• Nike: Nike hired poor children from Bangladesh and the Dominican Republic and then paid them 8 cents an hour, this is on my list because it is a brand that I often buy from and I did not know the problems they caused to others. • Monsanto: Created harmful chemicals to inject into cows and, created GMOs then lied about the effects of the GMOs and the effect of the chemicals on milk, this is on my list for my household we drink milk and I did not know the consequence of the milk. • IBM: Provided punch card information on individuals in Nazi Germany, this is on my list because what they did is terrible and if they did not provide this information those problems would have been different or would not have happened. • The Shell: Polluted the
The businesses and products I chose happened to be, Nike and their Mercurial football boots, and Sony and their PS3 gaming console. I chose these products because I think they are both reasonably diverse, and in their time, both these products have experienced a range of sections within the product life cycle.
The highly recognized name brand—Nike— fails to notice the faults that are happening in factories that are violating a few disturbing rules. The company’s reputation has decreased due to demands and claims Nike; implying that they utilize sweatshops to produce more products at a lower pay. The company has been sued numerous times for abusing and exploiting their employees in factories for years. Another problem that Nike has faced throughout the years was making employees work in poor environments that affected the health of many— which contributed to being abused by the manager for not going to work. Nike distributes and sells merchandise of high quality for a high value. The company is giving the satisfaction of quality service to their
Nike is one of the most well established companies who sponsor famous athletes that impact their buyers in a more inspirational and positive way. Although Nike has been keeping their illegal sweatshops in hiding and not revealing the truth to its consumers. Nike could solve these problems of their illegal sweatshops and fix their business image and still be one of the biggest companies.
Since the 1990s, Nike has been embroiled in controversy over its use of sweatshops. Including numerous media reports of workers earning very little an hour (14 cents per hour), and even workers abused by sub-contractor (Allarey, 2015). Incidents such as these are ingrained in Nike’s history and not quickly forgotten. However, as CEO I would like to attempt to correct wrongs.
The date was September 1st, 1939. Nazi Germany had just invaded Poland, and World War II had officially begun. Now, most people know at least generally about the holocaust: a mass slaughter of other races, mainly Jewish people, by the Nazis during World War II. Most people have heard of concentration camps, and know that many Jews were killed in gas chambers, killed by forced labor, or starved to death. These are typical deaths that people hear about in concentration camps, however most people have no idea about the experiments that were conducted during the holocaust. These cruel experiments were performed on concentration camp prisoners during World War II, and have since been lost in history. Well it is time for these inhumane acts to be
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Putting small farmers out of business, a history of paying lobbyists to block government regulations on genetically modified organisms, destroying the environment, lacking testing on their products; these are all characteristics of Monsanto’s company. Monsanto is a company that provides the largest producer of genetically engineered seeds (Neuman). Monsanto’s corporation is a danger to our health and environment.
People may think all human experimentation is ethical and happens under supervised, and controlled conditions with the consent of the person. This wasn’t the case in Nazi Germany. The Nazi’s performed some of the most inhumane, disturbing human experiments documented by man. The Nazi’s saw their extermination camps as a prime place for scientific experiments to advance their military and Nazi racial ideology. Prisoners were forced to participate in the experiments and usually died as an effect. If the subject lived, the results often resulted in trauma, disfigurement, or permanent disability. This happened on a large scale, and affected the lives of many. These experiments were typically aimed toward Jews, but some Romani, Sinti, Soviet prisoners of war, and disabled Germans were involved in these ruthless experiments. It is important to remember these diabolical acts not because of how awful they were, but the technological and medical advancements they posed. If we don’t acknowledge the suffering these people endured, then I feel that they have died in vain.
The countries were not justified for their use of chemical weapons in World War I because of its mass destruction of humans and to the environment. Although it did help weaken the enemy, there were many other weapons that could have been used. The addition of chemical weapons only made it easier for more soldiers to be unreasonably killed in large numbers. Even if the soldiers did survive, they would develop cancers and many health problems. Because the wind can carry the remnants of the gases, it could travel back to the the area where it came from or possibly into civilian life. Either way, everyone was at risk of inhaling the gases, not just the enemy. Furthermore, the use of chemical weapons caused damage to the environment, contaminating
Unfortunately, the same factor that contributed to Nike’s exponential growth (low-cost labor and production) also contributed to hurting Nike’s public image as a leader in “athleticism, health and fitness, and innovative marketing and design” (Locke, 2002). Nike was criticized for unethical practices by their subcontractors, which included underpaid workers, poor working conditions, child labor, and abuse (Locke, 2002).
The use of amphetamines dates back to World War II when Adolf Hitler would dose his soldiers with the drug in order to keep them going all day and night with little need for nourishment or hydration. It is the reason the Nazi’s were able to take over Europe at an unbelievable rate of speed. Hitler himself would get injected with amphetamines up to 5 times a day. It is believed that his mad rants were due to his drug addiction. Japanese soldiers also used amphetamines during the Japanese war. Perhaps the reason for its appeal to soldiers in times of war were the stimulant effects to the sympathetic nervous system to increase alertness and decrease fatigue. It stimulates the adrenal gland to increase spontaneity, initiative, confidence,
Fritz was born in Breslau, Germany on December 9th, 1868 into a Jewish family. Fritz studied chemistry from 1886 to 1891 at the university of Heidelberg. He was most famous for his research on ammonia. He was able to find out a way of acquiring it without having to extract it naturally. During WWI, Fritz worked with Germany on creating a toxic gas which was capable of killing thousands of people. That's exactly what ended up happening. Throughout WWI chemical warfare was being used to commit lots of murders. Since Fritz was the mastermind behind the chemical warfare, he became known as the “father of chemical warfare”. After Fritz’s toxic gas was a success, he got promoted to captain of the German army. Once the war ended, Fritz gained popularity
During the late 80s and early 90s Nike was faced with a series of labor strike back at home due to unethical labor practices by its independent countries in third world countries. It is well known for Nike to outsource almost all its production from third world countries at cheap prices and sell them in U.S. market at an abnormal profit. The company began outsourcing its products from Japan where labor was competent and wages were very low. The living standards were raised which prompted Nike to outsource its products from Thailand, Pakistan and Indonesia since wages in these countries were extremely low and labor for these products were competent due to rapid development of the Japanese economy. The outsourcing of footwear products from Asian countries enables Nike to earn high profits and enjoy a competitive advantage over its rivals in the footwear industry. The company invests the high profits realized in marketing its products through celebrities. For instance, Michael Jordan was used to advertise the positive image of Nike Company (Lipschutz and James, pp. 87-96).
Based on what they know, Hitler hired Nazi doctors to do experiments on people to see which experiments kills more people at a time.His experiments include: Freezing/ Hypothermia,Genetics
Nike took advantage of that and disregarded that the people making their products at an extremely low price were actually humans. It was ethically wrong for Nike to not see those employees as actual people but saw them as a machine that produced products. They did not care to see how being underpaid affected a person’s family. They also did not see that children were working to support families and continued to work in terrible health conditions because they needed the money no matter the environment. The biggest issue was that the company had a total disregard for human life.