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Just a reminder about what we'd like to see here. Students will be responding to readings, and their grade will be based on the following rubric:
  • Reflection statements (self positioning within the course concepts);
  • Commentary statements (effective use of the course content in discussion and analysis);
  • New idea statements (synthesis of ideas to a higher level); and
  • Application statements (direct use of the new ideas in a real life setting).
Don't forget to mark the comments you want for credit with an FC.

Monday, May 4, 2009

coca-cola FC

Coca cola not only brought together the United States but brought together the world. " Coca Cola had established itself one very continent on Earth, carried on the coattails of the American military", with many of the countries we have seen that war spreads culture, from the Ottomans interacting with civilians and spreading their culture to the Americans in WWII. Somethings are not liked that we enhabit such as Europeans spreading Syphilis to the Native Americans (Even though to the communists they thought coca cola was just as bad i think).
In the epilogue they talk about how everything reverts back to water and this is very true, and how the big craze is bottled water because it is ' better for you' but most likely if you ask a student on campus what water they are drinking ( in their bottle) they will say they have refilled it with the water fountain. Ill go on a little enviromental tangent but there is no need to always be buying water bottles and wasting plastic when tap water (filtered) is just as good for you.
so we have learned throughout the semester what brings people together and in the book it is water and in life it is just being humans that does it.

1 comment:

  1. Water brings us together...FC

    Water may be the only drink that all people have in common. I agree with Stephanie that cultural interaction does have its place in the world. Every topic we have discussed shows the interaction between different societies and cultures. If you told someone in 1940 that there would be a German car production plant in Arkansas, they would flip out on you. But as cultures learn to live together, there is a spread of globalization and economy. The author does a great job of showing globalization and not necessarily impact as in previous chapters. These two chapters were more believable than any previous due to the reach of Coca-Cola rather than a built up impact by the author.

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