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Web Quest: Globalization on the Web Business & Marketing Coursework

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Web Quest: Globalization on the Web


 



Instructions:  For this Web Quest assignment, you will research and analyze information on the web. Follow each step of the Web Quest and answer the questions below.



 



  • Paraphrase your answers. Do not cut and paste from the websites.



  • Answer each question in complete sentences.

  • Pay attention to spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

  • Aim for a total of 350 - 400 words.

  • Use 12-point font and double- space your work.


 



Submission:  Type your answers into a Word document file and upload your assignment to Blackboard no later than Sunday, July 12, 11:59 pm.



 



  • Save your work as a Microsoft Word Document or PDF.

  • Include your name (first, last and preferred) and student number on your assignment.

  • All papers will be checked for plagiarism using Safe Assign (text-matching detection software).



  • Any plagiarized work will be given a '0' and you may be cited for academic misconduct.


 



Instructions: Follow each step of the Web Quest and answer the questions below:



 


1. Go to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation website- http://www.cbc.ca/news



  1. Look around this news site.

  2. From the top menu, click on World and then look at the world news stories that are making headlines.


®        Find an article that relates to globalization. Write the name of the article below and explain how it relates to globalization.


 


2. Go to the United Nations website-  https://www.un.org/en/ 



  1. Look around this website. Click on different items from the top and side menus.

  2. Notice the many photographs on this website. Choose one photograph that draws your attention.


®        Describe the photograph and explain why you are drawn to it.


 


3.  Go to The Clean Clothes Campaign website- http://www.cleanclothes.org/ 



  1. Take a look around and see what this organization is about.

  2. Click on different items from to the top and bottom menus.

  3. From the top menu, click Who We Are.


®        What does the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) do?



  1. From the top menu, click on Campaigns. Choose one.


®        What Campaign did you choose? What did you learn about the issue?



  1. From the top menu, click on Fashion’s Problems. Choose one.


®        Describe the Fashion Problem? What does the CCC do to solve this problem?


 


4.  Go to the Fair Trade International website- http://www.fairtrade.net/



  1. Explore the site. Click on different items.


®        What is one goal of Fair Trade International?



  1. Return to the Fair-Trade home page.

  2. From the top menu, click on Products.

  3. Read about one or two products from the list.


®        Which product did you choose? What is something you learned from this section?


 


5. Go to Oxfam Canada website- http://www.oxfam.ca/



  1. Explore this organization.


®        What does Oxfam Canada do?


b.      Click on What We Do and choose one of the 5 topics under The Issues We Work On.


®        What issue did you choose? What did you learn about the issue?


 


6. Go to the Endangered Languages Project website http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/



  1. Explore this site to see what the project is about. Check out the interactive map of the world and its endangered languages.

  2. Scroll down and watch the video, Introducing the Endangered Languages Project. Listen carefully and answer the following questions: 


®        Of the seven thousand languages currently spoken, how many are expected to       disappear within the next century?


®        What is the goal of the preservation of language? 

Coursework Sample Content Preview:
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Web Quest: Globalization on the Web
1 The article titled Canadian barley exports surging on booming demand from China for beer appeared on CBC’s website on 9th July 9, 2020. It reports how Canadian barley farmers are benefiting from an increase in exports to China. Canada exported 240,000 tons of the product in May, more than twice April’s amount, and most of which went to China. The article is related to globalization because it presents an example of independence of two the world’s economies-China and Canada- made possible by cross-border trade in goods, in this case barley.
2 On the United Nations website, I noticed a picture of the late former South African president nelson Mandela giving a speech at the Special Committee Against Apartheid in the UN general assembly back in 1990. At the time, he was just a representative of his political party, four years before becoming president. I was drawn by the picture because Mandela was famous worldwide for his fight against racial segregation in his country, and he always worked hand in hand with the UN to end the Apartheid policy.
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1 Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) is a global network of organizations that seeks to empower workers and improve working conditions in sportswear and garment industries.
2 I chose the Covid-19 campaign. I learned that workers in the garment industry risk contracting the coronavirus if they continue working in crowded factories while not wearing adequate protection.
3 Millions of wor...
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