Sandel opened his discussion with the audience through four stories followed by audience responses to, What's the right thing to do?" Story one was about five workers on a trolley which does not have working breaks. If the trolley crash, all five passengers will die. However, there is a worker working on the track. The moral dilemma is, do they allow the trolley to keep straight and crash killing all five passengers, or do they use the steering wheel to turn, resulting in the death of the worker that is working on the track? Story three was about 6 injured individuals, five injured and one is severely injured. The moral dilemma is, do you help the 5 injured or spend time saving the one that is severely injured? Story four was about
The definition of fate is the development of events beyond a person's control, regarded as determined by a supernatural power. Whether one has a fate, or set path in life, is often debated among individuals, religious or not. To those who believe in the Bible, fate is a sort of paradox. God gives us free will, yet God also has a plan for every one of us. Those who do not believe in the Bible have all sorts of thoughts and comments on what exactly fate is and if it exists or not. In the play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, everyone has a fate. Blanche’s fate is the one that comes up the most, due to the particularly nasty set of cards she was dealt. Tennessee Williams uses Blanche, her conflict with Stanley, and the outcome to
"Desire, unrefined, leads to death”. To what extent Tennessee Williams's plays lend support to such a proposition? Speaking to a reporter in 1963 Tennessee Williams said," Death is my best theme, don't you think? The pain of dying is what worries me, not the act. After all, nobody gets out of life alive.” The themes of death and desire are central in the play “A Streetcar Named Desire”. When the play was released in 1948 it caused a storm, its sexual content was controversial to say the least, but also it was, virtually unique as a stage piece that is both personal and social and wholly a product of our life today. The play tells of the visit of the main character, Blanche DuBois, a supposedly typical Southern Belle, to her estranged sister Stella Kowalski, and her husband Stanley Kowalski who she finds living in modesty in New Orleans. Tensions between the educated, condescending Blanche and the cruel, overly masculine Stanley escalate, and though Stella sympathizes with her sister at the beginning, she's intoxicated by Stanley's sexuality and takes his side. Blanche briefly finds comfort in Stanley's friend Mitch, who's attracted to her and presents her with the possibility of a better life. He quickly loses interest in her, however, and she's left to face Stanley alone. During the climax, Stanley rapes Blanche in the heat of an argument. Blanche has a breakdown due to this and is taken to a mental institution in the final scene. The play and film include crucial
5.You work as a medical assistant at Good Samaritan home and overhear the nursing aides talking about their inappropriate actions. Define and choose one of the following ethical approaches and explain how it would help you decide what action to take: Virtue-Based, Consequential, or Duty-Based?
In Jean "Shepherd's "Endless Streetcar Ride into the Night" the thesis is that you are either great or you're not. He seems to portray this by saying "A star is a Star; a numberless cipher is a numberless cipher." A you are or you are not type of thinking. The story of his blind date shows the ignorance someone lives in and the moment their bubble is popped. "...lying on analysts' couches, trying to pinpoint the exact moment that they stepped off the track into the bushes forever." His older self is the more cynical way of thinking after his realization that he is a "numberless cipher" and his younger self is when he still thought of himself as a possible star. He keeps you interested by the contrast of his darker, older self and his hopeful
Orphan trains and Carlisle and the ways people from the past undermined the minorities and children of America. The film "The orphan Trains" tells us the story of children who were taken from the streets of New York City and put on trains to rural America. A traffic in immigrant children were developed and droves of them teamed the streets of New York (A People's History of the United States 1492-present, 260). The streets of NYC were dirty, overcrowded, and dangerous. Just as street gangs had female auxiliaries, they also had farm leagues for children (These are the Good Old Days, 19). During the time of the late 1800's and early 1900's many people were trying to help children. Progressive reformers, often called
Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams are each widely considered to be two of the most illustrious and groundbreaking modern American playwrights, and their signature work -- Death of a Salesman and A Streetcar Named Desire – respectively, are also their most tragic pieces. Miller’s Death of a Salesman is, ultimately, a play focusing on the tragic consequences of Willy Loman’s unwavering belief in the American dream and its associated progress and success, where he is tragically too human, believing the values that matter in family are equally important in the world of business. Similarly, Blanche DuBois in Tennessee William’s Streetcar feigns her appearance and refuses move on from her past life of luxury, holding onto and creating new desires
The negative bias in "A Teen and a Trolley Reveal Society's Dark Side " affects Jesus Colon in "Little Things are Big."It affects Jesus Colon by how he is questioning himself about if he should help the lady in subway or if he should just keep going like he saw nothing.But if he helps the lady she might think that he might do something bad to her.In "A Teen and a Trolley it reveals the society's dark side by how we judge people on if they are rich or poThe negative bias in "A Teen and a Trolley Reveal Society's Dark Side " affects Jesus Colon in "Little Things are Big."It affects Jesus Colon by how he is questioning himself about if he should help the lady in subway or if he should just keep going like he saw nothing.But if he helps the lady
When working in a health or social care setting professional practitioners are very often with situations involving moral dilemmas. Therefore it is important for the health, care and social workers to understand morality and the meaning of moral decisions and how they are linked to the practice of heath and social care.
Explain a range of ethical and moral dilemmas which social workers and the team may encounter when dealing with this care – look at case study on the assignment brief.
The third approach to ethics is situational ethics. This approach seems to be a compromise between legalistic and antinomian views as a situationist follows the rules of society, but will set them aside if love seems better served by doing so.
Introduced by Oxford University Philosopher Philippa Foot in 1967 the trolley problem stays a very controversial topic with no conclusive answer being presented .Many philosophical theorists decided to make use of reason as philosopher
Analyzing the ordeal of the 33 men from an ethical, legal and spiritual perspective, it is evident that a lot of factors interplayed and resulted in the survival of the men. Ethically, the men were bound by the principle of need to care for one another. In as much as they had differing opinions on different matters pertaining their survival, they were able to resolve their differences in an ethical manner that ensured every one of them
How do I understand the ethical choices of the central characters? The main ethical dilemma in
Would you put your own life at risk to save someone else? What if they had a low chance of survival, and it was likely that the both of you would die? Many people would say yes. Ultimately, one has to look at this situation through the lense of an ethics approach, and which one is best for the situation. The short story “Bread” by Margaret Atwood describes different ethical dilemmas in which the reader is given different scenarios in which they must make a choice that can only come by deciding what their ethics are. Five different ethical approaches are described in the article “A Framework for Thinking Ethically”, which describes the meaning of ethics and the different viewpoints surrounding the topic. Out of these different approaches highlighted in “A Framework for Thinking Ethically”, the utilitarian approach along with the virtue approach would be best for solving the dilemmas presented in “Bread”.
1. Read and respond to the 5 situations below, describing what you would recommend given each situation, and using at least one of the ethical frameworks or theories discussed in Ch. 12 for each scenario. Submit your answers in a Word document.