Are We Really Just Puppets To Society?

One of the greatest and more fundamental gifts of life is the autonomy that comes with being a sentiment human being. This hasn’t always been considered a human right, however, and many eastern hemispheres are struggling to catch on to the concept that people should be allowed to make the decisions they choose without the external pressure to do otherwise. Thus, the question that should be asked is whether or not every human being on this planet is free, whether they should be free and what does free really mean. For many, freedom is all about that ability to to choose what they want, make their own decision and be able to move around as they please. Freedom is about equity, free speech and the guarantee of life, no matter how good or bad.

Throughout history, major corporations have taken control over nations. During the late 1800s and early 1900s big business have made a name for themselves in the united states. Even though, major corporations have had a positive impact on society, they in fact hurt our economy greatly.

Times magazine reported in 1910 there were 32 million farmers living on farms and in 1991 32 percent of farm managers and 86 percent of farmers did not live on the farm that they took care of. Now there isn’t even an agricultural class. The book goes on to talk about “rape and run” logging in Montana. We talked about the “fly by night” corporations in class. Both are the same just different terminology. In Montana, the Champion International Corp. went on a tree cutting binge in Montana, which leveled forests. They then left leaving behind million of people unemployed and over 1,000 square acres stripped. This leaves people poor and the land trashed. This is only one case, but I know we talked about this in class. These corporations suck everything they can out of a community until there isn’t anything left for them. They decided to leave one day and never think twice about the people. That’s why Berry has come up with a list of actions a community can do to help their own community flourish. I won’t list them all, but I will name a few important ones like: always put local needs first, develop small scale industries, strive to produce as much of the community’s own energy as possible, see that the old and young take care of each other, and so on. These actions would help a community grow stronger in many ways.

As the big businesses grew and created monopolies, they began to bring in huge incomes. The leaders of industry had a belief that they needed to help the poor, but they did not do it in a sincere way, they did it to become their agent and gain their trust. (Document 4) Many people struggled with work and money as a result of the big

Many young adults can be seen making extraneous efforts towards a future that ultimately leads them to freedom. The paths they choose to attain this freedom can positively or negatively affect their character and how they perceive people and the world. In the film, Into the Wild, Chris McCandless shows us that ultimate freedom, to a certain extent, is an achievement that cannot compare to any other, but it is nonetheless a greedy and inconsiderate desire to achieve. Although pursuing ultimate freedom will bring the most happiness to oneself, carrying out this freedom is purely an individual task that is inherently selfish.In life, the desire for freedom can be a powerful drive to allow a person to attain happiness, in which they would have

The opportunity of freedom is a base for your life. It puts you in a position and gives you the time to look at yourself, to look at the world and to decide what you will do with your life. Everyone will look at life with a different approach. See life through different glasses. We all have our own approach to life and no matter what handicaps of scientifical fixes people try to do we can never be totally and fully equal to one another. All our differences put together form a community, a city and our

Jim Morrison has once said, “The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.” We as human being are free from birth. We are given the ability to choose. This freedom makes us who we are as human being. Each individual make choices and learn through consequences. Through the consequences, we learn and the learning becomes experience. Through experience we slowly shape into who we want to be as human. This is the reason why we as humans are so special. Each individual is unique from others. Each of us has different ethical moral rights and wrong. Each of us has something we like and dislike. Each of us are different. Therefore,

To be honest, the documentary “Tapped” made me question every single purchase I have made from a big corporation. The film exposed the severe corruption behind what is widely thought to be a generally trusted and genuine industry. Firstly, I was completely unaware of the water mining occurring in small communities. Having lived in a desert for my whole life, where there is not an abundance of freshwater, I fortunately have not had to deal with big corporations invading my home and community, and stealing water from public property. The biggest problem with this, however, is that the citizens living in these communities are totally oblivious to the wrongful actions of these big companies. In my opinion, it should be a requirement that all

The idea that freedom exists is a rather eerie topic to discuss about. However, nearly everyone seems to be infatuated with the idea that in order for one to achieve true happiness, one must also attain ultimate freedom; the concept of relinquishing from the societal barriers that impede the progression of one’s success. But, is freedom really an ideal we should be striving for? Perhaps we are not really free, nor are technically able to possess free will. We don’t do as we please because we have to constantly be making choices regardless if we are consciously agreeing to them or not. We can never be truly free, there is just too much at stake, but we can sure aspire to be free and attempt to change our lifestyle to get a step closer to freedom.

we have the opportunity to alter few aspects of our lives, even though our freedom and

The economy today runs on an antiquated ritual of exploiting, plundering, devastation, and manipulation of land for material wealth, profiting the wealthy and condemning the poor. This mindset is no more sophisticated than feudalism, a system so bad it had to be outlawed along with witchcraft. The idea that exploitation of land is justified has brought plastics to the ocean and leveled rainforests. Large corporations have grown larger by manufacturing and production, depleting the planet’s resources in the process. Now, companies must make a combined effort to put the environment first, before profit. Because of their harmful practices, consumers have the right to know where products come from, how they’re made, and the impact on the environment. Furthermore, it is the responsibility of the large corporations to change their harmful practices, to make strides towards ending climate change and use clean, sustainable methods.

Water is a human right, not a commodity. It is the essence of life, sustaining every living being on the planet. Without it we would have no plants, no animals, no people. However, while water consumption doubles every twenty years our water sources are being depleted, polluted and exploited by multinational corporations. Water privatization has been promoted by corporations and international lending institutions as the solution to the global water crises but the only one’s who benefit from water privatization are investors and international banks. The essential dilemma of privatization is that the profit interests of private water utilities ultimately jeopardizes the safeguarding of the human right to water. Access to clean, sufficient

When looking at the corporate businesses and the undoing of the human habitat; the United Nations has sanctioned many organizations to track climate change such as the UNEP, the World Meteorological Organization and the IPCC. Since the mid-eighties, these agencies have monitored the changes, yet have failed to convey the significance. Studies done by these agencies have concluded that the last fifty years are attributable to human activities and big corporations which lead to the changing in the compositions of the atmosphere throughout the 21st century (Saltori). These activities that are mentioned are those by means of businesses that grew into national conglomerates. Concurrent with business growth, the greenhouse gas emissions have grown seventy percent from 1970 to 2004 (Lehner). Recent studies have shown that 122 corporations produce eighty percent of greenhouse gases (IPCC). The climate is going to drastically change the world forever, but at whose expense? What exactly does the political eminence of these companies have

Our planet faces serious problems, ranging from high emission rates, to extreme waste, we are using the equivalent of approximately 1.6 planets to provide us the resources we require to produce and absorb our waste (“World’). The result of this radical overuse of resources is less forest cover, global warming, air pollution, depletion of fresh water and the overall buildup of pollutants. "Nearly two-thirds, 63%, of all industrial carbon dioxide and methane released into the atmosphere since 1854 can be traced to fossil fuel and cement production by just 90 entities" (‘Largest Producers”). All 90 of those entities are big businesses with even bigger data. Many companies have started using big

Life springs up around water sources. It is no coincidence that some of the greatest civilizations have been build need fertile bodies of water. Known life relies on water to sustain that life. So it is no surprise when a debate arose in 2013 around comments made by Nestlé Chairman Peter Brabeck regarding privatization of water and the fundamental human right to survive from dehydration and illness from non-portal water consumption. Although the context of Brabeck’s comment was taken out of context, issues surrounding the access companies like Nestlé have been given to bottle their water when people do not have access to clean water and droughts are threatening crop production. Adding a price tag is not the answer. The market, both these companies and their consumers have a major role to play in the management of water; a role that requires a change in mindset of privilege many citizen of the United States, and other countries that do not see the direct effects that serious clean water issue have on people that do not have it.