The article by Binyamin Appelbaum and Christopher Payne demonstrates the complexity of one of the world’s biggest supply chains. It was interesting to learn how many different components went into the production of the airplanes. The different geographic locations in which the parts were built was fascinating as well. I had no idea that a manufacturer in Alabama would have parts shipped in from places as far away as Wales and France. The amount of coordination and collaboration needed to maintain efficiency within Airbus must be incredible. Later in the article I learned that the small town of Mobile, Alabama had been trying to develop an airplane factory for more than 30 years. It wasn’t until 2012 that they finally began assembling passenger
1 Wilson Follett, in the article “On Usage, Purism, Pedantry” from Modern American Usage, promotes how two parties view the rights and wrongs concerning the usage of language.
Gulfstream Aerospace is one of leading corporate jet manufacturers in the world. They have been building jets since the late 50’s and continue to create top of the line aircraft which have become the status symbol of success. With their success comes an extensive company infrastructure and supply chain. First, we will discuss how Gulfstream uses the location to maximize the effectiveness of its supply chain. Then we will look at the business case for Gulfstream’s approach to its supply chain, and in particular, does it make sense to have a car follow supplies while it is on the rail system. Finally, we will look at Gulfstream’s to the “just in time” manufacturing and its strategic approach to choosing locations.
Catherine Cangany’s article Fashioning Moccasins: Detroit, the Manufacturing Frontier, and the Empire of Consumption, 1701-1835, cover the main theme 18th century Detroit. Cangany explores how the moccasin, a fashionable and practical shoe, transformed from a shoe exclusively worn by native groups to a highly fashionable shoe that French and British colonies started to integrate into their own culture to taking the moccasin to manufacturing and becoming Europeanized. Though out many decades, the process of creating moccasins became more ‘industrial’ which made them a symbol of native culture to East Coast fashion. Cangany’s article examines how the production of moccasins became so popular and fashionable among European colonists that eventually moccasins no longer were a native creation.
Robert Root-Bernstein and Donald L. McEachron, “Teaching Theories: The Evolution-Creation Controversy,” The American Biology Teacher, Vol. 44, No. 7 (Oct…1982). This article, written by Robert Root-Bernstein and Donald L. McEachron sheds light on the controversy of evolution vs creationism in schools and the validity of each being called a scientific theory. The work was created to answer the questions, “Which of these theories is truly scientific and which is a religious belief? Which should be taught in schools?” The article concluded in favor of evolution as a valid scientific theory that should be taught rather than creationism, but also mentioned the worth of understanding the latter.
As airline industry is a competitive marketplace, the airline companies use new technologies to improve their efficiency and decrease the overhead costs, including ‘advanced aircraft engine technology, IT solutions, and mobile technology’ (Cederholm 2014). The technology changes including technology improvement, new innovation and disruptive technology. The disruptive technology need to meet the characteristics of ‘simplicity, convenience, accessibility and affordability’ (Christensen 1995). The technology changes would bring both opportunities and threats to airline companies. Since Labour cost and fuel costs occupy 50% of most airlines operating cost (Groot 2014). Therefore, if new technologies could be disruptive in the two aspects, there will be important changes to current airline
The Boeing Corporation is one of the largest manufacturers in the world. Rivaled only by European giant Airbus in the aerospace industry, Boeing is a leader in research, design and manufacture of commercial jet airliners, for commercial, industrial and military customers. Despite enjoying immense success in its market and dominating an industry that solely recognizes engineering excellence, it is crucial for Boeing to ensure continued growth through consistent strategy formulation and execution to avoid falling behind in market share to close and coming rivals.
This report describes the strengths and weakness of the organizational structure of Airborne Express. Furthermore, it also gives recommendations for future changes in Airborne Express. The first section of this report addresses how the organization of the firm evolved, and what changes are taking place structurally in its industry. The second section discusses labor issues in the air express industry and how they affect Airborne Express. The third section addresses the growing electronic commerce market and how it’s affecting the industry and Airborne Express.
Assessment of Two Magazine Articles Looking at the studied articles “Lohan behold” by ‘sugar’ magazine featuring Lindsay Lohan and “I don’t need to take care of a man to be happy” by ‘cosmopolitan’ featuring Jennifer Lopez we see the main purpose of the 2 articles are to sell the celebrities lives, and meeting the purpose by entertaining their audience. The title in ‘sugar’;“Lohan behold” is automatically promotes herself , it is in a rough, somewhat untamed font and cuts through the picture this may suggest that this is a reflection of Lohan being wild, untamed and has no control because she is new to the celebrity world. The title “I don’t need a man to be happy” in cosmopolitan has emphasized the words ‘take care’ and ‘man’ and ‘happy’ the title is bold and eye catching and the emphasis of these words can suggest that they are trying to target the people especially women that are married as they are in the same sort of relationship problems but advertising Jennifer but in a positive light both articles have the titles big and bold but ‘cosmopolitan has a much simpler layout and enforces the increasing independency of her.
At the end of the World War II series of new aircrafts filled the expand need of air transportation, these new acquisitions made AA the only airline in the US with a completely post war fleet of pressurized passenger airplanes. Eight years later AA pioneered non-stop transcontinental service in both directions across the US. Due to American Airlines incredible growth, they teamed up with I...
Rhetoric in the article by William Covino and David Jolliffe is explained as an art of persuasion that uses communication with a purpose or goal. To add, it is an ongoing conversation between the rhetor and the auditors. In addition to using persuasion, the observance of the audience is used as well. In the article by William Covino and David Jolliffe they talk about the four major elements of rhetoric: the rhetorical situation, the audience, the methods of persuasion, and the 5 canons. As explained in the reading the purpose of rhetorical communication is to teach, to please, and to move.
Airbus industry was formed as the conglomeration of western European countries which included Britain, Germany, and Spain and was led by France. During that period, Boeing was the largest manufacturer of the commercial aircrafts and held the monopoly in the market, which brought the aviation industry of the European nations into their senses. This led to the formation of France led Airbus. Now, Airbus is one of the leading manufacturers of aircrafts and has a product line of aircrafts which range from economy to luxury and from 150 to 850 carrying capacity. It also captures almost half the market. The factories of Airbus are all over Europe, headquarters being at France and have fully owned subsidiaries, spare and service parts centers spread
In order to provide semi-accurate response, I wanted to try and take the Big Five test as Helen and Mary using the information I had provided from the article. The results are not 100% accurate to what I think their traits are, but it was interesting to see how they compare.
In the article “Confusing Harder with Better” which was written by Alfie Kohn published in Education Week. Kohn believes that there are many problems in the current educational system. Students cannot have a good way to get real education in the school. According to “These days almost anything can be done to students and to schools, no matter how ill-considered, as long as it is done in the name of raising standards”. Nowadays, teachers are usually giving many different tests for students to evaluate knowledge level.
The purpose of the article I reviewed by Lykeridou, Gourounti, Deltsidou, Lautradis, and& Vaslamatzis (2009) was to examine women’s level of depression, perceived anxiety, and overall stress related to infertility while receiving fertility treatments. It w as hypothesized that the etiology of an infertility diagnoses wouldwill affect female’s psychological vulnerability. The variables that were looked at in the study were infertility diagnoses and psychological disturbances. The levels of infertility diagnoses used in the research were male factor infertility, female factor infertility, mixed, and idiopathic infertility. The various levels of psychological disturbances included depression, perceived anxiety, and overall fertility related stress.
Southwest airlines is now the nation’s largest carrier in terms of originating domestic passengers boarded according to the most recent data available from the U.S transportation. The carrier offers flights to some of the world’s most popular destinations. They also operate the largest fleet of Boeing aircraft in the world to serve 93 destinations in 40 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and five near international countries which are Aruba, Bahamas, Jamaica, Dominican Republic and Mexico (Swamedia, 2015). Another key point to Southwest’s successful operation is that they only employ one type of aircraft, the Boeing 737. By resisting the customary practice of employing numerous types of aircrafts, the carriers can save on operational costs such as training technicians and focus on other customer-driven needs (Slate,