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This blog is for Watauga High School students taking the Scientific and Technical Visualization class. We are reading and discussing Thomas Friendman's book "The World is Flat". Watauga High School is not responsible for the content of any student entry or any links that might be added by students.
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In this blog we will be discussing the book ,The World is Flat, By Thomas L. Friedman.
The World is Flat
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- Comment on rule 5 and 6 for Thursday
- Read 449-457 - for Wednesday, April 30
- For Tuesday - April 29 read 441-449
- Short reading, 433-437, for Friday April 25
- for Thursday - April 24
- For Wed. - April 23
- For Tuesday, April 22
- Read 391-400
- Begin reading This Is Not A Test - 374-390
- Read 365-373 for tuesday April 15
- For Friday Dirty little secret #4, 5, and 6
- Read Dirty Little Secret #3
- Read - Dirty Little Secret #2 for Tuesday, April 8
- Read 343-349 "Dirty little secret #1"
- Read pages 337-343
- Read 329-336
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3 comments:
In this part Friedman talks about the Cold War in comparison with today. One is that meeting the challenges of flatism requirers as comprehensive, energetic, and focused a response as did meeting the challenge of communism. He talks about leadership, and how Kennedy understood the competition with the Soviets unlike Bush. Instead of competing with the Chinese we are fighting for oil.
In this reading Freidman compares the Cold War to our present time. Then we were in a nuclear arms race, now we are competing in the science and technology field, except we aren't really racing, we are just letting the Chinese get ahead of us.
Friedman is comparing what was happening during the cold war with what is happening today. Then the US and Soviet Union were competing in science and mathemetical fields whether it being with space or nuclear weapons. Now he has compared us to china with the new flattening world. It may seem as if we are racing china but in reality we are not we are not competing with them at all we have simply just gotten lazy and are letting them get ahead.
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