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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Doing the Right Thing It Is Always Ok To Do The Right Thing Rachel Lake Liberty University Abstract American citizens‚ whether children‚ college students or adults‚ should not be afraid to stand up for what is right. There are many reasons why a person might feel hesitant to report crimes. One reason is that it is easier to look the other way and to mind one’s own business. Students and young people should be encouraged to be responsible and report any suspicious behavior. Preventative
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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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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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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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the wire tapping and the stealing of government documents at the Watergate Complex.Gerald Ford pardoned his predecessor for the scandal. The question is did Mr.Ford do the right thing? Even if you barely know anything about the watergate scandal you can still look at it from an ethical standpoint and that’s exactly what we are going to do. So let’s decide weather Gerald Ford’s Pardon was ethical or not. First of all we need to discuss what the pardon means for Nixon. Nixon committed illegal crimes
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town.2 He seems to be a person who is not quite happy with his job‚ which we see in the way he thinks. He is kind of sarcastic‚ but also quite pessimistic.3 He doesn’t seem like a person who enjoys his life‚ and he finds it difficult to deal with the things he experiences at work‚ therefore he goes to a bar after work‚ and we get the picture that he goes there quite often since his wife‚ without him telling her that he is there‚ calls him at the bar. It is also kind of ironic that he‚ as a police officer
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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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Spike Lee‚ the director of Do the Right Thing (1989)‚ makes sure the audience understands how the heat is affecting the characters on the day the film takes place‚ and to do this he uses color. To subtly express how heated‚ physically and metaphorically‚ the characters in the film are‚ Lee uses warm colors such as red and orange. Likewise‚ he rids the presence of warm colors and uses cool colors such as blue and white in order to signal to the audience that things have cooled down and the atmosphere
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most movies have examples of “diegetic” and “non-diegetic” scenes in movies to carry certain scenes along. However‚ I never truly understood on how important the music can be to set the proper backdrop for those specific scenes. In the movie Do the Right Thing‚ there is a scene were Mookie (Spike Lee) meets up with his friend Buggin Out (Giancarlo Esposito) for a meet and greet‚ when out of no where a man in Larry Bird Celtic shirt bumped into him and scuffed his Jordan shoes. When Buggin Out looked
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