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新G题号：130
题目：Some people believe that corporations have a responsibility to promote the well-being of the societies and environments in which they operate. Others believe that the only responsibility of corporations, provided they operate within the law, is to make as much money as possible.
写作要求：Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented.
With more and more large companies coming into being nowadays, there seems to be a situation where a titanic company could compete with a small country. Thus it arouses two diverse opinions concerning the corporations’ developments. One opinion is that corporations bear a burden to improve the well-being of the societies and environments in which they operate, whereas others opine that corporations need to focus only on making as much as money as possible. While both opinions hold plausible in certain aspects, the former opinion might be more practical than the latter one.
Admittedly, there’s no denying that corporations should maintain themselves by making sufficient money. Without money corporations could achieve any goal, let alone one pertaining to being beneficial to others. The money help corporations go through all sorts of challenges, and represent the statuses which indicates the abilities of leaders of these corporations. Thus, not only could corporations lose anything but money, but all they are aiming for is financial booming as well. For example, Steve Jobs has saved the Apple with a method of developing new devises time and again, and just because these devises the Apple has made a sum of money, let alone Steve has earned money and fame along with it as well. In this case, we could see that neither Steve nor the Apple could even survive without the “financial aids” from all over the world. Similar to the Apple, when we look at the whole world, we could also find that the largest and greatest corporations are almost solely determined by the amount of money they make.
However, making money is never the only responsibility of corporations. In the past, when the ability of production was not so developed compared to now, corporations might concentrate merely on their own interests, since the detrimental impacts they made were much smaller than today. But partly because of globalization, the influences of corporations are becoming more and more ubiquitous as well as gargantuan. It’s easy for a company to meet a whole country’s demand for now, thereby responsibilities must be taken in case of overwhelming powers of corporations, and in order to build a more thriving society. For instance, leaders of large corporations could play a salient role of education—take account of Steve Jobs again, his famous speech at Stanford is well-known all over the world, and his famous quote ”stay hungry, stay foolish” has been able to galvanize a great many young people to pursue their dreams and ambitions. They are just like paragons, who could set the models for others to emulate. And the final result could be beneficial to the leaders themselves, in that young people goaded by them could be so competitive that they might constitute a new generation of elites in those corporations, leading a new era of inventions and innovations.
In retrospect, corporations should never narrow their scope to only aspects of finance. The larger a company becomes, the more responsibility it bears. This is equivalent to the famous aphorism: More powerful you are, more responsible you are. Though it seems an albatross around the leader’s neck to direct his company toward making a better ambience around it upon impending financial problems, the responsibility ought to be at least considered day and night, and born into the leader’s skin.
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发表于 2011-10-11 10:39:53
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