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Metaphors are widely used in our daily routine. Mainly when it is necessary to explain some complex subject to someone who does not know about it. We use metaphors in our personal and professional life. It is common in the corporation community to use metaphors, and this essay is going to criticize the strengths, weaknesses, power and limitations about the bad apples metaphor, corporation comparison with a shark, predator metaphor and the most powerful metaphor in the documentary, a legal person. First, when the term bad apples is used as a metaphor, it is very simple to understand. It is a simple and powerful metaphor that everyone knows the meaning and association with any other subject, even if a person does not know about the main subject. This metaphor is strong because everybody associates that something is not so good among the whole. Furthermore, this term is easily used as a referral point in the media to throwback to the mainstream subject. On the other hand, this term can unfold to other thoughts. Literally, in a basket with some bad apples, the others tend to become bad apples faster. In the case of the documentary, it can inconsequently demonstrate that the good companies at any time could become bad apples as well. Additionally, the word bad in constant use to refer specific companies by media, it …show more content…

Predators as shareholders do not care about anything else; they just look after their return on investment. They sometimes do not know about the business they are investing, but they usually put pressure on the company to make profit as soon as possible. This behaviour disseminates through the company, for instance, Carlton Brown, commodities trader, said in his interview that in the September 11 attacks in the USA his first thought was only in the gold

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