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If there is one company that should have failed in China, it would be Starbucks. China has thousands of years of history drinking tea and a strong culture associated with it. No one could have guessed that Chinese would ever drink coffee instead of tea. Yet, Starbucks has successfully opened more than 570 stores in 48 cities since it first entered China twelve years ago. Building on this momentum, it plans to open 1,500 stores by 2015. What did the Seattle-based coffee company do right in China?

school was seemingly the only option. She is overall happy she decided to go on with college, but has an extreme longing to travel and experience new things. She says, “I would love to travel, especially to Asian countries. I would love to experience Hong Kong.” She even took a Chinese class her first semester, which she says was “challenging, but worth it.”

In The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston, Maxine recounts a point in her life about a mentally retarded boy in “A Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe”. Maxine shows strong language that despises the mentally retarded boy as an enemy and a danger to her and her sisters. Kingston’s vivid and harsh tone, allows the reader to feel disgusted and discomforted as if they are Maxine. To make the reader become uncomfortable and disgusted towards this boy, Maxine uses words like monster, frankenstein, and

Identity does not have one source, and as someone lives their life, everything that they experience has an impact on the person that they will be in the future. The book The Woman Warrior delves into the influences on author Maxine Hong Kingston's identity, particularly the experiences that shape the parts of her that are attributed to her being an American woman with parents who are Chinese immigrants. Claiming Narrative Power, Recreating Female Selfhood by Joanne S. Frye points out how Kingston’s

Keown speaks to the construction of violence and pacifism within Buddhism assumes a dichotomous understanding of pre-modern and modern times. For Keown to claim that pacifism seems not align with living in modern society, he must first assume that pacifism is uniquely passive (2005, 83). Yet, as the writings and lived experiences of Sister Chan Kong display, pacifism, or a turning away from violence, is anything but passive. Sister Chan Kong and Thich Nhat Hanh choose to step out the dichotomous

Thank you for providing me with the opportunity to evaluate Disney and their international expansion, in particular, Hong Kong Disneyland. Disney’s international expansion over the past decades has been a mixture of successes and failures. When expanding globally, a corporation has to take into account many factors and work around the cultural, economic, and social differences for every region. Unfortunately, sometimes it is very difficult to satisfy and/or recognize all these factors. In the case

Goretti Wong 6B (27) Say NO to drugs Drug abuse is on the rise among young people in Hong Kong which is a serious and alarming phenomenon that every one of us should face squarely to. Before we figure out ways to help them, we must first understand the reasons for teenagers to take drugs. Peer influence is the dominant reason for teenagers to take drugs. Usually, friends among a group share same interests and their behaviors are expected to be consistent with one another. At the same time

"The 19th century belonged to the British. The 20th century belonged to the United States. But the 21st century belongs to China," -- Jim Rogers, Hedge fund manager China's population is one of the greatest natural resources on the planet. Its citizens are becoming more educated, diligent, aspiring and comprise nearly a quarter of the world's population. The combination of China's massive size and rapid modernization is creating the framework for an emerging superpower. China's growing

Chinese Business Etiquette: A guide to protocol, manners, and culture in the people republic of China by Scott D. Seligman is a book explaining different situations that gives an insight about that complexities faced by the Westerners doing business and travelling to China. “Good manners is generally just good common sense anyways.” (Seligman 1998) This was written in his introduction where in he stated that situations, attitudes and practices are timeless. This being said, this book was written

Comment on the legal and regulatory environment in China and its implications for the chinese media. In light of the restrictions imposed by the Chinese government of internet access, how do you think the media industry is affected? On google agreeing to ensure its search content, Reporters without borders commented, “Google’s statement about respecting online privacy are the height of hypocrisy in view of its strategy in China.” However, Google’s Director of Research was of the view, “What’s