Sodas rivalry

It has always existed rivalry between Coca Cola and Pepsi. Pepsi is an American company, which started in 1893, but its product wasn’t very good qualified by people, reason why it broke two times. But then the company was restructured by one of the ex-vice-presidents of Coca Cola. After that, the company started to attack more furiously Coca Cola with publicity and improving their product that, at the time, was an American company was the leader corporation of sodas in United States since XIX.

But as this problem includes two main actors is important to mention the other one. Coca Cola is  an American company created by the pharmacist John Stith Pemberton in 1886 as a pharmaceutical producer. The Coca Cola product first started as a medical drink composed by cocaine and water, it helped to cure the pain such as headaches. But when the product obtained fame and people liked its flavor so his creator sold it and after that it was created Coca Cola Company. The company expanded the brand throw all the world and became the leader soda seller worldwide.

Actually, both companies are the leaders in the sells of sodas.  The rivalry still exists and has become stronger. This can be noticed on the different publicity of both companies, in which they focus not only on advertising their products, but also to give a bad name and image to the product of the other company. Also we can notice this in the prices used to sell the sodas. Each company tries to offer the lowest price for the consumer.

This rivalry can have as a cause that, as the founders of Pepsi were ex workers of Coca Cola, they didn’t have a good experience during their period of time in Coca Cola and will always want to outshine the other brand.

In this article it is clear rivalry is the spice of life, because many people is involucrate and because the publicity that each company do against the other is interesting for the consumer and it shows that their rivalry is one of the motives of their publicity.  

Juan Pablo Aguirre.

Pepsi vs. cocacola. Desing. 2011. Junio 6 2012. http://cmtm-design.blogspot.com/2009/11/pepsi-vs-coca-cola.html

“Coca-Cola”, n.d. http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola.

Rivalry between religions

One of the things that make life interesting is the difference between ideas. In now days world everyone should be free to express their toughts and believes, or at least that is what the society says is the must be in every culture since the ideal of rights was introduced in the society. However, religions are a topic that generates conflict in the world because not every people respect the right for people to express freely  nor they respect the difference.

The intolerance to the difference is a problem that people think is over in the actuality, but isn’t. Just a few months ago an unknown gunman killed a woman. After research of the police the reason of her murder was very clear. She was killed because she was a member of a Christian community and was trying to expand Christianity in the city.  And in Afghanistan every week is more common to see crimes committed against Christians. Another example of this occurred in Mexico, in March when two sisters were murdered because their killers hated Jehovah witnesses, the religion they practiced. So, as we can see, this happens every day, and even in very close places like Mexico but people never realizes it is occuring. People still think that if others don't believe on what they do then that is wrong, and it is not a valid  faith.

People need to understand, that first difference is what makes life fun and the rivalry between people and their beliefs Is also the spice of life. When someone asks about your beliefs it gives you the chance to to rethink the reasons you believe in and strengthen your faith. When you hear or now about the religion of other people it is a whole door to their culture because religion influence a lot of aspects in life, since behavior to clothing. And there will always be rivarly between religions, just because they all are different ways of thinking and understanding the world, but it's important to understand this rivarly makes the world a more interesting place, it makes us question the reasons why we belief, and make the rivarly a good one, not one that about ideas finishes with many lifes.

Periodico la voz. Matan a dos hermanas ser testigos de jehovah. Marzo 2012. Junio 3 2012. http://seipc.wordpress.com/2012/03/17/matan-a-dos-hermanas-por-ser-testigos-de-jehova-en-mexico/

Metro news. Brithis aud worker killed because of religion. November 2011. Mayo 28 2012.

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/364033-female-british-aid-worker-killed-because-of-religion

photo: Global aviation. Religions and cultural sensitivity. February 27, 2012. June 06, 2012.http://aviationenglishblog.com/religions-and-cultural-sensitivity/

Ana Maria Barrios.