...(The Bridge on the River Kwai) In this week’s movie, we watched The Bridge on the River Kwai. This movie portrays fictional events created around the construction of the Burma Railway during World War II. The story involves British troops captured and imprisoned in a Japanese camp. The Japanese commander in the camp, Colonel Saito, was determined to utilize all the British prisoners to construct a bridge to carry a railway line to invade Burma. On the other hand, the commander of the captured British troops, Lt Colonel Nicholson, raised a concern that the Geneva Convention, which governs war practices, prohibits the use of officers for manual labor. Saito totally disregarded the provisions of the Geneva Convention by putting the officers to work, and punishing Nicholson for challenging his authority. Colonel Saito was put under a lot of pressure to complete the project before the due date by his commanders. The British soldiers responded by sabotaging the construction, which compelled Saito to end Nicholson’s punishment to enable him lead the construction. A prisoner from the camp named Shears, who was disguised as a US navy commander, was able to escape from the time in the beginning of construction. Some of the key issues discussed in class last week, read from the book (Servant Leadership) and linked to the movie are highlighted as follows. First, taking into consideration the concept of bad leadership, which is a major obstacle to accomplishing team goals. Bad Leadership...
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...Név: PÉTER MAGYAR Neptun: WJLTKU Szak: BGF KKK Nemzetközi Tanulmányok (MsC, angol) Munkarend: Levelező Oktató: Hidasi Judit Tárgy: Távol-Kelet tanulmányok PIERRE BOULLE: THE BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER KWAI The bridge over the river Kwai is a book by French author Pierre Boulle. The novel is a fictional story about British prisoners of a war camp during the second world war in Burma under Japenese reign. The book tells the story of British prisoners of a war camp forced to build a bridge that would connect Bangkok and Rangoon named the „death railway” over the river Kwai. Meanwhile the Allies’ goal is to prevent the completion of the works. As the book has reached the heights of being considered a „classic” it is really hard to comment on it. Perre Boulle who witnessed the disasters of the second World War in the Far East used his own experiences to write this masterpiece of literature. The book portrays well the characters of the British Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson and Japanese Colonel Saito. In the meantime the novel has received huge criticism because of the behaviour of Nicholson. Survivals of such war camps state that such rebellious attitude (that of Nicholson) would have led to his elimination at an early stage in real life. Apart from that the book is an exciting twisted story. Nicholson who demands proper treat for his fellow soldiers agrees to build the bridge for the Japanese. But fugitive British soldier Shears, reaches the Allies, leads them to site...
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...seven years old. He went to Hong Kong when he was nineteen. He went to Hong Kong because of his garment business. He has already earned around 100 thousand. Since 1981 he found out that Hong Kong only have numbers of hotel and restaurant but don’t have some special characteristics of western restaurant, therefore he decided to build up some restaurant which is for people to relax. The restaurant is named California. In that time, it’s a creative idea. Not only start his business in Hong Kong, also bought a building in Tokyo. It is also restaurant. in this few years, he starts his bar in Shanghai, which is likely and same as Lan Kwai Fong. He plans to enter the market in Beijing. In this past few years, more western restaurant and bar entered this place –Lan Kwai Fong. He was named as ‘Father of Lan Kwai Fong’. More people to come to Lan Kwai Fong, and become the famous attractions. He always said that ‘Think out of the box’. In 2003, Mr Allan Zeman became CEO of Ocean Park. Ocean Park is the first theme park; he is in order to improve the culture of company. Mr Allen Zeman use resources in order to have advisement, always have function and event,...
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...Leadership Analysis The Bridge on The River Kwai August 5, 2012 Shekhar Gahlot (ICS Hitotsubashi, Tokyo, Japan) Leadership Analysis: The Bridge on the River Kwai The year: 1943. The place: Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Burma. In the setting of World War II, a defeated unit British Soldiers is marched into a Japanese prison camp in western Thailand, with the purpose of constructing a bridge over the River Kwai to carry a new railway line to invade Burma. The camp is run by a dutiful commandant Colonel Saito and his men. The British troop is led by a stiff-lipped Colonel Nicholson. Nicholson is highly revered by his men, he is their friend and confidant; he can do them no wrong. So begins the classic World War II movie The Bridge on the River Kwai. In the August of 2009 during a humid Sunday afternoon I happened to stumble upon this English classic. I presumed it to be just another vintage war movie. However, on careful inspection, it became an excellent treatise for understanding various forms of "leadership" paradigms, which are not only useful in the Army but can be easily observed in contemporary corporate world. It is one of those few war movies which focus more on building its characters rather than the war itself. It portrays two very different leadership styles, which are intensely portrayed by its characters Colonel Nicholson and Colonel Saito. The movie starts with difference of opinion and clashes of ego between the two leads. Saito is persistent...
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...beef from a meat stall, reflecting a traditional way of local products trade. The market space is the film is juxtaposed to the supermarket, where Kwai works, and later on in the film, Leung does too. Supermarket is the space of the international trade: in the first scene where Kwai appears, she is sorting the durian, which comes in boxes with the label: “Durian. Product of Thailand.” This suggests the obvious thing: food sold in the supermarket do not necessarily come from Hong Kong, demonstrating how supermarket in itself a global space. Therefore, the contrast between the market and the supermarket underlines the 'glocal' nature of the film and, therefore, the life in Hong Kong. The food ways in The Way We Are nevertheless appear to be very local. The working class financial situation supposedly allows the consumption of the cheapest local products. The ways the two families eat is very simple. For example, Leung cooks a small amount of beef from the market, with greens and rice on the side. The way she cooks is significant as well: for the preparation of this scarce meal she uses a large wok pan, which is associated with local culture. The way Kwai and On eat is similar: they have rice with their every meal, combined with vegetables, egg dishes or soup. A local food that is significant as well is mushrooms, that Leung gives Kwai as a gesture of gratitude for her care. The price is high (320$), that is why the gift is dear. ...
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...Strength Free Trade port Although Hong Kong is facing other cities’ port to competitive, it still has a lot of strength in this area over other Mainland cities. It will continue to do so in the foreseeable future. Free Trade port is one of the strength to Hong Kong which offers customs convenience to shippers to ship their cargoes. Compare with Guangdong’s port, as regulated by the Chinese Law, some of the large vessels are set with trade protectionist polices. Also, importing and exporting from China generally involves three types of taxes such as Value-added tax, Consumption tax and Customs duties. As a result, Hong Kong benefits exporters and importers with free trade and minimum level of regulations. Thus, they will use Hong Kong for sea transport as the city facilitates then with higher flexibility and better business environment. Zhang, S. (2013). Import-Export Taxes and Duties in China. Retrieved March 19, 2014 from http://www.china-briefing.com/news/2013/03/11/import-export-taxes-and-duties-in-china.html High Connectivity Hong Kong port has a high connectivity to other ports around the world. It is because Hong Kong is located between Europe and Pacific Ocean. It is among the world ports one of the most central ports in port networks. Hong Kong also has deep harbor in South China. It depth around 15.5 meters(Planning Department, 2004). Hong Kong is very closed to Pearl Rive Delta, which is not to our sources. It also one of the world’s largest exporter so...
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...imprisonment, or fine, or both, as determined by the judge. When the amount evaded exceeds the amount of the fine, so the punishment will not deter the offender form committing evasion repeatedly. The Malaysian legislature tripled the amount to three times as a result of the evasion crime. (ITA, Section, 114) The legislator mandated the tax director, under acts of fraud, wilful default or neglect, in accordance with Article 91 (3) of the Malaysian Income Tax Act (ITA), which stated the following: The need for appropriate deterrent penalties The methods of treatment of evasion is the absolute and broad discretion mandated by the legislature to the director of tax administration in dealing with tax evasion, under Article 140 (ITA) (Choong Kwai Fatt,. 2003, p.60) Exert effort to achieve tax...
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...Kwai Ming Wu Memorial School of the Precious Blood Name: _______________________ ( ) Class:_______________ Reading Comprehension Ted chooses to go to London. He wants to go sightseeing. Read this page from Ted’s guidebook. 1. Can you write a best title for this page? Why? _________________________________________________________________ 2. What kind of transport in Hong Kong is like London’s Tube? _________________________________________________________________ 3. What does “rush hour” mean? _________________________________________________________________ 4. Read line 5: The cheapest way to travel on the Tubes is to buy a travel card. What is a travel card? _________________________________________________________________ 5. Read line 7-8: …. You can see many popular landmarks from the bus window. What are the landmarks? _________________________________________________________________ ----------------------- With London’s underground railway (or “Tube”), you can go to most places in the city. Although it is fast, in rush hour the Tube is often crowded. So it is important to avoid the Tube between 0800 and 0930, and between 1600 and 1830. The cheapest way to travel on the Tube is to buy a travel card. You can also use this on London’s famous red buses. Although traveling by bus is slow, you can see many popular landmarks from the bus window. Travelling by taxi is, of...
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...patterns—sociolinguistics/discourse analysis/phonetics) • Snowcake (comedy/drama: about what can go hilariously/profoundly wrong when pragmatic implicatures are not used/understood—pragmatics/morphology) • Kenneth Branaugh’s Much Ado About Nothing (comedy: a sample of Shakespearean English—pay attention to the ways in which language has changed in the past 400 years—history of the English language/diachronic linguistics /phonology/lexicon/syntax/semantics) • Kenneth Branaugh’s Hamlet (tragedy: as above—history of the English language/diachronic linguistics/phonology/lexicon/syntax/semantics) • Driving Miss Daisy (comedy/drama: class differences in language use and pragmatic implicature—sociolinguistics/pragmatics) • Bridge on the River Kwai (drama: learning to communicate across a language/culture/power barrier—sociolinguistics/discourse analysis) • The Great Debaters (drama: using language to inform/persuade/manipulate—semantics/pragmatics/discourse analysis/rhetoric) • My Fair Lady (musical: about standard accents and class structure—sociolinguistics/phonetics) 2. Attend class the day the TA is teaching (TA—take attendance!). 3. Working in your small groups (we’ll figure out groups in...
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...latest product to the customers, through face to face communication with customers, I learnt how to meet our customers’ request and provide better customer service. Hence, I believe that I can handle conduct face-to-face presentations, promote brand identity as well. Moreover, through cooperating with colleagues, I understood how to maintain a good team interaction and inspirit. Therefore, I am confident that I can perform very well in this position as my experience and knowledge will be let me handle that easily. In terms of skills, besides the Microsoft office Suite and English and Chinese word processing, I am also proficient in command spoken skills. Because, I was also contact with clients or solve their problem when I worked in Lan Kwai Fong Holding Limited. So, I got well Putonghua and English command spoken skills and Manage post-sales customer service must need this skill very well. These skills should be helpful to the completion of my responsibilities. I would be...
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...October 17, 2013 Edko Films Ltd Room 1212 Admiralty Centre Tower II, 18 Harcourt Road, Hong Kong Flat3311, 33/F Fu Tai House Tai Wo Hau Estate Kwai Chung NT Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to apply for the post of Sales & Marketing Coordinator. Having read your requirements you have listed on your advertisement at jobsdb.com. I believe I am the right candidate for the post you offered. I have completed Higher Diploma in business course at HKU space. In this period, many presentations are also the task I faced in almost lesson. That trains my verbal and written English to be well-developed and confident as well. A whole year chairman of business club I had to be, it was quite challenging but gained valuable experience. When the club held some events, I learnt how to organize the events and cooperate with my club members. Those experiences helped me to build up good coordination and organization skills. Sometimes, I needed to solve the problem such as the manpower and venue. After that, I am so proud of my problem solving and good interpersonal skill. Because I had been a chairman previously, I can support your sales and marketing manager thoroughly. Handling database and following up market materials are not difficult to me. Though different practice in my study, I also have learnt how to be a plan and execute action plan within defined timeline. In additional to my studies, the work experience I have gained within one year in Chun Hing...
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...Supplier relationship management is an important research field in Supply Chain Management. This paper aims to study the existing portfolio models for supplier relationship management then apply Svensson(2000)’s model to classify buyer-supplier relationship in an Iranian automotive industry supply chain. Finally present a framework for supplier relationship management. Data for this study was collected through two surveys. The current study analyzes supplier relationship management in two phases: firstly, based on Svensson’s model the relationship between the buyer and its suppliers was classified. Secondly, based on the strategic roadmap of the automotive manufacturer, the strategic goals were defined, and trough a web survey the experts' opinions about the relation between strategic goals and current relationship among manufacturer and its suppliers were gathered. Finally, based on obtained result in two previous phases, a framework for supplier relationship segmentation and promotion was supposed. Keywords: supplier relationship management, supplier segmentation, supply chain, automotive industry 1. Introduction Supplier relationship management is one of the most important parts of supply chain management. In fact, effective supplier relationship management and improving qualitative and quantitative levels of suppliers could be a competitive advantage of every company. (Cusumano and Takeishi 1991) Focus of Iran’s economy on automotive industry, rapid growth of...
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...In essence, we were given two chances of success. Some groups, notably RILA, the big box retailers’ association, decided to not seek legislation anymore – in essence, giving up the first chance for success in favor of relying entirely on their chances in the Court. We repeatedly considered whether we should do the same, but always concluded that we should seek both opportunities in the hope of succeeding with at least one. We also explicitly discussed whether we might be suffering from a “Bridge on the River Kwai” syndrome. (Recall that the British POWs were reluctant to support/obey British orders to destroy a bridge that their Japanese captors had cruelly forced them to build.) Were we so enamored with our sales tax legislation that we didn’t want to destroy it with a Court ruling? We concluded no, we really should try both chances and, with a happy helping of good luck, we got one success, and the better one, at...
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...One of the prophecies that has come to pass is the “Gigira Laitebo” legend called “Kwai Topo”. The wise men of Hela spoke many generations ago in their legend that their land possessed the “Gigira Laitebo” or “everlasting fire”, and that one day this “light or flame” would so shine that the faraway lands would be attracted by it and they would come to their door step. Today the people of Hela are seeing the man with the orange legs from the faraway lands trying to take the fire from...
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...Develop marketing strategy Our main marketing strategy and position is for customers to consider us as their place after home & work as well as engaged in holding the events & ceremonies and provide a wonderful place to our customers to celebrate the festivals & commemoratory day which will guarantee customers are willing to visit us several times a month. We’re specifically oriented towards young and open-minded people, who are young at heart and students. This group is particularly important to us, because they set an example of what we stand for. The people dictate the trend and we try to implement it with perfection. However, our concept approaches not only young people, but also those of advanced age who relish and appreciate top-quality coffee. By now, people of all ages appreciate premium coffee and associate pleasure, lifestyle and recreation with this natural product. Our modern life cannot be imagined without coffee anymore. Our coffee has reached the standard of a culture- and generation-associational, delicious luxury item - and a good thing, too Also, we customize the interior design for each store individually according to the specific location it is in. Another important part of our positioning over competition is that we are environmentally friendly with provided multi-functional service for the large group of peers (over 50 peoples) rather than the traditional coffee shop concentrate in servicing for 2-4 couples. The 4P’s Product We provide...
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