What is distinctive about international human rights politics?
Étude de cas - 3 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
Three main theories lead the international human rights political politics: the realist, the ideational and the republican liberalist theory. The realist theory assumes that democratic countries, and especially the great powers use coercion to make other governments adopt international human...
Women's rights
Étude de cas - 2 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
I'm going to talk about the idea of progress. First of all, I'd like to give a definition of that, this notion includes the forward movement, advance, and especially the progressive of humankind. In order to illustrate the notion, I've chosen 3 documents; the speech of Hilary Clinton, an address...
What is the purpose of the law of torts?
Étude de cas - 4 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
According to Sir Henry Maine, “the penal law of ancient communities is not the law of crimes; it is the law of wrongs, or to use the English technical word, of tort” . If the tortious liability seems to be an old principle of law, it is important to underline that tort law has only been...
Country profile: China
Étude de cas - 6 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
The People's Republic of China is one of the world's largest countries, with a total area amounting to 9.6 million square kilometers, following just behind Russia and Canada. In terms of climate, it is extremely diverse because of the country's extensive and complex topography. In...
Prevention of risks related to pelviperineal defects
Étude de cas - 2 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
The principal causes are disseminated coagulopathies related to prolonged sepsis and blood loss. With regard to blood loss, there are three delicate operative steps: careful dissection of the hypogastric venous trunk and its pelvic branches that may retract into the gluteal muscles, control of...
Preoperative CT and MR imaging in determining surgical eligibility for pelvic exenteration
Étude de cas - 2 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
This study offered the opportunity to compare CT/MR imaging findings with surgical and histological findings in resected specimen. MR images of the pelvis were retrospectively evaluated in the 27 patients. To be included in the analysis, a CT and/or MRI must have been performed within the three...
History of total mesorectal excision from Heald to nowadays
Étude de cas - 2 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
Before TME was described by William Heald, most recurrences of rectal cancer were anastomotic, or centropelvic and anterior, probably related to incomplete resection of mesorectal fatty tissue. Nowadays, since the use of combined treatments, lateral and posterior forms appear more often. However,...
Expatriation
Étude de cas - 9 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
An ambassador is the personal representative of the Republic President accredited to the foreign Head of State. The Ambassador is in charge of to the bilateral relations between states and has authority on all services having an activity in the foreign State. And notably it is in charge of...
Being brown
Étude de cas - 2 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
-She tries to educate her parents, whose main error was to move to America, to turn their back on their roots (they betrayed their country) and to try to become American (they betrayed themselves) -For what? Money, financial comfort-they became typical Americans, they send their children to the...
A cosmopolitan girl
Étude de cas - 2 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
-They have cable (if they were narrow-minded they would be afraid of modern TV) so the girl can discover other cultures -But they explain that the TV is responsible for their daughter's behavior : “this is what comes of too many TV channels” -The girl went to university -But she...
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...
The European Union: The positive and negative aspects
Étude de cas - 2 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
The European Union was originally created by two enemies, who decided to reconcile and build a trading cooperation. That is the reason why they first created a cooperation of the steal and coal industries in 1950, right after WWII. They understood that the best way to be at peace with one another...
Imperialism
Étude de cas - 4 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
Extension of North African Empire: Algeria, protectorate over Tunisia 1881, and over Morocco 1912. It owned a large Empire in the Far East and in Africa. 1880s: France imperialist movement encouraged by Bismarck (to direct French popular attention away from the lost provinces of Alsace and...
Why did the Tory party's electoral fortune revive between 1874 and 1900?
Étude de cas - 5 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
From 1846, the conservative party has been in minority in the commons, but at the end of the 19th century there was a conservative revival. Indeed, after 1880, the Tory party became dominant in the Victorian political life. The main actors of this revival were Disraeli, who was Prime Minister...
How well did the legal system of early modern England work?
Étude de cas - 5 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
A legal system can be defined as the legislation enacted by the State institutions on the basis of tradition or law. In early modern England, the legal system was complex, relying on with overlapping institutions -local criminal courts, Church courts and royal courts-, on itinerant judges but...
Is Tibet a lost cause? Analyse wither from an Indian, Chinese, or UK-US perspective
Étude de cas - 2 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
There are three areas in which China and India share a border that we can call the western sector, the middle sector and the eastern sector. These borders are unstable and they were the sources of many disagreements because there were no clear natural geographical borders and China and India...
To what extent can it be held that the ECHR's interpretation of the concept of victim comes close to "actio popularis"?
Étude de cas - 5 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
The European Convention of Human Rights was adopted in 1950 by the members of the Council of Europe, in order to prevent atrocities of the Second World War to happen again and to protect human rights. States as well as individuals were entitled to lodge an application in front of the European...
What causes some adolescents' participation in bullying situations?
Étude de cas - 8 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
In this paper, I try to explain why some adolescents participate to bullying situations. According to some articles and books on bullying, the main factors highlighted by the different authors that contribute on having such behavior are the self-esteem, the gender and age, the mental health the...
Do good leaders need to be intelligent ?
Étude de cas - 5 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
Leader can lead in different ways. Some are more transactional leaders others are transformational leaders. Moreover, the human being can use his brain in different manners therefore intelligence can take several forms. In this paper, I will study the different forms of intelligence and...
Failure system
Étude de cas - 1 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
'From now on, no line of business, no fragment of our individual and collective life, elude the development and pressure of technologies. From then on, no aspect of life in society can shirk away from those intrusive looks.' Alex Turk, president de la Commission Nationale de...
The Chinese presence in Laos
Étude de cas - 2 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
Since we analyzed in class the FDI inflows in China, I wanted to study the investments of China in the rest of the world, and I chose to focus on Laos. In 2011, China's trade with Southeast Asia reached nearly $370 billion. China projects its trade with the region to be about $500 billion by...
The schooling of two-year-olds children in France
Étude de cas - 3 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
Kindergarten is a fundamental step for a child, a transition between family and school system. In most cases, it also is his or her first confrontation to life in society. The question of the schooling of two-year-olds is thus not one to be taken lightly. What is the actual state of the schooling...
The Japanese textbooks controversy: a comparison with France and Germany
Étude de cas - 5 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
“Few, if any, instruments shape national culture more powerfully than the materials used in schools. Textbooks are not only among the first books most people encounter; in many places they are, along with religious texts, almost the only books they encounter” . Textbooks are an...
The making of the Troubles in Northern Ireland
Étude de cas - 8 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
This text was written in 1992. 20 years before, British soldiers came on to the streets of Northern Ireland. It was the start of the fresh round of the Irish trouble. Was it inevitable? Was it postponed by the partition of Ireland in 1920? Was it the result of an IRA plot which manipulated the...
Why did a single act of terrorism led to the Great War?
Étude de cas - 2 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
The growing influence of Germany and the misgovernment of Turkey (leading to the Young Turks revolution in 1908, which ended the decline of the Turk Empire, making the Europeans fear a claim of Turkey on the Balkans) led Macedonia and by extent the Balkans to be plunged in conspiracy and...
Drawing from you understanding on the assigned readings (Deresky), explain the clashes in cultural, customs, and experiences that occurred in this situation
Étude de cas - 3 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
This case study is based on three main variables which are -Cultural differences between America and Japan -Kelly's company methods and lack of comprehension of such a touchy process (expatriation) -Kelly, herself, in her personal preparation and implication in the process In order to draw a...
Managing and building teams
Étude de cas - 4 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
Working in a team is like a box of chocolates - you never know who you are going to get, but each one is filled with goodness inside. As an exchange student, I can say with full confidence that if Sauder left me with one skill, it is how to work in teams. With only two final exams but several...
What is distinctive about international human rights politics? - publié le 24/05/2013
Étude de cas - 3 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
The States, which are the main actors in international politics, should never lead moral actions, if we take account of their rationality and egoism. Indeed, it is difficult to understand the incentives for states to act morally if we focus on the main theories of international relations....
Knowledge, power and development
Étude de cas - 5 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
United Nations report 1951: rapid economic progress and painful adjustments Truman: ‘fair deal' - the US and the world have to solve the problems of the underdeveloped areas (misery, food inadequate, poverty, disease…). He develops the idea that humanity has the knowledge to relieve the...
Chemistry in everyday life: Artificial sweeteners
Étude de cas - 4 pages - Sciences de l'éducation
Who would ever think that some basic products of our daily consumption such as diet beverages, fruit juices and chocolate drinks contains dangerous substances for our health. Many consumers are not aware of the danger of these additives. In our individual essay, we will engage a discussion about...
