EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: This project comprises of mainly two parts .The first part covers a detailed organisational study on HSBC. Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation‚ one of the largest banks in the world started its journey in 18th century. In March 1865 the bank opened its first branch in Hong Kong and after one month it opened its second branch in Shanghai. The individual who was inspiration behind the foundation of the bank was Thomas Sutherland (HSBC). HSBC started with a very simple
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Mr. President‚ The Russian Federation attaches great importance to the High-Level Dialogue. We believe that consideration of migration as a factor of development is a timely and topical matter. According to the UN data‚ Russia today occupies the second place among the countries with the largest presence of international migrants and‚ as mentioned in the Secretary-General’s report‚ for the last 15 years has been the hub for various migration flows. Currently
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The movie East is East takes place in Salford‚ Manchester in the early seventies. The family Kahn owns a fish and chips shop on the corner. The father George Kahn‚ tries to raise his 7 children as good Muslims. But the job is not easy when he has to please both his British wife Ella and the Pakistani community. When his oldest son rejects to get married and leaves the bride at the altar‚ Georges world seems to collapse‚ but then he gets an idea. He can marry off two of his other sons and get
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Film review: East is East The film “East is East” is a British comedy-drama film written by Ayub Khan-Din‚ directed by Damien O’Donnell and released in 1999. The story is set in a British household with a pious Muslim father and an English mother in Salford in 1971. George Khan‚ the father‚ forces his family to follow the Pakistani lifestyle‚ but his seven children‚ who were born in Britain‚ see themselves as British and reject the traditions. This results in many tensions and conflicts
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East is East We’ve been looking at East is East; it’s a film about a Muslim family (although the mother is English) living in Manchester. The Khan family are an untypical of a Muslim family because Ella‚ the mother‚ I white and an atheist. George the father tries to arrange marriages for his three sons but they rebel against his strict Muslim upbringing preferring Ella’s non-religious way of life. George is the boss in their relationship; he makes all their decisions. He controls the family
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A report from World Bank mentions that leasing industry has long existed in MENA region & is currently active in 70% of the countries. However‚ presently leasing industry is under developed by international comparison and there is lot of potential for future growth. This potential can be realized if MENA policy makers address the existing regulatory & institutional constraints. Most MENA countries have a leasing industry. Leasing in both of its forms‚ conventional & Islamic is present
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East is East is a film about a Half-Pakistani family lives in England. The father‚ George/Jahangir Khan is from Pakistan and wants his children to feel connected to his home country. Ella Khan however is the mother of the family and is from England. Because of this there is a struggle for the seven children to find their identity. Mr. Khan expects his children to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways‚ but the children does not really feel like they belong to Pakistan. After having lived their whole
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Women in the Middle East During the Late 19th and Early 20th Century As a result of Western imperialism circa 1900‚ throughout the Middle East things began to change. European writers and tourists flooded into Middle Eastern countries and developed a very exoticized view of the men and particularly women who lived there. Ultimately the general consensus was that Middle Eastern women were oppressed by Middle Eastern men. Through the Western lens this perceived oppression was indicative of the “uncivilized”
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The most influential woman in the world and the world’s most powerful women are just few titles that describe Oprah Winfrey. Oprah is known to the world as an American Television host‚ actress‚ producer‚ and philanthropist‚ and is best known for her multi-award winning and self-titled talk show. The Oprah Winfrey show has an audience of millions of people worldwide. In other words‚ when Oprah speaks‚ people listen‚ and that is why she has a huge impact on the world. Throughout the past decade‚ Oprah
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Between 1890 and 1905 America was a very young nation‚ a nation that had developed industrial power and economic strength yet we had not entered on the world stage. Many Americans believed that America role in the world that America has a special mission to be a moral and model society. The vast majority of Americans were starting to see America in a larger role‚ a new form of Manifest Destiny believing that it was a part of a divine plan that America was not only to spread across the continent but
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