kristin adamczyk
A1
1. Staying “informed” or being aware of trends, ideas, and current issues.
2. Staying connected to people outside your direct group of peers.
3. A growing business provides new jobs and a general economy boost for the area.
4. Keeps technology fast, products are readily available in a time-based world. Convenience.
5. Corporations are able to make their own decisions on business morals and ethics.
6. Established communities that gather and work together.
7. Media isn’t as corrupt as the Government (in society’s eyes)
8. Media diversity, provides an outlet for the society to be heard. Something for everyone to agree with. Options
9. “quality media” people vote with their eyes. People decide a lot of what they consume.
10. Can be used to influence positive change.
B1
1. Having “tunnel-vision” and only being aware of what the corporation wants you to be aware of.
2. Too much power results in too much control.
3. Corporations can overpower small businesses and eventually variety in product is lost.
4. Price increase based on demand.
5. Rapid consumption of natural resources
6. Neglect to environment/ animal ethics
7. A disconnect between city and suburb resulting in inner city crime, or crime that trickles down into the near by cities.
8. Dumbing down effect on society.
9. Media decides what you consume, this is your culture, this is where you get your morals. Is this really what you want your kids to see? Very animalistic. (Sex, Violence, Greed)
10. Can be too powerful to overthrow if influencing negatively.
A2
1. Fitting in, or standing out.
2. Business and being profitable is all about networking. Humans have a desire to be around other humans.
3. We are in an economic crisis, is it really because of the way we allow the media to influence our consumption?
4. We like the here and now, we don’t like to wait. We are picky and unique and want options.
5. Hopefully make good decisions that would better the world around them. Easy to get caught up in personal desires and selfishness.
6. Support groups
7. We have the right to say what we want. We have the right to pursue the truth.
8. We all have a little something different to say, unique ideas, variety in ideas.
9. I can decide to turn the TV off if you are not keeping my attention.
10. Make a difference, give a little of yourself.
B2
1. I like to know the truth, I don’t like being lied to. I feel I don’t have an accurate idea of the intentions of my government and the media.
2. A power over us: control our thoughts if they could.
3. The lose of local prosperity
4. Monopoly
5. We will run our Earth dry because of a greed and no appreciation for future generations.
6. Our planet dies around us.
7. The world around us isn’t safe anymore.
8. We stop progressing to discover new ideas and stop advancing as a race. We become easy to please and have simplified minds, like animals.
9. We stop appreciating each individual life.
10. We are no longer a Democracy.
http://www.projectcensored.org/censorship/corporate-media-ownership/
http://medialiteracy.suite101.com/article.cfm/media_consolidation_ownership
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A1
ReplyDelete1. Employment
2. Individuals can look to a particular corporation for inspiration.
3. Makes our lives easier/more convenient
4. Provides us with certain items we need to survive
5. Provides knowledge to the masses
6. Encourages the higher education
7. Provides entertainment
8. Helps us express our individuality
9. Helps economy
10. Create joy in helping individuals escape from reality
B1
1. Lack of public control
2. “Follow the Leader” attitude
3. Corporate=Agenda
4. Government has allowed a corporation to take on the moral responsibility/rights of a moral person.
5. Lack of addressing the environment
6. No such thing as enough
7. Place their own financial interests above the competing interests
8. Manipulative
9. Harmful affects on humans
10. Create poor working conditions
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1. The fact that it creates job opportunities for people is very important. Without these large corporations the unemployment rate would soar off the charts.
2. Corporations like Apple inspire me in an artistic aspect. Their creative advertising and marketing concepts have helped me discover unlimited boundaries regarding what I can do in the creative aspect of business.
3. There are some corporations that have created/provided us with products/opportunities to only improve our quality of life. For example, the convenience store CVS has a pharmacy that is open 24/7.
4. Corporations that supply medicine, food, and water.
5. They spread knowledge that we may not here about otherwise. The only problem is the people who do not have access are at a huge disadvantage.
6. Due to the fact that large corporations provide such an abundance of job and career opportunities, more people go to college compared to 180 years ago when the industrial revolution was just getting started.
7. Through various forms of the media, corporations encourage laughter, enjoyment, and down time from our busy schedules.
8. Different corporations stand for and symbolize different things. This helps individuals decide what they want to represent. At the same time, this causes people to desire the same products. The author Kalle Lasn who wrote “Culture Jam,” explains how the word cool has changed stating, “Cool used to mean unique, spontaneous, compelling. The coolest was the one everyone wanted to be like but no one quite could, because her individuality was utterly distinct” (Lasn 113). This definition has changed. By today’s standards your not “cool” if you are unique.
9. The exchange of products through the global market not only provides jobs but creates a large flow of money between various regions of the world.
10. Film corporations, for example help us escape our every day lives by encouraging us to dream of different realms and characters.
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1. Corporations have such a large impact over the public’s lives. If they do something wrong, who is going to stop them?
2. The idea that if one person gets a product, more people feel the need to have it. People think that they really do need something however, they subconsciously make competitions with their neighbors and who has more and better materialistic objects.
3. Over the years, people have had less and less time to relax and enjoy the world around them. Instead, we are tied down to our jobs and how fast and efficient we can work. The corporate world has created a society that run’s on their agenda.
4. Corporations are not run by one individual but multiple people, so why does the government allow the corporate world to have a “moral conscience.” They are allowed to buy and sell property, sue someone or be sued, and basically be a member of our society (The Corporation).
5. Pollutants are pumped into the air we breathe each and every day. Also, our natural resources are becoming more sparse due to production of these raw materials.
6. Where does production end? It is difficult to comprehend what materialistic objects will be invented in the future. What else do we really need?
7. It is the law that corporations are required to place their financial interests above anyone else’s. All this provides is short-term profit for the company’s stockholders.
8. They make the general population believe that they need a certain product or that a certain object will make them happy.
9. Sometimes the public is not fully informed of what they are consuming. For example, you may not know how many preservatives are in the dinner you picked up at the drive through of Mc Donald’s.
10. In certain countries, people are paid very minimal wages for the tedious work they do for several hours. Also, in some factories, workers inhale toxic gases.
Summary:
In my own life, I cannot imagine the world without these large corporations. I have been manipulated into believing that I truly need them in my life in order to be happy. So, it is difficult to say that there is nothing but negative impacts coming out of the principle of a corporation. However, this is all I know. Through watching the film “The Corporation,” it is easy to see how the idea of a business has morphed since the industrial revolution had begun. As much as I would like to change the principles of a corporation back to what they once were, like I said, the public has little influence in any decisions regarding this matter. In some ways we are hopeless. We must now wait for the government to change the way these monsters back into the trust worthy; family owned businesses America was once based on.
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ReplyDeleteWorks Cited:
The Corporation. Dir. Mark Achbar. Perf. Michael Moore,Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein. Big Picture Media Corporation, 009. DVD.
Lasn, Kalle. Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge--and Why We Must. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 1999. Print.