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Amazon Prime Air is designed for getting packages to customers in 30 minutes. It has the potential to enhance the services that provide rapid parcel delivery to millions of customers and increase safety and efficiency of the transportation system. If this concept comes true, will this service make more people want to buy more things from an online service? The reason why customers buy things online is because it is only a few clicks and a short wait for someone to deliver the things to you. If Amazon’s proposal becomes a reality in the future, using drones to quickly deliver packages will probably be implemented in the next few years, but government regulations would require the relatively strict rules for drones’ operator. People might be concerned about safety, privacy, and package security. I do like the idea from Amazon of using drone delivering for packages. If people could adapt this idea for all delivery services, then we could really help some people out by making their jobs a little bit easier or better. The questions are, do we really need our items instantly? How do you keep thieves from following the drones and taking the packages away before the drones arrive at their location? Who will be responsible for lost packages or will the delivery require signature confirmation? If there are multiples deliveries that show up at the same time, will customers be able to identify their packages?
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Obesity is a variety of sickness in the modern world and is a serious problem that torments some people. People can purchase food easily and there are several styles of food that can be chosen, but most of the time people don’t really pay attention to what they eat. Even though some people try to control their weight through exercise or diet, this behavior has already caused their health get worse. Food choice, laziness, and sickness are the primary reasons that cause people to become obese. Unhealthy food exists everywhere, especially fast food and snack food. However people usually neglect their health while they are eating, therefore people need to understand how to make the right choice for their body. People need to start thinking about what they will choose to eat. Healthy foods have been neglected by most people, thus people should try to change their diets. Some people have failed to pay attention to their diets, therefore peoples’ health does not improve. Obesity can cause various types of sicknesses, including heart attack, high blood pressure and diabetes. People should understand how to prevent obesity. When people eat too much junk food, containing a lot calories and fat will get into blood vessel. However, calories and fat will stick to peoples’ blood vessels making it hard to get through other parts of the body. There are several things that influence humans having high blood pressure problem, such as salinity. Salinity means, containing or consisting of salt or mixture of sauces and salt. There are various foods that include large amounts of salinity, so if people are always eating some certain kinds of food, it will cause humans have this problem. Obesity causes diabetes because when people eat food, humans’ bodies will switch starch to become glucose and bodies will need insulin to allow glucose to enter cells. The primary reason of diabetes is because the human body can’t produce enough insulin. Even though everyone has a chance to get diabetes, it is not only for people who are overweight, and the research also indicates obesity is still the main reason. Obesity will have several effects on humans’ body, so there are a few types of symptoms which will appear in humans’ bodies. When humans eat an amount of unhealthy food, it will accumulate enormous calories into the peoples’ bodies, blood vessel, and heart. Even if people will feel uncomfortable while people are exercising, humans will feel tired or dizzy easily, just as blood includes numerous calorie and fat affect the blood circulation. This situation will hurt people gradually and also damages the body. Most overweight people don’t like to move or exercise and this behavior affects peoples’ body. As a result, their metabolism will slow down; therefore, calorie and fat are hard to be broken down. There are a plenty of symptoms people should care about. Obesity has several types of problems and also damages humans’ body, therefore this situation has already affected a variety of age groups. If everyone wants a healthy life, people must learn how to control weight, diet and try to eat nutrient food or what is actually helpful for humans’ body. Have you been drowsy while driving? The result showed 43% of U.S drivers admitted that they have had an accident or near accident because of falling asleep while they were driving. Drowsiness may play a role in crashes because sleepiness can impair the driver performance as much as alcohol. People are aware of the dangers between drinking and driving, but most people don’t understand drowsy driving can be fatal as well. Reaction time, awareness and impairment of judgment are risks of crashing, and the accidents usually involve only one vehicle where the driver is alone and the injuries tend to be serious or fatal. How do we define the difference between drowsy driving and driver fatigue? Usually fatigue is used to describe being sleepy, tired, or exhausted. Although these words have different meanings in different fields and clinical settings, the word is still used interchangeably between traffic safety and transportation. There are so many reasons that cause peoples’ sleepiness and fatigue. Such as, little sleep, fragmented sleep or work schedules, etc. These factors accumulate effects and any one kind of combination can increase risks for drowsy driving. Signs of Drowsy Driving
People are crazy on Black Friday because of the price cuts for toys or electronic devices…etc. There is a huge discount for these merchandises, so it seems a perfect time to buy these deals, but the prices aren’t always the best. These stores do not actually have the lowest price for customers, so they try to make it look like it to attract customers who come out for shopping. The Deal News researchers found shoppers saved more by waiting after Black Friday to buy the products. Some stores offer customers year-old products for the same discount as last year. Although some people might not feel it is a big issue for merchandise, such as furniture and cookware, it does matter when the merchandise is a hi-tech item or electronic with low quality or outdated. Some famous retail stores have special offer for some particular products, such as TVs or electronics, and the prices are so perfect and charming on Black Friday, but what will customers think when they buy a low quality or even defected product? Sometimes waiting can lead customers to get a better discount. Some items are seasonal products, if the merchandises cannot be sold before Christmas, these items might go unsold. Second, Black Friday is no doubt a good time to sell merchandise, but some people who work in retail will be separated from their family just because the companies want to fit the bottom line. The people who shop at Black Friday are rude and inconsiderate customers and sometimes they hurt each other. Why not close the stores on Thanksgiving and close early on Christmas eve, so the employee can unite with their families? Why cancel the tipping system? If restaurant owners cancel the tippling system,I am not so sure there is incentive to make these servers to give better service. I will not demonstrate how price/profit increases for the restaurant owners and how the restaurant owners will pay the servers. However, a decent server can get pretty good tips in some middle class restaurants on weekend or week nights, but are these owners going to to pay that much for their wages? If owners are willing to offer only minimum wages, the way for servers can make up the difference is from some customers’ generous tips. First, the owners raise the prices on the menu and pay a decent wage for servers and offer health insurance, paid vacation time, and shares in the company, which are sound strategic, but what if owners try to not follow or find another way out to avoid to pay these offers, the servers cannot get the tips and who wants to serve these customers? Second, if the owners who are willing to pay higher for getting better people to work for them and people who like and want to keep their job. But I think most owners want the restaurant with friendly and good service without having tipping. That happens only if owners can pay the servers a good basic salary, so it can make these servers make a commitment to their jobs. On the other hand, if paying the minimum wage or just above and no tipping system, the restaurant service might be worse. Third, if customers decide to tip their servers, why can the business owner decide to donate servers’ tips away for an organization? Although the money can help some students to develop their culinary skills and make healthier food choices, the efforts are from the servers’ hard work. Most customers give tips for servers, because they like their service and customers like the servers, so customers want them to get it not charity. Subway is an American fast-food restaurant, and primarily sells submarine sandwiches and salads. Subway has been offering customers to build their own meal model with an assortment of vegetables. The products are always fresh and full of lots of nutrition, but Subway has been suffering from falling sales and declining customer satisfaction. There is a man from Oregon who said his friend got extra mystery meat from a Subway restaurant, it is a rodent inside a sandwich. Fortunately, his friend found the dead rodent before he took a bite. Although the customer got a full refund from the restaurant and the Health Department launched an investigation. Subway made a statement saying that all of the products in the sandwich unit should be disposed of and cleaned the place. However, the inspector determined the most likely way the rodent got into the restaurant was through the bagged product the restaurant uses, but I wonder if this procedure is supposed to be done everyday before they sell any product, especially for fresh made food. Although the restaurant gave a quick and accurate response for customers and the Health department, it is obviously a management neglect problem. I don’t really believe how this happened, because my point is how can people find a rodent inside a Subway sandwich? If people are standing there and watching Subway workers make their sandwich, such as spreading spinach on brand, putting tomatoes or other items and closing the sandwich, there is no way, when people put vegetables on a sandwich that they don’t see or feel a mouse around these ingredients. I think Subway did it right was because they gave refund back, cleaned and inspected for keep the reputation better than argued with customer. If I was the manager, I would make my own investigation on who is supposed to be responsible for refilling the line. I will not tell which side is absolutely right, but is if possible that there is a defamation or hoax for Subway from a customer who wants the money for pay back? Is there a possibility that a competitor is trying to frame Subway? When people consider to buy a new car it, is because there are more new technologies within the car. Such as, automatically turning your car back into the lane when your car starts to drift or hit the brake when the sensors detect you are too close to someone’s car, and some cars can park themselves. These technologies improve peoples’ driving safety, reduces fatalities and eliminates collisions. But how can it become educational for drivers to use these technologies? Or if people don’t know how to use or when to use it, then just turn it off; what is the point to have these technologies? Sometime people feel panic or uncomfortable because they don’t know how these technologies work and what happens next. Although technologies are designed for improving human’s lives, there are not many cars that have the latest technologies. However, these technologies become more available on lower priced models, but when people consider to buy a car; how much time will dealers want to spend on these technologies with you? Unless, you already know this car is exactly; what you want to buy and you just want to test drive. Otherwise, there are not so many dealers are willing to spend time explaining these technologies to you, especially if you are not buying a second-hand car. Although some manufacturers create videos or papers for safety, how many people will actually read or review these files? The research said there are some drivers that believe the safety technology can do any function for them. Unfortunately, some safety technology is used for preventing collisions, so the system will not hit brake for drivers. What if drivers don’t take time to understand how these technologies work on their car, then the accidents will still be happening again? There is another point, the curriculums taught in driving schools are 15 years behind the latest technology, so how can this be helpful for people to learn how to drive new model cars? Although basic driving skills and traffic rules are the way that every driver need to learn, the driving schools are supposed to update the way that teach people to operate some basic technologies. I wonder, if people are over relying on these technologies or do they still have such skills for driving on the road? Amazon will stop selling the other companies’ media streaming devices because Amazon doesn’t want customers confused about whether or not Amazon’s video content is connected to their Prime account. From a customer’s perspective, I think Amazon’s fire stick is not very easy to use, and you still need to have a Prime membership in order to enjoy Amazon’s content on their devices. I think it is a retailing strategy for Amazon to promote their own media streaming devices. Second, Google does not have many distribution channels for selling their own products, and Roku has third party applications can be used on devices such as Xbox and PS4 or applications on some smart TVs. This move will hurt Google, who uses third party sites like Amazon to sell their devices in the market. Their application also works with Amazon streaming, but Amazon wants to sell only their devices for customers’ money. Third, this announcement timing is sensitive because it is coming upon the year-end holiday shopping season, so this action shows how Amazon want to promote their own product. Amazon’s media streaming service is not free and customers have to subscribe to a Prime membership service in order to watch their videos, so if you want to watch some shows or movies that are currently famous you still have to pay. Most people love online streaming services because they are convenient for watching shows. A Prime membership also includes faster delivery service and the free content of movies, shows, and music, which are extra points that encourage more people to use it. However, younger generations often don’t have that much money this kind of service, and would be better off using cheaper streaming services like Netflix or Hulu. The excuse of avoiding customer confusion is not really an appropriate reason to cover up the fact that Amazon is trying to promote their own products. Volkswagen is an automobile maker and is located in Germany. Unfortunately, Volkswagen can not avoid the question about using fake emissions data for million cars and has just tried to get away from this scandal. What will they do when it comes to German automakers’ punishment and how will recall these cars? Although EPA did not publish a recall because the cars are still safe, legal to drive and sell, the car emission system does not fit the law, so the violation is still very serious. Volkswagen’s five types of four-cylinder diesel for Jettas, Passats, Golfs and Beetles (and Audi A3) could be polluting the world more than their annual smog test implies. The agency has opened a criminal investigation for the company’s emissions software tampering. Because Volkswagen manufactured and installed software that can detect when these cars are being tested for the emission requirement. I wonder how the regulators will give a fine for this serious problem? The punishment is not only to punish for what the company did, but also need to deterrent for someone might do the same issue in the future. Although Volkswagen claims greater engine power, performance and gas mileage, everyone wants to ask what kind of benefit can be gotten from fake emissions controls? There are test results from the International Council on Clean Transportation in 2013 that shows that Volkswagen cars emitted 5 to 35 times more nitrogen oxide pollution than the council allowed. It will impact German automobile market in next few months or years because some people might think that this is how German use some technical skills for improving diesel engine. The reason why Volkswagen became the world top-selling brand in automobile marketing is mostly due to their image of environmental friendliness and fuel efficiency despite a high power diesel engine. Another reason why Volkswagen used software to change the emissions date was because they wanted to low costs, but also want to improve performance for marketing value. Volkswagen advocates pollution-control in order to convince other countries to executive the same standard. However, the current scandal has damaged Volkswagen’s diesel cars reputation, and possibly even the entire company. I think people have asked about Facebook dislike button for a long time. After reading this article, I wonder if this dislike button will be what we thought for disliking something that we feel bad for or if this button will show empathy for posts that seem inappropriate to “Like?”. Zuckerberg said, “Some people have asked for a dislike button because they want to be able to say ‘that thing isn’t good’ and we’re not going to do that.” I think Facebook should develop more buttons, such as Emoji buttons. People can choose what button they want to express what they feel after they read the article or peoples’ comments. This the different expectations between users and Zuckerberg, but I won’t deny this concept for social media. Using this button could cause unnecessary misunderstanding between each other. What if users want to share their joy of the day to spread their happiness to other people, but this moment could be ruined by someone’s one button. The reason why people have asked about the dislike buttons for years, is because most people want something to show their dissatisfaction. I don’t think people want this button to express empathy, so if this button is for empathy then apparently Facebook is not delivering the needs of the current community. In the future, this new feature may not be like what most users’ expectations are, since it could be expressing empathy on peoples’ articles and comments. |
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