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    This film "Extreme Measures" enables us‚ the viewers‚ to regard another side in medical issues today; in which humans are being treated as lab rats against their own will‚ in the name of science. It talks about a young British doctor named Dr. Guy Luthar‚ who is at the beginning of a great long term career with the Gramercy hospital in New York. The movie begins with two homeless men running for their lives from some unknown entity‚ one of which ends up at Gramercy hospital under the treatment of

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    Katrina Rufin Kroenung English 1 (7) 26 April 2013 Extreme Measures Have you ever tried to change yourself just to fit in‚ or even to make yourself seem more likeable? People seem to change themselves just to fit into society today‚ or maybe even to be noticed more by others. Whether it is getting plastic surgery to enhance your beauty‚ or giving somebody that first impression‚ everyone seems to at least change themselves a bit to be accepted into society. This is what the women in Snow Flower

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    If you were given the opportunity to find a cure for cancer‚ or perhaps a person’s paralysis‚ would you kill another human being in order to find that cure? In the movie Extreme Measures‚ a medical researcher asks this question of a British doctor. Dr. Lawrence Myrick is a well-known surgeon who is doing experimental surgery that could allow people that have spinal cord injuries to be able to walk again. His methods of performing this research include taking homeless people and people that he

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    In the 1997 film Extreme Measures a young British doctor‚ Guy Luthan‚ who is serving a residency in a New York hospital‚ is faced with some difficult moral and professional dilemmas. This film used Dr. Luthan’s dilemmas‚ which dealt with these sensitive issues of doing what is right regardless of the consequences involved‚ as well as questions involving scientific advancement and experimentation. How far can medicine go in the name of progress or helping humanity? Dr. Luthan discovers that homeless

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    Ethics In Movies Assignment For this group assignment (4 members per group)‚ you are required to pick and watch any one (1) of movies from the list given: 1. Minority Report 2. Return to Paradise 3. Man of Steel 4. Runaway Jury 5. Extreme Measures 6. The Island 7. Match Point 8. The Insider Assignment Objective Upon watching the movie your group has chosen‚ this is what your groups are required to do: You must answer four questions based on the movie. The questions are listed according to the

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    passionately debated subjects of controversy in the United State. Since the early decades of the 20th century‚ abortion was used as a measure of limiting families to a manageable size. In the past‚ due to the lack of knowledge‚ many families usually gave birth to a lot of children that they could not afford to raise‚ which is why abortion was abused in early times as an extreme measure of birth control to avoid further poverty to families. Today‚ many abortions are given to women under the age of 22. There

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    Good Differentiating ethics and morality can be easily confused as they both relate to the right and wrongs of living. Ethics focuses on good character and the good humans try to achieve‚ meanwhile morality tends towards the path that guides humans to the good as duty (ISG 8). Philosophers Immanuel Kant‚ Aristotle and Emmanuel Levinas approach ethics in three different ways yet all three revolve around the Catholic expectations of being an ethical and moral human. In the movie‚ Crash‚ character Officer

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    consider Measure for Measure to be a problem play? Measure for Measure has been deemed as a ‘problem play’ due to ‘lacking humanity’ and the drastic and uneven ‘emotion and language’ throughout the play. Because of this‚ the play is constantly being addressed as ‘problematic’ by critics like Swinburne who describes the play as being ‘indefinable’ and ‘unclassifiable’. The term problem play was first made current by F.S. Boas who was the critique of Shakespeare and his Predecessors. Measure for Measure

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    SHAKESPEARE sillagescritiques.revues.org/2544 Act 3 sc 2 l83-164 1) Who / where / when & possibly why 2) Obvious elt : dramatic irony => 2 levels of reading 3) Lucio / Duke both serve as go-btwn in the play‚ go from one group to another. Both contribute to knitting all different trends in play. 4) Importance of use of words‚ which is all that’s going on in this particular extract 5) Lucio paired with other char‚ all sorts of unlikely combinations in play‚ for eg with Isab at convent. Here

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    In the film Contagion‚ there was a ethical debate about how is information given out and who gets the info first? The CDC and the government reached an agreement to keep classified information about the disease (MEV-1) from the citizens of America. Dr. Ellis Cheever told his wife to get out of Chicago‚ Illinois before it was quarantined to limit the spread of disease. Limiting the amount of information to the public can contain the public inhuman behavior such as Rioting‚ criminal assault and damage

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