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Countries that put hand in hand

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Did any of you ever wounder what globalization means? I bet you did because not many people understand it, but that does not matter. Lets see what it means. Globalization is to make relations with other or all parts of the world or to make universal.

Though globalization we can creat a society throughout the world that works the same way, exchange cultures and ideas, pay more attention to humman rights, and share enviormental protection and technology. Because technology has improved, it reduced the costs of transportation and communication which increase tourism. Globalization creates more economic oportunity. Some other benefits of globalization is that it rises the standards of living, there is a better education, increases democracy. The basic benefits of globalization are faster growth with new opportunities.

Globalization is great but like everything it has it's cons. The most minor is that developing countries tend to try to keep the benefits of the economic growth for themselves. When stock markets crash in a country, then others crash in other countries because they are all realted. We are all connected so we depend on eachother and if some of us start to fail or even just on like the United States or Canada, then other places like Europe will start to fail, and then other places in Africa like Morocoo which is very dependent on the help of European countries esspecialy France.

Internet is another example of globalization. You can comunicate around the world using msn, facebook, YouTube, e-mail, my space, and other sites such as blogger. Globalization should be controlled in my opinion because if we get two dependent on eachother then sonner or later noone will want to work because, "you can just look it us on internet man and if it's not there then ask for it on yahoo answers ." It's that simple.

Dinamite PCs

Name of the company: Dinamite PC

Products of the company: Cheep computers that don’t last more than a year

Horizontal Nature of the company: Our markets are all around in the world. Places that are targeted are not where the richest people are. We mainly target the middle and low class who don’t like to spend a large amount of money for electronics because their chances of breaking are high. The issue is that there are no refunds, returns, or exchanges except if the product is defective.

Our first store will be in Morocco because the majority of the people are either from the middle class or from the low class. I know from personal experience that people in Morocco from the low and middle class want personal computers for the lowest price even if they are not the best quality. This will work especially in Morocco because there is a black market where people can fix their computers. We will plant other stores in France, Germany, Russia, China, and Brazil.

Another version of our computers only last one month but is of high quality. There computers will target rich people that want to use a portable computer for a month during their vacation or when they go to places like Las-Vegas to play in the casinos for a week. This computer will have everything a high quality apple computer has. The software will be the same as the one you would find in a stock apple computer, but this one will have installed antivirus.

Another type of people this product will target are spies and astronauts. These people want their data to be erased after a while. What this computer does is break after a month or when a code is correctly typed into a special area. When they break, the computer’s memory if completely erased without, leaving any trace of anyone ever being on it.

Vertical Nature of the Company: These computers will be completely built by machine so each factory will have its own sets of stores within the country, and it will produce depending on the demand. Each factory will have an estimated 5 stores in small poor countries, 20 to 50 stores within middle class counties, and estimated 70-130 stores within really wealthy or populated countries like china, The United States of America, and Canada. The factory will produce a lot of computer so no more than 5 factories will ever be needed, maybe one in each poor country we decide to target. The computers will be transported from the factory to the stores by our trucks, so this will not drain our wealth very much.

Energy: Energy usually means money. The employees of the stores will be paid by the stores from the profit the store makes, and the employees of the factory including the driver of the truck will be paid by the factory by what it gains. The factory will play the role of the manufacturer, in other words it will not give the computers to the stores for free. It will get paid by the stores as if they were an individual company.

Raw Materials: The materials used to create this computer are the same that are used to create every other computer. There will be metals and plastics. The factory part of the company will pay for this.

Labour: There are basic workers that are permanent at each location, and there are others that can come and go. The permanent employees at the factory, there should be a manager, chef of machinery. Other people such the people that sort the materials, count what there is, clean, use smaller machines, drive the trucks are not mandatorily needing to always be the same. At the store, the permanent employee is the manager. The others are just workers. Each location will pay for its own employees. The higher someone gets in rank and the more important he/she becomes, the higher their payment is the rule.

Government and Regulations: I think that governments will welcome this sort of business because it also get profits from taxes, makes their people work at our locations, and makes other people want to work to get a personal computer. I don’t believe there will be a problem there. Of course we will follow the rules of the country and not do any illegal activities, but if the rules are going to be a problem for our money because of for example too high taxes, then we will simply leave the country because we are there for business and to gain money and not to sell computers.

Profits: As I explained earlier each location will be responsible for its money and buying and selling its products. Let’s take a store for instance. It buys its computers from the factory, which is also ours, at $50, and spends $20 to sell it by paying employees, cleaning, and paying electricity, etc…, and sells them at $140. This is a $70 profit which is 100%.

After I get rich and pay back the money that I have borrowed, then I will help people that are in need, build shelters, provide food and water and clothes, etc… This can go on and on for ever and I don’t know what I will do first or how I will go on doing this, but I am sure that I will get there. Of course this is after I get a Ferrari and a Bugatti (cars that are fast).

Can’t you see it grow and notice the difference

Morocco has changed a lot during the last ten years. It’s leaders are beginig to care for it, and we can notice a change. A university professer once told my uncle that to see that a country is in the procces of a revolution one must first look at the public places. Are there guardens? Are there public bath rooms? What is provided for the people like roads, railways, communication, etc… We must see what the country is investing it’s money on. A small example of this would be when a dad gives his son 100DH. If the son spends it all on games, then he is not investing his money well, but if he buyes a healthy drink for 20DH, eats something healthy for 30DH, buys a book for 15DH, keeps in his pocket 5DH, and plays video games with 30DH, then he is a good boy that knew how to invest his money. This is the same for countries because they must also invest their money and they can invest it in just playing, building big buildings, building castles, etc…, or they can invest it in their people that way they can get something back because a castle gives nothing back it only demands more.
The middle east countries are not doing very good investments with their money. Because they have petroleum and gain a lot of money, they spend 100Billion dollars on a caslte and none on research for improvement. They could have spent 1Billion dollars on a castle and 99Billion dolars or resarch for improving their medical systems, getting new medicin that they do not have, ect…

Morocco is not a very wealthy country, but it has a very good strategical location. It is the door to Africa from Europe and the door of Europe from Africa. It is 15Km away from spain. It has many advantages, one that is its beloved king, King Mohamed 6, a man that truly has a vision for this country. Although he is the chief of it all, he cannot do this by himself because there are people that just want money for their own benefit. Never the less, we can see that Morocco has started its revoloution. It is being revolutionized in a positive way. We can see this through public spaces, transportation, communication, farming, industry, and relations.
If you walk down a more Moroccan treat were people are rather not wealthy, you will find some garbage on the floor, and some kids playing soccer with a ball of a diameter of 5cm (very small). You will also see some house wives cleaning up that mess, and telling the kids to clear the path for any passing cars. These people are trying to be clean although the government is not providing for them the best ways to do so because they are not the priority, but I think they are trying to be clean because they don’t want to be seen as a messy or unclean part of Morocco. What I have noticed in Moroccans is that they do not let anyone open their mouth at them, and they will do anything not to be criticized. These people have extened families that might be wealthy, and they will not want to be seen as unclean. Another point is that they notice that Morocco is a growing country and that it has started its revolution, so they don’t want to be seen as someone that holds this country back.
Now if you go to a rather cleaner area, you will see that there are public water closets, guardens, trees full of fruit, and nice people. You will find nice people because that garden is known to have nice people. This is another issue there is. The issue that there are different social classes in many ways, me and you could or could not end up in some the following different ways of social classes to together, by how clean you are, by how rich you are, by how polite you are, by how much you are related to the royal family, by how you are dressed, by where you spend your weekends and holydays, and many more. If you do not understand me then let me give you an example. I have a farm by Settat city and by my farm there is a big cement factory. There is a farmer that had 5 hekters of land by that cement factory. This company offered this farmer, that never got 500 dirhams all at once in his pocket, 2 billion dirhams for that piece of land and now he is super rich. That famrmer is ungly, not well dressed, not polite, does not anywhere during his vacations and all this even after he got rich. Now this farmer would not fit in the social class of a person that goes to that garden, and someone that is not rich but is polite would fit in perfectly with other rich people. This is a true story. Now we can see that there are social classes which is a sign of a revolution.
There are now three big comunication companies. These big companies are competing in Morocco to sell their communications. With compition, people lower their prices, give more services, and provide better products. This is only one example of compition in Morocco. Others are like banks and Internet. It is said that we will have the subway in Morocco and TGV. These two diffenrent train will lower the costs and quicken the procces of going to either long distances with the TGV or short distances with the subway which will most likely be connected with the trains.

Morocco is doing lots of export with other countries and has international relations. Moroccans export a bit of what they industrialize and their farming goods. Morocco pays up to 60% of any machines farmers buy to help them grow better, faster, and needed goods. Morocco also pays up to 100% of the drop system to any farmer that wants to implement it in his farming. Morocco is making good investment in its people and it is time that they also start to see the European farmers as people to look up to.
Morocco is revolutionizing.

Why didn't anyone tell us!?!...

The nation of Haiti is luckey to be stil standing after what had happend to them just a few days ago. That country was destroyed by an earthquake that measured over 7.0 on the ripter scale. More devestating news has just come in that another yet less minor earthqauke has striked the people onece more. This last one only measured a little 6.0 in the ripter scale.

I understand that there could be an earthquake that comes to out of shape poor country, but what I can not get in my mind is how could there have not been a warning and then a planed evacuation. This is unexeptable to the mind. In the news the President of this South American country stated that he was always devted to making it a lot better in anyway possible, but how could that be if he did not plan out something to prevent at the least the death of the estimated 200,000 people. There should be somewhere they could go, food ready for them to eat, and where to sleep is the minimal. This President can not have been serious about that claim, but I will try to understand.

There is not only an estimated 200,000 deads that are constanty beeing trown in the garbge every day making an discusting smell that roams the city, there are an estimated of 600 Billion $ to repair the country, and 10 Billion $ worth of local damages to the capital.

Never the less, the U.S. is sending in forces to stop the robbery and theaft that is going on there because of he hunger and poverty. The United Nations and many national red crosses have been sent there to provide people with food and a place to spend the night. The U.S. and Canada have been raising money to help these countries that are currently in Haiti now. In Quebec, Canada alone in one day a million six-hundred $ have been raised by the people. The Canadian governement is prepared to dobble anything the people raise.

This is all good, but there is something else that worries me. This is that for sure another earthquake will occur, but will the people be ready for it, and who will help them then.

Where to start peace

In the world there are many places where there is no peace, infact there is noware where there is total peace even if your in a 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th world country and it does not even matter the governement of that country. I beleive that global peace in this world can not be acheived. Ask yourself this: when is the last time I heard about total peace in the world any time in history? Your answer is NO, NEVER. Thats because humans are not made in the way that they make peace with everyone. We love ourselves more than anything, and they only make relationships with others for their own benifits- This can also be seen in how countries behave because they are based on humans, countries base their relations on what will help them later ( ex: Morocco is friends with sends help to other countries while its people suffer- Why?- it's because they could help them keep the sahara desert). All the laws and rules we follow will not bring us to tatal peace ( or any other form of governemet) , it only delays the wars (disagreements) that will happen, for the way people think will never change.

In the socratic seminar, we discused other wise, but my team mates were all agaist me so I had to agree. We discused that they are ways to atain and keep peace. Some examples are that we could reinforce the law and educate the people. I did not attend the entire seminar, so I don't know what we discused after the first question, but if I were there then I would of wrote something.

What we need in society

05/01/10 Society Works Mohamed Slaoui

1. Ownership: People own some economic institutions

2. Decision-making: The King is in charge of making big, long-term decisions.

3. Structure: Every institution has a structure; it can go from a small family to a large company.

4. Services: The services are not all shared evenly

5. Culture: People are not always keeping their identity and often go with what they see on TV.