A book review of Thomas Friedman’s "The Word is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century". Written in 2006; 1‚125 words; 1 sources; $ 44.95 Paper Summary: This paper presents a review of Thomas Friedman’s book about the progress of globalization in the early 21st century. The paper examines the major points in the book and discusses the strengths and weaknesses of Friedman’s arguments. From the Paper: "One intriguing book to be written in the past year is Thomas Friedman’s T"he World
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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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Issue Analyses How Globalization Will Affect My Future Career Problem/Issue Definition With Globalization along with outsourcing‚ my career in life is going to change big time. More and more jobs are being outsourced to other countries every day. Right now America is a mountain compared to other countries meaning that we are more advanced industrially. As more jobs are being outsourced the more the metaphorical mountain is shrinking in height and growing in width. We can slowly add to our
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Thomas Friedman is 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
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essay “The World is Flat”‚ Thomas L. Friedman reckons with the belief of flattening world he realizes in the journey to India. Friedman notes that Columbus’s sea exploration shortened the distance for Spanish monarchy to grow its wealth and power out of the "source of [India’s] untold riches" (633)‚ and discovered "the world was indeed round" (664). Columbus found the hardware source of India’s riches which is the free slavery labor and natural resources‚ and yet Friedman found the software source
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The present study shall deal practically with the concept of cohesion –lexical and grammatical- within the following articles: “The Third Intifada” written by Thomas L. Friedman‚ Published in New York Times and “Failing to understand Palestine” written by Ramzy Baroud ‚ extracted from‚ a non-native newspaper‚ Al-Ahram Weekly‚ for the purpose of analyzing the influential effects of the applied cohesive devices separately on such texts as well as their impact on the language of a written discourse
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MAGAZINE DESK It’s a Flat World‚ After All By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN (NYT) 5165 words Published: April 3‚ 2005 In 1492 Christopher Columbus set sail for India‚ going west. He had the Nina‚ the Pinta and the Santa Maria. He never did find India‚ but he called the people he met ’’Indians’’ and came home and reported to his king and queen: ’’The world is round.’’ I set off for India 512 years later. I knew just which direction I was going. I went east. I had Lufthansa business class‚ and I came
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Introduction Thomas Friedman writer of‚ “Globalization The Super-Story” introduces/focuses how the fast-pacing world brings with it unique and novel concepts. Technological advancements have continued to shape the economical‚ political‚ social‚ and cultural landscapes of the modern society at the local and international spheres. Through the exchange of ideas and innovations‚ the world has witnessed ongoing and sustained growth in numerous sectors. Globalization has become a typical adjective that
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advantage of globalization is the opportunity of free trade and the result on the global economy. However‚ the disadvantage is the destruction of local jobs‚ markets and forced movement of people. In order for globalization to continue in America‚ there must be a system to maintain the economy without causing the government and people to suffer. Recently‚ employees of Bosch Corporation experienced the effects of globalization when the company outsourced labor and resources to India. Thomas Friedman
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While I Was Sleeping In an article written by Thomas L. Friedman entitled "While I was Sleeping" starts his journey traveling to India on a quest to help him understnad why they had become such an important pool for the outsourcing of service and information technology work from America and other industrialized countries. He also llos at how advanced technology plays an important role in growing businesses within the U.S. Friedman compared his travels to Christopher Columbus. Columbus ’s travel
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