Birchbox is a monthly subscription-based service that offers a box with cosmetic samples to its customers. With it looking at global expansion in China, the company will face both threats and opportunities presented by this market. First, the company will need a lot of influence in the Chinese market. Due to the already saturated market with similar cosmetic ideas such as 1p1g, Glamabox and Glossybox, Birchbox would have a hard time influencing to the Chinese market. While searching for Birchbox…
the uncertainty of the monster’s origin and motivation. Where is the monster coming from? Why is the monsters destroying the society we live in? These questions always remain in our head. In Peter Jackson’s remake of King Kong and the Japanese original version of Godzilla, King Kong and Godzilla are reminders to people’s action and they also contribute to the improvement of the society. Admittedly, most monsters…
The Hong Kong protests, also known as the Umbrella Revolution, began in September 2014 when activists in Hong Kong started to protest outside the Hong Kong Government headquarters and in several major city intersections, mainly due to NPCSC’s decision of disallowing civil nominations in future elections. It has become a stunning peaceful civil disobedience movement, able to bring together thousands of protesters. Although some violent outbreaks have happened, this conflict should be mostly…
In Elizabeth Wong’s story, The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl, she reveals denial and shame towards her parent’s culture to illuminate the importance of having multiple cultures in a person’s life. Though reading this story one can discover her denial towards her Chinese culture was because she just wanted to integrate and be like the rest. The majority of children will be forced into ideas that are presented and taught by the parents. The parent is only passionate to keep the traditions…
The personal preference about the attraction for HongKong & Dubai The taste of people is just like the personality, no one has the exactly same compared to others. For me, there are parts I like and dislike both in HongKong & Dubai, for example: As foodie (likes tasting all kinds of food), the first thing I search for in a city is the food center. HongKong is recognized as a food paradise, but it is also a city that never sleeps( a paradise for people having fun). There are more than ten…
The Hong Kong Umbrella Protests Seventeen years ago Hong Kong was passed from British rule over to China. China vowed in the Hong Kong Joint-Declaration to operate under the policy of “one country, two systems.” The agreement was recently broken when the Chinese government located in the capital, Beijing, ordered that they would weed out the candidates that could and could not run for the 2017 election in Hong Kong. This proclamation has sparked nonviolent protesting not only in Hong Kong but…
America is a multicultural country. People came from all around the world that are living in this big society. You can see people are combining two or more different cultures together. They are trying to learn and accept different things. Like, chopsticks are no longer a patent of Chinese, most people know how to use chopsticks. Most immigrants are fitting into American society. Likewise, most Americans are willing to become allies or family with foreigners. Most people accepted the concept of…
Max Weber is a philosophical idealist and he is one of the most well known contributors to the sociological and philosophical fields. Many of his ideas converged with or complemented Marx and Engel’s ideologies. Nevertheless, it did not prevent him from refuting certain aspects of their scholarly works when appropriate. In this essay, I am going to critically analyze and critique six of Weber’s points and ideas raised in Ideology and the Development of Sociological Theory by Professor Zeitlin.…
Our main focal point is Hong Kong as head quarts with a trickle down system into neighboring cities. This process creates a logistics power-hub for transportation to future and neighboring expansion cites. Managers create an ethical precedence that gives rise to a strong ethical…
was a legendary piece of pure cinema - simultaneously a terrifying monster movie, epic fairy tale, tragic love story, and deeply resonant cultural myth. His name is King Kong.” (Morton, 2005) This research essay will be analysing the film(s) King Kong 1933 directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack and the remake King Kong 2005 directed by Peter Jackson. The essay will compare and link each style of films, the narrative, genre and aesthetics. Throughout the discussion the essay will…