...stated in an op-ed: “We have no time to experiment with visionary energy sources; civilisation is in imminent danger and has to use nuclear—the one safe, available energy source—now or suffer the pain soon to be inflicted by our outraged planet.” Lovelock explained that his decision to endorse nuclear power was motivated by his fear of the consequences of global warming and by reports of increasing fossil-fuel emissions that drive the warming. Jesse Ausubel, head of the Program for the Human Environment at Rockefeller University, recently echoed Lovelock’s sentiment. “As a green, I care intensely about land-sparing, about leaving land for nature,” he wrote. “To reach the scale at which they would contribute importantly to meeting global energy demand, renewable sources of energy such as wind, water, and biomass cause serious environmental harm. Measuring renewables in watts per square meter, nuclear has astronomical advantages over its competitors.” All of this has led several other prominent environmentalists to publicly favor new nuclear plants. I had a similar change of heart. For years I opposed nuclear power, but while I was researching my book Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy, my views completely turned around. According to the Department of Energy, just to maintain nuclear’s 20 percent share of the energy supply, the United States...
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...bickering over who can be blamed most for the Civil War. Though many would say Abraham Lincoln is this person, his role in the start to the Civil War just appears to be the final straw in the buildup of tensions that happened over many years. The person who can be blamed most was reportedly referenced by Abraham Lincoln himself as, “the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war.” This woman is Harriet Beecher Stowe. Through the use of her powerful novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe became the greatest catalyst to the start of the American Civil War. One myth about the north that most people assume to be true is that the north was predominately against slavery. Even though the north was known for its industry in manufacturing and not agriculture, many northerners still saw black people as inferiors and opposed their equality in America. It was when Stowe published Uncle Tom’s Cabin that the abolitionist movement took flight in the north. By writing about the effect that slavery had on black families, she personalized slaves and spurred the abolitionist movement in a way that a news report on a true story could...
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...Debate 101 Topic: Canada should take no action on global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emission. Agree Why we should not worry about global warming since 1950 has been caused by man. Global warming is real, but in the next century the likely rise will be from 1C to 3.7C, not the 5C-plus scenario touted by alarmists. Similarly the IPCC report calls into question the alarmist claim that sea levels will rise 1m to 2m. Its estimates are in the range of 40cm to 63cm by the end of the century. Moreover, this moderate message is reinforced by the past 15-20 years of little or no temperature rise. Since 1980, the average of all the current climate models have overestimated the actual temperature rise by 71 to 159 per cent. This does not mean that there is not some global warming, but it makes the worst scenarios ever more implausible. Yet our climate conversation has been dominated by fear and end-of-the-world thinking. Less than a decade ago, Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth portrayed how a sea level rise of 6m would inundate Florida, along with Beijing and Bangladesh. Yes, it was terrifying. But it had no basis in reality. While panic is a great way to raise awareness and win votes, it does not produce smart policies. A sea-level rise of 40cm to 63cm poses a more manageable challenge. For purposes of comparison, sea levels have risen about 30cm in the past 150 years. Even with fewer resources and technologies at their disposal, our forefathers handled this challenge...
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...Analysis III Apple incorporates many tactics and business strategies to gain market shares and stay competitive. They also utilize their human resource management to attract and retain the best possible employees. Apple’s success is determined based on their employees. Apple ensures that their employees have the best benefits and have job satisfaction. Business strategies “Committed to bringing the best user experience to its customers” (Apple SEC Annual Report, 2011, p. 1) It leverages its unique ability to design and develop its own branded operating system, hardware, application software, and services. The new products and services have ease-of-use, seamless integration, and innovative design. The company believes strongly in the investment of its research and development which will enhance the products and technologies. iTunes store hosts a robust platform for the discovery and delivery of third-party content and applications (apps). Customers can download third-party apps and books through the App store or iBook store on either a Mac or Windows-based computer. Apple also supports the development of third-party software and products, which complement Apple’s products and software. iTunes has also decreased the prices to many ringtones, songs and apps, which is attracting...
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...factors using a PEST analysis………………………………… 4.3. Internal factors using a SWOT analysis………………………………… 5. Conclusion and Recommendations………………………………………….. 5.1. PEST 5.2. Task 2: Technological Change……………………………….. 5.2.1 Analyze Policies and Decision Making 5.2.2 Evaluate Effectiveness and Response 5.2.3 Demonstrate Areas of Improvement 5.3. SWOT………………………………………………………………… 6. References…………………………………………………………………. 7. Appendices………………………………………………………………… Appendix 1 Porter’s 5 Forces Model………………………………………….. 1. Abstract This report consists of an internal and external analysis of AirAsia using various methods including a PEST, Organization analysis, SWOT analysis and Porter’s 5 forces model. The main outcomes of the report are: 1.1 Conclusions reached: 1.2 Recommendations reached: 2. Introduction The company chosen for this report was AirAsia. The assignment required that: • A management report of 3,500 to 4,000 words is written on an organization. The report should describe, analyze and assess the impact of external and internal factors on the organization and evaluate the organization’s responses • In relation to technological change, analyze how it influences policies and decision making, critically evaluate the effectiveness of the organization and recommend areas for improvement in response for the organization. The company has been analyzed using the aforementioned procedures...
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...Book Review: This Changes Everything, by Naomi Klein, published: Sept. 2014 Summarize the book. What is being discussed? Rob Nixon of the New York Times called Naomi Klein’s “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate” “a book of such ambition and consequence that it is almost unreviewable.[1]” Naomi Klein researches the impact of Climate change and its relationship with free market capitalism. She discusses capitalism as failed economic system. She goes into great depth on the subject of resource extraction, pollution and the events of surrounding the affected communities in these regions across the world. However, rather than concluding that things are hopeless Naomi Klein argues that: We can build something better and reclaim our economic system. She argues that the market cannot save us. We have the tools/technology to get off of fossil fuels, but it requires leaving free market capitalism behind. We need to rebuild local economies, reign in corporate power and reclaim democracy. She argues that we aren’t all the all powerful saviours of the planet, but that as visitors on the earth we have to save ourselves from an earth that is rocking, burning and driving humanity into extinction because of our actions. Describe the three most important arguments or claims made in the book. The first argument Naomi Klein makes is that world leaders and climate scientists agree if we are going to avoid truly catastrophic consequences of climate change; we need to...
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...Can Nuclear Energy Be the Answer? It is only possible to mitigate global warming if the world-wide consumption of fossil fuels can be drastically reduced in the next 10 to 15 years. There is simply no room for a scenario as it is depicted by Lester R. Brown in the book Plan B 4.0 Mobilizing to Save Civilization. The scenario plays out like a horror movie, poverty, depleted water supply, food shortages, terrorism, over population, disastrous floods, erratic changes in ocean currents and global warming. What is causing global warming? Carbon dioxide and other air pollution that is collecting in the atmosphere like a thickening blanket, trapping the sun's heat and causing the planet to warm up. Coal-burning power plants are the largest United States source of carbon dioxide pollution -- they produce 2.5 billion tons every year. Automobiles, the second largest source, create nearly 1.5 billion tons of CO2 annually. (Valentinas Mickūnaitis) The good news is there are many technologies that exist today to allow cars to operate more efficiently and use less gas. In order to reduce the amount of toxins in the atmosphere, older power plants need to be modernized and we need to reduce our electricity by putting into practice energy efficiency, these are just some suggestions to lowering the levels of CO2, we have to make sure they are implemented. Politicians are especially attracted to the restoration of nuclear power as a possible solution to averting global warming. When the...
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...1. Abstract This report consists of an internal and external analysis of AirAsia using various methods including a PEST, Organization analysis, SWOT analysis and Porter’s 5 forces model. The main outcomes of the report are: 1.1 Conclusions reached: 1.2 Recommendations reached: 2. Introduction The company chosen for this report was AirAsia. The assignment required that: • A management report of 3,500 to 4,000 words is written on an organization. The report should describe, analyze and assess the impact of external and internal factors on the organization and evaluate the organization’s responses • In relation to technological change, analyze how it influences policies and decision making, critically evaluate the effectiveness of the organization and recommend areas for improvement in response for the organization. The company has been analyzed using the aforementioned procedures and tools; and conclusions and recommendations have been reached from these tools. 3. Background to AirAsia 3.1. Organization Definition A ‘no-frills’ airline is defined as one “That uses charter and/or scheduled flights to offer bargain-basement fares. Budget airlines usually land at and take-off from secondary airports, do not provide in-flight meals or refreshments, and may not even offer numbered seat allocation. Their ticket prices are fixed and non-refundable in case of a cancellation or no-show”. (i) 3.2. Looking at the Organization AirAsia is one of the fastest growing airline companies...
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...They must also utilize their internal marketing resources and explore external marketing options to find a profitable solution. Below is a diagram of the problem solving method (BPI Consulting, 2004): The first step is to define the problem. “Step 1 is a critical step in the problem solving process; it determines the overall focus of the project (BPI Consulting, 2004)”. Classic Airlines is a profitable company, however, they have experienced a decline in their market shares. This decrease in shares has resulted in negative press from the media and heavy criticism from market shareholders. These results have greatly affected employee morale, which can influence productivity. Another problem is the rising overhead costs which includes fuel and labor cost. Classic Airlines has implemented a cross-company budget cut for all departments. Classic Airlines has also seen a decrease in the enrollment of their classic rewards program. This means that their customers are either flying less or utilizing other airlines more frequently. The second step is to measure the problem. Measuring the problem allows Classic Airlines to collect data on the extent of their problems. After conducting a customer satisfaction survey it is determined that 56% of customers are unhappy with the current rewards program redemption options (University of Phoenix,...
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...City University of Hong Kong Master of Business Administration FB6706 Executive Discovery and Network Group report: Energy resources – Strategies and National Safety (能源战略与国家安全) Presented by Prof. Way Kuo on 18th September 2014 Prepared by Group 14: LEUNG Wai Hung, Calvin (53924394) LU, Yan Hui (53833750) QIU, Tao (53997233) SU, Jiahui (53739822) YANG, Xi (53863790) It was our honor to attend the presentation on “Energy Resources – Strategies and National Safety” given by Professor Way Kuo, the President of City University of Hong Kong and University Distinguished Professor. As an expert in the area of safety reliability, Professor Kuo wrote one of his popular science books named “Key Report of Nuclear Power” (2013), which aroused great impacts. The presentation was based on this book, which we could divide into three areas: Nuclear Safety & Environmental Issues, People’s Acceptance and Public Media Impacts. Nuclear Safety & Environmental Issues In the presentation, Professor Kuo said, currently the main resource to generate electricity was fire, such as coal and gas etc. The next would be water resource, nuclear resource and other new energy resources. In China, the most frequently used was fire to generate electricity. However, this created a lot of environment pollutions such as haze in Beijing. Moreover, in spite of the large amounts of rivers in China, waterpower was still lacking. It could not 1 become an alternative generation to support...
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...MYSTERY OF DISAPPEARING OIL In our opinion we think that the possibility of Jamel short-changinng is high. We have indentified the fraud symptoms as below: 1. Unusual behaviour - Jamel’s body language Unusual behaviour is seen through an individual's recognizable behaviour pattern to attempt to cope with the stress. The guilty leads to fear; fear leads to stress; and stress leads to behaviour changes. Research in psychology reveals that when a person, especially a first-time offender, commits a crime, he or she becomes engulfed by emotions of fear and guilt. Those emotions cause the individual to experience a significant amount of stress, and in order to cope with the stress, the individual will exhibit unusual and recognizable behaviour patterns. In this case, Jamel’s behaviour is very suspicious. First, body language such as the facial expressions and body posture can show people emotion and thinking especially when someone is trying to lying to another. In the meeting between Jamel and Mat Jon, Jamel’s reaction and expressions make him to be suspicious that he is doing something wrong and trying intentionally to cover it up from others knowing, especially his Pak Long, Mat Jon. We can see that Jamel looked very worry and nervous. He even trying hard to look confident, in order to not want his uncle to be monitoring the business closely and do not want his uncle to know what exactly happen in the business. Moreover, when Mat Jon question to Jamel the problem that...
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...REPORT TO NEPHEW The economy of Greece is the 27th largest economy in the world by gross domestic product & thirty third largest by purchasing power parity according to the data given by International Monetary Fund in 2008. But amidst this suddenly you could see news flashing everywhere about the Greece being declared bankrupt & its efforts to cope up with this problem. Now you wonder what is this crisis all about? In other words we can say that Greece had continuously borrowed funds from other countries exceeding its repaying capacity. In the beginning of 2010, it was discovered that since 2001 Greece had paid Goldman Sachs & other banks hundreds of millions of dollars in fees for arranging transactions that will hide the actual level of borrowing. Also, they made unrestrained expenses, provided cheap lending, were unable to recover taxes from its citizens & overspent on state pension plans. The main factor for the crisis is the high number of residents who purposely avoid tax, particularly the wealthy, starving the government of the cash that it needs to provide a sufficient level of public service. Another notable factor is the Greek tendency to be a little over generous with the state pension provisions to the elderly which although is a pleasant gesture in principle, left a large ongoing liability to the taxpayer. The ongoing struggle for the Greek government to balance...
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...STRENGTH 1. Low operational cost by having a single aircraft type fleet i.e. Boeing 737 or Airbus A-310. 2. Low maintanace cost due to the same reason as above. 3. Low operating cost due to being No Frill, online reservations, fast check in etc. 4. huge untapped market, specially for business travellers and "for-the-first-time-flying" segment. 5. target customers are who are currently using non-aircraft modes like, Bus, Trains, car to travel to distances. WEAKNESS 1. Rising Fuel Cost. 2. flight times are more or less limited to 2.5 hours. so you cant operate flights of longer duration without any Frill, so No-Frill becomes impossible to implement for passengers. 3. increased competition from proper carriers and other no frill carriers. OPPORTUNITY 1. tapping the segment which is not using airline to travel at all. i.e. people who are using Bus or car or train to travel from KL to LangKawi 2. Regional International flights of 2.5 hrs duration. THREAT 1. Rising Fuel Cost 2. more competition from State-owned Carriers Table of Content…………………………………………………………………2 1. Abstract……………………………………………………………………...3 1.1 Conclusions……………………………………………………………...3 1.2 Recommendations……………………………………………………….4 2. Introduction……………………………………………………………….…5 3. Background to AirAsia……………………………………………………..6 3.1. Organization Definition………………………………………………..6 3.2. Looking at the Organization…………………………………………… 4. Industry Framework Analysis……………………………………………….. 4.1. Porter’s...
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...towards Asian American groups and populations that continue to experience inequities, poverty, racism, and violence, but have no means of resolving the issues themselves (sue book). If anything, the myth has contributed to the racism that Asian Americans experience, as denying the racial experiences of people of color is also a form of microaggression. The model minority myth has also built up resentment against Asian Americans from other people of color, who believe Asian Americans have exceeded their minority status and have “become white,” making them immune to racism and earning them hostility from various non-Asian Americans (Sue, Book; Washington Post). This is especially true for African Americans, who White Americans have oppressed for so many generations that they are hostile to Asian Americans, who they perceive to be allies of White Americans because of their exaggerated success as the model minority...
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...the universe carries an unimaginably powerful battery within its heart, called the nucleus. This form of energy, often called Type-1 fuel, is hundreds of thousands, if not million, times more powerful than the conventional Type-0 fuels, which are basically dead plants and animals existing in the form of coal, petroleum, natural gas and other forms of fossil fuel. I. Terminology - Nuclear fission –splitting of atoms to produce energy in the form of heat. Uranium a naturally occurring radioactive metal - only element in which fission(splitting off nucleus) can take place easily, setting off a chain reaction or a self-sustained splitting of atoms. The atoms of Uranium are the largest and the heaviest known on earth so its nucleus is unstable. Besides uranium, plutonium can undergo fission. Fertile material – composed of atoms which do not undergo induced fission themselves but fissile material can be generated from them by irradiation in a nuclear reactor. E.g. U- 238 gives plutonium 239, TH- 232 gives U-233, and U-234 gives U-235. Criticality – When the chain reaction takes place for the first time in a nuclear electricity reactor, it means the reactor has reached its first criticality. Moderator – used to slowdown neutrons surrounding the fuel core of the reactor,e.g.Light water, heavy water (D2O) Pressurised Heavy Water reactor (PWHR) –fuel used is natural uranium. Heavy water is both coolant and reactor and is kept under high pressure. Natural Uranium has 2 kinds of isotopes...
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