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under which the FAA currently operates. Privatization ideas include managing Air Traffic Control duties, employees, and facilities into an independent corporation (Halsey, 2015a). Paul Rinaldi, President of the Air Traffic controllers ' union and Doug Parker, CEO of American Airlines, are among those who support privatization. (Subcommittee on Aviation, 2015). A…

Social media’s population is expanding, with people creating new social media accounts daily. This causes career opportunities to arise, a successful career being producing click farms. The article “How Click Farms Have Inflated Social Media” written by Doug Bock Clark, in the May 2015 edition of The New Republic, explains the status of click farms. Click Farms are online establishments that allow customers buy social media influence to boost their standing. Kim Capisong is an employee for an…

The company I researched is Wal-Mart, Inc. Their founder was Sam Walton at first was a J.C Penney employee purchased a branch of the Ben Franklin Stores from the Butler Brothers in 1945 to start his business Due to him selling products at low prices to get higher-volume sales at a lower profit margin made him experience some setback, but was able to get over the issue. After his not being able to come to terms with a lease renewal Walton decided to open up his first own Bentonville, Arkansas…

I chose the article in Dataflog as it combines two issues that have been disruptive to my personal experience and knowledge during my study at IE: big data analytics global diffusion and demand forecasting in supply chain management. The article is about how Tesco supermarkets chain realized the value of its Clubcard to get the insight into its customers’ behaviors and received detailed data on two-thirds of all shopping baskets. Tesco used the big data analytics in predicting the demand of…

“The Achievement Habit” by Bernard Roth gives great advice for all of life 's struggles. Bernard Roth is a Professor at Stanford University. In the 1980s, him, Rolf Faste and Doug Wilde put together a creativity workshop. Many students, faculty, and professionals were introduced to this idea. These same ideas are used in his book, “The Achievement Habit”. Roth says that these ideas are helpful for a student to make a positive difference in their life. Everything in life has a meaning, a meaning…

In the passage “Making Sense of Human Interaction and Meaning-Making”, Doug Downs directly explains how the “Rhetoric” meaning has a variety set of definitions that we students, are not aware of. Downs elaborates on how we use examples of the term every day of our lives without even being being aware that it’s the case. I totally agreed in a section where Downs spoke about how many believe that there are certain rules that are true in all writing situations. Most of my life, I was used to…

Tyler Whitney Puffer 5th 12/17-1/18 Electric vs Gas Powered Cars There is a lot of pollution in the air. Most of the time gas powered cars are blamed for this, but did you know that most of the air pollution is not a gas powered car. It is electric cars too to when electric cars are made there is a lot of pollution going in the air,no I am not saying that gas powered cars are not this way too because they do when both are made tons of air pollution is released.look at china you can’t see ten…

In season 9, episode 5 of Shark Tank, the sharks (investors) are faced with many important decisions that can make or break the businesses for these four companies whose businesses range anywhere from clothing to home improvement. The first entrepreneurs that came on the show was Eric Huang and Steven Mazur with the company “Ash & Anvil” out of Detroit, Michigan. Their clothing line is a brand made especially for “short” men. While making their pitch to the sharks, Steven said “one in three…

Is it okay to take the life of another, but only if they are in agonizing pain and terminally ill to quickly end the pain or is it better to let them die after days, weeks, months, even years of torture? What dignifies whether or not assisted suicide is right or wrong, the morals of humanity, or the laws set by religious community? It can’t be at all kind to let close relatives and even strangers live through the most terrible pain imaginable, while we sit and watch, not truly aware of the…

develop my independent research skills in the laboratory setting using the world class facilities that Birmingham offer. The ground-breaking research produced by the university is the final reason why I want to complete the MRes. For example, Professors Doug Carroll and Anna Whittaker’s pioneering work into blunted stress reactivity has changed the way we view stress and health. I am already part of the university’s community, and therefore want to stay, develop my skills, and contribute, both…