W. D. Ross

Early on in the semester, I have found that Chapter 12 has been one of the more intriguing sections to read. After deciding on a topic for the paper, I combed the book for interesting topics that could relate to the prisoner of war ethic. In many ways I started my ‘journey’ with Chapter 12; making it all-the-more fitting that I end here as well. Chapter 12 and the section on Prima Facie Duties cover a good range of personal subjects. This chapter espouses the ideal that communication is not confined

Introduction Many workers are presented with ethical dilemmas every single day. In the case of William Potter, a conflict of interest arose as he thought about promoting his son, Henry, to CEO of the family company. Knowing he could not make an objective decision, he went to a loyal, trusted employee, Jill, to do an objective review of Henry for him. This then put Jill in an ethical dilemma of her own. Though she knows that Henry is doing a great job in his current position in Miami, she also experienced

published by the Harvard Business Review. The theory supporting this article is utilitarianism, this can be seen through the importance of doing what is best for everyone involved, not just yourself. The third theory that can be argued is the idea of W.D. Ross and his prima facia duties. The concept of whistleblowing can be a touchy subject in the professional world, but it can be a vital towards promoting a healthy and stable work environment. The

This study focuses on the structure, conduct, and performance of Magnolia pictures and its’ associates. We begin by examining three films that were produced by Magnolia Pictures and released in day-and-date strategy. Magnolia began the day-and-date release format in 2006 with Bubble. Bubble is the first of the three films we will be examining, followed by Melancholia (2011) and Whitey: United States of America V. James J. Bulger (2014). With each film we will look at aspects of conduct –release format

For this assignment, I spent time volunteering at Mercy Downtown, helping at the main information desk. While I was there, I assisted visitors in finding patients by looking up their room number, directed patients and visitors to the correct area of the hospital, and delivered flowers to rooms that had been dropped off. A paid employee also accompanied me while there, as volunteers are not allowed to actually look up patient information via the online portal, but I could call a different help desks

In the book, The Good Girl, by Mary Kubica, one of the main characters, Colin Thatcher, shows a two very distinct personalities in the book. He changes throughout the book due to connections with others. Before he bonds with Mia Dennett, Colin is selfish and hostile, and manipulative. A good example of this is when the two first meet at the bar and Colin stops Mia from driving herself home while drunk, “She smiles and says that’s sweet. She thinks I care about her. Little does she know. I couldn’t

Perhaps no other director has generated such a broad range of critical reaction as D.W. Griffith. For students of the motion picture, Griffith's is the most familiar name in film history. Generally acknowledged as America's most influential director (and certainly one of the most prolific), he is also perceived as being among the most limited. Praise for his mastery of film technique is matched by repeated indictments of his moral, artistic, and intellectual inadequacies. At one extreme, Kevin Brownlow

“D.W. Griffith was the first American director to be as well-known as the films he directed, and he was among the very first to insist that filmmaking was an art form” (Lewis 53). This statement is very true. However, the inherent discriminating content in some of his movies also made him one of the hardest to appreciate. One of the most famous examples was The Birth of a Nation (1915), which was in favor of the Ku Klux Klan. After a few more controversial movies, he finally tried to redeem his reputation

The motion picture, The Birth of a Nation, produced and directed by D. W. Griffith and released March 21, 1915. D. W. Griffith and Frank E. Woods, co-wrote the screenplay, which they adapted for the screen from the novel and play The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan by Thomas Jr. Dixon. The movie based on the book began with two families the Stoneman and the Cameron; however, as they grow up the struggles between the north and south became harder to overcome. As the love story

Workplace Tension In his 1916 silent-film Intolerance, D.W. Griffith pioneered editing techniques that helped establish montage as a core component of film language. Griffith set out to unite four disparate storylines under the common theme of love’s eternal battle with intolerance. While Griffith believed this film achieved its goal, some of his contemporaries argued that Intolerance was a “magnificent failure” (Eisenstein, 241). Indeed, Eisenstein proposed that the unification Griffith sought