A book report of "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman "The World Is Flat" a book by author Thomas L. Friedman discusses a brief history of the twenty-first century and its most recent impact on the US economic today and the world we live in. Friedman unfolds and identifies three major world wide events that explain he’s philosophical explanation of why he thinks the "The World Is Flat" with the incorporation of his belief of the "Triple Convergence in 2000". Ten convoluted events of complementary
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Christina’s Cruel World When I first seen “Christina’s World‚” a painting by Andrew Wyeth‚ I came across a lonely girl‚ and I wonder. What is she doing lying in the field by herself? Was she laying in the long grass on a hot summer day enjoying a nice summer breeze? It’s hard to tell her age. Is she a widowed wife to a soldier lost in the war thinking of days long past? Perhaps she’s a teenage adolescent‚ resting in the grass after a long day of chores? Something caught her attention. She
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SOPHIE’S WORLD For my whole life‚ I have questioned where God came from. I’ve always believed in a God and that He created us‚ but I could never wrap myself around the idea of where He Himself came from. One day‚ I asked my friend and his answer was quite helpful and it might also help you guys‚ he said‚ I think God was always there as the essence of "there". God doesn’t exist like you and I exist. Based on the way we understand existence‚ God doesn’t exist. That’s why that question is so hard
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World Population Day is an annual event‚ observed on July 11‚ which seeks to raise awareness of global population issues. The event was established by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme in 1989. It was inspired by the public interest in Five Billion Day on July 11‚ 1987‚ approximately the date on which the world’s population reached five billion people.The world population on the 20th anniversary of Five Billion Day‚ July 11‚ 2007‚ was estimated to have been 6‚727‚551
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1. “But Friedman’s image of a flat earth is profoundly misleading – a view of the world from a seat in business class. Flatness is another way of describing the transnational search by companies for cheap labor‚ an image that misses the pervasiveness of global inequality and the fact that much of the developing world remains mired in poverty and misery. It also misses the importance of the global geopolitical hierarchy‚ which guarantees the provision of stability‚ property rights‚ and other international
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The World Overpopulation! Is it possible to know that our life is in danger because of a horrible global issue and stay silent??!! By definition‚ overpopulation is a condition where the number of organisms exceeds the carrying capacity of their habitat. The world population has crossed 7 billion and we are going to deal with the adverse effects of this excessive growth. Overpopulation is a serious issue‚ more serious than it seems to be‚ so we must look for some solutions for the reasons of
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Poverty in the world Thanks to rapid economic and technological development‚ there has been a drastic improvement in most people’s living standard. But sadly‚ the irreversible trend of globalization has widened the income disparity between the rich and the poor. Actually‚ the deterioration of the poverty problem has raised the alarm bells. If we don’t find solutions to eradicating poverty‚ the repercussions will be disastrous. As far as I am concerned‚ frequent occurrence of wars is the stumbling
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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS The idea of a glorious earthly paradise far from the known world had existed in the European imagination long before 1492. That idea of a distant paradise on earth shaped the way Europeans came to think of America after Columbus and his successors reported their discoveries. For example‚ the following mythic lands may have served as inspirations for the alluring idea of America as a place of joy‚ ease‚ riches‚ and regeneration: a. the Garden of the Hesperides of Greek myth
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Thomas Friedman’s idea that the world is flattening is based on recent observations that the global economic “playing field” is becoming increasingly easier to enter and to compete in. Friedman notes ten events that have played a significant role in this phenomenon. Friedman noted some very interesting events that helped lead to the flattening of the world‚ such as outsourcing‚ offshoring‚ supply chaining and “insourcing”. The two events of Friedman’s ten that I found to be most interesting
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Kevin Webb 5/15/13 World population Many people have expressed great concerns about the rate of growth as well as the size of the world’s population. During the last 50 years‚ the world population has doubled rapidly more than ever before giving a global population of 7 billion. At the beginning of the population increase‚ there were many factors that caused it to grow. With the industrial revolution came advances in agriculture and industry that provided a way for individual families to be able
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