Global Perspectives 15 Key Vocabulary #1

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Perspective

• a part of the world and the people and things that exist there

• of or relating to people or society in general

• One way of looking at things.

• a nearby or neighborhood

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Viewpoint

• a state of feeling

• a branch of knowledge that records and explains past events

• an area of study that deals with the location of countries, cities, rivers, mountains, lakes, etc.

• Your unique thoughts and opinions

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Globalization

• Actions or processes that involve the entire word and result in making something worldwide in scope

• any of the large bodies of water into which the great ocean is divided

• a tract of land surrounded by water and smaller than a continent

• the fragmental material composing part of the surface of the globe

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Inequality

• like for each member of a group, class, or society

• treating people in a way that favors some over others : not fair, honest

• Difference in size, degree, circumstances, etc. lack of equality.

• a feeling of like or dislike for someone or something especially when it is not reasonable or logical

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Economy

• The system in a country that involves buying , and selling goods (to do with money)

• the collecting of information about a particular subject

• a report of facts or opinions

• a meeting together of people for the purpose of trade by private purchase and sale and usually not by auction

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Contradiction

• belief stronger than impression and less strong than positive knowledge

• having characteristics in common

• One way of looking at things

• A statement that is the opposite of another statement

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Complex

• Consisting of many different and connect parts

• to study or determine the nature and relationship of the parts of something

• an increase in the earth's atmospheric and oceanic temperatures widely predicted to occur due to an increase in the greenhouse effect resulting especially from pollution

• an analytic or interpretative literary composition usually dealing with its subject from a limited or personal point of view

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Culture

• an inherited, established, or customary pattern of thought, action, or behavior

• a person who comes to a country to live there

• The ideas, customs, and social behaviour of a particular people or society, or a particular group of people within a society.

• a person who moves regularly in order to find work especially in harvesting crops

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Issue

• audible, articulate, meaningful sound as produced by the action of the vocal organs

• he act or fact of agreeing

• an informal agreement or settlement especially on personal, social, or political matters

• A conflict , real or apparent, between interests, ideas or beliefs of different citizens

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Assumption

• Something that is accepted as true or as certain to happen, without proof

• a group of people who live in the same area such as a city, town, or neighborhood

• giving the same result on successive trials

• the process or result of using laws to fairly judge and punish crimes and criminals