Professor Tvorik
Cerchel Brown
Personally I have not had to experience of any type of discrimination, nor do I have family or friends that have been a victim of any type of discrimination. Now one of my favorite movies is a movie based off discrimination. The type of discrimination that was used in this movie is that Beckett had a deadly disease (AIDS Discrimination). The name of the movie is Philadelphia and it stars Tom Hanks (Andrew Beckett) and Denzel Washington (Joe Miller). Tom Hanks who played Andrew Beckett a senior associate at the largest corporate law firm in Philadelphia, he was on his way to becoming a partner until they found out he had AIDS. It started when one of the firm’s partners noticed a lesion on his forehead. Beckett was assigned to the firm’s newest and most important case, the same day one of the partners saw the lesion on his forehead. After that Beckett was out of the office for a couple of days, but he took the complaint home with him so he could work on it. Once he finished the complaint he took it back to the office leaving specific instruction for his assistant to file the complaint in court the following day. On the morning of Beckett was rushed to the ER due to bowel spasms and that’s when he received a frantic phone call from his assistant. The call was about the complaint, it was not on his desk were he left it and there was no copy of it on the hard drive. At the last minute the complaint was found and filed with the courts. The next day Beckett was called into the conference room for a meeting with all the partners, they fired him because of the incident that happened with the complaint, which was not the case. The real reason that Beckett was fired because of his diagnosis with AIDS and not the disappearance of the complaint. Beckett knew that it made no since on how and why the partners fired him, so he took it upon himself to