ROLE OF ICT IN THE FLATTENING OF THE WORLD ICT (information and communication technologies) is increasingly reducing barriers among States‚ individuals and corporations by creating a more economic interdependence and global integration which in turn makes the globe a dynamic place. Since the development of technology the world has consistently been made smaller from time to time by reducing the physical‚ economical and socio-political barriers thus turning the world into what scholars refer to as a
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m Thomas Friedman’s book The World Is Flat analyzes the progress of globalization and how it has changed core economic concepts. After traveling to numerous countries‚ he came up with the conclusion that the world is “flat‚” in the sense that competitive playing fields between industrial and emerging market countries have been leveled. He provides frequent examples of how countries‚ such as China and India‚ are becoming part of large global complex supply chains. Freidman assures that change is
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Atlantic World 1492-1750 In 1492 to 1750 there were some social and economic changes that occurred between Africa‚ Europe and the Americas across the Atlantic. Continuities were the desire of Europeans for raw materials like sugar and spice. Changes were the enslavement of Native Americans and Africans destroying their societies in the process. The continuities from 1492-1750 were that the Europeans had a strong demand for sugar spice and raw materials .In 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed across
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Islam and its Challenges in the Modern World Islam today is facing challenges from within and from the wider world. The critical problems are the fundamental tensions within Islam. The attitudes and criticisms common in the outside world can be ignored as misguided or hostile‚ but the tensions within Islam throughout the world must be confronted. In a simple geographical sense‚ Islam has to come to grips with its changing centres. The religious centres define the heartland: Saudi Arabia maintains
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Strategic Leadership The world we are going to live By Masoud Noordeh Abstract To analysis the effects of some fields of the subject on each other living in the future makes it possible to prevent from unwanted scenarios which may be harmful for our future life‚ I account for all the fields such as demography‚ food‚ natural environment‚ research‚ and etc as a sub-system of human life in which their combinations make a system. I chose five of them that‚ in my view point‚ are
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The World Is Flat "The World Is Flat" a book by author Thomas L. Friedman‚ discusses key events of the twenty-first century and they have brought the world closer together. At the book’s core‚ it is study of how and why the business world has become more interconnected‚ and how old American values may be preventing it from retaining the status it has long held a top of the economic world. Friedman begins by describing a trip to Bangalore‚ India where he visits “India’s Silicon Valley” and is stunned
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Bibliography: Boyns‚ David. “MMORPG worlds: On the Construction of Social Reality in World of Warcraft”. 2009 Peter Lang Publishing‚ Inc.‚ New York. Date of Birth : February 2‚ 1992 Civil Status : Single Date of Birth : January 26‚ 1991 Civil Status : Single
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Sophie’s World is about the life of a 14 year-old girl called Sophie Amundsen. It takes you on a journey though 3000 years of Western philosophy‚ presenting important and in most cases annoying questions.<br><br>This is the explanation of philosophy and philosophers given in the book:<br>"A white rabbit is pulled out of a top hat. Because it is an extremely large rabbit‚ the trick takes many billions of years. All mortals are born at the very tip of the rabbit’s fine hairs‚ where they are in a position
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Ran Zheng BPE Senior Seminar Professor Wachtel 09/25/2012 “China Shakes the World” James Kynge‚ the former China bureau chief of the Financial Times in Beijing‚ presents a realistic and honest version of China with his book “China Shakes the World”. After spending years researching about the Chinese economic‚ social and political conditions‚ James had a good understanding of both the current conditions in China as well as the path China took to be where it is now. The author has an unbiased
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Urbanization and its effect on third world living conditions Urbanization is the spreading of cities into less populated agricultural areas. Most people would not think that this is necessarily a problem. They would say that it is good that the "developing countries" were becoming more developed. With urbanization comes factories and more jobs‚ so the people can make more money and be happier. Right? The problem is that these people must sacrifice their traditional lifestyles‚ for this new "Urbanism"(the
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