User:Re Ch Spring 08

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Spring Project

Wal-mart's Globalization and its affect on Athens

Objective I propose to do a Flickr project on the different influences Wal-Mart and other major corporate companies have had on the city of Athens in both positive and negative ways.
Interest This is interesting because Wal-Mart has a major affect on areas surrounding it. Some of these effects help and hurt the community in which it was built. Wal-Mart is the source for many problems and solutions. They have networks that can decide what can be made where. They also have a direct and indirect affect on the local poverty and employment rates through conflict theory.
Background reading I will be reading articles, newspapers, thesis, and many other text on Wal-Mart and the effects they have had. I will also be interviewing people in and around Wal-Marts discussing the different impacts it has had. Also I will be interviewing people that shop at other stores around the area asking what influenced their choices. I will post links here if I use online sources.
General Plan I plan to do research on the different local impacts Wal-Mart and other major corporate companies have when they first built here in Athens. I will do this by reading previous articles that were in the paper and such around that time. I will then gather thoughts and ideas on what to take pictures of. From there I will go out and talk and interview people around the area and get their opinions and base the pictures I take off of the opinions and thoughts. We will base these ideas and opinions off of different sociological aspects from the text book and take more pictures that will correlate the two concepts together. From there we will post these pictures onto flickr along with captions to help the understanding and meaning of each picture within the slideshow.
Collaborators I will be working with Ms. Emily Kitsmiller.