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1 Let’s talk about Grandpa and Grandma… Lifestyle? Education? Expectations of life? Type of work? Standards of living?

2 Let’s talk about Dad and Mom… Lifestyle? Education? Expectations of life? Type of work? Standards of living?

3 What about you? ? Lifestyle? Education? Expectations of life? Type of work? Standards of living?

4 How will your life be different from those preceding you? Will it be better? The same? Or even…worse? http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57590632/ http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/12/news/economy/american_dream_women/

5 Pull out 3 main reasons the article cites for this issue 1.? 2.? 3.?

6 How did we get this way? That is, how has the world evolved to the point where this is EVEN BEING DISCUSSED?

7 Globalization… Globalization is the process of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas, and other aspects of culture. Advances in transportation and telecommunications infrastruc ture, including the rise of the telegraph and its posterity the Internet, are major factors in globalization, generating further interdependence of economic and cultural activities. Taken from Wikipedia

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36 To sum it up until this point in the conversation… There has seemingly always been a desire to connect with people from distant lands. The industrial revolution accelerated this process The technological revolution has accelerated this process even faster. – Transportation costs and Communication costs have essentially shrunken the world and brought us closer together.

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41 This decrease in trade barriers has enabled companies to move Things are cheaper to ship Lower taxes to ship Production, therefore, has been shifted to cheaper locations.

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46 In a nutshell… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ0nFD19 eT8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ0nFD19 eT8

47 Sources http://catalogue.polytechnique.fr/site.php?id=291&fileid=5333 http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/about-globalization Chomsky on globalization…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHJPSLgHemM&list=P L40FA1BDFE38244A9https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHJPSLgHemM&list=P L40FA1BDFE38244A9 For your consideration about your future… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvCyRoY6azk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvCyRoY6azk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oTLyPPrZE4


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