weekly response 10

Levester Williams
ADP III
Reed Esslinger-Payet, GSI


Break Up or Make Up

A1
1. One can find the best price.
2. One can find the location of the products.
3. Corporations provide jobs.
4. Corporations stimulate the cash flow in our country.
5. Corporations provide funds for research for certain materials or medical devices or diseases that pertain to them.
6. Corporations introduce products that elevate our standard of living.
7. Corporations can educate people on certain subject that pertain to their products. For example, Kellogg’s cereal boxes have great health information.
8. Corporations are able to demystify cost, so the 4 billion that has an income of less than $2 a day can afford to buy necessities.
9. Corporations can prevent unethical practices of animals.
10. Corporations can adopt eco-friendly methods to make their products.
11. Corporations can provide significant funds to charity/scholarships.
12. Corporations established efficient productivity of manufactured goods.
13. Corporations can become establish firm bonds with other countries through their trades.
14. Corporations can establish social networking among communities.

B1.
1. Corporations may cause internal conflict within countries with the export of materials.
2. Corporations have power to censor any positive messages that may oppose them.
3. Corporations have much protection from their misdeeds.
4. Corporations are hardly punished from unethical practices.
5. Corporations caused gentrification that forced lower class citizens to move away from their homes. (mainly affecting minorities).
6. Corporations provide negative images to the viewer.
7. Corporations manipulate everyday action with a plethora of advertisements.
8. Corporations are not being forced to be fully liable for misconducts.
9. Corporations can cause conflict among countries.
10. Corporations may infest a city with crime due to urbanization and disparities between suburban and urban life.
11. Corporations may extirpate the natural resources from the environments.
12. Corporations have power to decide several governmental elections for the benefit of them and not for society.
13. Corporations have more power than an individual.
14. Corporations can outcompete small businesses.
15. Corporations raise prices of products to maximize their benefits.

A2.
1. Due to a multitude of corporations in one sector, people are allow to vote for what products is the best with their dollars and able to support a corporation.
2. Due to the widespread of corporations, people now have accessibility to many products where, as the south in the pre-Great Depression, did not have much accessibility.
3. Corporations can contribute to the elevation of the standard living by advancing their products.
4. With the starting of corporations, many jobs become available within the community; thus, it promotes its growth.
5. Corporations can provide funds to many outreach programs, charities, non-profit organization, and scholarship to enhance the lives of the citizens.
6. Corporations may play an educational role when they establish educational program or incorporate information on their products.
7. Corporations’ purpose may to maintain a social value instead of trying to maximize their products.
8. Corporations can become a role model to influence people to be more eco-friendly.
9. Corporations have influential power of creating bonds with other countries through trades; thus, country relations prosper.
10. Corporations are able to meet the demand of the customers with effective productivity.

B2.
1. With corporate leaders being some of the wealthiest people in the world, they have much influence in politics. This may lead them to influence the political leaders to take action. For example, I strongly speculate that the leaders of the oil companies wanted Pres. George Bush to go to the Middle East to control the oil.
2. With media being actually catered to the corporations, many messages are omitted that may oppose the company; thus, there is a limit of what people say on the air without the regards of vulgarity.
3. Due to their alliances with international organizations, corporations have much protection. Therefore, they may be able allowed not to be responsible for some of their unethical acts.
4. When corporations move into a city, they tend to inhabit lands that lower class citizen may live in. Thus, these citizens are moved to live closer together.
5. Since corporate literally runs the media, they can control the material; thus, negative images are having the affect on people’s self-image.
6. Corporations, due to the extraction of certain materials, are causing internal warfare in developing countries.
7. The establishment of a corporation in a community lead to more people moving in suburbs, yet creating a bigger disparities within lower class communities; thus, crime may burgeon.
8. Corporation may rid all resources from an environment; thus, this will disturb the ecological balance within the biota.
9. Corporations have substantial influence on election since they want a candidate that will support their company; thus, they may be the deciding winning vote.
10. I feel sometimes that the prices of products are overpriced. Corporations have the funds to demystify their cost to meet the needs of people.

Most corporations’ goal is to maximize their profit. With this capitalistic idea, they try to create a culture that comes from top-down (Lasn 189). Therefore, there is much limit from what the individual could demonstrate to the corporations. The citizen now is a cult member who has less to contribute to his own lifestyle beyond what is provided for him through corporation (Lasn 53) Our actions seem to support the corporation since we constantly indulge into their advertisement. I have personally been a victim to this since I don’t question any products and the company of it. I simply consume it without knowing it may be connected to some genocide in a developing country. We buy products from corporations not knowing the ultimate price for buying them since corporations will not inform us about the consequences.

Works Cited
Lasn, Kalle. Culture Jam: The Uncooling of America. New York: Eagle Brook, 1999. Print.