Module 9

In this module we were required to read chapters fourteen through seventeen. In those chapters it talks about Friedman wants to see how his Dell laptop was made so he went to go see how they were made, it also talks about if Al-Qaeda has a supply chain, and lastly it talks about the "curse" of oil. 

Dell laptops are started by when one is ordered and from there, the manufactures get all the parts ordered from the supplier logistics centers. No matter where your Dell system is being built the supplier logistics center is always close by so that they can get started on your system right away. Once they get the parts that they need they use a design that was created in Texas. Their engineers get working on putting the system together.

Of course Al-Qaeda has a supply chain. I don’t think that most people in America realize how advanced they are. I think the majority of Americans think that they are just hiding in the mountains of the Middle East and then come out to attack when they can. They are just as advanced as we are here all because of the “flattening world.” They can access all the same things as we can.

The “curse” of oil is basically that there is so much money to be made from oil that very greedy men get put into power. I feel like the more money you have the greedier you are. Along with all that greed over in the Middle East there isn’t much government so there isn’t taxation on the oil and they just make so much money.

In this module we read chapters fourteen through seventeen talking about how Dell’s supply chain works and how all of their things are made. Also about Al-Qaeda has a supply chain and how they are getting so advanced because of the world flattening. Lastly we learned about the “curse” of oil and how it puts such greedy evil people in charge.