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    Ethical Issues in film Erin Brockovich There are many ethical issues in the movie Erin Brockovich. This movie is about a mother of three who uncovers a water poisoning case by Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) in southern California. Erin has the responsibility to feed and educate her three children and she has a general distrust of people. She begins by forcing her lawyer Ed Masry to give her a secretarial job after he failed to get her a settlement from an auto accident. She doesn't exactly

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    A Big Apple native born October 30, 1959, LaGravense grew up in Brooklyn and studied acting at New York University’s experimental theater department at the Tisch School of Arts. As a student, he explored his skills with dialogue and formed a New York based comedy group, for which he also wrote sketches. His sketch material led to an offer by former Saturday Night Live writer Neil Levy, to co-write the script for the 1989 release, Rude Awakening. He wrote (and sold) his first piece of writing for

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    The movie Erin Brockovich is based on actual events involving a corporate business called Pacific Gas & Electric who knowingly endangering the health of residents and the water supply in the town of Hinkley. Erin is the mother of three children who is out of work. In the midst of her job search she got into an auto accident and was injured. Erin has an ethical and moral responsibility to feed her children so she forces her lawyer Ed Masry to give her a secretarial job after he failed to get her

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    An educational institution is a place where an individual gets opportunity to learn and develop self potential that shapes his or her life. A successful student is well rounded and tries to make time for studying and doing social activities. Education is the most important thing on the hand of a successful student. There are lots of successful students in every country. They set up a studying schedule. A successful student should be a student that can balance school with social life. School is second

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    The Freedom Writers is a movie directed by Richard LaGravenese that showed a teacher who used her position as a way to improve the lives of students who did not particularly have the best opportunities (Plot Summary). In the film, Mrs. Gruwell acts as a mentor to a group of actors that portrayed troublesome lives and issues at home. From daily fights between friend groups at school to drive-by shootings within gangs, the kids have seen it all. Mrs. Gruwell focuses on these hardships that the students

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    improve and change their perspective on color. The help from their teacher Ms. Gruwell really inspired and changed them. In their minds everything is about color. Slowly throughout the movie they change and accept others. In the beginning of the movie Erin Gruwell the new teacher is excited happy and tolerant of everyone. Her husband and she are happy and he supports her teaching her new class. On the other hand, Eva, a girl who at first had no tolerance for others and based everything off color had

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    Erin Brockovich was a poor, jobless, single mother with three children. In the beginning of the movie, her car was hit by a surgeon. When she goes to court, the surgeon’s lawyer accuses her lying and trying to steal money from the wealthy doctor. The lawyer uses Erin’s status as a poor, single, twice-divorced mother in order to make the jury believe that she is lying. Furthermore, the surgeon’s lawyer talks down to her because she is a woman and dresses in tight, skimpy clothing. The overarching

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    improve and change their perspective on color. The help from their teacher Ms. Gruwell really inspired and changed them. In their minds everything is about color. Slowly throughout the movie they change and accept others. In the beginning of the movie Erin Gruwell the new teacher is joyful and tolerant of everyone. Her husband and she are happy and he supports her teaching her new class. On the other hand, Eva, a girl who at first had no tolerance for others and based everything off color had a father

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    The situation of the social problem Nowadays, domestic and family violence is still considered as a severe and non-neglected social issue. It badly ruins the families. The cases of domestic violence have been dramatically increased during the past few years. Compared to 2009-2010, it is announced that the number of domestic violence occurred was double in 2013-2014 in Victoria alone. ABS also reported that the population of Australia who experienced domestic violence was about 100,000 in 2006 (St

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    On the surface, Dangerous Minds is a film about a teacher who helps her students to change their lives for the better. The start of the film begins with LouAnne Johnson accepting a full time teaching job at Carlmont High School. Ms. Johnson did not know that the kids she would be teaching were tough and rowdy kids that come from under-privileged backgrounds. As the film goes on, Ms. Johnson wins the hearts of her students by connecting with them and standing up for them against a resistant administration

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