Maxine Hong Kingston

or Die” (www.newworldencyclopedia.org). This would be one of the most important highlights of her career, and would ultimately define Anne’s artistic ability. On her last day, October 4, 1974, Anne attended a lunch with her friend and fellow author Maxine Kumin. It was seemingly a normal day, but “On her return, she had put on her mother’s fur coat, poured herself a glass of vodka, locked herself in the garage and started the engine of her car, hence committing suicide by carbon monoxide…

Art was the part of the life of people from all centuries. It let people express themselves, to communicate with others, to share messages or ideas and to make life more beautiful. But art exists across history. Art has been transcending through artists until our days. It is important not only to respect world famous artists from previous centuries but also to support modern ones. Contemporary artists today have strong works, filled with beauty, deep meaning, and talent. One of them is British…

In the 1950s, there were many wealthy Chinese moved to Hong Kong illegally due to the civil war. After 1997, the SAR government launched a new migration scheme which allows 150 mainland residents move to Hong Kong every day. According to Census and Statistics Department, the percentage of net migration to total population increased is 71.5% in 2005. The problem of not enough housing estates for the rapid growth in population arosed. Other than that, the growing number of locals moved from rural…

reform where necessary. In Hong Kong, the reform of the holistic education system in 2005 has introduced the new academic structure for Senior Secondary Education (SSE) at incremental levels which aims at equipping students for meeting the diverse needs of the society by offering alternative pathways to professional development and career pursuit. (Chan, 2010) In 2012, Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (HKDSE) comprehensively replaced the two standardized exams, namely Hong Kong…

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 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…