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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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‚ goes to a bar and drinks and then drives home afterwards4‚ but of course we are not told how much he exactly has been drinking. Besides the fact that he finds it difficult to deal with what his life is like‚ he is a
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Cloning is a process in which an exact replica is made from an organism‚ cell‚ or tissue. The duplicate contains the same genetic information as the original. When most people think of cloning they think of the cloning of humans that is seen in movies. Cloning can occur in many ways than just one. A lot of cloning happens naturally. Bacteria are an example of naturally occurring cloning. Bacteria can produce a genetically identical offspring through a process called asexual reproduction. In asexual
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Cloning in biotechnology refers to processes used to create copies of DNA fragments (molecular cloning)‚ cells (cell cloning)‚ or organisms. Human cloning is the creation of a genetically identical copy of an existing‚ or previously existing‚ human being or growing cloned tissue from that individual. The term is generally used to refer to artificial human cloning; human clones in the form of identical twins are commonplace‚ with their cloning occurring during the natural process of reproduction
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Dehumanization of Clones Cloning is the process of producing similar populations of genetically identical individuals that occur in nature when organisms such as bacteria‚ insects‚ or plants produce asexually. Scientists have had limited success cloning mammals as well. Theoretically cloning humans is on the near horizon. Set in England in the late 1900’s‚ the science fiction novel‚ Never Let Me Go‚ Kazuo Ishiguro creates a world in which clones are created as sentient beings who are painfully
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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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‘The only reason to be moral is because it is the right thing to do’ Discuss. Morality is defined as the principles of distinguishing between good and bad behaviour. We call the murderer an immoral person because they have committed a ‘bad’ action. We also stereotype charity workers as moral because they are devoted to helping others. But what motivates our moral behaviour? In an attempt to answer this‚ I will assess several key theories and thinkers to prove that morality is a means of achieving
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regarding the issue of human cloning in countries such as the United States‚ the United Kingdom and Australia which have made attempts or have done research in reproductive cloning. Countries like Australia have prohibited human cloning in 2006. (NHMRC‚ 2007) Advocates who involve congress members‚ editorial writers‚ fertility specialists...and so on gave benefits of human cloning‚ yet not enough to justify the moral and ethical issues underlying the controversy. Human cloning refers to the creation of
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