Levitttowns, and the suburban communities that were later modeled upon these ideas were designed "to make more possible, more efficient, this good life of postwar prosperity" (Clark, 2007). Ownership, space, the right to shape one's environment through material consumption -- all of these ideals resonated powerfully in the American mindset. With no ties to particular plots of land based upon family or ethnicity that were deeply and powerfully rooted in history, as in Europe, America was a socially as well as economically mobile society. Americans were ready to move and to buy homes to formulate their own environments. Within the suburbs there was still the promise of community, exemplified by the home's creation of a common area (the central living room in most suburban homes featured a television, of course) but the community was of the family, not the wider environment. This ideal of privacy and creating one's own unique living space that is different and personalized, yet somehow still in keeping with the ideals of one's neighbors is seen in today's do-it-yourself movement, where Home Depo looms large on almost every suburban highway. The store is filled with promises of creating the ideal living space for one's home and family, so long as one can afford its prices. The Disney Corporation's planned community of Celebration U.S.A. where "everything within the town's confines was intended to be soothing to the eye and comforting to the soul" from its litter-free streets on a grid-like pattern to its homogeneity of style struck many cultural critics as noxious, but it may simply be an extension of an America where people are outraged if a neighbor does not cut his or her...
Leadership and Change Management Consider a change that has been recently introduced in your organization. Using relevant change and leadership theories, critically analyze the benefits and problems that introduction of this change has brought. TO WHAT EXTENT HAS LEADERSHIP CONTRIBUTED TO THE RESULTS OF THIS PROCESS? RasgGas is a joint venture gas company between Qatar Petroleum, the State of Qatar's national oil and gas company (majority stakeholder), and ExxonMobil, an American Integrated
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