Friday, October 30, 2015

Good day in the Amazon

We've all seen or heard at least once in our life about the Amazon Rain Forest. It's been rough recently with all the deforestation that happens with a lot of regions that hold such amazing and majestic forests. But the deforestation of The Brazilian Amazon Forest has decreased by 90%!! That is simply amazing on it's own. The Amazon Rain Forest is a very iconic forest on it's own and should ring a lot of bells considering it's been around for about 55 million years. And if there's any doubts on how important this really is, just remember that big forest such as the rain forest are becoming more and more harder to find due to people needing the area for their own purposes; but it has become so incredible that a place that's been around for so long that has even had a gigantic problem with deforestation but somehow is still so majestic and beautiful after all these years.

The deforestation of the Amazon Rain forest had been about 10,500 square miles in 2005 to 1,850 square mile in 2014. The main causes of the deforestation is the soy fields,illegal logging, and a process of getting coal called pig iron . But there are ways that they have been doing to reduce down to such a low point. The people of Green Peace have been cracking down on the Brazilian government about the issue of Illegal logging that's taking place in the forest and a long side that a proposal that's a funding mechanism to protect tropical forest. The major benefits that come out of the program is a large number of animals that were being push out of their habitat have better chances of finding a proper home and surviving.

in order to get a good look at how beautiful the amazon rain forest really is check out the video below.


Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Ronald McDonald Around the World

We've all heard of the McDonald's fast food restaurant, whether now if we are aware of it or not they seem to be everywhere and it's impossible but what exactly is the reason why we seem to be surrounded by these chain restaurant. The main reason is that McDonald's is part of Globalization and is known around the world from the united states where it first got it's start, all the way over to china and European countries. In fact did you know that there is a total of 119 countries that actually have a McDonald's, they actually operate 35,000 different restaurants and have over 1.7 million employees working for them.

The Golden Arches was not like how it is today, back then it started off as a small business that was run by two brothers by the names of Richard or Maurice McDonald. The business had been gotten started in San Bernardino, California as just a simple stand near the Route 66, and these two had a good amount of costumers for them just being a small brother run business. The two would soon be approached by a man named Ray Kroc who would then offer the two brothers a good sum of money to buy their restaurant and start to make it the first McDonald's Corporation; and when doing so Ray had  doubled the money he offered the Two but still making the McDonald name popular around the globe.

But now thanks to Ray Kroc the starter of the McDonald's Corporation we have McDonald's in almost each country but with adaptations to the menu in order to adjust to a country's personal beliefs or way of life. In fact, places like Asia, India, Mexico, France, Germany, etc; all in some way changed the McDonald's menu in their own way but still get so much profit out of each individual Restaurant. The business makes about 27.45 billion dollars yearly which estimated to about 75.21 million per day. McDonald's has certainly made it's up coming over the years and made a name for itself and it's certainly got many more years considering the company has been holding strong since 1948.