Stonebreakers - Valerio Ciriaci (2022); George Floyd and the End of American Hegemony - Jonathan Wiesen (2020) - Analyzing the Black Lives Matter Movement
Artwork commentary - 3 pages - Medias
Using a movie and an article as study material, this reading note answers questions commenting on racism and the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States.
Presidential Proclamation for National Native American Heritage Month - Barack Obama (2016) - Does preserving one's language and traditions help to build a unified nation?
Text commentary - 2 pages - World geography
Barack Obama recognizes the role of early Americans in shaping the nation's destiny, the president emphasizes the autonomy of young American Indians and Alaska Natives to determine their own future.
American History Evolution
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
America is a magnificent country looking at its landscape, culture, language and even modern technology. But there is another topic that is still a little behind magnificent. And that is, of course, his evolution in societal issues. They are still insisting that they evolved, but are they?
Aging in America: Ageism and General Attitudes toward Growing Old and the Elderly - Raqota Berger (2017) - How Is Aging Perceived?
Text commentary - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
While many cultures around the world celebrate the aging process and cherish their elders, in American culture, where the youth are fetishized and older adults commonly relegated from the community to nursing homes and hospitals, aging can become a disgraceful experience. Human aging physical...
The Normative Role of the Cold War in Recent American History
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
The Cold War was a period of tension that resulted from the conflict between the United States (capitalist) and the Soviet Union (communist) and their respective allies. This period has resulted in a lasting effect on the involved countries; it has influenced U.S. economic stability,...
How the Trump Administration Refashioned American Strategy - Elbridge A. Colby and Aaron Wess Mitchell (2020) - The first Trump administration : isolating allies and encouraging enemies
Text commentary - 10 pages - Political science
I choose to work on the reading How the Trump Administration Refashioned American Strategy written in 2020 by Elbridge A. Colby and Aaron Wess Mitchell. When Donald Trump announced that he would seek the Republican nomination in June 2015, the media described him as an eccentric billionaire and...
Pizza Bomber: The Untold Story of America's Most Shocking Bank Robbery, Chapters 23-30 - Jerry Clark and Ed Palattella (2017) - Justice, Resilience, and the Complexity of Human Behavior
Text commentary - 3 pages - Literature
The last part of the book additionally marks the resolution phase as the collection of all parts of the rich narrative in the Pizza Bomber case. These last chapters give readers a full general idea of the details and consequences of the case. The following sections, which contain the early...
Asian Americans
Case study - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
To start the study of Asians in the United States who are not as feared as immigrants from other origins, we could use the traditional approaches of Functionalism, Conflict Theory and Symbolic Interactionism to the statistical and descriptive information from López et al. (2017).
12 Angry Men - Reginald Rose (1953) and Sidney Lumet (1957) - To what extent is debate necessary for a trial in the American Democracy?
Text commentary - 2 pages - Political science
This document tackles three documents : - Document A is a still from the film 12 Angry Men entitled « Preliminary vote ». The film is a courtroom drama, it was directed by Sidney lumet and released in 1957. - Document B is a literary extract from a play called 12 Angry Men written for television...
The Improvement in American Economic Mobility
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Recently, America has become a very advanced technological society, greatly impacting the communication broadcasting of cultural and informational exchange on different media levels. With the widespread impact, the implications of social interaction, which is through class detachment,...
Shadows - John Cassavetes (1959) - What is the representation of the African American in the 19th century?
Presentation - 18 pages - Film studies
This slideshow is a support for an oral presentation of John Cassavetes' film Shadows, highlighting the representation of the African American in the 19th century.
America's Post-Cold War Security
Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - Political science
The Cold War was a prolonged period of political rivalry between the US and USSR and their allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, beginning in 1947 and ending in 1991. The term "cold war" refers to the absence of direct, large-scale warfare between the two superpowers, as they supported...
The 1960s in the United States of America
Course material - 3 pages - Modern history
The 1960s left an indelible mark on American society, a period of profound transformation that continues to influence contemporary debates. The decade was marked by major cultural, social and political upheavals that shaped the trajectory of the nation in many ways.
Problem of Practice Gap and Root Cause Analysis - Feeding America
Case study - 7 pages - Management
As the Financial Director at Feeding America, my role is multifaceted and critical to the organization's success in addressing hunger and food insecurity. I oversee all financial aspects of the organization, including budgeting, financial planning, accounting, and reporting....
Guns in America Cover - Time Magazine (November 5, 2018) - What 245 Americans Think About the Issue
Artwork commentary - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Facing the debate on individual weapons ownership and gun violence in the United States, artists try to alert and provoke public opinion through their works, being biased or not at all. The work I will show you dates back to 5 years; this is TIME's November 5 cover, made in collaboration with...
Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam - Martin Luther King (April 1967) - How did Martin Luther King's position on the Vietnam War alter American politics?
Text commentary - 2 pages - Modern history
This essay offers an interpretation of one aspect of King's career: his opposition to America's involvement in Vietnam. Although it focuses squarely on King himself, it tries to avoid some of the pitfalls of the biographical approach by examining the nature of his "Declaration of...
Telling a journey to America in the early 20th century
Tutorials/exercises - 1 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Today, it's been a month I arrived in New York. Time flies really fast, and at the same time it feels like I've been here for a very long time... With the threat of war in Europe, and nothing to keep me in England, the opportunities offered by America were very appealing.
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...
Places and forms of power: the gun issue in America
Presentation - 1 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Power is the possibility to choose one's life as well as to influence that of others. More than physical strength, it is mostly found in society and politics, but it can also take the form of gun violence. Nothing is more threatening than a fireweapon and it has become a constant fight...
The Birth of a Nation: North America
Course material - 5 pages - Pre-modern history
From the period of English colonization to the attainment of independence, various groups of migrants, including the French and Spanish, played significant roles. However, our focus will be on the English migrants who were instrumental in shaping the course of history during this era. The...
The Notion of Cultural Identity in The Waiter's Wife and Angels in America
Essay - 3 pages - Linguistics & languages
As Margaret J. Wheatley, who studies organizational behaviour, once noted that "There (was) no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about", we may question, especially since the most prevalent ghettoization suspicions in many places around the world, with all the...
Tracts, Volume 1, n° 2 - Peter Force (1836) - Civilisation and History of America according to Peter Force
Text commentary - 1 pages - Pre-modern history
The text presented is an abstract of Tracts, volume 1 number 2, written by Peter Force in 1836, in Washington DC. The first part is an abstract of the Mayflower Compact, a pact written by the Pilgrim Fathers in 1620 during a trip between Plymouth, England and Plymouth, Massachusetts. The second...
The rise of White Nationalism in America
Presentation - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
"Proud Boys, stay back and stand by". With these words, spoken by the President of the United States of America Donald Trump during the first debate on the sidelines of the presidential elections of 2020, the president wanted to show his support for a small group of extreme right-wing...
Is America in decline? - The Economist (2021) - How has the American superpower evolved since the beginning of the twentieth century?
Artwork commentary - 2 pages - Economic politics
The video we are introducing today is a video from the economist entitled "Is America in decline?" posted on YouTube on September 7, 2021. It is an interview led by an editor, John Prudeau, who is interacting with 2 guests: a Washington bureau chief, James Astill, and an American senior...
How African American heroes managed to lead the black community to recognition?
Presentation - 2 pages - Everyday's life
I am going to talk about the notion of "Myths and Heroes". But before we start, we shall say that a myth is a story that was initially "true" but as people retold it some parts may have been changed whereas a hero is a man or a woman of distinguished courage and ability who is admired for his or...
American Cultural Aspects for Business
Course material - 11 pages - Modern history
America has been created from the East to the West. The West is a concept in history, for an American it is often associated with the idea of frontier. In the 19th century St-Louis (Missouri) was considered as the gate way to the West, when people went to the West they went directly to...
The right skills for the job? Rethinking training policies for workers, Chapter 2, Almeida, Rita, Jere Behrman, and David Robalino (2012) - Labor Economics in Latin America: The Economic Rationale for Skills Development Policies
Text commentary - 2 pages - Micro-economy, job-unemployment
The authors focus on skills development policies and their relative ineffectiveness since they are not properly distributed. They question the place of the private sector as a complementary solution to provide a real boost to this essential sector of the economy. Despite the action of the State,...
Memory of World War II in America
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
The memory is basically the act of recall. Indeed, when something, either an action, an event or even a person is remembered, this automatically becomes a memory. Thus, it can be related to everything but, here, it will be precisely about the memory of World War II in America. Besides, the...
Opinion: the process of plea bargaining should be reformed in the American Justice System
Essay - 5 pages - Criminal law
According to the Department of Justice, more than 90% of Criminal Justice cases end in plea bargains (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2005). This statistic shows how important the process of plea bargaining is in the American Justice System. Clark Neily (2021) describes plea bargaining as "a...
Human Resources - Comparison Between Two Countries, Japan and United States of America
Case study - 6 pages - Human resources
In this paper, I will be comparing two countries, which are the United States and Japan. I will be discussing all forms of similarities and differences. I chose those two countries because the large geographical distance and strong language barrier between them also plays a role in the extent of...
