Chungking Express

Before I analyze the film Chungking Express, I would like to briefly introduce its director—Wang Kar-Wai, a great master who specialized in describing protagonists’ characteristics by details and the whole environment. Since he grows up in Hong Kong, a former British colony involving Chinese culture and western culture, he has lots of thinking on this metropolis and the people living there. Thus he directs bunch of films such like Chungking Express, telling the love stories happened in Hong Kong via protagonists’ characteristics and background music. In this movie, there are two independent and interconnected love stories as well as four protagonists: cop 233, A-Fei, cop 663, and female killer. Wang Kar-Wai tells us that urban people are lonely…

The Spanish Language I grew up in a Hispanic country where Spanish is the official language. I think Spanish is one of the most wonderful languages in the world. It allows you to express your deepest feelings in the most beautiful way, specially when we talk about love. There is nothing more beautiful than hearing a love declaration when the one making it is using the Spanish language. Even if you are not one of those people for who talking beautifully is natural, you could still do a…

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Background American Express was among the first few organizations to launch a successful cause related marketing campaign and raise funds about $1.7 million for the Statute of Liberty restoration project. In a competitive market, where every organization is working hard towards winning their customer’s loyalty and employee’s morale, Cause-related marketing (CRM) help organizations gear up towards building a differentiating image. According to a study (Varadarajan & Menon) published, CRM is a…

and stakeholders view of their Corporate Social Responsibility after many mishaps in the past few years. One of Wells Fargo biggest mishaps was their unfair lending practices and also a more resent problem were bank employees issuing unwanted credit cards and opened unauthorized accounts that charged customers fees and damaged their credit. First let’s discuss the history of Wells Fargo as a company. In 1852 Henry Wells and William Fargo founded Wells, Fargo & Co. to serve the West. The new…

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Furthermore, over the last five years, FedEx’s Ground segment has planned and executed a seven-day peak season operation, including Black Friday, and plans to do so again in 2016. In 2015, the seven-day operation enabled FedEx Ground to smooth out volume spikes, work volume ahead of schedule and quickly catch up where there was a weather disruption, leading to record service. FedEx Express continues to modernize its global fleet of aircraft for enhanced reliability. Their new freighters, are…

purchase and operate its own cargo aircraft. That same year, it was the opened an international air service operation that linked the United States (U.S.) with 6 major European countries and also started 1 day deliveries to cities in the U.S. UPS is also an innovator in the information technology needed for flight planning, scheduling, and load handling and developed the Computerized Operations Monitoring, Planning and Scheduling System (COMPASS) that is used in the air cargo industry today.…

Global Expansion Strategy: American Express has a very long history of providing international services. American Express began its international expansion early in the 20th century to the financial institutions in some most prominent countries and cities around the world (Bus100jbristol, 2015). However, due to some unforeseeable world disasters, Amex reduced their products and services outside the country but still enjoyed a reputation in travel and financial markets overseas. In recent years,…

Leadership Profile: Mr. John Michael “Mike” McConnell by Barry J. DeLisle NIU Class 2017 Unclassified - submitted to the faculty of the National Intelligence University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for MSI 608 January 10, 2016 The views expressed in this paper are those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of Defense, the US Navy Reserve, or the U.S. Government Leadership Profile: Mr. John Michael “Mike”…