This is very unfortunate when most countries in Africa do not have clean running water and here Starbucks is washing it down the drain without thought. After being under fire for this incident Starbucks soon ordered the taps to be turned off. They did not want to risk any additional negative publicity about the company along with the information getting back to its stakeholders and consumers The U.K. public relations agency tried to warn Starbucks of doing such a thing and that the incident would threaten the companies’ ethical position, PR week reported. This is a very common way of hiding the truth when it comes to these big companies such as Starbucks. They hide the truth when it could really damage their image and the company can potential lose billions of customers.
Morgan Spurlock would have included this because it emphasis’s how truly worried they all were for his health at this point because not even the doctors imagined the extent of damage the experiment had caused. So why do people still eat these foods? The health risks are obvious. Why don’t people take personal responsibility for what they are doing to their bodies and
What type of appeal is mentioned? Looking through the words in the article one would find would be pathos, ethos, and logos. An example of pathos would be the statement “But consider a far more serious issue: chronic pain.” What the author is trying to get at is do not just look at the football player using an illegal drug, but the reason behind it, his pain. Pride, fear, and a bit of sympathy is the author’s way at appealing to the emotions. Most people would take medicine either from store bought or prescribed, but what if that does not work or after awhile of taking it, it does not work for the body?
The second main reason that people should stop using steroids is, because it can kill them. There are many ways steroids can kill you. Steroids can cause liver failure, high blood pressure, cancer, strokes caused by blood clots and most of all major heart attacks. The reason people have heart attacks from steroid use is because it makes your blood to thick to pump through your heart, causing your heart to work much harder than normal, and then causing the person to have a heart attack. The third main reason that people should not use steroids is because it causes many other health problems in their life.
But Americans believe our values are in decline, and while this is most clearly attributed to a lack of faith in political and economic institutions, perhaps our athletic institutions best demonstrate why we as a nation have become pessimistic about our values. To take one example, in the same study, Americans found the use of performance enhancing drugs by athletes to be the least morally acceptable behavior in a list that included prostitution, underage drinking, human cloning, and illegal drug use. Every time a scandal hits the sports world, it shakes our trust in our athletic institutions and people who are seen as role models, especially by the Millennial generation. According to the values poll, 45% of Americans age 18–29 say that celebrities and professional athletes have a fair amount or a great deal of influence on developing their beliefs of right and wrong. This is higher than the 42% of the same group who say the same of political leaders, and only slightly lower than the 51% who say that religious leaders have the same amount of influence on their values.
Case Study: Starting a Food-Supplement Company In the case study regarding the food-supplement company, I have come to the conclusion that the tactics this company are using are immoral based on modern moral analysis. The two main issues in this case study that I will concentrate on are that this company is practicing deceptive advertising tactics and lying to its competitors. The first issue with this company is that they are advertising a product, “Knees Forever”, and making false claims that it can help with knee-joint problems. The second issue is that they are lying to their competitors about competing with them. The first issue is that this company copied a competitor’s product and advertised it deceptively.
Taking in the situation and seeing that “Sycamore Pharmaceuticals to come under fire for promoting its popular rheumatoid arthritis drug, Osteoporin, for the treatment of other diseases like Crohn’s disease and lupus”. (Daft, R.L.) John Blake, a worker of Sycamore Pharmaceuticals, is faced with telling the truth to the Food and Drug Administration or to continue to lie for the company. There are many things I would suggest to John Blake and the first thing would to be honest with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) because keeping your morals straight will also look better. It is possible for John to be penalized or he could lose his employment with the company.
The advertisement “did you ever see a fat Chinese”, it basically saying that the food the Americans eating is very unhealthy and fat and although it’s a little bit racist but it makes the Americans jealous and they will stop eating oily fast foods. There is one more kind of advertisement where they just offend the other race. For example, the advertisement on the left, it’s just an advertisement offending the black people. They make the white people as the angel and the black people as the devil. That will make the white people to hate the black people without any reason and at the same time to make them feel proud as a white people.
Speech Goal: I would like the audience to know the beneficial effects and the negative effects of consuming caffeine. Introduction: I. How many of you like to start your day off with drugs? II. There is nothing better than a cup of coffee loaded with caffeine to give you the extra boost you need to get through your day.
Persuasive Essay Smokers should stop smoking. Smoking is very addicting to people and is bad for them and the environment. It can cause many diseases and problems to people. Also, it can kill people and cause relatives and family friends to hurt also due to problems the smoker runs into. Smoking can cause physical and mental appearance.