Reference no: EM133488479
1. ESSAY QUESTION ONE ON ECONOMY (4-5 paragraphs):
Question 1: What is the most distinctive feature of Chinese consumerism/society?
MODEL THESIS #1 (you may use this thesis OR create your own):The most distinctive feature of Chinese consumerism in the past twenty-plus years has been the interaction of three features: SPEED, SCALE. and ANXIETY.
MODEL THESIS #2 (use this or your own)
The most distinctive feature of Chinese consumerism in the past twenty-plus years has been the simultaneous rise of consumerism during a time of heightened environmental concerns.
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Question 2: What is the biggest threat facing China's future economic development?
MODEL THESIS (you may use this thesis OR create your own):
Although rising labor costs, ballooning local debt, an aging population, the lack of systems integrators based in China (Nolan) a threaten future economic development in China, the biggest threat to future economic development in China is the climate crisis.
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Question 3: Are the ecological impacts-local, regional, national, and planetary-a 'necessary evil' of economic development?
2. ESSAY QUESTION ONE ON INEQUALITY (4-5 paragraphs):
Question 1: Who bears the greatest costs of China's rapid economic development and the attempts tomitigate the problems caused by that strategy?
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Question 2: What's the biggest impact on individual lives of "the China price"?
3. ESSAY QUESTION THREE ON URGENT PROBLEMS (Negative/Pessimistic) (4-5 paragraphs):
Question 1: Based on the readings, classes, and videos. how much control do indivicuals have over their ownlives?
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Question 2: What is the biggest change in the patterns of movement (who is moving and why) since the 1980 and how has this change impacted China's carbon footprint?
4. ESSAY QUESTION FOUR ON DAILY LIFE (Positive/Optimistic) (4-5 paragraphs):
Question 1: What's the best symbol from Sang Ye readings and everyday life in China) of China's attempts to address the environmental problems since the late 1990s?