What Does The Right Or Wrong?

The purpose of education is to prepare students for their futures with both knowledge as well as fundamental life skills. I believe students are highly capable beings who have a desire to be productively challenged. To empower students to meet and exceed high expectations set forth by the state, school, or teacher, it is imperative that educators “teach for enduring understanding through partnerships and by drawing on brain-based education, students ' multiple intelligences, and culturally appropriate curriculum innovations” (Laster and Johnson). Beyond guaranteeing students can read, write, and perform basic math functions, we should be producing graduates who are responsible individuals positively contributing to society, reliable workers, and devoted family members. Whether students receive a scholarship to attend college or go to work immediately following graduation, we must train them to conduct themselves with integrity, have an admirable work ethic, and solve challenging problems they may face throughout their lives.

It was suspected during the time period that overcrowding was the cause of the increased crime rate. People saw that the population growth—must like the popularity of gin—coincided with the rise crime. As London became an industrial city it needed a more unskilled workers to power its “textile, iron, metal goods, and pottery production” factories (“Crime and Punishment” par 2). This caused unskilled workers from “small rural towns” and “villages” into the city in hopes of finding work ("Crime and Punishment," par 1). This may seem like a good idea, but unfortunately the population of the city rose quicker than expected and thus hadn’t had an adequate amount of time to adjust to the booming population growth—over 400 percent in just 50 years ("Crime and Punishment," par 1).

In the film, Do the Right Thing, director Spike Lee presents the audience with the theme of racism. The title represents the everyday choices that we as Americans of various ethnicities, cultures, and race. Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing allows the viewers to decide for themselves the right thing to do about racism. Everyone has the choice to be accepting of cultures, or people different from them. The film portrays how an Italian American named Sal has a neighborhood pizzeria in Bedford-Stuyvesant, New York. The neighborhood is primarily African American, but there is a diverse amount of other cultures made up of, Hispanics, European Americans, also there is a store owned by Koreans. This film displays the discrimination between the races and how this can lead to violence.

In the story “I Just Wanna Be Average” the author Mike Rose argues that society very often neglects and doesn’t see the full value and potential of students.

“A soul-searching debate is now coursing through the country: Child labor is universally condemned, but is it fair to multinationals to cut and run when incidents arise of children working?” writes David Montero in his article titled “Is Doing the Right Thing Wrong?” While child labor in the United States (U.S.) is not accepted, it still runs rampant in second and third world countries, which is why children often find their way into factories. When this happens people often boycott the companies where this is found, but boycotting is not the way to go. Just boycotting companies doesn’t do anything, and can often hurt the very children people are trying to help. Then there’s the actual legal workers, boycotting a company for having child labor has negative effects on the legal workers and can often derail needed progress that these second and third world countries desperately need. People often jump to boycott

Education gives guidance to adolescent minds and teaches them to be a good contributing citizen. Jimmy’s high school years were challenging due to his illiteracy; academics became a problem, though he thrived on extracurricular activities like football. “I hated books, I hated reading, I hated everything about school except football (Baca 28).” Jimmy feels segregated from his classmates. Not only, are his classmates wealthy students with social status. But also Jimmy believes he is they property of the state, so he believes no one cares about his well

Character Values are an important subject that must be taught to children or else they may never learn them. Thomas J. Lasley the author of “Character Will Likely Fail,” is against character education because he believes that character values are observed at home, and cannot be taught. While Kathleen Townsend the author of “Not Just Read and Write, But Right and Wrong,” believes that it is our duty as a community to teach our children values. Townsend clearly has a stronger argument because the only defense Lasley has to support his opinion is that it doesn’t matter whether or not we teach children values they are still going to act like the people around them. While Townsend has numerous facts and subject matter experts to support her theory that if teachers do not teach values then some children

Since (put a time), the media has tainted the idea of obtaining a good education in America. If there is someone who enjoys school and learning, then they are considered a nerd or someone who is not conventionally looked as a cool kid. Contrastingly, the media conveys the message that if someone does not like school, or at least pretends to not like it, then they are perceived as a cool kid. America’s media system has continually deterred our children from going to school by praising popular and mainstream things that are against the idea of school. An example of such a thing is the movie, Ferris Bueller’s day off. What is seen as a classic American comedy, has an undertone that bashes the practice of going to school. From the boring teacher in the beginning of the film, to the principle representing the antagonist of the story, this movie sends the message to adolescents that the authority figures in life are harmful rather than supportive and uplifting. Nevertheless, the media is not the sole source of this problem. The American Government should be held accountable for some of these problems that need to be addressed.

The first review that I found was in the New York Times and was written by Vincent Canby. Canby starts his review by quoting Mr. Senor Love Daddy who is “doing the nasty to your ears, playing the platters that matter” and explains that this movie takes place on the hottest day of the summer. “Do the Right Thing” stars Spike Lee, who is able to direct and star in this movie “without compromising his position as an aggressively outspoken advocate of black rights.” The whole story of this movie takes place within a 24-hour period, on the hottest day of the year. During this time “tempers fray, kidding turns mean, long-hidden bigotry becomes manifested and violence explodes in and around Sal’s Famous Pizzeria.” Canby makes sure to make Lee’s opinion heard when he talks about how this explosion of emotions was in no way a jab at a group of whites attacking a group of blacks who had “invaded their territory.” Lee is described as having a big screen presence even though he is so small and thin. The move as a whole is described as being full of “character, color, incident and music.” Canby spends a large part of this review talking about how Lee present controversial topics in both his movie and in real life. Lee showed up to the screening of this moving in a Malcolm X t-shirt and made it clear that the day this movie was shown, was the day that would have been Malcolm’s 64th birthday. Lee was also quoted saying that it is not the job of moviemakers these

Do The Right Thing (1989) is a classic film written, produced, and directed by Spike Lee. The focus on the movie is set on racial issues, and the entire movie takes place on the hottest day of the year in the Bed-Stuy section of Brooklyn. Lee does an incredible job demonstrating the tautness between the races on the block specifically among the African American race and American Italian race. Lee’s use of symbolism among the characters, mise-en-scene, and shot composition in his film Do The Right Thing from beginning to end illustrates the struggle between peace and conflict.

“On Dumpster Diving” by Lars Eighner the author starts his piece by saying what dumpsters mean to himself, other people and hobos. Then he goes on telling his story of when he began Dumpster diving. He mentions that he prefers to call it scavenging rather than dumpster diving because he lacks the ability of lowering himself into the dumpsters. Eighner savings ran out and he put all his income into rent. To get all his life necessities he turn to the dumpsters to get everything he needed except for jeans. After saying that he goes on talking about “What is safe to eat?” (Eighner). He says that they use senses and common sense to evaluate the found material. Later he mentions the types of foods he tries to avoid and the one they consider safe. The dumpster they love to go scavenging is the ones from colleges, because the students throw away many valuable things and food. After that the author talks about the stages a person goes through when they are learning to scavenge. First they are shy and disgust, but later after finding things they began liking it; the shyness starts going away, but some could end up being psycho. They start believing that all glass is silver and all glister stuff is gold. Later, he says how they gain weight because of the type of food they mostly find. After, he says that they could find really interesting stuff and lots of information in a household trashcan, but they try not to judge the person by the things they find in

The mass majority of individuals past the age of thirty seem to trivialize problems that a plethora of American youth suffer from today. Simply put, the French author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry describes it best in his book, The Little Prince, in the quote, “All grown-ups were once children…but only few of them remember it.” We are inordinately exhausted from classes and extracurricular activities that promise college appeal, we are emotionally inept from the expectations of our family’s and peers, and we are despondent from the inability to caste away anxiety filled doubt at a future that seems implausible. My greatest contribution to my school and my community is my dedication to establish compassion and comfort for an improved quality of life. The known establishment of my human gifts to my region came about from my own experiences that caused a realization that various students in my community feel outcasted by our society. By creating a persona that promotes nondiscriminatory listening while also creating three clubs that perform as a safe space, I believe my greatest attribute to my small town of Forest City will endure the hardships of time.

What is the right thing to do? This is often a simple yet very challenging question for people to answer. On the topic of lying, is it okay to do it in certain situations and not in others, or should you always tell the truth? There is never one right answer for this question. One of the most common situations presented is this: Imagine you are on a cruise and the captain announces that the ship is sinking and everyone needs to load onto life rafts. The only issue is that there are 11 people and the life raft only fits 10. You have the choice of kicking one person off the boat and the remaining 10 people live or fit all 11 people on the boat with the chances of everyone drowning before the rescue boat shows up. In this essay I will present both the result-oriented and act-oriented approaches to ethics and how each would react in the situation presented.

Reid makes a distinction between doing what is honorable, and pursuing something of interest, his argument is that honor is not constituted by external opinions or persuasions, but by the guidance of our conscience. His support comes from the dependable man of true honor, which he defines as “an immediate moral obligation” (p.147), claiming that if this honor were simply “a regard to our reputation among men, […] the man of honor would not deserve to be trusted in the dark” (Reid, 1853 p.146). It is possible I’ve been persuaded by Reid to assume that this is truly demonstrated in those men of legitimate honor, extraordinary and rare as they may be. A sense of morality is presumed to be innate in all capably reasonable human beings. This predisposition of what is morally right or wrong is engrained in our consciousness. Participating in amiable acts heightens one’s appraisal of themselves, and a feeling of worth is a satisfactory experience for that individual, restricting its ability to be classified as an act of selflessness.

Doing all three of these will help them to develop good core values. Another important suggestion mentioned in the article was that children learn best by doing so to give them ways to practice values that they learn. Have them come up with suggestions on how to reduce fights in school or how to work cooperatively in a group. Also, another important suggestion is that the staff that is teaching the character education program must remember to show the same core values that they are teaching the children to adhere to.