Sissela Bok

In the United States we pride ourselves on being a free country and having our rights and privileges but are our universities slowly taking away our rights as citizens to have freedom of speech? Speech is an important way of expressing ourselves and our opinions through verbal communication. Now in our bill of rights speech is defined as many different forms of communication such as music, poetry, television, and even clothing. College student are usually some of the strongest users of freedom of

summary of “early wins” for the unit, and a list of challenges its leaders will face over the next few years. Journal of the International Academy for Case Studies, Volume 18, Number 7, 2012 Page 24 INTRODUCTION Steve Bradshaw, Senior EVP of BOK Financial Corporation, was concerned about the performance of the CRA Department, which had recently been assigned to him. The department was named after the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), a federal regulation that encouraged banks to promote

lose other people's´ trust. According to Randy Cohen ,a ethics columnist, every lie has a cost and one big cost is you lose other people´s trust (NBCNEWS,2006). In the 1800’s being called a liar can cause the individual to lose their dignity (Sissela Bok). Another point that lying is unnecessary is because it is slowly hurting

The thought that Sissela Bok about the “whole truth” being attained is that it is impossible that it can be attained. She believes that people are lying deceived everyone, and sometime is used to protect the person. She also thinks that people that are lying is more important than anything in all of the decision that a simple lie brings. I believe she doesn’t have any faith that everyone could tell the truth. The truth is something that is hard to say, and people at times need to lie to protect

effects of violent media is aggression. Sissela Bok articulates in her essay called, Aggression: The Impact of Media Violence, that appetite for violence arises from growing desensitization in individuals, particularly impressionable children and adolescents. Critics discredit theories such as Bok’s claiming that no evidence linking media violence to real life acts exist. Regardless, Bok believes it is a correlation that we should be highly sensitive of. Others like Bok have provoked thought over the negative

our own lives and have own problems, but we can’t ignore violence (torturing) in the media that happens in real life, because next day it can deal with us. She want us to not be apathetic to violence (torturing),that makes people aggressive and Sissela Bok talks about it in her

struggle to gain independence from Great Britain. Gandhi led India to independence through non-violent methods of protesting. Gandhi’s peaceful approaches were later copied by great leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. retaught by peace experts like Sissela Bok, and followed by ordinary people like Madeline Slade, which attested how powerful his legacy was. Mahatma Gandhi’s leadership and non-violent methods in India’s fight for independence influenced many great leaders after him, proving that Gandhi’s

relates to matters, such as advertising, which are constructed on subjective persuasions. If “truth” exists in advertising, what level of truth should we expect from advertisers? According to Ethicist Sissela Bok, telling the “entire truth about anything is an unreasonable expectation.” Bok contends that it is often difficult to fully understand or comprehend the facts, especially without revelation of supporting background information (Gordon, 2011). I agree with her assessment. Imagine if

business would be in regards to company loyalty. An employee that sees a fraudulent practice and then reports the wrongdoing to the general public or an authority figure is known as a whistleblower. Sissela Bok states that “whistleblowing makes public a disagreement with an authority or a majority view” (Bok, pg. 412). An example of whistleblowing in the real world would be in Bok’s Case C. In Case C, a newly hired assistant director of admissions has heard rumors of tampered transcripts and surrogate

How come people think lying is a very Satanic action, yet they do it so naturally? According to the articles, “It’s the Truth:Americans Conflicted About Lying” and “Lies, Lies, Lies” by Paul Gray, Michael Duffy, Priscilla Painton, and Elizabeth Rudulph reveal when lying is acceptable. Lying is indeed not a pleasant thing to do or receive, but can ben used for an alternate purpose. The first text, “Lies, Lies, Lies” found several types of lies, a few being known to protect other Anne Frank survived