Thursday, April 24, 2008

Camille Robin 4/24/08

With this years long awaited Olympics in Beijing China, the pressure and debate has turned not only to the country itself, but to sponsers supporting and advertising the olympic games there. Coca-Cola has been a large supporter of the games in Beijing, and the people there have a lot to say about that, "Companies [who do not act] will get physical protests, they will get letters, we will ask people to turn off their adverts," said a Ellen Freudenheim, director of corporate outreach at Dream for Darfur. With all the pressure on Coca-Cola and other large companies, only the future will tell how far they will bow to public pressure.
The story, just like the past ones with the controversy about the olympic games the story has huge impact on the whole country, with such big names caught in the ring of problems, we can only hope that the problems won't get worse. Human impact is big too. With such a large brand name like Coca-Cola, people everywhere will have to start thinking what their support means, and if they want to support it too. Along with those, there is obviously conflict within the marketing and public relations going on with the games, and public effect on people all over the world.
Scientists now say that pregnant women can somewhat control the outcome of the sex of their baby. With a male's sperm deciding the sex of the child, in the past, this has been a large leap for expecting mothers and families. In studies, it showed that 56 perent of women who ate higher calorie diets gave birth to boys compared to 45 percent of women who gave birth while eating a lower calorie diet. Other things like what you eat such as high calcium compared to potassium may boost your chances of having a baby boy. This story has a lot of human interest, people always want to know how they can control the outcome of their unborn child, and without genetic research, people have been stuck at square one. Oddity is a big factor too, eating more wouldn't seem to effect the sex of your baby, but with this new research, people are getting a shock.
Artitectural workers demand more compensation for their work, or none will continue in the UK (guardian.com pg. 1). A respected attorney in the coutry questions the government's descion to hold terror suspects for 42 days (guardian.com pg. 2). Four hundred missing children may be involved in Britain's drug and sex trafficking (guardian.com pg. 4). The guru creator or the series Big Brother moves onto bigger and better things in art and culture (guardian.com pg. 4). McDonald's thinks that more updated uniforms may dramatically help buisness (guardian pg. 5).