The World Is Flat

Reflective Essay on “World is Flat” Usually, When we say “World Is Flat” does not sounds to be literal, hence, we assume it as a false statement, evermore, a long time ago, scientist have had already discovered that the World is round and not flat. However, at the moment, I am reflecting on a video posted at “YouTube.com” by famous American Economist “Thomas Friedman” titled as “ World is Flat”. Friedman actually is describing about globalization, and was relaying massage, how world is…

“Globalization: The Super Story” is a commentary on the constant connectivity of the world today that is based on the ever growing world wide global systems, such as the global market, the various ways to communicate and interact between nations, and the invention of the world wide web or as we now known as the internet. This new system is a way to replace the previous system that was already established ever since the end of World War II, the cold war system. The cold war system was designed to…

“Globalization was welcomed around the world at the beginning of the 1990s. Different trade theories were used to explain benefits of free trade and market liberalization” (Hill, 11/2008). Before the end of the twentieth century, voices of discontent were starting to ascend from Asia to North America. Within this paper I will touch bases on the following areas:  Variety of trends including past and current trends that focus on the global market  Reason whether the global economy will return to…

to support her/his conclusions). In chapter one of Thank You for Being Late, Friedman explains the story behind the title. Through the story, he acknowledges how important it is for humans to be able to pause, but not like technology pauses. In a world where technology can continuously be in use, there is never a need for pausing. Humans need to take pauses to realize everything that is going on around them, giving us a “’space for reflection and thought’” (Freidman, 6). Continuing onto chapter…

Flatland is a world that lives on the two-dimensional plane, where its occupants which are geometrical shapes and they live in an exceedingly organized society sorted out into classes depending on the amount of sides of a shape. The storyteller and hero of Flatland, A Square, composes and writes from jail, complicatedly specifying the social association of his nation and relating the disclosures he has gotten from a sphere. At first, a Square meticulously portrays the social scene of Flatland,…

forward or one-step backwards towards our education? The human race keeps on changing and becoming more competitive in this globalized world. Vocational education is one of our weapons to stay in this competition. Although a college, degree has a higher value then a technical degree it is still valuable in so many ways. According to Thomas Friedman, reading The World is Flat states, “In the future, how we educate our [ourselves] may prove to be more important than how much we educate…

first emerged I used to joke that if I had one fervent wish it would be that every modem sold would come with a warning label from the surgeon general that would say: ‘Judgment not included”, joked Thomas Friedman author of the World is Flat. Despite the original World is Flat being written about a decade ago its point is still true, judgment is still not included. E-learning, the webs version of the classroom, is an exploding industry, with online universities such as the University of Phoenix,…

was more into playing sports and being a child or young adult if you will. After my senior year it began to click on why it was so important to go to school because you could start to build your life. Or as Thomas Friedman says in his book The World Is Flat, that is can give you ambition. There are lots of jobs but more people that jobs that are offered. So to give yourself an edge you should go to school and get a college degree to benefit. But how fair would it be if community college was…

one would make no mistake that the contemporary economic world features one undisputable leader when it comes to exporting one’s good to other countries. Indeed, if one takes a look at the global interdependence of the countries, one will be able to see that the majority of states have deep economic connection with the partners from their region. Nevertheless, China is the country that has economic relationship with literary the entire world (Chenand and Yao 169). It is obvious that the goods…

com)." Ones origin is important but globalization tends to come into conflict and changes ones identity. What is globalization? It 's a variety of things shared around the world for a common purpose. All over the world people are moving from place to place for a variety of reasons. Some move just to have fun and see the world, others for economic purposes, businesses, schooling and citizenship status. Along with globalization comes the clashing of…