■ 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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A company is going to give some money either to support the arts or to protect the environment. Which do you think the company should choose? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. |
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Lately, it's been a common phenomena that corporates spend a fortune to either protect the environment or support the arts. The advent of a concept, 'social enterprise' implicitly illustrate that corporates, once considered as greedy predators, have been realized the importance of continuable management and contribution to the society. In my opinion, however, focusing on environmental issues would be the better choice for social enterprises in terms of the extent of beneficiary and future competitiveness of the company itself.
First of all, beneficiary of protecting the environment is wider than that of supporting the arts. The benefits of supporting the arts might be limited in someone who produce the arts or are interested in the arts. The current issues of environment, However, are closely linked together. The term, 'Butterfly effect' appositely reflects the idea by pointing out the possibility that movements of a butterfly in south america could result in huge environmental change in Africa. Conversely, if corporates take actions to protect the environment in Asia, it would be possible to expect to see its positive consequence in South America. Thus, small changes taken by a single company to protect environment could result in huge consequences which can benefits the whole world.
In addition, protecting the environment also helps corporates improve their own competence. The hottest issue in recent business world is 'pro-environmental product and service'. Since international organizations such as UN are trying to regulate the amount of emission of CO2 and other pollutants, it has been mandatory for companies to develop technologies for the environment. For instance, GM which was once the biggest car company in the world finally collapsed because it ignored needs to develop fuel-efficiency cars. In this sense, taking actions to protect the environment has two advantages for companies. They can conduct the research & development which is essential to develop cutting-edge technologies while support the pro-environmental actions by investing money on the environmental issues related with their business. And, at least they can build an image of pro-envirionmental corporate by investing money on the environmental issues.
In conclusion, both protecting environments and supporting the arts would spawn positive outcome in the society. In my opinion, however, the advantage of spending limited resources on environmental issues would outweigh that of supporting the arts. | |
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