Social capital and The Gap, Inc.
Thesis - 6 pages - Social sciences
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. Social networks...
Airline safety after September 11th
Thesis - 5 pages - Social sciences
In order to examine the national and New York City-specific changes to air travel that have been put in place after the September 11th, 2001 attacks and then analyze whether or not additional security measures are warranted, it is important to discuss September 11th. From there, it becomes...
SWOT Analysis - National Society of the Prevention Cruelty to Children's Online Program
Thesis - 4 pages - Social sciences
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) is one of Great Britain's largest and most financially successful charities. In many ways, when the NSPCC decided to launch a program for its donors to bank online, it was simultaneously offering too much and asking too...
Legends and symbols of Freemasonry
Thesis - 8 pages - Social sciences
Freemasonry has played a significant role in the histories of England and the US. George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and other American notable were Freemasons. Members of the British royal family, aristocracy, and scientific elite have been, and continue to be, Freemasons, while some...
The Battle of Armageddon
Thesis - 7 pages - Social sciences
The prophesied battle of Armageddon—to take place sometime near the end of the world—has gripped the imagination of millions of people for at least two millennia, but there is a great deal of confusion about what this battle is, where it is supposed to take place, and who is to fight in...
The third Jerusalem temple and the end time
Thesis - 7 pages - Social sciences
The question of whether the Temple in Jerusalem must be physically rebuilt before the Messiah returns and the End Time comes is a subject hotly debated by some Jews and Christians. The dispute arises from predictions about the end of the world found in the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) and...
Mother Teresa: Founding a new religious order
Thesis - 7 pages - Social sciences
Mother Teresa came to India as a missionary sister to help the poor, but ended up teaching girls from wealthy families in a school in Calcutta. World War II and the subsequent independence of India created a crisis situation that led Mother Teresa to abandon her former work and found a new...
The Messiah in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Thesis - 6 pages - Social sciences
Judaism gave rise to two additional religions: Christianity and Islam. All three of these religious traditions expect some form of savior or believe that a savior has already come. This savior figure is called the Messiah. There are similarities and differences in how these traditions view the...
Is culture an intrinsic element of management and leadership: Eastern Europe against Western Europe?
Thesis - 14 pages - Social sciences
Since the quickening of the Industrial Revolution in United Kingdom in 1850 there is no doubt that Europe sustained important cultural changes. The aura of this revolution crossed the Channel and pervaded in Europe but only went in western countries ready to change, France the first, then...
The Link between poverty and health: Implications for nursing
Thesis - 12 pages - Social sciences
The World Bank estimates that there are around 1.5 billion extremely poor people in the world. Poverty has many dimensions. It is defined by the International Council of Nurses as" a condition that extends beyond lack of income and goes hand in hand with lack of power, humiliation and a sense of...
Future of tobacco industry post tobacco ban
Tutorials/exercises - 40 pages - Social sciences
Americans spend an estimated $51.9 billion on tobacco products in 1997, or just under 1% of their disposable income. Of this amount, $48.7 billion (or 94%) was spent on cigarettes, $2.2 billion on smokeless and smoking tobacco, and $0.9 billion on cigars. Cigarette production in the United...
A comparative newspaper analysis: The New York Times, The Times, The London Gazette and The Spectator
Thesis - 7 pages - Social sciences
The First World War, devastating in its severity and loss of life, is often confined in our historical thinking to the battlefields of Europe. This devastation, however, reached every ocean and continent and involved action from peoples far removed from the crises in Europe. One arena of conflict...
A study on the Indian railways
Tutorials/exercises - 31 pages - Social sciences
Generally, a “Market” was the place where the buyers and sellers gather to exchange their goods. The concept of market is very important in marketing. Market is an area for potential exchanges it's a place where goods are brought and sold. It is an area where a force of supply (sellers)...
Post harvest management and food security in Africa
Thesis - 4 pages - Social sciences
Food security, defined by the World Food Summit of 1996 the situation where “all people at all times have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life”, is one of the major developmental issues facing developing countries in the world. As part of the...
To what extent has the N.H.S. fulfilled its commitment to equal health care for all?
Thesis - 5 pages - Social sciences
Health affects every aspect of life, hence it is not surprising that health care is a major focus for social concern. Governments have been aware of the importance of the population's access to health care for a very long time and began to intervene in this sense even before the 1900's, by...
Luggage flow issues in airports
Thesis - 11 pages - Social sciences
An airport terminal building provides all major passenger services, such as ticket sales, passenger check-in, baggage handling, and security. Inside the terminal, airline employees make flight reservations for travelers, issue seat assignments and coordinate aircraft boarding. All services that...
Issues of conservation and reconstruction in archaeological sites: The example of the Palace of Minos at Knossos
Thesis - 6 pages - Social sciences
The main issues of this paper are the conservation and the reconstruction of archaeological sites. Indeed, the aim of archaeology is to present the findings of the past to the public, in the most objective way . However, archaeological findings are never completely objective because they are...
The evolution of human rights enforcement
Thesis - 8 pages - Social sciences
The end of the second world conflict has set the beginning of the institutionalization of Human Rights at a world scale: the previous events have indeed made most of the country think about a way to reach a world consensus about basic rights that each single human being could expect to be given...
Face recognition and perception by young children
Thesis - 12 pages - Social sciences
This study tested four and five-year-olds for their ability to use differences in the spacing among features when asked to pairing faces. The task was presented as a drag and drop features game which provided double reinforcement to children. Cognitive variables were taken in consideration...
Cultural briefing: Asian markets
Thesis - 9 pages - Social sciences
Japanese business culture is wrongly perceived as the biggest obstacle to starting business in Japan for many foreign companies thinking of entering the Japanese market. Many foreign companies never do start business in Japan (or only enter the Japanese market through a distributor) simply...
Pornography: The opium of the masses
Thesis - 4 pages - Social sciences
According to Marx, understanding religion is dependent upon the social purpose that religion serves and not upon the content of its beliefs. To understand pornography as the opium of the masses, I won't focus on its content, which would be difficult anyway, since the word ‘pornography' does...
Cultural Melting Pot: A taste of many nations
Thesis - 14 pages - Social sciences
The cultural melting pot is an event created to increase the speed of cultural integration in Rotterdam. The Students at the INholland University in Rotterdam organize the event themselves. The event will be held in the park near the Euromast in Rotterdam on the 6th of September 2008. The main...
The FARC: Are we at the story's end?
Thesis - 12 pages - Social sciences
The Fuerzas armadas revolucionarias de Colombia - Ejército del Pueblo, more generally known under their shortest acronym: FARC, have been playing a great part in Columbia's political life since 1964. For more than forty years, it has been that the first guerilla involved in the Columbian armed...
Alstom's TGV
Thesis - 7 pages - Social sciences
Nowadays, transport plays bigger part in our society. For the last century, the transport has not ceased.. That's why I've chosen to talk about this topic. I, particularly want to talk about a French company called Alstom. But this company is quite large and has many products based on...
Explain the historical specificity and contemporary relevance of culture
Thesis - 4 pages - Social sciences
Today, we can buy a book from a vending machine, like soft drinks and snacks. Germinal and an Ice-Tea have the same value. Culture, in a wider sense, has been taken over by the “spectacular-merchandizing-society”, for which everything, from a book to an iPod, has a trade value. The...
The Australian aboriginal culture
Thesis - 6 pages - Social sciences
The Aborigines are native Australians, the first population of the country. They have been living there for more than 40,000 years and are one of the oldest populations in the world. Several archeological studies have been carried out, but they have not been able to find a concrete explanation to...
Translation report: Recipe language
Thesis - 12 pages - Social sciences
It is true that England is not reputed for its cuisine. Perhaps it is significant that there is no real equivalent for the expression bon appétit in English (waiters only say “enjoy your meal”). However, there are different specialties in England such as the famous English breakfast...
Culture & leadership
Thesis - 12 pages - Social sciences
First of all, it is necessary to have a clear and simple definition of culture. So, “culture can be defined as all the behaviors, arts, beliefs and institutions of a population that are passed down from generation to generation. Culture has been called "the way of life” for an entire...
The goddess and Mary the mother of Jesus
Thesis - 7 pages - Social sciences
Syncretism means the merging of different forms of belief or practice. The word comes from the description of the fusion of Cretan cities, and is often used in the religious context to describe how new religious and spiritual ideas moving into a culture merge with the ideas that already exist in...
The Anti-Christ in the Bible
Thesis - 6 pages - Social sciences
There are many figures in history, legend, and myth that tend to capture the imagination of people from different times and places. One such figure is the Antichrist. There is a general belief that the Antichrist is clearly identified in the Bible as a figure who will return, be identified, and...
