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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. Double- space your work. Aim for a total of 500 words (2 pages).

Submission: Type your answers into a Word document file and upload your assignment to Blackboard no later than Sunday, March 28, 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 a. Look around this news site. b. 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/ a. Look around this website. Click on different items from the top and side menus. b. 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.

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3. Go to- https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/2/7/what-is-vaccine-nationalismand-why-is-it-so-harmful

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a. Read the article, What is ‘vaccine nationalism’ and why is it so harmful? In what ways does vaccine nationalism go against global cooperation?

4. Go to The Clean Clothes Campaign website- http://www.cleanclothes.org/ a. Look around and see what this organization is about. b. Click on different items from to the top and bottom menus. c. From the top menu, click Who We Are.  What does the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) do? d. From the top menu, click on Campaigns. Choose one.  What Campaign did you choose? What did you learn about the issue? e. From the top menu, click on Fashion’s Problems. Choose one.  What Fashion Problem did you choose? Describe it. What does the CCC do to solve this problem? 5. Go to the Fair Trade International website- http://www.fairtrade.net/ a. Explore the site. Click on different items.  What is one goal of Fair Trade International? b. Return to the Fair-Trade home page. c. From the top menu, click on Products. d. Read about one or two products from the list.  Which product did you choose? What is something you learned from this section? 6. Go to the Endangered Languages Project website http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/ a. Explore this site to see what the project is about. Check out the interactive map of the world and its endangered languages. b. 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?  Do you think endangered languages should be saved? Why or why not?

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