Finer Bags and Finer Principles
The dilemma with Finer Bags lies in the fact that they make and sell knock-offs. The media, including TV-shows, are replete with stories of how illegal producing and selling knock-offs is, yet a company like Finer Bags hasn’t lied about what it does and doesn’t hide the fact. Consideration about its honesty, issues of cultural dissonance, and how the practice stands up against various ethical theories show how grey an area the world of knock off goods can be.
While it may be easy to look on the virtue of being honest as you either are or you aren’t, this case shows that it’s possible to be both honest and traffic in dishonesty at the same time. How the company is honest is in the fact that they actually
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The rationalization is that the renamed ‘replica’ bags are a veritable mainstay in society now. However, there is significance corporate cultural dissonance with how the law still treats the advent of counterfeit goods and even in how the public views them. While it’s not illegal for consumers to, even knowingly, buy knock offs, it certainly is for people to sell them, as per the Trademark Counterfeiting Act of 1984 (FindLaw.com, 2018). And while there are a lot of people who do buy fake bags, they’re usually regarded as sub-par in …show more content…
Brands like Prada and Chanel work hard to build their brand and iconic style and deserve to be well compensated for it. When someone produces a replica that could be purchased in lieu of it, it could be likened to stealing. There is also room for an argument in regard to Kant’s categorical imperative. If everyone were to copy everything—the act becoming universal—there would soon be no real variety in the world, no creativity, and no originality. It also would mean that any creator couldn’t expect fair compensation for their intellectual property, as it would soon be copied by anyone who wanted
On late August of 2007, Dana Thomas writes to the general public on the horrors made possible by the buying and selling of counterfeit fashion goods to persuade the end of the consumerism funding monstrous acts. Through the incorporation of ethos, logos, and pathos in her journalism, Thomas persuades her audience with the uncoverings of the sources behind the making of the counterfeit goods.
The market lacks authentic artifacts but buyers want authentic artifacts which has become difficult to obtain because competitors are introducing replicas in to the market that decreases consumers trust. The company’s major competitor is government because they do limited exports of artifacts due to their importance (Kerin & Peterson, 2010).
People are often deceived by some famous brands, which they will buy as useless commodities to feel they are distinctive. People require brands to experience the feeling of being special. People spend their money to have something from famous brands, like a bag from Coach or Louis Vuitton which they think they need, yet all that is just people’s wants. Steve McKevitt claims that people give more thought on features or brands when they need to buy a product, “It might even be the case that you do need a phone to carry out your work and a car to get around in, but what brand it is and, to a large extent, what features it has are really just want” (McKevitt, 145), which that means people care about brands more than their needs. Having shoes from Louis Vuitton or shoes that cost $30 it is designed for the same use.
Vladek and Guido use their skills and intelligence to endure a genocide that killed over 6 million Jews and 11 million people in total. Although sadly Guido did not make it through the Holocaust, his wife Dora and Son Giosué survived, thanks to the help of Guido. Vladek survived by using his many talents in the prison camps whereas Guido survived by his cunning intelligence and positive attitude. In the Books Maus I and II by Art Spiegelman, the author uses his fathers story of survival to create a book that unleashes vivid imagery of Vladeks time in Auschwitz, in addition to how it has affected him since. In the movie Life Is Beautiful Directed by Roberto Benigni, Guido was an average Jewish man living in Italy. When his family got taken to a Natzi death camp he managed to keep his son Giosué hidden, while doing so he jeopardized his own life. Both of these works display two brave men withstanding the worst race extermination in history.
However ,the hauntings stopped once an old friend of Sethe’s from Sweet Home, Paul D, shows up on her doorstep one afternoon. Paul D plans on a new beginning with Sethe vowing to take care of her saying, “We can make a life” (55). Things do not go as planned when a girl shows up on their doorstep named Beloved. The name Beloved has significant meaning because when Sethe buries her daughter that was all she was able to get on the headstone. The life Paul D has in mind is disrupted as the the ladies begin to put together connections that Beloved just might be the baby who is murdered in the past. Sethe and Denver become attached to Beloved because of her absence from their life for so long. However, Beloved is only obsessed with the thought
Books written in the Gilded Age are most usually an accurate representation of the lives led by those characters represented in them. They give us an in depth and up close and more personal look at the difficult and fast-changing times back then. Although Maggie and O Pioneers! differ in geographical terms, they both make me feel like I actually understand what it was like to live back then. When you compare them side by side you can see that both sides of life affect the personalities and characterizations of people depicted.
When I found out I qualified to be a candidate for the NJHS, I knew I had to take this chance. This group is made up of people who depict leadership, character, citizenship, academic success, and service and I would love to join. These characteristics wouldn't just be valuable for a candidate to have, but for everyone to have to exceed in life. If I were to be in the National Junior Honor Society, it would give me an opportunity to ameliorate my future and motivate me to do better.
In “Bag Ban Bad for Freedom and Environment,” Adam B. Summers builds an argument for his audience by using facts and evidence, as well as appeals to emotion to persuade them that plastic shopping bags should not be banned. In the passage, Mr. Summers uses several examples and pieces of evidence to support his argument about plastic bags. In paragraph 2, he states that the proposed bill to ban plastic shopping bags would have “prohibited grocery stores and convenience stores with at least $2 million in gross annual sales. from providing single use plastic or paper bags.” He then argues that there is a need for some reasoning and perspective change, as the normal debates “devolve” into “emotional pleas.”
Rather than being sticklers for following GAAP accounting principles and internal controls, this company took unethical behavior to a whole new level. They lied when the truth would have been easier to tell. It is almost as if they had no comprehension that the meaning of the word ethics is “the principles of conduct governing an individual or a group (professional ethics); the discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligation”, (Mirriam-Webster, 2011). To be ethical all one has to do is follow laws, rules, regulations and your own internal moral compass, all things this company seemed to know nothing about.
The sign of moving products promptly from a designer’s table to the retail sales floor has swayed the whole global retail commerce and enticed rivalry. Customers value a “new look” that can be worn for this instant and assess the goods as a monetary fortune; not something that you will keep
To conclude business organizations do not have the right to deceive individuals and consumers in specific because Albert Carr’s claim that business is a game cannot be justifiable and supported with reasons that may harm or the community and its people. However, I do believe that business organizations should be socially responsible and that would help them maximize profits in the long run (Lauren, 2011)
Tyco provides products and services across the world. The company is global and diversified providing a variety of products including electronics, healthcare, fire and security services and engineered products and services. While employing over 250,000 people worldwide they grossed approximately $40 billion in revenue in the year 2005. In 2002 Tyco was involved with the corporate scandal where the management mis-appropriated corporation funds. The previous CEO Dennis Kozlowski was convicted in 2005 on 22 counts of the 23 that he was charged with. This is an example of not only a legal issue of responsibility but also one of an ethical issue that the Tyco Corporation has had to face. In the face of the legal and ethical issues that this mishap had placed the corporation in, Tyco placed Ed Breen in as chairman and CEO. Mr. Breen joined the company in 2002 after the scandal and immediately began the rebuild of the company’s name. With the appointment of Ed Breen and his changing of the company’s ethical standards (to be discussed in the next portion of the paper) he promotes the legal responsibilities of not only the company’s employees but the responsibilities of the suppliers and buyers to report any wrong doing. This reporting also speaks to the ethics of the Tyco corporation employees as well as those of the companies th...
Comparing Wyatt’s The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbor and Donne’s The Flea
David Almond explores the theme of imagination throughout his novel Skellig. From the first sentence to the very last, the theme of imagination was expressed through subplots and ideas. Questions and theories arose when Michael discovered Skellig in his garage. There were many situations throughout the novel where the reader has to think, ‘can this situation get better? do I believe that it can get better?’ David Almond activates the readers mind further by adding in winged creatures, both real and mythological, this allows each readers imagination to experience different thoughts about each activity in the novel. David Almond ties in belief and disbelief into the theme of imagination, complemented with excellent imagery, to create a vivid picture of the story in the readers mind. The story relates to David Almond more than most readers know. He had an ill sister when he was a child and Michael’s new house is very similar to the house that David Almond bought, right down to the toilet in the dining room.
Reviewing the existing literature on this topic, this essay attempts to look at the scale of counterfeiting, the reasons for its growth and the consumer’s attitudes towards counterfeited products. It also provides information about how the counterfeit market poses challenges for customer-brand relations and the strategies that brands can implement to overcome these challenges.