Archive for the 'Geography Blog' Category

Multi-Nationals Debate

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

We had a Multi-Nationals debate deciding whether or not Multi-National companies were actually benefiting the world in general. I felt the debate went fairly well but it was sometimes a bit of a mess. Since there was no order of speaking, sometimes there were just times when two people were just yelling at each other. [...]

The Corporation Question

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

The question for the corporation, number 17, “How do companies make money from calamity, disaster and war?” was very shocking to me. It seems so cruel that during such horrible occasion where so many lives are lost, that the business men are just sitting there making even MORE money. Disasters such as the 2004 tsunami [...]

How being an Expat has Effected Me

Friday, September 18th, 2009

I have lived in three countries in my life and traveled to many more. My dominant culture without a doubt has been a Western American culture and I had no other culture that seriously effected me. I maybe had a less than 5% Vietnamese culture within me and the rest was just American. But my [...]

Internet Good?

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

The internet has thousands of different capibilities and there are millions of internet users. The internet is still growing and the internet has made the lives of many much more convienent. It is hard to comprehend the huge amount of possiblilities with internet and there is a variety of things internets surfers can do. But [...]

My Language

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

In many ways globalization has gotten to me. For example, the first language I learned was Vietnamese and I couln’t speak anything else till I was four. Being raised in America, I had to learn english if I was to attend school. When I actually started school I spoke more and more english everyday. Eventually [...]