"The World is Flat"

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The writer focuses on Friedman's energetic optimism in "The World is Flat" about the trend of globalization that has been widely denounced as the gateway to ruin. The writer explains Friedman's argument that the changes brought about by globalization are beneficial to us. The writer asserts that it is Friedman's enthusiasm, combined with his conversational tone and his mountains of evidence, that goes a long way in winning the reader over.

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"Globalization has produced scores of critics and naysayers, but Thomas Friedman isn't one of them. His latest work, The World is Flat, now in its second revision, is a heady and intoxicating celebration of the way new technologies and new business models are transforming how human beings interact with one-another. The book is a breath-taking tour de force, in which Friedman takes the reader on a whirlwind globetrotting spree, pointing out the innumerable ramifications of globalization's impact. Unlike most commentators, Friedman is not afraid of globalization in the least. Far from it. In fact, Friedman seems to think that globalization will ultimately impact humanity for the better, that it will prove to be every bit as important as "Gutenberg's invention of the printing press, the rise of the nation-state, or the Industrial Revolution" (Friedman 49). If globalization is a new religion, then Friedman is clearly its messiah."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Friedman, Thomas L. The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. NewYork: Picador, 2007.

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