Category Archives: Ethical Issues and Dilemmas

Ethical Issues and Dilemmas

30-Rock

Title: 30-Rock

Date: 2011

Media type: Television

Format: Episode

TV Season-Episode: Season5, Ep.15

Category: Ethical Issues and Dilemmas

Keywords: professional responsibilities, dilemmas

Rating: TV-14

Audience(s): High School Age, College Age, Adults

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Jack fas failed to renegotiate his contract with the nanny he and his wife have hired to watch their daughter Liddy while they both work. As Jack prides himself on his negotiation skills he takes issue with the fact that he failed to renegotiate the nanny’s pay rate, as such he reattempts the negotiations under the assumtion that he hates his daugher only to have his bluff called.

Clip Start Time: 3:40-5:20, 7:10-8:20, 9:10-10:10, 13:43-15:10

Clip Description: Jack attempts to make his daughter’s nanny renegotiate her contract under the assumption that he does not care about his daughter. His tactics are unsuccessful due to his inability to care for her himself. The clip raises points about child care, work and family, and spending time with one’s children.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: Is Jack unable to renegotiate successfully because he cares so much about his daughter’s wellbeing or is it because he worries he is unable to care for her properly due to the amount of time he spends working as opposed to being home with her? How do you think nanny’s impact attachment with parents when the nanny spends more time with the child than the parents do?

Places to view:  Video, Hulu, Netflix, Itunes

Contributor: Ian Brunzell-Looney

Ethical Issues and Dilemmas

Portlandia

Title: Portlandia

Date: 2012

Media type: Television

Format: Episode

TV Season-Episode: Season2,Ep.1

Category: Ethical Issues and Dilemmas

Keywords: dilemmas

Rating: TV-14

Audience(s): High School Age, College Age, Adults

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: A young man is trying to get signatures to ban plasitc bags in Portland for the Surfrider Foundation. When one resident is not interested the man’s parents intervene

Clip Start Time: 0.68611111111

Clip Description: Going door to door collecting signatures often leads to a great deal of rejection. The young man’s parents in this sketch attempt to shield him from that rejection.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: Is this perception of late launching in society accurate? How does society perceive the timeframe for launching from the house hold? With changes in launching trends will society’s perception of late launching change?

Places to view: Youtube, Amazon Video, Google Play, Itunes, ifc.com/shows/portlandia

Contributor: Ian Brunzell-Looney

Ethical Issues and Dilemmas

The Rookie

Title: The Rookie

Date: 2004

Media type: Film

Format: Clip

Category: Ethical Issues and Dilemmas

Keywords: professional responsibilities

Rating: G

Audience(s): Children Under 12, High School Age, College Age, Adults, Families

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: From IMDB: “A middle aged Texas baseball coach makes the major league after agreeing to try out if his high school team made the playoffs.”

Clip Description: The first one is where the dad (Dennis Quaid) goes to a major league baseball tryout to pitch. He waits and waits in his truck with his children. He ends up changing a dirty diaper on the bed of the truck as they are calling him up to pitch. The next scene is him pitching over and over for the coach and managers and it shows how fast he pitches.

Additional Clip Description: The second clip is one where the dad (Dennis Quaid) goes by his father’s house to tell him about the tryouts and they have an interaction. The third clip is at the end of the movie when the dad’s (Dennis Quaid) father shows up at the end.

Places to view: Youtube, Amazon Video, Vudu, Google Play, Itunes

Contributor: Kevin M. Green