Impact of fallacies on rational thinking
Thesis - 2 pages - Social sciences
A fallacy is a defect weakening a particular argument or a form of reasoning error (Garssen & Meuffels, 2009). It pertains to arguments specifically or reasoning used in an effort to lay rational basis or ground for an opinion or view. Correct arguments follow the sound reason principles through...
To what extent can white people be blamed for the African slave trade?
Thesis - 1 pages - Social sciences
Before the Atlantic trade and probably before the trans-Saharan trade, slavery existed in Africa as in every other ancient society. However, if we consider the intensity and the conditions of life associated with the trades, the Atlantic trade is a fundamentally new system that did not exist in...
Organized Sports for Children and Pre-Adolescents: Genuine Fun or do the 'Cons' Outweigh the 'Pros'?
Thesis - 2 pages - Social sciences
The advantages and disadvantages of sports for children has been a topic of debate among parents, sports lovers, health professionals and sociologists. The main question being asked, is do the “pros really outweigh the cons”? Could the benefits of exercise, opportunity for...
Right of Rebellion: Thomas Hobbes vs. John Locke
Thesis - 3 pages - Social sciences
Thomas Hobbes and John Locke were two prominent political thinkers. Although both advocated theories of social contracts and natural law, they have distinct views on human nature, laws of nature, and why a civil society should be formed. In particular, both Hobbes and Locke differ in how they...
Discussing the idea of America as E Pluribus Unum or E Pluribus Pluribus using Mexican-American immigrants as an example.
Thesis - 2 pages - Social sciences
History has shown that America is made up of many people. The original people of this continent are the Native Americans. Then we have the English immigrants and Irish, Chinese, Japanese, German, Polish, Russian and immigrants of other countries. One by one they have integrated themselves into...
Cultural Relativism: Female Genital Mutilation
Essay - 2 pages - Social sciences
Anthropology defines cultural relativism as the unbiased viewpoint of a culture different from one's own. The concept of pure culture relativism is a nearly impossible concept to incorporate into one's belief system because one can never fully separate oneself from his cultural identity;...
Question of wage discrepancies between professional women and men
Essay - 5 pages - Social sciences
Women earn, on average, 20% less than what men earn in western nations. It was not until 1920, across North America, that women were given the right to vote. Today, more women than men are enrolled in professional, post degree programs in Canada and the United States. Today, women comprise 46% of...
Cultural question of wage discrepancies between professional women and men
Thesis - 4 pages - Social sciences
Women earn, on average, 20% less than what men earn in North America. It was not until 1920, across North America, that women were given the right to vote. Today, more women than men are enrolled in professional post degree programs in Canada and the United States. Today, women comprise 46% of...
The fate of immigrants: Emmanuel Todd
Book review - 7 pages - Social sciences
Emmanuel Todd is a historian, demographer and French anthropologist who gained popularity owing to his work on the Soviet system; he had predicted its collapse years before it took place, and more recently, he had predicted collapse of the American Empire. In ‘The fate of immigrants'...
Social Security in Algeria
Course material - 9 pages - Social sciences
On the eve of colonization of Algeria by France, the concepts of public health and social security barely existed. The colonial regime of the time introduced Social Security in Algeria to organize the medical benefits of military settlers and for the Algerian Workers' Algerians service. "...
Beginning of television in the United States
Essay - 6 pages - Social sciences
The history of television is probably one of the biggest stories of the century. The history of American television began long before the marketing of the first receivers in the late 1940s.It took a long time to develop the technology for television. The concept of the television was implemented...
The healthcare system in the US
Essay - 4 pages - Social sciences
The system of health insurance emerged gradually in the States at the beginning of the twentieth century and significantly spread all over by the nation by the middle of the twentieth century. The beneficial effects of such systems are undeniable, they allow access to care and 'equity in...
What are the psycho-sociological reasons for the popularity of TV serials?
Thesis - 3 pages - Social sciences
Why are television serials popular? How did they become so famous? Are we attracted to them or addicted to them? There are different ways one can observe how television serials and programs became popular in the twentieth century. Television serials have suddenly changed “all the factors -...
The paradox of poverty in Nigeria: Junior engineers, technicians and scientists (jets) as panacea
Thesis - 5 pages - Social sciences
Among the countries in the world, Nigeria is one with a high level of poverty. The case of Nigeria however presents a glaring paradox. The country is rich but the citizens are poor. Despite the abundant human and natural resources in Nigeria, majority of the citizens are living in poverty. It...
Is Minorities' bond to the past a burden or a blessing?
Thesis - 2 pages - Social sciences
African diaspora narratives have one thing in common: their richness. They cover the plural aspects of a culture and underline the complexity of an uprooted people identity. Mirta Yanez's “Of Natural Causes” is representing of this controversy. The story focuses on a group of Haitian...
Civil War and Reconstruction: The Freedmen's fight for an equal share of the American Dream
Thesis - 3 pages - Social sciences
The analysis of the way emancipation was acquired is revealing of the reason why the freedom the slaves obtained turned out to be so limited. The context must be taken into account. The reasons why the war started and was going on were not clear so clear anymore. Making emancipation a result of...
John Brown: An ambiguous and controversial anti-hero
Thesis - 4 pages - Social sciences
The subject of terrorism is extremely touchy, particularly in the US where it is especially since 9/11, the nation's number one fear. It is seen as a threat incompatible with the ideals of a free country which laws are supposed to be respected by all individuals. Only negatives connotations come...
Automated to Death? - Safety concerns with automated systems
Thesis - 2 pages - Social sciences
This is very interesting article which brings our attention towards the safety concerns with automated systems. Several incidents are discussed in the article that is related to automation of the respective systems ranging from the metro crash in Washington DC to the presence of faulty...
Food Industry and Obesity: A study
Thesis - 6 pages - Social sciences
Obesity and the growing trends of unhealthy lifestyles have penetrated the U.S in epidemic proportions. Two-thirds of the adult population is overweight, of those, one-half is diagnosed as obese. U.S citizens are becoming increasingly vulnerable to excessive weight gain consequently from poor...
A balance of surveillance and privacy
Thesis - 3 pages - Social sciences
In the twenty-first century, we have technological capabilities that are far superior from twenty years ago. New technology has opened the doors for surveillance techniques to vastly improve. The government now has ways to watch any person at any time, track them by GPS, and listen in on their...
Ethics and the consumer coursework
Thesis - 5 pages - Social sciences
In a world where globalization seems to be everywhere, emerge some notions as ethics, consumer policy, involving government and others organizations. The aim of that is finally the well-being of people, more precisely, consumers. The term “ethics” is used to define a system of moral...
Is there a right to health in Europe?
Thesis - 4 pages - Social sciences
In opinion surveys, European citizens put health, that is to say, the protection against risks of illness, at the peak of their concern. However, health is not defined in terms of European law. The European Commission has just recommended harmonization, without specifying what could be the...
Identity and nationalism in West Africa since 1990: A case study of Ivory Coast
Case study - 20 pages - Social sciences
The democratization of West Africa started in 1990 and was led by Houphouet Boigny. The process revealed social cleavages in the case of groups that could not find a sufficiently powerful voice to express their opinions. Since then, there has been a process of nation building that is backed by...
Chapter 6, Case for Analysis: Jack Welch of General Electric: A Neutron Bomb or a Motivator?
Case study - 3 pages - Social sciences
The 13th edition of Organizations: Behavior, Structure, Processes is based on the proposition that managing people, structure, and processes in organizations is a challenging, compelling, and crucial set of tasks. There is nothing boring about managing organizational behavior. Traditional...
Islam and National identity in Indonesia
Thesis - 6 pages - Social sciences
Because Indonesia's culture is strongly linked to the Islamic religion - Indonesia is the world's largest Muslim population, with today about 200 million Muslims out of 230 million Indonesians , in other words 86% Indonesians are Muslim - both the official definition of Indonesian national...
An Analysis of Citizen Kane
Essay - 4 pages - Social sciences
Citizen Kane (1941) is the first film to be co-written, directed, produced, and starred in by the same man: Orson Welles. It tells the fictional story of newspaper mogul Charles Foster Kane, with many similarities to the life and story of real-life media tycoon William Randolph Hearst. The...
The place of Islam in the Chechen conflicts
Thesis - 4 pages - Social sciences
The mass-media often give us the image of Chechnya as being a “Jihad land”, in which the war against Islamic terrorism is led. In fact, the lack of valid information from Chechnya can be misleading and it does not actually guarantee an accurate report of the advances of Chechen...
The Horror and the Holocaust
Thesis - 3 pages - Social sciences
Darwin's Origin of Species outlines the natural selection that occurs amongst the relations between species of animals. Darwin sought to answer the question: “How and why are new species created?” He came to the conclusion that the fittest will survive and reproduce. Darwin...
Cause of Fannie Mae's Conservatorship
Thesis - 18 pages - Social sciences
Everyone should have a home despite their economic struggles. Fannie Mae was founded on this premise during the Great Depression in 1938. The issue evolving from this seemingly beneficial and civil service sponsored by the government is the risk involved with lending to subprime borrowers. The...
Daisy Bates: The engagement of a woman into the Civil Rights Movement
Thesis - 6 pages - Social sciences
Daisy Bates was a woman who decided to not submit to the white violence that black people were facing in the South. She is an interesting case because of her evolution from hatred to activism. Scholars do not usually stress the role that Daisy Bates played within the Civil Rights movement...
