Global Perspectives Final Problem Statement Memo

As we conclude this Global Perspectives course, the purpose of this final Problem Statement is to bring together the elements that we have discussed throughout the semester, and provide a perspective on them that you can take with you as you move on now to your next life’s chapter – whatever that may be.
We have covered an array of subject area including:
Issues addressed by the World Economic Forum last January
oThe Fourth Industrial Revolution
oGlobalization 4.0
Global Economic systems
Global Political systems
Global Legal systems
Global Geopolitics, issues on a country, regional basis
China’s Vision of Victory
Global Social issues, analyses from numerous country, regional perspectives
The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets that Change the World
The UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Millennium Development Goals

As you begin to address this final problem statement, take into consideration these two quotes:
1.Albert Einstein advised: “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
2.As philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer observed: “Every person takes the limits of their vision for the limits of the world, therefore it is important for us to expand our vision toward a global perspective.”

By definition: “global perspective” is a comprehensive lens through which you see the world around you. It shapes how we perceive and understand own identities and the identity of people we interact with, as we begin to understand what goes into shaping our respective cultures. It brings together the understanding of globalization and how interconnected each region of the world is economically, politically and socially.

The Problem Statement that you will address is this: It seems that in no other time in history have we needed a global perspective more than we do today. Since a global perspective refers to how you see the world around you, it become critical for you to (1) identify what that world looks like and (2) what you believe are essential elements to proactively deal with these.

The Assignment to deal with the Problem Statement is this: Since the problem statement is quite broad, we need to break down how we deal with it to make it manageable. The actual assignment re the problem statement is for you to do this:
1.Create your own new definition of global perspectives using the above definition plus the quotes from Einstein and Schopenhauer
2.Select one underdeveloped, developing country. If unsure what qualifies as an under-developed country, check out this website: https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/underdeveloped-countries/
a.Email me with your country – no duplicates among students
3.Select 5 (five) subject areas from the above list that apply to your selected country
4.Define, explain and apply the relevance of each of these subject areas to your country
5.Identify a common, comprehensive theme that we addressed during the course that links each of the five subject areas; for example, disfunction, global domination; globalization 4, ethnic cleansing; leadership- or lack thereof; poverty; inequality; corruption; Belt Road Initiative and its impacts; a country’s debt, and so on.
6.Identify the name of your selected country’s ambassador to the US. This is not a US person but someone from your identified country who represents her/his country’s diplomatic interests in the US; example, Japan’s ambassador TO the US is Ambassador Shinsuke J. Sugiyama

Prepare three recommendations to give to your identified country’s ambassador to the US that would help alleviate the country’s problems associated with your identified theme.
Justify and support your recommendations with facts and references from country research AND the course materials – books, Power Point presentations, course-related assigned videos and articles that provide both specific and general concepts that can relate to your common theme and relate directly to your recommendations. Cite these per the instructions.
Provide the references of the materials you cited in your memo
End of Memo

The Format will look like this sample below:

Sample Memo Format

Date: (Due date of the assignment)
To: Ambassador___________________
From: _________ (your name)
Subject: (your common theme for your country)_____________

For this assignment, you are to assume the role of a high-ranking official of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Title page
Paragraph 1: Your Problem Statement

Paragraph 2: In support of our problem statement
2.1 Create your own new definition of global perspectives using the above definition plus the quotes from Einstein and Schopenhauer

2.2: Select one underdeveloped, developing country. If unsure what qualifies as an under-developed country, check out this website: https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/underdeveloped-countries/
i.Email your top three (3) choices for your country selection to me by Sunday, May 9 – no duplicates among students
2.3 Identify the name of your selected country’s ambassador to the US. This is not a US person but someone from your identified country who represents her/his country’s diplomatic interests in the US; example, Japan’s ambassador TO the US is Ambassador Shinsuke J. Sugiyama

2.4 Select 5 (five) subject areas from the above list that apply to your selected
country

2.5 Define, explain and apply the relevance of each of these subject areas to your
country

2.6 Identify a common, comprehensive theme that we addressed during the course that links each of the five subject areas; for example, disfunction, global domination; Globalization 4.0, ethnic cleansing; leadership- or lack thereof; poverty; inequality; corruption; Belt Road Initiative and its impacts; a country’s debt, and so on.

Paragraph 3: Three (3) recommendations

Paragraph 4: Justification and Support

Last page: Your cited references that are the same as those found in the memo

End of sample format

Points Value – Rubric – 2500 possible points +100 for bulleted sections

Paragraph 1 – Problem Statement : +150 possible points – written out, no bullets
Paragraph 2 – Support for your Problem Statement: +1200 possible points – using bullets
Paragraph 3 – Three (3) recommendations: +600 possible points – using bullets
Paragraph 4 – Justification and support: +500 – written out, no bullets
Last page – Cited references: +50 possible points
Mechanics Rubric:
o______________(+100 points) Two bulleted sections – it is okay to write in short sentences
and brief paragraphs (max 10 sentences) per bullet

o____________ (Minus 25) must be single spaced

o______________Your required title page will have your name, due date (May 17, 2020) and
name of assignment. (Minus 25 points if not included or done correctly)

o______________EVERY page will have page numbers and your name, due date and name of
assignment at the bottom (Minus 15 points if not done correctly)

o______________ Minus 100 points) if footnotes are used; use this format for citing sources
within the memo – not at the end (Ward, p. 25); (Danone video);( China –
Spratley Islands video, US Department of Defense)

o ______________(Minus 50 points) Recommending that “more research” be done — this is
not acceptable at any point in the memo

o______________ (Minus 50 points) Recommending or using “understand” — this is not
acceptable at any point in the memo

o______________(Minus 25-points) For each spelling, grammar, punctuation and syntax
error)