Reseach Why People Valuing Money at the Expense of Humanity (Essay Sample)

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Money over Human life
In accordance to history of Americans we come across many large enterprises sacrificing human beings at the expense of the human life. In this sense we have many incidences and occurrences that are contrary to the human rights and freedom. These essay is meant to elaborate on the many occurrences where have witnessed the conduct of the our leaders who are holding big posts in the government and those serving in the large enterprises making a lot of money at the expense of putting human beings at risk. These leaders are expected to act as good examples but only to find they are doing contrary to their roles and responsibilities. There are various articles that are we are going to focus on showing exploitative and opportunistic nature of these leaders. This include Max Blau’s, "No accident: GM’s ignition Switch Scandal”;Julia Whitty’s," The Bp cover-up " and the congressional publication, " Hurricane Katrina: Nation still Unprepared. All expounds the knowledge about these vices.
We come across these incidences emanating from where we either have the government or corporations taking money at the expense of supporting human beings at their own activities. We come into conjunction with corruption that is being experienced in these institutions where a capital is being looted by these leaders. In reference to the first article that is Blau’s article where we come across the GM’s scandal, Brooke Melton, she is knocked by vehicle that belonged to GM. Also when the ignition broke down the firm was ordered to remove 30 million to cater for the incidence.
In the same article, GM, who is the manufacturer Brooke Melton’s cobalt and Thornton Chevrolet, he had informed her of the defaults that found already exist in the car. On one side of the argument it is being said that Brooke Melton was not informed fully what the defects that were found in the electronic gadgets. On the contrary, the argument is that she failed to take the information she was informed very seriously.
In the Blau’s article it well seen that this company despite that fact that they informing their customers the default that was there, they could have removed those parts that did not meet the required standard for the production of the cars. This company neglected their responsibility and sacrificed the lives of people at the expense of making profit by continuing selling the defective cars.
There is another article which tries to bring this aspect of valuing money than human life. This is the Whitty’s article on BP. This happened in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico where the company besides being cautioned on the explosions that took place, the company just continued with mining of oil so that to make profit. This explosions resulted to very devastating effects not only to human beings but also polluting the water bodies. It is said that BP was reluctant to listen to any corrections and paid no attention to the restrictions put in place. This caused unemployment to the fishermen and captains.
The BP could tribe the media so that they could hide all real figure of the damage it has caused to that environment. They went an extent of purchasing the restaurants that was near the scene, also they also gave the media personnel some cash to silence them in order to keep the reporters away from the actual scene.
Lastly, we have the congressional report, where we come across issues with the Hurricane Katrina that took plac...