Top 5 World Problems Week 4

Most Serious 

1.) Gender Inequality- Around the world there is an overwhelming difference between male and female in the job market and has a huge impact on individual communities worldwide.

2.) Global Warming- This issue has been widely debated for a very long time, but with the increase in carbon monoxide into our atmosphere the earth is slowly reach the danger area.

3.) Wars- Wars cause large percentages of casualties that devastate certain areas. Also with war comes abuse of weaponry i.e.. nuclear weapons.

4.)The constant spread of Disease- The harmful affects of diseases causes major issues among the world. These diseases cause death and hurt the communities economically.

5.) Economics- With the increasing debt nations across the globe face its hard to see how this couldn't be a major problem. With government spending on certain fields that don't necessarily need funding increases to major issues that effect everyday citizens.

Reason:
The reason behind choosing my top problem as gender inequality and continued to keep the first five I had originally put in the " The Top 10 Problems" was due to my strong belief that they are actually the top 5 for both category's. Gender inequality by far is the most serious problem because with gender inequality it divides the society and causes economic prosperity to downfall. Gender inequality is not right and is seen world wide no matter where you go.

Solutions:

Solution- Implement a law that allows for equal opportunities for women among the workforce. Individuals will argue against gender inequality, but in economically poor areas the abuse of women and their rights are non existent.

Solution- Create more programs that help restrict the emissions being put into our atmosphere. Also have industries being regulated to the standards of which restrict them from producing more harmful products for the earth we live on.

Solution- Have a better system in place that allows for both sides to peacefully agree upon a compromise.

Solution- More money invested into finding ways to cure these diseases or to prevent more spreading.

Solution- With government spending on certain fields that don't necessarily need funding increases to major issues that effect everyday citizens.

Reason: The reason behind my selecting of the gender inequality solution as the most implementable solution was because with the world becoming more prominent with women leaders in various industries its causing the opportunity for this to actually happen more likely.With the strides of women leaders in i.e. United States it shows that women deserve rights and opportunities in smaller less poor nations.

Identifying Local Opportunities Week 3

1.)Path to curb domestic violence homicides scrutinized as many skip court-ordered counseling

http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2016-01-23/story/path-curb-domestic-violence-homicides-scrutinized-many-skip-court
This story goes on to talk about the lack of involvement and awareness towards enforcing villains to attend intervention courses where they can come to an understanding of their actions in the past( usually known to have an domestic violence background).
The story points out that overtime judges and police force tend to not pay attention to the criminals in which need to attend these classes and ultimately this leads to terrible acts of violence.
The judicial system has the problem with not properly maintaing a better system that improves the compliance and use of these intervention type programs for violent offenders.

2.) Clay commission looks for new revenue to pay for improvement projects
http://jacksonville.com/community/clay/2016-01-23/story/clay-commission-looks-new-revenue-pay-improvement-projects
Clay county in the simplest terms is trying to raise the sales tax to be able to afford improvements on such things as schools and animal shelters.
The problem faced is that the new idea for a one cent increase causes a mix of emotions toward voters and the citizens living in the district. The people dealing with this problem are the citizens who are affected with the increase. There is also the agresti plan which looks at other sources of bringing in revenue that requires fees to build the infrastructure in the community.

3.) Winn-Dixie lowering prices in search of an upside
http://jacksonville.com/business/2016-01-23/story/winn-dixie-lowering-prices-search-upside?utm_source=story_rail_recommendations&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=cxense
Winn Dixie is cutting prices in order to make up for the lack of business due to increasingly high competition from publix or healthier chains, such as, Fresh Market or Whole Foods.
The problem this causes is that winn dixie makes fellow competitors lower prices in order to one up, but eventually this just hurts the entire food industry. Winn Dixie has the problem because now they pay more for products and then ultimately discount the food, which causes a loss in revenue.

Week 3 Reading Reflection

1.) After reading chapter 2 for week three something that stuck out to me was the great research on entrepreneurial cognition and the different characteristics that came with an entrepreneur.  By using " simplified" mental models entrepreneurs are able to come up new innovations in the market. I had no idea that some much research has gone into figuring out the inner mindset of an entrepreneur.

2.)  The part of the reading that I found somewhat confusing was the communicating with employees under dealing with stress. My confusion is that this statement is not entirely true in some cases. For example, say someone works in a small family business doesn't mean that each employees is going to respect the other maybe with concern over pay and power.

3.) My first question to ask the author would be how did you go about gaining the information for finding the information you did on overbearing need for control. I understood what the text meant, but want to figure out how exactly someone can see that external control on someone and comprehend. My second question was how did the psychic risk come about. I have never heard this term before and am curious as to how this ultimately came to be the greatest risk to the well being of entrepreneurs.

4.)I would say the thing I found wrong was the area devoted to dealing with the stress. I find it that sometimes getting away from problems i.e. vacation that it causes an individual to become more stress because one they are going to still have that working mentality instead of a relaxing one. I also found that communication creates less stress based on the fact that some business might have a lot of employees that makes communicating more difficult, but if the business was smaller you still face the risk of having issues with employees. This would in turn create more stress.

Very Short Interview No. 1 Week 3

For my interview I decided to interview my family friend Jenny Carney who has managed to create her own beach front home rental company in Jacksonville, FL. I asked Mrs. Carney a various amount of questions that helped me gain a better understanding of how an entrepreneur thinks and what got her interested in pursuing a career based on her own doing.

Question 1- Mrs. Carney I just wanted to thank you for taking the time to meet with me today and helping me gain a better understanding of how to be an entrepreneur. First question I would like to ask is how did you first come to the idea of pursuing a career in the beach front rental industry.
Answer- I originally had the idea of pursing a degree in something eduction based, i.e. teacher. I started to have the idea of branching off this common path and creating a company that I thought could be my own model and belief. My husband actually was an advertiser and somewhat of an entrepreneur himself so by looking at how he was making a living drew my interest greatly.

Question 2- Coming from an entrepreneur can you give me an idea on what I should expect to learn in this course.
Answer- This course will help you form ideas of what exactly makes an entrepreneur because there are a lot of paths one can take to creating a successful business. What you will learn is that failure is common, but by being an entrepreneur you will know that failure just helps you become more motivated in finding a path to success.

Question 3- My last question and pretty basic question is what does it exactly mean to be an entrepreneur?
Answer- Thats a very good question and honestly it varies from individual to individual. For me being an entrepreneur it means that I'm someone that is go getter in an industry that can either make or break a business. In most cases people go into industries that can become extremely overpopulated with the same ideas, I thought by going to Jacksonville , which is an economy that is showing signs of upward mobility for start ups could help lead to a boom in my business.

Reflection- Honestly after interviewing Mrs. Carney I learned that looking at the economic background of a certain area is essential to where a company starts up. For example, she looked at the upward trend in jacksonville , which is different then the usual individual wanting to go to new york( overpacked with similar individuals). Also the idea that failure is key to success that was something that I really never thought about.

World"s Biggest Problems Week 3

I will provide the worlds ten biggest problems( not in order).
1.) Gender Inequality- Around the world there is an overwhelming difference between male and female in the job market and has a huge impact on individual communities worldwide.
Solution- Implement a law that allows for equal opportunities for women among the workforce. Individuals will argue against gender inequality, but in economically poor areas the abuse of women and their rights are non existent.
2.) Global Warming- This issue has been widely debated for a very long time, but with the increase in carbon monoxide into our atmosphere the earth is slowly reach the danger area.
Solution- Create more programs that help restrict the emissions being put into our atmosphere. Also have industries being regulated to the standards of which restrict them from producing more harmful products for the earth we live on.
3.) Wars- Wars cause large percentages of casualties that devastate certain areas. Also with war comes abuse of weaponry i.e.. nuclear weapons.
Solution- Have a better system in place that allows for both sides to peacefully agree upon a compromise.
4.)The constant spread of Disease- The harmful affects of diseases causes major issues among the world. These diseases cause death and hurt the communities economically.
Solution- More money invested into finding ways to cure these diseases or to prevent more spreading.
5.) Economics- With the increasing debt nations across the globe face its hard to see how this couldn't be a major problem. With government spending on certain fields that don't necessarily need funding increases to major issues that effect everyday citizens.
6.)Lack of clean water- In increasingly poor areas the access to clean water is not there, which causes to increase in diseases and the rise in death rates.
Solution- Implement a system where water is available to these communities, more funding can go along way in solving the problem.
7.) Population- The rise in the global population is leading to more pollution, less in resources and causing economies to suffer.
Solution- Im not sure if there is really a solution to this issues, unless countries want to implement a system where only a certain amount of children can be born to a family.
8.) Obesity- I personally find this a major issue, because with the increase in obesity it creates a certain image for nations, such as the United States.
Solution- Make people more aware of the downside of eating unhealthy, also place bans on certain items in which fast food companies sell.
9.) Energy- Energy is starting to become more difficult to obtain as the demand is always getting higher.
Solution- Find other sources that are good for our climate to produce energy to supply.
10.) Terrorism- Terrorism is something that I believe we will always see throughout time, but certain things can be done to alter this belief.
Solution- Continue gaining information, but find a way to infiltrate the organization from within. I believe the military will become more technical in the way they operate and will have a stronghold on stopping terrorist acts.

My Entrepreneurship Story Week 2

A time in my life where I was first exposed to entrepreneurship would have to be when I was in 8th grade and my dad ventured out to create a new business. My father built a yoga/ nutrition company from the bottom up to be a successful company in the span of a couple years. This experience got my mind thinking as to how being an entrepreneur is actually perceived. The false belief that entrepreneurs don't have an actual job is completely false the reality is that entrepreneurs like my father shape the backbone for the society we live in. Ever since I witnessed this my belief system turned to the idea that I too could build something based off my own ideas and ambitions.

- Patrick Jordan

Introduction Week 2

Hello Class,

To start off my name is Patrick Jordan I'm a junior transfer from Ponte Vedra Beach, FL. I attended Loyola University of New Orleans last year, which was a great experience and helped me become more familiar with different surroundings and people that I was not accustomed to. Something pretty interesting about myself would have to be that I'm a triplet. Life is not easy being a triplet a lot of fights and not to mention the cost of three kids can be a hassle. But overall my life has been great having a bunch of siblings to make sure that my boredom doesn't overtake my life. This is just a little about myself and will continue talking about my life and aspirations throughout this blog.

-Patrick Jordan

Week 2

Test Blog

Good Afternoon,

This is Patrick Jordan here testing out the new blog for my course.