1. “But Friedman’s image of a flat earth is profoundly misleading – a view of the world from a seat in business class. Flatness is another way of describing the transnational search by companies for cheap labor‚ an image that misses the pervasiveness of global inequality and the fact that much of the developing world remains mired in poverty and misery. It also misses the importance of the global geopolitical hierarchy‚ which guarantees the provision of stability‚ property rights‚ and other international
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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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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS The idea of a glorious earthly paradise far from the known world had existed in the European imagination long before 1492. That idea of a distant paradise on earth shaped the way Europeans came to think of America after Columbus and his successors reported their discoveries. For example‚ the following mythic lands may have served as inspirations for the alluring idea of America as a place of joy‚ ease‚ riches‚ and regeneration: a. the Garden of the Hesperides of Greek myth
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Dissecting “The World Is Flat”‚ Thomas L. Friedman “I was in Bangalore‚ India‚ the Silicon Valley of India‚ when I realized that the world was flat.” – Thomas L. Friedman‚ “The World Is Flat” After reading “The World Is Flat” by Thomas L. Friedman‚ I understood the significance of globalization during the twenty-first century. I learned the progression of globalization and the significant changes it has had on the economy and world as a whole. Friedman establishes his text based on the many
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About world peace Every leader in the world aims to find a lasting solution to the problems that beset our planet but so far‚ peace on earth has continued to be an elusive dream. There are many movements‚ conferences‚ brotherhoods and fraternities all over the world that promotes the idea of world peace. Philosophers‚ theologians‚ politicians‚ and other great thinkers from the past up to the present have offered so many formulas and ideas for achieving peace but no one has yet came up
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In Part I‚ “How the World Became Flat‚” Friedman visits India‚ where he realizes that the playing field has been leveled‚ meaning that a much larger group of people can compete for global knowledge. He pursues examples of this metaphor in other places‚ such as Iraq‚ China‚ Japan‚ and the United States. Friedman argues that there are primarily ten forces that flattened the world and describes each of the following “flatteners”: 11/9/89‚ the fall of the Berlin Wall; 8/9/95‚ or the date that Netscape
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An analytic paper on the two books: The World is Flat of Thomas Friedman and Making Globalization Work of Joseph Stiglitz Globalization is process of integration. It is spread all through several fields‚ such as politics‚ culture‚ economy‚ technology and the environment. Internationally‚ these fields are going through a period of conversion and evolution causing this world to turn out to be homogenous and flat. Even nations in the Third World are having the prospects only the developed countries
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The classic songs by John Lennon "We are the World" by USA for Africa and Imagine are very kind songs because they both relate on helping other people that need help in the streets. The song Imagine is trying to say is that we should get on other people’s placeless and see how much they suffer with out food or houses to live in." We Are the World" is a song and charity single originally recorded by the super group USA for Africa in 1985. Is about an earthquake that destroyed almost everything that
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“THE WORLD IS FLAT: In his book‚ The World is Flat‚ Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas Friedman argues that globalization and its technological advances have increasingly “flattened” the world by reducing barriers among states‚ individuals and corporations‚ and by creating more and more economic interdependence and global integration. This process is not a new one. It began in 1492 when Columbus discovered America and opened up trade between the old world and the new world‚ and developed
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IT Tech Paper In the world today‚ business is on the rise internationally and technology is getting stronger and stronger every day. In the book The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century‚ Thomas Friedman‚ who was a foreign affairs columnist for NY Times‚ tells of his journey to India and how while he was there he realized that globalization has changed economic concepts. Friedman analyzes globalization in the twenty-first century and how the world is now at a level playing
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