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Homework

Write your ideas about the future use of robots into this etherpad:

https://zumpad.zum.de/p/robots-will

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Describe and analyse this Cartoon on Science and Humanities
Remember to write an introductory/a topic sentence!

Describe and analyse this Cartoon on Americanization
Remember to write an introductory/a topic sentence! (Alternative link to the cartoon: here

Describe and analyse this Cartoon on Free trade and Globalization.
Remember to write an introductory/a topic sentence!

OLD STUFF...

Write out pros/cons concerning globalisation from 2 of the pages linked under "Globalisation" further down own this page.

Basic Skills & Information

• Information on homework and oral grades
• Reading and Marking technique - SQ3R Method A useful method to read, mark and annotate texts.
• Working with Cartoons

• A good speech/speaker ...
• Working with statistics ...
• Writing an interview
• Answering questions on the text
• Starting a paragraph
• Starting an Essay/Comment
• Shaping/refuting an Argument/Comment
• Mediation
• Translation (E→G)
• Characterization
• Review
• General text analysis

The Hobbit

Talks

Each talk on a chapter includes:

• A short summary of the chapter, and its relation to the chapter before
• A short explanation/interpretation of the headline (relation to the chapter, effect on the reader in terms of creating expectation)
• Presentation of one passage (about 20 lines) from the chapter, which is most exciting/characteristic/funny / brings most change for reader ==> Explain why you chose exactly this passage!

Reading Diary / Scrapbook

The basic idea is that of a "reading-diary". That means

• keeping a simple log-/scrapbook while reading the novel
• stopping from time (at least after each chapter) to time to think about what you have read!
• thinking about questions like: "Is there anything that puzzles you?" and noting down questions or striking quotations!
• asking yourself if you like or dislike a character + what makes you feel so?
• making notes that you can add to (e.g. one page per character for characterization)!

The scrap book that you have to hand in is part of the coursework (marked!)

These are the minimum reqirements, that is the questions you need to have readable and reasonable NOTES on:

Chapters 1 and 2:

• Characterize Bilbo and one other character (round or flat, relation to each other?)!
• What kind of story and hero do you expect at the end of chapter one?
• Compare your impressions of Bilbo and the dwarves at the end of chapter II with those at the end of chapter I.

Chapter 3

1. Collect/write out - passages/quotes that create (page)tension /excitement/premonitions (NOTES!!)

Look at the language, narrator's comments/ descriptions or interesting quotes of characters!

1. What image of the elves is created? How is this done? (NOTES)
   What role can the elves be expected to play? (NOTES)
2. What must the travellers expect on their way ……? (NOTES)

Chapters 4 + 5:

• p. 65-70: What rhetorical devices (e.g. symbols, style) and narrative tricks are used to create the special mood, tension and expectations? (NOTES)
• Collect all important information about goblins/orks in a "what travellers ought to know about goblins" profile! (NOTES)
• What are the similarities and differences between Bilbo and Gollum? Look at their appearance, behaviour, relation to other charcters ... (NOTES, ideally a simple table ….)

• How has Bilbo developed in ch. 4+5

Chapter 7 for Wednesday 26th March 2018

• characterize Beorn … (NOTES)
• how does the mood / atmosphere develop from page 158 – 162 … How is this effect achieved? (NOTES)

Chapter 8 (READ 8 + 9 + 10 for Monday October 1st)

• Show and explain, how this chapter reveals Bilbo's heroic qualities (NOTES+pages)
• Compare the different dwarves' (Bombur - Thorin - Kili&Fili) and Bilbo's roles/function in the story in chapter 8! Are the different dwarves flat or round characters? (NOTES)

Chapters 8, 9, 10

• Compare the endings of chapters 8, 9 and 10 (NOTES - perhaps a table)!
  Look at the mood/atmosphere (language, key words), and the expectations for the next chapter that are created? How effective are the three chapter endings?

Read Chapters 11, 12, 13 for Monday, 8th October!

• Write a full text characterization of Smaug from ch. 11 and 12!
• Look at pp. 271-272: What makes the text sound old-fashioned?

Read chapter 14 for Wednesday, 10th October!

• Characterize Bard and and check his heroic qualities (cf. handout) NOTES!!

Read chapter 15 + 16 for Monday, 15th October and chapter 17 for Wednesday, 17th October!

• Apply the concepts of the epic hero and anti-hero to Bilbo and Thorin.
  

Which of the two models/characters is presentetd as more successful and how is that shown? (Notes ... use a table with two columns)

Read chapter 18 + 19 for Monday, 22nd October!

• Sum up what Bilbo has lost and gained in the end!
• What do you think of Bilbo's development throughout the book and what does it tell the (young) reader?

Globalisation

Listening: Free trade

Listen to this mp3-file on free trade twice.
Answer the following questions:
1. How does Andrew walker define free trade? (two aspects)
2. The WTO is not about free trade but .................... (Complete!)
3. What can two countries in a trade dispute expect from the WTO?
4. Fill in the blanks!

So members can complain if other members break WTO rules. And those rules have been ................... over a series of WTO conferences, like the one in Cancun in September. But the Cancun talks ........................ because of disagreements over what are known as the Singapore ................- Andrew Walker explains why.

5. Name at least 4 problems that are part of the Singapore issues!
6. Fill in the blanks!

Male speaker: It actually costs only half as much to produce ................ here as in, say, America. But these African farmers simply can't match the ................ .......... Western prices and still turn a profit. So along with three neighbours, Mali ..... ................. to the World Trade Organisation.

Female speaker: BBC reporter Nick Ravenscroft reporting from Mali, which has brought a complaint before the WTO about US subsidies for cotton farmers. Economics and Business .............. Andrew Walker explains why subsidies and ..................... matter.

7. What is one of the negative consequences of EU subsidies according to the text?
8. Right or wrong? - The EU surplus policy is welcomed by many countries.
9. Right or wrong? - Nigerian farmers are badly affected by EU surplus sales.
10. Right or wrong? - There are complaints about the US as well as from the US.
11. What products are affected by the EU ban on US agricultural products and what reason does the EU give?
12. Why did the WTO order the EU to remove the ban?
13. Fill in the blanks!

And if the WTO decides that a trade ................. is against WTO rules - what happens next? Well the WTO allows members to ............... - to put up their own trade barriers. In the case we’ve just heard between the US and the EU - the US has retaliated with a series of import ................. on goods from Europe.

14. What goods did the US put very high tariffs on? (name two)

Links: General Pros and Cons

1. Pro-Con: https://netivist.org/debate/globalization-pros-and-cons-economic-cultural-and-political
   
2. Pro-Con: https://ourfiniteworld.com/2013/02/22/twelve-reasons-why-globalization-is-a-huge-problem/
   
3. Pro-Con: http://occupytheory.org/globalization-pros-and-cons-list/
   
4. http://moocgloba.skemapedia.com/?tag=con - Negative aspects
   
5. In defense of globalization
   

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Links: Globalisation and the Internet

• https://blog.thebrickfactory.com/2004/07/globalization-the-internet-and-public-opinion/ ++
• http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Internet---Opening-the-Gates-For-Globalization&id=2246916 ++
• http://blogalize.typepad.com/micro/2011/11/apple-globalization-using-the-ipod-to-explain-globalization.html

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Links: Globalization and culture

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization#Culture
• https://www.britannica.com/science/cultural-globalization
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/08/28/is-globalization-creating-a-single-world-culture/#4029e8743bd3

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History / 3 Phases of Globalization

Globalzation 1.0 (first phase/era) - 1492 (Columbus) until around 1800

• world got connected, shrank from size L to M
• trade between Old World and New World
• countries' power defined by use of horse power/wind power/steam power/ (horses, ships, engines)
• aim: to fit into global competition
• motivation often religion / imperialism

Globalization 2.0 (second era) - 1800 to 2000

• interrupted by the Great Depression, World War I and II
• world got more connected, shrank from size M to S
• industrial revolution and multinational companies (e.g. East India Company) as most dynamic forces
• global integration ⇐ breakthroughs in hardware development

1. falling transportation costs (steam engine, railroad, cars, airplanes)

2. falling telecommunication costs (telegraph, telephone, PC, satellites ...)

• development of really global economy ⇒ massive movement of goods and information

Globalization 3.0 (third era) - from 2000 to …

• world got even more connected, shrank from S to XXS and countries got even closer
• newfound power for individuals to communicate, collaborate, compete globally
• key developments:

- fiber-optic cable + Internet + work flow software + mobile computing

- final end of simple East/West division

⇒ very small, flattened world/playing field (many forces on same level, even individuals are very powerful)

- China has become more powerful

- now much more diverse, non-white, non-European influences ⇒ West no longer dominant in globalization

Source: Friedman, Thomas. The The World is Flat. <http://www.labeee.ufsc.br/~luis/egcec/livros/globaliz/TheWorldIsFlat.pdf>, p. 8f, 13.11.2018