I attended the Southeast Asian Heritage Lecture series where Pau Lee Vue was the speaker. The lecture took place at the UC on Thursday‚ December 8th‚ 2016. There‚ I had the privilege of hearing Pao Lee Vue‚ an assistant professor of sociology at St. John Fisher College in Rochester New York‚ talk about Southeast Asian gangs‚ assimilation‚ Hip-hop‚ and import racing. It was such a great lecture to listen to because Pao Lee Vue was incredibly knowledgeable on the topic. Not only had he done extensive
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Amazing Story Of The Oldest Man On Earth: He Lived 256 Years Li Ching-Yuen‚ also known as Li Ching-Yun found the secret fountain of youth‚ as he was reportedly the oldest human on Earth‚ having lived 256 years. His 1933 obituaries which were featured in Time Magazine and the New York Times stated that he had outlived 23 wives and his amazing lifespan exceeds by far the oldest living person up to date‚ who lived 122 years and 164 days. Li Ching-Yuen claims to have been born in 1734‚ but controversial
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The goal of effective supply chain management is to "gain competitive advantage through optimizing flows within the enterprise". The Hong Kong listed company Li & Fung Ltd represents one of the world ’s best examples of achieving this goal. The company financial history clearly tells that story. Just last year‚ L&F saw profit attributable to shareholder increase by 23%. In fact‚ over the past 14 years‚ L&F has seen steady compound annual growth rate of 22%. Not bad performance for a small family
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I chose the poem "Possum Crossing" by Nikki Giovanni and I feel that the poem has meaning to life in the fact that we mistake some things for what they’re really not. The thesis of this poem is that things can be confusing and hard to understand‚ and sometimes easy to mistake something for something else. The poem starts off as a woman is driving her car down the road and she sees what she believes to be a possum. The woman thinks about all the times that she has come close to hitting something
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Sydney Walcher Instructor‚ Lisa Ward English 1213 8 April 2013 To an Athlete Dying Young A.E. Housman was a poet born in 1859 who became very successful during his lifetime. “To an Athlete Dying Young” represents the theme of glory is fleeting by illustrating the point that if a successful athlete dies young‚ they will not have to worry about their glory of victory fading. They can rest in peace knowing they will be remembered at their athletic peak when they were successful and victorious. They
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Li and Fung: Growth for a Supply Chain Specialist Case Analysis Paper Global Strategy (GS 601) November 28th‚ 2012 Case Question: What would Li and Fung do to safeguard the growth of its business? How could it achieve its target turnover of US$20 billion between 2008 and 2010? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… Executive Summary The case study for this paper is on a Hong Kong-Based Li and Fung Limited “Li and Fung”. This paper will try to answer the question of “What would Li
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make one culture to make one strong country. Jiang Ji-li was among one of the many children during the Cultural Revolution. Jiang Ji-li’s story is a true story about how horrible the Cultural Revolution was to some higher-class people in China. 31 years later when she looked back on this horrible incident she realized that the people of Chairman Mao where brainwashed. To the people of China‚ Chairman Mao was basically like god. Jiang Ji-li promised not to regret any of the decisions she made during
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A personal response to the poetry of W.B Yeats In my opinion W.B Yeats is one of Ireland’s greatest poets. His work is saturated with descriptive imagery‚ deep personal feelings and political opinions. This patriotic poet also gives us an insight into life during the 1900’s as well as his own personal life. The poetry of W.B Yeats contains powerful metaphors and imagery that have a very memorable quality to them. There are also dynamic contrasts in every poem which makes him stand out amongst
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Introduction This assignment aims at describing and evaluating differences in two young learners’ responses to a taught lesson on the topic of describing a country and considers ways in which the quality of the learning can be improved. 1. Learners’ responses Sophia Navarro Minosso is an energetic eleven-year-old elementary female learner who has been studying English for about 3 years. Although at most times she seems to understand what is said in class‚ she constantly asks for help due to her
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How does Li & Fung make the supply chain more responsive? Li & Fung manages about 7500 suppliers in more than 26 countries but does not run any of the factories because that would be a humungous task to manage such a large workforce. But working with these factories the company takes anywhere from 30% to 70% of their production so that Li & Fung is their largest customer. Li & Fung is customer focused company where they focus an entire division on serving one customer or has a smaller
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