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better understanding between one and another. However, it is now a common practise and phenomenon to see multicultural marriage and families in a cosmopolitan society like Hong Kong. We are lucky to be given many opportunities to be in touch with people with different cultural background, no matter in our learning environment such as exchange programmes or study tour, or in workplace like joining business tours. Such a phenomenon is also reflected in other Asian countries like Korea in the film “Punch”

Seeing One Country as Two At the turn of the 19th century the United States had accomplished a change in power without violence. The inauguration of Thomas Jefferson marked a time in history when things everywhere started to progress rapidly. The two dominant regions the North and South, looked like it would be bearable to work with each other and be able to discuss any problems with healthy debates. However as time progressed toward the 1860s, the North and South proved to differentiate among each

Serving in the U.S. Military is a selfless act to serve ones country. Any able bodied American that can meet the physical, emotional, and mental requirements should have the ability to serve in some capacity to include Transgender Americans. In 2011 “don’t ask, don’t tell” act was repealed (Don’t Ask Don’t Tell), thus allowing LGB service members to serve, but what about the T? The repeal left Transgender service members to continue to serve in secrecy or lose their career (Transgender Military

One Show Two Countries Television shows are a way to escape reality and discover a new one. Every country does television drama a little bit differently and it is interesting to look at two shows from two different countries that are similar to each other. In the year 2013, South Korea aired a show entitled Good Doctor and four years later an American TV station purchased the rights to remakes the show for American viewers. The remake of the Korean drama is also titled The Good Doctor. This show

A country isn’t born from one day to another, and they all have a history. It’s certain that they have come a long way, but because of the sacrifices they’ve had to make along the road. Mexico, being one of the most beautiful countries, has a reputation for its beaches, food, and tourist attractions, but all that glitters is not gold. Mexico attracts tourist from all over the world and its culture has spread to all parts of the world, but it’s not so pretty side, crime, has also had an impact on

Introduction With Russia being one of the largest countries in the world, they tend to show some signs of a weak economic system. Russia’s oil price dependency has taken a big turn in evolving drastically over the years. In terms of the Russian Federation, they have a GDP of 2.097 trillion USD and a GNI of 3.328 PPP dollars. The currency in which Russia utilizes on a day-to-day basis is called the Russian ruble. One Russian ruble would be equivalent to 0.018 USD when converting currencies. With

Yemen, a newly formed country in western Asia, located at the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, is among one of the most incredibly fragile and sensitive states in the Middle East. In addition to being the second largest country in the peninsula, Yemen is one of the poorest Arab countries, with a GDP of 27.32 billion. For comparison, Saudi Arabia Yemen’s northern neighbor has a GDP of 646.4 billion. Within Yemen, it has become apparent that the country has little to no oil and natural resources

Even though France’s officials didn’t help save them, there were other European countries that protected their Jewish population from the Nazis, such as Denmark. During WWII, Denmark was occupied by Nazi Germany in 1940. During this time, while the Nazis tried to round up Danish Jews to send them to concentration camps, there was considerable opposition to the action. In his article, One Country Saved Its Jews. Were They Just Better People?, Michael Ignatieff maintains that ““When, in October 1943

Introduction Iran is without a doubt, one of the richest countries in the world. With its enormous Oil, Gas and other natural resources combined with its young population and the access to free seas (through Persian gulf), one should think that the country has a significant growth and no poverty and unemployment problems. After the 1979 revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini, the leader of opposition, became the country’s leader and changed Iran’s Constitution, an Islamic republic government. Under this

Honduras is a country located in Central America, between Guatemala and Nicaragua and bordering the Gulf of Fonseca, the people over there mostly speak Spanish. The land area of Honduras is about 111890 km2, and the water area is about 200 km2, most of the land area is mountain range and plateaus. The natural resources include timber, gold, silver, copper, lead, iron coal, fish, shrimp, and hydropower. In Honduras, the economy is based on agriculture, so Honduras is one of the poorest countries in Latin