Essays on Europe

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Abstract

This report shows timeline of South Africa and also describes how historical events have shaped the country today. A particular emphasis has been placed on explaining the outcomes of apartheid and racial conflicts on economic conditions.

South Africa preserves one of the earliest and most complete records of human evolution, dating back to 3 million BC. 4th century – Migration of humans, joining indigenous Khoikhoi and San people. 1497 - Vasco da Gama’s crews lands on Natal coast in South Africa.

1652 – Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch East India Company, set up the Cape Colony.

(See Appendix A - Early Migrations)

1795 - British seize the Cape Colony.

1860-1911 – Thousands of traders and laborers arrive from India 1880-81 – European farmers ( ...

America’s peaceful borders have been necessitated by two remarkable trends that have occurred over the past thirty years. These include sweeping democratization and the spread of integration agreements. The military and the governments of the day have played their different roles successfully. The military have been on the lookout for any peace disturbance potentiality from outside the country while the democratically elected governments have ensued prevalence in all hemispheres of the country. As a result, countries have managed their borders peacefully without the need for military interventions (Johns Hopkins University Press 1). Through investment and trade preferences, the ...

In 1904 a British scholar Halford Mackinder delivered a lecture at the Royal Geographical Society called “The Geographical Pivot to History.” Among other important points he made in the lecture one is very relevant to the topic of this essay. Namely, Mr. Mackinder stated that at the beginning of the 20th century the world became the fully interconnected system. There were no more blanks and white spots on the map of the world. Everything was already known to man. Pushing forward, the scholar said that compared to the previous period in history of mankind when developments happening in a ...

An essay exploring the effect of the macroeconomic environment in Italy and Russia as it relates to Proctor and Gamble’s international economic activity. Procter and Gamble [P&G] is the world’s top producer of household products. P&G manufactures a wide range of products from toilet paper and sanitary products to food and cleaners. It can be said that the company produces everything a consumer could need to stock their homes comfortably. June 2014, P&G reported over eighty-three million dollars in revenues during that fiscal year (MarketLine, 2015). P&G’s headquarters are located in Cincinnati, Ohio but the massive ...

Albrecht Durer was a versatile and gifted German artist of the Renaissance period. The brilliant painter left a strong impact on the medium of printmaking and commercial centers in Europe. The artist is known to create a number of striking self-portraits that assert his creative genius (Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) 2016). His Self-Portrait wearing a coat with fur collar is done on a wooden panel in 1500. The essay discusses the Self-Portrait as well as the importance of the gaze in the portrait that is considered the most personal and complex. The self-portrait was done in 1500 was ...

The scope of government intervention in the social and economic life of the country has been a controversial issue since the Industrial Revolution. Many people were able to become affluent due to the increased production, but a much larger number of the people faced the hard life because of low wages and appalling working conditions. Consequently, different socialist movements started to emerge in the countries around the world. Socialists opposed the governments and private companies practices of which led to the inequality. In many European countries socialism was very strong, but in the USA socialism has never been a ...

The EU Should Admit the Western Balkan Countries Soon Even if They Do Not Meet all Criteria

The Name of the Class Introduction Nowadays there are 28 member countries in the European Union. From its humble beginning as a peace holder after the horrible outcomes of the end of the first and second world wars, European Union grew to the powerful and strong economic and political union. EU countries share common economic zone, political values, such as strict rules towards corruption, and so on. Historically, the reason why “ECSC or the European Coal and Steel Community” (Cia.gov, 2016) was so successful that it enabled to create EU afterwards, was because after couple of years of its ...

Application Assignment

Introduction

Still, everything is hardly so nice, because the task for this essay exactly is to ponder over you run your own tourism company. Its narrow specialization is to provide the visitors with apartments and other dwelling spaces. The right to be place where I would like to settle my small organization goes to Montenegro (or Crna Gora as is said among the people who reside within this locality). You may have asked yourself why I wanted to choose this certain one. So, the answer is more than just clear. This is because this small territory on the place ...

Introduction

The paper attempts to provide a brief critique of the movie “the imitation game” in light of the leadership theories. Ahead of it, the RLP and RLR theories are also explained, and both have been related to the movie. The main character of the movie is Alan Turing, who leads a group under the supervision of the United Kingdom’s government. In addition to it, Alan Turing also exhibits some strange attributes which are entirely related to his personal life.

Critique of the Movie

The movie is totally based on the biography of the Alan Turing, who is a gay man by nature. ...

International Comparison of Data

With the help of the World Health Organization's “Statistical Information System database” the paper will compare two totally different countries. The comparison will be made between the United States and Nigeria. I decided to compare two countries with different political system, different geography and development. For the comparison three health indicators were chosen: “life expectancy at birth in years, under-5 mortality rate per1000 live births and total expenditure on health per capita”. All three indicators are a global indicator for deciding the health conditions, among others in the countries. Life expectancy at birth shows “the overall mortality level of ...

Essay 1- Gunpowder

Essay 1- Gunpowder

Introduction

The development of gunpowder has been one of the turning points in the history of warfare and civilizations. Gunpowder literally became the great leveler, causing a revolution in military affairs and changing the world order in favor of industrialized nations. The thesis of this paper is that gunpowder enabled technologically advanced nations to gain control over the world.

History

Gunpowder was invented mistakenly during the quest for immortality. Experimenting with life-lengthening elixirs around AD 850, Chinese alchemists, while experimenting with saltpeter, considered mixing it with sulphur and charcoal. The resultant mixture was explosive, and signaled the birth ...

Abstract

The paper is designed to reflect the learning outcomes and lessons learned from the case studies of global organizations. The paper is based on two parts. The first part discusses the case study of Cliffe about “can this merger be saved?” to understand the reasons and causes of the failure of the merger of two companies Synergon and Beauchamp. The inefficiency of the management of the new developed company was the major cause of the failure as it was failed to understand the cultural differences of the two companies and thus resulted in the challenges. Then, I reflected my ...

Being one of the most recognized luxury brands in the world requires a constant wobbly balance to be kept. The customer should be always understood and heard, while the external factors should be adapted to within the shortest time. From the day of its foundation in 1941 Coach’s product itself did not change much. It used to be all about being simple in style and resistant to wear and tear; the difference is concealed in additional value added to the customer.

Question 1

For Coach the competition in the luxury goods industry is estimated as fairly strong, due to the ...

The article tries to explore why the Neo-Europeans failed to thrive in the areas like china, Japan, Middle East and Africa. It explains that the tropical diseases and the heat in these areas made it impossible for the Europeans to permanently settle. The article also indicates that few of the European women were interested in going to Asia. It further explains that the crops of the Europeans did poorly in most part of Africa since the diseases in Africa killed most of the plants planted by the Europeans. The climatic condition in most of the torrid zones led to ...

Introduction

Osteoporosis is a health condition that affects bones. Osteoporosis condition makes bones thinner and weaker. The thinness and weakness of the bone increase risks of fall that may cause a fracture since a mild stress can easily bend and break the bone. Bone fractures associated with Osteoporosis occurs in wrist, spine, and hips. The condition affects both male and female of all races, but Asian and White women above the age of menopause are at greater risks of acquiring the disease. According to Peña & Perez (2012), the disease affects more women than men. More than 40 million Americans ...

Max Weber sees present days and the future ones greatly influenced by pessimistic diagnosis. The concept of the "iron cage", which was developed by Weber, is the result of the rationalization of the business activity, which has led to a surprising economic growth. However, it has created the "iron cage" of capitalism. The negativity of this "iron cage" of capitalism is that it establishes a framework of human lives. Capitalism in its cultural and historical integrity is the main subject of Weber's research. This paper analyzes, whether social capitalism has an alternative or it is an inevitable level of ...

Italy is a historical visual art hub. This history has been largely approached from a classic, "Renaissance" perspective. In contrast, modern art history has witnessed dramatic changes in paradigm and focus. Given evolving modern movements, particularly modernist approaches as in First Futurist Manifesto of 1909, Italian visual art has witnessed rising of new artists inspired by past not for emulation but for emphasizing new, modernist art statements. The "Italy in International Modernism: Modernism – 1909 to the Present" is case in point. Being a course offering focused on modernist schools and approaches to Italian visual art history, The "Italy in ...

At the time of Spanish American War, the United States went from relative isolation to increased global involvement because it suggested joining of the United States in the struggle for world hegemony; it also began the era of imperialism. The consequences on American society of that greater involvement was demonstration the power of the new state and transformation it into a key player in the political arena. Ever since the beginning of the XIX century, the United States attracted a particular interest to Cuba, as it had a convenient strategic position. By the end of the XIX century, Cuba ...

Article Review

Article Review I review such article as “Gender Flux: Transatlantic Influence on Fashioning the Cross-dresser in American Silent Cinema” by author Ricardo E. Zulueta. It has been published in the journal “The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture” in 2015. It should be noted, that until now, there is no single view of the nature of gender. On the one hand, gender is associated with the models, which are developed for the scientific description of the problems associated with gender issues. On the other hand, gender may be considered as a social phenomenon, which is created by people in ...

Statement of Purpose and Academic Motivation

Intercultural management practices and competence has been poorly explored by the academic community from the perspective of multicultural Finnish professional life (Weber, Festing & Dowling, 2013). In spite of the fact that various cultural issues in the employment context have been studied from the purely managerial perspective, the majority of these studies relate to either migration of the highly skilled professionals (Thomas & Peterson, 2014), reflected common international trends (Van der Vijer, Hemert & Poortinga, 2008) or evaluated financial performance of the institutions, which significantly attracted employees with different cultural backgrounds (Smith, 2004). This research, however, pursues a number of unique objectives, ...

Historical chronology is the systematic arrangement of historical events and dates in order of occurrence. Consequently, chronology is a basic tool of history, since it helps in tracing past events and providing a reference and date to their occurrences. Therefore, current events in the modern world attach to a series of occurrences in the past, which took place in a systematic order. The global economic depression is an example of a chronological event in history, which took place between 1939 to 1945ce. The period featured a great downfall in the world’s economy, owing to the damages that World ...

Background of Study

Every business provides a service or products in a given industry. For a business to survive and grow, it needs to expand its share of consumers in the market within which it operates. There are several tools that are utilized to examine and review a given market. This includes the Porter’s Five Force analysis which examines and critiques the key players that can influence a given industry and the relative strength of each group to dominate and control the market. This competitor analysis method defines the extent to which the players will change and influence the industry in ...

Introduction

This paper provides a review of a movie named “Training day” and critique of the movie in the light of the RLR and RLP theories of leadership. Denzel Washington is the main character in the movie “training day” who acts some leader. His made up name is Alonzo. He is a rebellious leader who has some villainous characteristics inside him. Alonzo is a cop in the Los Angeles police department. He always displays some unusual attributes while he is on duty.

Critique of the Movie

As a matter of fact, Alonzo is of the view that justice is not served on the court ...

Conclusion

Sweden and India, being developed and developing countries respectively, differ in a number of respects and in particular with regards to health care policy and health care system. However, apart from the quality of healthcare, the two countries also differ in terms of infrastructure, economy, poverty levels, and quality of education, literacy levels, per capita income, technological advancements, living standards and industrialization criteria. As has been established in the above discussion, the high quality of healthcare in Sweden means that the standards of living in this country are relatively higher than is the case in India with a struggling ...

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The writing of Karl Marx are often maligned in the Western world because of their significant political aspects. The ideas, thoughts, and conclusions about humanity that Marx wrote were not spurious, or random ideas from a frustrated, and underpaid writer; he was a learned man and collaborated with others to become was the principal designers of what is referred to in the 21st Century as social science. As with any other writer and thinker, each person is free to agree, or disagree with Marx’s ideas, what cannot be ignored however, is the impact Marx has ...

A great part of the history of the world is tied up with the histories of empires around the globe. One would even go ahead and assume that all of human history has been created and built by colonialism. In the contemporary society today, however, empires that have existed have all collapsed over the years. However, a great deal of the life around the world has been shaped by the legacies of various empires that existed. An empire can be described as a vast number of countries that have a single authority exercising power over them. In this context, ...

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Acute ischemic stroke refers to the death of brain tissue caused by interruption of the blood flow to brain. This interruption is caused by occlusion of a cervical or cerebral artery, or cerebral vein (Uchino, Pary, & Grotta, 2011). It is among the leading causes of death in the world. According to the estimates of American Heart Association, nearly one stroke occurs in every 40 seconds in the U.S., approximating 795,000 cases of stroke per year (American Heart Association Stroke, 2015). Assessment and management of acute ischemic stroke patients need to be done as soon as ...

Executive Summary

The purpose of the paper was to assess Canadian market for the ability of CBT, the UK-based supermarket chain, to enter it. Environmental analysis was made taking into account political situation in the country, economic overview, legal aspect and socio-cultural perspective. It was found that CBT is going to have more opportunities than threats. Competitive analysis showed that supermarket industry in Canada is monopolistically competitive. The characteristics of such market were properly described. In general, there are three main CBT’s competitors and numerous small, therefore, the company should enter Canadian market with some competitive advantages. In order to ...

Human Resource Management

Gap Incorporated.

Executive Summary3

1.Company Overview and Introduction6 1.1 Company mission..6 1.2 Company vision.6 1.3 Sources of revenue.7 1.4 Industry information and Market share.7 1.5 Number of employees and their demographics..8 2.Problem Definition and Research Objectives..10 2.1 Problem.11 2.2 Decision statement12 2.3 Research objectives12 3.Business Case for Business Research14 4. Research Plan and Methodology.16 4.1 Quantitative vs. Qualitative Data17 4.2 Secondary Data Collection.19 4.3 Primary Data Collection Tools20 4.4.Sampling Approacp0 5.Survey22 5.1 Survey Design Rationale.22 5.2 Focus Group Questions Rationale24 6. Implementation and Communication Plan26 6.1 Implementation Plan26 6.2 Timeline..28 6.3Budget..29 6.4 Communication plan30 8. References.32 7. Appendices

A: Survey Questions.34

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Introduction

Professional ethics is an inseparable part of every profession. According to the definition, professional ethics encompass the personal, organizational and corporate standards of behavior expected of professionals. To clarify and assure ethic rules disciplinary codes exist for specific fields. These codes are required, because professionals often have to operate private data of their clients to apply their skills for making judgments and decisions unobtainable for the general public. One of the exemplary set of professional ethic rules is the Hippocratic Oath to which doctors have been adhered for about 23 centuries.

Professional aims, that engineers should do:

Firstly keep the safety, health and wealth of ...

The Skull, an episode of Radiolab, tells the story of Taung Child. The hosts Robert Krulwich and Jad Abumrad interview two very knowledgeable guests to find out about the discovery of Taung Child, its similarities and differences to modern humans, the way it influenced our understanding of human ancestors, and the theories behind the cause of its death. Taung Child is the skull fossil that was discovered in 1920s in Taung, an area on the southern edge of Kalahari dessert in South Africa (Radiolab). Back in the 1920s, this patch of land was a very popular destination for European ...

Human resource management is a function that is present in many organisations and is designed to optimise the performance of employees towards the delivery of products and services that are instrumental for the company’s achievement of its objectives. Human resource is basically managing people within an organisation by primarily emphasizing on systems and policies. There have been a variety of events associated with human resource management. Many of these events have been reported by the media, both the electronic and online media. This article will focus on one key human resource management event reported by the Society for ...

Decembrist occurred on date 26 of the year 1825, and its main aim was to protest the reign of Tsar Nicholas, who took the throne after his father death (Nowak, Andrzej, and Jaime 77). The successor was to be Constantine, who was Alexander's elder brother but instead he declined the role in public. Many officers did not believe that he could decline; this made his younger brother, Nicholas, to step forward. He was not popular, and this made officers take action. One of the main causes of Decembrist revolt was that early in the reign of Alexander 1, he ...

Poland

Introduction Pic. 1. Poland (“Poland Geography”). The official name of the country is Republic of Poland. Poland is located in the Eastern Europe and occupies the territory of 312,679 square kilometers. It ranks as the seventh biggest country on the European continent. The population of Poland accounts for more than 38.5 million people. Warsaw is the capital of the country. It is also the biggest and the most populated city in the country (around 2 million people). Krakow is Poland borders with Germany on the west, Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine on the east, Russia on the north and ...

Abstract

With the increased competition in the airline industry, especially in the low fare segment, Ryanair, the initiator if this segment in Europe, is faced with various pressures, coming from its competitors, external environment or industry trends. While the company has the resources to manage the challenges of the 21st century, which tops with the necessity to become a global brand, it also requires a sound strategy. This report starts with analysing the internal and external environment of Ryanair, in order to identify the strategic directions that it can pursue in its globalization approach and it further proposes a global ...

The chapter “The Expansion of Europe, 950-1100” in the book “Western Civilizations: Their History & Their Culture”, refers to the expansion of Europe at the beginning of fourteen century. Coffin, Stacey, and Cole highlighted the some historical facts that are related to the topic. The argument based on the study is “The Europe became politically, economically and military strong after making strong efforts to bring improvements in different sectors of the economy”. The transformation was difficult, but Europe made it possible by bringing improvement and growth in different sectors of Europe at that time. The improvements were made in agriculture, ...

Richard C. Morais’ 2010 novel The Hundred-Foot Journey chronicles the tensions and relationships between the owners and purveyors of an Indian restaurant and a classic French restaurant that reside one hundred feet from one another in the fictional city of Lumiere in France. While the surface-level story revolves around the reconciliation of two groups of restaurant owners and chefs, there are greater themes of cultural pluralism, acceptance and the unifying power of food to be found within the novel. Bridging the gap between the typically entrenched worlds of upper-class French food culture and the lower-class Southeast Asian food culture ...

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The origin of the Gothic art can be traced back to the 12th century. This art developed along with the emergence of Gothic architecture throughout Europe and underwent experiments over the course of the next centuries until it gave way to Renaissance art. This art form relied on various media including but not limited to panel painting, sculpture, fresco, glass, manuscripts and monuments. Undoubtedly, this art form was of typological nature and was initially developed as a Christian art performed on the walls of Cathedrals and abbeys. Among the numerous Gothic works, Jan Van Eyck’s ...

The Branding and Logos

Introduction The Restaurant is based next to Heathrow Airport in Central London. Many people in the big city of London embrace the advent of this new restaurant in the central town. Most of the Logo design is adopted for ease of clients to have a clear view of what is expected by the prospective customers. The plan is aimed at controlling the influx of clients who are either from arrivals at the Heathrow airport or the general staff working in the domain (Adamson et al. 28). The branding by the Jim & Jay is clearly showcased in the Logo model ...

The use of off-label drugs in children has gained substantial group over the past few years. While the use of these drugs does not necessarily occur as an illegal or unapproved method, there are issues in regard to the utilization of these drugs in this pediatric group since most of these off-label drugs have not undergone clinical trials to investigate the specific reactions within the pediatric group (Bazzano et al., 2009). These drugs are available within many outlets and this includes pharmaceutical outlets, privately-owned clinics and even within non-governmental healthcare facilities (Mayhew, 2009). The use of these drugs comes ...

Liberty has a different meaning to different people. Some people may not even know liberty even exists because of the society they live in which is very oppressive towards certain ideas. Liberty to some people is the freedom from controlling government, the ability to decide one’s destiny, to be able to speak or write their thoughts, to not be confined based on one’s appearance, and to be free from foreign rule. While there is no real official rule about what liberty truly is, I had the opportunity to interview people from various backgrounds about what liberty is ...

In the 15th century, the population of the Europe grew tremendously. This gave a chance for a class of merchants to emerge; they bought expensive jewels and silk, and would spice their dried meat with cinnamon or pepper (English Online). Since the need for these goods grew, they had to be brought in through routes controlled by the Turkish Empire; this was tough for the European merchants (English Online). They had to find alternative routes through countries like Spain and Portugal, through the assistance of new ships and instruments, and thus the Age of European Exploration was born. The ...

Introduction

The commencement and ending of Homer’s epic poem the Iliad depict a rational existence of humans before and after the interference of the immortal beings respectively. The middle passages are different as they present a palpable yet gradual build up of human emotions that warrant an alliance with the gods and goddesses in the text. In turn, a paradox emerges in the depiction of the relationships between the mortals and the immortals in the Homeric poem: the gods are necessary for Homer’s presentation of the humans, but they are also to blame for the unstable attitudes and ...

Met exhibition review

Exhibition Schedule: A Permanent exhibit of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century art at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York Gallery 526 – Parroom is about the decorative arts of eighteenth-century France and is astonishingly beautiful. The room as a whole keeps you captivated, and you take some time to take in the fine collections of French decorative arts, the different objects, and furnishings on display. It is like you have entered a different era. The Parroom is spacious and with oak flooring and walls plastered in a soft blue hue. There is a feel of richness in the room. There are displays ...

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Sweden is the largest country in the Northern Europe and is situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula. It has the lowest income inequality rate in the world. It shares boarders with Germany, Denmark, Russia, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia and Estonia. The country is predominantly agricultural, and it is notable for its wide forest resource when compared to other European nations. As Schack-Nielsen points out, “around 4% of Sweden’s workforce relies on primary sector” and around 6% of total land is used for agricultural purposes (Schack-Nielsen 34). Sweden has 21 counties and 25 provinces, and these divisions serve ...

Renaissance Diseases

Several centuries before the development of antiseptics (i.e. soap), diseases were often a death sentence, resulting in huge populations being wiped out from a single pandemic. Despite the huge strides in science and culture, the Renaissance had a lot of downsides regarding health and wellness. This was in part due to religious practices and the refusal to allow various sorts of medicines and surgical treatments to be tolerated, despite having the potential to save the patient(s). Regardless, the “why’s” are not the matter of importance, here. What is relevant, however, are the diseases themselves, including how they ...

Comparing the Public Healthcare policies of Germany and Denmark

Introduction Health care policy in quite a few of the developing nations has stressed upon the improvement of public health service establishments, that are predominantly funded by the revenues accrued from government tax. For quite a few years since World War II, the attention has focused on the manner in which planning and development of such public investments should happen. The primary aim of this paper is to compare the public healthcare policies of two selected nations of the European Union (EU), namely Germany and Denmark.

Thesis Statement

Runaway spending in healthcare is a serious concern for many healthcare leaders who ...

Introduction

Regional policy and innovation in the Asia/Pacific region has been of great interest to me since the class began studying the region. I have spent a considerable amount of my life living in this region, so the perspectives about the region that were introduced in chapters three and four gave me a new and different understanding of and perspective on the ways that innovation and policy are developed in the East Asian countries of the world. Interestingly, a more global perspective on development has really added to my interest in the region and the market forces that are moving ...

China has always been considered to be one of the strongest empires in the world, where a lot of military achievements took place due to a very fast development of new kinds of weapons and protection systems. China was impossible to defeat. Having the largest population in the world, it took care of all the people to get education. For the Western world, it wasn’t easy to understand the complex Chinese culture. While there was already presidency in Europe and women fought for the rights, the Chinese still had emperors and aimed on conquering more lands. Their women ...

FIRST COMPANY

What Company Did You Choose? In What Industry Do They Operate Company: Starbucks, which operates in the Foods and Beverages Industry. What are This Company’s CSR Practices? Starbucks CSR practices focus on environmental sustainability as well as giving back to communities. On a daily basis, the company demonstrates its belief in doing business sustainably and in a manner that is socially responsible. The company promotes environmental conservation in coffee growing countries. It has well-established recycling programs and in-store “Green Teams” that champion its environmental sustainability agenda. Starbucks’ high environmental responsibility standards are widely motivated by its commitment to ...

The topic of my natural resource studies through the lens of the various types of periodicals covers the most essential and frequently endangered water resources. The first academic resource analyses global hydrological cycles are rather up- to-date despite the fact that it was issued in 2006. The point of the author is based upon the premise of water being a naturally rechargeable circulating resource, which is therefore posed under the hazardous influence of non-efficient water resources assessments. The problem with renewable freshwater resources remains fierce for more than two billion residents of the poorly supplied areas. The author assumes ...

What role did Christianity play in Black communities during the colonial era to 1829?

Introduction Christianity played major roles in Black communities during the colonial era to1829. The black in the United States had been degraded into a miserable life of slavery. This degradation put them under very cruel conditions unlike their white counterparts. Thus, Christianity played a major role in the black communities at this time. Since most African slaves came from different regions in the continent, they lacked a common culture on which to coalesce. Their home religions and cultures had initially respected deities from where they came. Thus, Christianity acted as a representation of their ancient African traditions. The Africans ...

The decision of the Supreme Court concerning gay marriages is one most important civil rights events, which influenced the sense of social responsibility because this historical decision enables one-sex couples to enjoy the same extent of rights. This decision is the logical sequence of the policy of Barack Obama enshrined in his program. The majority of Americans supported such decision and it was met in society as one of revolutionary achievements of the 21st century and as logic step in fighting the discrimination due to any position or status. Not less important was the decision of Obama to employ ...

Intensive growth and new scientific and technological developments give builders practically unlimited possibilities. This leads to the emergence of the problem of choice – how to rationally determine the most appropriate technology? Experience of previous decades shows that constructions made of prefabricated concrete show good operation characteristics and are rather lasting (bibm.eu, 2016). As a result, prefabricated concrete is widely used in the process of construction of building of civil and industrial use. With the help of the prefabricated concrete construction time of the building is decreased, and much labor and financial resources are saved. Further in the paper, prefabricated ...

Should we be More Concerned by the Gap in Wealth between Nations, or the Growing Gap within Many Nations? Are the Causes of These Two Types of Inequalities are the Same?

Should we be More Concerned by the Gap in Wealth between Nations, or the Growing Gap within Many Nations?

The issue and the problem of inequality between nations is crucial and important in the 21st century society. The gap between rich and poor people is quite high in many countries. Despite that thanks to globalisation and openness to the foreign investment, more and more countries tend to grow economically such as China, India or Vietnam, the poverty rate in the 21st century is still more than fifty ...

1.0. Research Methodology As name implies, research methodology refers to the set of methods and techniques utilized to undertake a research (Kothari, 2004). So this phase of discussion sets out to describe and analyse all the tools and strategies relating to the study in hand. 1.1. Research Question A research question is the initial consideration or basic idea behind any research project. It describes the issue, idea, or concern that aims to be researched (Kothari, 2004). As for the underlying study, the research question is as follows:

How the trade dispute between Europe and China is influencing the economies of both the regions?

1.2. Research Objectives These are the projected outcomes of any research to ...

Abstract

Crude oil has been refined to make such fuels as diesel and petrol as well as industrial chemicals and lubricants. Transport activity, as a core element of economic development and a precondition of human welfare, is increasing across the globe with the growth of economies. Transport predominantly relies on such fossil resource as petroleum. The literature relevant for this study can be divided into two parts or strands: one that focuses on the demand side and another one that gives analysis to the oil market by focusing on the supply side. This paper absorbs the ideas of both strands ...

Introduction

Environmental degradation is not uncommon. In fact, it is one of the most talked about topic in international conventions and forums. Apparently, the degradation of the environment is not only a local concern. Environmental problems such as climate change, deforestation, pollution and many others are perpetrated in a local and national level and yet it has global ramifications. However, despite the fact that there are international agencies that creates environmental policies, the effectiveness of these policies and regulations largely depend on the propensity of a particular nation to implement it. The nation’s territorial powers and sovereignty make it ...

Zara is regarded as one of the most successful retailers in fashion industry in the world. It is conducting its business in many countries in an effective manner. The company is committed to satisfying demands and needs of customers, and for this it is focusing on continuous innovation, and provision of new designs that are made from affordable and quality material. The supply chain of Zara is playing a major role in its success. Zara is achieving success and competitive advantage via its supply chain. The supply chain strategy of Zara is to achieve growth via vertical integration and ...