...“Flight From Conversation” 1. It is hard to imagine a period in time when manuscript was not yet invented. The majority of my life I have been communicated and taught through texts. Without things being written down, it would be very difficult to communicate things through time. For example, history would change over time if it were only communicated verbally. Handwritten manuscripts, texts, books, etc...were designed to communicate faster and more accurately. As I look back on the transition of verbal communication to written/typed communication, I do not see any dangers or radical changes in society. Society advanced, but no significant changes in human nature occurred. In today’s society, we have yet again reinvented communication. No longer do you have to be near someone to communicate to them. You can send anything to almost anywhere in the world in a matter of seconds. With instant communication, society does seem to be changing a little bit. More people are plugged into a technological world, and have trouble communicating with people in person. I hope society can find ways to improve technological communication while helping society stay true to our human nature to communicate personally. 4. “We flee from solitude, our ability to be separate and gather ourselves.” This passage is not true for myself, because I place high value on my personal alone time. I do not need to be in constant communication with others, either through personal conversation or through technological...
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...filled-to-capacity Boeing 737 taxis to the ramp at Maui’s Kahului Airport, 200 weary travellers are brought back to life by the a capella stylings of the lead flight attendant’s playful rendition of “Over the Rainbow.” Customers, or “guests” as WestJet prefers to call them, quickly realize that they are now part of another unique WestJet moment. They chuckle as the WestJetter cleverly integrates local time, temperature, and gate information into the lyrics, but he earns genuine LOLs when he works in the verse, “flying to Hawaii is free when you’re a WestJet employee.” Thus, despite being awake since 4:30 a.m., boarding a plane in Calgary in the dead of a prairie winter, and enduring a seven-hour flight with two young children who refused to sleep, these “guests” are ready to embrace the magic of Maui. The travellers may never know the reason for the improv performance, but maybe it was just another example of what the advertisements have been telling us for the better part of a decade: “Owners care,” a slogan communicating how the airline’s employee stock option package motivates participating WestJetters to go just a little bit further to please. WestJet’s philosophy of creating customer value is not based in its industry-leading turnaround times, modern fleet of planes, or even its competitively priced fares. Customer value stems from the core of a corporate culture, something only achievable when your people are engaged. In the words of Bob Cummings, executive vice-president of sales...
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...Manthapuram Jessika Basnet KC Course: ESL writing Professor: Margaret Anne Shaw DATE: May 9th, 2015 Abstract Electronic communication had revised a lot from last decade, which is helping individual to do work in easy and comfortable manner to complete their task in time and they can also send huge data for person to person within seconds from any point of the world is also time saving and helping to get instant communication and saving time by clear conversation through emails other than phone conversation, this is possible because of maintaining ample coverage in all over the world, there is also economical advantage of this electronic communication which is cheap and liable to every person helped to stay connected to people in all over the world, whereas this kind of positive reasons helped to increase video calling, mobile, e-mails, tele-conferencing and social media. Many Multi-National companies are accessing data from employee related to different localities in all over the world with the help of electronic communication helping to improve employment around the globe named as outsourcing employment and increasing global economy, in some places electronic communication is playing major between politician and people. Although electronic communication has many benefits its effecting face to face conversations in society leading to communication gaps between person to person. ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION CHANGED HUMAN LIFE In the modern generation, the working prototypes...
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...Introduction We all have seen many books and articles where one diagram attempts to capture the gist of the architecture of a system. But looking carefully at the set of boxes and arrows shown on these diagrams, it becomes clear that their authors have struggled hard to represent more on one blueprint than it can actually express. Are the boxes representing running programs? Or chunks of source code? Or physical computers? Or merely logical groupings of functionality? Are the arrows representing compilation dependencies? Or control flows? Or data flows? Usually it is a bit of everything. Does an architecture need a single architectural style? Sometimes the architecture of the software suffers scars from a system design that went too far into prematurely partitioning the software, or from an over-emphasis on one aspect of software development: data engineering, or run-time efficiency, or development strategy and team organization. Often also the architecture does not address the concerns of all its “customers” (or...
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...AVIATION SAFETY PROGRAM EASTERN SKY AIRLINES DIEGO LUIS PALACIN ENDERS INDEX 1. SECTION ONE: SAFETY POLICY 2. SECTION TWO: SAFETY AND HEALTH RESPONSIBILITIES 3. SECTION THREE: EMPLOYEE PARTICIPATION 4. SECTION FOUR: SAFETY RULES AND REGULATIONS 5. SECTION FIVE: DISCILINARY POLICY 6. SECTION SIX: HAZARD RECOGNITION, PREVENTION AND CONTROL 7. SECTION SEVEN: ACCIDENT/INCIDENT REPORTING 8. SECTION EIGHT: EMERGENCY PLANING AND RESPONSE 9. SECTION NINE: SAFETY AND HEALTH TRAINING AND EDUCATION 10. SECTION TEN: SAFETY AND HEATH ASSISTANCE RESOURCES 11. SECTION ELEVEN: CONTACT INFORMATION SECTION ONE SAFETY POLICY Safety is a team effort – Let us all work together to keep this a safe and healthy workplace Eastern Sky Airlines places high value on the safety of its employees and passengers. Eastern Sky Airlines is committed to providing a safe workplace for all employees and has developed this Aviation Safety Program for injury and accident prevention to involve management, supervisors, and employees in identifying and eliminating or reducing hazards that may develop during ground or air operations. Eastern Sky Airlines Safety Program objective is to create a safety culture in which we stress to all employees that safety is as important as any other business function. Only thought the joint commitment on the part of management and employees can workplace accidents and injuries be reduced or eliminated. Employees should be encouraged to not only work safely...
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...Yohance Patterson Case Study 3 Professor George Scott 11/07/14 United Breaks Guitars “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.” – Warren Buffet (cite) Introduction David Carroll a musician and his band “Sons of Maxwell” were flying back from their hometown of Halifax, Canada from doing a week worth of shows in Omaha, Nebraska on March 31, 2008. On aboard a connector flight in Chicago at O’Hara international airport, David noticed a baggage claim handler mishandle his $3,500 guitar. David expressed to the flight agent about the incident but she responded by saying “Don’t talk to me. Talk to the lead agent outside.” Each person David tried to speak with about the incident passed him on to another person who couldn’t help him, David’s guitar ended up being broken and in need of repair. David request was for United Airlines to take the responsibility for the damages of the guitar by reimbursing the $1200 dollars that it cost to repair the guitar as well as $1200 worth of flight vouchers. After 7 months since the incident happen David was contacted by a rep from United Airline through email saying that she was sorry about what happened to the guitar, but that standard airline policy held that claims be made within 24 hours of damage and since he didn’t get his guitar inspected by United his claim was denied. David said “the system is designed to frustrate affected customers into giving up...
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...A4A Appx. 1 2.Video Briefings a)Pretakeoff 5. Floating Equipments (b) (page 3, ¶4 ) Briefing Pax on all flotation equipment installed on an airplane, including a full demonstration of correct life preserver retrieval and donning procedures, before all flights could be problematic in attention/retention Agree that we can provide breifing prior to all flights regardless of route; however, requirements to show specific retreival could be problematic given that aircraft seats and stowage can vary within a fleet type. Move to strike. It is more important to focus on removal from packaging and donning. A4A Appx. 1 2.Video Briefings a)Pretakeoff 5. Floating Equipments (b) (page 3, ¶4 ) Providing different safety information cards at different seats...
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...I would like to express my dissatisfaction with my recent experience at Delta Airline. One week ago, I was at Delta airport, ready to leave for a vacation that I had been dreaming about since I started my junior year in high school. The problem commenced when my flight was delayed. Furthermore, my luggage was delivered to an incorrect place. These instabilities turned my vacation into a chaos, causing me to feel discontent towards Delta. I have been flying with Delta Airline for past 10 years, and always had an enjoyable trip with them. However, I am dissatisfied with my recent experience with them. The problem started when my flight was delayed by an hour. I understood that nobody is perfect, and I patiently waited for an extra hour. However,...
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...on me. When I five years old, I was rewarded for being good at the doctor’s with a new Barbie. I was so excited because all of my friends had one already. I loved playing with my new found friend, but soon wanted more. After two more successful visits to the doctor’s, Ken and several others helped me to start quite a collection. These dolls were not only toys to me, but an extended family. I spent countless hours with them every day for years. They had a permanent home against my bedroom wall that stretched 5ft long. The monstrous house consisted of four beds, complete with linens and pillows that my mother had made. The kitchen was furnished of dishes, pots, pans, and an array of “food”. The living room had a TV that I made from an old cardboard jewelry box that I drew on and mini magazines. When I was seven, for Christmas my grandma bought me a baby blue Barbie Corvette and it still sits up on a shelf in my parent’s garage. One reason why I want them to keep it is because I think it has some monetary value, but more importantly I’d love to see my daughter play with it one day. My dad has tried to give it away many times, but my mom can’t bear to part with it either, as it reminds her of my childhood, which was a carefree, fun time in my life. My mom and I spent a lot of time playing with my Barbies. It was actually how she introduced me to sewing. Bored with the...
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...Kane 1 Candace Kane Dr. Patti M. Parsons Dre 098 19 February 2015 The Digital Age Digital tools are having a positive and a negative effect on society. Sherry Turkle’s article, “The Flight From Conversation,” and Evan Selinger’s article, ”Humans Are Already More Enhanced By Technology Then We Realize,” both argue that society needs to change their technology habits.ue to the accessibility and power of digital tools worldwide, people now rely D on these devices too much for important information, society is overly dependent upon technology, and a phenomena called ambient awareness is developing. People rely on technology too much for important information. People did not know what to do with computers at first, but now computers are becoming more popular than ever. Technology has changed drastically over the years so much that technology is used for about everything, from the registers at the stores, to the televisions and such in the waiting rooms of hospitals. Humans are becoming more enhanced by technological advances that are happening in everyday life. For example, everyone is connected to some sort of device if you go to a public place like a library. Human relationships suffer from technology. For instance, when people are connected to their gadgets all the time acquaintances do not want to stop to say hello, because they feel like they are going to bother them. People control who they let in keeping others at bay...
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...websites were the easiest to book flights on and both were the cheapest flights that were available. Also on Orbitz, the travelling hours were less than 30hrs. Example: Flights on the website www.travel.travelocity.com were $1195 with the duration of 29hrs. And on www.orbitz.com the price for the tickets was $1199 with a duration time of approximately 28hr 2min. Screenshot: Screenshot of flights on www.orbitz.com Efficiency Definition: Efficiency refers to the way a product supports the users when carrying out their tasks. Website: www.kayak.com Reason: When booking a flight on this website it was very efficient for it only required the least actions to perform a task. Where I only had to use a single button to book the flight. Example: When booking the flight, there was only a single button for searching for a flight which was “Search”. So there was single buttons that wasn’t complicated and allowed me to efficiently book a flight. Screenshot: Screenshot of when entering in what flights I am looking for Screenshot allowing the user to select which flight I would rather go on. Safety Definition: This involves protecting the users from any dangerous conditions and undesirable situations. Website: www.flysaa.com Reason: This site had the best security features when I had to enter in account details for paying for the flight. When entering in sensitive information like account details, I needed to be protected from any hackers...
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...Abstract American Airlines flight 1420, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, Crashed at the end of runway 4R at Little Rock Airport in Little Rock, Arkansas. Human Factors (HFACS) play a major role as flight crew decision making abilities were evident. A few human factors played into this accident and as a post accident investigation concluded, this accident could have been prevented is the right pre-causations were done. Options were provided to weather cancel, or divert into other areas that had better weather. Inclement weather conditions were the external factor that played a major role in this accident, however weather can be avoided in most cases. Other aspects that were avoidable errors made by humans were pilot fatigue and the confusion to the ground emergency personnel that cause a response time delay. Executive Summary Flying under 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 121 on an instrument flight rule, American Airlines flight 1420, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, N215AA, crashed as it lost control on landing causing the aircraft to overrun the end of runway 4R. Flight 1420 departed Dallas/Fortworth approximately 2240 with 2 flightcrew members, 4 flight attendants and 139 passengers. According to the NTSB, the determined that the probable cause of this accident were the flight crew failures to discontinue the approach with severe weather present at the airport. Contributions to the accident were the flight crews impaired performance...
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...the pain away I wondered why an airplane line would letter its seats A, B, D, C, E. My hypothesis: they enjoyed laughing at the unlucky person who got seat C and had to scoot from aisle to middle causing her to hit her derrière on the seat buckle. At least that conjecture fit these stewardesses. Catching one smirking at me I threw her a glare. It wasn’t my fault if the airline company didn’t know its alphabet. By now you may have noticed that I am not a frequent flyer and normally you’d be right. But, in the past five days I had flown five times. I was actually on a cultural tour with my ballet company of Beaufort and Gullah Island, South Carolina, and Houma, Louisiana. Ironically, this tour was about understanding others and learning about people before you judged them. For me, five plane rides plus security checks every 10 feet plus a sore butt equaled the end of my patience. Hearing laughter I sighed. Somehow my friends all managed to sit together, but two empty seats on either side of me were my only companions. As the flow of people boarding began to taper off, a supermodel-esque black lady with knock-off Gucci sunglasses looked from her ticket to my previous aisle seat, and, connecting the two, alighted on the diamond-checkered fabric. Almost immediately, the man behind her struck up a conversation. I inwardly snorted. Just as I found a less itchy position, the missing person in our seat trio boarded. Trying to hide my displeasure at being forced to move, I followed Supermodel...
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...While flying back to Seattle on the GEH jet and somewhere over the Midwest, Ana spiked a fever from out of nowhere and began to vomit repeatedly. The flight attendant did her best to alleviate her symptoms, but every cracker and sip of ginger ale that went down immediately came back up. When Ana became too weak to run back and forth to the bathroom, Luke led her to the jet’s bedroom and placed a garbage can beside her. The flight attendant tells Luke that Ana probably has a stomach bug but when they are half way across Washington State, they watch as Ana begins to shake uncontrollably and her face is blood red. They hurriedly take her temperature and they both go white when it registers over one hundred and four degrees. Grabbing up towels...
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...1902 glider. “In October they tested it at Kitty Hawk and had a big success gliding a record of 620 feet” (Parker 145). Orville Wright took off into a 27 mph wind and the distance he covered was 120 feet in12 seconds. His flight was exceedingly erratic, mainly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in operating the air plane. Despite of the problems encountered with their last attempts at flight, the Wright brothers reviewed their test results and determined that the calculations they had used were not reliable. “They decided to build a wind tunnel to test a variety of wing shapes and their effect on lift” (Stearns and Langer 35). Based upon these tests, the inventors had a greater understanding of how an airfoil also known as wing works and could calculate with greater accuracy how well a particular wing design would fly. The Wright brothers had been flying with people since May of 1908 but on September 1908, passenger flight took a turn for the worse when the first fatal air crash occurred. “Orville Wright was piloting the plane and he survived the crash, but his passenger Signal Corps Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge died” (McCarthy 107). The Wrights' Vin Fiz was the first airplane to cross the United States in 1911. The flight took 84 days and it stopped 70 times. It crash-landed so many...
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