PHIL 102

Ethics, Politics, & Law

Spring Quarter 2009

Movie Papers

The movie papers are due in a single portfolio as soon as you have completed the seven required papers.

Erin Brockovich

Do you think "justice" was done for the citizens of Hinkley?  Would things have worked out any differently if Ed's assistant had been a man? 

Lives of Others

The events in the movie took place in East Germany in the 1980s.  Are we headed toward a world like that here in the United States after 9/11 and the "war on terror?"  Why, or why not?

I've Loved You So Long

Now that we know what she was in for, was this movie a "privacy" movie?  Justify you answer.

Philadelphia

Oregon recently passed a ballot initiative that amended the state Constitution to permit and recognize marriage only between a man and a woman.  Do you believe that Andy and Miguel should have been allowed to marry, if they had chosen to do so?  Why or why not?

Milk

Discuss the changes in our country and culture with respect to homosexuality in the past thirty or forty years.  How much credit do you think Harvey Milk deserves for those changes?

Thin Blue Line

Given that Randal Adams could have been executed for killing the police officer, what do you think about the death penalty?

Dead Man Walking

Was the movie pro or anti capital punishment.  Justify your answer

Thelma and Louise

Is this movie a feminist movie?  Justify why you think that it is, or why you think it is not.