Carvel Asia Limited on 1994‚ to act as holding company for the ice cream maker’s operational investments in Asia‚ starting in Beijing. Teamed up with China’s Minister of Agriculture to create Beijing Carvel Food Company Limited (Beijing Carvel)‚ a joint venture equally owned by both parties. Beijing Carvel has established 10 retail stores and 150 wholesale accounts throughout Beijing on 1998. However‚ company had experienced losses every year since its inception; but its financial performance had steadily
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Leslie Cheung‚ Fengyi Zhang‚ and Li Gong. Throughout the whole 170-minute film‚ a piece of Beijing Opera is running through‚ which is called Farewell My Concubine. The two Beijing opera actors become the main characters of this film. Actually‚ this film talks about the whole lives of these two Beijing opera performers. However‚ I think this film is not only about "whom"‚ but more about "what"‚ which is Beijing opera. It shows the entire story from 1924 till 1977. (Wikipedia) In the film‚ the story
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One Day Tour in Beijing —explore old Beijing culture Introduction This essay describes how the one day tour in Beijing inner city would look like guiding the guests/tourists about the information that shows on the brochure and a further explanation of it. Theory of authenticity of tourism and tourist typology‚ motivation and determination are linked together with the brochure which would be expounded as well. Table of Content Introduction 1 Table of Content 2 Definition of tourism 3 Highlights
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On the walls of the huge‚ hangar-like building that is China’s National Gymnastics Centre in Beijing are words of encouragement. “Avoid bent knees‚ split legs‚ bent feet‚ land firmly and you can win gold‚” reads one message. “Starting from nothing‚ we can forge gold‚ and the gold will shine‚” reads another. The Chinese men’s gymnastic team did just that last week at the Olympics‚ ahead of Japan‚ Great Britain and the US. Those slogans could probably be seen as old-style Maoist indoctrination‚ especially
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1.0 Introduction In 1934‚ Tom Carvel founded Carvel Corporation. It had one of the oldest and most endearing histories of all the ice cream companies in the U.S. Mr. Carvel used a combination of fresh ice cream and innovative products and manufacturing techniques to establish himself as the local‚ family-orientated ice cream parlor in the New York City area. In 1947‚ Mr. Carvel franchised his first store and proceeded to become one of the pioneers in fast food franchising. Throughout the 1960s and
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Beijing I’m going to look at how Beijing’s (while mentioning China) climate will be affected and change if the average temperature will rise‚ creating global warming around the world. An overview of how Beijing’s weather and climate is currently. Average temperature in January is -7o to -4o C‚ while average temperatures in July are at 25o to 26 °C. Highest temperature ever recorded is 42°C and lowest recorded is -27°C. Annual precipitation is over 600 mm‚ with 75% of that in summer.
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many reasons as to why why control of the government in Beijing over the provinces of China broke down in the years between 1912 and 1926. Amongst these are Yuan Shikai’s usurping of the government‚ his weaknesses‚ involvement of foreign countries in the affairs of China‚ the rise of warlords and their divided ideologies and the May Fourth Movement. All these collectively played a huge role in undermining the strength of the government in Beijing and making China a divided and unstable nation. Yuan
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A Busy Place‚ Now Deserted That year‚ 2003‚ although Beijing was in its late spring‚ it was a sunny day‚ bright blue skies. The window was still opened‚ and the wind filled my bedroom. The curtains fluttered and flapped. I set myself comfortably in the bed with cushion behind my head‚ and watched the TV shows. I heard the footsteps in the hall‚ and the key turning in the lock before the door was opened. It was my roommate‚ Jubb. "Did you see what the paper said this morning?" She asked while threw
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the movie “American Tongues”‚ you can hear more or less different between the elder gap and the younger one. Though I was not born in Beijing‚ I have been living in Beijing since I was very young. Because my parents and surrounding people were not native Pekingese‚ I didn’t think I could speak Beijing Dialect. First I noticed there was a difference between Beijing and other city in China. When I came back to my hometown-Leshan‚ Sichuan Province‚ which is the southwest part of China about 8 years
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