Social issues around the world
Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - World geography
The aim of this exercise is to find 4 questions for each text that will help you continue the author's reflections, questions you may have asked yourself after reading the text.
How Did the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 Affect Different Banking Systems in the World?
Case study - 6 pages - International economy
Subject: Discuss how the global financial crisis of 2007-2009 affected different banking systems in the world. After the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), many commentators suggested that global financial integration would reverse and the banking system would need to change. Although the...
How the global financial crisis of 2007-2009 affected different banking systems in the world?
Essay - 6 pages - International economy
Subject: Following the global financial crisis, many commentators suggested that global financial integration would reverse and that the banking system would have to change. Although the collapse of capital flows and the signs of financial fragmentation are well documented, the evolution of the...
Civilian fashion during the Second World War: Contrasting perspectives on both sides of the English Channel
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
In April 1991, the Metropolitan Museum of Art showed the American photojournalist Lee Miller's photography of the Gervais salon, as part of its exposition on women in France during World War II. The Parisian hairdresser had bypassed electricity shortages in an ingenious manner: hot air...
On the Map: Why the World Looks the Way It Does - Simon Garfield (2012) - «Maps began as a challenge of the imagination, and they still perform that role»
Text commentary - 2 pages - World geography
« That map was a marvel. (...) It was late '67 now, even the most detailed maps didn't reveal much anymore; reading them was like trying to read the faces of the Vietnamese, and that was like trying to read the wind », here is how Michael Herr in Dispatches published in 2009, perfectly...
Second World War: Why Wilson's ideal of neutrality had no chance to stand against Germany's total war strategy
Essay - 1 pages - Modern history
When President Woodrow Wilson delivered his Declaration of Neutrality to Congress on August 19, 1914, the United States had a distinct isolationist tradition. At that time, most of the American public, the Congress and the President himself had no desire to intervene in European affairs. In this...
Land grabbing in post-Soviet Eurasia: the world's largest agricultural land reserves at stake - Oane Visser & Max Spoor (2011)
Book review - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The redaction takes place during the beginning of a project led by Visser about land investment strategies and their effects, concerning food security and sovereignty, labour issues and rural development. Visser and Spoor being specialists of post-Soviet countries in their own discipline, they...
The Middle East after World War I
Essay - 2 pages - Modern history
The paper will paint a clear picture of both the great chances and serious problems of the internationalists' plan to promote closer relationships among nations in the interwar period. While the excerpts depict an idealistic world of governance and war elimination through international...
World History, Volume 2: from 1400, Chapter 5: Foundations of the Atlantic World, The Atlantic Slave Trade - Kordas, Lynch, Nelson & Tatlock (2022) - Artistic Reflections and Socioeconomic Impacts of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Text commentary - 2 pages - Pre-modern history
The Atlantic Slave Trade, a pivotal yet dark chapter in human history, stands as a testament to the complex interplay of socioeconomic factors and human morality. Such a period that metamorphosed into the commoditization of human life had not only determined the economic landscapes of continents...
World War II
Course material - 5 pages - Linguistics & languages
This document is a course material on how the Second World War unfolded throughout the world.
How is the violence against populations expressed during the Second World War?
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
The Great War resulted in the brutalisation of society and the emergence of totalitarian regimes, which had enormous repercussions on the civilian populations during the Second World War. Totalitarian regimes are political regimes based on a single party, on political police, on the...
Save Nature, Save The World: the last resort in terms of ecology
Creative writing - 3 pages - Ecology & environment
Karma, as the narrator, turns to the audience : I'm Karma. I've come from Bhutan for this international meeting. All the representatives are here. At last. Stage directions: Even if the American one, Mr. Dump, has arrived quite late, he rushes headlong to one of the two chairs, while the...
Understanding the World Through the Study of Foreign Languages
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Nowadays, communicating can be done in various ways. The voice, hands, body language or even texts can be effective ways of spreading a message. However, the main barrier stopping us from easily communicating with every single population is the variety of languages. It is to say that translating...
China and the future world
Essay - 2 pages - Economy general
China is nowadays one of the most powerful countries in the world. In a short time, the emerging country has become a big nation. It is now a superpower that should handle the ascent and certain claims. How can China mix economics development, social and politics claims together?
How does the Netherlands establish itself as a leader in the world agricultural market and food industry?
Case study - 7 pages - Business strategy
Agriculture is one of the most strategic sectors in the world today. In addition, the current circumstances linked to global warming require us to question ourselves more and more about new ways of farming to adapt to such a situation that none of us have known before. In addition to...
A Multigenerational Working World
Essay - 1 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Today's workplace is multigenerational. Indeed, for some decades, we can identify 5 generations who have to work side by side within a single workplace. This co-living isn't only due to the put off of retirement age, but also to the fact that younger generations start working later....
Introduction to Software Development: Explore the World of Programming
Course material - 8 pages - Computer science
This course takes you on an exciting journey through the world of software development and programming. Whether you are a complete beginner or already have some experience, this course provides you with the essential foundations to understand key programming concepts and prepares you to...
The best job in the world - English practice
Presentation - 2 pages - Human resources
I've been asked to hire the best candidate for the best job in the world. But I can't watch all the videos I've received! I've decided to take you as my assistants! So, in groups of 4, you're going to watch a video, make a summary of the candidate's profile and...
The United States and the World - Russia and China
Course material - 7 pages - Modern history
At the beginning of his first term, President Bush neglected Russia and considered China as the next major geopolitical adversary. At the same time, American analysts were quite confident that Washington would be able to manage the "Geostrategic Triad" between Washington, Moscow and Beijing to...
The United States and the World - Transnational problems today as seen from Washington
Course material - 12 pages - Political science
In the document issued in September 2002, "The National Security Strategy of the USA", two essential goals of US national policy were stressed: the defeat of "Global terrorism" and "to prevent our enemies from threatening us, our allies, and our friends with weapons of mass destruction". Those...
World Trade Business Game - Austria, Malaysia, Bolivia - Gas, Timber
Tutorials/exercises - 16 pages - Business strategy
This document is a comprehensive analysis of 3 country potentials in terms of international trade globally, and specifically in the timber and gas markets.
The United States and the World: demography and energy in the world as predictable long-term factors
Course material - 11 pages - World geography
The current policy, and even more the future policy of any country is difficult to assess, because it depends on a lot of factors, many of them (public moods, politics, personalities) being of a transient nature. But the current and future policy of any country also depends largely on long-term...
The United States and the World: Bush's Second Term and Current Trends in the US Foreign Policy Establishment
Course material - 9 pages - Political life and election
After Bush's re-election in November 2004, there were some doubts about the kind of policy he would now follow, after the occupation of Iraq had revealed itself as a much more difficult undertaking than what the Administration had contemplated. Many felt at the time the President would vastly...
The United States and the World: The Sources and Tools of American Foreign Policy
Course material - 8 pages - Modern history
There is undoubtedly an American exceptionalism: the US considers itself since the 18th century to be different from Europe. It has seen itself from the beginning as a universal model: the “American way of life” (linking most strongly liberal democracy and free enterprise, two notions...
How are women entrepreneurs changing the world?
Course material - 2 pages - Startup, entrepreneurship
This lesson plan explains how women entrepreneurs can change the world, and includes vocabulary and exercises to practice writing in English.
The United States and the World - The Reagan Revolution
Course material - 5 pages - Modern history
Ronald Reagan was elected president in November 1980. It was a return to more liberalism, to more individual responsibility, a move towards deregulation of the economy in a more and more globalized world. Reagan was convinced that this return to liberalism was the only way to overcome the...
The automotive industry in the world
Case study - 5 pages - Automotive marketing
On a global scale, the automobile industry can go so far as to produce more than 60 million cars per year, both for passenger vehicles and for those destined for any other use. The current trend is such that China dominates the industry in almost every aspect. In fact, it abounds with the biggest...
Essay: the coronavirus crisis, a result of political mistakes across the world?
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
Mistakes often take place when critical policy-making institutions and politicians take wrong decisions - for instance through under-reaction or overreaction to critical issues, as a result of preoccupation with symbolic and ideological concerns - or as a result of the adoption of wrong policy...
The United States and the World: Globalization in Historical Perspective
Course material - 8 pages - Modern history
The concept of globalization is not new: in his Communist Manifesto, in 1848, Karl Marx underlined that the bourgeoisie needed constantly expanding markets. Some distinctions are important. Globalization happens, or at least is discussed, in the context of several different fields, in which it...
The United States and the World: The US and the Cold War (1945-1980)
Course material - 5 pages - Modern history
The goal of this document is to stress the main thrust of American strategy in the Cold War in order to understand the legacy of the Cold War on American foreign policy today. The main structures of US foreign policy and foreign policy establishment and instruments, still in place today, were...
