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MODULE 2 Contemporary World
MODULE 2 Contemporary World
MODULE 2 Contemporary World
Objectives:
1. Define globalization
2. Differentiate the competing conceptions of globalization
3. Identify the underlying philosophies/theories of the varying
definitions of globalization
4. Explain the origin of globalization
PART 1
1. Defining Globalization
You will notice that there are two ways globalization is defined:
1. Broad and inclusive and 2. Narrow and exclusive.
a. What are the solids you identified? How do they hinder the
flow of progress in your community?
b. What about the liquids in your locality? How do these changes
facilitate the flow of progress in your community?
Together with this module you will read the articles written by
James Steger to help you further understand the underlying
characteristics of globalization. These Readings are required under
the CHED national syllabus for the course.
6. “a number of Hollywood movie studios used globes as part of their corporate image
from the 1910s. The first logo for Universal Pictures from 1912 to 1919 was a stylized Earth
with a Saturn-like ring. It was called the ‘Trans-Atlantic Globe’ or ‘Saturn Globe’. In the
1920s, Universal Pictures’ logo was an Earth floating in space with a bi-plane flying
around it, leaving a trail of white vapor in its wake. Built in 1926, Paramount Picture’s
New York headquarters was topped by an illuminated glass globe, which was later
blackened in response to World War II. In the immediate aftermath of the war—and in
the spirit of recognizing the global reach of the communications industry—the
Hollywood Foreign Correspondents Association initiated a series of media
presentations they called the Golden Globe Awards.”
“ ..The paper’s executive editor, Lucius Harper, later helped establish the Bud Billiken
Club and Parade—the oldest and largest African-American parade in the USA—and
also ghost-authored the successful autobiography of Jack Johnson, America’s first
Black heavyweight boxing champion
9. Based from the article, did the authors achieve what they
have set to achieve when they started with their scholarly
Notes:
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