The World Is Flat A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman First published: 2005 Table of Contents • Key Figures • Short Summary (Synopsis) • Thomas L. Friedman - Biography • Genre | | | | Chapter Summaries with Notes / Analysis • Chapters 1 - 4 - How the World Became Flat • Chapters 5 - 9 - America and the Flat World • Chapter 10 - Developing Countries and the Flat World • Chapter 11 - Companies and the Flat World • Chapters 12 - 14 - Geopolitics
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The Internet vs. The Television: Which is the Primary Source of Media Entertainment? Submitted by Anna Bettina Bautista Mico Cortez John Nathaniel Laxamana Erlaine Vanessa Lumanog Niko Lorenzo Peralta Daryll Santillan March 28‚ 2008 Introduction In the year 1953‚ the television was introduced to the Philippines. The primary broadcasting network then was ABS-CBN (which was formerly known as Bolinao)‚ pioneering color television service‚ programs and films. Programs being telecast at the
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GROWTH: A COMPELLING MOTIVE TO DEPENDENCY “Is Third World dependency on First World development‚ practices‚ and funding avoidable?” By Michael John A. San Roque ABS681M G01 Submitted to: Dr. Ma. Elena Chiong-Javier October 9‚ 2012 Countries of the world have been sharply divided along development. Countries that are economically buoyant‚ technologically advanced‚ and politically stable are termed ‘Developed Countries’ or ‘First World’. On the other hand‚ countries that are technically
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Dawson Ellington Oct. 7‚2013 The early bronze age or iron age civilization of people that has had the greatest impact upon the modern world in my opinion was the Ancient Romans. We have similar characteristics to them and Ancient Rome is where most of our ideas of government‚literature‚ and entertainment came from. We are similar in government because we basically have a modernized version of their government. The Ancient Romans started the first republic. They had a senate(a main governing
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2013 A Global Village of 100 Today our world consists of nearly 7 billion individuals; however‚ we never stop to think and understand how our world truly functions. If we decide to reduce the size of the entire worlds population to about a hundred people and did not change the demographic breakdown‚ we would be left with an impacting result allowing us to understand what we are blinded to each day. To begin with‚ the current death rates around the world are extremely significant; however‚ it goes
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Brave New World: World Instability I. Video Intro of World Instability (3:50) II. Past examples of world instability (Chad) A. Russian Revolution a. http://www.history.com/topics/russian-revolution b. After Bolshevik forces executed Czar Nicholas II and his family in July 1918‚ the killers hid the victims’ mutilated bodies. The remains were discovered and exhumed in the late 1970s near Yekaterinburg‚ Russia‚ and eventually identified through DNA testing. B. World War II a. http://www.history
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well the play can relate to various social issues‚ and the ability of the play to offer insightful views on those issues in a way that stimulates the minds of the audience (Cohen 318). 2. How does the text explain the “entertainment value” of theatre? (p.321-322) The “entertainment value” of theatre is described as being how well the attention of the audience is held or sustained while viewing a performance (Cohen 321). This can be accomplished in many
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Kassandra Chang 8/21/14 Period 1 APHG Summer Writing assignment The World is Flat By: Thomas L. Friedman 1. What is it about the flat world that both excites Friedman and fills him with dread? Friedman gets excited because the flattening of the world means that we as people who inhabit Earth are collecting all of our knowledge and putting it together into this worldwide network. By doing this we would start to emerge ourselves in an era of prosperity‚ innovation‚ and collaboration‚ by company’s
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New world exploration a. exploration origins of european expansion exploration b. consequences encounter a. conquistadors had superior weapons/guns & horses b. native american populations quickly shrank c. death due to diseases brought by europeans spanish empire a. financed by gold and silver from americas b. natives: died from diseases brought by the spanish some converted to christianity some resisted by the spanish control colonies spanish empire -appointed viceroys
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Today‚ the entertainment industry is at its peak. Musicians have quite the amount of opportunity to make themselves famous‚ whether that be via open microphone nights at a local café‚ exposure on YouTube‚ and etc. With that said‚ with the amount of opportunity there‚ it’s hard sometimes for an artist to make the right decisions for their careers. A century ago‚ none of these easy opportunities existed. For the most part‚ musicians relied on word of mouth between frequent concert attendees and the
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