Theory comparison paper
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
The basics of this situation are that two people, Jack and Jill, met through their mutual friend, Brian. Jack and Jill become close friends very quickly and start spending a lot of time together. Eventually, Jack develops romantic feelings for Jill; however, he is afraid to reveal his secret to...
Alternate modes of personal travel
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Purdue's campus in West Lafayette is trying to achieve something that at this moment in time seems impossible. They are trying to make it a bus-free campus. However, given how public transportation has became a part of life just as much as breathing and eating it is understood that this is a task...
Privacy is a matter of knowledge
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
The idea of companies keeping tabs on us through technology is something that up until a few years ago was reserved solely for conspiracy theorists and science fiction writers. Thoughts that our computers were filming everything we were doing, that vending machines were actually Chinese spy bots,...
Human augmentation and its impacts on society
Case study - 15 pages - Educational studies
Within this paper, the implications or reasons for supporting human augmentation are discussed. Facts are presented about our current technology that allow for human augmentation, as well as hypothetical reasons why people are for or against future technologies that can make human augmentation...
College without a cell phone
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
Students across the United States of America enjoy talking on the phone. This is a known fact. Many students also enjoy texting on the phone to friends, parents and peers. This comes as no surprise to teachers who have caught student's texting their friends, parents and peers multiple times in...
Strength, pride and soul
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
They said we could take only what we could carry, so we carried strength, pride, and soul. This is the introduction to the book, Only What We Could Carry, which talks about the lives of Japanese Americans during the turbulent time of World War Two. With only minutes to pick out what...
And the ground shook: Natural disasters
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Natural disasters have been occurring since the beginning of time. The earliest recorded natural disaster was recorded in the year 1138 (Willis, 1928). It happened in Syria, Aleppo. An earthquake killed 230,000 men, women and children; and those are just the deaths that we know about (Willis,...
Environmental quality and concern in selected neighborhoods in Stockholm Municipality
Case study - 15 pages - Educational studies
Three different neighborhoods in Stockholm Municipality were chosen to compare whether lower income groups had less or more concern on the environment than high income neighborhoods. These districts were Ostermalm (High income), Hammarby Sjostad (Middle income) and Rinkeby (low income). These...
External environment and social responsibilities
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
A big influence on internal business environment is the external environment. No business can choose to ignore the outside factors, if it aims to succeed in the today's corporate world. Corporate culture should embody what it takes to succeed in the environment. If the external environment...
Smoking case study
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
The article Illicit Smokes up 25% since tax rise by Eli Greenblat talks about the effects of increase taxes on the illegal trade and smuggling of cigarettes in Australia. It was published on March 1, 2011; exactly a year after the Australian government increased the taxation on...
Principal of sociology
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Famous American sociologist C.Wright Mills explored how sociology should be studied by the individual's perspective this is now known as Sociological imagination. According to Exploring Sociology sociological imagination is defined for the ability to perceive how dynamic social forces...
Pride of Baghdad: Humans and lions
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Brian Vaughan's Pride of Baghdad tells the story of a pride of lions, escaped from the Baghdad zoo, and the horrors of the humans' war they are suddenly thrown into the middle of. Vaughan uses anthropomorphism to tell the story: each lion has a distinct personality, as do the other animals they...
Bonobo sex: A review approach
Case study - 9 pages - Educational studies
Primates of the Pan genus belonging to the Hominidae family in the haplorhines that fall under Pan paniscus are commonly known as bonobos, a species that is commonly compared with chimpanzees. Their geographic distribution consists of lowland rainforests and grassland habitats located primarily...
A fatal attraction: Animal performance in Kafka
Case study - 8 pages - Educational studies
A careful study of some of Franz Kafka's most well-known creatures, and an exploration into the fantastical worlds in which they inhabit, will serve to open up an understanding of them that departs from a human-based appraisal. The pieces up for examination indispensably include his famous...
Deforestation in Indonesia
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Deforestation in Indonesia has quite a long history and is currently of major national concern. Recent estimates identify the rate of deforestation in Indonesia at between 1.6 million and 2.5 million hectares per year. (Nawir et al 2007 pg 16) While this deforestation is linked to the industries...
Archaeologies of Gender
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
Anthropology is a field which is constantly evolving and which constantly needs to be checked for proper procedure, language, interpretation, and ethics. In Socio/cultural Anthropology, essays are frequently written to aid anthropologists in remaining neutral and not reporting a biased...
Corporate governance and ethical responsibility research paper
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
One of the top internal stakeholders within a hospital would have to be the actual doctors that run the day to day life of the patients. They make the ultimate decisions in split seconds that can save or lose the life of a patient. Doctors do make a lot of money but they can also be careless if...
Compare and contrast essay: Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket, two views on the Vietnam war
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
The First and mostly the Second World Wars have been often supported by Hollywood, which produced many propaganda movies. For instance even the classic Casablanca by Michael Curtiz had been shot in order to glorify the French Resistance and the US Army. But during the 1970s, we can observe a real...
Using the Socio-Ecological method to combat eating disorders
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Community health utilizes the ties between members of varied communities to change behaviors that lead to premature morbidity or mortality. We can use populations to analyze risk factors for those with a certain set of characteristics, but the real goal is to employ the bonds of the community to...
What factors account for the long-lasting neglect of Women in Public Welfare Systems?
Case study - 8 pages - Educational studies
Today, in Britain's full-time workforce, there is an average 16.4 gap between women and men in their hourly rates of pay . Although it varies across work sectors, the most striking is the 55 gap in the finance sector. In total 64% of the lowest paid workers are women . A' 40 years on...
Describe the influx of foreign-labor migrants to Europe and the consequences for the welfare state in Western Europe
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
In Europe, the second half of the 20th century was a period of major change in all aspects of social life. It was marked by economic, social and demographic changes. Migration movements since 1945 have had an especially marked effect, both on the existing population and on newcomers, which...
The Copts: more Christian than Egyptian?
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
While it is true that the Middle East is an incredibly diverse area as far as religion is concerned, the Copts represent within Egypt a particular case. Indeed, although today they only represent 10% of the population , Christians claim themselves descendants of the people of ancient Egypt, and...
The importance of Non-State Actors- A Realists Perspective
Case study - 8 pages - Educational studies
Non-state actors, do they matter? To answer this question one must first become familiar with the traditional, historical, and future trends and issues of global politics. Upon analyzing these aspects, one of the most remarkable changes occurring as a result of the dynamics involved in the...
The good, the bad, and the ugly: Health care comparisons of three nations
Case study - 8 pages - Educational studies
Out of the three nations I chose to examine, Europe proved to have the best and most cost effective health care overall. While studying Europe, I mostly analyzed the UK's system, though I can say that most - if not, all - of the health care in other countries throughout Western Europe are...
The struggle with poverty
Case study - 8 pages - Educational studies
In today's society, poverty is not only a regional issue for the United States, but an issue for all countries. Many different variables factor into a country having a high poverty level, but one variable that needs to be addressed primarily is the educational dilemma. As there is a direct...
Globalization of Culture - published: 30/05/2012
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
Globalization has been known to benefit local communities through the creation of new opportunities, financial capital and culture. But it is even more famous for the detrimental effect that it has brought upon the world's poorest countries. This essay will be focusing on the examination of the...
Report for French expatriates in Russia: Cultural differences and recommendations to succeed in business there
Case study - 10 pages - Educational studies
We are cross-cultural consultants and experts in Russia's business culture and we are going through this report to show how to successfully do business there. This report will facilitate the cultural integration of French expatriates in Russia and help them to succeed doing business there....
Why international agreements are necessary to protect environmental health and community health?
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
Environmental health refers to the elements present in the environment that affect and influence human public health. As established by the WHO Regional Office for Europe, the United Nations health agency, Environmental health refers to both direct pathological effect of different elements...
Anxiety
Case study - 8 pages - Educational studies
Anxiety disorders are one of the most complex psychological disorders in existence and also one of the least understood, etiologically. It is extremely important to understand anxiety disorders from an etiologically genetic standpoint, because it often explains why those people who experience the...
Examination of social inequality from a sociological perspective
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
The aim of this essay is to discuss the social inequality and other aspects of society from a sociological perspective. Inequalities in society have been the subject of numerous sociological studies. Various commentators from different ideological approaches have analyzed social inequality in...