John Q is an emotionally-packed movie that surrounds the unfortunate medical circumstances of John‚ played by Denzel Washington‚ and his son. The purpose of the film was to raise the many issues surrounding poor health care in the United States‚ and even less empathy from hospital administration and insurance companies. After John’s son collapses at a baseball game‚ the doctors diagnose him as having a heart that is too large for his body and declare that he must receive an immediate transplant
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Reflection paper Of the film “John Q” Student name : Hung Chiu Man Student ID : 14087861D After watching “John Q”‚ I have found a number of sociological concepts that are closely related to the movie and they are illustrated below. The first concept is social stratification. John Q and his family is classified as the under class of the society‚ as John Q’s family faced financial difficulty in paying their rent and their car was taken away at the beginning of the movie. John Q had worked
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‘John Q’ – Grade 11 Law Reflection Question: Law vs. Morality Plot Summary: John Quincy Archibald’s son Michael collapses while playing baseball as a result of a heart failure. Immediately‚ John Q rushes Michael to the emergency room for a transplant. Unfortunately‚ the insurance would not cover his son’s transplant. So in order for Michael’s quick and complete recovery‚ John takes the emergency room hostage until the doctors agree to get the transplant successfully. Reflection Question:
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Business Ethics John Q December 2‚ 2012 Hannah Blumhardt The movie‚ John Q‚ tells the story of a man who is put to the test to save his ten-year old son. John Q Archibald is the father of Michael‚ a young‚ athletic‚ seemingly healthy boy. During Michael’s baseball game one afternoon however‚ he suddenly collapses due to heart failure. After being rushed the Emergency Room the Archibald’s are informed of the worst. Dr. Raymond Turner approaches John and his wife‚ Denise‚ with the news that
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The New Line Cinema Presentation of John Q. directed by Nick Cassavetes has a powerful story line that has an array of emotions and conflicts that reflect society. Some of the characters in this movie convey many feelings yet the predominant one shown here is greed and it is seen in many forms. This story is based upon a lower class man who was dedicated to his son who currently is fighting a heart aliment. The situation took a turn for the worse when John and his wife could not supply the sufficient
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being shown in this movie. In this movie‚ the main character‚ John Q‚ struggles for his son to get the treatments in the hospital although he has no money to pay it. He believes that insurance should cover his son‚ but in fact the insurance would not covered. Finally John was successful to declare that there should be equality between classes and that human’s life is more important that wealth or money. The movie’s main character is John Q. Archibald (Denzel Washington)‚ a working class factory stiff
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work that relates to the quote is John Q starring Denzel Washington. One device that is present in this work which will help to support my interpretation of the quote is conflict. In the work of John Q takes place a poor African American family that lives in Chicago. John Q the main character has a son named Michael Archibald that is interest in body building. Then‚ one day he had some sort of an attack‚ turns out he has a weak heart and is need of a transplant. John Q’s wife Denise Archibald is very
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John Q movie This movie is about John Quincy Archibald (played by Denzel Washington) and his working class family who lived in Chicago. His son is diagnosed with cardiomegaly and he needs a heart transplant. He realized that his insurance does not cover the medical expenses and he decides to takes matter in his own hands. John and his wife Denise (played by Kimberly Elise) worked in factories‚ but the money they made was not enough. Denise had her car repossessed and John had to take her to work
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Film Review: John Q Current Issues in Behavioral Health John Q is a film that addresses the highly controversial topic of health care; maximizing its focus on whether or not the quality of life is truly impacted by the quality of health care. Although this film was first released in 2002‚ the issue of quality health care seems to be more prominent today that it ever previously was. With the new health care system pending implementation‚ many individuals in today’s society wonder whether or not
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“benefits” of it. In the film John Q this was represented throughout the movie and it was actually part of the plot. In the movie‚ conflicts‚ characters‚ and themes shown in the movie are relevant to the world and society we live in today. In the film‚ John Archibald is a man of low income and some bad choices. John has a wife‚ Denise‚ and a son‚ Mike. John is at his son’s baseball game. Mike hits a the ball and runs; although when he is running bases Mike collapses. John and his wife Denise rush Mike
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