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World Cultures Comparison ProjectInstructions

Topic Brainstorm

• economic prosperity (star)
• free time use (star)
• tv industry
• energy demand/supply
• the young generations
• American influences (star and circle)
• transportation
• global influences
• globalization (underlined)
  • "the export of artificial wants"

2nd Brainstorm: Globalization

Title

The Export of Artificial Wants

• ??or too focused
• or too crazy
• What does that mean?

    *it may be clever but if I can't figure it out or Greg can't figure it out, then we shouldn't use it.

Pos/Neg

• pos:
  • better standards of living
  • more equitable distribution of wealth
  • ending harsh global customs
    • shria law
    • etc.
  • outsourcing makes jobs
  • good in long term
• neg:
  • putting too much on them?
  • bad diet?
    • China
  • exporting artifical wants
  • plundering and profits
  • ?talk about imperialism??
    • India
    • ?or only focus on present?

Format

• debate, it seems would work best
  • Is Globalization ultimately good or bad?
  • each person gets topic
  • that way they research that 1 topic
  • they write a page (or so) about that topic
    • Plaz or some one glues it all together
  • then they are experts in that for debate
  • this has advantage because it compartmentalizes the work, so it can be easily split up
• video????
  • what would it be of though????
• newspaper
  • groff: print it on real newspaper paper??
  • again, what would it say?

Cultures

• Latin America (req.)
• Japan (food)
• India (?imperialism)
• Middle East (sharia)
• ???