Assignment 1: The World is Flat 3.0 (10 points) Listen to Tom Friedman’s MIT talk titled “The World is Flat 3.0” and answer the following questions. Your answers must be short‚ succinct‚ and structured‚ and not of the rambling type. The suggested total length of your answers is 1-2 pages. 1. According to Friedman‚ what are the differences between Globalization 1.0‚ 2.0‚ and 3.0? What was the key driver for each phase of globalization? (3 points) Globalization 1.0 was built around countries having
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Dystopian World From poverty‚ to world hunger‚ from global warming‚ to equality‚ there are some issues that are virtually unsolvable. Whether the fact is money or food‚ weather and opinions‚ everyone is different‚ and everybody is entitled to different views and perspectives. These are some of the reasons for the beliefs of our inhabitant in a dystopian world. The definition of dystopia is an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant‚ or bad. No matter the amount of help and solutions
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21st the world is encouraged to recognize that day as a day of peace. I think it is quite easy for people to look at places around the world where there is clearly hostility going on‚ whether it be the Middle East‚ Africa‚ or inner cities in the United States‚ and think why can’t there simply be peace. To me peace is not about looking at places of hostility around the world and saying there must be peace there. Real peace around the world begins within you. Check inside and honestly answer the
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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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The First Sino-Anglo War of 1839-42 is an essential point of interest occasion ever. Numerous researchers consider it to be the first breakthrough in present day Chinese history on account of its significant effect. On the other hand‚ the reasons and nature of this war are a matter of incredible open deliberation. Some trust that it happened because of a conflict of civic establishments as a consequence of the customary worth arrangement of the Chinese in view of Confucianism and the overall thought
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THE WAR OF THE WORLDS Jonathan P. Benitez IV-LopezJaena English-Mrs.Sanchez Introduction The War of the Worlds (1898)‚ a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells‚ is the first-person narrative of an unnamed protagonist’s (and his brother’s) adventures in London and the countryside around London as Earth is invaded by Martians. Written in 1895–97‚[2] it is one of the earliest stories that details a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. The War of the Worlds has two parts
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Poverty in the world Thanks to rapid economic and technological development‚ there has been a drastic improvement in most people’s living standard. But sadly‚ the irreversible trend of globalization has widened the income disparity between the rich and the poor. Actually‚ the deterioration of the poverty problem has raised the alarm bells. If we don’t find solutions to eradicating poverty‚ the repercussions will be disastrous. As far as I am concerned‚ frequent occurrence of wars is the stumbling
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Kevin Webb 5/15/13 World population Many people have expressed great concerns about the rate of growth as well as the size of the world’s population. During the last 50 years‚ the world population has doubled rapidly more than ever before giving a global population of 7 billion. At the beginning of the population increase‚ there were many factors that caused it to grow. With the industrial revolution came advances in agriculture and industry that provided a way for individual families to be able
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I am going to write about World of Warcraft. It is an online role playing game and the most famous one. Ten million people play the game all over the world. There is no age limit and the general language is English. But‚ you must pay twelve euros per month. Before you enter the game‚ you must create a character. There are two races. The horde is the evil side and the allience is the good side. Your character can be male or female. After these decisions‚ you must select your class. Your class can
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occurrences such as words‚ files‚ films‚ music and pictures could be accessed and manipulated on a computer screen by all people across the world. #3: Workflow software: Friedman’s catch-all for the standards and technologies that allowed work to flow. The ability of machines to talk to other machines with no humans involved‚ as stated by Friedman. Friedman believes these first three forces have become a “crude foundation of a whole new global platform for collaboration”. There was an emergence of software
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