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The Corporation

Posted by admin On June - 23 - 2010

The Corporation is a canadian documentary film released in 2003. The documentary movie shows how business corporation evolved and associates it’s identity with different topics or themes (book-like chapter).

The list is as follows

  • What is a corporation?
  • Birth
  • A Legal Person
  • Case History
    • Harm to workers – layoffs
    • Harm to workers – union busting
    • Harm to workers – factory fires
    • Harm to workers – sweatshops
    • Harm to animals – Habitat destruction
    • Harm to animals – factory farming
    • Harm to animals – experimentation
    • Harm to animals – rBGB / rBST / Posilac
    • Harm to biosphere – clearcuts
    • Harm to biosphere – CO2 emissions
    • Harm to biosphere – Nuclear waste
    • Harm to biosphere – Corporate paradigm
  • Personality Diagnosis
    • Callous unconcern for the feelings of others
    • Incapacity to maintain enduring relationships
    • Reckless disregard for the safety of others
    • Deceitfulness: repeated lying and conning others for profit
    • Incapacity to experience guilt
    • Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviours
  • The pathology of commerce
  • Monstrous Obligations
  • Mindset
  • Boundary Issues
  • Basic Training
  • Perception Management
  • A Private Celebration
  • Advancing the front
  • Unsettling Accounts
  • Expansion Plan
  • Hostile Takeover
  • Democracy LTD
  • Psycho Therapies
  • Prognosis

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African Grey Parrots & A Parrot named Einstein

Posted by admin On June - 21 - 2010

Experts believed and documented the fact that African Grey Parrots one of the most intelligent animal species capable of imitating other species. Dr. Irene Pepperbergs have researched for many years and says  that they posses the ability to associate human words with meanings and intelligently apply the abstract comcepts of shape, color, number, etc. They are also claimed to perform cognitive tasks at the level of dolphins, chimpanzees, and even human toddler. In 2004 a bird named N’kisi had a vocabulary of 900 words and was noted for creative use of language. For example, when Jane Goodall visited N’kisi in his New York home, he greeted her with “Got a Chimp?” as he’d seen pictures of her with chimpanzees in Africa. Because of their social interest Grey Parrots are considered excellent pets.

About Specific Gery Parrots

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