Then, review the presentation Corporate Social Responsibility. In your blog post, address the following:
• Identify a retail brand that you believe is socially or ethically responsible.
• How do you believe the company conducts business in a socially responsible way? Support your answer by discussing specific examples.
• Has the company ever been involved in any incidents in which they were accused of not conducting business in an ethical or socially responsible manner? If so, briefly discuss the legal issues related to the incident(s).
• Do you feel the company is “green” for profit or “green” for the environment?
Corporate Social Responsibility
From an ethical responsibility, Google has for the most part, done a good job with respect for their employees, customers, and suppliers. Google`s commitment to their employees and customer is clearly outlined in its code of conduct. Google has taken the liberty to publish the `Google Code of Conduct` which is a public facing document that outlines a set of expected behaviors from their employees, board members and partners to know and follow. Google`s code of conduct leads with a very simple phrase of “Don’t be evil” and they utilize those simple words as the basis to `ingrain` across their organization the mission, the fundamental belief that describes their ethical, social and environmental sustainability. Google`s CSR efforts include charity programs through Google.org, which has already provided more than $100 million in grants and investments. Google.org aims to address climate change, global public health, and global poverty.
Love and death are integral parts of human life because they are both common, yet complicated. While everyone falls in love and ultimately dies, there are stark differences in the way people feel, perceive or experience and hence, describe, love and death. William Shakespeare, the greatest English poet of all times, sums up his positive perspective on love and death in the well known “Sonnet 116” whereas Christina Rossetti, a reputable poet herself, explores the similar elements in a different manner, in one of her best works, “Remember”. Remember is a poem of love, loss and longing narrated by one lover to another. Sonnet 116, on the other hand, is slightly different from the typical love poems because it is not a confession of feelings – it explores, instead, the crux and definition of true love. Both the poets are highly unique, in their own ways.
Hope and love often go hand in hand because hope is fundamental to all human actions and feelings. Sonnet 116 takes a highly hopeful and optimistic approach to love: love, it claims is an unstoppable force of nature that’s not only constant but also persistent, during the times of tests and trials. Beginning the Sonnet 116 with an alliteration, “let me not to the marriage of two minds”, (Shakespeare, line1), Shakespeare describes the union of minds, instead of bodies or even hearts, whereby, according to him, love is truly just a relationship of mental compatibility and intellectual attraction. To him, love is high above the flamboyant displays of exaggerated emotions, expressed through overwhelming hormones and bodies. In this poem, he tries to define love, in its purest, most unadulterated form. Hence, he keeps lust out of it. Sonnet 116 goes on to describe the components that clash with love using a paradox “love is not love” and repetitions “that alters when it’s alteration finds”, “or bends with the remover to remove” (Shakespeare, line 2 to line 4). The repetition only makes him sound more convincing when he argues that love does not change under changing circumstances because commitment, constancy and consistency are its primary elements. Love is not dependent on anything. Love does not wait for anything. Love continues even when unreciprocated or betrayed because true love doesn’t seek revenge – love is free of evil and vengeance. Remember, on the other hand, adapts a pessimistic and gloomy approach to love, keeping the t