• Global challenges

• Discovering globalisation

• Social networking service - sweatshop - developing country - developed country - multinational corporation - inequality
• World economy - market economy - G8 - G20
• Ray Korona: Globalization Blues - protest song

• The three eras of globalization

• Thomas L. Friedman: “The World is Flat“ (2006)
• 1492-1800: Christopher Columbus - East India Company
• 1800-2000: Great Depression - World War I - World War II
• 2000-?: Myspace

• Spot on Facts

• Economic globalisation - technological globalisation - cultural globalisation - Americanization - migration

• Global economics

• “The Corporation“ (2003) - thecorporation.com - poclad.org
• David Wilcox: “Bad Apple“
• corporation: Kapitalgesellschaft - Großunternehmen - Konzern
• Chrysler - Nike - Microsoft - McDonald’s - Disney - BodyShop - Starbucks - Hollywood - Disneyland

• Sourcing - outsourcing - homesourcing - cartoons
• NYTimes: Sourcing global talent in software (2007)
• SAP - Oracle - sap.com - sap.com/country-selector

• Independent: Organic movement split over air-freighted food (2007)
• Local food - organic food - soil association - carbon footprint
• Letters to the editor

• Reaching around the globe

• Queensryche: “My global mind“
• Poverty - information age
• Richard Pells: “Is American culture ’American’?“
• Culture of the United States of America

•  Spot on language: Creating good writing

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TV

• The Simpsons: “Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang“ (2006)
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