World Interdependent-Interconnected Community

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[50 pts] Question #8: In what ways has the world become an interdependent-interconnected community? The world has become an interdependent and interconnected community where we relied on the services of others to support ourselves. For instance, Mike Vilhauer is a fisherman who got lost in the wild, with no food and internet. To adapt to this change of environment, he had to find some sort of method to help sustain himself like drinking from streams and living in a cave. This illustrates how we come to depend on this system we have to provide us with certain things we need that we sometimes forget how to use our own skills to survive. In the modern world, different roles are divided up so that everyone has a specific job to fulfill that will

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