In a paper on the maritime trade of Salem, the Rev. George Bachelor tells of the conditions of this early seafaring, the sort of men engaged in it, and the stimulus it offered to all their faculties:
Royal Caribbean specializes in providing incentives for employees to better their customer service
More Employee Incentives
Royal Caribbean specializes in providing incentives for employees to better their customer service. Carnival does not and as a consequence, Royal Caribbean on average has better customer service.
Cost: The average cruise line employee makes $20,000 per year. 20,000/50 weeks per year/ 40 hours per week = $10 per hour in wages. It would cost about $10 per hour per employee for Carnival to provide customer service training, assuming a current staff member could provide the training.
Benefit: Better customer services will increase the chance that a customer will return to the cruise line. It also helps to improve reputation and compete with competitors such as Royal Caribbean who offer great customer service. If this program results in any repeat customers or attracts any new customers over time, it will generate at least $67.23 per customer in profit.
Support Environmental Issues
Carnival should donate one thousandth of one percent of net income (this would be $666,050 in 1997) to the 'Save the Ocean' campaign. This would make them stand out as a socially responsible company. It would also help to appease the environmental groups that are currently against cruise lines.
Cost: 1/1000 of 1% of net income
Benefit: Improved image. Decrease likelihood of lawsuit or attacks from social groups. Also, management and employees can sleep better at night knowing they have done the 'right thing' since they are harming the ocean and making quite a profit by doing so.
Summary
Carnival Corporation has been a successful company thus far. It is important for every company to constantly be researching its environment in order to keep up and change with it. Carnival has demonstrated that they are somewhat aware of their environment by announcing the first smoke-free cruise ship. The above recommendations are simply more ways that the Carnival Corporation can adapt to its constantly changing environment in order to be more profitable.
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A gunshot, an explosion, and screaming heard. That is what is generally thought of when one hears the word 'Terrorism'. In most cases it is true, but there are many other types of terrorism. Most terrorist incidents in the United States have been bombing attacks, involving explosive devices, tear gas and pipe bombs. (Collins, B. 1)The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) categorizes terrorism in the U.S. as either; domestic or international terrorism. Terrorism is the use of force or violence against persons or property in violation of the criminal laws of the United States for purposes of intimidation, coercion or ransom. Terrorists often use threats to create fear among the public, to try to convince citizens that their government is powerless to prevent terrorism, and to get major publicity for their causes. (Hancock, L. 1)
Terrorism has been around for many years. A recent mass act of violent terror occurred during WWII. Terror was released on Germany and many neighboring countries because of one mans belief in how people should be and how they should live. Hitler was elected chairman for the National Socialist German Workers (Nazi) party in 1920. Adolf climbed his way to power over Germany. An Enabling Act passed by giving legislature, allowed him to 'Nazify' the bureau, and replace all labor unions with one Nazi-controlled German labor front, and not allow any political parties except his own.
Cyber-terrorism is becoming more known and now has the same consequences as physical terrorism. (Larks, T. 1)
Besides individual leadership into terrorism, the KGB was a recent group of leaders that would intimidate any anti-soviet behavior, by the way of interrogation and trial of any suspects that they considered suspicious. The KGB handled internal functions such as surveillance of the Soviet population to make sure that everyone was loyal to its country. (Quaide, D. 1)
Terrorism can be classified in many ways, from destruction of buildings, to
'The Dutch ship "Gort-Moolen," commanded by Cornelius Gerard Ouwekaas, with a cargo of seven fish, was anchored in Greenland, in the year 1660. The captain, perceiving a whale ahead of his ship, beckoned his attendants and threw himself into a boat. He was the first to approach the whale, and was fortunate enough to harpoon it before the arrival of the second boat, which was on the advance. Jacques Vienkes, who had the direction of it, joined his captain immediately afterward, and prepared to make a second attack on the fish when it should remount to the surface. At the moment of its ascension, the boat of Vienkes, happening, unfortunately, to be perpendicularly above it, was so suddenly and forcibly lifted up by a stroke of the head of the whale that it was dashed to pieces before the harpooner could discharge his weapon. Vienkes flew along with the pieces of the boat, and fell upon the back of the animal. This intrepid seaman, who still retained his weapon in his grasp, harpooned the whale on which he stood; and by means of the harpoon and the line, which he never abandoned, he steadied himself firmly upon the fish, notwithstanding his hazardous situation, and regardless of a considerable wound that he received in his leg in his fall along with the fragments of the boat. All the efforts of the other boats to approach the whale and deliver the harpooner were futile. The captain, not seeing any other method of saving his unfortunate companion, who was in some way entangled with the line, called him to cut it with his knife and betake himself to swimming. Vienkes, embarrassed and disconcerted as he was, tried in vain to follow this council. His knife was in the pocket of his drawers, and being unable to support himself with one hand, he could not get it out. The whale, meanwhile, continued advancing along the surface of the water with great rapidity, but fortunately never attempted to dive. While his comrades despaired of his life, the harpoon by which he held at length disengaged itself from the body of the whale. Vienkes, being thus liberated, did not fail to take advantage of this circumstance. He cast himself into the sea, and by swimming endeavored to regain the boats, which continued the pursuit of the whale. When his shipmates perceived him struggling with the waves, they redoubled their exertions. They reached him just as his strength was exhausted, and had the happiness of rescuing this adventurous harpooner from his perilous situation.
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In addition to the ordinary risks of shipwreck or capture the slavers encountered perils peculiar to their calling. Once in a while the slaves would mutiny, though such is the gentle and almost childlike nature of the African negro that this seldom occurred. The fear of it, however, was ever present to the captains engaged in the trade, and to guard against it the slaves–always the men and sometimes the women as well–were shackled together in pairs. Sometimes they were even fastened to the floor of the dark and stifling hold in which they were immured for months at a time. If heavy weather compelled the closing of the hatches, or if disease set in, as it too often did, the morning would find the living shackled to the dead. In brief, to guard against insurrection the captains made the conditions of life so cruel that the slaves were fairly forced to revolt. In 1759 a case of an uprising that was happily successful was recorded. The slaver 'Perfect,' Captain Potter, lay at anchor at Mana with one hundred slaves aboard. The mate, second mate, the boatswain, and about half the crew were sent into the interior to buy some more slaves. Noticing the reduced numbers of their jailors, the slaves determined to rise. Ridding themselves of their irons, they crowded to the deck, and, all unarmed as they were, killed the captain, the surgeon, the carpenter, the cooper, and a cabin-boy. Whereupon the remainder of the crew took to the boats and boarded a neighboring slaver, the 'Spencer.' The captain of this craft prudently declined to board the 'Perfect,' and reduce the slaves to subjection again; but he had no objection to slaughtering naked blacks at long range, so he warped his craft into position and opened fire with his guns. For about an hour this butchery was continued, and then such of the slaves as still lived, ran the schooner ashore, plundered, and burnt her.
Planning for tourism has conventionally been focused on zoning, site development, accommodation and building regulations, the density of tourist development, the presentation of cultural, historical and natural tourism features, and the provision of infrastructure, including roads and sewerage. However in the recent years a lot of emphasis is being laid on the social and environmental impacts. For example carrying capacity is one of the important issues that need to be dealth with during the initial planning process. Also, since tourism is an increasingly important component of the economies; it is being professed as a national goal and constant efforts are made by governments to bridge the gap that exists between the ideologies of the private and public stake holders so that they can work in harmony.
At a global scale, almost 46% of the worlds population live in urban areas and by the year 2030, this is set to rise to 61%.There has been a growing significance of urban areas and spaces for the consumption of tourism and leisure experiences. The important question at this juncture is whether cities can sustain and accommodate tourists and if yes, what steps need to be taken in order to make ends meet?
By understanding Tourism Development in Singapore, and redefining Tourism in a wider perspective, we will try to analyze the reasons why people are attracted to such destinations and the role of the stakeholders in making it successful.
From that early Fourth of July, for more than two hundred years shipyards multiplied and prospered along the American coast. The Yankees, with their racial adaptability, which long made them jacks of all trades and good at all, combined their shipbuilding with other industries, and to the hurt of neither. Early in 1632, at Richmond Island, off the coast of Maine, was built what was probably the first regular packet between England and America. She carried to the old country lumber, fish, furs, oil, and other colonial products, and brought back guns, ammunition, and liquor–not a fortunate exchange. Of course meanwhile English, Dutch, and Spanish ships were trading to the colonies, and every local essay in shipbuilding meant competition with old and established ship-yards and ship owners. Yet the industry throve, not only in the considerable yards established at Boston and other large towns, but in a small way all along the coast. Special privileges were extended to ship-builders. They were exempt from military and other public duties. In 1636 the 'Desire,' a vessel of 120 tons, was built at Marblehead, the largest to that time. By 1640 the port records of European ports begin to show the clearings of American-built vessels.
The great number of navigable streams soon led to shipbuilding in the interior. It was obviously cheaper to build the vessel at the edge of the forest, where all the material grew ready to hand, and sail the completed craft to the seaboard, than to first transport the material thither in the rough. But American resourcefulness before long went even further. As the forests receded from the banks of the streams before the woodman"s axe, the shipwrights followed. In the depths of the woods, miles perhaps from water, snows, pinnaces, ketches, and sloops were built. When the heavy snows of winter had fallen, and the roads were hard and smooth, runners were laid under the little ships, great teams of oxen–sometimes more than one hundred yoke–were attached, and the craft dragged down to the river, to lie there on the ice until the spring thaw came to gently let it down into its proper element. Many a farmer, too, whose lands sloped down to a small harbor, or stream, set up by the water side the frame of a vessel, and worked patiently at it during the winter days when the flinty soil repelled the plough and farm work was stopped. Stout little craft were thus put together, and sometimes when the vessel was completed the farmer-builder took his place at the helm and steered her to the fishing banks, or took her through Hell Gate to the great and thriving city of New York. The world has never seen a more amphibious populace.
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In the summer of 1914, when World War One broke out, the United States wanted to be neutral and isolated
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In the summer of 1914, when World War One broke out, the United States wanted to be neutral and isolated. America"s policy of insisting neutral rights while also trying to advocate peace resulted in tensions with both Berlin and London. We didnt want to get involved because we viewed this war as a European conflict.In three short years, however, the United States would find itself in the middle of what later became known as World War One.
When the war began England enforced a naval blockade of Germany in the hopes of cutting off supplies. Germany responded by unleashing the U Boats. U Boats were submarines that were capable of staying submerged for long periods of time. They would sneak up upon their victims, often at night, and torpedo them. The Germans didnt limit their attacks to military ships. Any ship sailing in the war zone was considered an enemy to Germany (Doc #5). This became known as unrestricted submarine warfare. On May 7th, 1915, the British cruise ship (Lusitania) was sunk off the coast of England. Over 1,198 passengers including 128 Americans were killed. America was furious at the brutality and demanded a stop to this type of attack. In 1916, after the sinking of the passenger liner Sussex, Germany agreed to end unrestricted submarine warfare in the 'Sussex pledge.'
The Sussex pledge only put off the inevitableAmerican entry into the war. America shared a cultural bond with England and France. Woodrow Wilson began to actively campaign for Americans to support the allies. Besides being culturally similar, England and France were our trade partners. From 1914 to 1916 trade with the Allies grew from 800 million dollars to 3 billion dollars (Doc #2). If the Allies were to lose the war our trade would be threatened. American increasingly saw Germany as the enemy. Germany was a dictatorship fighting against the great democracies of the world and America as a democratic nation felt an obligation to support them.
As America became increasingly less neutral, the British government intercepted a message from the German ambassador Zimmerman to the Mexican government. This message called the 'Zimmerman Note' asked Mexico to attack the United States if war broke out between the U.S. and Germany (Doc #4). In return, the telegram stated that Germany and Japan would help Mexico regain the territories that it lost to the United States (Texas, New Mexico and Arizona).The note was turned over to American government a short time later and eventually published in the newspapersAmericans were outraged.
A little later, the Kaiser announced that Germany was going to re initiate the practice of unrestricted submarine warfare, which violated the Sussex Pledge. Wilson had campaigned for office promising to protect freedom of the seas and now it seemed he had little choice. He had to ask Congress to declare war (Doc #7). Many Americans still wanted to stay out of 'Europe"s war' and there was much debate in Congress. On April 6, 1917, by a vote of 82 to 6 in the Senate and 373 to 50 in the House of Representatives, the United States of America declared war on Germany.
World War One was thought to be the war to end all wars because it was the bloodiest war the world had seen yet. At the end of World War One, the Germans and the Allies signed the Treaty of Versailles. The treaty was more like a punishment for Germany than a peace treaty. For all the damage Germany caused to the Allied powers during the war, Germany was required to make extensive financial reparations. In addition to money, payment was made in the form of ships, trains, livestock, and valuable natural resources. What would the result of World War One be if the United States had never entered?
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