Bernie Liu‚ an architect by profession‚ is an entrepreneur at heart with a dream and a vision. In 1986‚ right after the People Power Revolution‚ Bernie together with close friends from college and supported by his family who were then garments manufacturers‚ conceptualized‚ produced and marketed an initial product line of one-sized T-shirts with catchy prints–all targeted at the youth market. And so Penshoppe was born! Today‚ the merchandise mix of Penshoppe‚ the anchor brand of Golden ABC
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Lucy Liu is an important figure in the Asian American community. She is one of the few Asian actors who sas made it big in the film world. She has starred in a television series‚ "Ally McBeal‚" and also in movies. Her biggest impact in the film world has been the movie Charlie’s Angels‚ in which she instills strength in being a woman and also brings in elements of her Asian background. Lucy Liu has indeed broken the stereotype of Asian Americans as she is not passive or submissive. Lucy Liu has
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known within China by his temple name‚ Gaozu (Chinese: pinyin: Gāozǔ)‚ personal name Liu Bang (Wade-Giles: Liu Pang)‚ was the first emperor of the Han Dynasty‚ ruling over China from 202 BC to 195 BC. Liu Bang was one of the few dynasty founders in Chinese history who emerged from the peasant class (another major example being Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty). In the early stage of his rise to prominence‚ Liu was addressed as "Duke of Pei"‚ with the "Pei" referring to his hometown of Pei County
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Hung Liu: The Chinese-American Artist By: Daniel Cagape ARTS 2F 10:30AM “The mind changes‚ the word changes‚ time doesn’t stay still‚ history is a verb‚ it is ongoing‚ there is no past tense‚ future tense‚ history is constant” Hung Liu told interviewer Rachelle Riechart (Riechart). Hung Liu is a Chinese woman who was born in Changchun‚ China in 1948. She was born during the age which we call the Chinese Cultural Revolution‚ which heavily impacted her life. She lived in China for 36 years and
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In the first sentence of Hung Liu Pollock states‚ “Painting is a returned gaze upon an absence‚ a loss that is summoned back to meet us at the surface where the painter has worked and history has been invoked.” In other words‚ Pollock describes Liu paintings as a reimbursed western gaze on forgotten women‚ reclaiming them to history by depicting them as prostitutes‚ mothers‚ and warriors. For example‚ Liu’s paintings give a modern spin on old Chinese values and images. Pollock’s theory of absence
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Sharon Lei English 101 Professor Ewan Magie 13 October 2013 Critical response to Eric Liu: “Note of a Native Speaker” Eric Liu is a writer for MSNBC and a fellow at the New American Foundation. In his essay “ Note of a Native Speaker” he starts off listing way that characterize that he is “white”. He discussed how he did not ‘ask” to be white. That he began his assimilation‚- which means “whiting” before he was born .He described how he was raised in a non “typical “ Chinese family that
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Mr. Liu has myopia. He has to wear his glasses every day. His vision is getting worse every day because of aging. Twenty years ago‚ Mr. Liu did not need to wear a pair of glasses. He could see things really clear. Now‚ Mr. Liu has to wear his glasses every day‚ so he can read his newspaper. Mr. Liu cannot hear really well‚ he needs people to talk to him really loud‚ so he can hear them. When Mr. Liu was young‚ he could even hear people whispering. Along with aging‚ sometimes Mr. Liu needs to wear
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In December 2008 Bernie Madoff was arrested under the suspicion of fraud. His Wall Street firm‚ Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC‚ was founded in 1960. Madoff was the chairman of this company through its entire existence until his arrest. Ponzi Schemes such as the one Bernie Madoff started at his company have been around for years; the first being Charles Ponzi’s scheme in the 1900’s. Madoff made history through his scheme as it is considered one of the largest financial frauds ever.
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Bernie Madoff Bernard (Bernie) Madoff committed this century’s largest Ponzi scheme to date. First we will define Ponzi Scheme – it is a fraudulent pyramid scheme where original investors are paid their gains out of new investors money so it would appear to old investor that the scheme (business) is producing an unusually large return (Albrecht‚ 2009). The Ponzi scheme that Madoff created and pulled off for years was quite intricate. In a standard pyramid scheme each victim unknowingly brings in
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Bernie was an old man now and he knew it was beginning to show. Despite it being something that he had always promised himself he would never reach‚ he’d secretly known that ageing was inevitable and was therefore not a question of whether it would happen‚ but when it would happen. These were the thoughts passing nonchalantly through his head as he chose an unoccupied table and sat down‚ looking around the bar as he did so. What if his wife was still here‚ things would be so much more pleasurable
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