2013年度第1回

2013年度第1回の作文をやりました。受験時は予想していたよりもはるかに難しくて何だか分からないままに22点が取れましたが、やり直してみて、改めて難しいと思いました。3文で表わせるような選択肢があまり見つからず、ギリギリでどうにかなりそうなものを3つ選び出してみたところ、受験時と同じチョイスになっていました。発想もほとんど同じなので、1つ目の要因と2つ目のとをどのように連関させて書くべきか悩まされました。また、multiple companiesというものをいわゆるグローバルな大企業と断りなく捉えてしまっていいものかという疑問も付きまといましたが、それを考え出すと字数を大幅に越してしまうはずなので、そこは考えないでよさそうです。改めて書いてみた以下の文は、一度短時間で書いて、それに修整を加えたもので、受験時より遥かに出来のいいものになっているはずです。使わなかった3つのポイントについても練習として3-4文にまとめていたかったのですが、consumer以外はよくわからなかったので、断念しました。

Topic: Do multinational corporations play a positive role in today's world?

Points:consumers/ cultural diversity/ human rights/ jobs/ tax revenue/ the environment

It is said that such corporations can sell the products at lower prices, that makes the people in the world benefit. However, even if it is true, multinational corporations doesn't play a positive role in today's world.

First, multinational companies decrease the tax revenue worldwide. When they decide on the location of the factory or headquarter, they take care of the tax rates. That makes the countries lower the tax rates competitively to incentivize the companies to produce in their countries. That causes the tax revenue to decrease worldwide.

Second, the similar problem happens in the natural environment. The production cost depends on the regulations such as environmental laws. That makes the regulation weaker in a manner similar to the tax. As a result, the natural environment gets worse or the people in the world have to pay for restoring it.

Moreover, multinational companies may make the cultural diversity disappear. The advantage of the multinational company is on the mass production at lower prices. If they can produce the standardized products at much lower cost, that may crowd out the similar products the local producers have made in their traditional ways.

For these reasons, I don't think multinational companies play a positive role. We have to make the multinational guidelines and regulations against the above problems.

consumer:
Multinational companies do good for consumers. These companies have more options in their decision making: where they should locate the factories and headquarter. That enables the companies to sell at lower prices by lowering the cost.