Intro Paragraph and First Body Paragraph for English Final Essay

Our current curriculum for English states that we must read certain books throughout the year, these include Catcher in The Rye, and Montana 1948; however, what the curriculum is lacking is a book that students need to read. I have found this book, it is The World is Flat, this novel shows what the world is really like, and I will propose to remove The House on Mango Street from our curriculum to be replaced with the better choice, The World is Flat. The World is Flat is written by an award winning author and columnist for The New York Times named Thomas Friedman. The World is Flat discusses the changes in the world’s economy due to always changing technology, this novel will better help students understand the business-world they will be put into after high school. Of course I have to take a book out of our curriculum and as I have said I will choose The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, this novel is a coming of age tale of a young girl in an impoverished neighborhood. The reason I am proposing to remove this book from the curriculum is because we already have two coming of age tales already in the curriculum, The Catcher in the Rye, and Montana 1948.
Firstly, The World is flat will give students a better idea of today’s business world and it will teach them about techniques companies use in order to make more profit such as outsourcing. From this book students could get a better understanding of how difficult it is to get a job without a college degree. One columnist from Business Weekly said this about The World is Flat, “Friedman describes three primary changes at the dawn of the 21st century as the keys to the changing world. One is the addition of China, India, the former Soviet Union and other countries with a combined population of 3 billion to the global world economy. The second is technological changes such as the Internet that have made distance less of a factor. And the third is the shift from hierarchical, vertical power structures in business and government to democratic, diffuse ones in which it is easier for individuals to make their own destinies.” In this quote the speaker clearly states all of the changes in the world that Thomas Friedman presents throughout the book. The teaching of these changes in the world are imperative to the student’s because the author is putting new thoughts in the student’s mind about the new world’s economy. These ideas would be much more beneficial than the vignettes written in The House On Mango Street because a coming of age tale cannot be applied in today’s ever changing business world.