Advancements in communications, software development and other technologies have enabled practically every type of business to expand its services to off-shore locations with the probable choices of countries where both the infrastructure and specific needs of the clients can easily be met. Examples of such services include but are not limited to call-centers, as also […]
The last 15 years we have observed an enormous growth of activity by multinational corporations, as measured by inflows and outflows of foreign direct investment (FDI). On the other hand of world-wide growth, Japan is in the 18th year of stagnation with a prolonged financial malaise. Almost two decades ago, Japan’s phenomenal growth was admired […]
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Get startedOUTSOURCING VOICE-BASED PROCESSES IN BANGALORE Bangalore, with its temperate weather and good infrastructure, had currently established itself as a South Indian centre for IT and general enterprise method outsourcing in the1990s, before voice-based methods started to be outsourced in the formof call centres. Call hubs in India drop into two groups: “captive” call hubs are […]
Introduction The aim of my dissertation is to apply the theories of para-social interaction and celebrity and race, to four issues of Time magazine featuring Barack Obama, whilst analysing how the representation of Obama develops and changes over time. I have chosen Time magazine as the basis of my study as it is so widely […]
Abstract Since the mid-1970s onward, the vast majority of Western countries have experienced a significant plus continual rise in their incarceration rates, leading to the problem of overcrowded prisons. We examine the extent to which the ‘incarceration boom’ of many modern societies can be attributed to the phenomenon of penal populism. Specifically, we argue that […]
China and Indian Challenges to U.S. managers in the formulation of global strategy Chapter 1: Abstract This document will focus on evaluating the challenges that threaten the global economy in relation to China and India economies. Research will also involve analysis of the China’s and India’s economies, and their influence to the global market. Similarly, […]
Unfortunately the so-called Fast Moving Consumer Good industry, no more seems to be moving fast. In the 1990s, the industry witnessed an unprecedented boom due to liberalisation, urbanisation, increase in disposable income and altered lifestyles. The boom was also fuelled by other factors like onslaught of satellite television, reduction of excise duties and de-reservation from […]
Ireland’s Economic Boom 1 Comparison of Ireland’s (1987-2007) Economic Growth to that of Luxembourg (1985-2001). CHAPTER 1 1.1 Abstract Ireland’s economic transformation from a mere third world agricultural economy to a world-class hi-tech economy remains an issue worth analyzing. As compared to the economic growth of its counterparts in the European Union -for instance Luxembourg […]
Real Estate Investment Trusts in China: how can we learn form American model to develop our REITs system? Ouyang Chun Abstract The real estate market is a burgeon market and is an essential part in the Chinese economy. During the past decades, the government made all their efforts to boost its development by using foreign […]
Voorwoord Dit essay is geschreven in opdracht van de opleiding Commerciële Economie aan de Hogeschool van Amsterdam. Ik heb de taak een multinational te adviseren om te investeren in een economische regio. De multinational waar ik een advies voor uitbreng is Heineken. Dit rapport is gebaseerd op informatie die voorhanden is. De opdracht is een […]
Introduction Racial issues occupy the principal place in American Literature due to the prolonged racial relations between Native Americans and European colonizers. The aim of this dissertation is to compare and contrast the issue of miscegenation through the principal characters of James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans and Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie. […]
The image of Islamic men as projected in mainstream Hollywood cinema The aim of the following study is to examine the stereotypes projected by mainstream Hollywood cinema with regards to Islamic and Arabic men in order to evaluate the ways in which this perpetuates a misunderstanding of different cultures and curtails attempts to incorporate Muslims […]
Television mocking it’s big brother Cinema? Through parody is television mocking its big brother Cinema or is simply feeding the post-modern society? Artistic achievement has, in most societies, usually seen as one of the highest goals for its citizens with artists held in highest esteem in society. The Classical civilizations of Rome and Ancient Greece […]
Increased deregulation, cross-border activities of non-financial companies and improved information communications technology led to an increased consolidation of financial institutions across borders. Commercial banking sector in particular, have witnessed tremendous amount of cross-border bank merger and acquisitions’ (M&A’s) deals throughout the recent years. While globalization has accelerated cross-border merger activities around the world, another global […]
“I like to pay taxesâ€?, said Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, “with them I buy civilisationâ€?. Taxes are the fuels that make civilization run. There is no civilization in the world history that did not have tax. The first civilization we know anything about 6000 years ago in Sumer, a fertile plain between the Tigris and […]
Inleiding Ons profielwerkstuk gaat over de overeenkomsten en verschillen tussen de Romeinse slaven en de Amerikaanse slaven. In het woordenboek ‘Van Dale’ heeft het begrip slavernij deze betekenis: toestand van een slaaf => knechtschap de toestand dat er slaven gehouden worden Slavernij is een woord dat vaak veel reacties opwekt. Het staat immers bekend als […]
“By the spring of 1975, the Vietnam War had ended in victory for the enemies of the United States” and ever since this, historians have been preoccupied with explaining why America failed in Vietnam. In the most part, the Vietnam War has been portrayed as a military failure, and whilst this is true it ignores […]
The American decision to use the two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II has come in for feverish debate in the years following the incident. It is one of the best-documented events in history, and has, at the same time, provoked lasting, emotionally heated […]
The Dragon Awakes – Will China be the next superpower China is a sleeping dragon. When it awakes, the world will shake”. (Eccleston H, 2004, p290). Napoleon Bonaparte made this prophetic comment regarding China in 1808and it would seem that today China has indeed awoken. (Optimize, 2004p. 1). China has had unprecedented economic growth at […]
The terrorist attacks on September 11 left a shocked America in hither to unchartered territory. A traumatised nation woke up to the fact that it had come under devastating under from an unknown enemy. For all the pontificating since by academics, journalists and security organisations the exact motivation of the bombers is not truly known, […]
Introduction Faced with the challenges and risks arising in the process of economic globalization and world order, Europe is trying to respond adequately to it, namely, creating a general political unity, and forming a European identity. Within the EU there is ramified mechanism of economic, political and legal organs and institutions, carried out the interaction […]
INTRODUçãO O presente estudo faz uma análise da nova potencialidade brasileira que outrora estava ligada as madeiras do Pau Brasil, ouro, entre outros que eram demasiadamente explorados, esse período de exploração colônia se foi, porém estamos diante de uma riqueza tão grandiosa quanto a de épocas passadas. As novas descobertas no pré-sal abriu para o […]
Wat niet vergeten moet worden is dat alle slaven het onvrijwillig deden en dus zo gedwongen werden het te doen. Iets wat essentieel is bij de slavernij. Een eigenaar die een slaaf had, had deze ongeveer zolang als hij leefde. In sommige culturen kon men een slaaf kopen. Maar deze kon dan ook weer verkocht […]
Romeinen: De vele oorlogen die de Romeinen voerden leverden de meeste slaven op. Krijgsgevangenen werden als slaven naar Rome gevoerd. Deze werden staatsbezit nadat ze gevangen werden genomen. Hierna moesten ze als slaaf voor de overheid werken, hierover meer in deelvraag twee. Bij grote groepen staatsslaven traden er vaak misverstanden op, wat tot massale opstanden […]
Slavernij is een woord dat vaak veel reacties opwekt. Het staat immers bekend als een schande voor de mensheid. Gelukkig kijkt men tegenwoordig met een andere blik aan tegen slavernij dan decennia (de slavernij in de Verenigde Staten met slaven uit Afrika) of zelfs tientallen eeuwen geleden (de slavernij in het Romeinse Rijk). De reden […]
Introduction To what extent did the design strategy of Obama’s campaign contribute to his mass popularity and victory in 2008 followed by a radial shift in public opinion by the end of 2010? Research methods Interview the creative director of the campaign to gain a concise overview of what was required of the design team. […]
CHAPTER I: Violence perpetrated by Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations (DTOs) increased dramatically in 2006 and continued to rise dramatically through 2010. According to the National Drug Intelligence Center’s “National Drug Threat Assessment, 2010”, published in February 2010, “Mexican DTOs dominate the transportation of illicit drugs across the Southwest Border. They typically use commercial trucks and […]
The concept of hegemony is notoriously difficult to quantify both in concrete political terms and in a less tangible philosophical manner. Moreover, in a world increasingly divided upon religious as opposed to ideological lines, the concept of hegemony has suffered from a certain crisis of relevance whereby it would seem that the preponderance of resources […]
Abstract The start of the twenty first century signaled a new beginning for the United States and China in their quest for oil diplomacy with African oil producing countries. One of the characteristics of this venture is the difference in approach both countries follow to attain this natural resource. This research work, therefore, examines the […]
The topic of illegal immigration has been an issue for debate with lawmakers, the President, member of congress and America as a whole for the past several years. In very general terms, illegal immigrants are people, primarily from Mexico and Central America who illegally cross over the border into the United States. These men and […]
