The Sociological Imagination and Hurricane Sandy: Was Hurricane Sandy a Personal Trouble or Public Issue? Hurricane Sandy hit the United States on October 29, 2012, destroying the Northeast. Soon after landfall, media started calling this perfect storm “Superstorm Sandy” and “Frankenstorm.” Killing over one hundred people, this thirteen-day storm, affected twenty-four states, including the entire eastern seaboard from Florida to Maine and west across the Appalachian Mountains to Michigan and Wisconsin. The most severe damage was in New Jersey and New York. Sandy left tens of thousands homeless, crippled mass transit, triggered paralyzing gas shortages, inflicted billions of dollars in infrastructure damage and cut power to more than 8million homes.
mee | The Home Depot | Memo To: | Supervisory Team | From: | Midlevel Manager | Date: | November 4, 2013 | Re: | Organizational Changes | | | | | “Organizational culture is a complex adaptive system that uses coherence as a potent binding force” (Leban & Romuald, 2008, p. 100). Just like in social cultures, business cultures program the workforce of a company with a common set of standards, and attitudes. Corporate cultures are responsible for a company’s organizational behavior. In December 2000, Home Depot’s leadership was the responsibility of Robert Nardelli. Although Home Depot was already a profitable company, there was a financial and operational worry putting in danger the company’s
Civilization was crushed” (page 103). The population of the United States was dramatically affected by the disaster because the explosion took out the President, so without the Government running smoothly and half of the population blasted out of existence, the civilization of Fort Repose and other cities are dwindling down. “I don’t see how we could get rocked from that distance. Maybe they hit Palm Beach and Miami. Maybe they missed and pitched two in the Glades” (page 93).
Notable world events happen every day and depending on how well you related to it decided how well you remembered the event and what you doing at the time. For me the event that affected me personally the most was the Anthrax Scare immediately following the 9/11 attack on the U.S. Two other earth shattering events that really took me off my feet were the Columbia Space Shuttle accident and the tsunami in Asia that killed over 225 thousand people. Natural world disasters are truly terrifying in the fact that no one has control of anything that made that made them happen. If you are an American and alive and well today you know about the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center. Fast forwarding a month would be the anthrax scare postal workers faced in October.
Between the hours of 12:00AM and 1:00AM on April 19th Dzhokar and Tamerlan were spotted and they engaged in a shoot-out with the officers. During the pursuit improvised explosive devices were thrown at the police, as many as 300 rounds were exchanged. Tamerlan was killed by police during the exchange. Dzhokar, while escaping the scene ran over his brother’s body and got away from the police. Britannica.com 23 July 2014 Boston Marathon bombing of 2013 This was the start of the manhunt that shut down the city of Boston.
Because of these economics times that the world is currently in, the company found its business in disarray subsequently an action plan was put in place for the company could be saved. More than 34,000 of jobs were lost in the US and Canada alike at that time. As of January 16th 2009 a week after the motions were initiated in court, Circuit City decided to close all 567 remaining stores in the United States. The lost of these jobs have not only affected the company but their employees have suffered irreversible damage in these economic times. The communities were these jobs were lost have been devastated.
On September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists from the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda caused the most deadliest attacks on American soil in U.S. history. There were a series of four (4) airline attacks in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania killing over 3,000 people (Encylopaedia Britannica). At 8:46am, the first plane struck the north tower of the World Trade Center and seventeen minutes later the second plane struck the World Trade Center’s south tower. After the third and fourth planes struck the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania, respectfully, for the time the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) banned all aircraft flights in U.S. airspace, the ban was kept in place for two days. The 9/11 attacks caused records losses in world markets, closing trading for four days.
McKinnon is accused of hacking into 97 United States military and NASA computers over a 13-month period between February 2001 and March 2002, using the name 'Solo'. The US authorities claim he deleted critical files from operating systems, which shut down the US Army’s Military District of Washington network of 2,000 computers for 24 hours, as well as deleting US Navy Weapons logs, rendering a naval base's network of 300 computers inoperable after the September 11th terrorist attacks. McKinnon is also accused of copying data, account files and passwords onto his own computer. US authorities claim the cost of tracking and correcting the problems he caused was over $700,000. In early November 2008, a total of 80 British MPs signed an Early Day Motion calling for any custodial sentence imposed by an American court to be served in a prison in the UK.
2008 (April): The UN predict that 300,000 people have been killed in the five year Darfur conflict. 2008 (May): Sudanese government bombs hit schools and market places in Darfur, killing 13 civilians. UNHCR withdraws its staff from sites on the Chad/Sudan border citing insecurity. 2008 (June): Northern and Southern forces begin intense fighting over the disputed oil-rich town of Abyei. 2008 (July): The ICC calls for the arrest of President Bashir for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur.
IIMMIGRATION IN AMERICA Immigration in America Kathy Gibbs Dr. Dixie Button Economics of Social Issues ECO 405 February 4, 2013 Immigration in America After the terrorist attack to the World Trade Center in New York last September 11, 2001, the whole world was shaken especially the American people. It was an attack that devastated the heart of America. It was an attack that no American expected. Such attack made the world freeze in agony. It was so devastating that killed the lives of about 1, 200 people and destroyed properties.