Chris Collins by https://padlet.com/ccollins331/5g1pmvr46juo Current Events: Ethical Issues in the News en-us 2017-11-06 02:36:17 UTC 2017-12-18 04:48:21 UTC hello@padlet.com BBC News ccollins331 https://padlet.com/ccollins331/5g1pmvr46juo/wish/203723693 Abuse of Power
05 November 2017]]> 2017-11-06 03:08:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ccollins331/5g1pmvr46juo/wish/203723693 ccollins331 https://padlet.com/ccollins331/5g1pmvr46juo/wish/203730871 In this video article Michelle Pfeiffer talks about her thoughts on how woman are treated in “Hollywood”. Recent rape claims by actress Paz de la Huerta towards Harvey Weinstein have sparked this topic that was needing to be discussed. A lot of women are now talking about their experiences with men in power as they were trying to make it as an actress. Pfeiffer says, “There hasn’t been one women that I’ve talked to who hasn’t had an experience and it goes to show you how systemic the problem is” relating to abuse of women in the industry. 

Our book says, “The systemic character of oppression implies that an oppressed group need not have a correlate oppressing group”. I think this backs up what Pfeiffer is stating because the women that are being oppressed against by some men in power in Hollywood aren’t looking to act the same way back but are looking for legal justification. With all the discussions going on it seems that we are going in the right direction and that there won’t be as much hiding from what happened. Female actress can look at this and see that when someone crosses the line they have the law on their side and can stand up for themselves.

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Michelle Pfeiffer: Abuse of women in Hollywood is ‘systemic’. (2017,November 06). Retrieved November 5, 2017, from Michelle Pfeiffer: Abuse of women in Hollywood is 'systemic'

Mackinnon, B. & Fiala, A. (2017). Ethics: Theory and contemporary issues. Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.

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Pirelli goes down the rabbit hole with all-black cast for 2018 calendar. (n.d.). Retrieved November 12, 2017, from https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2017/nov/12/pirelli-calendar-alice-in-wonderland-all-black-cast-edward-enninful

Mackinnon, B. & Fiala, A. (2017). Ethics: Theory and contemporary issues. Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.

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]]> 2017-11-19 00:16:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ccollins331/5g1pmvr46juo/wish/208420389 Racism in the criminal justice system ccollins331 https://padlet.com/ccollins331/5g1pmvr46juo/wish/208420452 This article is based off a study people did to look closer at the sentence time of people and to relation to their ethnicity. They found out that “black men are sentenced to far more time in prison than white men for committing similar crimes”. The first things I thought of was the variables that could be associated with a study like this. One important variable I thought of was the criminal history the individuals had because that would obviously be a reason to receive a different sentence time. The article points out that it knew about that factor and it didn’t change the results. I found this article interesting as this week we talk about utilitarianism and the death penalty. Racial discrimination is one of many problems plaguing the justice system. The facts that are being presented along with the absurd costs will hopefully lead to positive changes. 

 

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Ruiz-Grossman, S. (2017, November 18). Black Men's Sentences 20 Percent Longer Than White Men's For Similar Crimes. Retrieved November 18, 2017, from https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/black-white-sentencing-criminal-justice-report_us_5a0f8295e4b0e97dffed66a0?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

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