jeudi 11 février 2010

Globalization .. What in the world is it ?!

DEFINITION: Globalization is the coming together for a worldwide environment(celestew84). No more boundaries are made.

Pros & Cons
Globalization has negative affects as well as positive ones. When talking positively, globalization helps in different aspects. By international trade, industrial products and manufactured goods increase rapidly. Also, corporation have a greater capacity to interact and work across borders. There is a more active and rapid speed to transport goods from one place to another. With globalization, there is likely a minimal percent of chance to start a war between two developed nations. Culture emerges between the nations and one can learn from the other. More jobs will be offered to unemployed people and this will increase the economy. This globalization has good points, yet it still has its negative points. Such as diseases and infections could propagate quickly within nations. An important con is that most people are starting to lose their cultures. By having interactions with other nations and learning about their cultures, some people forget about theirs. Another con is that some people are losing jobs and companies are decreasing because of the high profits. To finalize, globalization is in both ways good and bad.

Citation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization#Pro-globalization_.28globalism.29
http://www.darkseptemberrain.com/ideas/advantages.htm
http://answers.ask.com/Society/Other/what_is_globalization

dimanche 7 février 2010

Fashion Revolution


Dear Mr. Buffet,

We would like you to fund a project we are working on. We designers and associates have a master’s degree in fashion and are recognized by the world of fashion. Our StyleXchange Company came up with a concept that will make a change to the world of fashion. We have designed 3 in 1 shoes for your comfort. No need to change shoes more than twice per day, our shoe revolution offers fashionable tall boots, short boots and heals. They are perfectly practical and fit. We are here to satisfy you desires with comfy and stylish shoes. What we propose is tall boots that can be shortened into short boots or even heels (for women). This is feasible by the help of the velcrum base of these shoes. Once our StyleXchange shoes are thriving, we will expand our products throughout the world. With your help, we guarantee success within the world.

Thank-you,

StyleXchange Corporate

Hanane Benkirane & Shemsi Berrada

· b Name of Company:

StyleXchange

· Products of Company:

Tall boots, Short boots, heals. The tall boots can change from short boots

· H Horizontal Nature of the Company

We will start our company in Morocco. Then we will export them throughout the Mediterranean Sea. We will export our products to Madrid, Barcelona, Milan, Paris, Leon, Rome and Lisbon. Since Paris is the capital of fashion and Milan the capital of shoes, we are hoping to have as how in fashion week in LA to futher expand our shoes in New York City and Beverly Hills. Also, we are looking forward to design a clothing line after our shoe success.

· V Vertical Nature of the Company

Our cloth will come from a high quality factory in Thailand because it’s cheap. The velcrum will come from China. We will assemble the shoes in Morocco, sold in morocco, then exported to international franchises.

· E Energy

We manufacture and put together all our products in Morocco, Casablanca. Before doing so our products are imported from Thailand and China.

· R Raw Materials-Resources

Velcrum, wood, leather, and further cloths.

· M Labor

First, my associate and I are qualified designers with a master degree in fashion. We will design these shoes and send the sketches to our company in Morocco. Our 500 workers are paid 20 DHs the hour and we cover most of their insurance. We also provide transport. Most of Moroccan laborers do not have insurance or transport so our payment plan satisfies the laborers. By working eight hours per day, they will earn 190 DHs per day. It is fair for them. We have contracts with each laborer. These contracts satisfy our needs as they satisfy’s their

· G Government and Regulations

We will need their authorization to create our company and import our cloths, and make it public within the stocks. Additionally, when our StyleXchange revolutionary 3 in 1 shoes will be successful and people will ask more, we will export our final products further in the Mediterranean regions.

· P Profits

In certain regions around the Mediterranean Sea, the weather isn’t stable. It can change rapidly throughout the day. It has become an unpleasant task to the residents of those regions who always have to change shoes more than twice per day. A lot of them are complaining so our StyleXchange Company is going to make their lives easier by making 3 in 1 shoes. We are going to make our profit from those people willing to buy them and from the local brand and international franchises that are eager to invest in our shoes. We will distribute our shoes to them. When our shoes are successful, we will export them and have brands installed all over the Mediterranean. Our shoes will cost 170 $. This pair of shoes is equivalent to three pairs of shoes but its prince is equivalent to two pairs. We will also invest in the stocks, to have more profit.

Now that we are millionaires ...

Now that I'm a millionaire and that i've acquired all the money I need, I can start helping others. First I would create a small enterprise for the unwealthy people. I would import and export the same shoes as in my StyleXchange company but with different quality and price. It would be the same concept but diferrent texture and price. In this enterprise, I will have shops in different regions where any unwealthy people could go and buy cheap but practical pair of shoes. By doing so, I will help the inhabitants who doesn't own much to buy much.


lundi 1 février 2010

Morocco's development

Morocco has greatly developed during these years.
In transportation; Tramways and TGV's are to be added in these next years
Tourism; With the recent Mazagan Beach resort, Morocco attracted more people and moroever more celebrities coming to promot these hotels. Such as the residence in Marrakech with the Desperate Houswives and in the Mazagan Beach with Lindsay Lohan.

Socratic Seminar

To be honest, that day of Socratic Seminar wasn't our classes best one. Good points were made but with the noise behaviour in class I couldn't really focus although i've found one point interesting and that I see in the present life. Money is not very hard to get however to earn it it is. People choose the easiest way which is either selling drugs or stealing. A person came up with a good example of getting money without earning it and that is by tipping a policeman when he catches you making a mistake. These policeman earn half of their money by actually working and the other half is by getting paid by others to let them go.
Not a lot of people participated but the majority of the class did participate sometime and then talked and then participated again. It was an ongoing on and off of focusing on the work that was supposed to be done.

Lebanon Plane Crash

An airplane Boeing 737-800 carrying 90 passengers and crew crashed off the coast of Lebanon on Monday. This airplane crashed into the Mediterranean Sea about some 4 minutes from taking off of the Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport. During those 4 minutes interval, the pilot lost contact for an unknown reason and moreover there was a terrible weather. As the airplane was taking off, it crashed down about 3.5 kilometers away from a village called Na'ameh. Right after the crash, about 28 bodies were found leaving 62 more others to search. With the naval army still searching, no sign of survivors appeared.

Successes & Failures of Reconstruction

Successes
-The union got back together and they formed a group like they used to be .
- African Americas finally got their freedom, and with freedom comes education so they were able to become literate.
- Freedmen's Bureau helped the African Americans to get housing, education and jobs which was a great advantage for them to start a new life.
Failures
- Although Reconstruction ended, Souths industries were still slowly going.
- African Americans were still treated unequally in both North and South and racism remains until today.
- Even though Freedmen's Bureau helped African Americans, some still remained in poverty