Benefits Street is a documentary series on channel 4 focusing on the people who live on benefits. The series is known for attracting criticism, the residents of James Turner street have also complained that the show Benefits Street represents them as drug-users, benefit scroungers, and bad parents”. This programme raises many ethical questions exploring; representation of characters, and the way the media creates an unbiased view of the subject. The characters in Benefits Street are shown to be intoxicated, commit crime, and dispute with kids. In the first and second episode we are introduced to the Romanians of Benefits Street who are constantly being attacked and aggravated by the other residents.
Advertisements help pay an artist’s bills which allows them to make more music. Commercials can also help pay for the costs for tours and artists can make an innumerable amount of money. Promotions can bring a more varied audience to a musician and can help bands gain popularity. By having more people listening to an artist’s music, a musician can be given a sense of reassurance to write more songs. Recently people are debating about whether advertisers should be allowed to use a musicians’ music.
During the Great Depression era, an innumerable amount of Americans felt the effects of both ego death and loss of autonomy. Because the 1930s took so much away from people, including their pride and humanity, the majority felt humiliated by events out of their control. After the start of the Depression, it became almost impossible to find employment, and nearly all available jobs paid so low that people refused to take them. This resulted in people feeling ashamed of themselves. Consequently the American people viewed this loss of power, control, and pride as a monster and projected it into movies such as White Zombie.
The film "Patterns" written by Rod Serling explores the different ethical perspectives of three main characters. Ramsey is a ruthless businessman, Briggs, the fair and just leader, and Staples is the ambitious and initially ethical employee. The central tenets of virtue ethics, as argued by Aristotle, say that virtues are character traits that allow individuals to live a good and fulfilling life. However, as the film progresses, we see a shift in the ethics of Staples as he becomes more entrenched in the cutthroat corporate world, moving away from Aristotle's virtue ethics and focusing more on his own personal gain at the expense of others. On the other hand, Briggs is guided by the principles of deontological ethics, which emphasizes the importance
Intellectual property refers to creations of the mind, such as inventions; literary and artistic works; designs; and symbols, names and images used in commerce (Source 1). Some common types of intellectual property include, but are not limited to; trademarks, patents, copyright, and industrial design rights. While there has always been intellectual property, it was not until the late 1900’s that the term “intellectual property” was used. Intellectual property, like physical property, is owned by a certain person or group, who has legal rights over that property. Mr. Timothy Sykes and his company own the rights over all of his products, including the 9 DVD’s I downloaded and uploaded to my website.
Warren and Helen Schmidt have been married for 42 years and have lived respectful lives in Omaha Nebraska; Warren as an assistant vice president actuary business professional who investigates the financial costs of risk for insurance and pension programs at Woodman of the World Insurance Company, and Helen as a housewife. They have an only daughter named Jeannie living in Denver Colorado who is engaged to Randall Hertzel. Warren has an older brother, Harry, who lives in Roanoke, Virginia with his wife, Estelle. Schmidt is an emotionally lacking, seemingly unhappy 66 year old man.
Rhetorical Analysis of Musical Law and Reddit What constitutes between fair use and copyrighted plagiarized material? Uploading Copyrighted works to Youtube in full song length is plagiarization, but what constitutes fair use in using a Sample of musical work for new music? I am taking into account two very different forms of handling the issue on copyrighted material in the musical industry. Michael Schuster’s the Study of Music Sampling’s effect on the Market for Copyrighted Works takes a professional, legal, approach to the issue on copyrighted material and its effect on the Musical Market.
In both the movies Jurassic Park and Jurassic World many ethical principles are seen as going wrong. The dinosaurs were created genetically out of labs and by taking dinosaur DNA from mosquitoes and using frogs to create the rest of the dinosaurs. The information about how the dinosaurs were exactly made was concealed from the people; creating harmful, dangerous dinosaurs. Due to the lack of security and protection of the dinosaurs, they were able to roam around and act like the true animal that they were, carnivores. Causing a lot of danger and destruction.
History Vs. Hollywood: The Untouchables The Untouchables is an action packed movie, set in Chicago, 1920s. Crime controls the city, the system has gone corrupt, and people are dying.
ETHICAL ISSUE AT WALT DISNEY The Walt Disney Company is a leading international family entertainment and media enterprise. The company is there in the field of family entertainment for more than nine decades. From their humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to the global corporation they are today, the company continues to proudly provide quality entertainment for every member of the family all around the world. They have five main business segments including studio entertainments,, interactive medias, consumer products, parks and resorts and media networks. The subsidiaries within these segments of the Disney Corporation include ESPN, Touchstone, Marvel, ABC, Pixar, numerous theme parks and resorts, and a variety of consumer product lines.
1. What competitive forces have challenged the movie industry? What problems have these forces created? What changes have these problems caused the movie and television industry to make?
Piracy might affect the income of workers involved in the making of movies. Workers in the lower rungs of the entertainment industry may experience cutting overhead (Straus, 2013). They are basically people who work behind the scenes for the movies. According to Loeb (2010), those who work behind the scenes derive a substantial portion of their health, welfare, benefits, and retirement contributions from the revenue that their work generates from secondary markets which consist of foreign distribution, DVD sales, and airings on television.
Case Question 1: Most aspects of foreign culture, like languages, religion, gender roles, and problem solving strategies, are hard for a casual observer to understand. In what ways do do Hollywood movies affect national culture outside the United States? What aspect of U.S culture do Hollywood films promote around the world ? Can you observe any positive effects of Hollywood movies on world culture?
“Pornography is the theory; rape is the practice.” (Kutchinsky B. 1991) The word ‘pornography’ acquires and bears a constant negative connotation, the word itself encapsulates the abhorring behaviour of exploiting women’s rights and rape fantasies. With a long history, from the beginning of Playboy in the 1950’s (Sanburn, 2011), pornography has progressed hugely and is becoming more normalised and accepted. The pornography industry is predominantly catered to the male perspective, hence the male viewpoint portrayed against the female viewpoint portrayed in pornography.
REIMAGINING CULTURE IN THE ERA OF DIGITAL CREATIVITY AND COPYRIGHT LAW Prajwal K Aradhya 20141351 “What’s the most resilient parasite? An idea. A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules ”; these were the words of Cobb, the character played by Leonardo DiCaprio, in the movie Inception.
