EG462 February 13, 2011 Week 8: Examining Alternatives to Globalization There are many people who like the fact of globalization. Many cultures around the world like the fact that they can get Chinese food in America, American McDonalds in Mexico, Mexican food in Europe, and Italian food in China. People from many cultures have retail stores, like Wal-Mart, they can shop at and get low prices on their needs. There are other people who think that globalization in bad for different cultures
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Name: Phan Ngọc Phương Mai Student ID: BAFNIU12018 Writing AE2 Class, Friday afternoon – Room C404 Unit 2 Task 17 The world is witnessing the fast-growing changes of globalization. Even though this term has been commonly used since the fifteenth century, it was not until late 1990s that globalization had a significant impact on human beings. The development of multinational corporations, international organizations, etc has changed the complexion of the world. Thanks to the continued advance
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A Level Playing Field By: Elaine Nescio PSL200 T-TH 11:00 The international bestselling book The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty First Century by Thomas L. Friedman analyzes globalization in the early 21st century. Throughout the book Friedman helps the reader view the world on a level playing field, where the traditional issues of historical and geographical divisions are becoming irrelevant and all competitors have an equal opportunity. Friedman examines the influences shaping
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. Do you agree or disagree with Friedman’s assessment that the world is flat? Be sure to justify your answer. I don’t fully agree with Friedman’s vision of the “flat World”. Though I think we are more connected and informed than ever. According to me I feel Friedman’s views and research is mostly concerning the developed countries focusing on business and targeting the cooperate world. Today technology, telecommunications has definitely helped people around the world to be closer. But Friedman’s
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The World Is Flat Thomas L. Friedman’s book, The World Is Flat is a book helps us understand the how the world is flat. He does this buy dissecting the world we live in and by sharing information we all should know. The World Is Flat focuses on globalization along with social, political and environmental issues we face. Chapter two highlights the ten forces that flattened the world along with the effect and opportunities we now have because the world flattened. The fall of the Berlin
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We are introduced to Friedman’s interpretation of the ten influencing factors that led to globalization and world flattening, the first being the falling of the Berlin Wall in 1989, which tipped the balance of power across the world towards democratic free market and away from authoritarian rule. A second flattener is identified as our ability to not only author our own content, but to send it worldwide with the 1995 launch of the Internet. Subsequently, free workflow software was developed, allowing
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Summary of Thomas Friedman’s The World Is Flat In The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman discusses events and technologies that are “flattening” the world and increasing globalization. Friedman feels the world is highly interconnected without regard to hierarchy, distance, organizational size, individual status, culture, or language. He describes ten "flatteners" that are reshaping the world. Flattener 1 – Fall of the Berlin Wall The end of the Cold War broke down barriers between people.
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Last time, we had watched a video of Jim Ronh about living an exceptional life on the subject of Personal Growth and Development at Pannasastra University. He was an American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker. In this video, Jim Ronh gives a lecture on how to dramatically change your life, particularly, he provides advices which implemented could dramatically change our life, according to his speech. First of all, his story starts with the moment when some event had happened, so that
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Globalisation have impacted the world and businesses in different ways, and today different people have been debating on the year that Globalisation started. Brooks, I. et al, stated that “many commentators take the view that globalisation probably started some way back in the nineteenth century” (Brooks, I. et al. 2004, p. 308). The term globalisation can be defined as “a process that refers to the growth of inter-dependencies between national market and industries on a worldwide scale” (Brooks
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Globalization for the little guy Digitization has opened the door for emerging economies, small businesses, and individuals to participate directly in globalization. January 2016 | byJames Manyika and Susan Lund More than 20,000 independent designers and artists showcase their work on Pinkoi, a Taiwan-based online marketplace. The company has connected with customers in more than 47 countries, using Facebook to expand its reach throughout the Asia–Pacific region. The Estonian start-up coModule
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