Midterm exam global studies 100
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MidtermExamFall2017.docxGST 100 Fall 2017
Globalizing World
Take-Home Midterm
The exam is worth 100 points and 25% of your grade. Please type in a 12-point font, double-spaced Word document. Your answers for questions 2, 3, and 4 should be about one page in length. If you use course readings, you do not have to cite, but please cite any additional sources. Collaboration with others is not permitted. Be sure to proofread to make sure your answers are clear and logical. The exam is due by 4:00 pm on Monday Oct 16th. Post it to the Midterm Exam Assignment on the course Web site (click on the red Submit Assignment button to upload your file.) Good luck!
1. In our first class, we discussed what globalization is in list of characteristics that describe globalization. List five of characteristics of globalization. (10 pts.)
2. Manfred Steger divides the long development of globalization into five historical periods. Briefly describe each. Given these deep historical roots, explain how it can be argued that the process of globalization began in a meaningful way only in the past few decades (you should give a brief explanation of Friedman's "Flat World" thesis to support your argument). (30 pts.)
3. Professor Balog explained how the shipping container greatly reduced the cost of shipping goods internationally. In Chapter 1 of The Box (posted on the course website in the Sept. 25 folder: “The Container—key to global logistics”) starting on page 2, Marc Levinson describes how the shipping container changed the global economy. In your answer, please paraphrase; do not quote the article. (25 pts.)
a. How did the shipping container "change the shape of the global economy?"
b. How and why did it affect manufacturers who served only local markets and did not wish to compete internationally?
c. How did it affect workers, as consumers and as wage earners?
4. These questions refer to Chapter 1 of Professor Richardson’s book Strangers in This Land, which is posted on the course website in the Oct. 2 folder. It is called “Where Distant Gods Collide.”
a. As described on page 2, what is chain migration? (10 pts.)
b. Beginning on page 25, there is a discussion of two sets of values that are deeply held in America: on one hand, there is the value of diversity (or pluralism), and on the other is the value of homogeneity (or assimilation). Explain how one value is symbolized by the Statue of Liberty and the poem “The New Colossus”, while the other is symbolized by Ellis Island and the play The Melting Pot. (25 pts.)
