According to Edward Freeman and David Reed corporate managers are obligated only to the shareholders, and no one else, because they own the corporation
a. True
b. False
B
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"Angela Merkel, the first woman chancellor of Germany, did not do a good job in her first term. This suggests that women are not fit to govern a country" commits the fallacy of
A) hasty generalization B) weak analogy C) false cause D) appeal to ignorance E) appeal to unqualified authority
Why are critical thinking skills important in today's global high-tech world?
What will be an ideal response
A) Discuss any instances of nonargumentative persuasion or pseudoreasoning and explain any slanting techniques you find in the following passage. (We'll comment on features we find obscure, unusual, or tricky.) B) Rewrite the passage in language that is as emotively neutral as possible but still retains the same informational content."The executives responsible for the recent corporate catastrophes popularly known as Agent Orange, asbestos, and the Dalkon Shield are not in jail and will not go to jail. With the exception of informed victims, few of us describe these cases in the language of crime, even though in each case there is a wealth of evidence that victims were put at unacceptably high levels of risk of severe injury and death and that corporate executives knew of the risks, yet
failed to take appropriate preventive action. Even Morton Mintz, the award-winning Washington Post investigative reporter and author of At Any Cost: Corporate Greed, Women, and the Dalkon Shield, a powerful indictment of the A. H. Robins pharmaceutical company, does not use the word 'crime' in telling the sordid tale of the Dalkon Shield."-From Russell Mokhiber's "Criminals By Any Other Name," The Washington Monthly What will be an ideal response?
Socrates believed he was wiser than anyone else in Athens because he
a. had found the ultimate truth, using the Socratic method. b. knew he was ignorant. c. did not believe in any god. d. realized that all opinions are equally true.