Opportunities for Hong Kong as an offshore center for RMB Objective: Background: Analysis: Able Recommendation Conclusion: Trend Definition: According to the IMF‚ International Monetary Fund‚ an Offshore Financial Center (OFC) can be simply defined as any financial center where offshore activity takes place. However‚ there are more specifications. OFC is a center where the bulk of financial sector activity is offshore on both sides of the balance sheet‚ where the transactions are initiated
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The statement of cash flow is used to illustrate the current cash position‚ liquid assets‚ and accounts receivable. This report is a good indicator of the operational management of the company and the impact of their accounts receivable collection activities. A company can appear financially sound based on the income statement and balance sheets when it is not. A cash flow statement adds context to the reports and reflects the actual cash position. The financial statement of a company provides
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forces. It is told that within Oedipus Rex that Oedipus has no control over what has transpired in his journey from baby to man. In A Doll House‚ Nora’s life is controlled by Torvald in her job as a mother and a wife. Oedipus is the victim of the God’s fate‚ a life that which was written by them‚ or so the characters in the the play describe. At the end of the play‚ Oedipus does an action to himself by his own hands. When Nora leaves Torvald and her children she is making her own choice; a choice she
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face. In Americo Parades’s With His Pistol in His Hand‚ Sandra Cisneros’s Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories‚ and Natalia Almada’s film‚ Al Otro Lado: To the Other Side‚ I saw the struggles of people and the challenges that each person faces in their lives. While reading With His Pistol in His Hand‚ I saw the differences between the realities that people face as well as the similarities to me as well. I really like the Legend chapter in With His Pistol in His Hand because the legend‚ whether
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Oedipus Rex –A Victim of Fate or his Own Will ? The play Oedipus by Sophocles is a play whose focus is the interplay between fate and free will. The story basically goes like this: Oedipus was fated to kill his father and marry his mother as he learned from the Oracle at Delphi. So‚ Oedipus does everything to escape-he runs from his own land and starts his life over. However‚ Oedipus is a character that clearly demonstrates that no matter how much free will men assert‚ fate has already written the
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Hi‚ This is Sonal Mehta. Let me take you through my daily routine. Being a married woman and working mom‚ I get up at morning 5:00 and get into kitchen to prepare breakfast and tea. In hasty hours‚ and in the mid of hustle and bustle‚ I take care of both my kids and help them to get ready for their school. Once they move out for school and husband also goes to office‚ I take some personal time for newspaper and internet. I prefer to do my content development work in the morning session before kids
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Man (Victor) vs. God Half-frozen‚ trembling‚ and troubled are all adjectives that could describe Victor Frankenstein when a ship captain by the name of Robert Walton rescued him in the middle of the Artic. From dialogue between the two‚ we are informed that Victor Frankenstein has spent his entire life trying to learn everything he could about science and medicine. However‚ Victor used his knowledge differently than his professors had intended for him to. Written in 1816‚ Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
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One approach to this question would be to say that the creature in ’Frankentein’ was himself the only monster. However‚ as we soon realise‚ the creature is benevolent at heart and only becomes monstrous due to the unjust way in which society treats him. The bleak‚ miserable world which Shelley portrays‚ full of hypocrisy‚ oppression and prejudice gains exposure through the depiction of the monsters ’fall from grace’. It is through the monsters suffering that he becomes truly monstrous. Shelley is
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Frankenstein Essay Frankenstein‚ by Mary Shelley‚ encompasses every definition of a tragic hero. A tragic hero is not the normal hero a reader always envisions‚ but rather a character that causes suffering to others. This is shown through Victor Frankenstein himself in this novel. Victor Frankenstein would be classified as a tragic hero in this novel because of his choice to “play God”. This is shown through him creating the Creature. He knew that this could be dangerous‚ but he continued
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Frankenstein and How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 1: Every Trip is a Quest (Except When It’s Not) The pursuit of knowledge is the very heart of Frankenstein. Mary Shelley depicts how the very pursuit‚ thirst for knowledge ruined one man’s life. Victor’s life is consumed by a want for more knowledge and Mary Shelley shows the before and after effects of that relentless pursuit. Robert Walton life could also be ruined by an endless need for more knowledge. The ruthless pursuit
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