How visual images are captured and encoded by the retina and represented in the primary visual cortex
Thesis - 8 pages - Medical studies
Visual perception is the ability to interpret information from visual light reaching the eye, the resulting perception of this information is sight. Light is electromagnetic energy that is emitted in the form of waves, it is reflected off an object to enter the eye, and is refracted by the eye to...
Immigrant performance in the UK and Germany
Thesis - 20 pages - International relations
This paper reviews the existing literature on ethnic inequality and discrimination in the labor market, to then analyze the economic performance of various ethnic groups in Germany and the UK. Main findings are that in the UK the immigrant population as a whole performs similarly to the natives;...
Christianity, conversion and local culture
Case study - 5 pages - Political science
The work on participation shows how western NGOs need to ‘convert' locals to the project's agenda, in such a way that the project's ideas become their ideas. This analogy with religious conversion prompts us to look at the historical and ongoing waves of religious missioning that precede...
Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of rice callus with artificial miRNA construct against lipase to produce transgenic plant with lowered lipase activity
Case study - 9 pages - Biology
Lipase is a lipolytic enzyme causes spoilage of rice bran. Its removal by conventional heating and chemical approaches damages bran quality. This experiment aimed to transform Nipponbare rice callus with ami RNA against lipase using Agrobacterium tumefaciens, regenerate whole transgenic rice...
The Rise of Modern America
Case study - 12 pages - Psychology
The frame of reference attached to the stretch of years from 1865 to 1900 as ‘The Gilded Age,' implies a surface gleam where a gold coating encloses a cheap metal underneath. The justification for the gilded label comprises the rapid development and expansion of the economy, new...
Gender inequality in the workplace: One of America's many workplace challenges
Case study - 4 pages - Psychology
What does the number 60,743 mean to you? Most people wouldn't be able to place this number off the top of their head. According to the author of The Face of Discrimination, by Vincent J. Roscigno, that is the number of cases of sex and racial discrimination cases of employment. (15). These are...
Affirmative action
Thesis - 7 pages - Sociology
In the dictionary, an affirmative Action is said to be an active effort to improve the employment or educational opportunities of members of minority groups or women. Affirmative action has been the subject of increasing debate and tension in American society. It is an attempt by the United...
A new paradigm in designing an advertisement - an application of real time data warehouse & data mining in preparation of an ad copy
Thesis - 16 pages - Computer science
The purpose of the article is to address the relative information of modeling an ad copy through real-time data warehousing. In modern enterprises the day-to-day activities information is to be stored in data warehouse. We have taken the example of data warehouse concept from SAP Business One...
France and Ireland: Implications of increased immigration on educational systems
Thesis - 15 pages - Social sciences
France and Ireland are two very different European countries. Their citizens speak different languages, eat different foods, yet every four years they both think they have the best soccer team in the World Cup. Aside from these two country's differences, they have one important feature in...
With close reference to any two poems on this course, critically discuss different conceptions of American-ness
Thesis - 3 pages - Literature
One can find a great variety of themes in American poetry, whatever the period one is interested in: poems about love or about war, about the self or about nature, about reality or about dreams. But the common point of all these is that they convey a sense of American-ness - that is, they can all...
Governmental Leadership: Not Always Accurate
Essay - 4 pages - Journalism
It is argued by a noted historian that the federal government sets the policies and the people calmly follow. However, for that to be the case, one would have to ignore the many riots and protests that have taken place in America from 1945-present. Also, this noted historian says that the central...
African Americans in Oklahoma
Tutorials/exercises - 4 pages - Modern history
The “All-Black towns” of Oklahoma represent a unique segment of American history. Neither in the deep south nor the far west did so many African Americans come together to create and govern their own communities. Between 1865 and 1920, African Americans had established over 50 towns in...
Stage vs. Screen
Essay - 2 pages - Film studies
Films are often adapted from plays, and at times they are nearly identical. At other times they have almost nothing to do with one another. In films you can do things that are not feasible and at times not possible on stage. This is not to suggest that the film Crimes of the Heart is in any...
The history of Philadelphia
Thesis - 6 pages - Modern history
By the late eighteen the century, America was well on its way to establishing its own national identity. While the cities and towns that were born during this time period each manifested their own unique culture and heritage, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania became the political and economic heart of...
The Urban Organic: Ecocities in Global Perspective
Essay - 11 pages - International relations
At every turn, the global city is faced with a set of challenges. How to compete cooperatively, how to expand stably, how to modernize peacefully—these and other contradictions check the unbridled enthusiasm of neoliberal planners, who have transformed Saskia Sassen's global city model from...
Humor as a Mask for Anguish in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
As the quote from The New York Times points out on the back cover of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou's novel is “Simultaneously touching and comic.” Through language, choice of detail, and the story itself, Angelou introduces humor and comic relief to a narrative filled...
Conformity, radicals, conservatives, and Clinton
Essay - 8 pages - Modern history
In the United States, the 1950s was the rise of suburbia. Undeveloped areas were constructed into planned communities. One of the most famous subdivisions of this time was known as Levittown. Levittown was a political subdivision of Long Island, New York. It was the first truly mass-produced...
The miseducation of Mexican Americans: The crossroads of affirmative action and bilingual education
Essay - 7 pages - Educational studies
From its inception, the US has been a nation of foreign cultures and languages, a nation with a strong ideology committed to ideals of harmony and justice. Since its inception too, the nation has time and time again fallen far short of these ideals. While waves of immigrant ethnic groups have...
How Jazz Musicians inspired a political re-imagining of America
Essay - 5 pages - Social sciences
The concept of jazz music being truly American art form is both sadly ironic and inspiringly beautiful. Being that the music itself is a direct product of the black experience in America, it is a national symbol that while challenging the nation has come to define it. As Eric Porter describes...
Untouchability and societal changes
Essay - 6 pages - Social sciences
How quickly can a prevailing attitude shift? What forces can bring about drastic changes in the structure of a society, and how quickly can that change be enacted? How long does it take for crippling stereotypes to disappear? These questions are central to those marked as untouchables, and to...
Gender equality and employment in the European Union
Essay - 29 pages - European union
Gender equality is among the fundamental principles and the common values of the European Union. In the 2nd Article of the Treaty of the European Community, it is even mentioned as a “task” to perform for the Community, and again in Article 3(2) TEC. But two questions already appear:...
Music and politics (2004)
Essay - 13 pages - Arts and art history
Art is often seen as a way to escape from reality, to enter a new universe, and indeed it is. Art has to create emotions, to make people understand how irrational their life can be or sometimes just to make the beauty hidden from their eyes appears. And nobody knows how Art manage to touch so...
Analysis of do the right thing, spike lee (1989)
Essay - 4 pages - Film studies
Do the Right Thing was released in May 1989 in Cannes. Spike Lee directed, produced and wrote the screenplay for the film. It tackles the subject of race relations by depicting the ethnic communities of the Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, where Spike Lee grew up. Spike Lee plays the...
Analyzing the links between disability and child abuse and evaluating the role of Social Services with regards to Disabled Child Protection
Thesis - 21 pages - Social sciences
The protection of children is today a high profile issue, within both the voluntary and statutory sectors, although the abuse of disabled children is a matter that has only recently attracted professional interest. Whilst many people find it difficult to believe that disabled children, some of...
Theory and practice: Civil disobedience and the pursuit of justice
Thesis - 4 pages - Civil law
In the Crito, Socrates makes an argument against the notion of breaking the laws even if they are judged by the public to be unjust. This is because by disobeying the law, one is in effect “attempting to destroy... the laws, and indeed the whole city” (Plato 53). Socrates continues...
Exploring gender role construction and conflicts in Niebelungenlied, the 13th Century German warrior epic
Thesis - 10 pages - Medieval history
The position of women in the medieval German state in the 13th century is a complex one when viewed through an historical lens that looks at gender and sex (using feminist theory) to understand this past era. What are the factors that shaped gender dynamics, as trends from the end of the Roman...
A survey on recruitment advertisements
Tutorials/exercises - 35 pages - Human resources
Advertising is a phrase used for the announcements made by the seller to promote the sales of their products. Advertising refers to the mass selling techniques used when direct face to face selling is not possible or is too time consuming and expensive. It is different from propaganda, publicity...
Concrete technology
Presentation - 410 pages - Physics
The presentation is based on concrete and starts with the objectives of the presentation and moves onto a review of the composition of concrete. It then moves towards RCC structures and covers points like methods used in the designing of RCC structures, the codes used and the functions of...
The growth, development, and changes in American society after the Civil War
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
Theodore Geisel wrote children's books for adults. Eric Foner wrote a text designed to challenge student ideas about America's progression toward a more inclusive society. Professor Jamieson picked books and movies designed to encourage you to consider the theme of the class--what is...
Essential departments in a hotel
Tutorials/exercises - 34 pages - Management
The past, present and the future of the hospitality industry are closely linked. Today's lodging and restaurants are the result of many centuries of social and cultural evolution. Comfortable and sanitary lodging was once considered the exclusive privilege of the wealthy. But with the rise...
