(The ride was built in 1961 when the average man in the United
States weighed 80 kilograms and the average woman weighed 62 kilograms.)
Now some airlines, faced with record high fuel costs, are threatening
impose a "fat tax". Is this an appropriate course of action? Would you
support it? Why or why not?
As the price of oil continues to escalate with a corresponding increase in
jet fuel costs, there needs to be considerations regarding the costs of
operating passenger jets by any airline. Jet fuel costs in fact are the
deciding factor for nearly every airline, no matter how large or small, of
whether they will be profitable or not. The long-standing rules regarding
excess baggage, with higher costs for items over 100 lbs for most airlines
has been a long-standing practice as well, never fluctuating in response to
fuel cost increases or decreases. In the case of baggage and cargo,
airlines would be smart to first start with price increases on these
classes of services than immediately passing the increases in fuel costs
immediately onto customers.
Starting with increasing the baggage and cargo prices is fair to everyone,
because not everyone needs to bring these items, they choose to, yet for
many people, their jobs require them to be in geographically distributed
regions quickly over a short period of time. For many people jet travel is
the only means by which they can efficiently do their jobs. Consider the
role of the travelling sales executive, support technicians, and others who
service a widely distributed geographic region and it's clear that
immediately passing on the price increase on fuel costs to obese and
overweight travellers can impact a person's ability to earn their
livelihood. In addition, increasing the costs to obese or fat passengers
could also be considered discriminatory and illegal as a result. Above all
the decision to choose a "fat tax" is a terrible decision from a customer
relation standpoint as well. While a extremely obsess who physically need
two seat should purchase them, charging people more based on their weight
above some pre-ordained and most likely arbitrary standard set by an
airline is unethical and wrong. Start by increasing the costs of checked
baggage that is over weight limits and preserve relationships with
customers in the process. I wouldn't support a fat tax because it is
discriminatory and susceptible to being arbitrary used by airlines as well.
Mini-Case (50 Marks) - 3 - 5 Page
A) What is the "tipping point"
(http://www.gladwell.com/tippingpoint/index.html) for plagiarism? What
will it take for students to obey the rules? Why do some students
think that the plagiarism rules are not important enough to follow?
Malcolm Gladwell's premise in writing this book was that over time,
seemingly unrelated smaller events, and even the slightest changes in
related events can combine to force large change in unexpected ways.
Gladwell refers to this concept of the rapid propagation of seemingly small
change leading to significant change being viral in nature, referring to
the medical allegories of how a virus spreads through a population. The
examples include those of decaying neighborhoods and escalating crime
throughout New York City neighborhoods in the 1980s and the corresponding
rise in crime. All these factors lead to the gradual degradation of a
neighborhood where Bernie Goetz, a man who is decidedly anti-authoritarian
and victimized once or twice, decides to take matters into his own hands in
a New York subway. Shooting four assailants and killing one of the, Goetz
gets acquitted because it was common knowledge how badly crime had gotten
in New York City at that time. Gladwell brings this example to show how
the power of context frames the tipping point into an entirely new
perspective, in addition to underscoring the point with the role of mavens
as information hubs in viral networks and an excellent overview of the
stickiness factor as it relates to children's programming. In short,
Gladwell creates a defensible and useful framework for evaluating how small
action, no matter how insignificant on their own, can collectively lead to
massive change in a society. The examples of toll cheaters on the subway
being the start of a lack of respect for law and order are a case in point.
There is always the element of risk of being caught, reprimanded or
expelled for turning in work that is plagiarized from another source,
whether it be electronic or printed materials. Students who plagiarized
materials and have not been caught have a sense of being able to overcome
the biggest challenge they face, which is evidence of hours of learning,
analysis and the development of critical thinking skills. To pass off a
plagiarized document or assignment as a proxy for their knowledge when it
fact they have not paid the price to learn is to...
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