Today in class we finished up the rest of our questions I corrected and added to each of my questions. We are going to be having an oral test over the Freidman video and the information we learned in the video. I have a feeling i wont do so well on that test because i really dont understand it.After that we started on our free choice blogs. Safe houses started in 1994. 3 to 10 million childeren watched their families be verbally, physically, and sexually abused. 85% of people abused are women and 18% are men. One out of five highschool girls are abused by their partner. Dru did hers on birth certificates. It can prevent you from voting, being employed, owning land, and many others. Courtney did hers on how Obama went to china. They didnt agree on many topics but one they both agreed on was global warming. They discussed that topic a lot. Jessica did hers on the shooting in Fort Hood, Texas. A pychratrist shot and killed 10 soldiers. Jena did hers on that topic aswell. They said he walked into the room and put his head down on the table, and then just stood up and started shooting. He was killed by a guard. Luke talked about how obama talked to students in shen high china. Justice talked about a mom that had to choose either to take care of her child or go to afghanistan, and she choose her child. Haley talked about how a women in Kansas City came forward about how she was rapped and had a child and they barried it on his farm. Erin talked about how November 14 is diabetes day. Across the United States there are 623 monuments around the united states lite up blue for diabetes.Revised Questions:1. What do you think “the world is flat” means?I think it means there are more communications between countries.2. 2. What was Globalization 1.0?It lasted from 1492 to the early 1800’s. It shrunk the world from a large size to a smaller size. It was based on how the country globalizes. On their resources, land, ect…3. 3. What was Globalization 2.0?It lasted from the 1800’s to 2000. It shrunk the world from size medium to size small. You globalize through your company.4. 4. What is Globalization 3.0?It’s from the 2000’s to present time. It shrunk the world from a small size to a tiny size. Its built around individual’s globalizing. You’re no longer depended on a country or company because you can globalize individually5. Ten Flatteners:1. Why was the Berlin Wall coming down on 11-9-89 and the Windows OS shipping five months later flatteners of the world?11-9-89 the day the Berlin wall came down. When the wall fell it gave people the ability to look at the rest of the world, instead of a wall. It allowed the world to become one world instead of two.2. Why was the launch of Netscape a flattener of the world?It began in Monte view, California in the year 1995. It brought the internet alive. It allowed people to communicate. Netscape made sure the internet was opened to everyone. Many people invested money into internet companies. Everyone became next door neighbors in internet communication. You were able to access anyone at anytime at any place if you had internet access. Netscape triggered the .com boom. It triggered millions of dollars into different companies. If you were a company that had an internet site you had to end it in .com.3. What is outsourcing/ offshoringOutsourcing: A new form of collaboration to cut cost.When a company in the United States ships their company overseas to another country to cut costs.Offshoring: When you close down a company and move to a different country to cut costs. Everything is cheaper because it’s a different country.What are examples of open-sourcing?Writing the new versions of Microsoft or any other windows) Mozillia Fire fox, the Linux operating center8. What is insourcing?Is when a company would bring in another company to do work for them because they are better at doing it.What is informing?It is your name for search. Tvo is a way of informing with the tv.10. Give examples of what Friedman calls “steroids”.Wireless, voice of the internet, and file sharing, and cell phones.11. According to Friedman, how do people need to change in the future?you have to horizontalize yourself. A lot of people think vertically and we have to change that. You have to think globally, not just locally. Don’t avoid technology skills. You have to adapt the new way of life or you will struggle throughout the rest of your life if you don’t.12. Define what is meant by the “flat world”.We have created a global web enabled platform for multiple forms of sharing knowledge and work irrespectable of time distance, geography and language.13. Why should young people be concerned with the “flat world”If your not, you will get left behind
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