The distinction between internalism and externalism about moral motivation. Does Smith's argument against externalism work?
Dissertation - 5 pages - Philosophie
Moral motivation and the way it functions have raised many theories, still debated today. There are two main theories under discussion; internalism and externalism about ethical motivation, both of them being central in the explanation of the mechanism that lies between moral judgements of an...
Music and politics (2004)
Dissertation - 16 pages - Sciences politiques
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...
To what degree does the evidence of contemporary cross-strait relations support the view that Taiwan and Mainland China are experiencing not only economic but also political convergence?
Dissertation - 5 pages - Relations internationales
In 1949, after having lost the Chinese Civil War against the CPC, the Kuomintang retreated from Mainland China and established a government in Taipei, the largest city of the Taiwan Island, while continuing to claim its sovereignty over the whole China. At the same time, the People's Republic of...
Relationships between the USA and the UK
Lettre type - 5 pages - Histoire médiévale : Moyen-âge
The particular and strong links between the USA and the United Kingdom emerged between 1607 and 1733 with the establishment of 13 colonies by the Empire of Great Britain on the Atlantic Coast of North America. Following the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776,...
Compare the 1997 Asian financial crisis with the subprime crisis
Dissertation - 4 pages - Finance
The subprime crisis was triggered by an expectation of defaults of payments on subprime mortgages in the US. It is an on-going crisis that has already led to the free fall of the US housing prices, billions of losses by banks, and generally speaking a slow-down (maybe a recession) of the...
What can the study of religious specialists tell us about power relationships in a society?
Dissertation - 6 pages - Sociologie & sciences sociales
Priests, Prophets, Shamans, and Diviners, seers, mediums, witches, sorcerers and magicians: what can be the links between all those social functions? First of all, they are all religious specialists in their respective cultural and social context. All of them have a special rank, status...
Symbols reflect social values and relationships
Dissertation - 5 pages - Sociologie & sciences sociales
We can define symbols as ''something that stands for something else'' and that would mean that symbols are always a reflection of something. Given that definition, we can say that the aim of the anthropological studies of symbols is to find the meaning of symbols and what they...
How to use rumours as a marketing tool?
Mémoire - 68 pages - Théories et stratégies marketing
Change and Transition is everywhere. It is prevalent in our lives, our careers, our family values, and so on. Advertising also is part of a nuclear world. Advertising a new product in today's age and time is totally different from what it was nearly 10 years ago. For decades, consumers have...
"Brand Senses" management
Étude de cas - 19 pages - Marketing sensoriel
Brand sense is based on an exclusive global study of branding and sensory awareness. According to Lindstrom, 'brand sense is of five different senses, which are touch, taste, smell, sight and sound. These five senses affect the brand creation and retail experiences'. In fact, people's...
Churchill & Roosevelt during the Second World War: The Special Relationship
Dissertation - 8 pages - Relations internationales
The 7 December 1941, Japan attacked the American fleet in Pearl Harbor. From then on, the war is no more only European but officially global. The next day, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, president of the United States, declared war on Japan. With the coming into play of the American giant, the...
The rise and limits of populist parties and movements in Europe
Dissertation - 6 pages - Vie politique et élections
Any success of a populist party is often considered as a threat, a rise endangering Democracy. Even if there is a lot of passion over this issue, it is true that there has been a rise of populist parties in Europe, from the 1980s to late 1990s, a rise which has stabilized or reversed recently....
Describe the distinction between Internalism and Externalism about moral motivation. Does Smith's argument against externalism work?
Dissertation - 5 pages - Philosophie
Moral motivation has always been the ground for fierce battles between different ways of thinking. The link between a belief and the will to act in accordance with the belief is indeed a mysterious problem. Many answers were found, and two schools emerged and opposed on the ground of moral...
Fair trade in Europe: overview and perspectives
Mémoire - 75 pages - Économie générale
Fair trade is a movement born after the Globalization. It's a consequence of the growth of exchanges. To develop their economy, countries have been forced to trade with their neighbors and the territories around them, etc…Finally countries have abolished their barriers and established...
To what extent French Regional authorities EU representations are relevant?
Étude de cas - 7 pages - Union Européenne
Regional and local authorities are nowadays completely part of the European Union policy-making process. They are now almost 200 regional organisations in Brussels (Greenwood, 2011) and they emerged massively in the mid-1980s during the rise of the Single European Act (SEA) and the establishment...
Are beautiful politicians more likely to win?
TD - Exercice - 13 pages - Psychologie
The paper deals with the question : "Are beautiful politicians more likely to win?", a homework made for a Political Psychology class. We're interested to learn how nonverbal cues impact the voters, even when they do not intend to do so. The paper explores how attractiveness can impact...
Chemical Bank: Implementing the Balanced Scorecard
Thèse - 13 pages - Management organisation
In 1993, Chemical Bank and Hanover Corporation concluded a merging process. The new larger banking company was better-positioned to compete with other major players in the market. Michael Hegarty, the head of the Retail Bank Division of Chemical Banking Corporation, wanted to transform the bank...
HRM in companies: Ryanair, IBM, Google, IKEA
Étude de cas - 12 pages - Stratégie
The best-fit approach underlines the importance of assuring that HR strategies are performances. This takes into account, through the circumstances of the organization's culture, operational processes and external environment. Thanks to that, HR strategies consider two points, the organisation...
Pathe: Internal and external analysis of the company
Thèse - 70 pages - Cinéma
Pathe is a French movie company. This company was founded as Societe Pathe Freres in Paris in 1886, by four brothers: Charles, Emile, Theophile and Jacques Pathe. First, thanks to Charles Pathe, the company became a major producer of phonograph records. Then he decided to extend his company to...
International marketing communications: How can Skoda use social media to its benefit?
Thèse - 7 pages - Marketing tourisme
It's important to introduce our project with an analysis of the main characteristics of the media we will use in our creative strategy for Skoda. A study conducted on the European Companies on the Fortune Global 100 list, shows relevant numbers in regard to using Facebook and Youtube in marketing...
Knowledge management - Richard Florida and the raise of the creative class
Dissertation - 8 pages - Communication
Globalization, coupled with the technologies of communication, has changed our world deeply in less than twenty five years. Richard Florida, the American urban studies theorist, offers interesting analyses of these phenomena by studying what he called the creative class. Florida acquired his PhD...
Commentary ? To Be a Pilgrim, Joyce Cary
Fiche - 7 pages - Philosophie
Extrait: With man's advances made in the field of the farming of land and technical progress, nature is most of the time considered to be more and more modified, more and more domesticated by human beings. The modification of nature seems to be one of the main subjects tackled in To Be a...
Branding and Sensory Awareness: Theory and Case Study of Abercrombie & Fitch
Étude de cas - 18 pages - Marketing sensoriel
According to Lindstrom, the author of ‘BRAND sense', brand sense is the integration of the five of the senses - touch, taste, smell, sight and sound. The five senses play a key role in the brand creation and retail experiences. In fact, people's senses usually influence their choice, for...
What is the relation (if any) between virtue and human flourishing?
Dissertation - 7 pages - Philosophie
When you shout at a passer-by in the street, and ask him what would be the most important goal in his life, he is likely to answer, like a majority of people that he wants to live happily. Then, we should raise the question: how could we achieve this happiness? More than two thousand years ago,...
Der Bürgerkrieg in Libanon und die Taëf- Akkorden (1975-1990): Ausspiegelung einer unmöglichen Religiös sowie politische Vielfalt im Nahost?
Mémoire - 22 pages - Sciences politiques
Kaum einen Konflikt hatte die weltlichen Meinungen so dramatisch geprägt wie der Bürger, der die Libanon zwischen 1975 und 1990 erkannt hatte. Besonders in den westlichen Demokratien, die kulturelle und politische enge Linke mit diesem Land unterhalten, waren die Etappe dieser vielgestaltigen...
Interest groups in the EU's social policy
Dissertation - 7 pages - Sciences politiques
In order to create appropriate and legitimate policies, the European Union's institutions maintain relationships with the civil society, which take different forms. Interest groups are one of these intermediary organizations that link European institutions and the citizens of the EU....
The Linguistic Minority Groups in a Comparative Perspective: Spanish, French and Swedish
Dissertation - 14 pages - Union Européenne
In this essay I will try to study the status and the existence of the Swedish speaking Finns in a wider perspective. I personally think that comparisons and international studies are a way to improve the study of a phenomenon. That's why I will try in this essay to give a different way of...
E-Business assignment
Dissertation - 10 pages - Marketing NTIC
We are living in a world where globalization is more and more used to manage it. Firms like Mittal Steel, which is the world's largest and most global steel company are present all over the world. This strategy allows realizing scale economies and on the whole, reducing all the costs but...
Cause marketing: Trend or basic notion of marketing?
Dissertation - 11 pages - Management organisation
“1 liter bought, 10 liters extracted in Niger with UNICEF”; for four months we could see this inscription on the Volvic water bottles (to February 15th until June 15th 2007). Since few years we can see this type of shares progressively growing. In the aim to understand this phenomenon,...
The suburbs in France: Drugs, violence & riots
Dissertation - 12 pages - Questions sociales, morales & enseignement civique
This paper gives the reader an introduction to a real French suburb. Recently, the suburbs of France are quite in the picture of the world's media, because of the several riots in November 2005 and even now at this moment. On October the 27th it will be precisely one year ago that the hype...
The British passion for sports: Its particularities and its limits
Dissertation - 9 pages - Sport
The former British athlete Sebastian Coe declared on the 12th November that “he wanted to tap into United Kingdom's passion for sports” by presenting the London Olympic bid. It is indeed undeniable that sports have a significant place in British society. There are at least 36 million...
