Has the passing of the Human Rights Act forced English Courts confronted the gap in the law protecting privacy? - publié le 23/09/2014
Étude de cas - 7 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
Privacy has always been a tricky topic. The debate about the place of a right to privacy in English law is not new. The United Kingdom, land of freedoms, is also known for being the country where tabloids mix with the political and financial newspapers. This topic is also known for being one...
Philips Wouwerman, Taste and market in the 18th century - publié le 23/09/2014
Étude de cas - 11 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
Philips Wouwerman was born in Haarlem in 1618. He was the eldest son of the painter Paul Joosten and Susanna van den Bogert. His two brothers, Pieter and Johannes Wouwerman, were also to become painters. Philips probably received his first painting lessons from his father. According to Cornelis...
Caillebotte's bequest - publié le 23/09/2014
Étude de cas - 10 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
Gustave Caillebotte (Fig. 1) has long been considered as an odd man out in the circle of the French Impressionist. A wealthy amateur, a friend and a supporter of these artists, Caillebotte amassed a stunning collection of their work, which he bequeathed to the State at his death in 1894, and...
The collection of the Medici displayed at the Tribuna and Rudolf II's wunderkammer - publié le 23/09/2014
Étude de cas - 9 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
"Kunstkammer" or "wunderkammer" are German words and meant respectively "marvels room" and "art room". These words became famous thanks too Julius Von Schlosser who published in 1908 a work on the art titled Die Kunst- und Wunderkammern der Spätrenaissance. These words mean in particular the...
The Arab - Western cultural relations
Étude de cas - 6 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
Since the transatlantic declaration in 1990, American and European enjoy a strong relationship with an active cooperation in several sectors as Justice, Energy, Environment, Science or Education. They represent the largest bilateral trade and investment relationship in the world with roughly 40%...
Divorces: Case study
Étude de cas - 33 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
Divorces have increased from 30,870 in 1980 to 118,140 in 2012 in the UK (Rogers, S & Sedghi, A. 2014). In America, there is one divorce approximately every 36 seconds. That is nearly 2,400 divorces per day, 16,800 divorces per week and 876,000 divorces a year. Rates have climbed dramatically in...
Assignment intercultural management - publié le 05/08/2014
Étude de cas - 11 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
Today our world is changing, it is becoming more and more global. In this context of globalization, cultural differences are becoming more and more important. Cultural diversity is now an asset for the company. In fact, it allows companies to a better adaptation, but also to innovate and better...
Querying microeconomics
Étude de cas - 5 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
What is the relationship between Pareto Optimum and Competitive Balance? Very briefly, the relationship between Pareto optimality and competitive equilibrium is an implication relation: z is a competitive equilibrium => z is Pareto optimal (note that the relation of implication does not apply in...
Legal professions in England and Wales
Étude de cas - 2 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
England and Wales own legal system with own legal professions: - Solicitors and Barristers defend a client's interest in court (litigation cases) or out of court (non-litigation cases) - Judges For a long time, solicitors were described as legal advisers (experts) as opposed to the...
Criminal liability of corporations: A counter-productive policy?
Étude de cas - 3 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
Criminal liability is one of the central aspects of a democratic system, assuring that wrongdoers will be punished for acts committed against the society as a whole. Criminal law has an important role to play in regulating the behavior of individuals, ensuring they abide by criminal law and are...
The Meteoric Ascension of Nicolas Sarkozy in France
Étude de cas - 7 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
Nicolas Sarkozy de Nagy - Bosca, said Nicolas Sarkozy, born January 28, 1955 in Paris, is a French lawyer and man. It is the 23rd President of the French Republic on 16 May 2007 to 15 May 2012. A lawyer by profession, he served first as mayor of Neuilly -sur -Seine, Hauts- member de-Seine,...
Concept of Pareto optimum
Étude de cas - 2 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
Many possible states of society are also Pareto optima. The concept of Pareto optimum does not allow to compare : to see which are the most accurate or desirable, it is necessary to use other evaluation criteria, qualitative or quantitative terms. For this reason, a situation optimality " Pareto...
Vietnam war: US involvement in Vietnam (1965-1975)
Étude de cas - 2 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
Vietnam was part of the French colonial empire since the late 1850s. During World War II, the French were defeated by the Germans and the Japanese invaded Vietnam. As a consequence, the French and Japanese forces were forced to cooperate in order to rule Vietnam. The Japanese evicted the French...
Sample letter of motivation
Étude de cas - 1 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
I am a first year student preparing a Bachelor degree in International Business at the ESC Graduate School of Management based in Aurillac, France. My course gives me the opportunity to put my knowledge into practice during an eight-week work experience placement in a company. This period is as...
The absorption of SFR by "Numericable" and numericable's strategy and history
Étude de cas - 7 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
It is the redemption of the branch of Vivendi: SFR was won by Numericable this week of 4 April 2014 to the tune of 17 billion Euros, squeezing his competitor in the redemption of the operator at the operator red square Bouygues Telecom had yet put 15 billion Euros on the table. Numericable is...
Causes of World War II
Étude de cas - 4 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
Conflicts faced by the world today including geopolitical upheavals in Russia or Ukraine, the war in Syria, wars in Africa's or means east, should remind us that a global conflict if not galactic may occur n ' any time simply by the madness of the people, to human stupidity and bloodshed to...
Key players of globalization
Étude de cas - 2 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
Globalization is the process of going to a more interconnected world economically, politically and culturally. There are many forces which interact with each others in this process. The most important are key players, but there are also other players which are also important in this process. All...
Nixon and the Watergate scandal
Étude de cas - 5 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
The Watergate scandal is a political scandal that occurred between 1972 and 1974 in the United States. It begins with the break-in of the democratic national committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington. It then became a scandal because Nixon and his administration tried...
Why Russia wants absorbs Ukraine and what is the influence of the European Union in terms of democracy?
Étude de cas - 3 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
First, look at the world today? What's going on? Islamism is not only the international news. The events happening in Venezuela, North Korea, in the Sea of China, Xiang China, Syria, Libya, Egypt today are relayed cyclically or superseded by events in Ukraine, as in Ossetia 2012. As if nature...
Seoul: from a destroyed city to the world's most wired metropolis
Étude de cas - 9 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
Seoul and its suburbs host half the Koreans living on the southern part of the Korean peninsula, that is 25 million living souls. Seoul is 2000 years old, and has been the capital of Korea for 600 years. Tradition and history are nowadays still deeply rooted in the city, but coexist with the...
Immunopathology of chikungunya
Étude de cas - 4 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
The innate immunity, the first line of defense against infectious and pathogenic agents involves different modules of defense: • Constitutive modules as the skin and the mucosa. • Induced Modules as phagocytosis and inflammatory responses. The innate immune response is consequent to...
Power dynamics in the history of death penalty in the state of Maryland
Étude de cas - 4 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
In 1809, Maryland passed laws establishing degrees of murder and allowing death penalty only for individuals convicted of first degree murder. In 1908, some laws gave discretion to the judge, which meant that the judge could decide a sentence of life imprisonment. It was the same idea in 1916...
The successes and failures of Reagan's presidency
Étude de cas - 1 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
First, the economy is a partial success and a partial failure. The country was facing economic difficulties, with the rise of the cost of living, the rise of unemployment, and a budget deficit. Reagan's program, accepted by Congress on march 1981, was to cut government spending in social domestic...
1974-1980: the "Malaise" of the American Society
Étude de cas - 1 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
Reagan's slogan during the presidential campaign of 1980 was «Are you better off than you were four years ago? ». This slogan used the people's disappointment of Carter, presenting Reagan as the man going to erase the catastrophic four years of Carter's presidency. So the election of Reagan...
History of Ukraine and conflict with Russia
Étude de cas - 6 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
The international community has very limited means to put pressure on Russia and deter military intervention in Ukraine. It can be especially politically, threatening Moscow isolation. This is what Barack Obama did on Saturday during a telephone conversation that lasted ninety minutes with his...
What is the Marxist approach to politics, power and state?
Étude de cas - 3 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
One of the most well known definitions of state was written by Max Weber. He defines a state as a body having a ‘monopoly on the legitimate use of violence' in a given territory . In a certain way, Marx definition of the state is close to Weber definition . Both of the authors define the...
Estonian Welfare System
Étude de cas - 12 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
The purposes of social welfare are to provide assistance to persons or families in preventing, eliminating and relieving difficulties in coping, and to assist persons with special social needs in social security, development and integration into society. The principles of social welfare are the...
The poor living conditions in the period 1890-1910 in the US because of the capitalist socialist
Étude de cas - 2 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
The historical period of the 1890's and 1900's in the US is the time when the economy in the country experienced the corporate capitalism. Indeed, big corporations led the market with no pity for the small businesses. Skilled workers, big capitalists and businessmen who could get new markets were...
Nanotechnology in Health
Étude de cas - 12 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
Cancer occurs at the nanoscale with DNA damage. With these DNA damage we manufacture of different proteins. If these proteins are necessary or important for the cell to where the body of the cell, the cell will die. But if the cell survives but if this protein Not necessary, it will not die....
Serving the Bottom of the Pyramid: Between poverty, business and innovation
Étude de cas - 18 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
Since the mists of time many people have reflected and worked on the issue of poverty, Mandela (2005), in an interview, argues that ‘like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.' Even earlier it has...
