Which example best illustrates Marshall McLuhan's metaphor of a "global village"?

a. McDonald's restaurants expanding to more than 100 countries
b. Helmut from Germany and Lin from China developing a friendship through Facebook
c. The 2016 Olympic Village in Rio De Janeiro housing athletes from every nation
d. The UNICEF Tap Project bringing clean drinking water to thousands of children in remote African locations


b. Helmut from Germany and Lin from China developing a friendship through Facebook

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Marika selected the following topic for her informative speech:

"Working Women in Contemporary America." She concentrated on three main areas in the presentation: the current status of women in the labor force; the impact of working women on marriage patterns; and male reactions to the increasing number of women in management. Which pattern of organization most clearly describes this specific speech pattern? A) Categorical B) Chronological C) Spatial D) Cause-to-effect

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Which of the following statements is most true of local TV news programs??

a. they have great value in syndication b. ?they are underwritten by corporate funds c. footage is obtained from local sources only d. revenues produced go directly to the local stations

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Creativity can be divided into two phases of thinking. Convergent thinking involves evaluating ideas against predetermined criteria and then prioritizing. 2. The right hemisphere of the brain is more prone to logical, factual, sequential,and systematic thinking. 3. "Extension" is a type of creativity that may be applied to group problem solving that involves combining information from other sources into a new pattern. 4. The first phase of the Reflective Thinking Process is “identify criteria.” 5. The most important contribution of the Kepner-Tregoe approach is the way a group works through the criteria phase.

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"Superteams" are characterized by all of the following EXCEPT:

A) Activity B) Flexibility C) People evaluating D) Goal orientation

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