Ethics- Do the Right Thing

I feel it is a person’s choice and it is different than suicide. It has to be well thought out and talked about with a team of people involved including physicians, psychologists, and family. I also think it is based more on

People from all walks of life face many ethical dilemmas. These dilemmas have consequences. Our worldview determines how we deal with these dilemmas, and guides us to the right decisions. In this essay, I will examine an ethical issues through my Christian worldview. I will also present other viewpoints, and compare them to mine.

The racism against Italian-Americans was shown by African-Americans and Caucasian individuals. A particular scene in the film that stood about was the racist rants. The characters alternate between Italian-Americans, African- Americans, and Caucasians who make fun of each other with name calling and racial slurs/ insults. This scene was very profound because of all the slurs being called to the different races.It was disturbing to hear because it showed poor communication that these races gave each other through stereotyping.

The film has several ethnicities within a small area along a time line of one day. The film has many, informative methods in which it describe the various diversity issues of all the characters within the movie. For example, Sal’s pizzeria which is owned by an Italian American has pictures of famous Italian Americans on the wall and plays Italian music. One character named Buggin Out is always upset. Bugging out hates the fact that there are no black people pictures on the wall especially since the pizzeria is in a black neighborhood. His perspective represents the people in the African American community that always protest, but usually don’t work to improve the community. The

Spike Lee’s film Do The Right Thing is essential in bringing the issue of race to the fore front of people’s conversation (Huff post). Do The Right Thing is a chilling morality tale of police brutality, telling the story of a deadly choke hold by police, sparking a race riot (Chang 2014). On March 3, 1991 Rodney King was severely beaten by four police officers in South Central, Los Angeles and they were found not guilty of the crime. Incidents like this is what sparks rage in African Americans. Spike Lee’s film is basically revealing what really is going on with police brutality. African American and communities of color face many ugly obstacles. For example Do The Right Thing debuted 25 years ago, similar events which took place in the movie are those of the final moments in Eric Garner’s life. Lee’s film in a way is history repeating itself and has some truth to it. “For me racism in this country is always perking underneath the surface and it takes OJ, or whatever you, some incident where it become flash point, and then it dies down till next thing happens” (Spike Lee Huff Post). After the Rodney King beating was the start of citizens not trusting in the system that is supposed to keep them safe. In another case a young black male, Mike Brown was killed on August 9, 2014. He was unarmed and nobody was in danger but the officer feared for his life. Why fear for your life if he is

It is unfortunate that intolerance continues to exist in our nation (or anywhere else for that matter). Racism, one of the largest and most prevalent forms of intolerance, commonly destroys relationships and can eventually lead to violence. The existence of such hateful ideologies is so prevalent in our society that popular culture is constantly trying to challenge the ignorant basis of racial conflict. Spike Lee’s film, Do the Right Thing, connects with this concept of racial conflict that is so foreign to my past. Through the application of my social and political views, I will demonstrate how Spike Lee’s film is difficult for me to relate to and, in my opinion, conveys a misleading message.

The terrifying thing is that Do the Right Thing resulted in two incidents between Italians and African-Americans. In both instances, an African American died due to

Throughout the film Do the Right Thing, we continuously observe racial conflict that builds up to such an extreme point that it leads to a fight for power. This movie portrays the struggles and realities of a neighborhood with white and black African American people. This can be seen in many instances for example when Buggin ' Out, Radio Raheem, and Smiley march into Sal 's and demand that Sal change the Wall of Fame. Another vital instance shows the height of power struggle. It is when the huge fight starts in the street and results in Raheem being killed by a white police officer.

What may be the right thing to do to a certain person may not be the right thing for someone else. That makes looking at the characters in the movie and their actions a little harder. Though some people may think that there were people that did the right thing in the movie, others may believe that everyone did wrong things. I would argue that no one in the movie does the right thing. People on both sides of the issue seem to be doing things that try to increase tensions and cause the situations to be worse. Sal refuses to put any African Americans on his wall, and while it may be because he is proud of his heritage, the racially charged phrases he uses such as “these people” with the “jungle music”, makes it appear as though his heritage was not the only motivation he had. On the other end of the issue, Buggin’ Out does a lot of things to retaliate that make the situation worse such as charging into the pizza place demanding Sal change his wall while Radio Raheem blares his radio to cause a scene. During the fight, Sal says some racist things, and Raheem attacks him. This leads to the tragic ending of the movie. It seems as though Buggin’ Out and Radio Raheem neither one handled the situation in the best interest of doing the right thing, since they decided to react to the things that were said. Neither side handled the situation in a peaceful way. I personally think it was ironic that Spike Lee called this move “Do the Right

In the movie Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee dramatizes the racial tensions in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of New York City on a hot summer day back in 1989. The question Lee poses is: “What is the right thing to do?” Each character plays an essential role in the escalation, leading up to the confrontation at Sal’s Famous Pizzeria that ends in violence, death and destruction. A fire breaks out at Sal's, which necessitates police intervention. The police grab Radio Raheem and kill him using the chokehold. Despite the rising pressures by their community to partake in the vandalism and violence, both Da Mayor and Mookie managed to do the right thing after Raheem's death. Lee presents varying shades of right and wrong within the film. By analyzing each of the characters’

On the hottest day of the year, director Spike Lee's, Do the Right Thing, paints a compelling picture of racial tensions in one of the most diverse cities in the country. Lee’s style of cinematography is shaped specifically to emphasize the racial tensions between the characters, and he accomplishes this by using first-person and direct-address narration, camera angles, camera movements and distance.

point throughout this film was to make a impression on us, artistically. Not only did

When we try to understand why the characters act as they act and what drives each of them, the viewers are inevitably drawn to the conclusion that they are just like them. They realize they are human; they have both good qualities and bad qualities. Spike Lee also makes them understand that at times they may make terrible mistakes, and that at other times they may display admirable heroism, and that sometimes they simply act without knowing why. Spike Lee does more than try to show his viewers that despite tensions, this Black neighborhood is a community. What Lee does is he makes the viewers think. He simply presents events as they are leaving the viewer to figure out the motives of the characters and the ‘why’ behind the course of events. Lee doesn’t really put a positive light on any particular race while shadowing the other ones. He doesn’t try to make conflicts have an obvious solution. Lee simply re-creates a piece of life, with a little twist of extreme (yet realistic) drama for deeper effect, and by doing this he tries to simply make his audience think and question.

“Brad is a production engineer at a bicycle company and part of his job includes inspecting broken bikes and drafting the design repairs for their repair” (Bartlett). Brad is considering replacing a broken brake cable with a more durable material, even though the customer did not request it in their order and specifically requested that “No aesthetic changes be made to the bike” (Bartlett). Brad’s manager suggests that his considered actions would go against the company’s policy of “The customer is always right.” Should Brad disobey the manager and the customer to possibly lose his job or go along with

The ethical dilemma is a situation by which it’s difficult to determine whether a situation is can be handled without disappointing both sides. Therefore, an ethical dilemma exists when the right thing to do is clear or when members of the healthcare team cannot agree on the right thing to do. Ethical dilemmas require negotiation of different points of view (potter, Perry, Stockert, & Hall 2011pg 78).