THE CORPORATION

The documentary that we watched in the class was very explicit talking about the role of corporations in the community, the consequences of this role and the impact of some corporations in our society.

It’s necessary to be clear about what is a corporation. Corporations are big enterprises that can manage their market sector, and could enter through another market without any problems because they have a lot of power to do it.

Despite thousands of rules that exist against the manipulation of the market, corporations would make a lot of things against human society that is what the documentary tries to make, explaining the damage that corporations cost to the humans.

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There are not only environmental prejudices that corporations do for our society, those are the most mentioned by the newspapers or by television, but actually, environmental issues are very important but they are not the most perverse ones. In the documentary shows us many prejudices such as the damage of habitats such us human habitat and animal habitats too, there they also mentioned about the dangerous products that some corporations make to their clients.

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The thing that I considered the most impacted was the human rights violations that the corporations make for the community, in the documentary shows us a very good example about an scandal human rights violation in which a big corporation take a small society from Honduras as their labor hand, and they exploited them, make them work hard and large hours for a few amount of money, taking advantage of the economical situation of the mentioned community. The corporation didn’t even pay them social security, and extra hours. The worst thing is that these persons thought that this terrible corporation was a miracle for their lifes. But they didn’t know about the prejudices that this corporations cost on their society. Corporations similar as the one of the human right violation there thousands of that, they exploited lots of communities and when they saw the community is economically better, they leave and search about other communities that have economic problems.

QUESTION: As a legal organizational model, how does the rise of corporations influence the aspects of culture in pursuing profit?

I think corporations started to have a lot of influence on the society after capitalism started to govern most of the world. This situation happened because corporation started to become the most powerful entities in human´s life, so at the beginning, they make the economy grew because of the thousands of employs they gave. So that’s why they started to influence culturally on all people so corporations  started to manage the behavior of their consumer and also they can manage the decisions of their suppliers.

How they influence people? It’s easy to understand, because all corporations entered to the market by the most common Medias, and they make aggressive marketing plans in which they participate to make people see their marks wherever they go. So its impossible that people didn’t see all adverting, and be influenced by them.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

·         Michael Anderson (2002), Transnational Corporations and Environmental
Damage: Is Tort Law the Answer.

·         Documentary “The Corporation” by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott. Retrieved from: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FA50FBC214A6CE87