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04 Nov 2008
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Unholy Acts: The exile of Pope Shenouda in the context of Egyptian Religious Politics

Essay - 13 pages - Sociology

Soon after the end of Ramadan in August 1981, more than one hundred thousand Egyptian Muslims gathered in front of Abdin Palace in Cairo, ostensibly to celebrate the end of the fast. Western newspapers, however, reported that what appeared to be a prayer gathering had a political, as well as...

05 Feb 2009
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Barriers to adolescent chemical dependency treatment

Essay - 8 pages - Social sciences

Individuals who do not have private insurance are at a significant disadvantage when trying to access social services. It has been estimated that Washington State serves less than 30% of adolescent residents needing substance abuse services. To date no statewide surveys have been...

07 Jul 2009
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The failure of America's health care system

Thesis - 16 pages - Political science

America's health care system is in trouble. More money is spent on health care in the U.S. than any other country in the world. Our terminally privatized and competitive health system is the most expensive, yielding some of the poorest results. Health care spending is spiraling out of control,...

30 May 2009
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Indian IT companies VS MNC's

Tutorials/exercises - 32 pages - Business strategy

Reaching global competitiveness is the number one challenge for corporate India. We now operate in a global regime of relatively free markets and borders , and there is no longer sanctuary for Indian corporate, be they public sector or private sector and we are very far behind. When we look upon...

27 Aug 2014
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Benjamin Banneker, African-American mathematician, astronomer, and inventor

Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies

Benjamin Banneker was an exceptional African-American mathematician, astronomer, and inventor. He was born near Baltimore, on November 9, 1731. He was the son of a slave man and free black woman, however, grew up as a free black and demonstrated his abilities in mathematics while attending school...

31 Jul 2007
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Power and Independence of Hmong Women in Laos and America

Essay - 5 pages - Sociology

The Hmong are an ethnic group indigenous to the Southeast Asian peninsula. They typically live in the mountainous regions of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. They are rice farmers who are well known for their embroidery and the color of their dress, which gives its name to the different Hmong clans....

03 Jun 2008
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Handmaid of God: The Developing Social Class of the Virgin Mary

Essay - 7 pages - Ancient history

Although the Virgin Mary is depicted in the gospel text and other religious literature as primarily a humble “handmaid of God,” imagery in medieval representations of her tend to downplay that aspect of her personality. Instead, social class is what is most often emphasized, with the...

26 Feb 2009
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Management and operations of Metro Cleaners Rubbish Collection Company

Thesis - 5 pages - Management

Metro Cleaners has been sanctioned to offer rubbish collection services under a new government initiative aimed at procurement of the most efficient and affordable rubbish collection services for Washington D.C. The management of the company is seeking to base the pursuit of its daily...

29 Jul 2009
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Culture and global conflict

Thesis - 4 pages - Social sciences

The global recession not only impacts Western and developed countries, but its effects are also applicable to those from the Third World. On 2 April, 2009, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown declared an end to the “Washington consensus” at the G-20 Conference in London. Since...

04 Aug 2022

EU relations in the wake of the 21st century

Essay - 6 pages - Modern history

Eastern and Western Europe were separated in the aftermath of the Second World War by their rapprochement with one of the two great victorious powers, the USSR and the United States. Rebuild = European countries reduced their military budgets and thus find themselves at a disadvantage in the face...

21 Jun 2013
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The Native American Right to Sovereignty

Case study - 5 pages - Political science

The arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492 caused a marked change in the course of Native American history. From the 16th to the 19th centuries, subsequent European invaders justified removal of Natives based on beliefs of religious and cultural superiority. After American independence and the...

15 Jan 2009
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Alterglobalisation: "Another world is possible?"

Essay - 6 pages - Humanities/philosophy

In the mid-eighties there were huge criticisms caused by the liberal policy carried out both by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. There were, especially in the United Kingdom, a lot of strikes and manifestations against the neo-liberalism. However, Margaret Thatcher, answering to an interview...

16 Jan 2009
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Changes and paradoxes in the American society

Essay - 5 pages - Social sciences

Franklin Delano Roosevelt had launched as early as 1944 a new pledge to implement a new economic Bill of Rights ("New Deal") for all Americans. Another new trend appeared under Truman with the fate of the "Full Employment Act". The new president delayed submitting his own version of the Bill. It...

12 Mar 2007
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Kenneth Waltz's on nuclear weapons

Essay - 3 pages - International relations

Do you agree with Waltz's recommendation to spread nuclear weapons? On Sunday, April 9, 2006, the Washington Post announced that “the Bush administration is studying options for military strikes against Iran as part of a broader strategy of coercive diplomacy to pressure Tehran to...

17 Mar 2009
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Advanced clinical techniques/family centered practice with populations at risk (aging)

Thesis - 5 pages - Social sciences

On April 29, 2006 at about 5:30 a.m., May C. fell in her kitchen in a rural area 10 miles west of Yakima, Washington. As she fell her right leg was thrust back while the rest of her body fell forward, resulting in a compound fracture of her right femur. May called her LifeLine service...

29 Sep 2010
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European union and regulation of the peace process in the Middle East since 1991

Essay - 10 pages - International relations

Launched with the Madrid Conference in 1991, the israeli-Palestinian peace process led to the historical handshake between Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres at the White House in Washington. American president Clinton, thus sealed the signature of a statement of principles, and reaffirmed the...

12 Jan 2009
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Assess the significance of the Watergate scandal

Thesis - 4 pages - Political science

Born in 1913 in California, Richard Nixon became the 37th president of the United States in 1968, after being governor of California in 1950, then vice-president at the side of Eisenhower. This republican president earned a big success at the beginning. He indeed managed to end the war in Vietnam...

17 Mar 2009
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What's wrong with May?

Thesis - 6 pages - Medical studies

In April 2006, a 92-year-old Caucasian widow, May C., fell in her kitchen 10 miles west of Yakima, Washington, resulting in a compound fracture of her right femur. May called her LifeLine service for help and was transported to Providence Yakima Medical Center. Surgical repair of her leg...

30 Apr 2013
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Border control solutions

Case study - 3 pages - Sociology

The United States is at risk. We face several issues that put our citizens in immediate danger. Many of these issues can be found by reviewing the topic of border control. Border control is a threat to the security of our nation. It allows illegal immigration to occur, drug smuggling and several...

06 Aug 2010
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PNAC: Project for the New American Century

Thesis - 1 pages - Journalism

Many of the founding members and supporters of this group now hold high positions in Washington and are, to this day, practicing much of what was written up in their 2000 report “Rebuilding America's Defenses” (see attached in it's entirety) which was a blueprint for what is now...

28 Jul 2009
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Greenpeace: Anti-corporate watchdogs

Thesis - 3 pages - Social sciences

Chuck Palahniuk's 1996 novella Fight Club narrates the experience of adult men disaffected by modern consumer culture who form underground boxing clubs before developing them into clandestine social terrorist groups aimed at destroying hyper-capitalist culture. Read as a critique on the...

24 Mar 2006
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The American bureaucracy on national security

Essay - 6 pages - Political science

In his book The Power Game, Hedrick Smith speaks of the foreign policy game in the United States as a “bureaucratic tribal warfare”, using a tribal metaphor to describe the fierce fights which take place in Washington, DC. The notion of bureaucracy emerged in the early 20th...

29 Sep 2010
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The international marketing strategy of Microsoft

Case study - 28 pages - Services marketing

Microsoft is an American public multinational conglomerate founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. At that time, the founders were students and they wanted to sell their first translator software Altair 8800. Today, the company is headquartered in Redmond,...

27 Jan 2011
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The rise of power of China and its opportunities facing the American superpower

Essay - 8 pages - International relations

The People's Republic of China today plays an increasingly important role at the regional and international levels.In recent history it is rare that a country has maintained its hegemony for over a century. One may therefore question whether the U.S. can extend their supremacy for longer...

10 Sep 2008
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The PLO: Still a threat?

Essay - 6 pages - International law

When the historic "Gaza and Jericho" first agreement was signed in September 1993 at the White House in Washington, D. C., in the presence of Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Chairman Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Rabin and President Clinton, uproar and discontent were exhibited...

19 Nov 2008
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Biodiversity in forests

Essay - 7 pages - Biology

Interest in biodiversity began in the mid-1980s with the Biodiversity Symposium, held in Washington, DC, sponsored by the National Academy of Science. Within increasing human populations and rising demands for resources and living space, the need to conserve biological diversity rose to...

17 May 2009
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Power and weakness in "American Power in the 21st Century" by Robert Kagan

Book review - 5 pages - Political science

Robert Kagan is a neo-conservative American scholar and political commentator. He was born on September 26th 1958 in Athens. After graduating from Yale University in 1980, he earned a Masters from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a PhD from American University in...

17 May 2009
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Newsweek's coverage of the news in Africa: (November 2006 - January 2007)

Thesis - 4 pages - Journalism

Newsweek is an American weekly magazine of news and commentary, published in New York City. In 2005, the magazine reported a national audience of more than 20 million; worldwide, its audience numbered almost 26 million in more than 190 countries. The magazine was founded in 1933. In 1937, Malcolm...

21 Feb 2014
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All is fair in Love and War

Essay - 3 pages - Humanities/philosophy

House of Cards is not a show about several different characters that simply live and work in a semi-connected world; it is about Frank Underwood, the House Majority Whip, and how everything and everyone exists to serve his ambitions. Everyone in the series is defined by their relationship to...

29 Sep 2010
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The United States foreign policy orientation in the Middle East after September 11 in a neorealist perspective

Essay - 4 pages - International relations

September 11, 2001 brought changes to the rules of the international system established at the end of the Cold War. The collapse of the Soviet Union allowed the United States to reign at the top of the international area. It was able to dominate the world as the only superpower in possession of...