Some people believe that corporations have a responsibility to promote the well-being of the societies and environments in which they operate. Others believe that the only responsibility of corporations, provided they operate within the law, is to make as much money as possible.
Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented
What is the limit of responsibility of corporations and how should it be defined? This has been fiercely argued over a century. Some argue that corporations have only responsibility to comply with the laws, whereas others argue their extended ethical and moral responsibility, which considers the well-being of the societies and environments. I believe that this question depending on how we define the role and position of corporations in our society. Believing that corporations are one of the subjects exchanging interactions with other bodies of a society, I argue that corporations’ responsibility should not be just bound to the legal limitations, especially in this fast changing world.
Firstly, the rapid change of technology makes it difficult to rely on regulations when it comes to limiting the responsibility of corporations. Considering the new technologies in chemicals, information systems, data science, etc., delegation of limiting the power of corporations solely to the legal system, which changes slowly, seems extremely detrimental. Consider, for example, a range of corporations collect and use the data of their consumers. It is said that the amount of data accumulated on the hard drive of a company cannot even be countable, and moreover, its future use is not even imaginable. Nevertheless, the regulation on such personal data collection, usage, and sales is not yet properly established. Therefore, fast changing technology warns that corporations’ responsibility should not be bound to the law.
Secondly, the increasing speed of social change is also making it more difficult to allow the corporations limiting their responsibilities solely to the law. When it comes to a society where experiences a fast increase of immigrants, such as Australia, it is not difficult to find many people fall into chasm, as the social safety net is not fully ready. It has been reported that companies in Australia still surreptitiously discriminate people of color in employment because the regulation is not rigorous enough. Thus, the change of a society also makes it deleterious to rely on the law when it comes to delimit the responsibility of corporations.
Of course, some may still argue that the main and foremost purpose of corporations is the maximization of benefits, and thus as long as a company contributes to the GDP, it owes nothing to the society. It is difficult to deny that corporations produce jobs as well as infrastructures, such as roads and buildings, which surely improves the well-being of the public. However, this should be pointed out that companies limiting their responsibilities only to the law would not be appealing to the consumers who now have developed not only moral and ethical standards of evaluating companies but also bigger consumer power, which has been given by the prevalent of the social media. Thus, even for their own sake, companies should consider becoming responsible for the community.
In conclusion, while corporations may not responsible more than the law requires, there are other factors should be considered, such as fast changing technology and society. Also, it is also required to consider the new trends of social media and growing consumer power, which has strong impact on companies, when companies define their responsibility.
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Essay evaluation report
I believe that this question depending on how we define
I believe that this question depends on how we define
while corporations may not responsible
while corporations may not be responsible
flaws:
The arguments in the second paragraph and the third paragraph are somehow duplicated. Need one argument to talk that making as much money as possible and taking responsibilities are not conflicting. They benefit to each other.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 521 350
No. of Characters: 2722 1500
No. of Different Words: 235 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.778 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.225 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.185 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 187 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 149 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 120 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 90 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.81 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.684 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.762 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.323 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.52 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.074 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'firstly', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'moreover', 'nevertheless', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'still', 'therefore', 'thus', 'well', 'whereas', 'while', 'for example', 'in conclusion', 'of course', 'such as', 'as well as']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.227891156463 0.240241500013 95% => OK
Verbs: 0.156462585034 0.157235817809 100% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0765306122449 0.0880659088768 87% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0867346938776 0.0497285424764 174% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0408163265306 0.0444667217837 92% => OK
Prepositions: 0.110544217687 0.12292977631 90% => OK
Participles: 0.0527210884354 0.0406280797675 130% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.35451973237 2.79330140395 120% => OK
Infinitives: 0.030612244898 0.030933414821 99% => OK
Particles: 0.00340136054422 0.0016655270985 204% => OK
Determiners: 0.0884353741497 0.0997080785238 89% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0170068027211 0.0249443105267 68% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0238095238095 0.0148568991511 160% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3329.0 2732.02544248 122% => OK
No of words: 521.0 452.878318584 115% => OK
Chars per words: 6.3896353167 6.0361032391 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.77759609229 4.58838876751 104% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.37236084453 0.366273622748 102% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.295585412668 0.280924506359 105% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.251439539347 0.200843997647 125% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.182341650672 0.132149295362 138% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.35451973237 2.79330140395 120% => OK
Unique words: 241.0 219.290929204 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.462571976967 0.48968727796 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 53.8283785437 55.4138127331 97% => OK
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6194690265 102% => OK
Sentence length: 24.8095238095 23.380412469 106% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.3213616115 59.4972553346 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 158.523809524 141.124799967 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.8095238095 23.380412469 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.09523809524 0.674092028746 162% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.21349557522 0% => OK
Readability: 54.3680650763 51.4728631049 106% => OK
Elegance: 1.37724550898 1.64882698954 84% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.574067081481 0.391690518653 147% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.122078302444 0.123202303941 99% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.075479534444 0.077325440228 98% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.571385912859 0.547984918172 104% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.144359105854 0.149214159877 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.248827023492 0.161403998019 154% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.115429314796 0.0892212321368 129% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.514815576188 0.385218514788 134% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0552143315663 0.0692045440612 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.408990955022 0.275328986314 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.10237173822 0.0653680567796 157% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.4325221239 77% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.30420353982 151% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88274336283 102% => OK
Positive topic words: 7.0 7.22455752212 97% => OK
Negative topic words: 7.0 3.66592920354 191% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.70907079646 111% => OK
Total topic words: 17.0 13.5995575221 125% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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