Sarah Burns Professor Horacek English 1001 26 October 2014 America’s Future Workforce Thomas L. Friedman’s selection entitled “The Untouchables”, from his 2005 best seller, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, advises that every young American worker should begin to assume that they are competing against every young Chinese, Indian, and Brazilian for a job. For years, people worked where their parents worked, or wherever major corporations, government bureaucracies
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The World Is Flat Flattener Information Technology Essay The World Is Flat is an international bestselling book by Thomas Friedman that analyzes globalization, primarily in the early 21st century. The title is a metaphor for viewing the world as a level playing field in terms of commerce, where all competitors have an equal opportunity. Globalization became more prominent during the last decades. Friedman argues that globalization made the world smaller and flatter, allowing all countries to take
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Coca-Cola and PepsiCo to be successful in the Indian market. Who in the whole world ever thought that KFC would include more vegetarian options than chicken on its menu? In his article “In 2000 Years, Will the World Remember Disney or Plato?” Mark Rice-Oxley frames a picture in our mind through his writing, describing a usual American day but in London. Thus leading us to his main argument, in 2000 Years, Will the World Remember Disney or Plato? He claims basketball is climbing the ladder, becoming
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framework | 11 | 7 | Lenovo strategic implementation | 13 | 8 | strategic triangle | 14 | I. INTRODUCTION Thomas L.Friedman reminded to the term "Flat world" as the way to describe to an era of new World economy. Which including the globalization, intense competition, a big market without borders, the variety and combination of cultures in the World (Thomas L. Friedman, 2005; Victor K. Fung, el, at 2007; Ronald Aronica and Mtetwa Ramdoo, 2006). In fact, The change, updates, innovation
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Will Robots Create Economic Utopia? The Globalization 3.0 that has brought us to the flattening world has intensified. In support of Thomas Friedman every day we have more robotics and automation attributing to the disappearance of middle class and menial jobs. Industries are transforming daily in every industry from customer service to driving trains. This will alter the job market greatly as robots increase and technology changes. Through automation we have high speed trading on Wall Street
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Flattening The World? Task 1: Many millions of years ago the earth was one continent named Pangaea but slowly drifted apart. Through the concept of globalization it has once again become connected. The flattening of the world is a very debated theory. In the 21st century aka the Information age or Computer age seems to support the planar status of the earth. Its characterized by knowledge based society imbued with a high-tech global economy. This is what a famous New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman
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Indeed, globalization has made our world smaller. As the markets for products, services, labor, and capital increasingly integrate worldwide, we are witnessing the increasing economic, cultural, demographic, political, and environmental interdependence of different locations around the world (Elfrink, 2014). In his book The World Is Flat, Thomas Friedman perfectly captured the essence of today’s new era of globalization. By flat, Friedman meant that the world is connected. The lowering of trade
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the internet. The internet has evolved into a place where the whole world can connect and communicate with each other. The internet has tools such as email, instant messaging, social media sites and online video games that allow individuals to talk with almost anyone in the world as long as they have access to the internet. Having the capability to communicate with anyone around the world may change ones perception of the world personally and globally. Individuals can discuss various topics and express
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practice of prostitution is legal. (McLeod) Many cultures and religions regard it as profane and a sin but regardless of the general distaste, the practice still exists. The fact that Nigeria is a developing, and one of the most corrupt nations in the world, doesn’t help the matter of prostitution in universities. Due to the weakening economy and widespread corruption, tuition in universities all over the country continues to rise. (McLeod) This constant increase is part of what is forcing these ladies
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Finken February 29, 2012 Informative Essay – Draft 1 Humans Contribution to Climate Change Over the past 50 years scientific research has shown the ways in which human activity has caused or contributed to climate change. Research all over the world points to the ways humans have caused climate change: the emission of excessive greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide from human industrial, residential and transportation sources into the earth’s atmosphere, exploding population causing a greater
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