Midterms Contemporary World
Midterms Contemporary World
Midterms Contemporary World
You have learned on your previous module how important and how
Globalization works in the Globe. In this module, you are about to discover
more about the subject Contemporary World.
The United Nations (UN) tried to address the different problems in the world.
Their efforts were guided by the eight Millennium Development Goals, which
they created in the 1990s. Among these eight goals, the eradication of extreme
poverty and hunger ranked as the first. The other seven goals include:
achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equality and women
empowerment, reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, combating
diseases like HIV/AIDS and malaria, ensuring environmental sustainability,
and having a global partnership for development. The UN tried to achieve them
by 2015.
Since there are different standards of living around the world, we can expect
different meaning attached to it. In the Philippines, a person is officially living
in poverty if he makes less than 100,000 a year. This is called the poverty line
or poverty threshold. The UN, as an organization aims to eliminate extreme
poverty for all the people by 2030.
Most people who have been lifted out of extreme poverty are still poor and
being poor comes with serious problems, from disease to lack of water, Income
inequality is rampant and one in seven people still live without electricity.
So why is extreme poverty falling? The answer to this is really complicated. A
set of factors like better access to education, humanitarian aid, and the policies
of international organizations like the UN have made a difference. However, the
greatest contributor is economic globalization. The world’s economies have
become more interconnected and free trade has driven the growth of many
developing countries.
LEARNING OUTCOMES: Students will now be able to:
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THE STRUCTURE OF GLOBALIZATION:
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WEEK LESSON
THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
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ACTIVITY 1: FOLLOW THE PRODUCT
The products that we consume and use – foods, clothing, and gadgets—are
part of our way of life. Globalization allows for a worldwide exchange of these
commodities and exposure to different cultures as well. This activity will allow
you to investigate the origin and spread of the products and services sold in
our country. You will also be able to know the countries involved in the
production, distribution, and consumption of the products being sold and
consumed in the country. The following are the steps to accomplish this
activity:
TAKEAWAYS:
WEEK LESSON
TAKEAWAYS:
The state has traditionally been the subject of most interest to scholars of a
global politics because it is viewed as “the institution that creates warfare and
sets economic policies for a country.” Furthermore, the state is a political
unknit that has authority over its own affairs. In other words, its borders are
recognized by other countries. It is assumed that whoever oversees those
borders has the right to determine exactly what is going to happen in their
country.
With Globalization, some scholars suggest a decrease in the power of the state
and that other actors are becoming more powerful. These actors include
multinational corporations and global civil society organizations, like the Red
Cross, that cross national boundaries.
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WORLD OF REGIONS
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INTRODUCTION
The path that Globalization has paved for the world has increasingly brought
nation states together, but it can also be argued that the same phenomenon
also necessitated that countries come up with regional groupings in order to
equip themselves better with the demands and odds brought forth by
Globalization. There is a truism in the saying that Unity is attained amidst
diversity. Regionalism and the desire to be a part of one is a product of a
process, a well defined system that came to emerge as by-product of time,
situation and various factors that may be categorized as economic, political,
historical, cultural that led to the amalgamation of countries and even
societies.
This chapter shall mainly undermine the important elements that revolve
around the dichotomy of the Global North and Global South divide and the
focuses its attention closer to the Philippines with a discussion on Asian
Regionalism.
WEEK LESSON
GLOBAL DIVIDES: THE NORTH AND
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THE SOUTH
ACTIVITY 1:
Write down 3 of the most important concepts that you remember from the
Module 2.
ACTIVITY 2: Explain:
We WERE ALL HUMANS until race disconnect us, religion separated us, politics
divided us, and wealth classified us.
- Anonymous
TAKEAWAYS:
You probably heard of “First World Problems” When someone cracks the screen
on their phone or gets the wrong order at the milk tea shop, and then goes on
to their social media accounts, you might see their complaints with a hashtag
“First World Problems.” What are the implications of talking about countries as
First or Third? Where did these terms come from?? These terms are outdated
and inaccurate ways of talking about global stratification. How then are we
going to talk about global stratification?
WEEK LESSON
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Answer the Activity on page 105 “Chapter Exercises”, page 106 “Completing the
Phrase and Experiential Learning.
- Bertrand Russel
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7 PERFORMANCE TASK
REFERENCES
Aldama, Prince Kennex Reguyal , THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD, 20188
Coronacion, Dennis C, et,al , CONVERGENCE: A COLLEGE TEXTBOOK
in CONTEMPORARY WORLD