Business Ethics
Big things to keep in mind include: clarity, defense of ideas, and creativeness of ideas. It is extremely important that you present your ideas in a clear fashion and avoid, where at all possible, ambiguity. You should strive to rigorously defend your ideas. In fact the bulk of your paper should be set on clearly presenting creative ideas and then defending them through the use of critical reasoning, example, analogy, etc. After each of your sentences you should ask yourself, ‘does this sentence play an obvious role in defending my answer to the prompt”.
In your papers address ONE of the topics below. Your papers should be between 1600-2000 words in length.
My preference for my topic would be (3):
Sandel discussed the increased commercialization of sports in ‘What Money Can’t Buy’. This increased commercialization involves many things including the renaming of stadiums to include corporate sponsors as well as advertisements on player jerseys.
Is there any point at which the increased commercialization of sports harms the sport itself? However, you address this question be sure to discuss what the point of a sporting activity is. Also in your reply discuss how your thoughts apply to all levels of sports from little league teams to college teams and professional sports. Lastly, discuss how cultural standards and social norms play a role, if any, with respect to whether commercialization impacts a sport itself.
