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17 Dec 2010
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Automated to Death? - Safety concerns with automated systems

Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education

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...

13 Dec 2010
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Food Industry and Obesity: A study

Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education

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...

13 Dec 2010
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A balance of surveillance and privacy

Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education

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...

10 Dec 2010
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Ethics and the consumer coursework

Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education

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...

03 Dec 2010
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Is there a right to health in Europe?

Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education

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...

02 Dec 2010
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Identity and nationalism in West Africa since 1990: A case study of Ivory Coast

Case study - 20 pages - Social, moral & civic education

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...

22 Nov 2010
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Chapter 6, Case for Analysis: Jack Welch of General Electric: A Neutron Bomb or a Motivator?

Case study - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education

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...

02 Nov 2010
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Islam and National identity in Indonesia

Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education

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...

27 Oct 2010
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An Analysis of Citizen Kane

Essay - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education

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...

20 Oct 2010
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The place of Islam in the Chechen conflicts

Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education

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...

20 Oct 2010
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The Horror and the Holocaust

Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education

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...

19 Oct 2010
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Cause of Fannie Mae's Conservatorship

Thesis - 18 pages - Social, moral & civic education

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...

12 Oct 2010
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Daisy Bates: The engagement of a woman into the Civil Rights Movement

Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education

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...

29 Sep 2010
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Abortion: Women's Rights

Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education

Picture this situation in a grandmother's old tale. Her story reflects perfectly one of the main problems of illegal abortion. Way back in 1920, when she was 16, her friend was pregnant as a result of incest. Incest refers to having sexual relations between persons who are so closely related that...

29 Sep 2010
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Reinventing the Color Line Immigration and America's New Racial/Ethnic Divide

Book review - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education

"The problem of the twentieth-century is the problem of the Color Line". Writer and social reformer, W.E.B. Du Bois said at the beginning of the 20th century. At that time, the color line corresponded to a Black-White divide. However, from the end of the twentieth-century to the beginning of the...

29 Sep 2010
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"The Second Sex", Simone de Beauvoir (1949) - is the woman an accomplice to her own oppression?

Book review - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education

“The second Sex”, by Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) was published in 1949, at a time when women were considered inferior to men. In her book, Beauvoir argues that women have historically been considered abnormal and deviant, and have been refused control over their own existence, and...

29 Sep 2010
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Statistical Dossier on Immigration 2007

Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education

On October 29, 2007, at the Teatro Orione in Rome, the presentation of the 2007 Immigration Statistics Dossier Caritas or Migrantes took place. The event, now at its seventeenth edition, was held in the presence of mainstream media, as well as numerous agencies and experts coming mainly from...

29 Sep 2010
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Illegal immigration in the United States: push-pull factors

Essay - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education

Mexico is a two-faced country: you can be influenced by cities like San Cristobal, Oaxaca, Mexico city and start to think that Mexico is a developed country but whereas on the countryside the states remain in what we would call “the third world”. Mexico shares its biggest border with...

29 Sep 2010
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Inequality in America

Worksheets - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education

An apparent and striking observation that has been noted in virtually all of our readings by far is the shocking extent to which America's low-income citizens are denied of an equal status, let alone any, a political representation. Dahl reminds us frequently that the moral foundation behind...

29 Sep 2010
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Issues of urban renewal: the example of a former industrialized city: Lille in France

Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education

I have chosen Lille, a large city located in the North of France. Lille is a symbol of the industrialization of many European cities in the 18th and 19th centuries. Indeed, Lille was an important center of textile manufacturing industry. In the 19th century, Lille was the second largest textile...

29 Sep 2010
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Narcos and Maras: the transnationalization of crime

Essay - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education

In this presentation, we are going to deal with a very sensitive subject, which affects Latin America. It is quite a controversial issue, which also creates a lot of fantasy in occidental minds. Although people may frequently exaggerate, it is an unquestionable fact that Latin American has known...

29 Sep 2010
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The political and social upheaval in France in 1968

Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education

In May 1968, France experienced a political and social upheaval that shook the regime to its foundation. May 1968, also called May 68, is the name given to a series of events that started with a student strike in France, which broke out at a number of universities and high schools in Paris. In...

29 Sep 2010
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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...

27 Aug 2010
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Panoramic photography

Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education

A panoramic photograph differs from a conventional photograph as it is wider and covers a large area to look at, such that you have to stoop to scan the picture and be able to appreciate its details. It showcases the scene in its entirety. Scenes of epic dimensions like cityscapes, beaches, a...

27 Aug 2010
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Chaos in Africa: Causes and consequences

Thesis - 8 pages - Social, moral & civic education

Ever since the end of the Cold War in 1991, Africa has faced ethnic conflicts that had led to the destabilization of several of its countries. It also paved the way for the collapse of regimes and led to large-scale massacres in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Rwanda. The neighboring states that were...

25 Aug 2010
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Women's work culture in Europe and U.S

Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education

From time immemorial, women have been a part of the world's work force in various spheres. She has faced turbulent times during which the status and rights of women's progress were challenged not only with regard to the rights of workers but also their right to work. Contrary to popular belief,...

25 Aug 2010
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What is ethnology?

Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education

Anthropology is the study of humanity. It studies the evolution of Homo sapiens and their gradual development over the years. An anthropologist is often seen an adventurer. The British anthropologist Nigel Barley confesses ironically that in anthropology, there is a tradition that the amount of...

24 Aug 2010
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Unnecessary measures: The overmedication of the American population

Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education

Here in America, we put a lot of effort into making life effortless. We check Mapquest for the shortest and easiest route; we stop by McDonald's for the fastest and cheapest meal; and we swipe our credit cards so we never have to take the time to write a check or wait for change. These...

24 Aug 2010
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What does technology serve

Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education

These days it seems like every aspect of civilization is somehow tied to technology. The most powerful man in the world fought to keep his personal Blackberry. The seemingly simple act of texting has spawned a multi-billion dollar industry. And from the alarm that wakes us in the morning to...

24 Aug 2010
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Native cultures

Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education

When settlers first began to arrive in what is now the United States of America, they encountered a land already populated with indigenous people. To these first early settlers, and for many of the settlers that followed, these indigenous people all seemed alike. They spoke languages the settlers...