Answer to questions: The ethical issues involved in the Madoff case was his misconduct and deceitful activity. He lied to investors, cheated out his financial interests, and stole from thousands of people around the world. He took money from new clients and paid it out to existing clients. I don't believe that Madoff worked alone. Even if nobody helped him deceive investors, people knew about it, and the act of knowing and not reporting a white-color crime is guilty by association.
Netherland’s Emperor Charles V stated, “If begging for alms is permitted to everyone indiscriminately, many errors and abuse will result for they will fall into idleness, which is the beginning of all evil” (Doc.4). Charles V made the point in which it lead the Netherlands to become a welfare state, it could greatly influence the economy in which individuals would take advantage of the system and not do their job. Although the poor was looked down upon by many there were positive efforts done to help them thanks to nobles and others including religious priests, one who stated that the poor needs to be looked after and taken care of and those who help them will have direct entrance into heaven for their good deeds (Doc. 1). During a time in which
The Obama Administration tried its best to benefit the people and help them in ways that were never thought possible. Even though some of the contributions that the administration made were not helpful or were just wrong, the president was able to use the kindness of his heart to truly heat the people day in and day out. No one is able to truly intrigue everyone, but Hamilton’s scandal truly effected most of the population drastically (unless they were one to be the one getting money from the bonds). By victimizing the American people Hamilton’s scandal truly ended up affecting him in the long
In a nutshell, this epitomizes how corporate capitalism has become hopelessly intertwined with democracy to the point that it is difficult to approximate where one ends and the other begins. In conclusion serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. Our founding fathers envisioned citizen legislators who under the obligation of civic duty were given the opportunity to serve their countrymen and when their term was up they returned home. This ideal seems quaint when compared with current day career politicians who do nothing but lower Americans faith in the ability of their own government by way of endless scandals and investigations. The machinery of corruption can be overhauled within congress but that entails changing long held fundamental concepts as to who “we the people” truly means.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 Corporate America took a hard blow to the chin when the reality of bad accounting practices, fraud, embezzling, and other criminal activities took center stage on every media outlet worldwide around the turn of the millennium. American’s began to see firsthand exactly what types of people were running some of the largest organizations in the country and how greed and power could ruin lives. Along with these eye opening realizations, our elected officials were forced to create a way of holding Corporate America accountable for their accounting and business practices and to ensure that the criminal activity that brought down several of the nation’s largest organizations, costing taxpayers millions of dollars
Document 3 also shows the dark side of the Electoral College. It shows that bribery from the candidates to the electors could be used to secure their votes. This obvious corruption alters the system to a point where the voters may as well not have even voted. Since their votes are almost completely disregarded, it is almost as though they did not even vote in the first place. Document 7 talks about unnecessary use of military force on the nation’s own citizens.
During obsessed the time of 1950s, the paranoia regarding the threat of Communist infiltration and the subsequent corruption of the American way of life named the Red Scare and driven by Senator Joseph McCarthy. This caused people to be fearful of communism, the equality in everyone, and made them lose their individuality. The deadliness of the streets is evidenced by the use of metaphor, “and it was not unequal to walking through a graveyard.” By describing the streets as graveyard, it portrays that the citizens are dead and Leonard Mead is the only one alive, confirming the value of the sign of life coming from the various robots and devices that took over daily human routine. This idea is reinforced through the use of simile, “The tombs, ill-lit by television light, where the people sat like the dead, the gray or multi-coloured lights touching their faces.” This describes the life of the citizens as lifeless and asleep. This shows the power of technology as everyone is at home watching TV and refusing to do other things such as socialising or exercising.
Throughout the article, the author says “The shoplifter creates a third choice of her own: she takes the products she has been conditioned to desire without paying for them… Shoplifting is the most effective protest against all … modern corporations” (Ex-workers Pg. 2). The purpose of this article and its use of logos is to inform the reader of the how the big corporations are cheating them out of their money and how they can “stick it” to them. Ethos, pathos, and logos are all rhetorical strategies that are used to inform and convince the reader of the continuing problem of big corporations cheating people out of their hard earned money. The logic and the papers emotional pull all contribute to the credibility of the author and what she has to say.
Critical context also comes from history professor Dana Frank on her Huffington Post blog. She describes some of the deep corruption among Honduran politicians, police, prosecutors, and judges, which even the U.S. State Department. acknowledges: Among the most serious human rights problems were corruption, intimidation, and institutional weakness of the justice system leading to widespread impunity; unlawful and arbitrary killings by security forces, organized criminal elements, and others; and harsh and at times life-threatening prison conditions. In response to his country’s police corruption, Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández has increased the country’s militarization, as Frank reports: Not only does the regular military now patrol residential neighborhoods, airports, and prisons, but Hernández's new 5,000-strong military police force is fanning out across the country. On May 13, the new military police surrounded, tear gassed, brutally beat up, and forcibly ejected from the main hall of congress all 36 congress members of the center-left opposition party
The current El Paso Police Department is a prime example. A recent slew of investigations by local news stations in the Sun City revealed several “corrupt” cops who had overstepped their boundaries, or had hidden behind their badge to commit crimes. And sometimes, that “thin blue line”, as one officer called it, can divide an entire community— or even a police force. “There will be corruption everywhere you go, but of course it depends on the city that you are in,” Officer Doe said, as he drove through the city. “We are human too.