■ Direction You have 20 minutes to plan and write your response. You response will be judge on the basis of The quality of writing and on how well your response presents the points in the lecture and the relationship to the reading passage. Typically, an effective response will be 150 to 225 words.
■ Question Summarize the points made in the lecture you just heard, explaining how they cast doubt on the points made in the reading
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▶ Topic : Can people be successful and ethical at the same time? | |
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| It is presumptuous to assume that success goes hand-in-hand with morality. Three compelling examples manifest the notion that successful people are not always ethical.
First, Lawrence Siasko, the former CEO of a Chicago meatpacking company, epitomizes that people cannot be successful and ethical at the same time. During the advent of the 1900s, consumers preferred quantity over quality. Siasco, recognizing this fact, lied to the consumers by amalgamating meat with dust and flour while claiming the meat as 100% meat. Albeit he was successful and earned thousands of money, he was disingenuous. Thus, success does not go with ethics.
Another paragon that lucidly demonstrates that people cannot be successful and ethical at the same time can be seen in Adolf Hitler. Germany was in detrimental situation after the World War One since it had to pay reparations to the winners. Therefore, German citizens desperately wanted a new leader that would save them from the adverse condition they were going through. Hitler, using this mental state of the German citizens, deceived people by avowing that every deleterious conditions people are going through is due to the existence of Jews and other lower races. Hitler was successful in gaining power, but he was not candid nor moral, thereby resulting in more than 8 million people's death. All things considered, success and ethics do not go together.
Lastly, a critically acclaimed novel The Great Gatsby manifests the notion that people cannot be ethical and successful at the same time. The protagonist J.Gatsby is an affluent man; He has a pool, a boat, a plethora of exorbitant clothes and decors. However, the money he earned did not came from the proper way. In the advent of the 1920s, the US government outlawed alcohols. Although selling alcohols was illicit, Gatsby gained opulence by bootlegging. All in all, success and morality do not go together.
As seen in aforementioned cases, people cannot be successful and ethical at the same time. As Mark Twain once said "Always do right. This will gratify some and astonish the rest". | |
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