HIST-110 FA2 Lecture 1: Lecture #1
31 Oct 2016
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Slide: shows a european and non-european man sitting down to "dine on the world", the british man offers to carve and takes nearly all for himself, giving only a small slice to the non-european man. The european man is pouring lots of gravy onto his and saying "what, you want gravy as well?" The gravy boat has subsidies written on it. This unit is about explaining the world we live in, and one of the major issues confronted is globalisation, the world as a "big village". Shows a photo of a protest sign that reads climate change costs lives . This drastically increased productivity, but "almost certainly" causes global warming. Shows a picture of the twin towers burning during the september 11 attacks. These attacks were indicative of a much longer story that goes back some time. Shows a picture of three gorges dam, yangtzee river, in central.
