corporate business

All humans are born with free will, giving each one the ability to commit any flaw or error that he or she so chooses. Humans take great advantage of this freedom of mind, but sadly go overboard by using it in ways that can often be selfish and potentially harmful.  Read More »

     Over the Summer semester, I had to do a research paper for an English Linguistics course. Most of the students were in the education program and chose topics like; bilingual education, second language immersion programs, and language acquisition. Being a literture student, I decided to brainstorm something completly different. I ended up choosing to research how major corporations corrupt language in order to influence the way their employees think and act, ala Sappir-Whorf Hypothesis.  Read More »

When most people picture prison, they don’t see endless shelves of food, clothing, toys, cleaning products, and other basic household goods, but for almost two hundred and fifty immigrants locked overnight in a Wal-Mart this was the case.Though extreme, this is consistent with the Wal-Mart corporations focus on money over people, the workers were shut in to do janitorial duties off the clock. In California there are 167 Wal-Marts, 35 Sam’s Club’s and 9 distribution centers, who knows how many people were exploited to keep these stores running. Wal-Mart’s corrupt corporate culture and unfair labor relations should not be supported.  Read More »

Okay, I have set foot in a Wal-Mart once to get french fries, so I confess that my opinion in this matter may be secondhand, elitist, or otherwise prejudiced. 

But no one who pays attention to corporate news (or South Park) can deny that Wal-Mart, for all its cheap goods, convenient hours, and wi  Read More »