Rocky: How To Win Friends And Influence People

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Avildsen, J. (Director). (1976). Rocky [Motion picture]. United States: Chartoff-Winkler Productions. Rocky Summary: This movie, produced in 1976, tells a rags to riches story of Rocky Balboa. Rocky, an uneducated but kind-hearted debt collector for a loan shark named Gazzo, is a small-time boxer who lives in an apartment in Philadelphia. Gazzo believes that Rocky does not have what it takes to beat up the deadbeats because he is not vicious enough, but Rocky still boxes every once in a while to keep his boxing skills sharp. But on the contrary, his old trainer, Mikey, believed he could have been the next big boxer if he would work for it. The current world heavyweight boxing champion chooses Rocky to fight with him for the big title. So Rocky …show more content…

The book is a timeless classic that tells the secrets about how to improve your way of thinking to gain better friends, employment where you desire, and progress in your current place of work. Since 1936, this book has given advice to many people and as a result, people have become successful in their lifetime. Carnegie’s advice not only helps make people like you more, improve your communication skills, and teaches you how to change others way of thinking, but he also helps the reader to obtain their maximum …show more content…

Throughout the piece, Gilbert explores the ethicality of downsizing through the use of important methods in the attempt to study the ethics of utilitarianism, privileges and responsibilities, and fairness and equality. Gilbert explains that the unitarianism method finds downsizing an ethically and legally moral actions because the overall effect of the layoffs are for the greater good for majority of the people. The privileges and responsibilities method finds downsizing to be fair because these workers’ jobs are not promised to them. The justice and fairness method does not find the downsizing to be moral because they do not terminate workers based on each individual’s working ethnics and good