* Should Coast4Life register its ships in Liberia and hire unskilled crew and hospitality workers from underdeveloped countries for low wages? Operational Issue: * Should Coast4Life implement a web-based booking system? Analysis of Issues: Alternative 1: Divesting the Fraser Dry Dock Discuss financial impact after showing the quantitave analyses in the appendix Pros: * Cons: * Not supported by the general manager of the dry dock * More BC communities lobbying the government for assistance in building docks for cruise ships and freighters * Would hurt Coast4Life’s reputation for safety * The layoffs could damage the relationship the company has with the local community, the city, and other governments. Alternative 2: Target a more profitable market segment Discuss financial impact after showing the quantitative analyses in the appendix Pros: * Offers unique services and features (e.g. whale watching, ports of call) * Offers value for price (Coastal Native) and special amenities (Natural Splendour) * Experienced sailors; low turnover * Dock and head office in good location * Good management team * Government agencies promote tourism in
Vlad Bakhmetyev Burchett/5 Illegal Immigration Research Paper Migration into the United States is often looked at as a privilege to those in search of a better life. However, migrating to the U.S. illegally is extremely detrimental to the government eroding State and Government funds. As a result, schools and hospitals all over the United States literally go bankrupt and get shut down. Clearly, illegal aliens cost the U.S. a great amount of money that could be allocated towards other funds for the benefit of its citizens. An estimated $2.5 billion a year is spent on their Medicaid, as well as another annual $12 billion dollars spent on primary and secondary school education for illegal kids, in addition some $1.6 billion is annually spent
Suzuki concludes that the war metaphor is appropriate because developed countries as a collective entity are the main cause of the devastating environmental crises around the world. For example, Industrialized nations are using a lot of the earth’s natural resources for personal gain and profits and because of this blatant exploitation of resources. Many citizens in third world countries are living sub standard lives and are unable to get sufficient resources to live. David Suzuki states that even though industrialized nations only account for about 20 percent of the population they are surprisingly consuming eighty per cent of the planets resource and also generate most of its industrial toxins and wastes. This fact proves that the industrialized
All of the small businesses, such as the grocery store, pharmacy, hardware store, and restaurants, would eventually be forced to close. The mom and pop shops wouldn’t be able to compete with the Supercenter. The closing of these stores would have several effects, such as lowering income and cutting ties between owners and employees. The Supercenter would also minimize specialization. The building of the Supercenter would also hurt the environment, by taking away multiple acres of farmland to build on.
The purchase amount, consequently, stretched the company's solubility thin. Upon entering the US market, Unicord was faced with a number of external and internal challenges that included controversial fishing techniques, cultural barries between US and Thai management, aggressive price wars that already existed in the US market, the tuna-dolphin controversy (purse-seigning) and divisive corporate decision making by top Thai management. The company inevitably fell into receivership in 1995 as a result of these challenges. The following cases analysis will attempt to present the most feasible solution to the problem of how to resuscitate Unicord from its present state. The recommendation includes the purchase and subsequent reorganization of Unicord by a private equity investment firm in order to make the necessary changes to allow the company to become profitable once again.
Red is the endangered areas In image 2, the most endangered reefs are in areas that are considered “Third World”, where populations have limited access to education. The people here are concerned mostly with putting food on the table now, later can wait for another day. There is a problem with reef systems today that directly comes from people who probably did not know that they were causing it. Runoff from sewers, especially untreated sewage kills corals by: * Suffocating corals and zooxantheallae by covering them with sludge and cutting off
While most commonly known for erecting large stone heads, the indigenous Polynesian residents that once inhabited the island are also notable for their inability to adapt to their unsustainable situation, resulting in their eventual demise. As the islanders' population grew over a gradual period of time, they faced a crisis: As they cut the forest down quicker then it could regenerate, and hunted wildlife too frequently, native plant and animals became extinct. As Jared Diamond pointed out, “any islander who tried to warn about the dangers of progressive deforestation would have been overridden by vested interests of bureaucrats and chiefs” (Diamond, Jared). This illustrates how a society that fails to recognize negative externalities and that avoids innovating sustainable living practices will inevitably die out. Thus, creativity can help us analyze current situations and extrapolate consequences that may result from poor habits.
Should New Orleans Be Rebuilt New Orleans is an amazing, mixture of culture and its own unique flare, but since Katrina hit now it is an utter death trap, unless we make plans to rebuild. Rebuilding and making the levees bigger and better will take an outstanding amount of time and money, (Document C), but I believe it would be worth it to save this small piece of our American culture and history. There are many people who have the opinion that New Orleans should not be rebuilt, because of it lacking a good education system or distrusted law enforcement, (Document F). I think these are bad reasons; New Orleans must be completely rebuilt, and what better place to start than with the law enforcement and education systems. Just letting go of such a historical place is just immoral, the site of the 1853
Now that the economy is in a downfall, that money should go towards creating more jobs, infrastructure repair, education spending and health care expansion. instead, this money is going towards a very unsuccessful war and the tax payer is having to pay more money in taxes. The most important problem is the fact that the troops and their families are the most affected by the war. In then ten years we have been involved more than 1,700 troops have been killed and over 13,000 have been wounded. From being deployed for a long time and seeing violence troops are extremely prone to developing PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Symptom).
But the natural background rate of extinction during the past 600 million years, the period of major life, has been on the order of only one species every year or so. Today the rate is surely hundreds of times higher, possibly thousands of times higher” (28) Basically, Myers is saying that our species on planet earth are going extinct. He’s saying that in the present time the rate of extinction is increasing much higher day by day. The human race needs to invest their time and resources on preserving what wild life habitat we have left. Myers stated, “Deforestation in Brazil's Atlantic-coastal forest and Madagascar has been going on for several centuries, but the main damage has occurred during this century, especially since 1950, i.e., since the spread of broad-scale industrialization and plantation agriculture in Brazil and since the onset of rapid population growth in Madagascar.” (30) In agreement with Myers, Deforestation has been an ongoing environmental issue for many years.