The culture of the company makes a direction contribution to this achievement as well, which has led Southwest being consistently ranked as one of the most preferred low-cost carriers in the U.S. (Carey, 2012)
Southwest Airlines employees are empowered to take any action that is ethical and legal to ensure customers' satisfaction (Hardage, 2006). The uniqueness and highly differentiated nature of the Southwest culture is also attributable to the thirteen core values that founder and CEO Herb Kelleher put into place with the company was founded (Freiberg, Freiberg, 1996)
From approximately 1920 to 1952, it is estimated that 21,000 tons of chemicals were placed into the "Love Canal." These chemicals included, but were not limited to, alkalines, chlorinated hydrocarbons, caustics, fatty acids (Blum, 2008), pesticides, dioxin, and chlorobenzenes (De Angelo, 2006)
In the Love Canal story, the people's relationship with the health agency began to deteriorate quickly as a result of several factors: (1) officials could not or would not provide straight and honest answers; (2) officials appeared condescending in their interactions with the public; and, (3) officials did not know how to approach the collection of data (Engelhaupt, 2009). Indeed, in short, the public health agencies' reaction to Love Canal's issues and the cries of the public were fundamentally flawed in that they failed to establish rapport and trust amongst the community, they treated victims in crisis in condescending instead of an empathetic manner, and they were incompetent with regard to possessing the methodology to collect data (Brown, PhD & Clapp, PhD, 2002)
Love who in the latter part of the nineteenth century, possessed a utopian version of a neighborhood built along a canal wherein he could produce hydroelectric power from a plant to support the energy needs of the neighborhood. In the 1890's, he put his vision into action and began excavating a canal in a seventy-acre area of land (De Angelo, 2006)
At first glance, one might never know that something hideous and horrific happened in this area of New York decades ago. In fact, the story of the Love Canal begins over thirty years ago and provides this generation valuable environmental lessons which we should heed today (Engelhaupt, 2009)
From then on, the land became a dumping ground for wastes from a variety of sources: Hooker Chemical Corporation (today known as Occidental Chemical Corporation), the City of Niagara, and the even United States Army. In fact, the Army may have used the entrenchment to dump highly hazardous parts of the Manhattan Project as well as other toxic chemical warfare materials (Gibbs, 1983)
From then on, the land became a dumping ground for wastes from a variety of sources: Hooker Chemical Corporation (today known as Occidental Chemical Corporation), the City of Niagara, and the even United States Army. In fact, the Army may have used the entrenchment to dump highly hazardous parts of the Manhattan Project as well as other toxic chemical warfare materials (Gibbs, 1983)
Results: Where are we thirty years after Love Canal? Thirty years after Love Canal, we still have environmental laws and organizations committed toward operating in proactive ways toward environmental pollution and hazards. In fact, Lois Marie Gibbs founded the Citizens Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste or, as the recent change in title states, the Center for Health, Environment & Justice (Schroeder, 2009; Gibbs, 2006)
Michael's difficulties lay in his embrace of his earlier role as an enabler of his wife's addiction. Symptoms of enablement include: ignoring alcoholic symptoms taking on the duties of the addicted spouse avoiding talking about the issue lying to cover up for the spouse blaming others for the spouse's bad behaviors (Morteza & Khaleghi 2012) When a man loves a woman places less stress upon the physical components of alcohol addiction (although there are many, including drunk driving, cirrhosis of the liver, metabolic disorders, as well as the physical risks from being mentally incapacitated) than it does upon the psychological and social consequences of addiction
In fact, the shame and guilt Wiesel felt as a result of surviving and watching his father die caused Wiesel to refuse to even talk about his experience for years after the end of the war. Wiesel's experience is not unlike the experiences of others who survived and he left the war with no faith in God, no faith in humanity, and a belief that maybe suicide was his final solution (Aberbach, 1989, p
Eventually, Wiesel was able to put his feelings into words and as with many other Holocaust survivors, time and understanding of Hitler's final solution has helped them to accept that the power of the survival instinct is innate and not reflective of moral character. Indeed, according to Charles Darwin, the survival instinct is present in human beings and reflective of the desire to survive, not reflective of the desire to hurt others (Bergman, PhD, n
But those words ring in my ears, 'If you're not going to eat, you're going to die.'" (Haas, 1995, p
"Men to the left. Women to the right" (Wiesel, 1972, p
Dove Shows No Love: How the Dove "Real Beauty" Campaign Marginalizes Some Groups While Privileging Others Glamour, a popular young women's magazine, challenged young women country wide to note "every negative or anxious thought they had about their bodies over the course of one full day. The results [were] shocking" as a landslide of 97% of the respondents admitted to having at least one "I hate my body" moment (Dreisbach)
These three groups of participants were shown a selection of images where models were extremely thin normal-weight and extremely large. Hoping for a positive outcome, the researchers were saddened when they found that "overweight women experienced lower esteem" when looking at an ad with any models (Hintz-Zambrano)
Furthermore, the commercial is implying that all mothers have a high enough self-esteem to teach their daughters to be positive about themselves; though, this is certainly not the case. For instance, a well-known psychotherapist who specializes in treatments of eating disorders with families asserted that, mothers with "unresolved body image concerns and disturbed attitudes towards eating and weight management are passed down" to their children, as a legacy of sorts (Natenshon)
Foremost, though the Dove's print ad campaign showcases women of all races and ages, it fails represent sub-groups of women including but not limited to the disabled, morbidly obese, among others. If a person flips through a magazine and saw this ad, upon first glance they would notice that all the models are wearing white, have tamed hair, flawless skin and fall in a healthy weight range (Rivas)
Although the title of the novel sounds like a Harlequin romance, it is a stunning evocation of life in the old town of Monkshaven during the late 1790s. In the novel, what concerns Gaskell is not the substantial historical and political events, but with their effect on the lives of the provincial lower-class society (Bowen 254)
Just like other historical novelists, she embeds her novel in the actual events. For example, the author bases Robson, Sylvia's father, on William Atkinson who incited gangs to riot leading to his execution and Sylvia's feather uses Atkinson's words in urging the rioters to move forward (Shaw 85)