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.
Corporations have tremendous impacts upon the societies and environments in which they operate. While legal frameworks, such as the National Environmental Protection Act, are in place to mitigate potential negative impacts of commerical operations, such regulations often do not ensure that local citizens and ecosystems are fully compensated. Therefore, corporations have an additional responsibility to actively promote the well-being of the local commnity and environment.
One example of an industry that recognizes this additional responsbilitiy is the fossil fuel industry. Many large oil and gas corporations create foundations to give grants to projects that remediate environmental degradation. This move marks an appropriate acknowledgement of pernicious effects of their activities on local environments, even if they are in full compliance with environmental regulations. Take hydraulic fracturing as an example. Companies engaging "fracking" consume public resources, such as massive amounts of water for pumping, on public lands, for private gains. Local communities bear the burden of the environmental costs if wastewater injection contaminates the aquifer, if their wells run dry due to excessive groundwater pumping or or if the incidence of earthquakes increase, as has been shown to be the case in Oklahoma. Even if reparations are made for these damages, they cannot reverse the damage already done to local livelihoods and ecosystems. It is therefore important that these companies acknowledge that they will not be able to prevent or fully mitigate every impact and therefore must proactively seek to enhance regional environmental quality.
Another example of how corporations have recognized this responsibility is that most major law firms offer pro-bono services to individuals or groups who would otherwise be unable to afford legal representation. These law firms offer their services free of charge because they recognize the value of supporting underrepresnted or marginalized sectors of society.
One could argue that promoting the well-being of societies and environments is not the responsibility of any corporation. Their reasoning may be that corporations already benefit society by paying taxes. Another line of reasoning could be that, that if companies are allowed to maximize profits rather than devote resources to "corporate social responsibility" the wealth they generate will "trickle down" to the lowest earners in society. However, the issue with both of those lines of logic is that the benefits are too indirect. The local citizen living in an area that is undergoing negative change due to the operations of a company is unlikely to directly feel the impacts of the increased federal government revenue or trickle down economics nearly as immediately as the feel the impacts of the activities themselves.
In conlusion, corporations have the responsibility to actively contribute to the quality of life and the environmental quality of the communities in which they operate. Maximizing profits fails to confer direct benefits sufficient to offset a corporations negative impacts on the local environment.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 768, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: or
...ry due to excessive groundwater pumping or or if the incidence of earthquakes increas...
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Line 9, column 242, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a corporation' or simply 'corporations'?
Suggestion: a corporation; corporations
...er direct benefits sufficient to offset a corporations negative impacts on the local environme...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, may, so, therefore, well, while, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 33.0505617978 97% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 58.6224719101 101% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2729.0 2235.4752809 122% => OK
No of words: 469.0 442.535393258 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.81876332623 5.05705443957 115% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65364457471 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.47466601328 2.79657885939 124% => OK
Unique words: 255.0 215.323595506 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.543710021322 0.4932671777 110% => OK
syllable_count: 895.5 704.065955056 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.9 1.59117977528 119% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.6603330325 60.3974514979 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.45 118.986275619 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.45 23.4991977007 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.9 5.21951772744 56% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.241869462928 0.243740707755 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0816204603666 0.0831039109588 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0915007159501 0.0758088955206 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.151668192564 0.150359130593 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0494567322922 0.0667264976115 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.7 14.1392134831 125% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 22.75 48.8420337079 47% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 13.0 7.92365168539 164% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 12.1743820225 130% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.77 12.1639044944 138% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.83 8.38706741573 117% => OK
difficult_words: 150.0 100.480337079 149% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.