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Part A: Answer BOTH of these questions

1. According to your understanding of the book, describe the power of place.

2. The title of the book mentions "globalization's rough landscape." What does the author mean by this? Provide examples from the text to support your explanation.





Part B: Answer THREE of these questions

1. What does the author mean by "globals, locals, and mobals"? What is the significance of breaking down the population into these three categories?

2. What is the core-periphery model? What does this model tell us about development, population, language, religion, health, etc.?

3. In what ways are some places ‘open’? ‘shut’? How does this create conflict among states?

4. Describe how place plays a role in the context of gender.

5. How do cities symbolize both power and inequality?

6. What is devolution? How do "subnational units" play a role in devolution? Describe the examples used in the text.

7. What are the "barriers" that De Blij writes about in Chapter 10? What are they barriers of? How does this relate to globalization?

Sagot :

I can answer a few questions:

3) when a place ia open to trading and communication it can create an alliance with neighboring countries/states. However when a place is closed it could have enemies trying to gain something, land, money, power etc, and attack.


4)Gender can play a very important role. Sometimes women could be treated in a similar way in certain places, however in most women are treated like they are below men, having fewer rights then men if having any rights at all.