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    The chapters (5-7) of Timothy Sellnow and Matthew Seeger’s book, Theorizing Crisis Communication, discusses the theories of communication (or human nature) in relation to emergency response as well as the strengths and weaknesses of different theories. In their writings, the assumptions that guide the emergency response approaches to communications are stuck in the basic problem of communication during a crisis to elicit the wanted response. If the emergency manager was not to be able to persuade

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    Organization Structure Office of the Secretary Leadership of the Department of transportation is provided by the Secretary of Transportation, who is the chief advisor to the president in all matters relating to federal transportation programs. The secretary is assisted by the Deputy Secretary in this role. This office manages the formulation of national transportation policy and helps promote intermodal transportation. This office also negotiates and implements international transportation agreements

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    Breakaway’s messages to the public stem from their purpose. Message points include a) Believe in Jesus Christ and b) Get Connected to a Church. The content of these message points isn’t shocking knowing that growth is what is principal to Breakaway. What is striking is how well Breakaway does at getting their points across. Every week Timothy Ateek encourages students to begin a personal relationship with Jesus. Breakaway offers bibles to students, encouraging them to embrace Christianity. Breakaway’s

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    money for their own use. Without the male presence in the home, the families tended to be smaller, and the family income was distributed to fewer members. Therefore their family per capita was greater than when the men were in charge. The economic crisis of the 1980’s caused great harm to the Mexican economy, but had lasting beneficiary effects on gender equality. Because many men often migrated to other parts of the country or bordering countries to find better work, the women were forced to join

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    crashed, taking it off the road for months to come. As a result, we were stranded in the suburbs with no transportation and without a job to alleviate the situation. Fortunately, we were rescued by kindhearted friends who stuck with us throughout the crisis. In times like these, one can easily fall apart. Fortunately, my survival mode went into overdrive and I determined to overcome each hurdle no matter how painstaking. Life threw me a bucketful of lemons, but instead of making lemonade I chose to

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    the Effects of Competition Caused Crisis from the perspective of the Adaptive Cycle: The case study of Strategic Postures in Organizations Martin Altmann, Shahnaz Ashrafia, Sebastian Hoffmann, Kemal Sütçü and Simon Widler Abstract. Organizations are likely to encounter crisis in any forms at a certain point of time. This paper focuses on competition crisis and intends to study how the application of different strategic postures could influence the impact of the crisis. A collection of case studies from

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    “Crisis can be defined as an unexpected occurrence that may have negative consequences, which can lead to uncertainty, instability, and, in many cases, a need for immediate action or response.” (Stein, 2006). Not only can it be unexpected, but it can also be expected. Events such as a family illness that leads to death could be expected but still create trauma. The main point of crisis is not the traumatic event that is occurring, but the impact that it has on an individual(s). In order to understand

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    The unfortunate crisis event, that took place at the Indiana State Fair, caused the organization to experience a negative reputation. Unfortunately, the negative reputation was a result of poor crisis management, crisis planning, and failure to put the safety of the attendees and employees, as a top priority. In preparation for a high school baseball game that involves hundreds of people, I would carefully research the actions and decisions that were made by the Louisiana State Fair officials and

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    Taco Bell’s swift actions by their crisis management team to launch an advertising campaign thanking the people from suing them turned out to be a success for the company and the lawsuit was dropped. Numerous companies have been hit with a crisis over the years, how fast and diligent the organizations deal with the crisis helps in the recovery process. Additionally, crisis management requires more than an apologetic press release, the news goes viral in a matter of minutes, and companies must be

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    The writings for the week covered different approaches to what environmental ethics is and how it is obtained. Different approaches in the value in environmental ethics are found due to the different approaches. In terms of value one must find what value means to them and how they measure it. Dobel and Frendel came to the approach that religion is a basis of environmental ethics. This is due to the fact that roots of both Christianity and Judaism discussing the need to care for the earth in some

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