Only 10% of the students who were in a hurry stopped to help the man. Of the students who were told they were on time, 45% of them helped. Sixty-three percent of students who were told they were ahead of schedule stopped to help. These numbers are highly disturbing. What does it say about human nature if one can ignore another individual's need just to make it on time? Did the subjects who passed the man not have any compassion for the man? Apparently they did. Darley and Batson recorded that many of the subjects that passed the man arrived at the second room distraught or anxious. As if they knew very well they should've helped the man but their concern to make it on time for their own self-interest was more important to them.
If being late is enough for someone to disregard an individual's need for help, what if the individual thought he or she was part of an important psychological study? Would that be enough for one to disregard their moral conscience as well? This is answered in the Milgram Shock Experiment. In this experiment, the subject believes he is taking part in an experiment that studies the effects punishment has on learning, as far as he or she knows, there is another subject who plays the role of "learner"." Although he is actually an actor just like the slumped man in the doorway of the Good Samaritan Experiment. The learner would be asked to seat and strap themselves into a chair that doesn't look too different from an electric chair. The subject is told he will play the role of "teacher"." The teacher's job is to administer an electric shock through the chair by flipping a switch every time the learner gets a question wrong. The questions are memory based, so prior knowledge isn't required to get the questions right. The teacher is given a sample shock so he or she knows the shocks aren't too bad. After every wrong answer, the shocks get stronger. The teacher is told that none of the shocks are fatal or dangerous.
We do not know why but Da Mayor tells him to do the right thing, always. ... Did Mookie do the right thing? According to me, in the movie, no one was able to do the right thing except for Mookie and Da Mayor. ... In the movie "Do the right thing" there is a lot of moral that make us realize certain things. ... Accepting and respecting others with their differential would be the right thing to do. ...
In the film, Do the Right Thing, director Spike Lee presents the audience with the theme of racism. ... Do the Right Thing allows the viewers to decide for themselves what's the right thing to do about racism. ... The two cultures in the film do not want to compromise with each other. ...
So when I was asked to write a paper dealing with Spike Lee's masterpiece, "Do The Right Thing," I chose to expand my thinking past all the normal themes. ... What are some "safe" themes that occur in "Do The Right Thing?" ... What does almost every movie have? ... In Lee's "Do The Right Thing," no clear hero or villain clearly emerges. ... These actions don't make Radio a hero however, and thus stabilize my thesis that no real heroes or villains take firm hold in Lee's "Do The Right Thing." ...
What is the right thing for me to do? ... Conviction and self-interest do not usually suffice in determining what is right or wrong. ... Again, one is supposed to do right by religion. ... So self interest plays a major role in what one believes is the right thing to do. ... Ayer has a very neutral approach to philosophical views of what is the right thing to do. ...
The only thing we don't realize is that we are equally racist. ... Due the right thing, an incredible movie by Spike Lee and saying *by* him is quite just, he starred in, it directed it produced it and wrote it. ... Cultures in conflict cannot be a good thing and can only lead to trouble, they say:*A person is smart, people are stupid*. ... And well fighting erupted and then the next day people still had the same problems and whatever they had done didn't really change much except for a lost friend and no more pizza for them their point was not proven in the manner they wanted...
Lee was able to study the neighborhood of Bed-Stuy or one just like it, and observe the inhabitants in their own environment, by observing their unique qualities and behavior, he was able to create characters for his film "Do the Right Thing-. ... What Lee does is he makes the viewers think. ... Another reason why Spike Lee makes a good anthropologist is that perhaps why Lee made everyone just as guilty and just as innocent as anyone else, he did that because there is no right thing to do. Or if there is one right way to act perhaps it isn't the only right way. ... In conclusion Spike Le...
The Right Thing The counselor was late for our appointment. ... I cast one more glance at my friend; his sad eyes confirmed that we were doing the right thing. ... She had reached a point that terrified me, and the terror in my voice was plain as I revealed the last thing I knew, the thing that cemented my determination to tell someone: She was looking for an escape from the pain, sadness and feelings of inadequacy that were now constant for her. ... I didn't go right back to class right away, but instead walked the hallways of the school trying to make sense of the emotional rambli...
Spike Lee's, "Do the Right Thing" is centered in the Bedford-Stuyvesant district of Brooklyn, New York City in the later 1980s, early 90's. ... Upon its release, "Do the Right Thing" was received in variety of ways. ... Do the Right Thing aimed to portray what was actually happening in the world during these years. ... Although slightly dated, Do the Right Thing presented a reality for the time period, altered the way people viewed racial to is a compelling story that remains...
