Some people believe that corporations have a responsibility to promote the wellbeing 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.
“Corporation” is the modern term used to identify contemporary conglomerates which operate within our globalized world on several fronts, such as new technologies, industry and services. With the advent of the free market, this kind of business has developed, marking a new stage of worldwide capitalism. Corporations are no more a peculiar phenomenon of the Western world, but they rose also in new emergent markets, such as the Eastern ones of China, India and in general South-East Asia. Given the crucial role they play in our economies, which should be the proper responsibilities of these corporations?
We cannot think of corporations only as money-makers and gold mines where top managers increase their personal wealth with ten-figures salaries. Corporations have been called to action also on a social and environmental plan and I think fulfilling certain requirements in this sense is their duty. According to this point of view, making as more money as possible cannot be considered a “responsibility”: what kind of moral partaking would this require? What impact could it have on the society and the environment? The raft of money corporations move, earn and exchange every day should generate also a socially and environmentally virtuous circle to enhance the potential of nowadays society, rebalancing inequities and giving new chances to younger or disadvantaged generations.
Particularly, an increasingly cogent issue nowadays is the climate change affecting our planet and bringing it towards its annihilation. This should be a great opportunity for corporations to intervene and guarantee a new direction for planet Earth. Thanks to a new awareness, fueled by the “Fridays for future” strikes, some corporations are taking a position about the matter. Several of them undertook research projects to reduce CO2 emissions, others got involved and sponsored massive operations of ocean cleaning. Generally, sensitizing campaigns are promoted all around the Western world to reduce plastic usage and consume and some fast foods, such as McDonald’s, banned plastic straws from their restaurants. These first, simple actions represent a positive example of what should concern corporations nowadays.
One of the perks of this kind of commitment is represented by the more favorable consensus corporations would gain. They could also become active interlocutors with governments, helping them strengthening their policies by providing resources and financial support. People would be reassured about the safety and care of their activities and therefore these corporations would probably grow their business even more. On the contrary, if the public perceives only a greedy ambition towards money and wealth, it will be discouraged and will disapprove the corporation’s way of doing business.
In conclusion, our world is becoming more and more worried about our environmental and social future. Betraying this concern or showing carelessness towards it would not be a rewarding strategy for a corporation. Moreover, operating in socially and environmentally endangered situations trying to heal them would give the corporation’s business a sense which overcomes the merely economical one, making the corporation not only a money-related organism, but also an important political and civil point of reference.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 386, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
... money as possible cannot be considered a 'responsibility': what kind o...
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Line 13, column 192, Rule ID: ADVISE_VBG[9]
Message: The verb 'help' is used with infinitive: 'to strengthen' or 'strengthen'.
Suggestion: to strengthen; strengthen
...locutors with governments, helping them strengthening their policies by providing resources a...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, moreover, so, then, therefore, i think, in conclusion, in general, kind of, such as, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.4196629213 129% => OK
Conjunction : 27.0 14.8657303371 182% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 11.3162921348 35% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 34.0 33.0505617978 103% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 58.6224719101 89% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2886.0 2235.4752809 129% => OK
No of words: 502.0 442.535393258 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.74900398406 5.05705443957 114% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.7334296765 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.51467591374 2.79657885939 126% => OK
Unique words: 286.0 215.323595506 133% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.569721115538 0.4932671777 115% => OK
syllable_count: 903.6 704.065955056 128% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.105040171 60.3974514979 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.181818182 118.986275619 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8181818182 23.4991977007 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.54545454545 5.21951772744 106% => OK
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 : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.171709399446 0.243740707755 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0495115260822 0.0831039109588 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0428541528265 0.0758088955206 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0948128383157 0.150359130593 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0276828020507 0.0667264976115 41% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.1 14.1392134831 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 32.22 48.8420337079 66% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.1743820225 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.37 12.1639044944 135% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.98 8.38706741573 119% => OK
difficult_words: 167.0 100.480337079 166% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 11.8971910112 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 Out of 6
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