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- McDonald's
- McDonald's Corporation is the world's largest chain of fast-food restaurants, primarily selling hamburgers, chicken, french fries, breakfasts and soft drinks. More recently, it also offers salads, fruit, snack wraps, and carrot sticks. The business began in 1940, with a restaurant opened by siblings...
- KFC
- KFC, also known as Kentucky Fried Chicken, is a chain of fast food restaurants based in Louisville, Kentucky, known mainly for its fried chicken. KFC has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc. since 2002.
The company was founded by Colonel Harland Sanders in 1952, with the abbreviate...
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a nineteenth-century German philosopher and philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and science, using a distinctive German language style and displaying a fondness for aphorism. Nietzsche's influence remains subs...
- Our Flattening World
- This is a timeline based loosely on Friedman's book The World is Flat, designed for the class A Short History of the World.
- Friedman and the Rise of Computer Technology
- This is a Time line representation of some basic stages of computer development that Thomas Friedman represents in his book, "The World Is Flat." This is a single, concentrated theme within Friedman's work, which focuses primarily on the effects of Globalization.
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- Events in Friedman's Flat World
- This timeline highlights key technological events that contributed to the formation of Friedman's flat world. (Image courtesy of aussiegall, flickr, http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1198/759309122_0bb2671c95_m.jpg)
- The World is Flat
- In his book "The World is Flat", Thomas Friedman outlines the process by which the he believes the world is shrinking and flattening through globalization.The focus of my timeline is to highlight a few political events mentioned in his book that were either a cause or an effect of the flattening pro...
- Steamrolleroftime
- Time has slowly flattened the world, according to Friedman, much like the slow grind of a steamroller.
- The Spread of Globalization
- The book called The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman explains the process of how globalization took shape. He focuses on several elements that contributed to the rise and spread of globalization in the past couple decades. Some of the more important benchmarks in Friedman's book are illustrated on m...