Northwest

Sun Country Airlines (SY) has a very unique marketing strategy for its niche, but its advertising has definitely proven effective. Sun Country has found its role in the airline industry, not as a legacy or a low-cost carrier, nor as a charter company (even though charters account for a large portion of their business), but as an airline in its own lane. This small hometown airline has weathered the storm through two bankruptcies, corrupt ownership, 9/11, and a recession or two. Sun Country is…

The Tlingit indians are the northernmost of the Northwest Indian Tribes. The Northwest Indian tribes, consist of the Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Kwakiutl, Bella Coola, Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka), Coast Salish, and Chinook tribes. They mostly live in northwest area of California, and Alaska. The Tlingit traditionally got much of their food by fishing, with salmon as the main food source. They also hunted seals and sea otters and gathered wild berries and roots. The Tlingit used cedar wood from…

Delta Airlines The tragic event of 9/11 caused a crisis across many business spectrums, but one area was affected greatly; the airline industry. September 11, 2001 is a day that airline executives, employees, passengers, law enforcement, government officials, and the general public will never forget. Over 3,000 people were killed in the terrorist attack where, 19 terrorist belonging to the group al-Qaeda hijacked 4 US aircraft belonging to United and American Airlines (Timeline, 2014).…

D.B Cooper Who is D.B Cooper? Cooper is a man who successfully hijacked a plane and was never found. It all started on Nov. 24, 1971, when middle aged man by the name Dan Cooper bought a plane ticket for Northwest Airlines flight #305 in Portland bound for Seattle. He was wearing a dark suit and a black tie. While in the air he ordered a bourbon and coke, after that he opened his briefcase to reveal a bomb. He told the flight attendant to land in Seattle and demanded 200k in cash ( in 20…

The first was Giovanni de Verrazano. He was commissioned in 1524 to discover a Northwest passage through North America to India. Not far behind him was Jaques Cartier who explored the St. Lawrence river as far as present-day Montreal. Jean Ribault headed an expedition that explored the St. Johns river area in Florida. France’s last explorer…

This ordinance was also a system to distribute land and create new states, specifically in the Northwest territory. The previous system, established territories that would eventually join the original states once their population grew. The Northwest Ordinance was different because it would allow the territories to become states after they grew enough. In the beginning, each territory would have a governor and a council…

Fighting between the United States and Native Americans in the Old Northwest Territory predated the war by six months (Lewis, n.d.). Black Hawk, who would later lead Sauk and Fox warriors during the war bearing his name, led Sauk warriors during several attacks against the United States during the War of 1812 (Lewis, n.d…

The beliefs and values embraced by Thomas Jefferson in his Letter to James Madison can be seen by some as archaic and insensible to a growing society. Although America’s values on the basis of economy and society have shifted somewhat, a few of his ideas can still be interwoven into how America regards itself. Another writing of Jefferson’s will be referenced in the course of this essay, since it has a clearer sense of why Jefferson felt the way he did about agrarian societies. This writing is…

Before the current United States Constitution there was the Articles of Confederation. This frame of a government, and how it would organize a new nation, came about during America’s fight for independence against the British. This fast answer to a monumental problem would only come to provide temporary relief, for the New World would require structure far greater than what was provided in the Articles of Confederation. Though the founders did not know at the time, they would come to learn…

the United States of America began traveling through the Northwest Passage without the permission from Canada, lobbying the Northern waters to become international (Dickason and Newbigging 277). Canada saw the United States as a threat and acted swiftly to grant the Northerners their request for self-government. A political accord was signed by both parties in 1992 (Belanger, 222). In 1993, representatives of the Canadian government, Northwest Territories and Nunavut Tunngavik signed a land…