... Source _________________________________________ Movie Book Episode Dilemma ________________________________________________________________________ Ethics and the Media Project Directions/Rubric * Choose one of the following options and complete each category in the rubric. * Option 1: Watch a movie that involves a medical ethics dilemma. * Option 2: Read a book that relates to a medical ethics dilemma. * Option 3: Watch an episode of a medical television show that contains a medical ethics dilemma. Book Examples: Jodi Picoult’s Handle with Care, Change of Heart, and My Sister’s Keeper; The Adoration of Jenna Fox; http://www.librarything.com/subject/Medical+ethics%09Fiction http://www.allbookstores.com/Fiction_Themes/Medicine_and_Health/Medical_Ethics.html Movie Examples (many are also books): Outbreak, Steel Magnolias, Philadelphia, Patch Adams, The Rainmaker, Seven Pounds, One True Thing, Just Like Heaven, First Do No Harm, The Insider, Lorenzo’s Oil, The Island, Coma, The English Surgeon, Gattaca, John Q, My Sister’s Keeper, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Sea Inside TV show Examples: Grey’s Anatomy, House, Private Practice, ER, Chicago Hope, Scrubs, Nurse Jackie, HawthoRNe, Law and Order Area of Evaluation | Full Points Description | Points Possible | Points Earned | Issue Summary/Description | Student clearly, accurately and completely describes- the medical ethics dilemma,- all stakeholders and how they relate to the...
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...The Ethics of Social Media – Part I: Adjusting to a 24/7 World Posted by admin2 • December 14, 2010 • Printer-friendly This is the first of a two-part series. The second part is available here. by James Hyatt So your company hasn't had an OMG moment over Facebook ethics? As they say, Good Luck With That. It has been almost a decade since Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the wake of the Enron, Tyco and WorldCom scandals, seeking to put in place a variety of measures to protect investors and address standards of behavior. Over the years, once-controversial practices about disclosure and ethics have become generally accepted standards. But the social media explosion - from email and Facebook to blogs and Twitter – is making a hash of once-resolved issues and creating all kinds of new dilemmas. --Businesses have less and less control over how they communicate with the public, while 24-7 bloggers feel free to snipe away. --Job seekers find their private lives may no longer be private and employees worry that the boss is electronically looking over their shoulders. --Consumers can't be sure their account information remains safe and have no way to tell whether favorable on-line comments about products and businesses are legitimate. --Professionals of all sorts -- psychiatrists, attorneys, school teachers, reporters, and even NFL players – are learning to live with new, often controversial, social media rules. A customer's irate blog can undo months and years of...
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...The Benefits of Professional Values and Ethics Merriam-Webster.com (2011) defines values as “something (as a principle or quality) intrinsically valuable or desirable” and ethics as “the principles of conduct governing an individual or group”. Professional values and ethics are simply the values and ethics one uses in ones career. Professional values and ethics have many benefits for those who practice them. Identifying ones values and ethics can help one choose a suitable career path. For example, if a person values nature, that person will not be happy working for a coal company that practices mountaintop removal. A nature lover would more likely be happy pursuing a career working for a company that lobbies against mountaintop removal. On the other hand, if a person values human innovation more than nature, that person would be very successful as a coal miner. That person would appreciate the fact that mountaintop removal is a more efficient way to get coal out of the ground and into the marketplace. Both individuals, if they identify their values and ethics and chose to live by them, can be happy and contribute to the welfare of society. Practicing professional values and ethics can prevent a person from making foolish decisions that could jeopardize that person’s career. The legal system is perhaps the field where values and ethics are most needed. The decisions made by criminal justice professionals affect a person’s livelihood, their freedom, and even...
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...reporter John Doe was not a reflection of the reputation of this newspaper to print misleading false stories and the direct result of the deception caused ABC Newspaper to terminate employment however the reporter wanted to comment on his role in reporting the news. I would like to apologize for misleading the readers of this fine newspaper and to give the main reason for my deception. News is as time sensitive medium. It requires up- to- date reporting. If a person reports a story several days after the event happens; no one will be interested nor be impacted by the story. The purpose of reporting the news is to bring awareness to the people who are impacted by it. The desperation in bringing the story first caused a loss in judgment and ethics. With the increased delivery methods, including newspapers, television, radio, online newspaper web pages, and blogging, It became apparent that to capture the audience I would have to use sensationalistic tactics to do so. These tactics in journalism are often about crimes, natural disasters, scandals involving prominent people, and celebrity gossip. The other included news reports of exposed corruption, particularly in business and government. It was important to deliver the story before any blogger. However, it is unfair that bloggers are not bound by any restrictions on the internet, while journalists can legally be liable. They can be...
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...Ethical Influence Paper September 18th, 2015 Brandon McConnell To Kill A Mockingbird If you were to ask me about a book or a hero that was an ethical influence on me, I would tell you that both come from the same book/movie. It would be Atticus Finch from To Kill A Mockingbird, it is a classic example of heroism and doing the right thing and there is many readers who would agree with that statement. I read this book at the young age of 14 in middle school when I was still developing my feel for the ethics of right and wrong so it made a lasting impact on me growing up and developing as a person. Summarize the book or hero’s life in a few paragraphs; Everyone should know the story of To Kill A Mockingbird but if you don’t, let me share it with you. It happens in a little town of Maycomb, Alabama in the heat of all the racism in the South. In this little town everyone knows each other and everyone knows what happens. The main characters are the Finch family with Atticus, Scout, and Jem in their small house in the middle of Maycomb. Scout is a young girl who grew up with a lot of boys and acts that way in the way she deals with conflict. Jem is the older brother who isn’t really isn’t in the picture a lot but is in a crucial incident of the story with Scout. Atticus is a very well known coveted lawyer; everyone in town knows him and looks up to him as a person and a professional. That was short lived when Atticus did something he knew was right but society...
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...Roshawn Been Ethics 300-02 Denzel Washington “I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.” – Denzel Washington. Some may say he is intelligent, while others may say he is courageous. Big words are just insufficient to describe this actor/director/screen-writer/producer. This two-time Oscar winner and nominee of numerous awards, has proven that Hollywood is not just a money making workshop, but it offers well profound characters that deserve the attention of connoisseurs. More importantly, his efforts have done much too dramatically expand the range of dramatic roles given to African-American actors and actresses. In most every aspect of his appearance and activities, Mr. Washington is perfectly decent and very sophisticated; thus, it came as no surprise when he was named Best Actor. Denzel Hayes Washington Jr., Nicknamed “D”, was born around midnight on December 28th 1954 (Capricorn). He was born in Mount Vernon, at the north end of the Bronx in New York City. He was the son of Denzel Washington Sr. (named after the doctor Denzel who delivered him), a Pentecostal minister with the Church of God in Christ who is from Buckingham County VA, and Lennis “Lynne” Washington, a beautician and former gospel singer from Georgia. Other...
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...The Grapes of Wrath directed by John Ford is a 1940 film based on the Pulitzer winning novel by John Steinbeck. It tells the story of the Joads who during the Great Depression in the 1930s were run off their farm in Oklahoma. The film details their journey to California in search of work and a new beginning for their family. This paper will relate the main character Tom Joad to the philosophies of Thomas Hobbes and his theory of the state of nature and government as an artificial creation, and Jim Casy to Jean Jacques Rousseau’s theory of government and society as inhibitors of our natural freedoms. The Grapes of Wrath Tom Joad, played by Henry Fonda in the 1940 drama film Grapes of Wrath, is the main character who opens the movie returning to his home in Oklahoma after serving four years in prison for manslaughter. On the way he runs into Jim Casy, the former preacher who warns Tom that most sharecroppers have been evicted due to the effects of the depression. Once finding his family’s farm deserted, he finds them at his uncle’s farm preparing to also leave the next day for California in hopes of finding work and a brighter future. As they begin their treacherous journey across Route 66, the Joads and Casy endure many hardships. Grandpa, who didn’t want to leave his land, dies and is buried alongside the road. Then they run into a man who informs them that there is no work in California, but with not feeling they had any other options, they carry on with hope that they...
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...Aladdin By Sarah White Contents Introduction.............................................................................................................................. 3 Feminist Perspective............................................................................................................. 3 Sociological Perspective....................................................................................................... 7 Post-Colonial Perspective.................................................................................................... 9 Conclusion............................................................................................................................... 13 References............................................................................................................................... 14 Introduction Fairytales have become an integral part of children literature. The various tales have been reinvented as picture books, novels, animated and real-life films. The stories have been twisted and shaped by an ever changing society to represent a wide range of the dominant society’s views. Among these they show perspectives on social class, women’s roles, cultural differences, religion, and human behaviour. As time goes on, the original tales are discarded and the altered stories become widely known and read. This can lead to the underlying perspectives of the altered stories become subconsciously...
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...Raymond Harris Professor Ira Falls English 102 23 February, 09 “Should Condoms be administered in Jail?” Despite the harsh rules banning sexual activity along with any kind of activity for that matter in prisons, HIV is a growing threat to inmates and will become a larger issue once they are released back into the world. Though there are obvious differences between the two scenarios, distributing condoms in prison looks to hit the same roadblocks as condoms in High Schools. The first issue is that prevention in prison starts far before a condom enters the equation. The very concept of “safe sex” is dependent upon the partners being consensual and the most readily available allusion to Prison Sex is, of course, rape a kind of “sex” that won’t ever be safe. In reality, much of the high-risk homosexual contact in prison involves men who do not consider themselves gay outside prison, former prisoners and researchers said. About 1 percent of prisoners report being raped. From a health standpoint, it is not much different from inoculation against disease. If we are already using medical means to protect inmates from contagious illness, how are government-sponsored condoms a stretch? However, of course, there are those annoying moral issues. As if gay inmate sex was not enough to make the conservatives grumble in the first place, the idea of combining it with prophylactics. Is this the worst idea ever thought of? Violence is also against the rules in jail and we...
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...of Marketing Ethics O.C. Ferrell, Ph.D. Professor of Marketing Creative Enterprise Scholar The Robert O. Anderson School And Graduate School of Management MSC05 3090 1 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 Phone: (505) 277-3468 ocferrell@mgt.unm.edu Nature and Scope of Marketing Ethics INTRODUCTION Marketing ethics is viewed as important because of marketing’s interface with many diverse stakeholders. Marketing is a key functional area in the business organization that provides a visible interface with not only customers, but other stakeholders such as the media, investors, regulatory agencies, channel members, trade associations, as well as others. It is important when addressing marketing ethics to recognize that it should be examined from an individual, organizational, and societal perspective. Examining marketing ethics from a narrow issue perspective does not provide foundational background that provides a complete understanding of the domain of marketing ethics. The purpose of this chapter is to define, examine the nature and scope, identify issues, provide a decision-making framework, and trace the historical development of marketing ethics from a practice and academic perspective. DEFINITION OF MARKETING ETHICS Ethics has been termed the study and philosophy of human conduct, with an emphasis on the determination of right and wrong. For marketers, ethics in the workplace...
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...The Masters of Fantasy Fiction Long ago, in a little house on Northmoor Road, there lived a jolly Englishman. With a pipe in his mouth and ungraded papers at his desk, he nonchalantly scribed the sentence "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit" (Collins 76). A little longer after that during a time tensioned by the exposition of World War II there lived another Englishman. Housing a family of young refugees during the blitz, he crafted a story about four young children and a magic wardrobe (Tolson 4). Though only rudimentary concepts at their formation, the ideas that these two men had at the time would eventually morph into some of the most popular stories of our age and shape the way people think about life. C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, two of the most brilliant authors to ever impact the world of fantasy literature, share several defining qualities in their early lives, careers, ideas, and lasting impacts. J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis lived fairly similar yet individual childhoods. The two young authors started out in comparatively alike situations. On January 3rd, 1892, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa (Collins 10), and six years later on November 29th Clive Staples Lewis was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland (Davenport 21). Both boys’ families included British parents and brothers; John's brother Arthur was two years younger (Collins 12) while Clive's brother Warren was three years older (Davenport 21). However, Tolkien seemed...
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...of Marketing Ethics O.C. Ferrell, Ph.D. Professor of Marketing Creative Enterprise Scholar The Robert O. Anderson School And Graduate School of Management MSC05 3090 1 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 Phone: (505) 277-3468 ocferrell@mgt.unm.edu Nature and Scope of Marketing Ethics INTRODUCTION Marketing ethics is viewed as important because of marketing’s interface with many diverse stakeholders. Marketing is a key functional area in the business organization that provides a visible interface with not only customers, but other stakeholders such as the media, investors, regulatory agencies, channel members, trade associations, as well as others. It is important when addressing marketing ethics to recognize that it should be examined from an individual, organizational, and societal perspective. Examining marketing ethics from a narrow issue perspective does not provide foundational background that provides a complete understanding of the domain of marketing ethics. The purpose of this chapter is to define, examine the nature and scope, identify issues, provide a decision-making framework, and trace the historical development of marketing ethics from a practice and academic perspective. DEFINITION OF MARKETING ETHICS Ethics has been termed the study and philosophy of human conduct, with an emphasis on the determination of right and wrong. For marketers, ethics in the workplace...
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...of Marketing Ethics O.C. Ferrell, Ph.D. Professor of Marketing Creative Enterprise Scholar The Robert O. Anderson School And Graduate School of Management MSC05 3090 1 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 Phone: (505) 277-3468 ocferrell@mgt.unm.edu Nature and Scope of Marketing Ethics INTRODUCTION Marketing ethics is viewed as important because of marketing’s interface with many diverse stakeholders. Marketing is a key functional area in the business organization that provides a visible interface with not only customers, but other stakeholders such as the media, investors, regulatory agencies, channel members, trade associations, as well as others. It is important when addressing marketing ethics to recognize that it should be examined from an individual, organizational, and societal perspective. Examining marketing ethics from a narrow issue perspective does not provide foundational background that provides a complete understanding of the domain of marketing ethics. The purpose of this chapter is to define, examine the nature and scope, identify issues, provide a decision-making framework, and trace the historical development of marketing ethics from a practice and academic perspective. DEFINITION OF MARKETING ETHICS Ethics has been termed the study and philosophy of human conduct, with an emphasis on the determination of right and wrong. For marketers, ethics in the workplace...
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...Struggles of Leadership and Stability at KDI By Marlin Hunter 4006 Woodworth Rd. Brookhaven, Pa 19015 Mhunter56@comcast.net Tel. 484-995-1399 MGMT 591-Leadership and Organizational Behavior Instructor Matasha Murrell-Jones December 7, 2014 Introduction of the company Keystone Digital Imaging (KDI) is an independent dealership serving respected business for twenty five years throughout the states of Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey and parts of Maryland. With their main headquarters in Aston, PA dealing with sales and warehouse production, the company has five other locations for sales representatives throughout the areas in Philadelphia PA, Horsham PA, Lancaster PA, Wilmington DE, and Mount Laurel NJ. The company sells copiers and office supplies from top companies like Canon, Savin, Lexmark, Toshiba, Hewlett Packard, and Fujitsu. These sales representatives go to current and new customers to sell them an upgrade machine or a new one. Most machines current KDI customers had was older ones. Some machines as old at ten years. Explaining in details let’s say a sales rep goes to Brat Corporation and this company has a Savin 5050, it’s up to the owners of the company in they want to keep on leasing that particular machine or would they like to upgrade to a new machine which would be Savin C3003. The company provides the two top rated document imaging brands in the country to ensure maximum output and efficiency for their client needs. Both Ricoh which was brought out...
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...money from investors in which many times its victims can never fully recover. The emotional, psychological, and financial ramifications from Ponzi schemes have resulted in some of its victims even committing suicide. However, Ponzi schemes are not a new scam and have been around since the 1920’s. There have been several Ponzi schemes since then but two have stood out amongst the others. One of the most infamous Ponzi schemes, for its sheer size, was the $50 billion scam run by Bernie Madoff. The other is John Bennett’s scam because of its insidious nature of preying on nonprofit and religious organizations. While the American dream promises the possibility of success and wealth, some do not understand, or possibly ignore, the implicit ethics and legalities of running a legitimate business and earning honest profits. The Ponzi scheme gets its name from Charles Ponzi, a 1920’s crook who promised investors in New England a 40 percent return on their investment in just 90 days, compared with five percent in a savings account. Ponzi had planned to make money by taking advantage of the difference in exchange rates between the dollar and other currencies to buy and sell international mail coupons at a profit. His scheme was an amazing success, and during one three-hour period in 1921, he took in $1 million. But when the scam came crashing down, it turned out he had only purchased about $30 worth of the mail coupons on which the scheme was based. (Lowenstein, 2005) In Far Rockaway...
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