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    Swee Hoon Ang s Don G. P Hong . Executive Summary This research showed that entrepreneurial spirit among East Asian Chinese youths is predicted by personality characteristics such as risk-taking propensity, persistence, and internal locus of control, as well as by motivational factors such as love for money and desire for security. Generally, these characteristics are not prevalent in an East Asian culture. The underlying predictors, however, differed for Hong Kong and Singapore. Risk taking

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    The Interview Paper

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    of course. The America’s education is not similar to Hong Kong. I feel no pressure in studying here. It is so comfortable to study in this country. Q: What do you think about the differences of education or college between Hong Kong and the United States? A: I don’t know how to say but I can remember that when I was studying in Hong Kong, I felt extremely terrible pressure everyday. You know there are only 7 universities in Hong Kong and more than ninety thousand students want to get to

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    The world in today, a concept of ‘global village’, that mean in the earth are no nation or group have suggested by Samovar & Porter (1991). Something happen in a part of world and the other part of the world will know immediately, such as in 14th November, 2015, ISIS have been attack Paris and over 140 people get kill by terrorists, and in the next hour whole the world news are putting this on steam, also some of the country change the color of their main building to blue, white and red and produce

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    (2000), translated to In The Mood For Love, is an opening to the new millennium and homage to past genres of filmmaking. Deeply rooted in emotion and nostalgia, In The Mood For Love reads as a waltz throughout the entirety of the film. Set in 1962 Hong Kong, journalist Chow Mo-wan moves to the city with his wife, who is often away on business. He befriends a woman who lives in his apartment complex, Su Li-Zhen (referred to Ms. Chan in the film) who mirrors his loneliness and marital strife. Ironically

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    After watching Chilsu and Mansu (1988), the first thing that I’ve noticed apart from this film being in color was the economic development that took place in Seoul compared to the previous films that we have seen. The image of Seoul in this film was more recognizable to today. I also found this film to be relative modern. The film main female character Jina worked at Burger King (American establishment) and is a college student. I think she is the first female character that we’ve seen in college

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    Un Chien Andalou

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    Un Chien Andalou In Un Chien Andalou (1929), Luis Buñuel uses montage editing to put together a series of surreal images to create what the audience can interpret as a love story. The theme being expressed in Un Chien Andalou is that love is something that is irrational, unexplainable, and considering the fact that it is a surrealist film, love is surreal. Along with the montage technique, I will also discuss Buñuel’s use of camerawork like the long shots used throughout the film, music, acting style

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    “One artistic strength of Hong Kong cinema, then, is its use of parallels and motifs—musical, visual, or verbal—to bind together episodically plotted films.” : In Plots p 120 So far in this Chinese Cinemas class, I have noticed something every film we have viewed in class and every Hong Kong film I have watched outside of the lecture: the stories flow perfectly. At first the films could come off as confusing and spotty with all the kung-fu and epic stories. The Hong Kong films we have viewed so

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    along the major film studios with the production of short films that can unite the talents of several fields of various high effort crossed. Wong Kar Wai is not denying the author a cinema feature and a mystical, which stands apart from many mainstream Hong

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    The War within Paradise of the Blind Paradise of the Blind is set in Vietnam where communism has taken over the country after the Vietnam War. The whole war changed the lives of the Vietnamese people; in which the story revolves around Hang and her views of her family members. Aunt Tam and Que are two members that Hang thinks dear of, even though they are beloved to her, Hang still views them very differently since she has lived and experienced events with them. What Hang sees can be represented

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    An Analysis of Duong Thu Huong’s Application of Audio in Paradise of the Blind During the turbulent setting of post-war Vietnam, Duong Thu Huong projects the chaos experienced by her characters through auditory expression and musical elements. Primarily a bildungsroman, Paradise of the Blind portrays the protagonist, Hang, guided by her hometown’s chants and foreign influences. Although the timeline of this novel is nonlinear, aspects like the cripple’s chant consistently transform, adapting to

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