Migration

Today after looking at several articles and graphs about migration I saw many trends. On the color wheel type graph from scientific american I noticed that most of the people would migrate to North America and Europe. I found it interesting that North America and Europe had the most people migrating away from their country also. I wonder why that is if that's where everyone seems to want to go why would they have so many people leaving those countries? And why Europe? I also am curious to know what caused the migration. I understand if it was because of a big event or crisis that occurred but if that didn't happen then what was their reasoning for migration? And a lot of the migration wasn't just a short travel it was a very long journey. I like the way all of the websites used graphs to illustrate the migration. The graphs that had a visual showing them leaving and to where they were going were better compared to the ones with just numbers and data. Looking at the color wheel graph I thought there would be a noticeable difference based on the different time periods but there wasn't. The same trend of people going to North America and Europe the most was still true. Looking at the graphs helped me understand where they were going and which areas had more immigrants than others but I want to know why and how they migrated. It would be cool to combine some of the things I looked at to where you could see where they were going with an arrow on a map and then click on the arrow and have a profile of someone saying why they were migrating.

Philanthropy

I learned that philanthropy is different from charity. When I was assigned to figure out how they are different I had no idea just how at the beginning of the year I didn't know the difference between empathy and sympathy. Philanthropy is more like empathy and charity is more like sympathy. This is because charity is like seeing a homeless person on the street, feeling bad for them and then giving them food to fix the problem right then and there. Philanthropy is more of a long term focus or vision. Like donating money to a foundation that is going to benefit the society for the future. Charity definitely seems easier to us because you can just show up and volunteer which still makes a difference but all of the successful philanthropists had millions of dollars to give away. Not everyone has the money to do that with but everyone does have the ability to help like with charity. So if our world has enough of both people with the money to donate and people willing to help then I think it can make a huge difference. It was interesting to see how much the philanthropists gave away, most of them gave well over half of their money away which is such a bold and selfless act. I feel like a lot of people that have tons of money like that don't have the selfless attitude to give away their money which is sad because there's no way they can spend all the money they have so they may as well use it to benefit others and the future. It is really important to think about what we can do to make the future better and help out others whether it be through philanthropy or charity. Without the major philanthropists that I learned about our world today would look a lot different. I never realized the impact that they had.

The Bradley Martin Ball

1. The whole front page is about the ball. They assume they want the readers to know about the costumes and decorations. They think this is important and exciting.
2.  It was a sort of praising perspective, she is bragging on the ball. The way she describes it it seems to be amazing and she described everything so detailed in a positive way. We can learn that the ball was so well put together and everyone loved it and everyone should have been there.
3. The ball was criticized by a minister because he thought the ball was bad and that displaying wealth like that was ill and non christian. The newspaper probably showed his views because they were so different from everyone else's but it made sense as to why he didn't approve of it.
4.  We can learn that the society was very gossipy and they really enjoyed the ball and can't stop talking about it. They also seemed to be obsessed with their costumes and appearances and they all got to take photographs to remember the ball.

Thinking About Success

I would rank them like this:
1. Hard Work
2. Skill
3. Opportunity
4. Luck

I rank them this way because you don't have to be naturally skilled to be successful. You can work to get there. Hard work is vital to being successful because hard work always pays off and it is something you have control over. I ranked skill next because being skillful at what you're doing is important for success but you can work hard to be skillful. Then I ranked opportunity next because you don't always have to have the perfect opportunity to be successful. You hear stories all the time about the unskilled underdog becoming successful because of their determination. You don't need to sit around waiting for the perfect opportunity to be successful, you need to put it into action with your skill that came from hard work. Luck comes last because you can't rely on getting lucky to be successful. Sure, some people that you don't expect to be successful end up being so and you think wow they got lucky maybe I will. But you can't plan for luck or opportunity which is why I ranked them last.

fast fashion- good or bad?

I have learned from this article that the reason Uniqlo, Zara, and H and M are so successful is because they are able to know what their costumers want and will like before they even make the product. They are also successful because they sell some of their products at marked down prices. H and M has 20-30 offices that are close to their stores which really helps them. I also learned from this article that it was hard to figure out the top supply chain innovations because they didn't have clear origins or it was a combined innovation. It was interesting to see that Toyota and Ford were on the top 10 list because they are very popular and well known for their success and quality cars. The fedex tracking system was also on the list and that is interesting because fedex doesn't seem like that big of an innovation but for it to add a tracking system was huge. After hearing about how successful fast fashion was I looked up why it was bad and found this article. It said that fashion is wearing out the world with cotton and pesticides. Because fast fashion requires fast laborers it is said that there is slavery for fast fashion and often times they can't even keep up with the work pace. It also said that they have bad working conditions. So while fast fashion is good for the customers it is not good for the people and economy fast fashion is coming from. Many of the fabrics and dyes used are even toxic.. that's awful for the people working! They need to find a more fair and safe way to export all of their products. It is hard to decide whether fast fashion is good or bad. I can't imagine the fashion industry without it but it is not good because of what it is doing to the workers and the economy.