In the article about “Toms,” the author asks the question “do Toms really help people?” Sarika Bansal wrote that Toms “rarely provides work to local shoe markets.” This is problematic because now people will rely on Toms for shoes instead of supporting local businesses. This also makes Toms a competitor against local business… who’s going to buy shoes, when free shoes are being handed to them? In order for Toms to help they have to support the countries local businesses so they can one day be self sufficient.

In the article “Is Walmart really going organic and local,” I’ve come to the conclusion that this is half true. Walmart does sell a lot of organic goods, but most of these items are non produce. As for local, Walmart considers the same state as local. There explanation, not many farms can provide them with the amount of produce they need. Walmart is responsible for 18 percent of all the groceries sold in the US, so who are we to complain.

In the article “How to armor planes,” America thought the answer was to look at returning planes and see where they were hit. The obvious fix would be to armor the  parts that got hit often. Abraham Wald proved this theory wrong. The real fix to the problem is to armor the parts of the plane that were not hit often, because when those parts are hit the planes doesn’t return.