Advertising in the press: an ethical issue In September 2012, the French newspaper Libération released a front page that produced controversies. Bernard Arnault, CEO of luxury firm LVMH, appeared above the statement “Casse-toi riche con”. The sentence refers to the Bernard Arnault’s application for Belgian citizenship. After few days of verbal struggle between the CEO and the newspaper, Liberation said LVMH and other firms cancelled for €700,000 in advertising, in response to the front page1.
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Big Brother’s Eyes – analysis Writers This article about camera surveillance has been posted in The New York Post on 2 May 2002, about 1,5 years after 9/11 where the use of video surveillance has become a bigger part of the reality. The article is written by William D. Eggers and Eve Tushnet. Both Eggers and Tushnet are at the posting time working at the Manhattan Institute where they are working on a book on how technology is transforming government. Eggers is at the posting time at the age
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come up with ‘stretch’ and ‘leverage’ concepts to exhibit a whole new way to run a company. This essay aims to give a critical review of this article in the wider debate, theoretical underpinnings and main strengths and weaknesses. There are so many definitions about strategy in academics, and among them one of the fittest definition according to this article is come up by Johnson et al. (2008, p.3), ‘Strategy is the direction and scope of an organization over the long term, which achieves advantage
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government uses to guide the economy, I researched and analyzed each indicator by comparing the data from 2010 to that of 2011. Even though a large number of economists are optimistic, my opinion is that while recovery is progressing, the pace at which we are moving is not fast enough to rejuvenate consumer confidence. Based on what I have read and have learned in the classroom over the last few weeks, I am even more concerned for our future than I was before I started to learn the world of economics.
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are the key objectives of this class. The objective of these three skill areas was to help us better understand how to think ethically and to understand why others think the way they do and how to come to a better understanding of a difference of opinions on various subjects. Analytical Skills Analytical skill building helps to improve your critical reading, writing and thinking skills. In unit 2 Case Study B, I evaluated a situation where an employee was upset with his employer’s treatment of
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follow our favorite actors, musicians, athletes, etc. and their opinions, while they may not matter to us, are without a doubt at least seen due to the sheer number of followers. Is it right for us to blindly follow the opinions of someone based of social status? Of course not. In fact, Ignacio Gatti, the author of the article “Celebrities: Why Do They Have So Much Influence?”, went as far as to say that following someone’s opinions based simply off of social status is unethical. Does that mean that
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1. What was the most interesting course topic and why? The most interesting course topic I found was the article we read on Katrina Why Katrina’s Victims Aren’t Refugees: Musings on a “Dirty Word and the English Language Amendment. In the Katrina article I found it interesting and true how just one word can have a big impact on someone and the feeling they get from hearing the word. The categorical word used by the media for people who had to leave their home behind, was "refugee". The author
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Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology 1.0. The Background to Plato’s Metaphysics The author Silverman, Allan (2014) of this article titled Plato’s Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology wrote about how Plato first began to annotate his own points on metaphysics and epistemology. As we all knew, Plato’s definition of things are heavily influenced by his teachers Heraclitus (c.540 B.C.-480-70) Parmenides (c.515 B.C.-449-40) and especially Socrates (470 B.C-399). However only
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your topic using 2 nutrition articles that discuss your topic, but provide opposing viewpoints. Use the Internet, the University Library, or the search links provided in the Week 2 Electronic Reserve Readings to locate the articles. Write 50- to 200-word responses to each of the following questions based your findings. Use your own words and provide examples to support your answers. 1. What topic did you choose? Discuss the position of each of the two articles you selected. The topic
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look and listen. The children today seem to have an attitude about everything even at a young age. Some of them can’t even tell you what they are angry about. The evidence you will here in this paper is not only based on my own personal experiences but also from other researched articles. When I was growing up we had no choice but to respect our parents and elders. Talking back or acting act was not tolerated at all. Parents took the time to connect with their children instead of letting them sit
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