Persuasive Essay On Airframe By Michael Crichton

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Corruption in Business Corruption may occur through unethical means to gain some advantage over another. The United States carries a history in which businesses and corporations commit unjust actions for both personal and financial gain. While the executives at Norton close a seven billion dollar deal with China, the N-22 commercial plane bears a malfunction and nearly costs the sale. In Airframe, Michael Crichton explains the phenomenon of companies taking advantage of people for their own good. The media carries a vast history of exaggerating a story, or leaving out key facts to make the story more appealing to its audience. In turn, this keeps the audience intrigued and wanting more. Newsline, the biggest news channel in America, does this exact thing to Norton. During the Newsline show, the casualties are reported and a video of the crash is shown but it is not explained how and why this happened. The main emphasis is that the N-22 plane is not safe and should not be flown. Later it is revealed that the crash was in fact the pilot’s fault and not the manufacturers. Newsline …show more content…

Norton recently had a private election to elect a new CEO. When John Marder lost the election to Graham Moore he was upset, but rather than wait for the next opportunity to become CEO he decides to try and overthrow Moore and take over the company. He does this by hiring private investigators to find dirt on Graham and sabotages Moore's seven billion dollar sale with China. This had massive repercussions on the company, "With this China sale falling through were going to have lay off 25,000 people and do pay cuts"(p.265). In the end, Graham resolves the nearly-lost sale, and John Marder walks away from the company with no penalty. This could have been a disaster for Norton as their company would have fallen without their purchase order from

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