Power and Weakness | Robert Kagan (2002): Evaluating the US and EU’s Distinct Approaches to Conflict

 In his article of ‘Power and Weakness’ , Robert Kagan(2002) evaluates and explains many key distinctions between the US and Europe, and how power is seen by both sides. In his article, Robert Kagan (2002) outlines what approach each side prefers, stated that Europeans are more in favour of multilateralism, negotiations, cooperation, rule of … Read more

5 sociology Q & As: Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Goffman & feminism

What did Marx mean by Historical materialism? Marx’s theory of historical materialism took a methodological approach of the study of society. “Historical entailed the analysis of how particular forms of society had come into existence. Materialism denoted the rejection of Hegelian idealism and the primacy of socio economic processes and relations.” Scott,J. (2014). The difference … Read more

Rated Professors: Factors and Impact on Quality Metrics: Evaluating the Criteria for Rating Service Providers

 The website RateMyProfessors has allowed students to rate their university professors on a variety of different criterion for nearly twenty years (Glasner, 2018). These criteria include the professor’s overall quality, difficulty of the course, usefulness of the course, attitude of the professor, teaching style, and course workload amongst other qualities (“Ratemyprofessors.com”, n.d.). Previously, RateMyProfessors … Read more

Discussing Piaggio’s Operations Strategy – Generate Quality, Price, Reliability, Flexibility and Speed for Competitivenes

 Executive Summary The discussion below is about Piaggio International Company, which is found in Italy based in Pontedera by Rinaldo Piaggio in 1884. Piaggio has subsidiary branches, both locally and internationally. It involves its population in terms of the number of its sales point location, and the profits it has been obtaining for previous … Read more

The Disadvantages of WeChat in China: Corporate Influence and the Possibility of Errors

 In 2011, Tencent Holdings Limited, one of the world’s largest technology and investment corporations, developed a multi-purpose app which they originally named Weixin, until its rebranding into WeChat in 2012 to become international. From messaging, social media, and mobile payment, this app has a variety of functions and options for the user to interact … Read more

How President Trump’s tweets were potentially harmful

As Susan Wright remarks,“During the six months prior to his Jan. 20, 2017 inauguration Trump tweeted a respectable 1,837 times, about 10 tweets a day”(Wright). Out of all those respectable about of tweets, majorities of them are consist of hatred and prejudice writing. So why is Twitter one of the most powerful communications tool? How … Read more

The Innate Nature of “Number Sense”: Research and Evidence in Infants and Animals

 To possess the concept of number sense is to quickly understand, approximate, and manipulate numerical quantities (Dehaene, 1996). A number of studies have shown major evidence of the capacity of neonates and infants to discriminate and perceive object number in controlled settings (Xu and Spelke, 2000; Starkey, Spelke and Gelman, 1983; Carey, 2009). An … Read more