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I've got the no-skateboard blues
Tyler Trofee would like to spend all his time doing skateboarding tricks, but his parents are tired of his recklessness and are insisting that he pay for all the things he has destroyed around the neighborhood--will he learn to be more responsible in time to get a new skateboard for the big contest?
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Sustainability, responsibility and ethics: different concepts for a single path
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the concepts of sustainability, responsibility and ethics focussing on their links and differences, also to understand how companies move respectively in these field; to understand how companies sometimes move away from the basic and deep meaning of these concepts, landing in a merely utilitarian sphere of personal advantage where ethics, instead of being an irreplaceable and essential stronghold, is found to be a fiction or just an instrument.
Design/methodology/approach
The methodology used assumes a theoretical critical approach and, based on the vast literature on the items, is based on a conceptual analysis of the themes of sustainability, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and ethics and of the behaviour that companies can adopt in the three contexts. A critical approach to these issues and concepts can effectively help us to understand how companies are responding to external demands and to the challenges of responsibility and sustainability, which are becoming increasingly pressing.
Findings
Ethics, sustainability, CSR and social and environmental reporting are distinct constructs with different meanings but linked by important conceptual and operational relationships.
Research limitations/implications
The results of the research are the consequence of the application of a critical approach based on a theoretical analysis of the concepts under study. It would be interesting to support the results achieved with empirical research studies.
Practical implications
This conceptual path helps scholars and companies themselves to understand the difference between the three key concepts analysed. Only by understanding the basic meaning will it be possible to really make one’s own and pursue it in the correct way.
Social implications
Nowadays, the authors are overwhelmed by these three concepts which are used as synonyms and incorrectly. This leads to confusion and misunderstandings. Knowledge of the characteristics and differences between these concepts and their concrete applications is of great importance.
Originality/value
This study tries to provide a critical discussion of how the three concepts intersect and differentiate, leading to concrete results or results that have nothing to do with their meaning. There are no conceptual papers in the literature that deal with the three concepts and also analyse the implications on the real world.
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Louise Trapeze did NOT lose the juggling chickens
Seven-year-old Louise, who performs in a trapeze act with her mother and father, finally gets an important job at the circus, but when things go wrong she wonders if she is really ready for new responsibilities.
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Posthuman Affirmative Business Ethics: Reimagining Human–Animal Relations Through Speculative Fiction
Posthuman affirmative ethics relies upon a fluid, nomadic conception of the ethical subject who develops affective, material and immaterial connections to multiple others. Our purpose in this paper is to consider what posthuman affirmative business ethics would look like, and to reflect on the shift in thinking and practice this would involve. The need for a revised understanding of human–animal relations in business ethics is amplified by crises such as climate change and pandemics that are related to ecologically destructive business practices such as factory farming. In this analysis, we use feminist speculative fiction as a resource for reimagination and posthuman ethical thinking. By focusing on three ethical movements experienced by a central character named Toby in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy, we show how she is continually becoming through affective, embodied encounters with human and nonhuman others. In the discussion, we consider the vulnerability that arises from openness to affect which engenders heightened response-ability to and with, rather than for, multiple others. This expanded concept of subjectivity enables a more relational understanding of equality that is urgently needed in order to respond affirmatively to posthuman futures.
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A thousand eyes
\"Todd Wendt, employed by a multinational corporation, is recovering from the tragic death of his wife and is at a loss as to what direction his life could possibly take. When he is sent to a small mountain town in Colorado he becomes aware of a series of vicious animal attacks on the local population, Over time, Todd realizes the attacks are not random but targeted at the company that brought him there, as well as himself. His decision to confront this situation ultimately transforms, not only Todd, but the entire community.\" -- Summary from back of book.
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Representing Colombian history in television fiction: insights from audiovisual industry stakeholders
Since 2012, various television fiction products, including series and telenovelas, have been produced and broadcast both in Colombia and globally—including the Netflix series Narcos—portraying the harsh and violent final two decades of the 20th century in Colombia. These productions have been defined as memory telenovelas because the themes, characters, and events they address are recent, and most of their audiences lived through, were impacted by, or were even victims of the situations depicted in those products. To understand the perspectives and concerns regarding these messages and their impact on the social memory of the recent past, ten (n = 10) interviews and three focus groups (n = 16) were conducted, made up of key stakeholders from the industry. Key recurring themes included a consensus on the thematic relevance of these productions and the inherent contradictions in the representation of history through serialized fiction. Emphasis was also placed on the accuracy or validity of the representation versus the need to construct narrative universes around contemporary history; the legal constraints and limitations (such as copyright of stories, legal risk prevention, access to and use of archival material, etc.); and the creative responsibility of producers in the ideation and creation of audiovisual content.
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Trickster
When he and the other volunteers at Dr. Mac's veterinary clinic go to help out at Quinn's Stables, David makes several serious mistakes and must prove he can be trusted before Mr. Quinn will let him even be around the spirited horse that David wants to ride.
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“A Lie Can Run Around the World Before the Truth Has Got Its Boots on”: Exploring the Portrayal of Journalism in Terry Pratchett’s Fantasy Novel ‘The Truth
The image of the journalist in popular culture has increasingly added value to metajournalistic discourse. These portrayals have the power to influence the audience’s perception of real-world journalists and the industry. However, most research analyzes portrayals in film and television. Using Terry Pratchett’s fantasy novel “The Truth,” this study explored how journalism, the media industry, and the journalist are portrayed in fantasy literature. Through a textual analysis of the novel, it was found that the work was a celebratory portrayal of journalism that shared a variety of themes found in film and television portrayals. Though its ethics were challenged throughout the novel, the Ankh-Morpork Times was devoted to the truth, served the watchdog role, and practiced social responsibility. Additionally, the novel’s historical rendition of the penny press highlighted the competitiveness of the media industry, how the public interest was challenged by political and corporate influence, and offered a portrayal of naïve news consumers. Lastly, it was found that William de Worde portrayed an ethical journalist and followed the common investigative journalist trope, but his character strayed from the usual editor, publisher, and male reporter tropes found in film and television. This study also suggests the possibility of looking at negative portrayals of journalism in fiction as a series of critical incidents in which journalism has difficulty fully repairing its paradigm.
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A short tale about a long dog
Rescuing a Dachshund from an animal shelter after convincing his skeptical father to get the family a dog, Hank struggles to prove his trustworthiness after his new canine friend gets loose at the park.
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CORPORATE LIABILITY IN ENERGY-RELATED ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGES
A corporate liability for energy-related environmental damages is a key area of environmental law, especially globally, which is facing rising energy demand, the growing role of energy resource development and environmental issues. The legal regime of corporate accountability for the environmental damage of energy companies and firms It concentrates on the essential principles of tortious and statutory liability, specifically on negligence, nuisance and faultless liability. The study further delves into critical legal mechanisms such as the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act(CERCLA) in the US, the Environmental Liability Directive in the EU, and the Environment Protection Act in India, and assesses their capacities in enforcing corporate accountability against environmental damage. It also performs a comparative study of legal doctrine and regulatory responses in different jurisdictions. Consider, for instance, U.S. environmental statutes like CERCLA that impose strict liability for releases of hazardous substances, and the emphasis in the European Union on the \"polluter pays\" principle under the Environmental Liability Directive. The changed legal fiction in India, as the great judgments like M.C. Such case laws are at the heart of the analysis the paper carries out evaluating the approaches of the courts of different jurisdictions with regards to the issues related to holding corporations responsible for environmental degradation through energy producing activities. The paper also deals with corporate defences — the permit defence, corporate veil, and due diligence-defences — as well. The paper ends with a glimmer of new trends in this respect, especially in the form of climate change litigation, and makes some policy recommendations to improve the corporate accountability for environmental harm. By providing scholarly scrutiny in this way, this Paper reiterates the necessity of concerted international legal regime and enforcement mechanisms to enforce corporate accountability on environmental protection.
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