Alaska

pilots at Alaska Airlines have been underpaid, and now, after merging with Virgin America, pilots are protesting Alaska’s negligence. In 2005, Alaska pilots had pay cuts of 26% when the airline industry lost an estimated $7.4B (IATA, 2005) due to fuel price surges (James, Andrea, 2007). Since then, fuel prices have fallen significantly; pilots at Alaska have been paid less than those at other legacy airlines, such as Delta or United (Glassdoor, 2017). According to self-reporting surveys, Alaska Airline

they had to go through to even get to the location of the gold? In “Klondike Gold Rush ~ Yukon Territory 1897,” the reader learns about difficult tasks and horrid events that the miners had to withstand in order to mine gold. In “A Woman Who Went to Alaska,” by May Kellogg Sullivan the narrator expresses how they feel the Canadian Dominion government is unfair and how the miners go through more just to get to the mines then it's worth. In both pieces, the authors both heavily feel that the conditions

The Alaska Airlines was established in 1932 by Mac McGee and experienced a few updates up until the point that 1944 when it was ultimately named, Alaska Star Airlines. A couple of years after the fact, the organization was experiencing bumps on the road, however figured out how to remain above water by individuals who trusted change had to happen. Upgrades were made and in 1972, the organization had its first gainful year. However, in 1990, the organization made a stride in reverse when their previous

When oil was discovered on the north slope of Alaska, congress was faced with another “Indian problem.” Just how was it going to send an 800-mile pipeline right through the middle of Indigenous lands successfully without completely ignoring Native rights? ANCSA was the answer to that question. In 1971, due to ANCSA, 100 shares were given to every Alaska Native that could prove they had a quarter-blood of Alaska Native heritage and lived in a local traditional Alaskan native village. These shares

Benton Jones Core 3 Memoir Assignment My Alaska Trip Alaska is one of two states not connected to the U.S. mainland. A lot of people don’t get the opportunity to visit Alaska because they believe it is either too far away, too cold, or too undeveloped. People think that is a place where you have to hunt, fish, or catch your food because there are no Walmarts or Targets. My trip destroyed my belief that it was an unexplored land with no opportunity for development, but on the contrary, it has

Drilling Alaska I recently read an article in Scientific American (May 2001) titled “the arctic oil & wildlife refuge.” The article addresses the issue of whether or not science has the ability to clarify the potential economic benefits and the ecological risks of drilling into the nation’s last great coastal wilderness preserve. What I began to wonder after reading the article is, if we humans should continue our scientific and technological petroleum endeavors even though we are causing

To “come of age” is the transition from the life you lived before, for example a childhood, to the life you live now, for example, adolescence. The novel I chose is “Looking for Alaska” by John Green, which is about a boy, Miles, leaving Florida and his family to Culver Creek, a boarding school. Miles goes to Culver Creek because he is searching for the “Great Perhaps”, not because his father went there when he was Miles’s age. He transitions from adolescence to adulthood in many events throughout

The Labyrinth The labyrinth is the most important symbol in Looking For Alaska. The labyrinth is an allusion towards the main characters as they take different paths in the labyrinth. For Alaska, her only way out of the labyrinth is ‘straight and fast’. The colonel’s way out of his labyrinth, is to suffer through it. But Pudge, believes that the only way out of the labyrinth, is to forgive. The labyrinth to Alaska is "Suffering," she said. "Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's

Looking For Alaska by John Green Looking For Alaska by John Green is a coming of age story focused on a shy and friendless fifteen-year-old boy named Miles Halter. He leaves his home in Florida to attend Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama, seeking his “Great Perhaps” (Green 5). It is important to note that this novel is written in two parts, before and after. Before, Miles fits in perfect at Culver Creek where he meets his first true friends, Chip “The Colonel” Martin and Alaska Young.

The articles “Klondike Gold Rush” by Gordon Stables , and “A Woman who went to Alaska” by Meg Kellogg, both discuss the lives of miners in different points of view. These help shape the reader’s understanding about the lives of miners. The text “Klondike Gold Rush” tells the story through the point of view of a third person omniscient narrator. This gives a narrator that knows all about the miners and their lives, or what they go through. In the text it said, “Soon miners of all shapes and sizes