Does the integration of the Inuit people in the Canadian society imply the lost of their culture ?
Dissertation - 5 pages - Sociologie & sciences sociales
Culture (from the Latin cultura stemming from colere, meaning "to cultivate") generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activities significance and importance. Cultures can be "understood as systems of symbols and meanings that lack fixed...
Indian television in the era of globalization
Étude de cas - 20 pages - Cinéma
Since its birth in 1959, it seems that Indian television has developed in a way that is similar to most of the world's broadcasting sectors. Conquered by technological progress, particularly by the major advance that the introduction of satellite transmissions represents, the Indian television...
How canadians see multiculturalism
Dissertation - 24 pages - Sociologie & sciences sociales
Canada is described as a multicultural society wherein different ethnic groups live together with the aim of respecting their different cultural backgrounds. In addition to the founding French and British groups, the Canadian ethnic mosaic includes a large number of people who are Germans,...
Sungkyunkwan University
Étude de cas - 15 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
Before our departure to Korea, I already had a great image of the summer session. And when I lived it, it was much more exciting and interesting than expected. That's why I recommend it to all students who like Asia and who want to experience it. Interesting courses were combined with...
The construction of a national identity: the case of France
Dissertation - 7 pages - Sciences politiques
According to Ernest Renan, in Qu'est ce qu'une nation, "Nations are not eternal. They had a beginning and they will have an end". While the opposite assumption is widespread, nations are in fact recent in the human history. They are younger than their official histories that the...
Social and cultural structures in English litterature: "Mikhael Bakhtin and Jude the Obscure"
Dissertation - 7 pages - Littérature
The Bakhtinian analysis of texts allows the reader to realize what an important part language plays in the understanding and interpretation of a novel. He explains how the different forces (centripetal and centrifugal) which drive the writer during his work may be recognized and how...
Human rights in India
Dissertation - 9 pages - Sociologie & sciences sociales
Howrah, Calcutta's main railway Station, is more than just a significant source, transit point and destination for people. It is also the refuge and the living place of a crepuscular society, composed of different people who have been abandoned somehow, and who are living in and around the...
Benefits and experience as an international student
Dissertation - 7 pages - Communication
“One of the main trends over the last 10 years has been the success of UK higher education institutions in attracting international students,” declared the Universities UK report by Evans, (October 20th 2011). According to the UK Council for International Student Affairs (UKCISA 2010),...
The international executive across cultures - France and India
Cours - 14 pages - Marketing international
India's official name is the Republic of India and its capital is New Delhi. It measures over 3 million square kilometers for a population of around 1.1 billion inhabitants. India is located on the Indian sub-continent and can be divided into 4 topographical regions: the Himalayan region, the...
The consumer behaviour
Étude de cas - 27 pages - Comportement des consommateurs et clients
Nowadays, more and more students decide to study abroad in order to enhance their language abilities and discover new cultures and lifestyles. As a French student who lived and studied in Paisley for a year, the author is aware that going abroad to study is an important and difficult...
Does modern Britain owe much to the Normans?
Dissertation - 3 pages - Histoire médiévale : Moyen-âge
“Apparently as the result of one day's fighting (14 October 1066), England received a new royal dynasty, a new aristocracy, a virtually new Church, a new art, a new architecture and a new language.”(DAVIES, 1976; 103). This sentence shows clearly the crucial influence of the...
Violence and expressionism
Dissertation - 7 pages - Arts divers
Expressionism is an avant-garde movement in which violence is everywhere in themes, in forms, in the expression of the artist in general. We can define violence by aggressive facts, language immoderation, brutality and provocation. When we talk about violence in art, the violence is not...
Country sheet: Belgium
Fiche - 2 pages - Sciences politiques
The territory of Belgium has always been subject to the influence of both the German and Latin world. So when Belgium separated from the Northern Netherlands in 1830, a cultural pluralism was already there. It is those differences in language, culture and so on between the different parts...
The power of hidden differences, Edward T. Hall
Fiche de lecture - 1 pages - Sociologie & sciences sociales
Edward T. Hall (born May 16, 1914) is an anthropologist and cross-cultural researcher. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1942. He has taught at the University of Denver, Bennington College, the Harvard Business School, the Illinois Institute of Technology, and North-western...
International Management
Cours - 10 pages - Marchés étrangers
Alstom manufactures trains, metros and trolleys and is number two in it's industry worldwide, after the Canadian Group Bombardier. The process is as follows. Each city desiring a metro or tram makes a takeover bid and in this case it was Budapest city. Alstom won this bid. There are two lines...
Lenôtre in China Beijing: The biggest market for the biggest gastronomical group
Étude de cas - 140 pages - Marketing international
Strengths: Global fame built on fine upscale products and services, genuine production processes, know-how and licenses (patents), staff (teams, chefs, wine steward...)very well trained, large implantation across the world, profitable company, diversified services (cocktails, buffets, marriages,...
Business Intelligent Systems - ABC Case Study
Étude de cas - 17 pages - Informatique
Managers from ABC company have expressed a lot of their actual problems, which can be all solved by the use of BIS tools. It is thus very easy to say what kind of BIS tool may be used to solve a particular problem. An EIS software will be the solution to help the managers to have good information...
HTML - Les bases du développement web
TD - Exercice - 26 pages - Informatique
HTML, ou HyperText Markup Language, est né en 1991. Il reprend les principes de SGML, Standart Generalized Markup Language, dont il est le successeur. Il reste encore actuellement le langage du web. HTML est un langage de description à la différence d'autres langages tels que...
Case study of portaldetuciudad.com
Étude de cas - 8 pages - Stratégie
This report discusses ITEC's strategy about ‘portaldetuciudad.com'. We will analyze the company's actual situation, its key problems with the web design of its portals that needs to be changed, the lack of available languages and finally the business model of the company that is not...
Structuralism and history: Levi-Strauss, Althusser, Foucault
Dissertation - 12 pages - Sciences politiques
Structuralism may originate from Saussurian linguistics. In the Course of General Linguistics, Saussure defines one essential methodological principle: in response to previous methodologies, which defined historical evolution as the main object of linguistics, Saussure assumes that...
How can we make an end-studying project in India?
Étude de marché - 9 pages - Marchés étrangers
The overwhelming image of India is of a country stricken with poverty, consumed by religious hatred, burdened by an excessive population that shows no signs of diminishing, and divided by distinctions of class, caste, ethnicity, and language. Few people, particularly in the West, thought...
To what extent the Minority issues in Turkey is an internal phenomenon and to what extent external?
Dissertation - 8 pages - Sciences politiques
Before analyzing the minority issue, we should firstly define what a minority is. No consensus exists on the definition of a 'minority'. In a general sense minorities are groups which are numerically inferior to and distinguishable from the rest of the population through ethnicity,...
"High Stained Glass, Philip Larkin (1974) - themes and poetic style of Larkin
Fiche de lecture - 2 pages - Littérature
Larkin's anthology, 'High Windows', shows some recurrent themes, like life and death, aging, youth and sexuality, religion and socialising, that run through the different poems, linking and contrasting them. The presence of symbols is quite significant and can be seen as a common...
Is ethno marketing both moral and useful?
Étude de cas - 29 pages - Théories et stratégies marketing
I.1.A What is an ethnic group? The expression “Ethno-marketing” is frequently perceived bad. The term “ethnic” only refers to a racial concept and to skin color for a lot of people. This conception is clearly not neutral in the European market. So, it is essential to give a...
Doing Business in the United States
Dissertation - 6 pages - Marchés étrangers
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic containing fifty states and a federal district. English is the predominant language and the majority of Americans' are Christians. At 3.79 million square miles, and with over 300 million people of mixed races, the United...
Melting pot or salad bowl
Étude de cas - 2 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
-People from different cultures came in America, notably the US, and had to merge into the American culture. They didn't had to abandon their culture, but they had to melt it into the mix of cultures that already exists -Some characteristics of the migrants that came in America made the...
CV type anglais GB
Lettre type - 2 pages - Micro-économie, emploi-chômage
Document: Modèle de CV: Anglais GB (3 pages) Extrait: June 2007 Work placement in the Foreign Study League agency in Madrid (Spain): Managed and supervised bookings and the corresponding contracts for different courses in various English-speaking countries (email, fax & phone) Got in...
USA-Canada relationship
Dissertation - 7 pages - Relations internationales
Since we went to North America last year, we decided to offer you a debate about North American relations (between the USA and Canada), that is to say a perspective on the partnerships, and exchanges between the USA and Canada. We often talk about the USA, but not very often of its neighbor. It...
International business in India
Thèse - 6 pages - Stratégie
The Maharaja Mac is unique, this burger can only be found in India. The McDonald's Big Mac is among the best selling consumer products in the world; it is even used by economists to compare market conditions in different countries, each year economists publish a chart with the different prices of...
Comparison of Canadian and US-American Management Methods
Étude de cas - 5 pages - Management organisation
The management methods and tools of the US (American) have always had a worldwide impact. It is to be noted that US management tools and techniques have had such a grave impact and influence on the European management behavior. To quote an example, high potentials of European companies have spent...
