Volkswagen Essay

On September 21, 2015 Stewart Parnell was sentenced to 28 years in prison because his company, the Peanut Corporation of America, produced salmonella-contaminated peanut butter. He knew there was a problem with the peanut butter and shipped it anyway. More than 700 people became ill, 9 died. Among the fatalities are Cliff Tousignant a Korean War veteran with three Purple Hearts and Shirley Almer who fought a brain tumor and lung cancer only to succumb to Parnell's tainted peanut butter. The…

When reading Hamlet, we see that relationships are essential in the storyline. The entire plot is actually based loosely off faulty relationships. When examining Act I, which is where the background is given, the baseline relationship is between King Hamlet and Gertrude. Many of the problems early on stem from the existence (and ending) of this relationship and “the weakness of this relationship may [have been] the downfall of everyone” (Johnson, 2005). The whole play is based off this broken…

Liang, a senior engineer at Volkswagen, helped develop an emissions cheating device and lied to emission regulators. According to the Department of Justice, James knew that the car was being marketed to the public as a “clean diesel” vehicle and did nothing. James worked with coworkers to hide and cover-up the cheating device from the us regulators. James should have told the regulators and the general public about the emissions cheating device. His actions in the Volkswagen emissions scandal,…

Most organizations want to grow both internally and externally. Internal growth strategies may involve production and revenue increases and expansion of employees, whereas external growth strategies may form together with another organization or even acquire a new one (Crandall, Parnell, & Spillan, 2013). As more concerns with government regulations, more competitors, new technology advances, and constant change occurs, some organizations may occur a crisis if they follow a specific growth…

Since the time of Machiavelli, people have struggled to answer the question of whether the ends justify the means. To sum up in a definition, the saying “The end justifies the means” is used to say “that a desired result is so good or important that any method, even a morally bad one, may be used to achieve it” (Merriam-Webster) For centuries, people have quarrelled over this topic and debated whether the end result is worth the methods you used to get there. In the play Macbeth by Shakespeare,…

Advertisements aren’t simple a page in a magazine or a thirty second commercial on TV. Advertisements are given to us in many different forms, some of these we might notice, and some we might be completely oblivious to. Some of these different types include: sponsorships, spot advertising, product placements, branded entertainment, and native advertising. All of these types are similar in they are trying to sell us a product, or to get us familiar with a certain brand. But they go about it in…

Would you ever be a witch? The Crucible is about the witch trials that happen in Salem, Massachusetts. Abigail and her friends are caught in the woods dancing around a fire. When they are discovered they are now being accused by the church of England of witchcraft. This brings on social activism which is the intentional action with the goal of bring about social change in society. The two themes Reputation/Respect and Following the Group were used by the Arthur Miller in The Crucible as a form…

The story “Fiesta,1980” shows us that the main character Yunior gets sick every time he rides in his father’s new Volkswagen van, somehow the upholstery was doing something to Yunior’s mind during the car ride. The author Junot Diaz shows us that the father is a controlling person when it comes to his family following his rules that he has put in place. The father does not show any positive emotions towards Yunior unless it was to see if Yunior was feeling better or if he was getting used to…

or consumption that meet the demands of the consumer’s needs. Products include much more than just tangible items such as mobile phones, televisions, cars or clothing. Products can also be defined as services, events or places. So for example, a Volkswagen Golf is a product just as your appointment with a dentist or doctor is a product. In ‘Marketing: An Introduction’ by Kotler et al (1), they say that a product has 3 levels, the core benefit, the actual product and the augmented product.…

this was this recent Volkswagen scandal whereby the company invented a deceptive device which gave out false emission report. The company had created a software called “defeat device” that was able to detect and change the emission of the car when it was being tested to measure the car’s emission to stay under the emission level allowed in the US. However, it was found that the vehicles actually emitted forty times above the allowed nitrogen oxide level. The fact that Volkswagen was able to get…