November 16

Social 30-1

You wrote your Chapter 7 Test today in class. You'll get the results of this test tomorrow. Your Chapter 8 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow. We will be starting Unit 3 material tomorrow. Please remember your Unit 2 Final Exam is on Thursday, November 19th, you can find the study here for this exam (scroll down to find it).

Social 10-1

We finished watching "The Age of Wal-Mart" in class today and completed the film study that went along with it. You have your Chapter 10-11 Quiz tomorrow, please see the study guide here. Your Chapter 12 Key Terms are due Wednesday, November 18th.

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November 13

Social 30-1

We finished watching "Good Night, and Good Luck" today in class. This film explores a lot of issues that are relevant to today. I found this short video on YouTube that spliced together Edward R. Murrow's speech that appears at the beginning of the film and continues at the end of the film. I find that this speech has relevance even today when you talk about the level of discourse in the media. Please remember that you have your Chapter 7 Test (Cold War period) on Monday, November 16th and your Unit 2 Final Exam on Thursday, November 19th. Please see both study guides here.

Social 10-1

I went through the TNC Dossier Assignment with you today, I talked about expectations and showed you some outstanding examples of this assignment from former students. I will be sending you the rubric for this assignment today, so please check your e-mail. I gave you some advice for completing the TNC Dossier Assignment. Please check under the Social 10-1 Links on the right-hand side of the blog for a link to your corporation's corporate website. Be sure that you check out the link to the Multinational Monitor, and search for your TNC on their website for related articles. It's also not a bad idea to search for "worst corporations" on the Multinational Monitor website. We started to look at the advantages and disadvantages of Wal-Mart today as well, so we went back to Chapter 1 in the textbook to look at this case study in greater detail. We started a film study today on the CNBC documentary called "The Age of Wal-Mart". We will finish this documentary next week. Please remember that you have your Chapter 10-11 Quiz is on Tuesday, November 17th, please see the study guide here.

November 12

Social 10-1

We finished watching "The Corporation" today in class. You drew lots today as well to pick a TNC that you will be profiling in the major Unit 3 project. We'll be looking at this assignment in greater detail tomorrow, and I will show you some excellent examples of finalized projects from former students. Please remember that you have your Chapter 10-11 Test on Tuesday, please see the study guide here.

Social 30-1

We started looking at the film "Good Night, and Good Luck" today in class. This film explores McCarthyism in the early 1950s. The film study that I provided you with also has a film review, and some study questions and some discussion questions. This film definitely has relevance in today's world (which we'll be talking about more tomorrow and in Unit 3 of the course). We'll finish off the film tomorrow, and be able to have a short discussion period of some of the issues the film raises. In all likelihood, the study questions from the film study will be due on Monday. Please remember that you have your Chapter 7 Exam (Cold War period) on Monday, November 16th and your Unit 2 Final Exam on Thursday, November 19th. Please see the study guides for both exams here.

November 10

Social 30-1

I went through some disarmament talks and agreements today by writing some notes up on the board. If you missed class today, make sure that you get these notes from a classmate. Make sure that you know the difference between a bilateral and a multilateral agreement. I also gave you a note package on arms reduction agreements as well as a one page set of notes on the end of the Cold War. Be sure that you read these notes! On Thursday, we will be looking at McCarthyism in the United States in the 1950s (so we're backtracking a bit). To fully understand what we're doing in class on Thursday and Friday, it will be beneficial to re-read the section in Perspectives on Ideology on McCarthyism and to read up on Edward R. Murrow as well. Please check your e-mail, I'm sending you a political cartoon that deals nicely with neoconservatism and Ronald Reagan and the impact that he had on American foreign policy (a nice tie-in to Chapter 8 material). Please make sure that you are studying for the Chapter 7 Test which is on Monday, November 16th, please see the study guide here. Also, your Unit 2 Final Exam is next Thursday (November 19th), please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

Social 10-1

We watched another section of "The Corporation" today. I did a homework check on your Chapter 11 Questions today. One week from today, you will have your Chapter 10-11 Quiz. Please see the study guide below.

Chapter 10-11 Quiz Study Guide:

This quiz has a matching section and a short answer section. Please make sure that you review Chapters 10 and 11. Please review your answers to questions/activities from your Unit 3 worksheet, as well as the key terms (from Chapter 10-11 and from the PowerPoint presentations).

Please review the following two PowerPoint presentations:

1. "Foundations of Economic Globalization"

2. "Expansion of Economic Globalization"


You should know these key terms really well:

• Bretton Woods Agreement
• international monetary system
• fixed exchange rate
• gold standard
• floating exchange rate
• World Bank
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• centrally planned economy
• free market economy
• recession
• John Maynard Keynes
• Friedrich Hayek
• Milton Friedman
• totalitarian
• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
• tariff
• World Trade Organization (WTO)
• Free Trade Agreement (FTA)
• North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
  

You should also be able to answer the following questions:

• What is economic globalization?
• How did 20th century world events shape contemporary economic globalization?
• What factors laid the foundations of contemporary global economics?
• What were the major global institutions that were created at the Bretton Woods Agreement?
• What are the major differences between the ideas of John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek?
• What factors contribute to expanding globalization?
• How do international agreements and organizations contribute to expanding globalization?
• How do transnational corporations contribute to expanding globalization?
• How do communication technologies contribute to expanding globalization?
• What are the benefits of the WTO system?
• What are some criticisms of the WTO?