the eastern...
To what extent can we say that women's networks were important for European, and more specifically, English piracy in early modern Europe?
Essay - 6 pages - Modern history
The early modern period is a time span used by historians that refers to the period that began after late middle-ages, generally with the discovery of America in the 1490s, and that stops with the beginning of the late 18th century revolutions, such as the French Revolution in 1789. During that...
Financial Innovation Essay: High Frequency Trading and its social impacts
Essay - 2 pages - Finance
A Financial Times article argues that HFT is beneficial for society, and that banning HFT from use would increase volatility. I agree with this point of view, as algorithms democratized trading by allowing a direct access to the markets and decreasing the costs of the transactions. Also,...
How do social media and digital tools affect HR practices? Why and how should HR departments adapt their practices to use these tools to their advantage? What are the benefits and risks of an HR social media strategy?
Essay - 3 pages - Human resources
In the last decades, the functions of Human Resources departments have changed a lot. They are, in general, more involve in the group strategy. The HR manager now has a key role at the Board of Directors.. [...] Even if the digitalization is affecting each department of a firm, Human Resources...
Strategy and transformation portfolio - Corporate Social Responsibility
Essay - 7 pages - Business strategy
Over the years, organisations have continually engaged in activities that aim at improving their position and competitiveness in the market. They have been taking more considerations towards the wellbeing of the community as well as trying to improve their business models. This paper entails a...
The Social-Cultural Identity of Greek- Americans
Case study - 10 pages - Political science
According to some, Astoria is the largest “city” of the Greek outside the Athens-Greece. The New York's Queens Neighborhoods of Astoria, New York conjure up the image of a Greek immigrant community that has lived in it for over forty years (Hantzopoulos, 2005). For the Greeks and their...
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Human Resources
Case study - 3 pages - Human resources
In our era, CSR is not only a "trendy" matter but has a real impact on the positioning of the company and its impact on the society. Initiatives can be found in every department: Human Resources make no exception. This is related to my future first dream job: HR manager or Business Partner in a...
Business Ethics and Social Responsibility - published: 08/03/2024
Case study - 17 pages - Business strategy
The paper discussed is written by Dirk Lindebaum, Deanna Geddes & Yannis Gabriel, under title 'Moral Emotions and Ethics in Organizations : Introduction to the Special Issue'1, published in the Journal of Business Ethics in 2017. The authors propose to introduce the reader to the...
Untouchability and Dalit women's oppression-Malik (1999); Domestic violence against Dalit women: A critical review- Vinutha (2014); Social Structure and Inequality of Dalits in Dalit Literature: An Overview-Gopinath (2018)- The Pain of Dalit Women
Text commentary - 2 pages - Literature
The narratives of Dalit women, often relegated to the peripheries of mainstream discourse, encapsulate the intersecting layers of oppression based on caste, class, and gender. Bela Malik's presentation of how the Convention against Untouchability and the Oppression of Dalit Women helps to...
How education reproduces inequalities and social difference
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Inequalities in the society have historically been based on stratification and the creation of classes within the society. The struggle for achievement and the existence of the society based on the individual achievements has led to the differences between different classes in the society. Class...
Social and Cultural Factors Giving Rise to Depression and Anxiety
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
The World Health Organization further explains that anxiety disorder and depression are characterized by factors such as emotional, physical, and behavioral symptoms that build an uncomfortable feeling that is usually described as uneasiness. Worry is usually followed by symptoms like fatigue,...
Analysis of how business companies can increase brand awareness and customer interaction through the use of social media
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
The arrival of new technology has raised a number of new issues for managers and leaders. The use of the internet is an unavoidable feature of today's business environment, as it can be very productive to companies. Email can be used as a very potent business tool, enabling business transactions...
Social capital and The Gap, Inc.
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Social capital lends itself to interpretation. It is an all-encompassing and important concept for viewing present day businesses, economic situations, organizational behavior, politics and even in how self-interest can play out in areas like natural resources or public health....
Motrin's Mommy Headache: A Lesson in Social Media Experimentation
Case study - 2 pages - Management
“Brands are delicate things, but social tools exist not only to hear bad news but to engage even that part of the crowd which has made it clear you have tripped up — maybe, especially that niche.” This quote essentially summarizes how Johnson & Johnson should have reacted...
Evolution of lodging networks during the economic crisis: What happened to Airbnb and to budget hotels in the context of the crisis in the USA?
Case study - 25 pages - Management
The financial crisis started In September 2008, in the USA, with the bankrupt of Lehman Brothers. This financial shock led to a deep and long economic crisis. The USA has started to experience economic recovery in 2010 but the economic growth has still been low. The hospitality industry, with...
Location-based service over 3GPP IMS: Approaching real-time connectivity with the next generation of network communication
Essay - 5 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
Emerging mobile applications will need location information for delivering the right services to right persons at right places and time. A location-based service (LBS) is an information and entertainment service, accessible with mobile devices through the mobile network and utilizing the...
Route optimization in mobile adhoc networks
Thesis - 8 pages - Computer science
With the increase of portable devices as well as progress in wireless communications, ad hoc networking is gaining importance with the increasing number of widespread applications. Ad hoc networking can be applied in places where there is little or no communication infrastructure or existing...
Swarovski and the social media
Case study - 7 pages - Business strategy
Today, there are, on the one hand, the traditional media which use a transmitter that broadcasts a single message to targets audiences, and on the other hand, social media which include everyone, which is both the broadcaster, and the target. “Social Media is the...
Social media as an agent of psychological warfare in the overthrow of Gadhafi's Libya
Case study - 34 pages - Political science
On December 17, 2010 a Tunisian vegetable seller set himself on fire in a crowded marketplace to protest the lack of employment opportunities in his country. Less than a year later three North African governments had been overthrown and the Middle East was set ablaze in a string of revolts....
Credibility is a critical resource at start up and represents an important element of the entrepreneur's personal contact network
Essay - 6 pages - Management
Traditionally, entrepreneurs have been considered as individuals with a strong, often charismatic, leadership as well as a high drive for individualism and independence. However, a business unit does not exist in isolation since it is, or will be, in contact with a whole range of other...
How does the 1976 film network accurately reflect ideologies and practices of modern television?
Essay - 5 pages - Film studies
The ideologies and practices evident in modern television are succinctly foreshadowed in the 1976 Hollywood classic, Network. This prophetic Oscar-winning film satirically dramatised a series of predictions, most of which were fulfilled in modern television. The film shows that ratings...
Social movements and depoliticization
Thesis - 5 pages - Political science
When one endeavors to study sociology within the context of our society, we must view it and assess it in relation to the social infrastructures that are already in place. This in no small way means that politics needs to be a contributing factor. This is even more relevant in the...
Social work: Board presentation
Presentation - 28 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The illness impacts ability to seek/obtain care, nutrition, transportation, maintain housing, etc. Individual medical crisis impacts multiple systems: family, friends, neighbors, employer/ co-workers, schools, taxpayers, social services, national economy, etc. Care givers often need...
Outline of a number of issues related to net neutrality and social media
Case study - 3 pages - Journalism
The study of internet neutrality and information sharing through media elements has been the subject of numerous studies during recent decades. Several commentators have discussed these subjects in relation to a number of different elements and concerns. In the light of today's globalized,...
Social welfare system in transition: The reform of the pension system
Essay - 8 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The transition from a centrally planned economy to a market economy, from communism to democracy, and from unitary to a federal state had extreme consequences for the overall welfare of Russian population: including health services, social protection, and pension system. The Plan for...
Social and Economic Issues in Medicine
Presentation - 38 pages - Medical studies
Medicine is practiced in a social, economic, and political context. It takes more than excellent medical care to improve the health of patients because many of the determinants of the health of individuals and populations lie outside traditional clinical activity. By contrast, 40% of...
British housing policies Case study: Impact on the social exclusion experienced by the Pakistani minority
Case study - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Water and food are commonly accepted as the basic needs of life. Housing, by providing us a shelter, is also necessary so that you survive. Therefore it is also a fundamental need. However, every house should not only be a shelter, but also a real home. What makes a house a home is a complex...
How strategy and network changes are linked?
Thesis - 11 pages - Business strategy
This paper focuses on the relation between the network changes and the strategy of an organization. It also provides a description of the links between those two concepts. The network change is an essential part of the understanding of industrial network. Its importance is...
The establishment of a council of regional networks
Thesis - 12 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Where are the care networks? Fruits of individual and local initiatives in the 80s, formalized as an experiment from 1996, this new way of organizing care are sentencing. Recently Dr. Menard, president of the CNR (National Coordination Network), castigated a dual discourse on the...
Deploying face recognition system with neural network & sub-space techniques
Thesis - 4 pages - Computer science
Now-a-days Human-Computer interaction involves face recognition with high recognition efficiency. Face recognition mainly includes signal processing, face tracking, pose estimation and expressions recognition. The face images are transformed into face spaces by a set of Eigen faces efficiently...
