Good morning/evening, Ladies and gentlemen; I shall begin by summarizing Mr. Gladwells, chapter on The Ethnic Theory of Plane Crashes – Mr. Gladwell is correlating the idea that airplane crashes on Avianca flight #052, and most of Korean Air as a whole, were catastrophes partly based on an ethnic theory. He has based his findings on two “Hofstede’s Dimensions” elements; Power Indexed and Uncertainty Avoidance (Gladwell, p.202-203 & 209). He supports these theories’ after an American company named Boeing made a correlation, between a countries’ airline crashes and the Hofstede Dimensions (Gladwell, p. 220-221). Ladies and Gentlemen, to take Mr. Gladwell’s theory into acceptance, would do harm to the many different cultures our world is made up of. After all, our entire airline industry is located world wide. Based on the Hofstede Dimensions, are we to say US holds the safest commercial airline pilots? Let me show you examples as to why Mr. Gladwell’s correlation in support for his “Ethnic Theory” is wrong. Mr. Gladwell wrote in referring to the pilots of Korean Air, “Their problem was that they were trapped in roles dictated by the heavy weight of their country’s cultural legacy” (p.219). Mr. Gladwell also speaks of David Greenberg who was called on to fix the problems on Korean Air, this is what Gladwell says of …show more content…
Gladwell seems to try and entertain his audience even in the midst of something as serious as talking about someone’s last words: here he is writing about Avianca’s flight#052 transcript just before it crashed, keep in mind 72 souls were lost “If it were not the prelude to a tragedy, their back-and-forth would resemble an Abbott and Costello comedy routine” (p. 199). How can we take the seriousness of this matter (the influencing of government policy decision) and leave it to a man who entertains for a living in presuming his theory to be above, the thousands of man hours that took to write manuals and
Hofstede’s theory can be related to Chapter 7 of The Outliers. In the text, Hofstede has six value dimensions: individualism/collectivism/ uncertainty avoidance, power distance, masculinity/femininity, long-term/short-term orientation, and indulgence/restraint. According to Hofstede, these dimensions are influenced and changed by culture. Chapter 7 in The Outliers is called the ethnic theory of plane crashes. This was a both interesting and frustrating read as the plane crash could have been avoided if communication had been better.
Gladwell believes we should always trust our snap judgements and he gives many good reasons why we should, but at the end of the day I believe we should not always trust our snap judgements. Sometimes it may come to it and they may be right, but if we can avoid it I think we should. We have all experienced it unconsciously and never really thought about how this happens of why it happens and whether we should trust it. Sometimes we do trust it and other times we feel like we should not and that is why Gladwell is trying to persuade us that the best thing to do is always
Gladwell, being a great story teller, uses the art of storytelling in order to appeal to the reader’s emotions. These stories are often presented in the beginning of the writing, to engage the reader by appealing to their emotions by making them feel anger,
Sherman Alexie’s Flight Patterns, which discusses racial stereotypes, relates to the effects of 9/11 on American citizens, who tend to inappropriately judge Muslim and other cultures in the world today. Although 9/11 was a horrible day, it still should not be used to categorize and stereotype people. Stereotypes do nothing but harm to the people who receive it and to the people who dish it out.
Racism, prejudice, stereotypes, discrimination, these are just a few of the topics that the movie Crash touches on. This film was well written and shows an honest depiction of the racial and social tensions that we face every day. However, the film shows us that no matter who you are, we all have some type of stereotype ingrained into us and it is not one group of people that believe in the stereotypes of others.
This report is on the Crossair flight 3597 crash which happens at Zurich airport on 24th November 2001. Analysis of Crossair flight 3597 will be covered, which includes details such as facts of Crossair flight 3597 crash, and the three contributing factors involved in the air accident. The three contributing factors are mainly Crossair, pilot error and communications with air traffic controllers.
It was the afternoon of July 25, 2000. One hundred passengers, most of them German, boarded the Concorde Air France Flight 4590. This was a trip of a lifetime for many people, as Concorde was restricted to the wealthy class of people. The excitement in people was cut short by the unfortunate delay in flight, because of maintenance in one of its engines. The passengers boarded the plane a couple of hours after the scheduled time. Finally, it was cleared for taxi on runway 26-Right. The pilots lined the aircraft parallel to the runway. A tragic accident, however, was about to befall.
Wilbur Wright once said, “The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air.” He changed American culture forever when he made the first flight alongside his brother Orville. This invention would have an even greater impact on our culture than cars. Although cars are used every day in America, planes have had the largest impact on American culture. Without planes, our lives would be drastically different, but not in a good way. Airplanes had a major impact on military, commerce, and travel.
For this assignment, I decided to watch “Crash”, a movie set in the streets of Los Angeles California and that shows the lives of various individuals with different cultural backgrounds. The movie starts with the scene of a car crash between an Asian woman and a couple of detectives near the sight of a murder, as the African American detective Graham Waters walks around the scene he stops because he saw something that shocked him, and from there a flashback begins. The first relevant scene shows, Anthony and Peter, two African Americans individuals walking down the street talking about racial discrimination. As they talk a couple passes by them and the two decide to steal their car. This causes a chain of events affecting the lives of many
The movie Crash (2004), directed by Paul Haggis, has encouraged the former Los Angeles police chief, William Bratton, to inform his deputy chiefs of the race relations within the movie. Bratton said “There’s nothing I saw depicted there that I’ve not experienced in my own years of policing;” therefore, the question that comes to mind is whether or not the film is also applicable to race relations in New York City. I sincerely believe that race relations within the New York City Police department and the minority community still exist; however, the media exaggerates the incidents that occur between different ethnic backgrounds. There are more incidences that occur between the same ethnic group, rather than attacks solely between blacks and
Crash is a good movie that portrays all the racism and stereotyping that people and communities are facing. There are more issues than what I found during the movie but I will talk about the ones that stood out to me. One thing amazing about the movie is how the story develops and how all the stories tie into one another. Crash evokes the "racial" problem that faces the United States because of its diversity that should be an advantage but in general, it is not often the case. It often does not work as expected because of stereotype, discrimination and racism that face different minority communities. Whether emotion, terror and rage, Crash depicts the brutal realism of cynicism, or the American collective fantasy into force of a dominant race.
Tension between the African Americans and Caucasians have been present in America since slavery. In the movie Crash (2004), race and culture are major themes that can be seen in the lives of the characters in the film. One character in particular, Cameron, a prestigious color vision director, displays the friction between two cultures. He belongs to the educated, upper class of the Los Angeles area. He is also an African American, yet he seems to have no ties with that class. He has a light-skinned wife, attends award shows, and it appears that his acquaintances are predominately white. When he and his wife, Christine, get pulled over by a racist cop, he experiences emotions of powerlessness and helplessness that he never knew he would experience due to his upbringing and place in society. Cameron goes through a radical transformation where he comes to grips with his background and how he fits into these two clashing cultures.
He has a good sense of writing as he makes research interesting, attracting readers to keep reading. To illustrate his opinions, Gladwell uses various evidences: Einstein Evidence, Example Evidence, Fact Evidence and Undocumented Evidence. Those evidences make his statements strong and convincing. For example, Gladwell writes the story of the ethnic theory of the Korean plane crashes happened before 1999. Without Gladwell’s discovery, how many people can relate a country’s cultural legacy with its plane crash? Gladwell doesn’t show his discovery directly, instead, he starts by telling a real story of Korean Air flight 801 which turns out to be a disaster. Next, he lists a series of plane crashes that have one thing in common─all of these disasters are happened on Korean airplanes. Gladwell patiently waits the moment when readers become curious, and then he jumps out to give the explanations. This makes his viewpoint impressive to readers and also instructive to future researcher because Gladwell’s discoveries are based on the real historical
When I stepped into the large neatly organized white polished plane, I never though something would go wrong. I woke up and found myself on an extremely hot bright sunny desert island filled with shiny soft bright green palm trees containing rough bright yellow hard felt juicy apples. The simple strong plane I was in earlier shattered into little pieces of broken glass and metal when crashing onto the wet slimy coffee colored sand and burning with red orange colored flames. After my realization to this heart throbbing incident I began to run pressing my eight inch footsteps into the wet squishy slimy light brown sand looking in every direction with my wide open eyes filled with confusion in search of other survivors. After finding four other survivors we began moving our small petite weak legs fifty inches from the painful incident. Reaching our destination which was a tiny space filled with dark shade blocking the extreme heat coming from the bright blue sky, I felt my eyelids slowly moving down my light colored hazel eyes and found myself in a dream. I was awakened the next day from a grumbling noise coming from my empty stomach.
Texts can provide a vast knowledge on subjects dependent on content, whereas novels are often seen as being purely for leisure and enjoyment. However, it can often be seen that prose consists of a wide array of factors that relate to historical events and can be used to inform and express feelings towards a topic. George Orwell stated that he would often write “because there is some lie that I want to expose” (Orwell, Why I write, 1946) and indicated this through his novels. Orwell’s characterisation connects the reader emotionally to the characters through simplistic descriptions which draw upon sympathy when labelled as “feeble” (Orwell, Animal Farm, 1945). Alongside this simplistic style, Orwell’s matter-of-face tone reflects the characters inability to respond to events and depicts the severity of the outcome.