Sex and Relationship Education (SRE) Essays -- human sexuality and sex

Sex and relationship education (SRE) is supporting children through their moral, physical and psychological aspects of growing up to be an adult, and making sure they have knowledge on relationships, sex, human sexuality and sexual health (Sex Education Forum, 2010). There are three main elements in SRE, the first element is attitudes and values, which is about developing positive values and be able to consider moral issues before they make their decisions on having intercourse (Kirby, 2007). The second element is personal and social skills, which is about teaching children to have the confidence to value themselves and others to become respectful for individual conscience and the skills to judge the kind of relationship they want; the third element is about accessing the knowledge and understanding of human sexuality, reproduction, sexual health, emotions and relationships (Kirby, 2007). The potential effect of SRE should be seen in these three areas, which includes reduction in tee nager pregnancy, and the chances of getting sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and being sexually assault, etc. As SRE can either be given at home to the child by parents, in school by teachers, or in youth organizations, alternative educational institutions, or youth offending organizations by Shine staffs or trained peer educators and volunteers (Levy 1992). This essay is mainly going to focus on the teacher-led SRE given in school and discuss whether it is beneficial or not, with the support of the positive outcome of children having SRE in relation of STDs, pregnancy and peer violence, and also the actual fact of SRE being not useful, supported with the data of teenagers not receiving the knowledge they should have been taught in SRE, and high te... ...ax S(1997) Impact of HIV and Sexual Health Education on the Sexual Behaviour of Young People: a Review Update Godson, S. (2001) Boys+sex–education=crisis. Available online at: http://educationguardian.co.uk/Print/0.3858.4311559.00.html (accessed 4 December 2001). Holland, J., Ramazanoglu, C., Sharpe, S. & Thomson, R. (1998) The male in the head—young people, heterosexuality and power ,London, The Tufnell Press Kirby D. (2001) Emerging Answers: Research Findings on Programs to Reduce Teen Pregnancy. Washington, DC: National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, 2001. Kohler et al. (2008)â€Å"Abstinence-only and Comprehensive Sex Education and the Initiation of Sexual Activity and Teen Pregnancy.† Journal of Adolescent Health, 42(4): 344-351. Kirby D. (2007) â€Å"Sex and HIV Programs: Their Impact on Sexual Behaviors of Young People Throughout the World.† Journal of Adol Sex and Relationship Education (SRE) Essays -- human sexuality and sex Sex and relationship education (SRE) is supporting children through their moral, physical and psychological aspects of growing up to be an adult, and making sure they have knowledge on relationships, sex, human sexuality and sexual health (Sex Education Forum, 2010). There are three main elements in SRE, the first element is attitudes and values, which is about developing positive values and be able to consider moral issues before they make their decisions on having intercourse (Kirby, 2007). The second element is personal and social skills, which is about teaching children to have the confidence to value themselves and others to become respectful for individual conscience and the skills to judge the kind of relationship they want; the third element is about accessing the knowledge and understanding of human sexuality, reproduction, sexual health, emotions and relationships (Kirby, 2007). The potential effect of SRE should be seen in these three areas, which includes reduction in tee nager pregnancy, and the chances of getting sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and being sexually assault, etc. As SRE can either be given at home to the child by parents, in school by teachers, or in youth organizations, alternative educational institutions, or youth offending organizations by Shine staffs or trained peer educators and volunteers (Levy 1992). This essay is mainly going to focus on the teacher-led SRE given in school and discuss whether it is beneficial or not, with the support of the positive outcome of children having SRE in relation of STDs, pregnancy and peer violence, and also the actual fact of SRE being not useful, supported with the data of teenagers not receiving the knowledge they should have been taught in SRE, and high te... ...ax S(1997) Impact of HIV and Sexual Health Education on the Sexual Behaviour of Young People: a Review Update Godson, S. (2001) Boys+sex–education=crisis. Available online at: http://educationguardian.co.uk/Print/0.3858.4311559.00.html (accessed 4 December 2001). Holland, J., Ramazanoglu, C., Sharpe, S. & Thomson, R. (1998) The male in the head—young people, heterosexuality and power ,London, The Tufnell Press Kirby D. (2001) Emerging Answers: Research Findings on Programs to Reduce Teen Pregnancy. Washington, DC: National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, 2001. Kohler et al. (2008)â€Å"Abstinence-only and Comprehensive Sex Education and the Initiation of Sexual Activity and Teen Pregnancy.† Journal of Adolescent Health, 42(4): 344-351. Kirby D. (2007) â€Å"Sex and HIV Programs: Their Impact on Sexual Behaviors of Young People Throughout the World.† Journal of Adol

Memories are life Essay

â€Å"The only real treasure is in your head. Memories are better than diamonds and nobody can steal them from you† by Rodman Philbrick, The Last Book in the Universe. If we think about what life is made up, we can say that memories build life. We save all the important and happy events that occurred in our lives as well as the most sad and worst moments. It is said that the brain is the most powerful part of humans, but as part of the brain, memory is an essential piece of it. As I mentioned before, memories build life, each day we put on practice what we have learned and live. I believe that in life we don’t have anything secure but our memories, once we die we don’t take anything we have right now. When we remember happy moments we have live, it’s like re-living them again and feeling the joy we felt at the moment. I decided to choose the memory as the topic of my Psychology class essay because from a while ago I started to have issues with my memory. At first I thought it was because of the problems that I was going through at the time, and also preparing for college. Time passed and I still was having trouble with remembering stuff, I came to think it was a hereditary health problem because my dad and grandmother never remember something. I feel frustrated because without a memory is like we never have lived, we constantly live through memories. Remembering what we have gone through and manage to take a positive attitude even if the memory brings us negative feelings. In this essay I will cover specific topics about the memory which is â€Å"the retention of information or experience over time as the result of three key processes: encoding, storage, and retrieval†, according to Laura A. King in  Experience Psychology. Throughout the essay I will discuss the basic memory process, also I will talk about the different stages of memory as well as the different types of memory, along with the explanations of when the memory fails (forgetting). In my opinion these three subjects are very essential part to understand how the memory works and find the explanation of why we forget things, which is my case. But also relate these topics to our daily lives. To begin with, I will explain the process of memory so later on I can discuss the different possibilities of why we forget. The first step in the process of memory is called encoding which is the processing information into memory accordingly to a Sparknotes article, Memory. For instance, we might remember where we ate in the morning even if we didn’t try remembering it but in the contrary it is possible that we are going to be able to remember the material in textbooks we covered during elementary school, high school or even more recent in college. It is stated that in the process of memory encoding, we have to pay attention to the information so we can later recall all the information. In the content of Memory, the second step in memory process is storage, the retention of information over time and how this information is represented in memory (King). In this process is often use the Atkinson-Shiffrin theory that is made up of three separate systems: sensory memory- time frames of a fraction of a second to several seconds, short-term memory- time frames up to 30 seconds and long-term memory- time frames up to life time (King). The third and last step of this course is memory retrieval, the process of information getting out of storage. Likewise, I will explain the first stage of memory called sensory memory or immediate memory. As stated in Experience Psychology, the sensory memory holds information from the world in its original sensory form for only an instant, not much longer that a brief time. In this stage of memory the â€Å"five† senses are used to hold the information accurately. In Sensory Memory by Luke Mastin, the stimulus that is detected by our senses has two options, it can either be ignored meaning it would go away at the instance or it can be perceived staying in our memory. As I mentioned before, our senses are being used in the sensory memory stage and have their specific name for example when we perceived the information through our vision it is called  iconic memory also referred as visual sensory memory. The iconic memory holds an image only for about  ¼ of a second. Not only but also, we also have the echoic memory which refers to auditory sensory memory, this function is in charge to hold part of what we listen/hear. For instance, when the professor is dictating a subject, we are trying to write fast so we can hold on all the information given at the moment and not forget what the professor said. Another stage of memory is called the short-term memory (STM), according to a web article Short-Term Memory, of Luke Bastin, the short-term memory is responsible for storing information temporarily and determining if it will be dismissed or transferred on to our third stage called long-term memory. Short-term memory sometimes is associated with working memory, which is a newer concept that the British psychologist Alan Baddeley came up with. Although working memory emphasizes in the brain’s manipulation and how it collects information so we can easily make decisions as well solve problems and mostly understand the information. It said that the working memory is not as passive as the short-term memory but both have limited capacity to retained information. Additionally to this stage, we have the fi nding of George Miller which wrote in his book called The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two. In this book Miller talks about two different situations. The first kind of situation is called absolute judgment which states that a person should correctly differentiate between very similar items such as shades of green and high/low-pitched tones. The second situation states that a person must recall items presented in a sequence, meaning that a person must retain certain number of chunks in their short-term memory. King also mentions that to improve short-term memory we consider two ways of doing it, chunking and rehearsal. According to King, chunking involves grouping or packing information that exceeds the 7  ± 2 memory span into higher-order units that can be remembered as single units. For example, when the professor is dictating a list of things like: cold, water, oxygen, air, rain and snow, we are likely able to recall all words or even better all six words instead of having a list like: S IXFL AGSG REATA MERI CA. When we have a list like that it will be harder to remember it because none of the six chunk words make sense, but if we re-chunk the letters we get â€Å"Six Flags Great America†, and that way we have better chance to remember it. The second way to improve our short-term memory is by  rehearsal, ac tually there are two types of rehearsal, maintenance rehearsal and elaborative rehearsal. Maintenance rehearsal is the repeating of things over and over; usually we use this type of rehearsal. In the other hand, we have the elaborative rehearsal which is the organizing, thinking about, and linking new material to existing memories. Continuing with the stages of memory, now I will talk about the third stage which is the long-term memory. In the article, What Is Long-Term Memory? by Kendra Cherry, long-term memory (LTM) refers to the continuing storage of information. In difference of the other two stages of memory, LTM memories can last for a couple of days to as long as many years. LTM is divided into types of memory, declarative (explicit) memory and procedural (implicit) memory. Later on I will explain in detail what are these two types of memory. Now that I have gone through the three stages of memory which are sensory memory, short-term memory and long-term memory, I will discuss the different types of memory. The different types of memory rely on the long-term memory section, the first type of memory that I will talk about is explicit memory also known as declarative memory. This type of memory â€Å"is the conscious recollection of information, such as specific facts and events and, at least in humans, i nformation that can be verbally communicated† (Tulving 1989, 2000). Some examples when we use our explicit memory is when we try to remember our phone number, writing a research paper or recalling what time and date is our appointment with our doctor. It said that this process type of memory is one of the most used in our daily lives, as we constant remember the tasks that we have to do in our day. In another article by Kendra Cherry called Implicit and Explicit Memory, Two Types of Long-Term Memory, informs us about two major subtypes that falls into the explicit memory. One is called episodic memories which are memories of specific episodes of our life such as our high school graduation, our first date, our senior prom and so on. The second subsystem of explicit memory is the semantic memory; this type of memory is in charge to recall specific factual information like names, ideas, seasons, days of the month, dates, etc. I can easily remember my quienceaà ±era party, it was May 24, 2008, at this exact moment I can recall what was the first thing I did when I woke up that and also what I did before sleeping but there are episodes on that day that I’m not able to remember. Moreover, I will discuss the second type of memory which is  implicit memory. Stated by King, implicit memory is the memory which behavior is affected by prior experience without a conscious recollection of that experience, in other words things we remember and do without thinking about them. Some examples of our implicit memories are driving a car, typing on a keyboard, brushing our teeth, and singing a familiar song. Within the implicit memory we have three subtypes; the first one is the procedural memory that according to King is a type of implicit memory process that involves memory for skills. The procedural memory process basically is the main base of the implicit memory, since all of us unconsciously do many things throughout the day, like I mentioned before driving a car or simply dress ourselves to go to school, work or wherever we have to go. The other substype of implicit memory is the classical conditioning which involves learning a new behavior via the process of association, it is said that two stimuli are linked together to produce a new learned response. For instance, phobias are a classical conditioning as the Little Albert Experiment result was. I personally I’m more than afraid to spiders, in other words my phobia is called arachnophobia which can be control and learn to overcome the fear and anxiety it gives me every time I see a spider or even think about a spider. The last subsystem of the implicit memory process is the priming, Kings states that priming is the activation of information that people already have in storage to help them remember new information better and faster. Priming it is sometimes called recognition memory; an example of priming is when little kids are learning colors, they associate two things such as apple and color red. To learn the red color they will remember the apple and it w ould be easier for them. Furthermore, I will talk about what I think is the most important part of my essay that is forgetting. As I said at beginning of my essay I have experienced difficulties with my memory, I forget simple things. For instance, in daily bases my mom gives me a message to give my dad or sisters or just asks me to do something for her, I say yes I will do it but later on I totally forget. Before taking this class, I believe that the reason I forget things, it is because I’m distracted at the time and didn’t paid attention so that’s why later I’m not able to remember it. Now that I have taken the class and researched the topic I found reasons of why we forget things, one reason is the retrieval failure, that is the failure process of  accessing stored memories. It is what we do when we have exams; we try to remember what we have learned/study and we just don’t remember anything. Within the retrieval failure we have what is called interference theory, it is the theory that people forget not because memories are lost from storage but because other informati on gets in the way of what they want to remember (King). There are two kinds of interference that can be a possible reason of forgetting, are is called proactive and retroactive. In the proactive interference occurs when the current information is lost because it is mixed up with previously learned, similar information. This happens to me when I try to study two different subjects right after another, I get confused about both subjects and sometimes I even stop studying because I’m not able to focus and understand the material. The second type of retroactive interference is when the new information interferes with the old information memories, an example of it is when at jobs we learned a new task but forget older tasks. Moving forward, we have another possible cause of forgetting is called decay theory. In another article by Kendra Cherry, Explanations for Forgetting, Reason Why We Forget, decay theory is a memory trace that is created every time a new theory is formed. The only problem is that over time this trace disappears. The failure to store is also a possible reason that causes us to forget, this is because encoding failures sometimes prevent information from entering long-term memory (Cherry). In conclusion, I believe that one of the most essential part of the brain is our memory. We can have billions of dollars and buy anything we want but at the end the only thing we are taking of us is what we have live (memories). We need memories in our life not just to drive from A place to B place or to get the right answer to pass an exam but to remember who we are and what people we have by our side. To revive all the moments we encounter happiness and even sadness, â€Å"memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose† from the television show The Wonder Year.

Irish Immigration Essay - 933 Words

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The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Quotes

The Bell Jar  is a famous autobiographical novel by Sylvia Plath, though it was first published under the pseudonym, Victoria Lucas. The novel has been banned and challenged because it deals with mental illness, suicide, and the female experience. Some have claimed that students may be inspired to commit suicide after reading about Esther Greenwoods struggle with mental illness but these claims are unfounded. Here are a few quotes from The Bell Jar. Doreen singled me out right away. She made me feel I was that much sharper than the others, and she really was wonderfully funny. She used to sit next to me at the conference table, and when the visiting celebrities were talking shed whisper witty sarcastic remarks to me under her breath.- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapter 1 There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the extra person in the room.- Sylvia Plath,  The Bell Jar,  Chapter 2 After Doreen left, I wondered why I couldnt go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why I couldnt go the whole way doing what I shouldnt, the way Doreen did, and this made me even sadder and more tired.- Sylvia Plath,  The Bell Jar,  Chapter 3 The sickness rolled through me in great waves. 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It was as boring as going to the toilet.- Sylvia Plath,  The Bell Jar,  Chapter 7 So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state.- Sylvia Plath,  The Bell Jar,  Chapter 7 If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then Im neurotic as hell. Ill be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.- Sylvia Plath,  The Bell Jar,  Chapter 8 I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. 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Essay on Metropolis Film Analysis - 1169 Words

Metropolis: â€Å"Breaking down the utopia† In January of1927 Metropolis was released to the German public. The film, which was directed by Fritz Lang, was one of the first science fiction movies in the history of film. The film focuses on the differences between the working class who power the city and the wealthy whom indulge in it. The film was host to many German stars at the time such as Alfred Abel and Brigette Helm. As this conflict is going there is a separate yet relative story unfolding, a mad scientist has created an android out of love and desperation. Soon that same desperation drives him to use this robotic woman agansist his fellow man, causing open revolt and bloodshed. As Joh Frederson, founder†¦show more content†¦They displayed the scale of things, whether the machine hall or Frederson’s office. I think the most interesting shot however, was a shot looking outside Joh Frederson’s window, showing the majesty of the city. It was a collaboration of scale models and paintings, which made up an entire futuristic city. It was breathtaking, especially considering the time period. The story itself was beautifully written by Lang and his wife. It was the first science fiction film ever made, no one had made a futuristic story about robots before, but that’s just what Metropolis was on the surface. Inside it was a story of love, a story of indifference, a story of struggle, it was a human story, and that’s what made it so successful. It was written simply, it was easy to understand yet it told a complex multilayered story. The lighting only brought more emotion and mood to the film. For all the close ups the faces were light very brightly, the natural shadows in the face in contrast with the bright light stressed the state of the characters. The lighting in Rotwang’s lab however was very dark, and there were a lot of shadows, which exemplified the nature of his character. The main element that made this film was the acting. It was necessary that all acting be overdramatic, it was the only way for the audience to truly grasp the emotions of the characters on screen. The best example is the scene where Freder wanders into the hall of machines and witness’ theShow MoreRelatedFilm Analysis : Metropolis And Metropolis1630 Words   |  7 PagesJoseph Spencer is the observer of the movie. Metropolis is directed by Fritz Lang; Metropolis mostly fits under the science-fiction and drama genres. Metropolis was released in 1927 (IMDb). Metropolis reveals to the observer that features a dystopian and contradictory world. The script is based on a novel by Thea Von Harbou, and the screenplay was written by her as well. (IMDb). 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Question: The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits (Friedman, 1970). Critically discuss this Statement in the Light of Contrasting theories that Emphasize, as Well as examples that Highlight, the Case For Corporate Social Responsibility. Answer: Introduction The main idea of social responsibility in business is to maintain balance between the business plan and social responsibility. It can be said that in most of the occasions the operational strategy of business does not consider about the relationship between the society and environment. The aim of the current report is to critically discuss the statement of Friedman in 1970. The statement was highly controversial in the context that it contradicted most of the theories related with that of the corporate social responsibility of the business. The important elements of the theories related to the corporate social responsibility will be the main discussion point of the current study. Theories of Corporate Social Responsibility The main purpose of the corporate social responsibility in business is to ensure no unethical practice is being implemented in the marketing plan to make excess profit. The competitive environment of today's business world is getting tougher due to aggressive safe strategies implicated by most of the companies. Large scale business organization often implement the power to bring about change in the business environment. The corporate social responsibility is the set of ethical laws that has to be followed by every business organization in order to maintain their social reputation (Carroll 2015). The laws of corporate social responsibility ensure that interest of every group of stakeholders are being protected with implementation of every business policy. One of the major purpose of implementing the elements of corporate social responsibility is to ensure sustainable development in business economy. The elements of Corporate Social Responsibility ensure that the profit that are earned from the business are utilized for the social development and welfare activities. Economic responsibility of the company is to ensure profit that can be evident from the financial growth along with increased value of the companys equity. In the market of modern economy, it is highly essential for every business organization to makes sufficient amount of profit in order to sustain in the tough competitive environment. There is also the component of legal responsibility, where business organizations have to strictly follow the legal rules and policies. These policies are implemented as a part of Business Law, which helps to ensure that there is no illegal or unfair trade practice implemented in any form of business transaction. Business organization can follow the principles of legal responsibility by paying proper business or trade taxes to the local authority. Korschun et al. (2014), have mentioned about the importance of ethical responsibility, where it is important for business organization to ensure that the business activities do not cause any harm to the environment. Implementation of green business ideas that include ecofriendly way of manufacturing products and delivering service are few of the major components of ethical responsibility. The philanthropic responsibility is another major component of corporate social responsibility. In this case it is the duty of an organization to contribute direct fund for social welfare activities. This is also believed to be one of the effective ways to improve the business reputation and brand recognition. One of the major social responsibility of every business organization is to provide proper employment to the society. The large-scale multinational business organizations are few of the biggest recruiters that play an important role in the social developmental work. Peake and Eddleston (2017), has mentioned about the importance of the Triple bottom line theory, which is another major components of the social business responsibility. According to the component of this theory, it is the duty of the corporate leaders to ensure that both economic and social context of business are being considered while implementing operational strategy. In order to maintain sustainability within the business process it is highly essential to consider every terms and condition of business. It is one of the challenging role of the business leader to properly ensure perfect balance between economic and social development in the business environment. This is believed to be one of the intersecting point of Business Ethics. In terms of economic sustainability, it is important to implement plan for long term financial growth (Saeidi et al. 2015). From the elements of triple bottom line, it is the duty of every large scale business organization to properly implement the bu siness plan for financial sustainability. This is believed to be one of the major criteria for success of startup companies. Large scale business companies like Google, apple and Microsoft has been able to introduce better economic policy for long term financial growth. The business leaders of to predict all possible situations of the future market environment and implement the plan according to long-term sustainability. Corporate sustainability in terms of economic development can help in the process of brand recognition. It can also help the company to properly utilize all forms of resources (Becker-Olsen and Guzmn 2017). Social sustainability is also one of the important criteria for implementing the triple bottom line theory. There has been increased in concerned about the global scenario, where rich people are getting richer and poor getting poorer (Grosser et al. 2017). This can increase the risk of society being collapse. The increase in the imbalance can also raise the risk of political violence, thereby compromising up on all forms of social development. Crane et al. (2013),have mentioned about the importance of fair trade movement that is believed implement ethical opportunity for implementing sustainable business strategy. It is also important to note that social sustainability can not only be maintained with the help of financial planning. It also requires understanding the capital market of modern business environment. Implementing policy such as minimum wage for workers at different level within an organization is one of the prime policy of maintaining social growth. Social sustainability also requires full cooperation from all types of citizens. This can help to develop healthy relationship between the people (Gupta et al. 2017). Environmental sustainability is the final component of the triple bottom line theory. This help to ensure that all forms of natural resources that are used by business organization do not face with any form of wastages. Recycling of materials can be one of the effective ways to maintain the protocol of environmental sustainability (Shang et al. 2014). This is believed to be one of the effective way to minimize the chance of resource wastage. Proper eco-friendly techniques also can be implemented in order to ensure minimum amount of greenhouse gas are being emitted from manufacturing units of the industries. Critical Analysis of the Friedmans Statement From the statement of Friedman, it is clear that the author wants to focus only upon the financial growth and sustainability of a business organization. The primary intention of all business entrepreneurs while initiating any startup companies to maximize the level of profit in terms of financial development. The statement provided by Friedman also focuses upon increasing the profit margin. This has been one of the major controversial topic mainly due to the fact that the statement is only concerned about one principle of Corporate Social Responsibility that has been mentioned in the above section. This statement also debunked the notion of all forms of social welfare activities that are usually associated with corporate social responsibility. During the time the author meant this statement, there was an increase in concerned about the social inequalities that was raising within the global economy (Di Benedetto 2017). Statement of the author also highlighted up on the fact that free market which was getting popular during the period of 1970s is one of the easiest way to maintain Social Responsibility in business. This is mainly due to the fact that free market enjoys the opportunity to make maximum amount of profit without any form of political or economic restrictions. It is also possible for the business owners to recruit more number of people within the company and thereby deal with the issue of unemployment. The author also believed about the fact that with increased amount of business profit it is possible for businessmen to make significant donation in social welfare activities. There is also one form of belief that the statement of Friedman is one of the best way to maintain principles of socialism. It will there be prevent the market to determine the exact pricing strategy that will be implemented for each product. Hybrid concept of capitalism and socialism can thereby help in improving the popularity of free market and thereby promoting the economy of the nation (Yin 2017). The increase in the trends of private competitive Enterprise, there is increasing risk of negligence about the elements of corporate social responsibility. Statement made by Friedman will help to force upon most of the important matters related to that of the free market economy. This will help to ensure that most of the business organization are able to expand with better level of Corporate strategies. According to the statement it may not be possible for a business organization to focus upon all major elements of corporate social responsibility and also the related theories associated with the same. If a business organization is solely focused upon making high level of business profit, it may not be possible for them focus upon the policies of economic and social sustainability that is believed to be an essential part of corporate social responsibility. It will also not be possible for the business organization to manage all forms of risks that are involved within the external business environment. With aggressive form of competitive strategies that are implemented by most of the multinational corporations, it may not be possible for them to consider about the facts social inequalities that are developing in the modern age. It may not be possible for the business organization to properly follow the ethical rules implemented by the local authority (Lee and Riffe 2017). There has been several reported case of large-scale multinational companies terminating huge number of employees in order to improve upon their profit margin and compensate for high level of loss. In many cases, when a large scale multinational corporation acquire some other company, there is high level of chance that most of the business organizations may implement change in the organizational structure. This type of situation increases the risk of promising on social responsibility and ethical rules followed by the organization (Di Giuli and Kostovetsky 2014). There is also the chance that a foreign company can cause serious damage to the local environment while installing any form of manufacturing units. As the business is mainly focused up on increasing the financial condition, it may not be possible for the company to deal with matters related to decreasing the greenhouse emissions gas from the manufacturing unit. Conclusion: In the conclusion note it can be said that the statement made by Friedman in 1970 about the fact that social responsibility of business is mainly to increase profit is highly controversial in the context of modern age. As mentioned within the principles of corporate social responsibility, it is highly essential for all business organization to ensure both economic and social development. The popularity of free market economy has been a major boost for private organization as they are able to expand their business. However, in the context of improving upon financial condition in many occasions it has been seen that business organization ignore about the fact related to social sustainability within the external business environment. In the context of the modern age this can be highly challenging due to the fact that without proper ethical rules and regulation there is high risk of compromising of business reputation. It is also important to mention about the fact that most of the large scale business organization of the modern age involves in various type of social welfare activity, which is believed to help in the business reputation. Few of the major examples of involving in social welfare activities can be given from the context of Microsoft Corporation. The social welfare organization initiated from the management of Microsoft Help in eradication of various form of diseases. It can therefore be concluded that the statement made by Friedman in 1970 is not applicable in the context of modern day has most of the principles of corporate social responsibility are being ignored. References: Becker-Olsen, K. and Guzmn, F., 2017. Corporate Social Responsibility Communication in North America: The Past, Present and Future. In Handbook of Integrated CSR Communication (pp. 293-315). Springer International Publishing. Carroll, A.B., 2015. Corporate social responsibility. Organizational dynamics, 44(2), pp.87-96. Crane, A., Matten, D. and Spence, L.J., 2013. Corporate social responsibility in a global context. Di Benedetto, C.A., 2017. Corporate social responsibility as an emerging business model in fashion marketing. Journal of Global Fashion Marketing, pp.1-15. Di Giuli, A. and Kostovetsky, L., 2014. 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