Investigating attraction compatibility in an East Texas city

Concentrations of six polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (benzanthrone, benz[a]anthracene, chrysene, fluoranthene, pyrene, and triphenylene) of soil samples from Diboll, an East Texas city (USA), were analyzed with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Samples were collected from five sites; Old Orchard Park, two heavy traffic intersections (Judd Street and Lumberjack Drive), an industrial site (West Borden Drive), and a truck stop. Acetone and dichloromethane extracts in all samples showed the presence of fluoranthene and pyrene. The sum of fluoranthene and pyrene concentrations in sites followed the order West Borden Drive > Judd Street > Lumberjack Drive > Old Orchard Park > truck stop. Concentrations of fluoranthene and pyrene were in the range 12.3 – 396.5 μg kg-1 (ppb) and 13.6 – 209.8 μg kg-1 (in dry soil), respectively. Benzanthrone, benz[a]anthracene, chrysene, and triphenylene concentrations were < 2 ppb levels. The higher concentrations in soils were associated with sites close to heavy traffic and vehicular emissions.

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The discourse of deservingness: Racialized framing during rumored ICE raids

Ethnicities ◽

10.1177/14687968211018215 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 146879682110182

Author(s):

Beatriz Aldana Marquez ◽

Apryl A Williams ◽

Nancy Plankey-Videla ◽

Selene I Diaz

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Data ◽

East Texas ◽

High Anxiety ◽

Community Based ◽

Radio Stations ◽

Spanish Speaking ◽

Social Media Platforms ◽

Fear Of Deportation ◽

Anxiety And Fear ◽

Texas City

On February 12–14th, 2017, there were rumors of an ICE raid in the small East Texas city of Hometown. Reports that ICE was present circulated on social media platforms and radio stations in the area. Consequently, the Latinx community had high anxiety and fear of deportation and looked to the Spanish speaking radio DJs for information and advice. In this paper, we argue that heighten threats of deportation can accentuate divisions among the Latinx community based on fallacies regarding criminality and immigration. The authors utilized a collection of qualitative data to review the racialized framing that occurs during rumored ICE raids. A discourse of deservingness based on the notion of the “good” versus “bad” immigrant was internalized by vulnerable immigrants to alleviate stress about deportation.

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Impression management and legitimacy strategies: The BP case

FINANCIAL REPORTING ◽

10.3280/fr2012-004004 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 35-64 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Giovanna Michelon

Keyword(s):

Impression Management ◽

Management Practices ◽

Legitimacy Theory ◽

British Petroleum ◽

Wide Range ◽

Management Techniques ◽

Disclosure Tone ◽

The Empirical Analysis ◽

A Company ◽

Texas City

The aim of this paper is to study if and how impression management varies during different phases of the legitimation process, in particular during the legitimacy building and legitimacy repairing phases (Suchman, 1995). We aim at understanding whether and how the disclosure tone adopted by a company in the two different moments is diverse and thus functional to the intrinsic objective of the each phase. The empirical analysis focuses on the case of British Petroleum Plc. We investigated the impression management practices undertaken by the company both during the preparation of the rebranding operation, i.e. a situation in which the company is trying to build legitimacy; and during the happenings of two legitimacy crises, like the explosion of the refinery in Texas City and the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The evidence appears in line with the theoretical prediction of legitimacy theory. Results show that while the company tends to privilege image enhancement techniques during the legitimacy-building phase, it uses more obfuscation techniques when managing a legitimacy-repairing process. Moreover, the analysis suggests that the company makes more extensive use of impression management techniques in the disclosures addressed to shareholders, investors and other market operators than in the disclosures addressed to the wide range of other stakeholders.

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