Essays on Penguins

Kotter and Rathgeber, in their simple fable, Our Iceberg is Melting, described a scenario which involves leading through change. The authors’ fable has a lot of lessons for leaders who wish to lead successful organisational changes. According to Kotter and Rathgeber, successful organisational change requires a step by step approach. The authors suggested an eight-step procedure for leading organisational change. The authors used a colony of penguins as the characters in their fable. The Penguins, unknowingly, employed the eight-step procedure to implement a successful change. According to the authors, a challenge which is well-handled can lead one to prosperity ...

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The article focussed on the breeding behaviours of emperor penguins that are recently discovered with the help of satellites. Mostly it is believed that penguins lay their eggs on sea ice that is fast and stable and that remains intact under the chick fledge. Fretwell and co-workers conducted this study on forty-six colonies emperor penguins. The recent observation revealed that few colonies of emperor penguins breed on ice-shelves instead of sea ice. Due to rapid climate changes and the incidence of ice melting the penguin population has declined and very close to extinction. It is a big concern that ...

This paper looks at the relationship between businesses and the environment. It looks at the obligation business has towards environmental protection and the way it should work with other factors to make regulations necessary. Moral ethics in business and its relation to the people and environment is explained in detail. How the business relates to outside people and animals is described, and the right way forward is given. This paper seeks to find out whether peter singer agrees with either mark or William Baxter on how business should relate to the environment. It looks at each of the author’ ...

- The exposure of CFCs to strong ultra violet radiation breaks them down. Whenever this occurs, the chlorofluorocarbon molecule produces atomic chlorine. Just one chlorine atom destroys over a hundred thousand ozone molecules. The overall effect is to wipe out ozone at a faster rate than naturally created (Abdul-Wahab 9).

- Penguins and marine ecosystems are sustained by the energy flow from primary producers in the food chain via intermediate consumers, consumers as well as pathogens, and then back through decomposition pathways (Prischmann 23). Therefore, marine lives are biological networks where the success of penguins is connected directly or indirectly via various ...

Climate change can be defined as changes in weather patterns over time. This time can span up to millions of years (Gillard, 12). These changes are caused by biotic processes and solar radiation variation which the earth receives. Other causes of climatic change are volcanic eruptions and plate tectonics. Human activities can also cause climatic change. Nevertheless, in modern times, climate change has come to be known as ‘Global Warming’. The first website, http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/, talks about levels of sea rises. It also goes to explain large wild fires as causes and consequences of global warming. This website gives the ...

Devising theories is important in order for human beings to learn new information. Insights do not normally come already proven. They come as suspicions. That maybe such and such thing is such and such a way. Then theories much be evaluated by testing them. An example would be a man who lived in a cave in a region that was inhabited by carnivorous penguins. The man, through watching the penguins feed about seals noticed a pattern in the way the penguins behaved. He noticed that the penguins tended to eat the seals wearing the most ridiculous outfit. The man who lives in the ...

Response - Our Iceberg is Melting

John Kotter's change management fable Our Iceberg is Melting is a fascinating read, not just because of its interesting surface story (that of penguins attempting to alert other penguins of the fate that might befall their iceberg), but of the allegory for dealing with change that the book provides. The premise of the book is simple enough, as Kotter himself introduces the book like a fairy tale: "Once upon a time a colony of penguins was living in the frozen Antarctic on an iceberg near what we call today Cape Washington" (Kotter). As one penguin, Fred, starts to notice that their iceberg is ...

Film Viewing Guide: “March of the Penguins”

- “March of the Penguins” This film chronicles the journey of Emperor penguins as they march across the frozen tundra to make it to their annual breeding grounds. Their harrowing journey shows the dedication of penguins and nature’s ability to persevere. - I chose to watch this documentary because I find this film to be a great example of the wonder of nature. Antarctica was a place that I found intriguing and wanted to learn more about. I wanted to learn more about migration and Antarctica. - The central point of the film was the mass migration of ...

Many scientists have concluded that the world is undergoing detrimental climate changes through global warming. Many scientists from across the globe are working in different countries in order to understand all the aspects of the global warming. From satellite images, one can see that sea level is rising, weather patterns are changing and even ice is meting at an alarming rate. The average temperature of the atmosphere that surrounds the Earth and oceans has been increasing steadily ever since the late 19th century (Lynas 30). The trend has been increasing over the years and right now, every country is ...

SeaWorld Adventure Parks (SeaWorld) is a chain of oceanariums, marine mammal parks and animal theme parks in the United States. The first SeaWorld Park was opened in San Diego in 1964 and since then, more than 100 million people have visited the famous parks (Malloy). SeaWorld currently operates parks in California, Orlando, San Antonio, Texas and Florida in United States with the three main parks located in San Diego, Orlando and San Antonio.

The experience of being at SeaWorld is breathtaking. Gigantic water-filled tanks, the numerous monstrous sea mammals, spectacular underground exhibitions and the constant water splashing conjure feelings of ...

Antarctica Tourism: Still an appropriate market for operators and tourism?

Introduction

Antarctica may not sound like the greatest vacation spot for most people but many tourists ready for a challenge head there during the South Pole’s summer season. Tourism has been increasing since the first visitors to Antarctica despite the difficulties reaching the place. The freezing temperatures are not enough to slow the dedicated traveler away either.

Tourist operators’ infrastructure has grown to meet the needs of Antarctica tourism. The infrastructure includes everything from selling parkas and equipment, to training guides and to offering trips by ships and planes coordinated with travel agencies. Several decades of increasing tourism to ...

1.0 introduction Thermoregulation is basically temperature regulation. It is a homeostatic process where by the internal temperature of an organism is kept constant within a specific range despite fluctuations in the external temperatures. It is important to note that all homeostatic systems use negative feedback mechanism. This implies that whenever there is a change in external or surrounding temperature of an organism, consequently a corrective mechanism is initiated within or without the organism to counter the change. Not all animals can maintain a constant body temperature; this is possible only for birds and mammals. Such animals are referred to as endotherms or commonly ...