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 the idea of a globalized world‚ where people from either side of
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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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beginning to throw in their boots and let robots do the dirty work” (Briggs). Technology in this world has grown over the 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’
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The video discussion‚ Tom Freedman‚ The World is Flat‚ is about Tom Freedman’s experience of how he learned the world is flat. By this‚ he means that anyone can send their own content to anyone in the world‚ basically for free. Tom believes the global economic playing field is being leveled. He believes this happened by three great eras of globalization. The first‚ globalization 1.0 started in 1492 and lasted until early 1800’s where the world shrunk from large to medium. The Spanish explored the
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In Thomas Friedman’s The World Is Flat‚ he writes about a so-called “triple convergence.” What Friedman is referring to in this “triple convergence” is the combination of “new players‚” a new “playing field‚” and these two things working together to develop “new processes and habits for horizontal collaboration.” (Friedman 211) Together‚ these three pieces are what Friedman believes is “the most important force shaping global economics and politics in the early twenty-first century.” (Friedman 211)
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Marketing in a Flat World 1) What are the three most critical challenges facing this company in this country. 2) What has the company done to face these challenges and do you think that they are successful Amazon is a fortune 500 online retail company named after the largest river in the world. They specialize in the selling of just about anything over the internet. Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994 and they began doing business in 1995. Based in Seattle Washington‚ Amazon is the
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The purpose of the report in context is to present a Marketing Plan proposal to Nike’s senior management on how to market the modified sneakers for the elderly. In order to make an effective marketing plan‚ findings indicate that marketing research and information is imperative for both environmental and competitor analysis. So to speak‚ the report has delved deeper to present how the 4Ps of marketing mix would be utilized for better marketing of the product. Equally important‚ the report has presented
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It’s All About the Law School diversity is not a surprise as presently a large number of the educational population is comprised of students from many different cultural backgrounds. According to research conducted by Education Week (2011) there was a large growth of English language learners in the United Sates over the 21st century. This rise mandated the need for public schools throughout the nation to assist English language learners with the instruction of special language. Legislation
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a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner who is prominent for his argument of the world being “flat.” Essentially‚ Friedman believes that due to globalization‚ advances in technology are leading to new forms of communication between people located all over the world. This new and progressive technology is broadening connections like never before. With the advent of the Internet‚ people living in all different parts of the world are now globally connected and are able to interact in ways they never imagined
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“Living in a perfect world” is not all that it seems‚ it is not all sunshine and rainbow in everyone but some that is the best part of their personality and it can change over time in someone either for the greater good or just in a situation. This is shown tremendously in the short story The Outcasts of Poker Flat‚ written by one of the most famous local color writers‚ Bret Harte. This story was written in a time period of 1850’s where the great migration west was in
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