Third World

No movie is more famous for creating a world of wonder than the Wizard of Oz. Beyond the 124 little people and it’s ten leading roles, this film broke the mold of how children’s stories could be adapted onto the big screen. The Wizard of Oz truly inspired fantasy and excitement in its era. Some believe that its inspiration was through the recent children’s novels that had been successfully adapted into Disney movies. Some of the original producers actually believed that the audience might reject…

regions depend on their manipulation of other regions. However, bringing companies into third world countries develops the economies of the peripheral regions and gives them the opportunity to advance beyond factories. (Allen 21) Through mutual exploitation, corporations take advantage of cheap labor, while workers take advantage of incoming firms by extracting higher pay. As more and more companies move to the third world, they start to have to compete for workers, thus, the wages go up as the…

The main argument in the film is that in a world with so much wealth, why is there so much poverty?” which is really very important questions that everyone should ask themselves. The films show the level of poverty that peoples are living in and the hardship that they were facing. From Global perspective, this film shows the accurate level of poverty that peoples are living around the world. This films answered the question about whether the poverty just occurred on its own, or a specific people…

A Reaction to Narayan’s Dislocating Cultures. Uma Narayan’s article raises multiple questions about how third world issues are perceived by western bodies. In her article, Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism, she looks at the “‘effects’ that national contexts have on the construction of feminist issues and the ways in which understandings of issues are then affected by border crossings across national boundaries” and how culture is invoked in explaining the…

Oldenburg (1999) the term third place is used to “describe the public spaces used for informal social interaction outside of the home and workplace.” (Soukup, p.421). Third places are public spaces that provided “unique functions within a local community.” Oldenburg’s criteria for traditional third spaces stated that they must be on a neutral ground, must be social leveler, must be accessible, driven by communication, must have regulars, and a playful mood. Furthermore, third places offered…

from how the world saw them. As the winter grew closer and the leaves begin to turn, that young man’s jackets became bigger and thicker. None of us in the class paid much attention to it. It was getting cold outside, why would we notice. Then…

In an age filled with modern thinkers, people often thrive to find explanations of why more than half of the world is overwhelmed by poverty and has no economic or political standing. While different theories have emerged to approach the cause of why the third still world exists, one in particular stands out. The Dependency Theory is the notion that colonization in the mid 1800-1900s has resulted in the LDCs to rely for political and economic support on the core or elite countries. The theory is…

The internationally known, Phil Knight, invested time in designing the “coolest” shoes. Knight wanted these shoes to capture the attention of everyone around the world. After a few meetings, it was imperative to name the company, Nike. This brand sparked the lives of not only people who wanted to look cool but for athletes as well. Nike is such an essential brand for everyone 's closet— It is rare not to find a pair of Nike’s laying around in a house. This brand has been a story of success and…

Transgender or third gender communities have been a part of history in a variety of countries and cultures for thousands of years. From the balka people of the Phillipines, the two-spirit people of the American indigenous, and the sworn virgins of the Balkan Peninsula third genders have been a part of history all across the world. This paper will examine the Hijra of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, specifically their history, current standing as citizens, official recognition as a third gender,…

first Latin American countries to break this mold and distinguish themselves as a self-sufficient economy based country which was equipped for the modern era. Following the end of slavery until the end of World War 2 Brazil was what most political scientist or anthropologist would consider a third world country as the large economic gap that developed out of the slave system and continued to persist throughout the coffee boom continued to increase the economic divide between the rich and the…