Cinema of Hong Kong

Love Jones is a romantic love story drama, with an optimistic ending, that leaves you emotionally satisfied. This movie has a realistic character in an up and down relationship. With the use of an intelligent post feminism woman and a male character who is somewhat egalitarian. Taking place in a romantic scenery in the late 1990’s Chicago city settings. In other words, it's a chick flick. Starring Darius Lovehall (Larenz Tate) a novelist, who comes off being cocky and full of himself. Then…

Video #6 – “Mr. Baseball This video took a look at the cultural differences that we often take for granted. In this particular scene there was an American sitting on the floor, eating noodles, using chopsticks, in a traditional Asian household. The American is unfamiliar with these customs, and is confused by the chopsticks and slurping sounds. He also has trouble understanding who gets served their beverage first, as well as that it is bad luck to point your chopsticks vertically into the air.…

Biography My Grandpa Harmen Vriend was born on June 30th 1941 in Holland. At the age of 5 he was forced to move to Canada with his family because the Germans were looking for his father Peter Vriend. That was a big problem because often when the Germans captured the Dutch they would put them to work and died oe were near death because of i . As a child my Grandpa was told that "Canada was the land of milk and honey ".Which means that there was an abundance of supplies like food, housing and…

practice in human relationship. One does not hold the authority unless the others allow you to, it is like a king will not be a king unless the community allows you to do so. That being said, what makes Hong Kong an interesting character? It is the freedom that we receive from both British and China. Hong Kong will not be able to develop its unique identity if there are too many restrictions. Trace back to the policy…

Even with influence by English common law, ‘guanxi’ referring a personal networking system is a vital factor in the Hong Kong market where informal relationships are common rather than formal written contracts’ (Jaggi, Leung and Gul, 2009). As a result, ownership concentrated in families in firms is common or might be dominant in Hong Kong. According to The Economist (2014) Hong Kong ranked first in the Global crony-capitalism index. In the bank-based market, like the German and Japanese, most…

Introduction Cathay Pacific is the largest airline of Hong Kong. The airline flies passenger and cargo to 200 destinations in 52 countries worldwide. Including: Los Angeles, London, France, Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, Beijing, Dubai, Frankfurt, Mexico City and Miami. The airline was founded on 24 September 1946 by Australian Sydney H. de Kantzow and American Roy C. Farrell. Cathay Pacific is known for making the first ever non stop transpolar flight over the north pole. The company is the third…

Walt Disney had a dream of a place in which parents and their children could do things together and enjoy time spent with one another. His dreams were becoming more extensive the more he was thinking about this dreamland. He was imagining characters walking around talking and interacting with those who came to Disney. These thoughts were occurring to him as he was at an amusement parking sitting while his daughters were playing. Walt never wanted his amusement park to be like the typical one. He…

I argue investing in a communist market is like playing russian roulette with your money. Robert Arnott, a professional investor, famously saying “in investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable” would agree. Just like the chamber of a gun, a communist market will have plenty of area open for foreign investment. However, the one chamber holding a bullet represents the uncertainties involved in doing business where the government is in complete control of the market. Benjamin Franklin…

Introduction After years of transformation, Hong Kong has become one of the developed regions. The citizens began to pursuit a better quality of life, rather than the basic living standards. The demand for a wider scope of welfare policies grew beyond the society. The provision of social welfare has therefore become an essential element in government administration. The Hong Kong Government has offered social services to different tiers of recipients. There are existing policies aiming at…

Andreas Gursky was born on January 15, 1955 in Leipzig, Germany. He is a German photographer and a professor at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, which is as well in Germany. This photographer is best known for his monumental digitally manipulated photographs which portray various aspects such as consumer culture and busyness of modern life, resulting in dramatic images that mark the line between the representation and the abstract. Gursky began photographing in black and white with a hand-held…