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Film and the Shaping of Stereotypes

the Bruce Lee craze of the 1970s created a new stereotype of the Asian man: namely, the martial artist, which still permeates in H...

A Review of the book American Workers, Colonial Power

as it was a pattern for Asian men to leave their families at home while they came alone to America to work. They were also sim...

Asian Society Changes

sense of cultural nationalism and this is viewed as an Asian challenge (Subramaniam, 2000). Another trend that has emerged is that...

Application and Analysis of Film Theories of Signification, Representation, and Perception

throughout cinematic history, Jean Mitry (1907-1988) was perhaps the most comprehensive and objective. He examined cinema from al...

Asian Footwear and Development of a New Product

What is not so obvious is that it is also a hot market for sport footwear. Adidas for example reported a 22% increase in Asia, in...

Christianity Models

the universal models there are ideas of the way that good will reveal the good news, before death or after death at either immedia...

Asian Tigers and Theories of Dependency, Mercantilism, and Economic Liberalism

is the inherent relationship between dependency theory and mercantilism by the blatant progression of strong nations at the comple...

The Dominican Republic and Asian Status

be wise and benevolent at times, but at other times it became clear that he was "a tyrant bent upon retaining the Dominican Republ...

IMF and Malaysia

government set up an asset-management company to deal with the worst cases (The Economist, 2003). That was in May, by August, the ...

Martial Arts' Overview

such practice that date as far back as 1066-256 B.C. during the Zhou dynasty (Short History of Chinese Martial Arts, 2005). Wit...

Comparison of Minfong Ho's Rice Without Rain and The Clay Marble

no more than family consists solely on bloodlines. After Dara hopefully remarks, "I heard a cowbell" (Ho 3) that to her means som...

The Life and Influence of Ban Zhao

a book of precepts to guide the behavior of women" (Condravy). The book had an enormous "impact on the life of women from late-Min...

Asian Economic Recovery

and recession moved into the nations of ASEAN, Singapore was set to exceed the per capita GDP of Great Britain. When economic exp...

Martial Arts and Screen Legend Bruce Lee

in Hollywood features he decided to pack up his wife Linda and two young children and move to Hong Kong, where his ambitions would...

Economics and Trade Liberalization

Obviously, much of this process will depend on the extent to which trade barriers,...

Portrayal of Asian Women as Whores in Miss Saigon

babies, which it did not do after World War II. However, even in this, the message is that America saves the day, while Vietnam r...

The Moon Rises

from the buildings as they collapsed, this rendition had proved controversial. In fact, all art is controversial. Several years ag...

Human Resources and the Government of Hong Kong

reunification with the Peoples Republic of China in 1997" (Shelton and Adams, 1990, 45). It is still uncertain whether th...

Cultural Differences and Business Communications

They may all rely on email, fax transmission, and other forms of immediate and electronic communication but they are still steeped...

Economy of Korea and Intermediation

Although these changes offered many advantages, safeguards were not in place (Stiglitz, 2002). In addition, this went against the ...

Asian Countries and Economic Growth's Preconditions

patterns observed it is necessary to first define where we mean by Asia. It is a large area and has many diverse economies which h...

Developing Nations Problems and Solutions

the US and other countries with good financial positions generally ignore the advice (2003). Poor nations cannot do this as if th...

Asian Economic Crisis of the 1990s and its Causes

in the way it was controlled. The actual value was pegged to a basket of currencies. However, in reality there was a closer link t...

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Dynasties of Western Asia and Nubia's Egyptian Imperial Presence

Egypt know as the New Kingdom (1540-1070 BC) the government of the newly formed 18th Dynasty after ridding itself of the Hyksos re...

United States Supermarkets and Chinese Suppliers

Supply Chain in China On the surface, one might think that a major challenge is getting goods from China (and the rest...

Banking Crisis in Japan

which bank credit was requested by a chaebol [a collection of South Koreas government, banking system and big conglomerates]. The...

ASEAN Role Against Child Soldiers

both within the army and in the ethnic and other armed groups pitted against it" (Spaeth PG). "ASEAN and its dialogue part...

Supply Chain for Asian Ceramic Capacitors

In twenty two pages capacitor industry vagaries over the years are considered with the emphasis on late 2000 to mid 2001 and relat...

Differences Between Liberal Economics' Teachings and East Asian States' Economic Role

In five pages this paper examines liberal economics and the differences in East Asian economies regarding the role of the state. ...

Democratization of Russia

addition, have proven to benefit from the mindset expansion that accompanied the political fall. "A new breed of Russian civil se...