Salih Özkan
Fifth essay-Second
draft-Cause and Effect-2
April 25, 2014
What Has The Globalization
Brought to Our Community
Turkey, which is the country I have
lived in since I was born, is located between mostly Asia and partially Europe.
Where Turkey is located has led Turkey to get easily globalized. Even though
Turkey was founded almost a hundred years ago, the time for Turkey to get
globalized did not take long. By observing the last two decades, people can
easily understand what special things in Turkey the globalization has brought
and what special things in Turkey the globalization has destroyed. In Turkey, the
effects of the globalization are both positive and negative, which can be
observed on five points: the way people work, get educated, travel, communicate,
and live in their homes.
First, to understand the effects of
the globalization in Turkey, how Turkey has been affected from the changes in
the work life must be carefully observed. Before the globalization, there were
not so many job opportunities in Turkey. Because of that, people had to get by with
what they were gaining from farming; however, they could manage to live with
the food they produced. With the changes the globalization has brought things
have dramatically changed. Today, there are a lot of job opportunities in
Turkey. However, the rate of people who are unemployed is more than it was used
to be. The number of people who farm to get by is so few. People have moved to
big cities to find some jobs that have more income than farming. As the
population of the big cities have grown, the opportunity of finding jobs has
become more difficult. Furthermore, as the education system has grown, the
requirements to get a job have risen, too.
Second, to understand the effects
of the globalization in Turkey, how Turkey has been affected from the changes
in the education must be carefully observed. Before the globalization, as the
technologic developments were neither widely known nor used in the education
system, the lecturers were only studied with books, notebooks, and blackboards.
As they were not useful in every moment, students were struggling to study
their lectures. Furthermore, the number of schools was not so much, so students
had to walk more than an hour to reach their schools. As the transportation was
nothing like how it is now, even a rich family’s child had to suffer from those
problems. However, with the changes the globalization has brought things have
significantly changed. Today, the technologic developments help students study
their lecture whenever they want and wherever they like. There are a lot of
schools in every location; however, students do not have to go to a school to
study. Homeschooling and distance learning are two options of studying without
going to a school. However, the globalization has led people to move to the big
cities and crowded classes prevent students from understanding the context of a
lecture.
Third, to understand the effects of
the globalization in Turkey, how Turkey has been affected from the changes in
the transportation must be carefully observed. Before the globalization,
talking about the transportation only meant riding a horse and the automobiles
were not like how they are now. Even in the big cities, people were able to
drive their cars only on the main roads as the roads were not arranged for
cars. As the transportation was not developed, serious problems that occurred
before the globalization usually ended up with sadness. However, with the
changes the globalization has brought things have dramatically changed. Today,
people can travel anywhere and the time they spend when they are on their way
is so little compared to the time people spent before the globalization. However,
the traffic is generally a big problem in the big cities. Nevertheless, there
are a lot of options such as planes and buses to travel around the country or
abroad. Furthermore, the highly developed subway system allows people who live
in the big cities to travel around the city, which is both fast and cheap.
However, the damage the new developed transportation vehicles cause to the
environment is huge and incurable.
Fourth, to understand the effects
of the globalization in Turkey, how Turkey has been affected from the changes
in the way of how people communicate must be carefully observed. Before the globalization, people could only
use phones, faxes, and letters to communicate with others. The communication
devices were not developed, so people had to go to some stations to use those
devices. However, with the changes the globalization has brought things have
dramatically changed. Today, people can easily communicate with phones, faxes,
and letters, but those things are not popular as they were used to be before
the globalization. There are some websites that people can connect and
communicate with both their acquaintances and the people they do not know in
their real life. There is no beyond in the communication system after the
globalization. However, today, the people who used old ways to communicate such
as writing letters claim that those old ways were more pleasant.
Fifth, to understand the effects of
the globalization in Turkey, how Turkey has been affected from the changes in
people’s residents must be carefully observed. Before globalization, people
were living in small houses, which generally had gardens in front. The gardens
were useful for people because they could grow plants and had their dinner
there. Where they were living was nice, but as the buildings had not been built
in terms of the dangers of earthquakes, people dramatically suffered from the
consequences of earthquakes before the globalization. However, with the changes
the globalization has brought things have dramatically changed. Today, people have
the change of living in huge buildings. These buildings do not offer a garden
for its residents, but they have pools, parks, and sport centers. As the structure
of the buildings is arranged by observing the dangers of earthquakes, people do
not have to care about the earthquake. Moreover, people live in the big
buildings, but unfortunately the concept of being a neighbor is not important
to them as it was before the globalization.
To sum up, the globalization has
affected the way we work, get educated, travel, communicate, and live in our
house. These effects can be both positive and negative. However, people always
need to change the way they live, otherwise there will be no points why we
live. How we lived our life must have a meaning to the world we live in, otherwise
we would live the same life with someone who had lived before us. To avoid
that, we need to be open to the changes our life does offer.
Outline
I.
Introduction
1. Giving
some background information about Turkey and the globalization
2. Thesis
statement
II.
Body paragraph 1
1. The
effects of the globalization in the work life
2. Less
job opportunities before the globalization
2.1 Getting
by farming
3. The
changes after the globalization
4. More
job opportunities
5. Risen
unemployed rate
5.1 Fewer
farmers
6. Migration
to the big cities because of the desire of more income
6.1 The
difficultness of finding a job
7. More
requirements of the education level
III.
Body paragraph 2
1. The
effects of the globalization in the education
2. Fewer
technologic devices before the globalization
2.1.
Struggle of the students to study
3. An
hour to reach the school
3.1.
Less possibility of the transportation despite being rich
4. The
changes after the globalization
5. Possibility
of studying everywhere thanks to the technologic developments.
6. More
schools in Turkey despite not having to go to a school to study
6.1.
Homeschooling and distance learning options
7. Movement
to the big cities and the problems of the crowded classes
IV.
Body paragraph 3
1. The
effects of the globalization in the transportation
2. The
only option of riding a horse to travel before the globalization
3. The
difficultness of driving a car in the big cities
4. Ending
up with sadness when a problem occurred
5. The
changes after the globalization
6. Travelling
anytime and anywhere
6.1.
The traffic problem
7. Having
the ability of travelling abroad with the developed transportation
8. Fast
and cheap subway system
9. The
damages of the developed vehicles
V.
Body paragraph 4
1. The
effects of the globalization in the communication
2. Less
devices to use to communicate before the globalization
2.1.
Having to go to some stations
3. The
changes after the globalization
4. More
ways to communicate
5. Communicating
with the acquaintances and people do not know in their life.
6. No
beyond in the communication
7. Preferring
old ways
VI.
Body paragraph 5
1. The
effects of the globalization in people’s residents
2. Living
in a small house with a garden before the globalization
2.1.
Growing plants and having the dinners there
3. The
houses which were not built in terms of the dangers of the earthquake
4. The
changes after the globalization
5. Living
in huge buildings
5.1.
The buildings that have pools, parks, sport centers
5.2.
Unnecessary to care about the earthquake
6. Uninterested
in neighborhood
VII.
Conclusion
1. Restate
the thesis statement
2. Offering
an opinion
