The launch of a new product on the Algerian market (Sagem mobile phones)
Market study - 38 pages - Business strategy
This report mainly focuses on Algeria as an emerging market, mobile phone as a product and Sagem as a French company. This report includes a detailed study of the marketing strategy and the economic conditions in Algeria and also analysis of the product and the services that Sagem offers to...
The role of NATO in Afghanistan
Essay - 11 pages - International relations
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has been in Afghanistan since August 2003 to command the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), which was created on December 20, 2001, by Security Council Resolution 1386 of the United Nations, in accordance with the Bonn Agreement. ISAF has...
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Case study - 7 pages - Educational studies
Every country in the world has defence forces, which is compost of the military, police and other security forces in order to protect the country from internal and external attack. For the past few years, American has remains the superpower, hence have control in the whole world in terms of...
Are there 'just wars'?
Thesis - 5 pages - International relations
The notion of 'just war' can be considered as a moral philosophy of the War debating the legitimacy of wars and the way wars are made. The existence of just wars thus supposes that violence can be ethical. However, it has to be underlined that even for the just wars theoreticians, war is...
DNI and IC points of interest
Thesis - 2 pages - Administrative law
An overhaul of the Intelligence System, beyond that established by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, is necessary to improve connectivity between the community, and between the IC and law enforcement. Two of the main issues that remain unsolved are information...
What were the central features of Stalinism in Eastern Europe?
Essay - 6 pages - Modern history
The term “Stalinism” refers to the brutal dictatorship which lasted from 1927 to 1953 in Russia and Eastern European countries. Although he was the leader of Soviet Russia, after the Second World War Stalin soon became the dictator of a Soviet Union which had expanded to most of Eastern...
The Fall of Ulysses
Essay - 4 pages - Humanities/philosophy
In all its humor, 1984 ½ would have in actuality been a very fitting title for Terry Gilliam's Brazil. An invisible, all-powerful government, the struggle of the individual against the state, the apparent hopelessness, there is no doubting the similarities between George Orwell's dystopian...
The Trans-Afghan pipeline project: History, stakes and perspectives
Thesis - 8 pages - International relations
World competition around the natural resources of Central Asia and the Caspian is not new, but the collapse of the Soviet empire has revived it. This region, believed to possess huge oil and gas reserves, is also a point of contact of different civilizations and an arena for several competing...
The Iranian Issue: The emergence of a main potential threat for the international security
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
The Iranian regime appears to be one of the main present sources of threat for the international order and security. The nuclear programme that has been undertaken by its president Ahmadinezhad is raising strong tensions between this country and the main part of the rest of the world, even though...
Australian culture, between complex and suspicion?
Essay - 3 pages - Social sciences
In his review of My life as a fake, Blake Morrison makes the following observation: “Carey is fascinated by what the hoax says about Australian culture - both its “terror of being out of date” and its suspicion of European-style bullshit […].” Do you agree with Morrison's...
Do U.S. policies towards Egypt and the Muslim Brothers' success affect the democratization process?
Essay - 10 pages - International relations
9.11 attacks and the U.S. reaction to launch a war on terror in Afghanistan and Iraq, aside with the perpetuating Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the U.S policies toward Egypt triggered an increased popularity of Islamists. In the context of the up coming Anti-terrorist law due to be presented...
The "Kurdish Problem" in Turkey
Thesis - 5 pages - International relations
The “Kurdish issue” is Turkey's most difficult and painful problem, one that presents a vast moral dilemma for the country. The issue feeds Turkey's continuing inflation and is the major source of human rights violations and the biggest irritant in Turkey's relations with the European...
The invasion of Iraq: An example of liberal imperialism
Case study - 6 pages - Political science
On March 19, 2003, the United States, under the leadership of former President George W. Bush launched the invasion of Iraq1. For many people, this was a vital strategy in the United States' “war against terror.” The terrorist attack in New York City on the morning of September 11,...
Health insurance and how it works
Thesis - 21 pages - Finance
Insurance is vital to a free enterprise economy. It protects society from the consequences of financial loss from death, accidents, sicknesses, damage to property, and injury caused to others. The person seeking to transfer risk, the insured ( policyholder ), pays a relatively small amount, the...
Commentary upon Mary Shelley's statement: "What terrified me will terrify others"
Essay - 5 pages - Literature
In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the Creature in itself is not what is the most terrifying. Indeed, in her dream and in the novel afterwards, if Doctor Frankenstein is afraid at the sight of his creature, it is also its coming to life which creates fear: how can an amount of bones, skin,...
Book Report : "Reflections on the Revolution in France" By Edmund Burke
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
When the writer and politician Edmund Burke published his Reflections on the Revolution in France in 1790, Britain was particularly focused on what had just happened on the other side of the Channel. At a time when radical societies were emerging in Britain and dissenters were about to claim new...
Current Proposals on the Illegal Immigration Problem
Essay - 2 pages - International law
No one knows exactly how many illegal immigrants are in this country. Estimates range from 4 to 12 million people. The largest group of undocumented immigrants is Mexicans. Thousands of Mexicans, some with families, cross the border illegally in search of work. Typically an illegal will stay in...
Afghanistan as a Just War
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
Following the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 which left American devastated, United States of America President declared that these actions needed to be viewed as an act of war. This concept of an attack on American soil was, prior to September 11th, something completely foreign to the...
Mind control and nineteen eighty-four and brave new world.
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
Dystopia is, “an imaginary place or state in which the condition of life is extremely bad, as from deprivation, oppression, or terror.” (Dictionary) In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four, we are introduced to two different dystopian societies. Mind...
World on fire: A review
Book review - 3 pages - Social sciences
Most reasonably educated, marginally politically aware Americans know by now that the world hates us. It's hard to miss—demonstrations in France, terrorism from the Middle East, and comments made worldwide after September 11 that we “got what we deserved” all point to the...
Protecting children in cyber space
Thesis - 4 pages - Journalism
Advent of any technology brings about positive and negative aspects with it. The negative aspects of cyberspace have diminished the social and cultural norms of societies. Cyber bullying, child abuse are part of them. The unchecked use of cyberspace can cause children fall into wrong ideologies...
The place of Islam in the Chechen conflicts
Thesis - 4 pages - Social sciences
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...
How well did the legal system of early modern England work?
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
A legal system can be defined as the legislation enacted by the State institutions on the basis of tradition or law. In early modern England, the legal system was complex, relying on with overlapping institutions -local criminal courts, Church courts and royal courts-, on itinerant judges but...
Canadian policy at the crossroads: Protecting Canada's independence in the age of globalization
Case study - 8 pages - International relations
The foreign relations of Canada are by nature, very much centered upon its southern neighbor, the United States. This is true for both trade and foreign policy considerations. In addition, Canadian governments have also had active relations with many other nations. These relationships have...
How does the United States foreign policy affect the war on drugs?
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
The violence that the population in the illegal drug producing countries of Latin America has continued to take its toll on the population in a vicious cycle that continues to result in deaths, injury and a life if terror for many of the inhabitants. The poor civilians are caught in-between...
Birds as trapped blacks in a white society in invisible man
Case study - 4 pages - Literature
Ralph Ellison was a huge proponent of symbolism. In a 1965 interview, he said that the purpose of his profession was to “seize upon the abiding American experience as they come up within my own part of the American nation, and project those patterns, those personality types, those versions...
Need for the safety of port zones
Case study - 8 pages - Logistics
Today, the obligation of ensuring the safety of ship and port facilities has become mandatory. Yet, its scope is limited, as it merely pertains to the security of a link in the chain of ports. The subject we discuss in this document relates to the intricate dynamics within the partnership between...
US policy towards the Taliban since the end of the cold war
Thesis - 2 pages - International relations
The withdrawal of Soviet troops in 1989 did not provoke the fall of Najibullah's communist regime, but rather the beginning of Civil war between the different factions and ethnics. The US was officially not interested anymore in that part of the world and focused primarily in Europe. However, the...
"The Last Crusade. Religion and the politics of misdirection" Barbara Victor
Book review - 6 pages - Political science
Barbara Victor is a journalist and a frequent lecturer on women's issues and the Middle East. She worked for CBS television for fifteen years, where she covered the Middle East. Her books include Terrorism, an account of the Lebanon war from 1975 to 1982, A voice of reason: Hasnan Ashrawi...
Smoke in mirrors: Reconsidering the Gestapo
Thesis - 5 pages - Journalism
perfection of the totalitarian police state. So perfect and awesome in their ability to conduct surveillance on German mass society, many historians have described the Gestapo as an omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent apparatus of the Nazi regime. Under the guise of this perfect totalitarian...
