Dinamite PCs

Name of the company: Dinamite PCs
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%.
When I give all the money that I burrowed in the first place, I’m going to spend a portion of the in helping other people. I will transfer thousands of dollars to hospitals in order to offer better medical care. This is important because it could save lives. Afterwards, I’m going to build wells in Africa in order for the people to have clean water. If I build these wells, I’m going to decrease the amount of sicknesses that dirty water provides. I’m also going to help some poor people that live in places where the economic activity is low. In these places, I will build small industries and try to reconstruct lands that can be farmed. There are many different ways of helping people, but not all of them could be used. This is important because you can be more and more respected by other people while you do all these important actions. This is why one of the primary priorities is to help others.

Industrial and Technological Revolution

While I was talking to my family about the industrial and technological revolution in Morocco, I noticed that war may sometimes bring change to a country. After morocco was occupied by the French, the industrial revolution began. Many areas were starting to fill with projects such as building dams, railroads, and highways. Morocco also started to notice that its lands occupied vast areas of precious material that could be sold to other countries and therefore attract more and more immigrants. If further projects are applied, Morocco may easily reach the level of the developing countries because it is in the route of development.
Another important area in which Morocco has been working for years is technology. Technology can help the country to modernize in order to reach the level of the developing countries. Presently, Morocco is starting to host more and more stores in order to bring the technology from other countries. This is a major revolution because morocco can also create its own technological goods in order to export to other countries. A trade can be present between our nation and the outside world. We can conclude that technology is a major is major area in which our country will need to work on.

Socratic Seminar

During our socratic seminar, everybody in the group took part of the conversation by dividing each question to a group of people. Each tim we had a new question, a group of people would center themselves in the middle of the class and be the core of the discussion. We discussed numerous topics such as the reconstruction and the economy of several countries. We also discussed one main current event that was the earthquake of Haiti. One of the main questions that followed this topic was about how Haiti could reover from this calamitous event. Overal, we all contributed to the discussion in order to receive ideas from students in the class.

Haiti's earhthquake

This earthquake was one of the worst that the little island of Haiti could imagine. It caused billions of dollars of damages that left the people in search for food and water. This devasting earhtquake caused thousands of deaths in the capital of the city Port-au-Prince that was left in ruins. On the other hand, this event could cause the people to re-build their city better with the help of enternational countries.
On wendsday january 20 another earthquake stroke haiti with a force of 6.0 on the Richter scale. This could also caused other damages. Now, the only question that the people might be asking themselves is "what are we going to do?"

Conclusions to Successes and Failures of Reconstruction

I disagree with "freedmen's bureau and other organizations help many black families obtain housing, jobs, and schooling". My reasons are because although they helped them, they weren't treated equally as the white families. Many other black families were unemployed and "remained caught in a cycle of poverty." Failures after the civil war were that there were the black codes, Jim Crow Laws, and many black families remained in sharecropping. The successes were were that all black people were free and people could choose who to be slave to if they were unemployed.

Definition and explanation of the following terms

Johnsonʼs Reconstruction Plan: Johnson's reconstruction plan was to pass on a series of laws that helped the South. One of these laws is "It pardoned the southerners that swore allegiance to the Union." On the other hand, Lincoln reconstruction plan declared harsh laws upon the South. These couldn't be applied because he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

Black Codes: "Black codes are laws that restricted freedmen's rights." These laws were very harsh. One of these stated" black people could not gather after sunset." Although they earned their freedom, they didn't dispose of it in a good way. This isn't fair because these black people fought in the war in order to earn their freedom but at the end a series of laws were placed upon them.

14th & 15th Amendment: The 14th amendment stated that all the people born in the United States are citizens of this nation. It also declared that "no state shall make or enforce any laws which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens." Another important part of this declaration is that the states can't take away life, liberty, or property from a citizen. This is important because this law finally stated the freedom of any race in the country.
The 15th amendment was declared from the black citizens of Nashville. The most important part of this amendment was "Why deny them the right to have a voice in the election of its rulers?" Although they gained their freedom, they weren't allowed to vote in the elections of its rulers. Later on, this 15th amendment was passed on to the constitution. It stated that all the citizens had the right to vote in the elections.

Radical Reconstruction: In the radical reconstruction, there were many people that had "a desire to prosper in the postwar South." During this event, there was a group called the radical republicans that were opposed to Johnson's reconstruction plan. So they decided to do their own.

Carpetbagger: The Northern Republicans who moved to the postwar in the South were known as carpetbaggers. This name was given by the South which criticized them. This was because the Northern Republican carried with them a cheap suitcase that was made from carpet scraps. The carpetbaggers were often known as greedy men that wanted power. This idea is thought false from the point of view of the historians because they think that they are honest and educated men.

Scalawgs: The Southerners had a name for white southern Republican. They were thought of scalawgs which is a scottish word. This term means that they are "scrawny cattle". Many of the scalawgs were former whigs who were often poor. Many of the southerner whites thought that the reconstruction government was incompetent. They were opposed to the power of the freedmen.

The end of the civil war

The civil war finally ends. The South is in fury. The North celebrates as expected. In the South, all the lands are devastated and the people don’t know what to do. Houses are burned, many dead bodies are left behind, and people are starting to get hungry. During this war, many farmlands were destroyed leaving the people behind with nowhere else to plant their crops. Also, two thirds of the shipping industries were damaged. As for the soldiers, many of them are suffering from injuries and the rest are dead in the war. Their only hopes know is to flee for their lives.

Almost 38,000 African Americans were killed in this war. The rest that stayed alive are now located in a poor region in which the economic activity is slow. With this support we can say that they earned their freedom but not in a good way. Some of these people decided to continue working in the plantation of their master. Others thought in moving to cities and try to find jobs. In this war, these African American people were paid 7 dollars each month which was half the salary of a white soldier. What they cared the most about is fighting in order to earn their freedom. Some questions started to be stated about African Americans. One of them is “Now that the black southerners were free, would the races have equal rights? If so, how might those rights might be protected. If they earlier said that these people were free men, why do they need to ask themselves this question?

As for President Lincoln, he passed out his reconstruction plan in which many people were not pleased with. Right after, he got assassinated by John Wilkes. This gave the chance for the vice president Andrew Johnson to take over as President. He wrote his reconstruction plan in which he accorded many favors to the South. This was partially because he came from North Carolina which was a South state. Some of his ideas were that he “pardoned the southerners who swore allegiance to the Union. He permitted each state to hold a constitutional convention. He also stated that states were required to void secession, abolish slavery, and repudiate the confederate debt, and finally, states could then hold elections and rejoin the Union. These new ideas were not exactly the same as Lincoln’s ideas. Lincoln helped the South in some ways while Johnson helped the south in all the ways. Lincoln also mentioned a harsh law that stated that it denied pardons for any Southern person that killed an African American war prisoner.