In Do The Right Thing this type of behavior is demonstrated through the demeanor of Sal and his son Pino‚ who are both reluctant to identify with the predominately African-American neighborhood that they operate their business in.Although Sal and Pino do not identify with the community that they operate their business in they are still an integral part of it.This leads to them
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TOK Prescribed Title essay ”We see and understand things not as they are but as we are.” Discuss this claim in relation to at least two ways of knowing. This essay will attempt to show that the title claim is correct. In order to do this an analysis will be made to show how ways of knowing such as sense perception‚ emotion and reason have an impact on how the knower perceives reality and the world. This task will be carried out while taking into account the areas of knowledge and analyzing the
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“We see and understand things not as they are but as we are” Discuss this claim in relation to at least two ways of knowing. Name: Carlos Hill Quinta Candidate Number: 0650 035 Word count: 1‚495 People are aware of reality just how they see it and how they live it. People perceive things how they understand it which sometimes can lead to conflicts and discussions on the fact that each person can perceive things differently. One way speaking people perceive and understand things by using
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“We see and understand things not as they are but as we are.” Discuss this claim in relation to at least two ways of knowing. The way we attain knowledge will determine how we see and understand things‚ but no matter how we see and understand them‚ it will never bring us to the objective truth. We use our perception to “see” things and we use our reasoning to “understand” things. It is common‚ if not inevitable‚ for us to manipulate the information received using the ways of knowing into what
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“Do the Right Thing” Course Assignment #3: Movie Night Overview: The movie my partner and I chose was Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing.” Our reason for choosing this movie was that both of us have never seen a Spike Lee movie before‚ and I have heard a lot of good things from his movies and always wanted to watch one. I also watched the trailer and the movie seemed like it was going to be both entertaining and have a lot of racial conflict. The movie follows “Mookie” who is a young black man
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DOING THE RIGHT THING 21 This excerpt is from Michael J. Sandel‚ Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?‚ pp. 21-30‚ by permission of the publisher. The Runaway Trolley Suppose you are the driver of a trolley car hurtling down the track at sixty miles an hour. Up ahead you see ve workers standing on the track‚ tools in hand. You try to stop‚ but you can’t. The brakes don’t work.You feel desperate‚ because you know that if you crash into these ve workers‚ they will all die. (Let’s assume you know
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There is no right way to do a wrong thing. The degree of right or wrong is decided by the action a person takes. The most important step is to decide whether the action is right or wrong. An action cant be both right and wrong . It is right or wrong depending on how we perceive it. Let us take for example the independence struggle of two countries – Libya and India . while the people of India were patient in their freedom struggle against the british‚ same was not the case with Libya. In India
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grow bigger and multinational‚ leading to more people working in the companies and more ethical issues arising. Responsible management relates to ‘doing things right’‚ essentially maintaining efficiency. Effectiveness is the foundation of success‚ whilst efficiency is a condition of survival after success; Effectiveness is ‘doing the right things’ (Drucker‚ 1995‚ p.33). Studies have identified companies with well-developed codes of conduct as having superior financial performance‚ gaining from an effective
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Probability of Things I Do They’re many things in life that involve the uses of probability and it is apparent that it is used in everyone’s life today including myself. While people think math is irrelevant after graduation‚ statistics is heavily used especially in regards to probability. While people do many things‚ some of mine that deal with probability are playing a game of pool‚ as well as the probability of how many games our football team has a chance of winning‚ and another example
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In Spike Lee’s film Do the Right Thing‚ Da Mayor is seen as a drunken old man. During the movie‚ he tells Mookie to "Always do the right thing". I believe that Da Mayor represents "the right thing". Throughout the movie I think that Da Mayor proves that he can follow his own advice. His many acts of honor prove that he is not just a hopeless drunk. The whole neighborhood sees Da Mayor as an old drunk. Early on in the film Da Mayor was getting harassed by some kids. They were going on about how
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