Human Migration/Development

In my research today I discovered many interesting things. On this website, I learned that the majority of human migration across the earth was in Europe and Asia. Really the only early people who migrated to North America were people who came over the Iberian Peninsula. Most of the migrants in Europe came from Asia or Eastern Europe.

Another interesting thing that I learned from another website was that early humans developed and evolved from their pre-agricultural bodies. Skin tones got lighter because people were consuming more/different vitamins in the food that they were eating, genes developed, such as the LCT gene which is used to help digest milk, people got taller, and many other changes occurred.



This picture shows the flow of migration across the world, you can see how most of the people moving around were in Europe and few came to North America.

Philanthropy

In our discussion about philanthropy today, the main thing that I learned was the difference between charity and philanthropy. When you give to charity, you just give an item, or money. When you are a philanthropist, you give money and create more of a system, or long term idea that will benefit people for a while. Charity is giving a cans in a can food drive, philanthropy is being the person who created the can food drive.


This picture describes philanthropy perfectly, philanthropy is long term, and reaches more people than just one. Philanthropy is more "big picture", as charity is just donating for an immediate cause.

Exploring Business / Clothing Industry

      Today I read an article about a clothing company named Zara, and a Forbes article about H&M. Zara is a business based out of Spain, the Forbes article says this about Zara "For Zara, reacting to consumer desires is a core component of its competitive advantage." That is how Zara is so successful, they don't worry as much about cost, but rather worry about the speed that they ship new items out at. This is what the Forbes article says about H&M, "H&M is well known for its focus on researching and predicting emerging trends — a function the company staffs both in Sweden and in national offices around the world." Both Zara and H&M are known for their bundles of new clothes that they have every time you walk in the store, but H&M researches and predicts what the newest trends will be over time, and Zara reacts to the customer wants and what they feel at that moment. The thing that separates Zara and H&M from other companies, is the amount of stores they have across the world, and the amount of products that they ship out everyday.


 This is one of Zara's factories, it shows the amount of clothes that they ship out and make a day.