Source essay

Globalization

Alden Mueller

Globalization, is it a good thing? Or is it a bad thing? These are good questions. There are many opinions on both sides. Ill be exploring these opinions in example sources that I received. Is Globalization a good thing? You already asked this. How is media affecting us? And are big companies what they seem? These are just some of the questions that I will be looking at. It is acceptable to ask rhetorical questions in your introduction but I would not ask a whole bunch. It is best to stick to one if any at all. It is definitely not wise to use them in your thesis. You are also missing your position from your thesis. Also you need to realize the question is not so much if globalization is a good thing or not, it is more of whether it is making us the same and then if that is a good thing.

Globalization affects us individually and collectively. Eventually becoming more of a collective group then an individual; one culture, one world. If we had one culture wouldn’t it be easier for the world to communicate? Being one identity so no one will be let out? Well if Globalization continues some believe that this will happen if we don’t do something about it. Being an individual is important to people. They can be who they decide to be, but it’s getting more and more difficult to do so because of Globalization. Though, there is another side to the opinion on if it’s good or bad. Once again I would suggest less questions. This paragraph is confusing. At the beginning and through your questions you state the benefits to cultural universalization and then it seems that you claim we need to do something about it to stop it. There is no discussion of why this would be a bad thing except that being individual is important.

In the second source there is a picture of the iconic Sesame Street logos. On the sign there are different languages. What it’s saying is that something that started in the U.S is now in other countries in their language, a form of culture contact (nice). The media has a huge impact on us as people, our views can be changed on a topic quick and easy. The part in our society that media plays are a big one. Media plays a big part in our society. We watch the news, documentaries, anything and everything on television. It also depends on which station you watch because they each have a different opinion on what you should think about a topic. They are being bias of about what they think is important. This is a much better paragraph. You could also talk about the dangers of media convergence and/or media conglomeration here.

The Chiquita brand of bananas says that it’s the best banana you can buy. They check it over six times and then it goes into wooden boxes that are strong and protective before it leaves the tropics. The person that wrote this source is showing that they do everything so when you go buy a banana at a store it will be perfect. Though, they are leaving out an important part. Who picks the bananas? How much are these people paid? Are their working conditions good? Like the United Fruit Company for example, sure they provided 40 000 jobs and investments up to $60 million (toward what?), but they ended up to be a monopoly. They owned the telephone, and the telegraph, and almost every mile of rail road in the whole country. So, if you wanted to make a phone call it would have to go through the banana company. Or maybe In order to import something from the sea; it would have to go through the banana company because they owed that too.  This is a good discussion of the banana company but how does it relate back to the overarching question of our identity becoming collectively universalized?