The Corporation (2004).

Course: CWP4U

Teacher: Tim Tucci

Date: Monday, June 15,2015

Precious Oppong
 The Corporation
1. One of the central themes in the movie is that corporations can be seen as "bad apples" or
monsters bent on taking control of public power and only focused on MAKING MONEY,
regardless of the consequences. Any of the metaphors in the movie are not appropriate than
the others because The film breaks down the "bad apple" metaphor, demonstrating again and
again how the "rotting" of corporate “apples" are little but the open flowering of the corruption
present in these institutions' have corporate seeds. The movie also refers to corporations as
monsters trying to engorge themselves in as much profit as possible at anyone’s expense. The
corporation, as stated in the documentary, is an institution that births great wealth, but also
causes great hidden harms. The movie uses a jigsaw metaphor to show the necessities that
corporations provide for the world community as a whole.

2. Corporate rule today is any worse than the alternatives because

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4. In the movie a person stated that corporations “have no soul to save, no body to incarcerate.”
This quote means that
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6. "Externality" is the term the movie uses to refer to the evil roles of the corporations. They define
externality as “the effect of the transactions between two individuals, in which a third party also feels
the effects without any input or consent”. Some examples of this are

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11. If the dominant institution of our time has been created in the image of a psychopath, the
corporations bears the responsibility for its action because when we look at the features of
psychopathic personality disorder in the documentary, many corporation
are typically psychopaths:
1. Callous disregard for the feelings of others.
2. Incapacity to maintain enduring relationships.
3. Reckless disregard for the safety of others.
4. Deceitfulness: repeated lying and conning others for profit.
5. Incapacity to experience guilt.
6. Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors.

Corporations also do essential good for society. corporate CEO’S discuss in the movie how this
is true, and what they do about it, because the corporation  is legally bound to put its short-term
financial  well-being ahead of all else, including life, liberty and property of others.  The movie
also discusses the benefits  of having everything owned. The corporation is today's dominant
institution, creating great wealth but also great harm. This award-winning documentary examines
the nature, evolution, impacts and future  of the modern business corporation and the increasing
role it plays in society and our everyday lives.

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