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Instructions: This assignment requires you to use the planning document you completed earlier in the course as your starting point for writing an
essay analyzing the ethical dimensions in the film you have selected. If you have not selected a film, please choose from the list below. If you
cannot access these films, vou may choose a different film. but vou will require prior approval from your instructor.
Films for Ethical Analysis Essay:
• The Jacket (2005) (R) – 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 suttering from bouts or amnesla
• Extraordinary Measures (2010) (PG) – 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 voungest Kids have a fatal disease. John leaves his lob 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
dodilist the lord cure
• Contagion (2011) (PG-13) – When Beth Emhoff returns to Minnesota from a Hong Kong business trip, she attributes her malaise to jet lag.
However, two days later, Deut is dead, ana doctors tell ner snocked nusband that they nave no laed what killed ner. soon, many others exhibl
the same sumptoms. and a global bandemic explodes. Uodors tylo contan the lethal microbe, our socery beghs to collabse as a blogge
Jude Law fuels the flames of paranoia
• Joe vs. the Volcano (1990) (PG) (Comedy): Joe Banks is dying, but his life has pleased him anyway. When a millionaire offers him the
opportunity to die and help others by doing so, in the meantime, to live like a millionaire, Joe grabs the opportunity. His absurd journey to his
demise helps him discover the meaning of existence.
• beetnoven 1774 ro comeay-A lamly daopts a st. bernara puopy, to the chastin of the later. the ouppy crows and causes mishap aller
mishao, Ine Tarners and Tamiys love Tor the dog Is tested when a corruot vererinarian Kidnaps the dog Tor a deadiv experiment
• Outbreak (1775) (R) (Drama)–An airborne virus threatens the world, beginning in a California town. A team of doctors is brought in to contain
the situation. The doctors must fight against the clock to save the town and its residents after the Army is called in.
• The Rainmaker (1997) (PG-13) (Drama)–A new attorney works for a less-than-reputable lawyer and meets a paralegal. An insurance company
refuses to pay coverage for a woman's dying son, and the new lawyer and paralegal team up to fight.
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017) (NR) (Documentary)–This tells the story of a Black woman who died in 1951 at age 31 of cervical
cancer. Her legacy, the HeLa cell line, was taken from her tumor while she was still alive.
• |he rather 2020) (Pa-13) (Dramal-A man begins to doubt those he loves and even his own mind as he retuses help from his daughter as he
ages.
• Dallas Buyers Club (2013) (Drama)-An electrician learns he has AIDS and has just 30 days left to live. He smuggles unapproved drugs into the
U.S. and joins with a fellow AIDS patient to sell the treatments to people who can't wait for science to find a treatment.
• Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) (R) (Horror)-Viktor Frankenstein recounts events from his life regarding a creature he brings to life from
assemo ed pody oarts or dead people. Me abandons une creature, ano the creature seeks revence on Is maken
• Take Care of Maya (2023) (PG-13) (Drama)- A family experiences a nightmare after their daughter exhibits unusual symptoms, and they seek
medical help.
In vour essav, apoly vour selected theorv and all or lis core princio es to the medical eunical clemma in the nim:.
• Virtue Ethics – Core Principles – telos, virtue, eudaimonia, practical wisdom
• Kanuan tunics – core rrincioles – cury, universality. Imoarnality. reclorocity
• Utilitarian Ethics – Core Principles – welfare, impartiality, sum-ranking, consequentialism
Essay Format:
• Title Page – In APA format, include your paper's title, name, and institution (i.e., Galen College) in that order.
• Introduction – Provide a brief synopsis of the film in your own words that includes the ethical dilemma present in the film, what happens in the
nim, and une nim's endine, Introduce une ethical theory vou will use to analvze the nim. recommended one paraeraon.
• Ethical Analysis – Identify the ethical theory you selected in your planning document. Explain in detail how it applies to the film. Also, explain
in detail how all of its core principles apply to the medical ethical dilemma in the film. Apply the theory and its core principles using the
readings and course materials as textual evidence to explain the moral view.
• Your goal is to critique the ethical decisions made in the film based on the core principles of the ethical theory you selected.
kemember that these eunical systems may or may not lustly the eunical decisions made Dy the characters in the nim., necommended
4-6 paragraphs)
• Reflection – Summarize what you have discussed in the essay and reflect on your learning. Lastly, discuss how your learning could be applied
to your professional and personal life. (Recommended one paragraph)
• Reference page – Include references in APA format. You must also cite all sources in the body of your paper wherever you use ideas from
them and immediately after all direct quotations, as in-text citations in APA format.
APA Formatting: Your essay must be written using APA format (including APA-approved fonts – e.g., Calibri or Times New Roman 12-point). It
should be double-spaced, 4 pages long (excluding the title and reference pages).
Required Citations and References: You must provide in-text citation(s) and a reference for the film you select and the course materials (media or
readings) you use to inform your planning document. (USLO 10.4)
Ethical Analysis Essay 01.2024
Criteria
Kauings
© Film
10 pts
pts
sots
Synopsis and
Excellent description
Adequate description
Inadequate description
Does not include
Medical Ethical of the film and medical of the film and medical of the film and medical
description of the film
Dilemma
echical allemma
eunical allemma.
ethical allemma
or meaical ethical
CSLO 2
threshold: 10.0 pts
Opte
No description of film
and medical dilemma
or did not submit
assignment.
10 pts
© Ethical
Analysis
CSLO 3
threshold: 40.0 pts
40 pts
Excellent analysis of
how selected theory
and all of its core
principles apply to the
30 pts
Adequate analysis of
how selected theory
and most of its core
principles apply to the
20 pts
Inadequate analysis of
how selected theory
and some of its core
principles apply to the
10 pts
Analysis does not
apoly most of the
selected theory's core
principles to the film
Opts
No analysis or did not
submit assienment.
40 pts
& Reflection
CSLO 4
threshold: 10.0 pts
10 pts
excellent retlection on
lessons learned for
protessional life
7 pts
Adequate retlection on
lessons learned for
personal and
proressional life.
5 pts
Inaded uate retlection
on lessons learned for
personal and
professional life.
3 pts
Keriection aiscusses
only lessons learned
for personal or
protessional life
O pts
No retlection present
or did not submit
assignment.
10 pts
& Application
20 pts
of Information
Student's writing is supported with at
least one scholarly source. Examples of
Resources
scholarly sources are course materials
CSLO 1
(assigned media and readings), journal
threshold: 20.0 pts articles, or authoritative websites
10 pts
Student's writing is supported with a
non-scholarly source
Opts
No application of resources present or
did not submit assignment.
20 pts
APA
10 pts
7 pts
Formatted according
Formatted according
to APA guidelines with to APA guidelines with
no errors. Error free
few/minor issues.
APA formatted in-text
Several APA
citations and post-lexu
formatung errors bul
references.
includes both in-text
citations and post-text
references.
5 pts
Formatted according
to APA guidelines with
Missing either in-text
citations or post-lexi
3 pts
signincant issues
present in the
formatting of the title
page. Missing both in-
ext citations and
post-text references.
Opts
No attempt made to
include an in-text
citation or full
reference or did not
submit assignment
10 pts
Length
10 pts
4 pages in length (not
including title page
and reference page).
7 pts
3 pages in length (not
including title page
and reference page).
5 pts
2 pages in length (not
including title page
and reference page).
3 pts
1 page in length (not
Including title page
and reference page).
O pts
Did not submit
assignment.
4 Previous
10 pts
Total Points: 100
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