DIVERSITY

The Alligator River Story
There lived a woman named Abigail who was in love with a man named Gregory. Gregory lived on the oposite shore of the river where Abigail live. The river that separated the lovers was full of dangerous alligators andAbigail wanted to cross the river to be with Gregory so she went to ask Sinbad, a riverboat captain, to take her across. He said he would but undera condition: if she go to bed with him prior to the voyage. She promptly refused and went to a friend named Ivan to explain what was happening but Ivan didnt want to get involved in the situation. Abigail felt her only alternative was to accept Sinbad's terms. Sinbad fulfilled his promise to Abigail and delivered her into the arms of Gregory. When Abigail told Gregory about her amorous escapade in order to cross the river, Gregory cast her aside with disdain. Heartsick and rejected, Abigail turned to Slug with her tale of woe. Slug, feeling compassion for Abigail, sought out Gregory and beat him brutally. Abigail laugh because Gregory finally had received what he deserved.

I rank the character from most offensive to least objectionable:

Sinbad - I think he should have done Abigail that favor for free or at leat ask for something less compromising. i think he wanted to cause trouble and he got away with it

Abigail - I think that sleep with simbad wasnt really necesary. she could have asked for someone else to take her to the other side because Simbad wasnt the only one who could. what respects to gregory i think she was eally meand because if she really loved him she wouldt sleep with Simbad and she would laugh at him.

Gregory - it think that if he really cared about abigale at least he could have done something for abigail to reach the shore or he could have visited her there. he dindt love her and treat her very bad

Slug - he dint have to get involve into Abigail business, or at least he wouldnt beat Gregory. if he really wanted to help her he would take her to the other side of the shore. thats not love, thats stupidity

Ivan - Didn't do anything. if he were a good friend he would have listened to her and help her to find a solution. maybe he was interested in her

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CORPORATIONS

Should corporations be entitled to the same legal rights as individuals? Wherethe line should be drawn?

I think corporation shouldn’t have the same rights as humans because as simple as that, they are no humans, they do not have feelings and neither moral nor altruistic goals…they are INMORTAL, so how is possible to compare a corporation with a human being? What we are supporting is not the growing of companies but the unmoral sense that a corporation’s wealth and power means rights.
They are institutions managed by people but is not a person; they are entities created with the only purpose of generate profits for its shareholders. They don’t care about destruct the planet or how to help the community because they let other people to be in charge or solve those kinds of problems, even thou they are the cause of those problems.
If we give to corporations the same rights that we have, we are basically given humans rights to superficial economic elements such as capital and property.
I think that the line should be drawn in rights; they could have a company’s right but no let them have rights as individuals. Obviously they should respond for their actions or at least make these people who manage the company responsible. They can’t impose us neither their thinking nor a certain lifestyle. They shouldn’t have total control of our lives.

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=7110

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RELATION BETWEEN NATIONAL IDENTITY AND CORPORATE IDENTITY

In order to know the relationship bwteen these two, first of al we have to know the meaning of them:

CORPORATE IDENTITY
Is the set of values, beliefs, and relationships between individuals and functions that guide the decisions of the company in order to achieve its objectives. It results in behaviour that has been learned within a group or transferred between individuals over time.

www.quantum3.co.za/CI%20Glossary.htm

NATIONAL IDENTITY
Describe the attachment people feel to their nation. A national identity is supposed to include a common history, a set of shared values and state institutions as well as a common culture.

http://www.hf.ntnu.no/engelsk/courses/egw/114/british/bt.htm

Having said that, for me the the relationship between national identity and corporate identity is that both are learned by transferred information over the time, like for example: the beliefs in national identity and how people should dress in corporate identity. I think national identity have a lot of influence in the corporate identity because institutions and enterprises are managed by people that had born in certain place, which means that have certain costumes, values and beliefs and that is what going to defined how institutions and enterprises work or function, which will guide the decision making process of a company.
National identity will determine how thing are done in the enterprises of a certain country and how they manage their business. The rules of game.

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WHAT IS CULTURE?

"Culture refers to the character of an organization, as it reflects deep patterns of values beliefs, and traditions that have been formed over the course of its development."

David Thenuwara Gamage (2006). Professional development for leaders and managers of self-governing schools

"By culture we mean all those historically created designs for living, explicit and implicit, rational, irrational, and nonrational, which exist at any given time as potential guides for the behavior of men."

Kluckhohn, C., & Kelly, W.H. (1945). The concept of culture. In R. Linton (Ed.). The Science of Man in the World Culture.

"A culture is a configuration of learned behaviors and results of behavior whose component elements are shared and transmitted by the members of a particular society"

Linton, R. (1945). The Cultural Background of Personality.

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