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    Hong Kong’s education system has been criticized for being extremely tough and all of us have been studying in Hong Kong for years. So‚ what is your feeling about the education system in Hong Kong? In the following presentation‚ I’m going to talk about the existing education system and suggest ways to improve it. The education system in Hong Kong is failing most young people because the education isn’t a real education. But‚ what is a real education? In my view‚ education should help students

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    PCLL Conversion Examination June 2011 Examiner’s Comments Hong Kong Legal System The examination consisted of three questions two of which were compulsory. The three questions addressed: HK sources of law‚ jury service and reciprocity between the HKSAR and PRC legal systems. The examination was held over two hours and written on a closed book basis. As with past exams‚ the examiners prepared a list of factors in advance of the examination that were relevant to answering each question. Thus‚ to

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    Consider the presentation of the mind of a murderer in "The Wasp Factory" and "The Silence of the Lambs". "The Silence of the Lambs‚" by Thomas Harris‚ and "The Wasp Factory‚" by Iain Banks‚ are both twentieth century novels that portray the minds of two different serial killers. "The Silence of the Lambs" is a thriller about how F. B. I. agent in training‚ Clarice Starling‚ is sent to question the "evil" cannibalistic serial killer‚ Dr Hannibal Lecter‚ on how to find a killer on the loose

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    Mitchell has argued that “Pictures want equal rights with language‚ not to be turned into a language (82).” Indeed‚ picture has an ability to make issues of the world become visible in a sort of photochemical language. In Shirin Neshat’s Rebellious Silence‚ which is one of the photographs of her Women of Allah series‚ she depicted a portrait of a typical Muslim woman who is veiled and armed. The woman is holding a rifle‚ and the long barrel bisects the portrait perpendicularly. Her face is covered with

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    Nowadays‚ Hong Kong needs to face different housing problems. The major housing problem is shortage of housing. As the rate of population growth increases‚ the pressure for housing also increases. When the housing supply falls behind population growth‚ problem arise‚ resulting in the deterioration of the residential environment. The high rate of natural population increase‚ the continued influx of migrants from China and the entry of illegal immigrants further increased the population. And the insufficient

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    Immigration is the product of globalization‚ and globalization made it possible for people to move across borders‚ which also created a need for immigration. Globalization created unequal systems that have led some nations to be more prosperous than others‚ which has influenced the need to find prosperity in other countries through immigration. Immigration can be a positive experience‚ but there is an inherent inequality in immigration systems. Women can especially feel this inequality. The immigration

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    The novel Silence written by Japanese author Shūsako Endo and the film interpretation of it directed by Martin Scorsese‚ who is a renowned director for his other films Taxi Driver‚ Goodfellas‚ and The Wolf of Wall Street‚ are truly two works of art that transcend storytelling and the way one views things‚ in my opinion. A surface explanation of the plot of the story; is that it revolves around two Portuguese Jesuit priests‚ Rodrigues and Garupe‚ who find out that their teacher‚ who was sent to Japan

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    We always heard that learning the English is a lifelong journey‚ it seems that English become our life‚ most of Hong Kong student have a better result on English rather than Chinese. It bring out a concern about is it a right decision that we to regard English as important. A focus will be placed on the importance on English‚ the demand of using English and the advice on the language policy. The parents‚ teachers and the politicians believe that English is important as the English status in

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    for Decision Making (2013) Instructor: David Yip Financial Analysis CEC INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS LIMITED Stock Code: SEHK00759 / 759:HK Author: Anthony Lam City University EMBA 2013 Cohort 759 Store CEC INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS LTD. Hong Kong Stock Exchange Code: SEHK 00759 / 759:HK COMPANY History CEC International (CEC) was founded by Lam Wai Chun (the current Chairman) in 1979‚ as “Coils Electric Company”. Initially when the company was formed‚ it was a sole proprietorship

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    “One artistic strength of Hong Kong cinema‚ then‚ is its use of parallels and motifs—musical‚ visual‚ or verbal—to bind together episodically plotted films.” : In Plots p 120 So far in this Chinese Cinemas class‚ I have noticed something every film we have viewed in class and every Hong Kong film I have watched outside of the lecture: the stories flow perfectly. At first the films could come off as confusing and spotty with all the kung-fu and epic stories. The Hong Kong films we have viewed

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