Uniformed services of the United States

Since my last journal, I have been busy reading more of Meg Cabot’s All American Girl. In All American Girl, Sam has been forced into going to drawing lessons. Her first lesson at the studio did not go so well. Sam was humiliated and by the time her next lesson came around she was not going to lose her pride again. Instead of going to her drawing lesson, Sam chose to go to a music store, Static. In the store she sat next to a middle-aged man in an army uniform, listening to Billy Joel’s Uptown…

controlled by one firm who then becomes the single seller. Monopolies hold power over the market, meaning they can either set a fixed price or determine an output and then sell this output at the highest price the market will bear. The United States Postal Service is a natural monopoly, meaning they have large economies of scale that limit their costs of production and are large enough to efficiently supply the country with mail. Since a monopoly is the only seller of a good in the market, the…

Gifford Pinchot protecting the environment The environment is extremely valuable, once it is ruined, it will be very hard to repair and recover. In some cases, it would be impossible to turn back around. Once it happens the Earth would be stuck like that forever, or at least until the end of time. People like Gifford Pinchot, John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson saw this, and they decided to do something about it. “It is ours to use and conserve for ourselves and our descendants,…

Problems The 1920s was a step into the modern age with developments like refrigeration and penicillin that many took advantage of. However, the target of 1920s innovation was how we used aviation to excel transportation and communication within the country using a surplus military airplanes that no longer served a purpose. With this different approach for shipping goods came difficulties soon after takeoff, pilots struggling to keep up, find their way, or stay airborne. The beginnings of…

Pinchot and the Forests From 1890-1920 the United States went through a period of reform known as the Progressive Era. The era’s reformers had a wide variety of social, political, and economic goals that they began pursuing at a grassroots level, such as temperance and women’s suffrage (“Progressive Era and World War I”). A significant facet of the era was the Conservation Movement, whose philosophy came from the writings of early naturalists such as John Muir (1838-1914) (“Conservative…

FedEx Corporation is an American courier delivery services company headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee and was founded in 1973. The name "FedEx" is an abbreviation for Federal Express, which was used from 1973 until 2000. In 2000 the name was then changed to FedEx Express. The company is known for its overnight shipping service, and they also started the tracking system. They were the first company that was able to track a package and provide delivery updates. This system is now being used by…

from then on were required to plan out every trip and always have a bodyguard by their side. Along with this, the Secret Service agents working the day of the assassination state that there was nothing they could have done to help Kennedy after the shots were fired. They were in a completely different motorcade car with no immediate access to the President. Even if the Secret Service agents had been immediately accessible to Kennedy at the time of the assassination, very few of them had any…

Federal Express (FedEx) was founded in 1971 and handles many package requests daily. In order for them to remain competitive they use their website FedEx.com to field questions received by customers on a daily basis. FedEx has managed to reduce cost by almost $2.00 using the website. Customers are still able to speak with a Customer Representative if questions are not easily answered on the website. FedEx has many strengths using the latest technologies offered. First, customers are able to get…

USPS GENERAL OVERVIEW The United Sates Postal Service (USPS) founded in 1775, is a federal agency that is responsible of providing postal services to citizens at a standard cost independently of location. USPS is the only delivery service institution that reaches around 150 million addresses around the country. USPS annual revenue is 65 billion for the closing fiscal year of 2012, and it also delivers around 40% of the world’s mail (David, 2015). USPS source of incomes is based on the sale of…

multi-product offering and customized services. Traded on the NASDAQ from 1997 to 2002, Aramex today is a publicly traded company on the Dubai Financial Market (DFM: ARMX), employing more than 8,600 people in over 310 locations around the world, and has a strong association network providing worldwide presence. Competitive advantage: Ability of one organization to outperform other organizations because it produces desired goods or services more efficiently and…