Audio http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkivebeentothemountaintop.htm
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On April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. Shared above is his last speech given the day before he died in Memphis, Tennessee.
Tags: historical, race, poverty.
“A college-educated, manufacturing engineer makes $1,500 a month working the production line at a GE plant in Mexico (about $75 a day). A typical manufacturing engineer that works for GE in the United States makes nearly $75,000 a year, (about $312 a day … or 4X the rate in Mexico). That wage gap can easily explain why so many manufacturing jobs have left the United States. Since 2000, the U.S. has lost about 5 million manufacturing jobs. Manufacturing has crossed the Rubicon — or Rio Grande — and it’s hard to see those jobs returning to the U.S.”
Source: money.cnn.com
A huge wage gap between American and Mexican workers stands center in the debate over how the U.S. has lost so many blue collar jobs. We can bemoan the loss of manufacturing jobs in the United States, but it is incredibly unlikely that low-skilled manufacturing will become a viable means to achieve a middle class income in the future because of fundamental shifts in economic geography.
Tags: industry, manufacturing, economic, North America, labor, USA, Mexico, globalization, technology.
The showrooms appear to always be empty — how do they stay open?
Source: wreg.com
It is a sorry state of affairs when voters are tired of hearing about the U.S. presidential candidates and would prefer to discuss the seemingly inexplicable proliferation of mattress stores. Seriously though, this is a good example of a spatial question that explains things about the world.
Tags: spatial, industry, economic.
Buddy Hield grew up in the Bahamas with six siblings, building his own hoop as a youngster. His sister, Coco, says Hield “brought life to all of us.”
Source: espn.go.com
Here is some geographic context for the biggest star in the NCAA’s Final Four basketball tournament.
Our world is a complex network of people, places and things. Here are 32 maps will teach you something new about our interconnected planet.
Source: twistedsifter.com
Some of these maps are more compellling than others (like all lists like this) but some are really telling. The map above shows the dense concentration of tech corporate headquarters in Silicon Valley/San Francisco.
Tags: technology, map, map archive.
After years of teaching, speaking and publishing in an effort to convey the breadth and nuance of Africa’s thousands of cultural groups, earlier today, two weary professors gave up the fight to convince Americans that Africa is not, in fact, a country.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com
This was the best of the April Fool’s Day articles. And no, will we never concede and we will fight on, because that’s what teachers do.
“The Popocatépetl volcano, situated in Puebla, Mexico, erupted between March 28 and 29, spewing hot ash and gas into the atmosphere. According to reports, a 7-mile exclusion zone was put in place around the volcano.” Credit: www.webcamdemexico.com
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This visually spectacular (but in terms of damage, fairly harmless) eruption is a sight to behold…especially knowing that Puebla and Mexico City aren’t too far from the smoldering giant. If your students have ever asked, “What does a volcanic eruption look like?” then you’ve got something ready to go.
For a brief time in American tourism, travel was about the journey. Here’s how it came to be about the destination.
Source: www.citylab.com
Route 66 holds a special place in the America’s collective soul and taps into a feelings of nostaglia for a bygone era…but we don’t really want to go back to that time (hence the economic decline of these withering small towns). “In 1956, Eisenhower’s Interstate Highway System effectively bypassed Route 66. The straight-lined, speedy interstates often bifurcated cities. They also cut paths far from Route 66’s small, idiosyncratic towns. The rise of modern air travel also diminished the appeal of the winding, open road. Yet it was not only new modes of transportation that faded Route 66; it was also a changing definition of ‘vacation.’ Disneyland and Las Vegas staked their claims to the American travel budget in the mid ’50s. Suddenly, the ‘there’ took precedence over the ‘getting there.'”
Just 15 years ago, cross-border digital flows were almost non-existent. Today, they exert a larger impact on global economic growth than traditional flows of goods, which developed over centuries.
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“Yes, globalization. For many people, that word conjures up, at best, images of container ships moving manufactured goods from far-flung factories. At worst, it harkens back to acrid debates about trade deficits, currency wars and jobs moving to China. In fact, since the Great Recession of 2008, the global flow of goods and services has flattened, and cross-border capital flows have declined sharply. But globalization overall isn’t on the wane. Like so much in our world today, it has reinvented itself by going digital.”
Tags: technology, globalization, diffusion, industry, economic.
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