HUMA 1770 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: .Com, Thomas Friedman, Optical Fiber
26 May 2013
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Thesis (a question, point of view, guiding statement, argument) = guides the essay, research. Prove in your essay is to defend an argument. Body (evidence from the 5 articles: take different them or deal with it individually, literary artists, can use first person. The world is flat (seminar @ yale university) Interview young people of call centers in india (how they imitate americans and their opinion of them) The economy playing field is being levelled = the world is flat (as an advancement) Japanese-speaking chinese doing management work and book keeping for big corporations in tokyo. Flattening experience = mcdonald drive-thrus don"t communicate with the people working inside, but connecting to the call centre (flash a picture and write down the order down, sending it back to the restaurant) 1880s-2000 =multinational went global in search for labour. 2000-present = globalization 3. 0, shrink world from small to tiny: built around individuals and small groups, not white western individuals.
