The consequences of the financial crisis on theory and practical aspects of asset management
Dissertation - 55 pages - Finance
2007 is going down in history with the subprime phenomenon which came as a surprise to all market observers. According to P. Artus, Director of the Economic Research at Natixis , the word subprime was mentioned in 6,000 articles in the international press in 2006, 32,000 during the first 6 months...
Inside criminal law
Case study - 2 pages - Administrative law
There are four sources of American criminal law. The four sources have been codified. They have been put in writing and made accessible for all. The first of four sources is the U.S. Constitution. “The U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land. As such, it is the basis of all law in...
There is no sense in maintaining different rules for tracing at law and in equity. One set of tracing rules is enough
Essay - 3 pages - Business law
In the administration of a trust, the trustee is the one that assumes a range of duties and responsibilities. When a breach of trust occurs, the trustee might be liable for both acts of omission and commission. There are several ways a beneficiary can pursue remedies for a breach of duty on the...
The European Court of Justice and the rule of Precedent
Case study - 5 pages - European law
The rule of precedent is the legal principle under which judges have to follow the judgments established previously by upper courts. The Latin translation of "stare decisis" gives an unequivocal definition of the concept as it means "to stand by that which is decided". Precedent underpins...
Corrections and treatment
Case study - 1 pages - Administrative law
Community-based treatment programs are made available to juveniles who require additional efforts. “Community treatment refers to efforts to provide care, protection, and treatment for juveniles in need.” (Siegel and Welsh, 2005) Three community-based programs that have been created for...
Criminal justice
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Criminology is a branch of Law which refers to cases that do with crime. Any crime has its doer and its victim. As such justice has to be done to the affected persons. It is here where law comes in. To defend both sides if possible as it seeks the truth and do justice (Croall,2004). The Need...
Religious, Tolerance and Intolerance
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
“Nathan the Wise,” was Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's last work. The play was an enthralling modification of the classic parable of the three rings. Lessing modified it so as to convey a call for religious canons and doctrines (Mittleman 366). The play is about intricate interactions among...
Role of Race - The Japanese American Internment
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
The Japanese American internment was as a result of the Japanese outrageous attack on Pearl Harbor (Greenberg 1995). The attack thus fueled a lot of sentiments from the Americans and led to the signing of an order namely, 9066 which saw to it that Americans of Japanese ancestry were brought...
Police Brutality in New Orleans
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Various forces exist in any country for ensuring peace and the provision of protection to the citizen from internal and external attack. For these forces to operate accordingly there is need for them to operate within the rules and regulations that governs their operation. Therefore, in case...
Guidelines for ANTH 220 Film Review, Film: "Paris is Burning"
Case study - 2 pages - Film studies
famous dancing styles called “Voguing” started being performed publicly. The dancers started performing in more daring places such as mainstream club. The dancers poses like vogue models and perform dancing moves which resembled Egyptian hieroglyphics during Voguing. This crates...
Jesus Life and Biblical Principals
Case study - 1 pages - Educational studies
Religion has been part of mankind throughout evolution. It entails the belief of a supernatural being or spirit that has power over man and all his endeavors. In Christianity, people believe that Jesus, God's only son, came down from heaven and died at the cross for the sins of mankind. What make...
Billion dollar bankruptcy in Santa Catarina
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
Chapecó - Judge of the 3rd Civil Court of Chapecó, Rosane Portella Wolff, declared yesterday the 13th of May 2005, the bankruptcy of Chapecó Food. The refrigerator poultry and pork was in crisis for 10 years and has a debt of $ 1 billion, an amount that was being negotiated for six years...
Significant limitations on freedom of education
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Already in the Kjeldsen, limits dawn we saw some this educational freedom. First, even assuming that the second sentence of Article 2 of Protocol I applies to public school, it would involve only the right for parents to have their children exempted from religious instruction to denominational....
Discrimination and Prejudice
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Humanities/philosophy
Researching prejudice is so undoubtedly crucial to the modern family because in order to eliminate something, we must first be fully aware of it. If it is not implemented from the very beginning of the development process that such intolerance and discrimination is totally unacceptable, a nation...
Memorize your timetables: The rational world and the power of prediction in Tabucchi's La Testa Perduta di Damasceno Monteiro
Tutorials/exercises - 4 pages - Humanities/philosophy
In Antonio Tabucchi's La Testa Perduta di Damasceno Monteiro, the reader is pulled into a detective murder-mystery dealing with decapitation, murder suspects named il Grillo Verde, and tripe. Of particular interest, however, is the character of Don Fernando, a lawyer whose mind flies from topic...
Battered woman syndrome and New York city
Essay - 5 pages - Other law subjects
Though domestic violence, as an issue, is important enough for the mayor of have an office dedicated to the phenomenon (Mayor's Office to Combat Domestic Violence) and several local laws that protect victims of domestic violence, the city government remains largely silent on the concept of...
Aristotle and the best kind of life in society
Essay - 5 pages - Social sciences
Nicomachean Ethics (NE) is generally considered, not without any reason, as one of the main books in the history of the ethics. Indeed, Aristotle describes and constructs in his book major concepts, like virtue or happiness that have been used for a long time, from Kant to Arendt and that do...
Commentary on an extract from O. Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray" chapter 2
Book review - 8 pages - Literature
This passage takes place in the middle of chapter II, in which Lord Henry has just been introduced for the first time to Dorian by his friend Basil. During this scene of first encounter Lord Henry made an impressive philosophic speech about one's self and soul, moral influence, virtues and sins,...
Action is character, FS Fitzgerald
Essay - 3 pages - Humanities/philosophy
In real life, what we do is supposed to reflect our personality. What we are - to the others - is first and foremost what we do and what we look like : we are judged by the others through the prism of our physical appearance and of our own behavior. Doing something "reprehensible" according to...
Jewish morality complexities in holocaust literature
Essay - 8 pages - Human resources
Jewish or non-Jewish, being a victim of the Holocaust did not always imply a sense of innocence. In other words, simply being a victim, did not free one from complicity. During this time, people were forced to make decisions that people should never have to make. Complicity during the...
Education and the disabled
Case study - 18 pages - Social sciences
From everything I have been exposed to this semester I feel that I have a good understanding of what is necessary to achieve excellence in teaching. The teacher must be attentive to the needs of the students, be able to relate to them in some way, be willing to dedicate extra time and energy to...
Performance appraisal system in organizations
Thesis - 9 pages - Human resources
Appraisal of performance is widely used in society. Parents evaluate their children, teachers evaluate their students and employers evaluate their employees. However, formal evaluation of employees is believed to have been adopted for the first time during the First World War. At the instance of...
The software 'programming arena'
Dissertation - 114 pages - Computer science
The Programming Arena is basically a distributed program which will be available on internet. It is the project which has been developed to help learners of different programming languages. It is a system which provides Free Tutorials of programming, Free Online Exam to test learner's skills,...
The virtue of humanism: Refuting Ayn Rand's anti-altruism through Sartre's existentialism and Rorty's concept of contingency
Thesis - 6 pages - Social sciences
The writing of Ayn Rand is given little to no regard in most academic circles, yet it remains one of the most persuasive and popular endorsements of ethical egoism in the world today. Consider, for example, that both Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead are respectively placed first and second on...
The American revolution: Case study in detail
Thesis - 17 pages - Modern history
In 1763, the Treaty of Versailles ended the Seven Years War between France and Spain against Great Britain. The victory of the latter (gain of French, Canada, of all the territories east of the Mississippi except New Orleans, and with Spanish, Florida) was certainly a matter of immense pride in...
Feminism in France and in the US: A comparison
Thesis - 11 pages - Sociology
In 1991, the American feminist movement was revived by the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas case. In the same year, Clarence Thomas, a Supreme Court nominee was accused a few days before his appointment of sexual harassment by one of his former co-workers, the Law Professor Anita Hill. This case is...
The Crucible - Arthur Miller (1953) - Act-by-act summary
Book review - 8 pages - Literature
This document is a synopsis of the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller, in which we can first read of presentation each character, followed by an act-by-act summary. John Proctor is a serious man who keeps all of his thoughts private. He protects his position of power in the community but sees...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey (1962) - The 3 main characters
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
At first sight, this quotation makes me think that in reality it is our acts which determine the person that we are. We can be judged by our acts. It is particularly true in Ken Kesey's novel... The example of the three main characters: The Chief, the Big Nurse and McMurphy.
The religion of the social contract defining and denying civil religion
Thesis - 4 pages - Humanities/philosophy
Throughout his work On the Social Contract, Rousseau attempts to describe a societal system in which sovereign rule is found within the collective will of the people. Within this system, he argues, freedom is linked to morality and essentially humanity. This freedom exists as a civil freedom in...
Arbitration in France, the Czech Republic and at the international level (2006)
Thesis - 11 pages - International law
Aristotle wrote, "For an arbitrator goes by the equity of a case, a judge by the law, and arbitration was invented with the express purpose of securing full power for equity." Arbitration is a form of Alternative Dispute Resolution, specifically, a legal alternative to litigation whereby...
