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    Rough Draft #1 Hong Kong is a region of China that has a tumultuous past. It was colonized by the British, captured by Japan, given back to the British, and eventually losing its sovereignty to China. The people of Hong Kong are an interesting mixture of economic classes, races, religions, and opinion. Recently, they’ve been in the news due to their protests for the hope of democracy in the region. This paper is an examination of how globalization is affecting the people of Hong Kong, and how they

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    Hong Kong, the Special Administrative Region of the People 's Republic of China, is an economically, politically and culturally unique city in Pacific Asia. As one of the world’s leading international financial centres, Hong Kong is prosperous and very densely populated. However, even a modern, highly developed megacity like Hong Kong has its major downfalls; the largest civil movement in the history of Hong Kong broke out in its business centre, Central, approximately a year ago. On September

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    The Sociology of music has become a hot-button field of study in worldwide in recent years. The purpose of this research essay is to explore the connections between music and political conflict between Hong Kong and China. Through understanding the current conflict circumstance arose in Hong Kong and China, I intend to demonstrate the penetrating power of music, as a social transmitter of messages, within the society. Besides, it is also important to understand the perspective of different actors

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    Bilingual Phenomenon

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    define bilingualism because many people with different bilingual characteristics might be classified as bilingual (National Association for Language Development in the Curriculum, 2011). What we can simply clarify is that bilingualism is the ability to use two languages. As we all know, Hong Kong, a modern city of the world, is a well-known bilingual city based on historical, economic, political and social factors. And in our daily lives, it seems really common to see people have bilingual communication

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    help the colonized people to achieve self-defined identity and national consciousness (Blecker, 2013). When the colonials commanded Hong Kong people to maintain where colonialism has assigned them, Hong Kong resisted instead of following the order. There were two symbolic movements that reflected Hong Kongers’ discontent with British and Chinese governments’ policies. The movement that conveyed Hong Kong people’s discontent with the British colonial government is the Hong Kong Leftist riots in 1967

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    I was born in Hong Kong. Although Hong Kong is not a nation and is a part of China, my national identity lies with Hong Kong. After the British took control of Hong Kong, Hong Kong became more prosperous and adopted a capitalist system (Rothman, 2014). Due to the democratic freedom that the capitalist system gave, the citizens of Hong Kong became pro-democracy (Rothman, 2014). Hence, before Hong Kong was back under China’s control, the U.K. and China agreed upon “one country, two systems” (Rothman

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    The State Council of the Peoples Republic of China violates the Hong Kong Basic Law by purposefully creating a pro-Beijing majority in the Hong Kong Election Committee and thus denies citizens participation in the election of their Chief Executive. This social injustice forms part of a larger social justice struggle whereby the autonomy of Hong Kong is slowly being eroded by Central Government control. Hong Kong citizens have long been discontent with the Chinese Central Government over concerns

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    Hong Kong company formation Overview Today, many entrepreneurs and investors are setting up their businesses overseas, especially in areas such as Hong Kong. The main reason behind this trend is to find a means to enter the international market and to take advantage of tax friendly countries. Hong Kong has been ranked as one of the best places to establish a business and run comfortably. It has many attractive factors that matter to a smooth business operation. Productive workforce, strategic location

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    Disneyland in Hong Kong- Good or Bad? The aim of this essay is to discuss the advantages and disadvantages in having Disneyland coming into Hong Kong. Disneyland is a famous theme part, with outlets all around the world, including Japan, America and France. And now, Disney decided that the next theme part it is going to locate itself is Hong Kong- is how beneficial will it be to Hong Kong? The diagram on the left shows the proposed location of Disney land in Hong Kong. It will be situated at the

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    Globalization means to develop or be developed to make possible international influence or operation. Hong Kong has been going through many changes recently which is slowly forcing them to globalize. The globalization of Hong Kong was a key series of events that has taken place in recent years that has significantly changed how Hong Kong has developed. Hong Kong has seen changes in their food culture, global customs and various western products have massively affected their Chinese culture in more

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