Timmerman And Globalization

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The Different Sides of Globalization

Kelsey Timmerman went on several trips to a variety of different countries. During these trips, he encountered both positive and negative effects of globalization. Kelsey Timmerman made globalization seem both appealing and unappealing for people all around the world, through the citizens of countries getting new job opportunities, and bad working conditions. In Where Am I Wearing, globalization was displayed as a positive effect by the amount of new job opportunities it brought up. When companies move to a country, it brings along job opportunities with it. This was shown like with that company in ((ecuador?) still i need to collect the information from the book and put it in correctly still

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