GLOBAL BUSINESS STRATEGIES READING REPORT Savannah Benton The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman. Pp. 533-579 April 21‚2015 I. Four noteworthy quotes or key insights from the assigned reading. 1. “I believe that capabilities create intentions. If we create an Internet where people can open an online store and have global suppliers‚ global customers‚ and global competitors‚ they will open that online store or bank or bookshop…The history of economic development teaches this over and over: If you
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Changing a Flat Tire Changing a flat tire is an import skill that everyone who drives needs to know in case an emergency where you have a flat tire and cannot call for help. This is a very simple process in which someone replaces a flat tire with a spare and no level of mechanical knowledge is required to complete this task. Changing a flat tire can happen anywhere from a driveway to the side of the interstate in sunshine‚ rain‚ or snow. Ideally this task should take 10 minutes‚ but could take up
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Answer 1: Thomas Friedman‚ New York Times columnist and author‚ claims in his book titled‚ ‘The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century ’(2005)‚ that globalization and technology has flattened the world to a ‘level playing field’. He analyses the ten ‘flatteners’ or events that happened over a period of around ten years to make the world go flat. The first flattener‚ that Friedman writes about‚ was the Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and end of the Cold War‚ that brought forward
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the deserted park around him suppressed into silence by the heat. He didn’t enjoy the heat itself; he enjoyed the unique beauty in nature on a hot day such as today. A beauty that most people are unaware of‚ for when they repulsively recede from the heat‚ they do so from that beauty as well. He looked up at the spotlessly azure sky‚ one of the beauties on a hot day‚ and was conscious of his widening
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Q2. “ Flat Panel Televisions and the Global Economy” Vizio is a U.S. company founded in 2002 by William Wang‚ Vizio CEO‚ with the idea that everyone deserves to own the latest technology. It is a producer of consumer electronics‚ primarily produces television sets. It grows fast despite a limited number of staff. Now‚ there are over 160 employees and it remains the first American brand in over a decade to lead in U.S. LCD HDTV sales. This passage has mentioned two main issues‚ which are
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Emily Dang Mr. Moran English 1 H 8 April 2013 AP Book Report For Tortilla Flats 1. Title of Work: Tortilla Flats 2. Author and date written: John Steinbeck‚ 1935 3. Country of author: USA 4. Characters: Major: Danny: Came from a rich family but does not like to act rich as a kid. When he came back from war he was a wreck since he had no idea what to do. However‚ he is able to make some decisions for his friends. Leader: Even though everyone in the group is pretty much the same
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2: When it comes to Iago‚ there is a great difference between how the characters perceive him‚ how we perceive him and how he perceives himself. Using evidence‚ discuss the three differing viewpoints and explore Iago’s duplicitous nature. Is he a flat or dynamic character? Humans are born with a natural capacity for good and evil. As an individual develops‚ he or she is taught to distinguish between the two in order to strengthen a sense of right and wrong. Through Shakespeare’s play‚ ‘Othello’
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Struggling with belly fat? Want to get of your love handles? If so‚ it’s time to try the Flat Belly Diet. With this plan‚ you’ll lose several inches of belly fat and drop up to 15 pounds in one month. Based on the book with the same name‚ this program helped millions of people get in shape while eating delicious foods. What Are the Benefits? The Flat Belly Diet guarantees fast weight loss and high energy. This plan was designed for those struggling to get rid of tummy rolls and bulges. Unlike
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called “It will be hard to deny the earth is flat after you watch this..” from the account Flat Earth Talk‚ a man goes through his carefully thought-out demonstration to prove that the world is flat. He begins by pouring water on a lemon which as you might expect flows right off. He follows this by pouring water onto and ordinary dinner plate which of course pools on its flat surface (Flat Earth Talk‚ 2017). Whether this is legitimate proof that the earth is flat in the eye of the beholder‚ but it does
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past decades and we have become more and more reliant on our technology. Agribots and drones is the newest and latest thing in this world that could really boots our crop productivity. Thomas L. Friedman‚ author of The World is Flat‚ argues that‚ “As an individual‚ in a flat world is figuring out how to make yourself as an ‘untouchable’” (280). He then describes ‘untouchables’ as‚ “People whose jobs cannot be outsourced‚ digitized or automated” (280). In order to distinguish ourselves from others and
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