impacts the director and serves as the film’s pretext: in 1989‚ José Luis García took part in the thirteenth annual World Youth Festival in Pyongyang‚ North Korea‚ a political event that the Soviet Union sponsored just three weeks before the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing and four weeks before the fall of the Berlin Wall. While García filmed this extraordinary event with a hand-held VHS camera‚ he unexpectedly encountered a captivating‚ young‚ South Korean political activist named Lim Sukyung
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Scott McCulloch THE STATUE OF LIBERTY The Statue of Liberty is a neoclassical monument that stands on Liberty Island in New York Harbour. It was given as a gift from France in 1886 and has become a world famous icon. The statue is of great political significance‚ symbolising the ideals of the age it was constructed and reflecting the principles of the American Declaration of Independence‚ a constitution that modern America still has as its political compass. It is also architecturally significant
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SitenTedak siten Tedak ceremony is a ceremony in Javanese cultural traditions that are carried out when a child first learning path and executed at the age of about seven or eight months ceremony Down the ground is one of the traditional Javanese culture to children aged 8 months (pitung eight)‚ in other areas in Indonesia is also known for traditional ceremony down the land with different terms. The ceremony is manifesting gratitude because at this age the child will begin to get to know the natural
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Is The Rest Of The World ’Crazy Like Us’?by ETHAN WATTERS Author Ethan Watters thinks that America is "homogenizing the way the world goes mad." In Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche‚ he describes how American definitions and treatments of mental illness have spread to other cultures around the world. "[McDonald’s] golden arches do not represent our most troubling impact on other cultures‚" Watters writes. "Rather‚ it is how we are flattening the landscape of the human psyche
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The topic of my paper is talk about the Hong Kong people’s identity before 1997 by analyzing a Hong Kong movie “A Better Tomorrow”. My research question is how signing the Sino-British Joint Declaration in 1984 lead the Hong Kong people identify themselves as Hong Kongers Thesis statement: The period from the Sino British Joint Declaration of 1984 to the handover in 1997 was an era of change in Hong Kong. Hong Kong people was facing a lot of problems during the transitional period and one of the
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Q1. Identify the key elements in McDonald’s global marketing strategy (GMS). In particular‚ how does McDonald’s approach the issue of standardization? McDonald’s global marketing strategy is based on combination of global and local marketing mix elements. For the first elements in McDonald’s global marketing strategy (GMS) is a vital elements in McDonald’s business model restaurants system that can be set up virtually anywhere in the world and the restaurants themselves offer the consumers a chance
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The South China Sea has been in dispute for many years‚ but now the tensions are increasing. The conflict between China‚ United States‚ and other Asian countries such as Japan‚ Philippines‚ and Vietnam question the sovereignty of the South China Sea. An area that the United States believes to be international waters is now being built up with artificial islands. With the sea containing an important trade route‚ and potentially a supply of oil‚ the conflict between China and many countries remains
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Discuss the similarities and differences between TWO societies. In your answer‚ make references to the role of cultures‚ norms‚ values and inequality and social organizations. The purpose of this essay is to provide an understanding of the way the media works within today’s society‚ highlighting the Similarities and differences in how the mass media affects society as a whole. The two countries I have chosen to compare are the United Kingdom and China. Society is uniquely made up of different
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Henry David Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience According to the Encarta World English Dictionary‚ civil disobedience is the deliberate breaking of a law by ordinary citizens‚ carried out as nonviolent protest or passive resistance. Henry David Thoreau‚ author of Civil Disobedience‚ had idealistic motives. He visualized a perfect government‚ free of harm‚ fault‚ and malfunction. Of course‚ this government he spoke of was purely off his needs‚ failing to review or analyze the needs of his fellow citizens
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General Knowledge * Antonis Samras: PM of Greece * Angela Merkel: Chancellor of Germany * Samar Yazbek: Exiled Syrian author has won Pen’s Pinter International Writer of Courage Award for her book “A Woman in the Crossfire”‚ an account of the early stages of the Syrian Revolution * Amra Babic: Europe’s first hijab-wearing mayor (Bosnia) * MILF: Moro Islamic Liberation Front (Philippines) * Dilma Roussef: President of Brasil * October ‚ 2012: 10th anniversary of the World
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