After watching the film‚ Do The Right Thing‚ it should be included in the syllabus for this class Nationality‚ Race and Ethnicity because of the fact diversity is shown in cultural differences‚ assimilation‚ and is applied to all the qualities that make everyoney in the neighborhood different. In Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing he presents a powerful message about our culture. Throughout the film there are examples of how people in real communities deal with violence and racism and their circumstances
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the film‚ Do the Right Thing‚ Rosie Perez (Tina)‚ became a well-known figure in one of the greatest films of all time. She played Mookie’s (Spike Lee) ostentatious girlfriend. Tina’s character allowed viewers’ reactions to the issues of classism. Many were offended claiming that this is not a positive representation of who Latinos and African Americans. I would conclude that Spike Lee believed that any classist or racist response would only come from White people‚ but it didn’t. Do the Right
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How do people explain their own and other people’s behavior? ‘Behaviour’ is a term defined by psychologists as an act done by an animal in response to any stimulus provided by the outside world. An assumption held by many social psychologists when attempting to explain the reasons behind the action of people’s behaviour is that we try to find certain reasons that explain our own and other people’s action towards an environmental stimulus. This is also known as the theory of attribution‚ ie. We
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Do The Right Thing is a fictional narrative that surrounds an Italian restaurant in the middle of a black neighborhood. Do The Right Thing does something that no other film was able to do‚ which is‚ “… present the aspects of the culture - language‚ dress‚ attitude‚ music - in a realistic context…” (Donalson 23). Donalson was correct - this film didn’t just serve to depict the random lives of a community‚ but rather the political and racial tension their community (and‚ I imagine‚ the rest of the
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dilemma is a situation where people have to choose between two equally unpleasant alternatives. Moral dilemma is worse than anything‚ because whichever option people choose‚ someone or something will suffer. In a moral dilemma‚ people have to decide on the morally correct course of action‚ not just the one they would prefer. In the video Harvard University’s Justice with Michael Sandel‚ he discusses a lot of situations that deal with moral dilemmas. However‚ he focuses more on the first scenario which
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“People who do Crazy Things are not Necessarily Crazy” Every human being faces at least one affliction in his or her life that leads him or her to behave in an unusual manner. While some people obtain support from others and learn how to handle situations correctly‚ others fight their battles alone and find themselves committing unthinkable acts. One taking a dispositional view would allegedly reach the conclusion that those who perform these unthinkable acts must suffer from insanity. With an opposing
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Hussein Abdallah First Paper 26838 Flm101 Technical Critique of do the Right Thing Do The Right Thing‚ a movie directed by Spike Lee‚ filmed on a sunny summer day in a black neighbourhood in Brooklyn is what many consider a great movie. The movie portrays stories of many actors consisting from different palettes‚ where each has their own conflicts and struggles. It is a very entertaining movie yet it will leave you emotionally connected to the events that took place. It would not have reached
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Do the Right Thing “Wake up! Wake up! Up you wake!” 108FM Senor LoveDaddy starts it all off with a good morning and the weather “Today’s temperature’s gonna rise up over 100 degrees.” Brooklyn‚ New York‚ a town with Koreans‚ Jews‚ Italians‚ whites‚ and a lot of blacks seem to be living to together just fine. Yet in such a small town who would have ever guessed that problems this big could ever occur about such a simple thing‚ race. In this multi-ethnic community the thought of others being racist
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How to do the right things? Lecturer Mr. Bai Lixin is a doctor of engineering. He served as IBM (China) business consulting department operation strategy chief adviser. And he is also one of the main speakers of IBM (China) BBS. He served as Vice President and Chief Knowledge Officer of Hampshire Management Consulting (China) Co.‚ LTD‚ and Business Consulting Department Manager of Andersen (Shanghai) enterprise consultation Co.‚ LTD. He once provided a strategy and management consulting
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Some people may think that older people enjoy life more than young people do. However in opinion‚ young people enjoy life more than older people do. Young people’ passion and energy are enough to enjoy life more than older people do. The reasons of it are that they do not have to be responsible for numerous tasks‚ that they are much more energetic than the elderly‚ and that they can get familiar with new technologies even faster than old people. First of all‚ young people do not have much responsibility
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