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Being a finance major, I wanted to focus on companies that are known for their banking or retirement as my interest lies in these two sectors. One of the largest financial companies in the United States and in the world is Fidelity Investments. Currently I work as a Temp at Fidelity Investments in the operations department focusing on retirement. I thought it would be interesting to compare a position on the other side of Finance. When I first read about the project, I decided I would search…

The Effects of Brexit on Great Britain What is Brexit? Is it a city? A state? Or does it refer to something else? To better understand what Brexit is, one has to go back a few years to the formation of the European Committees. These committees were developed to allow for a single trade market and a standardization of systematic laws which would help bring prosperity and stability to the then non-united European region. Eventually, in the mid-1990’s, the European Committees developed into what is…

A Small Place Essay During the Age of Exploration many small countries like Antigua were colonized by European nations. England arrived in Antigua in 1632, Antigua was underdeveloped at the time and the English modernized and industrialized their society. When England left Antigua in 1981, Antigua was left in poverty and with no government structure. A Small Place reveals that a form of economic slavery still exists today in post-colonial Antigua through the corrupt government leaders, which…

In order to have enough knowledge to answer the question: “Was the Industrial Revolution beneficial or detrimental to the 18th and 19th century Europeans?”, the use of two primary sources will be required. It is essential to understand what is the Industrial Revolution. The Oxford dictionary defines this term as: “The rapid development of industry that occurred in Britain in the late 18th and 19th centuries, brought about by the introduction of machinery.” . The first source that will be used…

Savage: a term often used to describe someone or something that is unruly and uncivil. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, is a novella, in which the main character, Marlow, tells of his journey to Africa, a land full of savages, to obtain imperialism. In Heart of Darkness, Conrad uses the Congo habitat as a symbol of darkness to aid the practice of imperialism while also being responsible for the psychologically obscure side of a man. Conrad negatively represents Africa to symbolize that really…

“Desiree’s Baby” is a literal fiction short story by Kate Chopin that takes place in Antebellum Louisiana. A young girl by the name of Desiree is abandoned who was discovered. Armand Aubigny was the one who found desiree and after that they fell in love and had a baby. The people sense that the baby is different time goes by, they realize the baby skin color is of African descent. Armand thinks Desiree is part black, but she doesn’t accept the statement. Desiree takes the baby and leaves to the…

The Middle Ages and The Renaissance periods have many similarities and many differences, but they also have similarities. Since The Renaissance period directly followed The Middle Ages, many characteristics carried over. The differences throughout The Renaissance Period did not happen immediately, the changes came with time. In this essay, I will be explaining the changes from The Middle Ages to the Renaissance, why these changes occurred, and similarities and differences between a piece from…

In “The Globalization of Class Actions,” Veronique Magnier discusses both the history of class action litigation in France and the development of corresponding legal procedures. Development has been slow and incremental in the eyes of Magnier. However, Magnier argues that France will ultimately have to adopt a class action process. Whether that will be implemented by France or the European Union, time will tell. Magnier begins the discussion with the history of class action legislation in France…

new field of research and teaching that opens up a broad spectrum of new perspectives and that can help to reaffirm the relevance and responsibility of the humanities and of literary studies. Eco-criticism, which has developed especially in Europe, is the approach of Cultural Ecology. Eco-criticism is fundamentally concerned with the relationship between culture and nature. Cultural Ecology considers the sphere of human culture not as separate from but as interdependent with and transfused…

Background Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military leader and an emperor who conquered majority of Europe in the early of 19th century. He was born on 15 August 1769 in the island of Corsica. During the French Revolution, Napoleon rise his power in military area in France. After getting a political power in France in a 1799 coup d’état, he crowned himself as an emperor in 1804. Intelligent, ambitious and a skilled military leader, Napoleon successfully waged war against several European…