All the Right Reasons

during the primaries campaign. [Primaries are elections organised in each state by each party from January till June of the year of a presidential election to elect the official candidate of the party at the presidential election. In fact electors who are party members (closed primaries) or any elector (open primaries) or meetings of the local party activists (caucus) select delegates to the National Convention of the party, who will vote for the candidate to the nomination of the party. The Democratic

First trip to Viet Nam Viet Nam, the country of dawn, the place where i went for the first time when i was ten. The perfect age to discover something new; the age of innocence, curiosity, naïvety, shyness, abstraction of judgement. It was a good feeling to visit this country; especially when half part of your family leave there. I remember have missed one month of class to go there. 1998, i was in the airplane from Paris to Saigon, the exploration could start. At this time, i did not realize that

he belongs' The mother of the murdered toddler James Bulger said his killer Jon Venables is “where he belongs” in her first reaction to news of his return to custody. Venables, 27, was recalled to prison last week after breaching the terms of his release from prison, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said. The convicted murderer was aged ten when he and Robert Thompson abducted the two-year-old from a shopping centre in Bootle and battered him to death on a railway line in 1993. The pair were controversially

la Common Law Brunon Anne, The English of law: England & Wales. Preamble: * The Queen has no real power: “the Queen reigns but does not rule” * Political power is in the hands of parliament and of government * Queen’s role = a symbol of continuity and unity of the kingdom and the Commonwealth of Nations (international) * Elisabeth II (crowned 1952) Commonwealth: * Often called the British CMW, or just the CMW * Founded in 1926 by the Statute of Westminster *

Jude the Obscure is a novel written by Thomas Hardy and published in 1895 during the Victorian period. It is a bildungs roman which tells the story of Jude, a boy from the countryside who wants to dedicate his life to knowledge and to become one of the well educated men of Christminster but who fails. It also talks about his marriage with Arabella and most of all, his love for Sue Bridehead (his cousin). In this essay, I will focus on the perceptions of Nature in the novel and in the sections 54

destructing [destroying] the environment and in a way that will permit future generation to be able to provide to their own needs. Sustainable development can be divided in three parts: environmental sustainability, economic sustainability and sociopolitical sustainability. Companies in the corporate world now involve themselves [commit themselves / get involved] in sustainable development for several reasons. Some companies want to make sure they respect culture and human rights, others want to respect

a new field of study which evolved just after the Second World War. The seller’s market has disappeared and buyers market has come up. This led to paradigm shift of the manufacturer’s attention from product to consumer and specially focused on the consumer behavior. The evaluation of marketing concept from mere selling concept to consumer oriented marketing has resulted in buyer behavior becoming an independent discipline. Hence marketers felt the need to obtain an in-depth knowledge of consumers

Women's pay The hand that rocks the cradle Why women are still earning less than men Mar 2nd 2006 | from the print edition ..WHATEVER the truth of the aphorism that a mother's place is in the wrong, it seems that working mothers, at least, are in the wrong place. Or so concludes the Women and Work Commission (WWC), whose long-awaited report on the causes of the “gender pay gap”, the difference between men's and women's hourly earnings, was published on February 27th. The commission found

to talk politics, time to talk tax. The current economic meltdown should give a new momentum to the fading dream of a Social Europe. Growing demand for state protection and the obvious need to coordinate national responses to the crisis should bring grist to the mill of the proponents of a genuine Social Europe, if the EU and EMU are to survive the current crisis. This should be sweet music to the ears of the French Left, who have long believed that the only way to achieve a truly Social Europe

Does the EU need to be democratic? There has been in recent years a growing concern, reflected in the abundant publication by various academics and scholars, relating to the legitimacy of the European Union (EU) and its alleged ‘democratic deficit’. Many of these publications seem to have taken the democratic deficit as given and concentrated on explaining its causes and characteristics, leading to solutions which could be put in place to resolve it. Few have explicitly identified and questioned