The tobacco industry

In class we analized how vested interests affect our daily life. After several reading, we analized the tobacco case and how cigarrette companies manipulate us in order of what they need. Below, a short activity related to the topic.




Questions page 16 +:After reading page 16, and answering the 2 questions, look for pictures of cigarette advertising. Choose 1 and analyze it making reference to vested interest. Publish your analysis and picture on your blogHow does advertising help tobacco companies to defend their vested interests?Cigarette advertising distort the truth. Briefly comment on this view.After reading page 16, and answering the 2 questions, look for pictures of cigarette advertising. Choose 1 and analyze it making reference to vested interest. Publish your analysis and picture on your blog1 & 2) In order to defend their vested interests, tobacco companies appeal to specific and effective advertisements which, not only defend vested interests, but also help these companies get more clients. Most of these advertisements show positive pictures which would motivate clients to consume their products rather than thinking about the negative consequences cigarettes produce. But do advertisements distort the truth at all? It can be said that as these advertisements help tobacco companies defend their interests, they aren’t distorting the truth, but hiding part of it. Advertisements show the positive aspects or bright side of smoking and do hide the negative ones. So advertisements just hide part of the truth.


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By analyzing the advertisement above, it can be stated that Lucky Strike emphasizes and strongly tries to convince the consumer that in order to have an attractive figure, he or she must smoke these cigarettes. We can observe the vested interests where we are only shown the "positive" aspects of smoking, which are in this case for sure a lie, and hiding the negative ones, of course, as it wouldn't gain popularity amongst buyers. Money once again is put above moral values and people's health.
Tobacco industries must lie to their clients in order to sell their products, although these are completely harmful. But is this completely necessary? I strongly believe smokers know what negative effects cigarettes have but anyway decide to smoke them. So why don't tobacco companies tell the truth about their products? What is it that they are hiding?

Fête du creps

Suivant, le rectte et les ingredients pour 20 personnes:

• 1kg de farine
• 6 oeufs
• 2lt du lait
• 1 pincée du sel
• 4 couilliers à soupe de sucre
• 50g de beurre fundu

1. Le recette
2. Versez la farine et le sel dans un saladier et creusez un puit
3. Dans un autre bol, fouettez les oeufs, le lait et le beurre fondu, purs versez dans le puits de farine. Fouettez a nouveau pour obtein une pâte fluide.
4. Laissez reposer 30 min.
5. Versez la pâte dans un coullière à soupe et versez le coullière à soupe dans la crepière.
6. Laissez la pàte devenir marron,
7. Profitez les creps!

How far are nowadays women influent in politics?

 Since Medieval Times women have had a secondary role as regards politics, even before stories adjust men as primary characters, leaving women aside. But history is past and nowadays we live in a different world, full of changes. So we might ask ourselves, how far are women influential in politics nowadays?

So as to talk about women in politics, we should do a flashback to previous centuries in the whole world, so we could understand certain situations that might explain the present.

We are talking about a world who undervalued women. In the case of Rome, one of the biggest Empires ever,  women  could own land, write their own wills, and appear in court. Some women showed ability as orators in the courtroom, although it was considered a defining pursuit of the most ambitious Roman men. Women were supported in case they spoke with strength and effectiveness, like men. It seemed to be a liberal Empire as regards women, but every time women exercised these rights, they were treated as women with a “viril spirit”, not recognising their own values and self dependence.

Throughout history, we are able to see that until the past three centuries, women have been underestimated. They had to open their path through politics world by the hard way.

This path began to be traveled when in 1869 it was the State of Wyoming, in the United States of America, who became the first sub-national territory to allow women to vote under the protection of the law.

Regards the history of women in politics in modern times, we need to find women such as Susan B. Anthony who was the first US woman to vote in a presidential election in 1872. Pitifully later on, she was arrested for having voted illegally. As expected, she defended her rights and represented courageously her ideals at the trial.

While talking about nations, it was the Isle of Man (paradoxically) the first state to allow women to vote. It is a British dependent state, which is not part of the United Kingdom. The Isle of Man poses the oldest democratic parliament in continuous existence along the world also and became the first state in letting unmarried women and widows who owned lands choose their rulers. But it seemed not the whole world was ready to let women participate in politics. Women who tried to vote along the rest of Europe, were denied.

But the 20th century had been a blessing for women with aims of expressing their opinions, and history would have a drastic twist. As commemorative facts we are able to see how in 1928 women between the age of 21 and 29 were able to vote in Britain. Women got political positions too, like A. Kollontai who was named the Soviet Union’s ambassador in Sweden. Also in 1960 Sirimavo Bandaranaike  became the first female Prime Minister of the actual state of Sri Lanka. Furthermore, in 1974 María Estela Martínez de Perón succeeded her deceased husband and became the first woman President of Argentina and the first female leader of America. We can also see Margaret Thatcher becoming the Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1979 and winning re-elections in 1983 and 1987.

Looking back to the beginnings of the century and present days, we can see women in politics in Africa, with a female Libyan Prime Minister, a German Chancellor, a Chilean and Indian President, and a re-elected Argentinean President.

In order to conclude, throughout this essay we were able to see with clear examples how the world spinning around women in politics in the past few centuries had changed a habit with hundreds of years of history. Since the beginning of days society was used to seeing how men occupied primary roles in politics and since the first woman was able to vote, the world have crossed a line impossible to cross back again. Year after year women began to be heard until nowadays major powers around the world are or have been governed by women. The world has changed forever and men no longer rule alone.

Sources

http://www.iwdc.org/resources/timeline.htm (timeline)