Dead Man Walking

death penalty for criminals with violent offences. However, There’s a lot of controversy surrounding capital punishment. Both sides of the argument are consistently trying to persuade the population whether it’s right or wrong. The movie, Dead Man Walking, is based on a true story that centers around a death row inmate Matthew Poncelet. Sister Helen, a nun, is called to help him for an appeal to escape the death penalty. The film illustrates both factions of the argument by demonstrating the usage

In the movie Dead Man Walking issues and controversies regarding the death penalty or capital punishment were brought to my attention. The main issues discussed in the video were regarding the morality of the death penalty, the appeal process, the voice of the victims surviving family, allowing the guilty a spiritual advisor and remorse and forgiveness of the accused. Many of these issues relate back to topics that are discussed in our Death Penalty course. This video made myself reflect on my

Introduction The theoretical perspective I found most convincing when analyzing the behavior of the main character, Mathew Poncelot, in the film, Dead Man Walking, are the ideologies of sociologist Max Weber. He believed that rather than only focusing on one’s social actions, it is instead important to understand why people do the things that they do (Long-Crowell). Empathizing with individuals and identifying their perspectives explains one’s rationales behind each choice and behavior (Long-Crowell)

guardians and receive theirs thoughts or words as their guideline for their life in better way but. Helen and Phelps they fallow their and view the same point but they not fallowing their guideline and its because of their job. In the book "Dead Man Walking" Helen Prejean is a main character and an narrator of the book. Hellen tells us about her experience of being spiritual advisor for inmate named Patrick Sonnier and he was sentenced to death for killing the two teenagers. In the begging Helen

The Movie Dead Man Walking is about a man named Mathew Poncelet who sits on death row for the murder and rape of a young couple with the help of his accomplice Carl Vitello who was sentenced to life without parole. The film centers on Sister Helen a catholic nun who receives a letter from death row inmate Mathew Poncelet. She decides to take a visit to the state penitentiary to visit with Mathew to help fight for him to get off death row and council him as his spiritual advisor. Sister Helen works

The movie Dead Man Walking is based on a true story about an inmate on death row who was spiritually advised by Sister Helen. Sister Helen had never been a spiritual advisor and got caught up in this without knowing what she was doing, but she was there for Matthew nonetheless. Adhering to the CST themes of Solidarity and Life and Dignity of the Human Person, Sister Helen helps both Matthew to keep his human dignity and the families of the victims to feel better and accept their losses. One day,

Assignment #1 The movie “Dead Man Walking” was based on a true story about a nun named Sister Helen Prejean who counseled multiple prisoners on death row. Matthew Poncelet was a fictional character, but the movie showed how Sister Helen would be a spiritual advisor for prisoners like him in real life. I felt throughout the movie that Sister Helen stayed very neutral about her views on the death penalty. I think Sister Helen knew that Poncelet was still going to be executed, but despite that her

religion, they are intrigued about the power of religion and are searching for answers. Portier defined religion in terms of life’s “greatest questions.” People are always questioning the supernatural. The definition of religion relates to the Dead Man walking in many ways. The one way I am going to relate this to is Joey. Before Sister Helen came into his life, he had no faith in God and didn’t believe. Once Sister Helen started to believe in him and pushed him to start

something they regret and wish they can take back but that is simply a part of life. It’s unfair for one to be known for their worse decision as, we know that everyone makes mistakes and we would never want to be put in that position. In the movie Dead Man walking Sister Helen, Matthew Poncelet and the families victims demonstrate how hard it is to live in a society that revolves around the culture of life and the culture of death. We are all created equally in the image of God with the same amount of

When looking at the social work field many could notice how broad this profession is. It’s about helping others in many different situations. The Dead Man Walking video was an interesting story to watch. This video involved a mentor and throughout the video we could see how this menor guided a prisoner to have a closer relationship with God. As I watched the video I kept the topic issues, from the handout, in mind. This video very much could relate to social work and the aspects of this field.