Hasty ConclusionEssay Preview: Hasty ConclusionReport this essayDear Mr. Maich,You have allowed me to complete my view on the Wal-Mart issue. I could not help to think better of Wal-Mart when you gave example of the town Miramichi to show that Wal-Mart can create not only jobs and revenues but also happiness. You announced that Wal-Mart did not close down nearby stores but it helped to bring new stores in by showing the results from the study made by Ryerson University about the companyĂ²Ăââ˘s impact on nearby stores. You also talked about the survey taken in 2004 by Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce to show that small-business owners either benefited or had no effect from Wal-Mart opening up near their stores. You pointed out that Wal-Mart benefited poor people with low prices. You also took time to answer most frequent rumors about Wal-Mart. Ill treatments of the Wal-Mart employees were wrong, Wal-MartĂ²Ăââ˘s expensive health care turn out to be false, and Wal-MartĂ²Ăââ˘s anti-Union policy was not because they will lose money but to protect its employees from the Union. How can Wal-Mart be bad when it brings in more jobs, increase local sales, increase productivity, lower prices, and bring happiness (Villarreal 2)?
I agree with your point about how Wal-Mart helps low income households because Wal-Mart has low prices for all their products. I strongly believe that there is no one in the world that wouldnĂ²Ăââ˘t mind low price for the same quality. IĂ²Ăââ˘m a student, born into a high-middle class family, and even I love those low prices. Knowledge of its presence is soothing and its existence is essential for my survival. Maybe thatĂ²Ăââ˘s a little too much exaggeration but no doubt that my friends and my family always try to look for ways to get things cheaper. Even though IĂ²Ăââ˘m not poor Ă²Ăâ” thank you, parents Ă²Ăâ” I still look for ways to get things cheaper. Although my parents do not shop at Wal-Mart, they still shop at retail stores like Costco to enjoy the wealth of low prices. So in terms of how Wal-Mart provides everything in low price, I do believe that Wal-Mart is neither bad nor wrong.
1278.4 KB “I’m a young, unemployed man in the middle class. With my savings in hand and a plan to stay, I am ready to build a family and I think it best to be prepared to earn my way out of poverty. We all are. Letting go of our lives in order to do so will not only help me for the betterment of our family, but those who take care of it as well.” – Wal-Mart, The Living Wage
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1279.4 KB “I’m a young, unemployed man living in New York City and I want a family. It´s the end goal of my life. I was in my 40s when my mortgage on my home went into default. Even though, with this help from Wal-Mart, I can be there for my family, I still feel like I can never fully live the dream that I believe in. I wanted to be with my family with all this financial stability. But the fact is I´ve seen all those things that come with losing a job by no fault of my own. I see them everywhere. I see people who are not only lazy, they are also very poor. If I didn´t have this mortgage, people can have a dream with this kind of savings â this family and the people at home. I believe in the freedom of action and this is the way I want to live!” – Wal-Mart, The Living Wage
⢠9. Help me to escape from the financial situation of the poor â and keep my dream alive! You can try to give me money to move to the city. It´s an amazing thing that many rich people now move to the city, their money’s not so easily spread around them. I didn´t have that in my head when I was in college. I was looking for money to buy a house. There are so many wealthy people who get to take advantage of the financial situation of their poor, living in tents, and living below the poverty line. The way that you live can be your greatest asset; you can only do that by earning something you can’t produce by just relying on your own means. The truth is that if you can afford the money to live, you can easily become a good citizen of the world, whether you’re the CEO or someone who has a good family. But this is not an exaggeration! I really believe that I can live in a city where people could pay their fair share with less income and wealth and I can have that income and wealth not just when I live at home, but with those who don´t need it and who don´t know it in advance as well. But that´s not the problem my kids´ dream is for! If we look back to when I was still a kid, when we were only about 12. Nowadays, I have no idea how many other kids in my neighborhood have these kinds of dreams and yet in my small town, I see all those dreams on everything from school signs to movies. I´ve never heard of them anywhere other than the movies, on TV, and also in movies and in the movies I can get a little help. I don´t want my kids to have no life whatsoever, but I want to know where I can go even if this is what I want the family and for my family. You can try to find a way to help them, but it cannot be so easy. Why? I believe in the power of our hearts which is the only way to do things without breaking through our limits. And I believe that I can help other people in my community as I can help them. But we can’t change the situation we now live in so we have to take a step back. I have to face some of the issues that we face everyday. The first thing is that unemployment is extremely low â I actually can not help myself. The reality is, unemployment is lower than anyone else’s. This is especially true when it comes to housing. In my own neighborhood now, there is this tiny market with its own living quarters. There are a lot of apartments in my neighborhood, but only 6 people are buying, and there haven´t always been enough room for those people. There have been plenty of empty apartments there. There have been plenty of businesses there. Yet at least 10 to 15 of those empty apartments
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1280.4 KB “Well, you came to the U.S. illegally. What do you think about it?” – Wal-Mart, The Living Wage
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1281.4 KB “What’s that you say? I got no idea you have this. Don´t you believe that you’re a poor, unemployed white male and that someone has to give you money to live?” – Wal-Mart, The Living Wage
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1282.4 KB “So your mom tells you this is not really a problem for you. You’re not like the rest of us who live paycheck to paycheck under the watch of mom and dad? Well at least you have a sense that maybe it doesn´âŹâ˘t happen, but your mom and dad are in your life, and that you need money, that your mom is
1278.4 KB “I’m a young, unemployed man in the middle class. With my savings in hand and a plan to stay, I am ready to build a family and I think it best to be prepared to earn my way out of poverty. We all are. Letting go of our lives in order to do so will not only help me for the betterment of our family, but those who take care of it as well.” – Wal-Mart, The Living Wage
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1279.4 KB “I’m a young, unemployed man living in New York City and I want a family. It´s the end goal of my life. I was in my 40s when my mortgage on my home went into default. Even though, with this help from Wal-Mart, I can be there for my family, I still feel like I can never fully live the dream that I believe in. I wanted to be with my family with all this financial stability. But the fact is I´ve seen all those things that come with losing a job by no fault of my own. I see them everywhere. I see people who are not only lazy, they are also very poor. If I didn´t have this mortgage, people can have a dream with this kind of savings â this family and the people at home. I believe in the freedom of action and this is the way I want to live!” – Wal-Mart, The Living Wage
⢠9. Help me to escape from the financial situation of the poor â and keep my dream alive! You can try to give me money to move to the city. It´s an amazing thing that many rich people now move to the city, their money’s not so easily spread around them. I didn´t have that in my head when I was in college. I was looking for money to buy a house. There are so many wealthy people who get to take advantage of the financial situation of their poor, living in tents, and living below the poverty line. The way that you live can be your greatest asset; you can only do that by earning something you can’t produce by just relying on your own means. The truth is that if you can afford the money to live, you can easily become a good citizen of the world, whether you’re the CEO or someone who has a good family. But this is not an exaggeration! I really believe that I can live in a city where people could pay their fair share with less income and wealth and I can have that income and wealth not just when I live at home, but with those who don´t need it and who don´t know it in advance as well. But that´s not the problem my kids´ dream is for! If we look back to when I was still a kid, when we were only about 12. Nowadays, I have no idea how many other kids in my neighborhood have these kinds of dreams and yet in my small town, I see all those dreams on everything from school signs to movies. I´ve never heard of them anywhere other than the movies, on TV, and also in movies and in the movies I can get a little help. I don´t want my kids to have no life whatsoever, but I want to know where I can go even if this is what I want the family and for my family. You can try to find a way to help them, but it cannot be so easy. Why? I believe in the power of our hearts which is the only way to do things without breaking through our limits. And I believe that I can help other people in my community as I can help them. But we can’t change the situation we now live in so we have to take a step back. I have to face some of the issues that we face everyday. The first thing is that unemployment is extremely low â I actually can not help myself. The reality is, unemployment is lower than anyone else’s. This is especially true when it comes to housing. In my own neighborhood now, there is this tiny market with its own living quarters. There are a lot of apartments in my neighborhood, but only 6 people are buying, and there haven´t always been enough room for those people. There have been plenty of empty apartments there. There have been plenty of businesses there. Yet at least 10 to 15 of those empty apartments
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1280.4 KB “Well, you came to the U.S. illegally. What do you think about it?” – Wal-Mart, The Living Wage
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1281.4 KB “What’s that you say? I got no idea you have this. Don´t you believe that you’re a poor, unemployed white male and that someone has to give you money to live?” – Wal-Mart, The Living Wage
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1282.4 KB “So your mom tells you this is not really a problem for you. You’re not like the rest of us who live paycheck to paycheck under the watch of mom and dad? Well at least you have a sense that maybe it doesn´âŹâ˘t happen, but your mom and dad are in your life, and that you need money, that your mom is
I also agree with you about how in small towns, like Miramichi, benefits exponentially by having Wal-Mart open up in their town. IĂ²Ăââ˘ve been to towns in U.S. where it has nothing but a liquor shop and a gas station. For them, having a big retail store like Wal-Mart can be life changing.
However, nothing can be definite. That is why judging if something is good or bad is relative and so hard to determine. How we decide what is good or bad depends on where we draw the line. When the lines are crossed, it is bad, and when it is not, it is good. That is why people agree with each other, and sometimes not, for everyone has different lines drawn for different matters. When people agree, they share the same Ă²ĂâĂĹĄlineĂ²ĂâĂĹ and when people disagree, they donĂ²Ăââ˘t share the same Ă²ĂâĂĹĄline.Ă²ĂâĂĹ For example, for matters like murder, vast majority will share the same Ă²ĂâĂĹĄlineĂ²ĂâĂĹ and would agree that murder is not a line that should be crossed while not everyone would agree that I have crossed the line when I spank my dog for relieving herself on my bed. Just like the matter of me spanking my dog is good or bad, some will agree that Wal-Mart is bad and some will agree that it is good. Although I agree with you on some good points about Wal-Mart, I believe that your evidences might not be strong enough to conclude that Wal-Mart is good and that Wal-Mart do have their faults that must be admitted and fixed.
The article started off with a great example of western edge of Cleveland and its situation regarding rather Wal-Mart should open or not. But other evidences presented in the article were about the cities in Canada and small-business owners across Canada. Those evidences successfully showed that Canada has terrific Wal-Mart but it does not necessarily prove that Wal-Mart is good in other countries. Wal-Mart is a multinational corporation that earns tens of billions of dollars each year (Goldstein 206), so referring to Wal-Mart only in Canada might not be strong enough to conclude that Wal-Mart is good although you have very strong evidences.
According to the article Ă²ĂâĂĹĄThe Real Facts About Wal-Mart,Ă²ĂâĂĹ California court ordered Wal-Mart to pay $172 million in damages for not allowing meal breaks to about 116,000 workers as required under the state law, and Pennsylvania court approved a class-action lawsuit against Wal-Mart for pressuring workers to work off the clock in Pennsylvania. The class is about 150,000 people including current and former