HIS 100 Project (1)
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HIS 100 Project Template(1)HIS 100 Project Template
Use this template to address the steps in your Project Guidelines and Rubric. Replace the bracketed text with your responses. Ensure that you have considered your instructor’s feedback when revising your work. Proofread the entire document before submitting.
Part 1: Creating a Research Question
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Describe how your assumptions, beliefs, and values influenced your choice of topic.
Globalization is often described as a process: steadily progressing over time, pervasively spreading over space, and clearly inevitable in its development. But globalization is also a revolution, one of the most profound revolutions the world has ever known. Indeed, globalization is the first truly world revolution. All revolutions disrupt the traditions and customs of a people. Indeed, they threaten a people’s security, safety, and even identity. The world revolution, that is globalization in some measure, threatens the security of every person on the globe. My topic selection is globalization. I picked this topic because
I was really interested to know how globalization has affected the daily lives of people around the world. Through the process of globalization, my assumption is that more nations are depending on worldwide conditions in terms of communication, the international financial system, and trade. Globalization spread all over the world and reached local communities, where traditional values used to prevail. These values (work, family, and religion) are changing under its influence. However, they do not change simultaneously on the same level with equal intensity. The fundamental premise of globalization is that an increasing degree of integration among societies plays a crucial role in most types of social and economic changes. This premise is widely accepted. However, there is much less consensus on its fundamental organizing principles and laws
of motion.
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Discuss the significance of your historical research question in relation to your current event.
Globalization enables countries to access less expensive natural resources and lower cost labor. As a result, they can produce lower cost goods that can be sold globally. Proponents of globalization argue that it improves the state of the world in many ways. Globalization moves jobs and capital to places that need these resources. It gives rich countries access to lower cost resources and labor and poorer countries access to jobs and
the investment funds they need for development. Encourages positive trends in human rights and the environment. Advocates of globalization point to improved attention to human rights on a global scale and a shared understanding of the impact of people and production on the environment. Promotes shared cultural understanding. Advocates view the increased ability to travel and experience new cultures as a positive part of globalization that can contribute to international cooperation and peace.
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Explain how you used sources to finalize your research question.
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Since ancient times, humans have sought distant places to settle, produce, and exchange goods enabled by improvements in technology and transportation. But not until the 19th century did global integration take off. Following centuries of European colonization and trade activity, that first wave of globalization was propelled by steamships, railroads, the telegraph, and other breakthroughs, and by increasing economic cooperation among countries. The globalization trend eventually waned and crashed in the catastrophe of World War I, followed by postwar protectionism, the Great Depression, and World War II. After World War II in the mid-1940s, the United States led efforts to revive international trade and investment under negotiated ground rules, starting a second wave of globalization, which remains ongoing, though buffeted by periodic downturns and mounting political scrutiny.
Part 2: Building Context to Address Questions
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Describe the context of your historical event that influenced your current event.
I find that the spread of knowledge and technology across borders has intensified because
of globalization. In emerging markets, the transfer of technology has helped to boost innovation and productivity even in the recent period of weak global productivity growth.
2.
Describe a historical figure or group’s participation in your historical event.
The World Bank Group (WBG) helps developing countries improve their access to world
markets and enhance their participation in the global trading system. Trade is an engine of growth that creates better jobs, reduces poverty, and increases economic opportunity.
3.
Explain the historical figure or group’s motivation to participate in your historical event.
The World Bank Group (WBG) helps developing countries improve their access to world
markets and enhance their participation in the global trading system. Trade is an engine of growth that creates better jobs, reduces poverty, and increases economic opportunity.
Part 3: Examining How Bias Impacts Narrative
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Describe a narrative you identified while researching the history of your historical event.
In recent years, the narratives on globalization have been made by people with different beliefs. Right-wing populists lament the decay of America’s rust belt, warning of the need to protect the native working class against the offshoring of manufacturing jobs and the onshoring of immigrants. Left-wing populists and critics of corporate power protest that globalization’s advantages often accrue mainly to rich people and powerful multinationals, hollowing out the middle class.
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Articulate how biased perspectives presented in primary and secondary sources influence what is known or unknown about history.
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A biased perspective is not always a bad thing, but often can lead to a misrepresentation of what happened in the past. For instance, Opposition to international financial institutions and transnational corporations. People opposing globalization believe that international agreements and global financial institutions, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Trade Organization, undermine local decision-
making. Participants base their criticisms on several related ideas. What is shared is that participants oppose large, multinational corporations having unregulated political power, exercised through trade agreements and deregulated financial markets. Specifically, corporations are accused of seeking to maximize profit at the expense of work safety conditions and standards, labor hiring and compensation standards, environmental conservation principles, and the integrity of national legislative authority, independence, and sovereignty.
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Identify the perspectives that you think are missing from your historical event’s narrative.
The missing perspective in globalization is the perennial challenge facing all the world's countries, regardless of their level of economic development, is achieving financial stability, economic growth, and higher living standards. Every country in the world wants
to be able to achieve financial freedom for its people and sometimes this perspective is missing in the narrative.
Part 4: Connecting the Past With the Present
1.
Explain how researching its historical roots helped improve your understanding of your current event.
As much as has been achieved in connection with globalization, there is much more to be
done. Regional disparities persist while poverty fell in East and South Asia, it rose in sub-
Saharan Africa. The UN's Human Development Report notes there are still around 1 billion people surviving on less than $1 per day with 2.6 billion living on less than $2 per day. Proponents of globalization argue that this is not because of too much globalization, but rather too little. And the biggest threat to continuing to raise living standards throughout the world is not that globalization will succeed but that it will fail. It is the people of developing economies who have the greatest need for globalization, as it provides them with the opportunities that come with being part of the world economy. These opportunities are not without risks such as those arising from volatile capital movements. The International Monetary Fund works to help economies manage or reduce these risks, through economic analysis and policy advice and through technical assistance in areas such as macroeconomic policy, financial sector sustainability, and the exchange-rate system.
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Articulate how questioning your assumptions, beliefs, and values may benefit you as an individual.
Questioning our assumptions, beliefs, and values is critical to growing as a person and a member of society. We all have a responsibility to learn from others and better understand. Questioning my assumptions, beliefs and values about globalization has 3
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made me do my research about the topic.
3.
Discuss how being a more historically informed citizen may help you understand contemporary issues.
By studying the choices and decisions of the past, students can confront today's problems and choices with a deeper awareness of the alternatives before them and the likely consequences of each.
Studying history allows us to observe and understand how people and societies behaved. For example, we can evaluate war, even when a nation is at peace,
by looking back at previous events. History provides us with the data that is used to create laws, or theories about various aspects of society.
Because history gives us the tools to analyze and explain problems in the past, it positions us to see patterns that might
otherwise be invisible in the present thus providing a crucial perspective for understanding (and solving!) current and future problems.
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