January 30‚ 2008 THE WORLD IS FLAT The world we live in today is going through enormous changes in economics‚ technology‚ culture‚ politics‚ etc. The effects of the changes are not so clear‚ since it is hard to predict how each sector would affect the other and how society will be affected. However‚ analyzing past and present occurrences provides some information for experts to interpret society’s reaction in the future to different transformations. Globalization can be seen as a process in which
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“Malthusian views of the relationship between population and food remain relevant today.” Discuss this statement. According to Malthusian theory of population‚ population increases in a geometrical ratio‚ whereas food supply increases in an arithmetic ratio. This imbalance would lead to widespread poverty and starvation‚ which would only be checked by natural occurrences such as disease‚ high infant mortality‚ famine‚ war or moral restraint. However‚ this theory is wrong in circumstances now
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Thomas Friedman "The World is Flat" Study Guide and Note Sheet Chapter One: "While You Were Sleeping" How did Friedman accidentally discover that the world is "flat"? When he was in India doing an interview What are some anecdotes that illustrate Friedman’s initial discoveries of the flat world? The software that he was using to understand the world’s economics was being produced in India‚ China‚ and Japan‚ these “third world countries” that we look down upon
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Kassandra Chang 8/21/14 Period 1 APHG Summer Writing assignment The World is Flat By: Thomas L. Friedman 1. What is it about the flat world that both excites Friedman and fills him with dread? Friedman gets excited because the flattening of the world means that we as people who inhabit Earth are collecting all of our knowledge and putting it together into this worldwide network. By doing this we would start to emerge ourselves in an era of prosperity‚ innovation‚ and collaboration‚ by company’s
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everyone from five-year-olds to ninety-five-year olds. The digitization that took place meant that everyday occurrences such as words‚ files‚ films‚ music and pictures could be accessed and manipulated on a computer screen by all people across the world. #3: Workflow software: Friedman’s catch-all for the standards and technologies that allowed work to flow. The ability of machines to talk to other machines with no humans involved‚ as stated by Friedman. Friedman believes these first three forces
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Convergence” I. Summary/Synopsis Thomas L.Friedman‚ The World is Flat: a brief history of the twenty-first century. Published by Farrar‚ Straus and Giroux‚ 2007. Friedman discusses the "triple convergence." The convergence of the ten flatteners had created a whole new platform. It is a global‚ Web-enabled platform for multiple forms of collaboration. This platform enables individuals‚ groups‚ companies‚ and universities anywhere in the world to collaborate - for the purposes of innovation‚ production
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self-conscious thoughts that permeated the mind of someone who had experienced what war had to offer. Hemingway’s views on the courage of an individual and his views on the unity of humanity are also themes that Hemingway clearly expresses in what is surely known as true Hemingway fashion. Hemingway allows his character Robert Jordan to become self-aware and in a sense develop his own views—as a real soldier often did—of war‚ courage‚ and the unity of man. In the beginning of the novel‚ Robert Jordan
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Population pressures have degraded some 2 billion hectares of arable land -- an area the size of Canada and the U.S. Freshwater: The supply of freshwater is finite‚ but demand is soaring as populations grow and use per capita rises. By 2025‚ when world population is projected to be 8 billion‚ 48 countries containing 3 billion people will face shortages. Coastlines and oceans: Half of all coastal ecosystems are pressured by high population densities and urban development. A tide of pollution is
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TEXTS THAT EXPLORE MOVING INTO THE WORLD HELP US TO UNDERSTAND THAT WE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD AS MUCH AS THE WORLD CHANGES US. THESIS: THOSE THAT EMBRACE THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT MOVING INTO THE WORLD GRANT THEM CHANGE THE WORLD AROUND THEM. Moving into the world is a transitional change that everyone has the choice of going through. So if you reject it‚ you don’t change so why would anything else? It is only those who embrace the opportunity that moving into the world grant you‚ which allows you to change
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“Into the World” represents stages of growing up and maturation similar to a “rite of passage”. The transitional journey involves gaining knowledge‚ understanding and insight with difficult and challenging consequences which can be both positive and negative. Barriers and problems may exist and overcoming these barriers can be voluntarily or forced upon an individual. Concept and meaning of “Into the World” are explored in the play “Educating Rita’s Act 1 scene 5 and Act 2 scene 7” by Willy Russell
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