GS&G Wheel
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‘The impact of globalisation has transformed and improved places beyond recognition.’ With reference to your distant place, critically assess this statement.‘The changing character of a place over time is more effectively represented by statistical and cartographical sources than artistic sources such as painting, poetry and photography.’ With reference to either your local or distant place, critically assess the extent to which you agree with this statementEvaluate the role of one or more external forces in changing lived experience in the local or distant place you have studied. External forces might include: government policies, multinational corporations, international or global institutions.With reference to your local place, assess the extent to which qualitative sources (for example songs, artwork) present contrasting images to quantitative sources (for example census data, maps).You have studied either economic change or changing cultural characteristics. Assess the contrasting impact of one of these factors on the characters of your local and distant places.Assess the role of endogenous factors in shaping people’s lived experience in your local place or the distant place that you have studied.‘Conflict often arises when people who live in a place try to resist changes that appear to have been forced upon them by organisations, groups and individuals from outside that place.’ To what extent does this statement apply to one or more places that you have studied?‘Place meaning and identity are simply a reflection of past and present socio-economic characteristics and no attempt by external agencies at rebranding can change this.’ To what extent do you agree with this viewpoint?