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bankrupt or the stocks of solvency, the value-at-risk is a widely used risk measure of the loss on a specific portfolio of financial assets. Until the late 80’s, the methods used to detect and manage risks were adapted to specific products; it was impossible to compare the risk measures between the different “tables” of the same trading floor. Thanks to the value-at-risk and its generalisation in the different markets worldwide, we can now define the “amount at risk” of a portfolio in one figure.

hugely increased throughout the world at the same time as the trend of globalization entered this world, especially in the field of workplace, where its challenges is pressing than ever. Cultural diversity has been defined as “the representation, in one social system, of people with distinctly different group affiliations of cultural significance” (Cox, 1993). The topic of how dealing with cultural dimension within a group is still blurred, even if we all have noticed that culture obviously impact

Intolerance, to my mind, is how to know and to impose its view to others. To be proud of it and to believe only in this. Reply to intolerance by intolerance is a human reflex; someone who’s feel offended or insulted will want to defend itself in the same way. It’s a kind of pride. However, it’s an endless circle because those who insult will be insulted in his turn and will want to reciprocate that at those who was originally the victim, by idea of revenge. For example we can take the story

Indeed, an era of segregation and racism against “the Negros”, as they were often called, followed. Racism and violence escalated in post-civil war America and associations like the Ku Klux Klan grew. Often, the black community preferred to stay silent or become “Oreos”, but some individuals decided to stand up against oppression. Of those are Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, both militants for black peoples’ rights and both assassinated. C.P Ellis, once exalted Cyclops of the KKK, analyses

student integration interview & report With the development of the international moves, there is more and more people who choose to go abroad for professional or many other reason. People seem really interested in other culture; they are open-minded and are looking for different way to improve their knowledge and to get different way to live and to see things. It is interesting to understand what are the stages of adaptation the people experience when they go abroad. Indeed, it could be quite

curve-hugging handling, it's ballyhooing its design prowess and financial independence. In one ad, for example, it asserts that BMW's designers and engineers answer only to BMW, while cheekily reminding readers that Volvo and Jaguar are owned by Ford (F), that Audi is but a unit of Volkswagen (the People's Car), and that its nemesis, Mercedes-Benz, is all merged up with -- gasp! -- Chrysler. COOL BUT INHUMAN? In another ad, it brazenly spotlights the rear end of its 7 Series flagship sedan, the very design

An organisational change occurs when there is a move from one position to another (Ford and Ford, 1995 cited in Rollinson, 2008, p630). The need for change can be provoked by many different triggers either internal or external. Nowadays, organisations need to make radical changes whereas it used to be only incremental alterations in the past (Peters, 1987 cited in Rollinson, 2008, p630). For this reason, organisational survival will essentially depend on their ability to handle the change process

Russians and the Americans challenged each other by means of Berlin’s people, and which lasted from 1948 to 1949. 1949 is then marked by the division of Berlin in two parts: the RFA at the West, and the RDA at the East. This last one is led by the Soviet Union, whereas the first one is led by the free Western Europe plus America and England. This achieved to divide the world in two sides, even if from 1946 Churchill considered that Europe was divided by “an iron curtain”. This same year, in big part thanks

Brooklyn’s inhabitants very talkative. After having mispronounced a word, he decides to write a book, in order to have some kind of a goal. The Book of Human Folly is supposed to be a collection of stories all related with absurd events happened to himself or “his fellow human beings”. He wants it to be something funny, and works without any method. He quotes several examples of the stories he writes. He sometimes feels depressed, and also recalls tragic events (for instance the story of Dr. Weinberg’s mother)

never stop it. Communication can show different option, give our opinion, our feeling, convince someone, pass on information, be understood or differenced of others. It can be divided into two parts: the verbal and non verbal communication. The first is used for describing the language communication with the words. Whereas, the second refers to the messages given or received without speaking, we give information with the body language and facial expressions. We can ask if communication is confronted