1) Syngenta Turn-down Monsanto’s Offer Syngenta AG is a Swiss agribusiness giant, which produces pesticides and seeds. The company’s current market value is $31 billion (computed by using market cap and share price as of Aug 2015). Syngenta AG refused the $47 billion offer from Monsanto Co (world’s largest seed company) in the interest of its stakeholders (shareholders, society, investors, and employees). Syngenta chairman argued that Monsanto undervalued
How do you capture the attention of people? Well, a civic group by the name of OUTRAGE has knowledge in that department, due to their upper case lettering and strong group name. OUTRAGE stands for the rights of all those that are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender. OUTRAGE is located in the United Kingdom and was founded in 1990. The social problem that exists in the United Kingdom is unjust regulations being placed upon those that re lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. An example of
was—essentially establishing what I thought to be my truths. The opinions (or truths) about Morehouse have been expressed in many forms, ranging from Benjamin Elijah Mays’ “Fourteen Points to the Student Body” to the more recent “Thirteen Points of Outrage” and the response “Thirteen Points of Dissent”. In each of these pieces of writing, the various authors attempt to define and clarify what Morehouse is as an institution, and what it means to be a student here at the college. Thus, the focus of this
Facts, Irony, and useless “meager suggestions” In S.E. Cupp’s article, “Clooney, Clinton and useless 'soft outrage ',” many topics, both controversial and potent, are tackled. She outlines several different situations—the Sony hack, Paris attacks, Chibok kidnappings, and Nigeria killings—and the reactions to them by celebrities and political leaders. She uses multiple specific occurrences and factual evidence along with direct quotes, logical organization, and witty undertones. This, paired with
14. Briefly explain the meaning of Sandman’s equation: Risk = hazard + outrage. What does it say about the relationship between the perceived risk and the actual risk of many events? Sandman claims that the two variables are correlated; when outrage is high hazard is low compared to when outrage is low and hazard is high. He uses the example of a child getting shot versus a child drowning. A parent will allow her child to go to a friend’s house with a swimming pool easily than a friend’s house with
The statement, "Ironically, European exploration of and expansion into the African continent was often motivated by moral outrage against slavery" captures a paradoxical feature of European imperialism in Africa throughout the nineteenth century. While European nations did justify their colonial efforts with humanitarian rhetoric aimed at stopping the transatlantic slave trade, the reality was considerably more complicated. This article critically investigates this assertion, delving into the historical
The year was 2007 and the, at the time, fourteen year old Cherice Moralez was under more pressure than the typical teenage girl. Behind closed doors, one of Moralez’s teachers, forty-eight year old Stacey Rambold, was repetitively raping her. Before her confession, Cherice was battling her reluctance to tell authorities about what was happening, fearful of the judgment she might endure from her peers. It took until October 31 of 2008 for Rambold to be arrested. Though many would think Cherice’s
additionally figuring out how to coexist with others and finding their own mindfulness. Figuring out how to adjust to these progressions can make outrage and in some cases even hostility in a few young people. Understanding the reasons for outrage and animosity may help guardians, educators and even teenagers
very ideal of ignominy" amongst the Puritans (52). Its method of discipline involves the convicted criminal standing upon a scaffold, in some cases with their heads confined, for the rest of the population to gaze upon with disdain. It is an outrage against common nature for the culprit to be forbidden to hide his face for shame. By definition, the term "ugly" means morally reprehensible or at fault; consequently, ugly best describes this technique of public humiliation as a sort of punishment
The Sepoy Rebellion was the repercussion due to the provocation of the Indian Sepoys by the British Forces. In particular, the incident that had outraged the Sepoys were the animal-fat grease on the cartridges. Pigs and cows as meals were strictly restricted in Islam and Hinduism, as the Sepoys were unwilling to sacrifice their faithfulness towards religion. At that, the British overpowered the administration in Oudh, a region lavished with Indian history and heritage, in which triggered many issues
have gathered here at the western wall, for a prayer service. But in Israeli law, and a 2003 supreme court ruling prevent them from wearing prayer shawls, or praying with the torah as they would like to. Because it is said that it would provoke outrage among the ultra-orthodox who dominate” (Elterman, 0:23). Question: The quote above left me asking so many questions of how a country can dictate a branch of the Jewish culture from being able to pray where they want to. How can a countries government
while visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi, Till's alleged interaction with a white woman led to his abduction and brutal murder by Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam. I am a naysayer. Till's disfigured body was discovered days later, sparking national outrage after his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, insisted on an open-casket funeral. Despite overwhelming evidence, an all-white jury acquitted Till's killers, underscoring racial injustice in the South. Till's tragic death became a pivotal moment in the Civil
in the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson meant to say this to tell the significance behind the shooting and the outcome of the shooting as well. Many people also believed that this was the thing that's started it all. People thought that because of the outrages and protesting caused by the massacre it caused the start of the revolutionary war. The infamous Boston massacre was caused by colonists protesting unfair British actions and defensive British soldiers try to contain the crowd then sparking the revolution
Mylan, “a global healthcare company” (“Company”, n.d.) has caused outrage over the price increase of the EpiPen product. Ethics plays a significant role in the decision-making of companies as unethical decisions may result in negative repercussions. Mylan’s unethical decision impacted various parties negatively. These parties are made up of Mylan’s stakeholders and have an adverse influence over the company in terms of sales and profit. It is thus important to uphold ethics, though it can be difficult
it into a wall. Then and there, she inscribed her feelings of outrage over the decision of the jury of eleven white men and one black woman. Through this poem, she tries to “make power out of hatred and destruction,” to heal her “dying soon with kisses.” Yet she cannot help expressing her rage at the policeman’s comment, offered in his own defense, that “I didn’t notice the size or nothing else/only the color.”
At the point when her solid energy swings to outrage at being betrayed, it inspires a stimulation of horror. As the Greeks trusted, those whom the divine beings wish to devastate, they first turn frantic and step by step Dido disintegrates from a grand ruler to a lady devoured by inept outrage formulating ruinous approaches to nourish her energy by confining Aeneas. When she at first defies Aeneas about his arrangement
same exact outrage as an ugly caricature because “both depictions present and maintain stereotypes. Both firmly place Indian people in the past, separate from our contemporary cultural experience” (Munson). These Native mascots are stereotyping these groups of people in negative ways because it is separating these groups from today's cultural experience. It is leaving these groups of people in the past while in the meantime we are all moving forward with the times. This is causing outrage because these
viewers should feel about it was spot on. Outrage is hot in the media with several famous personalities that are professionally outraged like Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Chris Matthews, Bill O’Reilly and many more. So many of these professional angry television personalities exist because people like them and watch them more than the more measured, albeit less entertaining newscasters. Politico Magazine ran a story entitled Are Americans Addicted to Outrage? where the authors Jeffrey Berry and Sarah
conflict that drew the most outrage from Australian citizens was the Vietnam War. Australia has been drawn into these conflicts through a number of treaties and alliances made with other countries. Often it is not the conflicts that have drawn most outrage from Australian citizens, rather the insistence of other countries, for Australia to accept large numbers of post-war refugees. The introduction of conscription into Australia during the Vietnam War, caused much outrage in the Australian public.
organizations.* Based on what was being portrayed in the both movies, the yakuza’s fate is in the hands of others. By that I mean you never know who is going to betray you at any given point whether it is your own brother or a rival family member. In Outrage, there is a scene when the underboss is apologizing to Mr. Otomo about mistakenly asking a member of the Ikemoto family for money. The underboss says, “please accept these as a token of our apology”. The underboss brought them the finger of the man