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in an unusual way : they give examples from the day-to-day life. By the way they interested themselves in employing some unusual topics. Steven Levitt is a famous economist ( Although he is a less than 40 years old one ). He considers himself as marginal because he doesn't care about the usual ways to apply Economics ( Statistics, Markets and famous companies ). Levitt enjoys working on « bizarre » questions by using his economist's skills. Stephen J. Dubner is a Journalist of the « N-Y  Times Magazine

given to exploring the social construction of reality as manifested in evidence and ideas about the composition of official crime statistics, the activities of the law enforcement agencies, and the notions of deviancy amplification, moral panics, labelling, and self-fulfilling prophecy. 1. The Social Construction of Crime and Deviance - Definitions of crime and deviance; the relativity of crime and deviance. - Societal reaction to crime and deviance, including the role of the mass media; labelling

1920-1945 in France After the First World War, France was in a deplorable state, its richness is deeply undermined and the whole French social and political society collapsed. The era between 1920 and 1945 amounts the rehabilitation’s period and the Second World War. Thus, only twenty-seven years separate the armistice of the second disastrous conflict but this small time had been enough for the French to see three different politics groups, the occupation, and the liberation. To simplify this

1. Introduction The purpose of this report is to analyse the nanotechnology and the possibilities of its implementation and its limitation. This report mainly concentrates on the application of the technology in various sectors and finally looks in to the potential risk that the nanotechnology could cause to the environment and economy. The Nanotechnology is relatively recent area of scientific development and can be defined as “engineering at a very small scale” (Institute of Nanotechnology,

The island of Tahiti The municipal market of Papeete The traditional Tahitian cuisine Tahitian meals are usually eaten as a family. The dishes are arranged on the table as a buffet. During Sundays and holidays, preparing a feast, with all the family and neighborhood friends. This is often an opportunity to make a Polynesian oven is the most traditional of all Tahitian cuisine. This oven is a large hole dug in the sand of the beach where we laid stones and branches is ignited. The hot stones

Essay Topic : Discuss the meaning of the Trickster figure. Do you think the transgressive artist is a contemporary embodiment of this figure ? In mythology, and in the study of folklore and religion, a trickster is a god, goddess, man, woman, or anthropomorphic animal who plays tricks or otherwise disobeys normal rules and conventional behaviour. According to Lewis Hyde, if trickster "stirs to life on the open road, if he embodies ambiguity, if he steals fire to invent new technologies, if

Kenya » is an article from the Guardian issued on September 26th, 2009. This article is about a new tourism in Africa far from safaris or cultural visits. Actually this new tourism consists in visit slums in Kenya by tourists coming from the entire world. Visiting shanty towns became a way to distract tourists searching for a new way to have some fun. The question that arises is how can this unusual kind of tourism can be positive somehow . First, I’ll focus on the negative aspects of it

The New Orleans police A bad shoot Gradually, the story emerges of what happened on the Danziger bridge Mar 4th 2010 | NEW ORLEANS THE ECONOMIST A WEEK after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, on September 4th 2005, the police shot six civilians as they were crossing the Danziger bridge across the Industrial Canal. Two were killed; the others were seriously wounded, one losing an arm. On February 24th a high-ranking officer with a long police career pleaded guilty to orchestrating a vast

proportion of the work is devoted to a discussion of the sort of questions normally addressed in philosophy. These might include the function and role of society, the purpose of life, ethics or morals, the role of art in human lives, and the role of experience or reason in the development of knowledge. The modus operandi seems to be to use a normal story to simply explain difficult and/or dark parts of human life. A philosophical tale seeks to arouse the critical reflection of the reader on current

multicultural white nation at the zenith of the British imperialism which proved the success of the colonization. Even if Australia became more tolerant and multicultural, the myth of a nation of Bushmen where Aboriginals were invisible still persisted during the 20th century. First of all, to understand that the national identity refers to the identity of Britain (by assimilation process), we have to conceptualize the meaning of nationalism as a desire for power. Thus, we can define the Australian national