Racial Influences

After going through serveral articles mostly about migration, and seeing the physical data, it hard to see why races still exist. After taking a quiz where you were supposed to classify people into races it was easy to see that most people look very similar! That would seem intuitive after looking into the flow charts about migration in certain time periods. Take south Asia for instance, in  the time period of 2005-2010 there was an enormous migration of people to West Asia and other parts of the world.

Inquiry: Philanthropy as a Whole

Philanthropy can easily be describes as the "Love of Humanity" in sense that you are helping the growth of humanity. Overall I learned that philanthropy can cover a wide range of aspects from military development like helping manage the distribution of money to the furthering of education and medical/scientific research. Most philanthropists put their money in charities and group who further the ideals that they support all the across the world and in their home towns.

Thinking About Success

1) Hard Work

2) Opportunity

3) Skill

3) Luck

My reasoning for putting hard work as the primary source is because out my personal experience I've found that hard work leads to more opportunity and skills are usually a development from doing what you love (e.g working with animals, knowing what to look for on pets who've had surgery). Also when you work hard people notice that you care and will seek you out and give you opportunities that wouldn't have been open to you if you hadn't worked as hard and showed people that you cared. I feel that luck doesn't really play into your prosperity, opportunity or even skill. I've come to believe that you get out what you put in. The harder you work the more prosperous you'll be.

Maybe cause opportunity comes from hard work.

The Controversy of "Fast Fashion" within H&M

During today's class we were asked to look over the rise of "fast fashion" and the companies heading this new 'fad'. After furthering my research and focusing on the "fast fashion" controversy I found that one of the companies most focused on for their failings and rise in fashion is H&M. H&M is a popular, fast turnover company based out of Sweden. Over the last couple of years they have run into a lot of factory safety issues like the death of 21 people at the manufacturer Garib & Garib in Bangladesh. Even worse was the building collapse at Rana Plaza killing 1,138 workers because "[t]he risk of a building collapse instilled less fear in those managers than the risk of losing orders due to late delivery." The Article hyper-linked in the quote is a great image of how messed up the production and safety measures are in foreign manufactures. 

It ceases to amaze me how people can be so ignorant of safety policies with the lives of innocent people on the line. As a consumer how is it that we are so ignorant to the blundering mistakes of these mass, multi-million dollar companies that we cherish so much. What can we do as the mass public to help create a better environment for the workers and enforce the building codes actually necessary for the safety of these workers?

Fireman Walking in the Remains at Garib and Garib, an H&M manufacturer