How is American culture reflected in THE WIZARD OF OZ?
“THE WIZARD OF OZ” has many scenes reflected the culture of U.S.A.
Especially the scene where I thought that the culture of U.S.A is reflected is most the theme of this movie and last lines “There’s no place like home” of Dorothy.
It is just 1939 when World War II began that this movie was made. Including Germany, the European countries became the war mood at 1939. But American made the movie, the color movie and lively musical movie! I feel big margins there. This “home” appears U.S.A. to me. And I think that American loves their country because their country has big margins.
From such a thing, we can understand a culture of U.S.A. that loves their country.
And we can understand a culture of U.S.A. from a theme song; “Over the rainbow.”
Referentially I try to pick up a text.
“Somewhere, over the rainbow way up high
There’s a land that I heard of once in lullaby
Somewhere, over the rainbow skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true
There is no end to the number of cases in which ethical misconduct is systematically covered up. We can see increasing interest in corporate ethical problems in today`s world. Since the establishment of corporate activity guideline at the 9th Caux Round Table International Conference in 1994, the sense of values and ethics according to the management action of the companies came to be challenged again (Caux Round Table). Afterwards, the management situation requires fair practice of the corporate governance as concept of internal control (Chochrek, 2005). It means, today`s top companies expected merits are not merely confined to wealth creation. This paper gives an overview of compliance and corporate ethics. Two ethics systems as the source of the accomplishment of the corporate social responsibility are considered.
Compliance is conformity in fulfilling official requirements, and "sustainable compliance is the ability to quickly identify and remediate key issues within a company’s internal controls framework" (SOCJ News, 2005). In the broad sense, it is meant to fulfill Corporate Social Responsibility.....