Ethical Analysis Essay

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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, you may choose a different film, but you 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 suffering from bouts of amnesia.
• 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 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) (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, Beth is dead, and doctors tell her shocked husband that they have no idea what killed her. Soon, many others 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) 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.
• Beethoven (1992) (PG) (Comedy)-A family adopts a St. Bernard puppy, to the chagrin of the father. The puppy grows and causes mishap after mishap. The fathers and familys love for the dog is tested when a corrupt veterinarian kidnaps the dog for a deadly experiment.
• Outbreak (1995) (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 womans 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.
• The Father (2020) (PG-13) (Drama)-A man begins to doubt those he loves and even his own mind as he refuses 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 cant wait for science to find a treatment.
• Mary Shelleys Frankenstein (1994) (R) (Horror)-Viktor Frankenstein recounts events from his life regarding a creature he brings to life from assembled body parts of dead people. He abandons the creature, and the creature seeks revenge on its maker.
• 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 your essay, apply your selected theory and all of its core principles to the medical ethical dilemma in the film:

• Virtue Ethics Core Principles telos, virtue, eudaimonia, practical wisdom
• Kantian Ethics Core Principles duty, universality, impartiality, reciprocity
• Utilitarian Ethics Core Principles welfare, impartiality, sum-ranking, consequentialism

Essay Format:

• Title Page – In APA format, include your papers 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 film, and the films ending. Introduce the ethical theory you will use to analyze the film. (Recommended one paragraph)
• 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. (Remember that these ethical systems may or may not justify the ethical decisions made by the characters in the film.) (Recommended 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)

I will attach a copy of the planning document which was completed which is for the movie Beethoven