...There is a continuum between high and low when people communicate depending on the kind of relationship, purpose, and communication based on it being more or less explicit or direct. In the article “Mediating Conflicts of Need, Greed, and Creed” author Zartman talks about how the civil war and the unfulfilled basic needs. Ethnic conflict is often looked at as the common drive by private values and beliefs. The author discusses how mediating conflict can be a tough job for those that are not knowledgeable about how to prevent or resolve it. Thus far we have discussed how culture impacts conflict resolution and the differing strategies to address it. However, culture intersects with other motivations, such as need, greed, and creed, influencing how individual and group behavior complicate developing a productive...
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...Wall Street Is greed a good or bad thing? People have different opinions about it. Some like it and some do not, some of them thinks that it is the right way to get rich and some thinks that it is the worst thing that can help you get rich. If you ask me, I would say that it is good but if you have limit in it. If you do not have limit, then it creates a problem. Wall Street is the movie which has a lot of impact on my opinion about greed and the way people use it in life. Today, in the United States the research from 2012 says that there is more distinction between rich and poor and that richer people are greedier. The highlight of the movie Wall Street is that the “Greed is good” speech by Gordon Gekko. Greed is not always good or bad. Greed is the excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, not for the greater good but for one’s own selfish interest, and at the detriment of others and society at large. Throughout our short life, the idea of our mortality makes us question ourselves. Not only that, but it conflicts with our strong survival instincts, giving rise to anxiety about our purpose, meaning, and value. It happens that our culture or lack of it is in a state of flux and crisis; places a high value on materialism, and greed. Our culture’s emphasis on greed is such that people have become immune to satisfaction. Having acquired one thing, they are immediately ready to desire the next thing that might suggest itself. Today, the object of desire is no longer...
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...“Beware! Guard against every kind of greed. Life is not measured by how much you own” (Luke 12:15). When people are overcome by greed, they do whatever they can to get what they want. Often times, this is because they feel the need to benefit even if it causes someone else to suffer. The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, tells an interesting story that revolves around the theme of greed. A couple of the characters in this play, Reverend Parris and Thomas Putnam, are good examples of how Miller portrayed greed throughout this story. The first of these characters affected by greed was Reverend Parris. In Act 1, Parris is standing over his daughter’s sickbed. As a reader, you soon realize that Parris doesn't care about his sick daughter as much...
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...Ambition and greed can change people in an unfathomable way. Power can change a person to greedy in a heartbeat, just to make sure they stay in power and get things going in their way only. In the play Macbeth, Macbeth portrays ambition and greed very well. He has allowed greed and ambition to take over him and change himself completely. Macbeth’s hunger for power and his fine line between greed and ambition has contributed his transformation into power by the number of people he murdered, his confidence in believing he is invincible and his craving and need to be in charge. In Macbeth, Macbeth gets himself corrupted in greed, which leads him to crave power. Macbeth’s need for power created when Duncan declared Malcolm as the prince. Macbeth’s jealousy over Malcolm drove him to become ambitious and greedy. Macbeth takes radical measures to...
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...Corporate greed essay To fully understand how the business culture has acquired the greed mindset, a look at what a corporation is and defining corporate behavior becomes the starting point. First a corporation is defined as “an association of individuals, created by law and having an existence apart from that of its members as well as distinct and inherent powers and liabilities (Webster Dictionary).” Although made up of people, being separate or apart from its members also equals unaccountability. The question of “who pays when a company goes under” is at the forefront of discussions today. Corporations are developed to serve society, meet a need or provide a service. Over the years, however, the good intentioned corporation has evolved into a greed machine that has lost site of the community that it serves and the people employed who ultimately perform the work. The steady parade of top executives confessing to engage in price gouging, tax dodges, accounting shams, employee rip-offs, and other shady unacceptable acts are coming to light daily. Unethical and illegal practices are documented from the RJR Nabisco scandals in 1988 to today’s Enron, WorldCom, Merrill Lynch, Arthur Anderson, Xerox, and endless other corporations. The world realizes now that corporate greed is not about one-bad company, but large companies in general that have adopted unacceptable guidelines for corporate behavior and an overall attitude that greed is acceptable. The bottom line, insatiable need for...
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...“Greed” Our generation has already been pampered by technologies, luxury, and money. We all need money, and that’s a fact. Money is used to buy foods and food is needed for us to survive. Have you observed how our world greatly changed? Yes, technology is one of the factors, but have you all observed how people loved money more than people? Have you observed how such love for money greatly affects us? In the Old Testament Eve was tempted by the serpent to eat the forbidden fruit for it will grant her power and knowledge, because of greed and curiosity she ate the forbidden fruit. Greed always existed and will continue to exist as long as every person will develop selfishness in this world. Greed has a lot of negative effects. It does not have concern for the damages it causes. It contaminates the world. It destroys lives. It creates social conflict because it destroys the relationship you have either with your family, friends, or even God. Uncontrolled greed can lead to envy, fights or violent actions, and unhappiness because of discontentment. Greed only benefits the greedy individual. Greed is also the reason why our country is suffering from great poverty. It only shows that our society values things or money more than people or relationships. People begging for foods, people doing bad things to survive. Is this how we want our society to be? Of course not! We want it to be more productive. We want our society to be healthy or good in our eyes and the eyes of others, yet...
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...A case study of Envy, Jealousy and Greed In this essay I would like to write a case study based on a person I know who exhibits feelings of envy, jealousy and greed towards other people and which can be compared to the psychoanalytic views and theories of Melanie Klein. To begin with, I would like to summarise the expert opinion of Melanie Klein on these matters, before expanding on the case study to define the manifestation of envy, jealousy and greed in the selected personal example. Klein believed that there should be a distinct line separating envy, jealousy and greed. She clearly stated that: “Envy is the angry feeling that another person possesses and enjoys something desirable…jealousy is based on envy, but involves a relation to at least two people; it is mainly concerned with love that the subject feels is his due and has been taken away (Klein, 1962, p. 6). Further, according to Klein the difference between greed and envy is that greed is connected with introjection and envy with projection (Klein, 1962, p. 7). The case study I will form is about a woman called Helen. Helen is a 65 year old widowed woman with one daughter and three grandchildren. Her husband passed away 24 years ago. Helen’s profession was as a school teacher. Her childhood was difficult because she was raised only by her mother as her father got married to another woman and left the family home. The envy of Helen begins from her childhood experiences. According to Helen, she was always jealous of...
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...how the business culture has acquired the greed mindset, a look at what a corporation is and defining corporate behavior becomes the starting point. First a corporation is defined as “an association of individuals, created by law and having an existence apart from that of its members as well as distinct and inherent powers and liabilities (Webster Dictionary).” Although made up of people, being separate or apart from its members also equals unaccountability. The question of “who pays when a company goes under” is at the forefront of discussions today. Corporations are developed to serve society, meet a need or provide a service. Over the years, however, the good intentioned corporation has evolved into a greed machine that has lost site of the community that it serves and the people employed who ultimately perform the work. The steady parade of top executives confessing to engage in price gouging, tax dodges, accounting shams, employee rip-offs, and other shady unacceptable acts are coming to light daily. Unethical and illegal practices are documented from the RJR Nabisco scandals in 1988 to today’s Enron, WorldCom, Merrill Lynch, Arthur Anderson, Xerox, and endless other corporations. The world realizes now that corporate greed is not about one-bad company, but large companies in general that have adopted unacceptable guidelines for corporate behavior and an overall attitude that greed is acceptable. The bottom line, insatiable need for growth, amoral corporate behavior, expendable...
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...short film to describe all this calamity. He based his thesis of the film on greed and avarice. In the beginning of this film, it shows 11 guests sitting around a table being given unlimited amounts of food being given to them by waiters, they keep eating heaps of oily meat endlessly with no stop. Although while the guest get greedier they fall closer and closer to their death. I believe that the director of the film is trying to get the message across that the government needs to stop being so greedy and start contributing more resources to the rest of the world. One of the main elements of the film is the lighting. The whole film is set in a dark setting with low key lighting, this causes the room to look very dark and make many shadows appear, forcing the characters to look dark and almost on the brim of death. Throughout the whole film, not a single guest says a word they only ever eat and shove their faces full of food. This whole concept is letting us know that these characters are selfish and antagonistic....
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...grievances and succumb to their greed. Diamonds then became a kind of incentive for violence. This applied not only to RUF fighters, but eventually to their opponents also. There were very few ‘traditional’ battles fought during this war, but the ones that did occur were always in and around diamond rich areas. Keen notes that, “thousands of civilians were expelled and kept away from diamond-rich areas… rebels often forced diamond prospecting work to continue and then took diamonds” (CITE KEEN 2005). A women whose home...
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...Louis Stevenson, has written many novels throughout his life but he is most remembered for his classic Treasure Island. Greed is one of the human’s defective qualities that cannot be erased nor disregarded. Trust is being able to rely on someone without fearing betrayal. Adventure is needed in everyone’s lives, to live a life free of regret. The life of a hero is something everyone desires. Treasure Island is classic novel that proves it through its relatable themes, life changing lessons, powerful archetypes, and universal symbols. Without greed the world would be at peace, and as one, but since everyone desires something that they don’t have, such as wealth, power or fame, problems are created. Greed is an important and major theme that is presented throughout Treasure Island and our everyday lives. This amazing classic novel, illustrates how greed is a trait that leaves misery and death on its destructive path. The plot of this novel is based on finding pirate treasure and it revolves around the universal theme of greed. The adventure begins with Billy, a mutineer who fled with treasure from his previous crew to keep for himself. The Billy’s greed gets him killed and the treasure map to the whereabouts of the treasure ends up in Jim’s hands. As Jim, the protagonist of this story comes close to finding the immense treasure they’ve been looking for; the greed of mankind reveals its true form. Because of the pirate’s greedy and selfish ways, they could only think of themselves...
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...Achieving Inner Contentment may mean different things to some people, for example to some it may mean to have everything that you desire or want like expensive cars, bigger house, or more shoes, when really you do not need them. In the essay titled, “Inner Contentment,” by the Dali Lama and Howard C. Cutler, they seem to be having a conversation about what inner contentment really is and how both of them think that they can achieve it but in two different ways (Lama and Cutler). There are two different methods to achieving inner contentment, but one way is more reasonable and better than the other one. One of the methods is to obtain everything you want and or desire, which is the one that the Dali Lama and Howard C. Cutler say is the unreliable one that can get you into trouble, while the second method is not to have what you want but rather to appreciate what we have. In this essay they explain both, why one is unreasonable and how while the other one is reasonable (Lama and Cutler). The essay starts off with Howard C. Cutler walking down the street to meet with...
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...In The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien, the author portrays wealth as an antagonist, he views it as a negative. Tolkien portrays wealth this way by having Bilbo the hero has no material wealth, however, wealth is not viewed the same way by all the characters. Thorin who seems to be a bad leader is really greedy, he does not give up the Arkenstone even if it means starting a fight. Bilbo ends up being a great leader and instead of making enemies like Thorin he makes allies like Bard and the Wood Elf King. So the author is showing that the characters who are good are the ones who are not greedy. Another huge sign that the author views material wealth as negative is how he portrays Gollum after he gains wealth. He shows that after Gollum finds the ring...
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...While a lot of people say that humans are naturally curious, “The Monkey’s Paw” proves that the situation in that story is because of greed. The story is about an elderly couple and their son, and the trials they went through because of being overly greedy and the effect it had on them. Because of greed, they went through a lot of heartache and suffering. First of all, when they asked for money, as it says in the story “ “Well, wish for two hundred pounds, then; that’ll just do it.” “, it was pure greed. They did not need this money because they had already paid off the house, so they wanted money mainly to have it. That was not curiosity, only greed. Second, when they wished again for their son to be alive again, that was greed as well....
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...Corporate greed, by definition, is when a company chooses to place significance on increasing profits in a way that harms employees, consumers and the environment. It occurs when making money becomes the only goal, and the other company’s social responsibility is ignored. There is some debate with companies over whether they are being greedy versus looking for the best business practice. How can one tell if a company’s practice is defined as corporate greed or if the company is just working to reduce costs in order to increase profit growth? How much social responsibility does a company have to society and the environment? An article written by Edmund Bradley, about the problem with corporate greed, gave a perspective on these questions stating that “However greedy or altruistic a business person happens to be, the institutions of the market channel his or her motivation to a social end. Business must serve society in order to thrive,” (Bradley, 2003). In order for a business to grow and expand, they need to make a positive impression on society. Especially in today’s market, with consumers focusing on what companies are doing to the environment and how to find ‘green’ products. Society want to know that the companies making millions of dollars are using their influence and power to do good things in the world around them. Another perspective, however, is that companies have to only focus on the growth and profit of the company. They should work to please shareholders...
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