Category: Ethics

Purpose: In the first assignment, you have the opportunity to see how ethics can play out in a real-world scenario. You will read the case scenario and answers the questions in a narrative format. Use headings for each question. Headings are not the question. You are required to use the course material to support your reasoning and the conclusions made.
Learning outcome met by completing this project: Identify ethical issues that arise in domestic and global business environments using an understanding of ethical concepts and of legal and business principles.
Case Scenario: The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic required Americans to shelter in place thus causing the U.S. economy to freeze-up, resulting in millions of lost jobs. The U.S. Congress passed legislation to try and limit the economic damage. Included in the legislation was a stimulus package that would give $1,200 to single tax filers making $75,000 or less and $2,400 to married couples making $150,000 or less. The purpose of the payment was to give people emergency funds and to stimulate the economy. Also included was the CARES Act that provided the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The PPP was a program administered by the Small Business Administration that was targeted at small businesses. It provided for a government loan that was forgivable if used to pay employees’ salaries and benefits, mortgages, rent, and utilities. According to the SBA website, “[t]he Paycheck Protection Program is a loan designed to provide a direct incentive for small businesses to keep their workers on the payroll.”
USAA is a member-owned organization that provided insurance and financial services exclusively to current and former members of the military as well as their family members. USAA has an excellent reputation as a well-run organization and for giving its members good service. Many USAA members maintain checking accounts with it. Some of those members who have checking accounts had overdrawn their balances and had a negative balance in their accounts. When the $1,200 or $2,400 stimulus check was deposited, USAA used those amounts to offset the negative balances in some of its members’ accounts. Members were not informed in advance that this would be the case. This resulted in some USAA members not having any access to the stimulus money. The action USAA took in crediting the funds to existing account deficits was perfectly legal.
Shake Shack is a corporation that owns and licenses restaurants selling traditional American fare like hamburgers and milk shakes. It currently operates 124 locations in the U.S. and overseas. As of May 4, 2020, the company had a market capitalization of $2.06 billion. The company is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange. In 2019, Shake Shack’s CEO received $2.3 million in compensation. Shake Shack applied for and received a loan of $10 million under PPP. The loan was permissible under a provision in PPP that allows restaurant chains to apply when each location has fewer than 500 employees. Shortly after Shake Shack received the loan, the PPP ran out of funds and many small businesses did not receive loans. Small Business Administration. (2020) Retrieved from https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/coronavirus-relief-options/paycheck-protection-program
How to Set Up the Paper Create a Word or Rich Text Format (RTF) document that is double-spaced, 12-point font. The final product will be between 5-8 pages in length excluding the title page and reference page. Write clearly and concisely.
Create a title page with a title, the course number and section, the instructor’s name and your name. Instructions:
Course Material For this project, you are required to use only the case scenario facts and the course material. What actually happened is not to be considered. External sources are not permitted. You are not researching on the Internet or using resources from outside the course. You are expected to answer the requirements identified below showing the connection between the case scenario facts and the course material. Using course material goes beyond defining terms and are used to explain the ‘why and how’ of a situation. Avoid merely making statements but close the loop of the discussion by explaining how something happens or why something happens, which focuses on importance and impact. In closing the loop, you will demonstrate the ability to think clearly and rationally showing an understanding of the logical connections between the ideas presented in a case scenario, the course material and the question(s) being asked. Using one or two in-text citations from the course material throughout the entire paper will not earn many points on an assignment. The use of a variety of course material is expected consistently supporting what is presented. The support must be relevant and applicable to the topic being discussed. Points are not earned for mentioning a term or concept but by clearly and thoroughly explaining or discussing the question at hand. NOTE: If external sources are used, what is presented will not count and a penalty for not following instructions will apply.
Project Requirements Introduction
Write an Introduction paragraph.
The Introduction paragraph is the first paragraph of the paper and will be used to describe to the reader the intent of the paper explaining the main points covered in the paper. This intent should be understood prior to reading the remainder of the paper so the reader knows exactly what is being covered in the paper. Consider writing the introduction last to ensure that all of the main points are covered.
Ethical Issue(s)
Identify and discuss the ethical issue(s) related to USAA and Shake Shack.
Stakeholders Implications
Identify the stakeholders involved in the actions of both companies. Discuss the potential implications of the company’s actions on each stakeholder or stakeholder group. Give examples.
Utilitarianism Viewpoint
Explain how a utilitarian would view USAA and Shake Shack’s actions.
Rights and Duties Viewpoint
Explain how the actions of both USAA and Shake Shack would be viewed under the theory of Rights and Duties.
Fairness and Justice Viewpoint
Explain how the actions of both USAA and Shake Shack would be viewed under the theory of Fairness and Justice
Recommended Actions
Regardless of what these companies actually did, recommend the actions that you think they ethically should take going forward. This is not about what they should have done in the past, but rather speak to actions they should take now having done what they did. There is no right or wrong action, but rather it is about supporting the actions you choose from your ethical arguments.
Conclusion
Write a concluding paragraph that is brief and summarizes the main points. Provide specific information related to the major topics discussed in the paper. Review the Paper Read the paper to ensure all required elements are present.
The following are specific requirements that you will follow.
Use the checklist to mark off that you have followed each specific requirement.
Third person writing is required. Third person means that there are no words such as “I, me, my, we, or us” (first person writing), nor is there use of “you or your” (second person writing). If uncertain how to write in the third person, view this.
Contractions are not used in business writing, so do not use them.
Paraphrase and do not use direct quotations. Paraphrase means you do not use more than four consecutive words from a source document. Removing quotation marks and citing is inappropriate. Instead put a passage from a source document into your own words and attribute the passage to the source document. There should be no passages with quotation marks. Using more than four consecutive words from a source document would require direct quotation marks. Changing words from a passage does not exclude the passage from having quotation marks. If more than four consecutive words are used from source documents, this material will not be included in the grade. You are expected to use the weekly course materials to develop the analysis and support the reasoning. There should be a robust use of the course material. Material used from a source document must be cited and referenced. A reference within a reference list cannot exist without an associated in-text citation and vice versa. Changing words from a passage does not exclude the passage from having quotation marks. Use in-text citations and provide a reference list that contains the reference associated with each in-text citation. You may not use books in completing this problem set unless it is part of the course material. Also, do not use a dictionary, Wikipedia, or Investopedia or similar sources.
My comments: I understand the assignment instructions specify only the use of course material for reference purposes, so I’m including the name/details of our e-book (below), so you can apply it to the paper. However, if you are unable too, please reference as you normally would, paraphrasing the material to support understanding of the topic in question. Also, please indicate the reference and the specific idea you are referencing so I can substitute it with the appropriate course material reference.
Joseph Gilbert, Ethics for Managers: Philosophical Foundations and Business Realities (eBook)

Stage One of the Ethical Analysis Essay – Create an Outline
Instructions: The purpose of this assignment is to write an outline as the first step of the Ethical Analysis Essay that is due near the end of the term. The Ethical Analysis Essay requires that you analyze a film’s ethical dimensions that include its characters and the story.
First, select a film from the list of available works. If you cannot access these films, you may select a different film, but you will require prior approval from your instructor.
Films for Ethical Analysis Essay
John Q (2002) – Story centers on a man whose nine-year-old son desperately needs a life-saving transplant. When he discovers that his medical insurance will not cover surgery costs and alternative government aid is unavailable, John Q. Archibald takes a hospital emergency room hostage in a final attempt to save his child.
The Jacket (2005) – A Gulf war veteran is wrongly sent to a mental institution for insane criminals, where he becomes the object of a doctor’s experiments, and his life is completely affected by them. The film centers on a wounded Gulf war veteran who returns to his native Vermont suffering from bouts of amnesia.
The Last King of Scotland (2006) – While in Uganda on a medical mission, Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan becomes the personal physician and close confidante of dictator Idi Amin. Although at first Dr. Garrigan feels flattered by his new position of power, he soon realizes that Amin’s rule is soaked in blood, and complicit in the atrocities. Garrigan faces the fight of his life as he tries to escape Amin’s grasp.
My Sister’s Keeper (2009) – Told from multiple perspectives, My Sister’s Keeper follows the story of 13-year-old Anna Fitzgerald as she sues her parents, Brian, and Sara, for medical emancipation. Anna was conceived as an allogeneic donor for her sister, Kate, who has acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL).
Extraordinary Measures (2010) – John Crowley is a man on the corporate fast-track, with a beautiful wife and three children. Just as his career is taking off, he learns that his two youngest kids have a fatal disease. John leaves his job and devotes himself to saving their lives. He joins forces with Dr. Robert Stonehill, a brilliant but eccentric scientist. Together they battle the medical and corporate establishment, racing against time for a cure.
Contagion (2011) – When Beth Emhoff returns to Minnesota from a Hong Kong business trip, she attributes the malaise she feels to jet lag. However, two days later, Beth is dead, and doctors tell her shocked husband that they have no idea what killed her. Soon, many others start to exhibit the same symptoms, and a global pandemic explodes. Doctors try to contain the lethal microbe, but society begins to collapse as a blogger (Jude Law) fans the flames of paranoia.
Awakenings (1990) – The story of a doctor’s extraordinary work in the Sixties with a group of catatonic patients he finds languishing in a Bronx hospital. Speculating that their rigidity may be akin to an extreme form of Parkinsonism, he seeks permission from his skeptical superiors to treat them with L-dopa, a drug that was used to treat Parkinson’s disease at the time.
Coma (1978) – A young doctor in a hospital discovers that many patients are being induced into comas from simple routine surgeries. She soon finds a deep conspiracy developing that leads her to believe that nothing is as it seems. The comas are deliberate acts to permanently incapacitate patients who are later transferred to a facility called The Jefferson Institute where illegal activities are being conducted with comatose subjects.
Extreme Measures (1996) – A young British doctor confronts a famous colleague about the true methods of his work. The doctor wishes to determine why the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears.
Gattaca (1997) – Vincent Freeman has always fantasized about traveling into outer space but is grounded by his status as a genetically inferior “in-valid.” He decides to fight his fate by purchasing Jerome Morrow’s genes, a laboratory-engineered “valid.” He assumes Jerome’s DNA identity and joins the Gattaca space program, where he falls in love with Irene. An investigation into the death of a Gattaca officer complicates Vincent’s plans.
Next, view the film and then write an outline. This outline should be written using the following subheadings (Introduction and Ethical Analysis). Write 2-5 sentences for each criterion (Introduction and Ethical Analysis). The outline be a minimum of 250 words in length.
Introduction (Film Synopsis & Ethical Theory)
Brief film synopsis that includes the medical ethical dilemma present in the film.
Ethical theory you have chosen to apply to the film. Select one (or more):
Virtue Ethics
Utilitarian Ethics
Moral Sense Theory (Conscience)
Social Contract Theory
The Ethics of Care
Kantian Ethics
Moral Relativism
Ethical Analysis
Moral values present in the film (as they relate to the ethical theory you have chosen)
Moral conflict or instances of moral values in conflict
Moral of the story or what can be learned from applying the ethical theory to the story
Always cite any sources that you have used within your work. For help with APA formatting and style, check out the assignment rubric and also refer to the Purdue Owl website, as well as the Academic Writer tool featured in Canvas.

In at least 500 words, please answer the weekly review question. You should support your response with one quote from the textbook.
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Do you see any major themes in these readings? Do you see reflections of modern day in any of the readings?

The Harm Principle states: “The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant” (Van Camp, 2014, p. 81).
Given this definition consider legalized gambling and a person that has an addiction to gambling. You next door neighbor, Sarah Jones, has been going to Bingo seven nights a week and stays about even with money spent versus money won. She has done this for over three years. Recently, she has started going to the casino after Bingo to play the slots. Over the past six [6] months she has lost over $85,000. She has taken a second mortgage on her house, she has taken a loan out on her vehicle, and she has started selling items out of her home. She has three [3] minor children and besides not being at home in the afternoons or evenings she does not always have enough nutritious food in the house. There are lots of cereals, microwave meals, and “junk” food. Since her gambling has increased, her children do not always have clean clothes and often get to school late in the mornings.
You will respond to the following questions in an APA-formatted essay. State your position in a thesis and develop your ideas through well-constructed paragraphs.
After you have read the supporting materials, answer the following:
Does the Harm Principle apply to Sarah and her behavior?
Ethically, if you were her neighbor, would you feel you should do something to help Sarah or her kids? What and why? Or if not, why not?
Morally, do you think a next-door neighbor that observes minor children at risk should take action? Why or why not?
Your assignment should include:
A title page in APA format
A minimum of 500 words of meaningful content
A reference page in APA format

Stage One of the Ethical Analysis Essay – Create an Outline
Instructions: The purpose of this assignment is to write an outline as the first step of the Ethical Analysis Essay that is
due near the end of the term. The Ethical Analysis Essay requires that you analyze a film’s ethical dimensions that
include its characters and the story.
First, select a film from the list of available works. If you cannot access these films, you may select a different film, but
you will require prior approval from your instructor.
Films for Ethical Analysis Essay
John Q (2002) – Story centers on a man whose nine-year-old son desperately needs a life-saving transplant. When he
discovers that his medical insurance will not cover surgery costs and alternative government aid is unavailable, John Q.
Archibald takes a hospital emergency room hostage in a final attempt to save his child.
The Jacket (2005) – A Gulf war veteran is wrongly sent to a mental institution for insane criminals, where he becomes
the object of a doctor’s experiments, and his life is completely affected by them. The film centers on a wounded Gulf war
veteran who returns to his native Vermont suffering from bouts of amnesia.
The Last King of Scotland (2006) – While in Uganda on a medical mission, Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan becomes the
personal physician and close confidante of dictator Idi Amin. Although at first Dr. Garrigan feels flattered by his new
position of power, he soon realizes that Amin’s rule is soaked in blood, and complicit in the atrocities. Garrigan faces the
fight of his life as he tries to escape Amin’s grasp.
My Sister’s Keeper (2009) – Told from multiple perspectives, My Sister’s Keeper follows the story of 13-year-old Anna
Fitzgerald as she sues her parents, Brian, and Sara, for medical emancipation. Anna was conceived as an allogeneic
donor for her sister, Kate, who has acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL).
Extraordinary Measures (2010) – John Crowley is a man on the corporate fast-track, with a beautiful wife and three
children. Just as his career is taking off, he learns that his two youngest kids have a fatal disease. John leaves his job and
devotes himself to saving their lives. He joins forces with Dr. Robert Stonehill, a brilliant but eccentric scientist. Together
they battle the medical and corporate establishment, racing against time for a cure.
Contagion (2011) – When Beth Emhoff returns to Minnesota from a Hong Kong business trip, she attributes the malaise
she feels to jet lag. However, two days later, Beth is dead, and doctors tell her shocked husband that they have no idea
what killed her. Soon, many others start to exhibit the same symptoms, and a global pandemic explodes. Doctors try to
contain the lethal microbe, but society begins to collapse as a blogger (Jude Law) fans the flames of paranoia.
Awakenings (1990) – The story of a doctor’s extraordinary work in the Sixties with a group of catatonic patients he finds
languishing in a Bronx hospital. Speculating that their rigidity may be akin to an extreme form of Parkinsonism, he seeks
permission from his skeptical superiors to treat them with L-dopa, a drug that was used to treat Parkinson’s disease at
the time.
Coma (1978) – A young doctor in a hospital discovers that many patients are being induced into comas from simple
routine surgeries. She soon finds a deep conspiracy developing that leads her to believe that nothing is as it seems. The
comas are deliberate acts to permanently incapacitate patients who are later transferred to a facility called The Jefferson
Institute where illegal activities are being conducted with comatose subjects.
Extreme Measures (1996) – A young British doctor confronts a famous colleague about the true methods of his work.
The doctor wishes to determine why the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears.
Gattaca (1997) – Vincent Freeman has always fantasized about traveling into outer space but is grounded by his status as
a genetically inferior “in-valid.” He decides to fight his fate by purchasing Jerome Morrow’s genes, a laboratory-
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engineered “valid.” He assumes Jerome’s DNA identity and joins the Gattaca space program, where he falls in love with
Irene. An investigation into the death of a Gattaca officer complicates Vincent’s plans.
Next, view the film and then write an outline. This outline should be written using the following subheadings
(Introduction and Ethical Analysis). Write 2-5 sentences for each criterion (Introduction and Ethical Analysis). The
outline be a minimum of 250 words in length.
Introduction (Film Synopsis & Ethical Theory)
• Brief film synopsis that includes the medical ethical dilemma present in the film.
• Ethical theory you have chosen to apply to the film. Select one (or more):
• Virtue Ethics
• Utilitarian Ethics
• Moral Sense Theory (Conscience)
• Social Contract Theory
• The Ethics of Care
• Kantian Ethics
• Moral Relativism
Ethical Analysis
1. Moral values present in the film (as they relate to the ethical theory you have chosen)
2. Moral conflict or instances of moral values in conflict
3. Moral of the story or what can be learned from applying the ethical theory to the story
Always cite any sources that you have used within your work. For help with APA formatting and style, check out the
assignment rubric and also refer to the Purdue Owl website, as well as the Academic Writer tool featured in Canvas.
(USLO 7.4)
Stage One of the Ethical Analysis Essay – Create an Outline Grading Rubric
Criteria Achievement
Level 5
Achievement
Level 4
Achievement
Level 3
Achievement
Level 2
Achievement
Level 1
Film
Synopsis
(CSLO 2)
Excellent
introduction of the
film synopsis.
(20 pts)
Adequate
introduction of
the film synopsis.
(15 pts)
Inadequate
introduction of the
film synopsis.
(10 pts)
– No introduction of
the film synopsis
or no paper
submitted.
(0 pts)
Ethical
Theory
Excellent
introduction of the
ethical theory
selected.
(35 pts)
Adequate
introduction of the
ethical theory
selected.
(25 pts)
Inadequate
introduction of the
ethical theory
selected.
(10 pts)
– No introduction of
the ethical theory
selected or no
paper submitted.
(0 pts)
Outline of
Ethical
Analysis
Excellent outline of
the 3 ethical
analysis
statements.
(35 pts)
Adequate outline
of the 3 ethical
analysis
statements.
(25 pts)
Inadequate outline
of the 3 ethical
analysis
statements or
missing
statements.
(10 pts)
– No outline present
or no paper
submitted. (0 pts)
APA Formatted
according to APA
guidelines with no
Formatted
according to APA
guidelines with
Formatted
according to APA
guidelines with
Significant issues
present in the
formatting of the
No paper
submitted
(0 pts)
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errors. Error free
APA formatted in-
text citations and
post-text
references.
(10 pts)
few/minor issues.
Several APA
formatting errors
but includes both
in-text citations
and post-text
references.
(7 pts)
multiple issues.
Missing either in-
text citations or
post-text
references.
(5 pts)
title page. Missing
both in-text
citations and post-
text references.
(3 pts)
Total 100 points
Ethical Analysis Essay
Instructions: This assignment requires you to use Stage One of the Ethical Analysis Essay – Create an Outline as your
starting point for writing an essay that analyzes the ethical dimensions in the film you have already selected. If you have
not selected a film, please choose from the list below. If you cannot access these films, you may select a different film, but
you will require prior approval from your instructor.
Films for Ethical Analysis Essay
John Q (2002) – Story centers on a man whose nine-year-old son desperately needs a life-saving transplant. When he
discovers that his medical insurance will not cover surgery costs and alternative government aid is unavailable, John Q.
Archibald takes a hospital emergency room hostage in a final attempt to save his child.
The Jacket (2005) – A Gulf war veteran is wrongly sent to a mental institution for insane criminals, where he becomes
the object of a doctor’s experiments, and his life is completely affected by them. The film centers on a wounded Gulf war
veteran who returns to his native Vermont suffering from bouts of amnesia.
The Last King of Scotland (2006) – While in Uganda on a medical mission, Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan becomes the
personal physician and close confidante of dictator Idi Amin. Although at first Dr. Garrigan feels flattered by his new
position of power, he soon realizes that Amin’s rule is soaked in blood, and complicit in the atrocities. Garrigan faces the
fight of his life as he tries to escape Amin’s grasp.
My Sister’s Keeper (2009) – Told from multiple perspectives, My Sister’s Keeper follows the story of 13-year-old Anna
Fitzgerald as she sues her parents, Brian, and Sara, for medical emancipation. Anna was conceived as an allogeneic
donor for her sister, Kate, who has acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL).
Extraordinary Measures (2010) – John Crowley is a man on the corporate fast-track, with a beautiful wife and three
children. Just as his career is taking off, he learns that his two youngest kids have a fatal disease. John leaves his job and
devotes himself to saving their lives. He joins forces with Dr. Robert Stonehill, a brilliant but eccentric scientist. Together
they battle the medical and corporate establishment, racing against time for a cure.
Contagion (2011) – When Beth Emhoff returns to Minnesota from a Hong Kong business trip, she attributes the malaise
she feels to jet lag. However, two days later, Beth is dead, and doctors tell her shocked husband that they have no idea
what killed her. Soon, many others start to exhibit the same symptoms, and a global pandemic explodes. Doctors try to
contain the lethal microbe, but society begins to collapse as a blogger (Jude Law) fans the flames of paranoia.
Awakenings (1990) – The story of a doctor’s extraordinary work in the Sixties with a group of catatonic patients he finds
languishing in a Bronx hospital. Speculating that their rigidity may be akin to an extreme form of Parkinsonism, he seeks
permission from his skeptical superiors to treat them with L-dopa, a drug that was used to treat Parkinson’s disease at
the time.
Coma (1978) – A young doctor in a hospital discovers that many patients are being induced into comas from simple
routine surgeries. She soon finds a deep conspiracy developing that leads her to believe that nothing is as it seems. The
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comas are deliberate acts to permanently incapacitate patients who are later transferred to a facility called The Jefferson
Institute where illegal activities are being conducted with comatose subjects.
Extreme Measures (1996) – A young British doctor confronts a famous colleague about the true methods of his work.
The doctor wishes to determine why the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears.
Gattaca (1997) – Vincent Freeman has always fantasized about traveling into outer space but is grounded by his status as
a genetically inferior “in-valid.” He decides to fight his fate by purchasing Jerome Morrow’s genes, a laboratory-
engineered “valid.” He assumes Jerome’s DNA identity and joins the Gattaca space program, where he falls in love with
Irene. An investigation into the death of a Gattaca officer complicates Vincent’s plans.
Your film analysis should feature the application of one (or more) of the following ethical theories listed below:
• Virtue Ethics
• Utilitarian Ethics
• Moral Sense Theory (Conscience)
• Social Contract Theory
• The Ethics of Care
• Kantian Ethics
• Moral Relativism
Essay Format
Title Page – In APA format, include your paper’s title, your name, and your institution (i.e., Galen College), in that order.
Introduction – Provide a brief synopsis of the film that includes the ethical dilemma present in the film. Introduce the
ethical theory you will use to analyze the film.
Ethical Analysis – Apply one ethical theory to the medical ethical dilemma presented in the film. First, describe this
ethical theory in your own words, using the readings and course materials as textual evidence for your explanation of
the moral view. Next, discuss how this ethical theory could provide solutions or recommendations for remedying the
ethical dilemma featured in the film. In your analysis, be sure to address the following questions:
1. What moral values are present in the film (as they relate to the ethical theory you have chosen)?
2. Are there instances of moral values in conflict with one another?
3. What moral guidance does the ethical theory that you selected provide the characters in the film?
Reflection – Summarize what you have discussed in the essay and reflect on what you have learned. Lastly, discuss how
what you have learned could be applied to your professional and personal life.
Note – Your essay must be written using APA format, double-spaced, 4 pages in length (not including title page and
reference page), and written in Times New Roman using 12-point font.
(USLO 10.4)
Criteria Achievement
Level 5
Achievement
Level 4
Achievement
Level 3
Achievement
Level 2
Achievement
Level 1
Film Synopsis
and Medical
Ethical
Dilemma
(CSLO 2)
Excellent
descriiption of the
film and medical
ethical dilemma.
(10 pts)

thical Analysis Essay
Instructions: This assignment requires you to use Stage One of the Ethical Analysis Essay – Create an Outline as your starting point for writing an essay that analyzes the ethical dimensions in the film you have already selected. If you have not selected a film, please choose from the list below. If you cannot access these films, you may select a different film, but you will require prior approval from your instructor.
Films for Ethical Analysis Essay
John Q (2002) – Story centers on a man whose nine-year-old son desperately needs a life-saving transplant. When he discovers that his medical insurance will not cover surgery costs and alternative government aid is unavailable, John Q. Archibald takes a hospital emergency room hostage in a final attempt to save his child.
The Jacket (2005) – A Gulf war veteran is wrongly sent to a mental institution for insane criminals, where he becomes the object of a doctor’s experiments, and his life is completely affected by them. The film centers on a wounded Gulf war veteran who returns to his native Vermont suffering from bouts of amnesia.
The Last King of Scotland (2006) – While in Uganda on a medical mission, Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan becomes the personal physician and close confidante of dictator Idi Amin. Although at first Dr. Garrigan feels flattered by his new position of power, he soon realizes that Amin’s rule is soaked in blood, and complicit in the atrocities. Garrigan faces the fight of his life as he tries to escape Amin’s grasp.
My Sister’s Keeper (2009) – Told from multiple perspectives, My Sister’s Keeper follows the story of 13-year-old Anna Fitzgerald as she sues her parents, Brian, and Sara, for medical emancipation. Anna was conceived as an allogeneic donor for her sister, Kate, who has acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL).
Extraordinary Measures (2010) – John Crowley is a man on the corporate fast-track, with a beautiful wife and three children. Just as his career is taking off, he learns that his two youngest kids have a fatal disease. John leaves his job and devotes himself to saving their lives. He joins forces with Dr. Robert Stonehill, a brilliant but eccentric scientist. Together they battle the medical and corporate establishment, racing against time for a cure.
Contagion (2011) – When Beth Emhoff returns to Minnesota from a Hong Kong business trip, she attributes the malaise she feels to jet lag. However, two days later, Beth is dead, and doctors tell her shocked husband that they have no idea what killed her. Soon, many others start to exhibit the same symptoms, and a global pandemic explodes. Doctors try to contain the lethal microbe, but society begins to collapse as a blogger (Jude Law) fans the flames of paranoia.
Awakenings (1990) – The story of a doctor’s extraordinary work in the Sixties with a group of catatonic patients he finds languishing in a Bronx hospital. Speculating that their rigidity may be akin to an extreme form of Parkinsonism, he seeks permission from his skeptical superiors to treat them with L-dopa, a drug that was used to treat Parkinson’s disease at the time.
Coma (1978) – A young doctor in a hospital discovers that many patients are being induced into comas from simple routine surgeries. She soon finds a deep conspiracy developing that leads her to believe that nothing is as it seems. The comas are deliberate acts to permanently incapacitate patients who are later transferred to a facility called The Jefferson Institute where illegal activities are being conducted with comatose subjects.
Extreme Measures (1996) – A young British doctor confronts a famous colleague about the true methods of his work. The doctor wishes to determine why the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears.
Gattaca (1997) – Vincent Freeman has always fantasized about traveling into outer space but is grounded by his status as a genetically inferior “in-valid.” He decides to fight his fate by purchasing Jerome Morrow’s genes, a laboratory-engineered “valid.” He assumes Jerome’s DNA identity and joins the Gattaca space program, where he falls in love with Irene. An investigation into the death of a Gattaca officer complicates Vincent’s plans.
Your film analysis should feature the application of one (or more) of the following ethical theories listed below:
Virtue Ethics
Utilitarian Ethics
Moral Sense Theory (Conscience)
Social Contract Theory
The Ethics of Care
Kantian Ethics
Moral Relativism
Essay Format
Title Page – In APA format, include your paper’s title, your name, and your institution (i.e., Galen College), in that order.
Introduction – Provide a brief synopsis of the film that includes the ethical dilemma present in the film. Introduce the ethical theory you will use to analyze the film.
Ethical Analysis – Apply one ethical theory to the medical ethical dilemma presented in the film. First, describe this ethical theory in your own words, using the readings and course materials as textual evidence for your explanation of the moral view. Next, discuss how this ethical theory could provide solutions or recommendations for remedying the ethical dilemma featured in the film. In your analysis, be sure to address the following questions:
What moral values are present in the film (as they relate to the ethical theory you have chosen)?
Are there instances of moral values in conflict with one another?
What moral guidance does the ethical theory that you selected provide the characters in the film?
Reflection – Summarize what you have discussed in the essay and reflect on what you have learned. Lastly, discuss how what you have learned could be applied to your professional and personal life.
Note – Your essay must be written using APA format, double-spaced, 4 pages in length (not including title page and reference page), and written in Times New Roman using 12-point font.

Policy Issue Process
Describe the process you have gone through in creating your policy briefing book.
What have been the most interesting aspects of this project?
What have been the challenges you have faced?
What would you have done differently knowing what you know now?
Knowing what you know now about the issue and potential solutions that you have written about, what are you going to do to be a Change Agent in this issue now?
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references.
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Compose the last question on the template reflection in a Word document and be sure to address, at a minimum, the following questions:
Why do you feel the way you do about the issue presented?
Of the four responses offered in the scenario, which do you think is the most ethical and why?
Which ethical theory would you use to support your stance? Why does this theory work?
4. Support your conclusions with evidence and specific examples from the textbook, including a minimum of one theory of ethics to defend your stance.
5. Your reflection must be 1-2 pages in length and follow APA formatting and citation guidelines as appropriate, making sure to cite at least two sources.
The statement I agreed with is D: Although we cannot ignore the plight of the mother, we also have an obligation to protect the unborn child’s rights. That child cannot fend for itself. Dependency does not make the child less human. Many adults are wholly dependent on others for a wide variety of reasons, and certainly, children, after they are born, are still dependent in the most every way for continued life. I accept the legality of abortion because I have to. That doesn’t make it ethical. However, I am also in favor of sex education and teaching safe sex, which can lead to fewer abortions. I even understand exceptions such as rape, as the act is destructive to the psyche even without a pregnancy. Bringing a child of rape to term could be too much for some to bear, and I value the mother’s quality of life even if I would also mourn the death of an unborn child. There are no easy answers, but I favor the unborn child’s life at every turn, and make exceptions only when I must choose the lesser of two evils.

The Argumentative Essay. The purpose of this assignment is to outline, analyze and defend a thesis about the THE SECOND TO LAST AND LAST CHAPTER OF THE FIESLER MORAL PHILOSOPHY TEXT ACCESSIBLE VIA LINK IN MODULES THROUGH THE INTERNET ARCHIVE ON A PROPOSED SUPER ETHICAL THEORY THEN ON RELATING DIFFERENT ETHICAL THEORIES; OR STILL ON A PREVIOSLY UNASSIGNED ARTICLE IN OUR MAIN KAHN ANTHOLOGY TEXTBOOK. PRESENT AN EXEGETICAL ACCOUNT OF THE CHAPTER OR ARTICLE, SPECIFICALLY CALLING OUT IT’S ETHICAL THEORETICAL METHODS, THEN CRITIQUE ITS PERSUASIVENESS, DEFENDING A THESIS ABOUT ITS STRENGTHS AND LIMITATIONS, PERHAPS PROPOSING A “FIX” TO THE CASE MADE IN THE CHAPTER OR ARTICLE. the Argumentative Essay, roughly a full 6 TO 8 page required paper, students will synthesize the material covered in class and defend your final tested and considered thesis about your original topic. These papers should begin with solid objective exegesis and defend a theses with sound arguments; remember that the purpose of the assignment is to demonstrate your mastery of course material by integrating relevancies, objections, etc. that pertain to your topic and thesis.

The purpose of this argumentative essay is to allow students to demonstrate how much they have learned in the course. Students will argue for a thesis on one side of the ethics of forgiveness discussion as presented in The Sunflower book. Do you believe Simon W. in particular or the Jews (past and present) are morally obligated to forgive Germans who contributed to the Holocaust and have now apologized? Or by extension, is any person who has experienced a grave evil personally or within their family or people group obligated to forgive the perpetrator(s)? Do you believe Simon W. would be wrong to forgive the Nazi soldier who had killed many Jews? Why or why not?
To argue for your side, be sure to explain what forgiveness is, how it’s connected to other moral goods such as reconciliation, justice, etc. Make sure to integrate ideas from different ethical theories we discussed in Sandel’s book that may illuminate your own view or the views others hold on the opposite side of the discussion from yourself. In other words, you should be prepared to thoroughly defending your own view by considering objections to your view and then replying to those objections.
To earn an A, the paper should primarily engage The Sunflower book and other course materials, but using outside sources is permissible and can help boost the grade. Good outside sources will be from academic journal articles, books by the relevant experts, or other academic resources. Blogs, online news sources, and other popular
media-type outlets do NOT count. The paper must use properly formatted in-text citations and include a reference list that conforms to the Chicago Manual of Style. Use either footnotes or the author-date system and include a reference list on the last page.
Other Requirements: 1500-2000 words; Double-spaced; No cover page; Name and title at the top center of first page; Page numbers on the bottom right of each page; Standard twelve-point font (e.g. Times New Roman); One inch margins; .doc or .rtf file format only; The introduction should be no more than half a page. The conclusion should only review the main points. The paper should be a standard five paragraph argumentative essay (no more and no less than five paragraphs), which means an introduction, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion.
The thesis statement requirement:the last sentence of the introduction should be the complete thesis statement that clearly states your point of view. The topic sentence requirement: the first sentence of each body paragraph should act as a topic sentence and state the philosophical idea being analyzed.