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Quotes From The Popular Tv's Game Of Thrones

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‘It doesn’t matter what we want, once we get it, we then want something else’ - Peter Baelish
Marketing has always been the subtle art of convincing people that you need something, even if you don’t need it, expert marketers are often considered masters at selling the proverbial ice to Eskimos. Often, we see that agencies and companies launching new products leave no stone unturned in convincing us about our deficiencies and how their product can help bridge it at the cost of a small fortune. Ambition is often the by product of success and aspirations the fuel. The quote mentioned above from the popular television show Game of Thrones highlights this essential fact that marketers use to entice us to buy products, companies …show more content…

They are families who have spent an entire generation rising from the challenges that poverty threw at them and are desperate to avoid slipping back there. Women often see their immediate superiors wearing expensive clothes, cosmetics etc and wish to emulate them. Marketing sees them and says ‘Kal kare so aaj kar’ and provides them a product probably just expensive enough to remain desirable but enough to burn a hole through her pockets. This is where the ethics of marketing comes into the picture, call it ethics, dharma, creation of a moral dilemma it all boils down to the same purpose – should you play with your consumers trust, emotions and loyalty? Can you find the right balance between your claims and reality? Ethics has a lot to do with what the customer believes in, makes of it and what are their present states of mind. But since the very definition of ethics is open to interpretation, so are the marketing …show more content…

It is unfortunate that education has been reduced to this state, but given the simple rule of supply and demand, with the supply of quality educational institutions remaining relatively constant and the ever rising demand in the increase in the number of students, this issue could fester into something far worse whose price we will pay with the careers of future generations. As the quote at the beginning says that education is a gate that leads to any future worth having, it is upto us as responsible parents and children to remain vigilant when it comes to education. There are always going to be unethical practices in this field, it can be said that the corruption permeated in education cannot be fully removed, but the consumers of this product can exercise a certain amount of carefulness while looking for the best available options. We do hope that the establishment can take certain corrective measures over the prevailing unethical practices to ensure that the future of the coming generations is not sacrificed at the altar of avarice. Education is the highest level of enlightenment and teaching the highest sense of fulfillment, it’s high time they were restored to their former glory and students felt a certain pride in their teachers rather than seeing educational institutes as

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