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millennials, healthcare, and employee sponsored pensions, impact of technology, tele-commuting and working remotely. Contrarily, suppliers are in short supply on the aviation side of the business. There are less than 5 major aircraft suppliers led by Boeing and Airbus. Similarly, assets that support the business such as aviation ground support equipment is highly specialized. Other suppliers such as corporate real estate owners, commercial vehicle vendors and IT procurement require constant…

The spring of 1945 saw the end of the Second World War in the European theatre. Adolf Hitler's suicide on the 30th of April lead to the surrender of Nazi Germany on the 7th of May, and the final dissolution of the Third Reich came on the 23rd day of May. As glorious a victory as it was for the Allied Forces in the west, this did not mean the end of the war, as the fighting in the Pacific theatre against the Japanese Empire was as intense as ever. The plan developed by the Allies to bring an end…

are felt every day through gun violence, mass shooting, mass incarceration, and increasingly militarized law enforcement agencies. America is obsessed with guns. History explains how guns ended up all around the world, and U.S. corporations like Boeing and Lockheed Martin are the largest global exporters of weapons accounting for about half of the worldwide gun sales totaling over $80 billion dollars. Not to mention the even greater sums that the U.S. government is spending buying the…

The United States Army Airforce was an integral part of finally putting an end to the Second World War. Japan’s unconditional surrender in August of 1945 was a joint effort by multiple countries. However, in the end it was 2 Army Airforce B-29 bombers that delivered the final blows of WWII when they dropped the first 2 combat atomic bombs. Those historic aircraft were named the Enola Gay, and Bockscar. At the end of the 1930’s, leaders of the US Army Air Corps learned quickly that the…

Discussion Question 7.2 Without a doubt, Apple Incorporated has been highly innovative. Throughout Apple’s history it has innovated and brought new technology to the marketplace. Apple has used each of the four types of innovation throughout its history. For example, the first Mac computer drew technology from developments at Xerox Parc in the 1970s, but was a new technology in the sense the Mac was smaller, faster, and much less expensive (Nonala & Kenney 1991). In the 1970s through the…

Tanks vs. Bombers World War II was a war in which the world had many technological advances in the way that wars were fought. Of those advances, weaponry advancements were some of the most changed. These weaponry advances included the Bomber and the Tank. Both of these mobile weapons revolutionized warfare by having the ability to deal great damage without getting up close and personal with the intended target. While both weapons had a profound and revolutionary impact on the war, the bomber…

‘’ Is it Hollywood or is it History?’’ ‘’ It always seems impossible till its done’’.This is a famous quote from Nelson Mandela who was once President of South Africa . Mandela was famous for taking his country out of a apartheid. Recently i watched the movie Invictus, which is about how mandela used the sport of rugby to bring his country together. I have also done research of the true events time period and people. I will prove that the film, Invictus was historically accurate by discussing…

Best Places To Go In Singapore With Your Kids This Children’s Day Children’s Day was probably the day that everyone looked forward to when they were a kidin Primary School. Well, besides our birthday, that is! Aside from the fact that it is a school holiday, there were also the gifts that always managed to make the whole day just well, perfect. This year, Children’s Day falls on a Friday and we all know what that means, a whole weekend of Children’s Day related activitiesevents! Here’s a list…

sustained (Ursano, Fullerton & Norwood, n.d.). This paper will briefly compare and contrast the seven psychological stages of a disaster in the 2010 Haiti earthquake (natural disaster), and the 1988 Lockerbie, Scotland crash of the NY bound Pan-Am Boeing 747 (terrorist disaster). The Haiti earthquake was a 7.0 magnitude earthquake which struck near Port au Prince where it is estimated that 86% of the people living there were living in deplorable conditions – mostly tightly packed in poorly…

In 1945, the Enola Gay, a Boeing B-29 Super-fortress bomber, dropped an atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan, “killing about 70,000 people in a blinding flash of heat and radiation”, some died in an attempt to escape from the fire, some died drowning in the river, with a multitude dying years later due to radiation poising, cancer caused by the radiation as well as severe burns. This essay compares the two source documents reflecting the personal experiences of both Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot…