04:192:201 Study Guide - Final Guide: Dubai Bank, Fourteen Hours, Consumerism
19 May 2016
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George saunders" the new mecca : the gap between reality and conceptuality. The new mecca is an essay in which author george saunders engraves different experiences he had throughout his dubai trip. In the beginning he tells the readers that everything they are going to assume about dubai is going to be wrong unless they see dubai by themselves first. He admits falling in love with everything he perceived in dubai even the hotels. As he continued talking about dubai, he introduced the reader with the history of dubai. He informs that few years ago there was only sand. Dubai has improved a lot in a very short amount of time. He gets amazed at the beauty of dubai; however, he gets surprised twice the amount of that because of the difference between the reality of dubai and what people think about dubai. The author mentions numerous examples where he meets lower class working people and sees them suffering.
