Final Project Research Assignment

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For this blog you should begin the first stage of your globalization research project. Simply complete the directions for the first set of bullets on your project guidelines hand out and post a start-up of no fewer than 250 words that meets those requirements. You should include TWO source citations (full citation including hyperlinks) as evidence of your research. ONE should be a primary source. Your work should reflect that you USED and didn't just LIST those sources.





If you lost your guidelines, email me at bridgettefranciscsi@gmail.com with "need project" in the subject and I will get back to you within 24 hours.





Remember you can use http://www.easybib.com/ to help you format your citations OR simply follow this format :





Webisite: Author's last, first name (or the organization that published it), "Title of Report or Article." Title of website or publication. Date published.


Artilce from magazine, newspaper or journal:


Author's last, first name (or the organization that published it), "Title of Report or Article". Title of magazine, paper or journal. Place published: volume number (if applicable), date published.





Sites that may be helpful include (you are not limitied to these sources and still required to submit FULL CITATIONS for the articles drawn from any reccomended sources that you utilize in your research):








https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/ - helpful database of nation profiles - can be one of your primary sources





http://www.globalization101.org/ - student-friendly resource bank on globalization issues, articles and reports





http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/briefing/globalization/index.htm - the United Nations' student-friendly database of articles and reports focusing on globalization and how they manage / envision it





http://www.amnesty.org/en/business-and-human-rights - Amnesty International (a global human rights watch organization) publishes various sources about business, development and human rights here





http://www.globalpolicy.org/globalization/links-and-resources-on-globalization.html - index of globalization websites listed by topic and region





http://www.theglobalist.com/ - online news archive of globalization-related sources





http://www.fpif.org/ - website and article bank of the organization Foreign Policy in Focus - focuses mainly on US - Latin America issues





http://www.world-newspapers.com/ - world newspapers organized by topic and date





http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/globalisation/ - BBC news' comprehensive guide to globalization. Note - they spell it "globalisation." That spelling is not wrong, it's British.

10 Years Later: Has the World Trade Organization risen to the challenge of promoting fairness in global trade?

My sincere appologies for not posting sooner. We had some internet problems on the homefront this weekend. This blog is due Tuesday, 12/8. +5 points for completing it before Monday's class.

I could see the crowd from a mile away.
It was then I knew I had to stay.
People shouting fair trade,
With a human barricade.
Determination on their face,
Everyone from every race.
There they were joined together,
In a protest that will be remembered forever.

Untitled Poem by April Smith, 16 http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/14_03/wto143.shtml

1. Read the article “The Meeting: The Battle In Seattle” http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,992681,00.html

and/ or,

“A WTO Primer” http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,35294,00.html
(Published in TIME two weeks before the WTO conference and subsequent protests.

Identify and discuss THREE perspectives (from different interest groups, nations, leaders, etc.) and explain how they author of the article expected their interests to pan out during the meetings and protests.

2. View the photo essay Time Magazine published about the 1999 anti-WTO protests entitled “The Battle in Seattle”
http://www.time.com/time/daily/special/photo/wto/index.html

Explain what you see and how it relates to the issues at hand in the 1999 WTO proceedings.


3. Read “Carrying the Spirit of Seattle Today” NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120976363

According to the NPR article, what were they major effects of the 1999 protests? 10 years later, to what extent do you believe the efforts of the 1999 protests to promote fairer global trade have been effective? (Draw on the turtle dispute, these articles and your knowledge of current events to support your answer.)

4. What questions do you have about the WTO and the 1999 “Battle in Seattle?”

minimum 250 words