Marilyn Case Study

Improved Essays
Interstellar Regulations: Any stowaway discovered in an EDS shall be jettisoned immediately following discovery. TP, p. 25 One may ask, how could a EDS pilot not detect a beautiful youthful girl entering his cruiser? Marilyn, an innocent eighteen year old with sky blue eyes in those mesmerizing vegan gypsy sandals. Marilyn appeared to innocently ponder on a EDS that seemed solid and safe like the Earth. Unknowingly, she was only an innocent stoway that would eventually be executed and sacrificed by an unbenounced EDS pilot named Barton that was commissioned to send fever serum to six individuals suffering in Group One. As a stranger, he may appear to come across “insensitive” due to his role to intentionally being accustomed to leading one …show more content…
Reasonably, is it true that Marilyn 's hours were to last for eternity? Would it be reasonable to say those supposive three undetermined hours were to finish a project? Is quantity a better deciding factor than quality? The amount of time is not greater than the amount of lives being saved according to utilitariasm. Knowingly, Marilyn 's right should be evaluated depending on how strong her right is and whom it 's actually benefitting. Marilyn 's sacrifice of rights are small and big rights are rather difficult to prove. There is also the notion that an utiliarian could identify that no one is permitted to do harm so good can come and intentional harm is to forcely commit an action. Although this is true, Marilyn being sacrificed is not being denied but enhanced for the correct thing to do in a given circumstance. Simply, Barton could intentionally jettison Marilyn and everyone else dies from the germs, or he allows Marilyn to live a couple more hours, the cruiser crashes leaving Barton blameless and the six others “unintentionally” die. As a result, there is nothing that could possibly change Marilyn 's fate as it supports the greater utility between the two

Related Documents

  • Superior Essays

    Colleen Vignette Case Study

    • 2476 Words
    • 10 Pages

    Colleen vignette stood out to me because of her religious background and the traumatic experience that she suffered. Colleen is a young female who has lost her life as she has planned which is something that many people can suffer from. People can plan out their life then have one huge thing through them off course. When this happens they can feel hopeless and lost which is something that many people need help getting over. When a client comes in after a traumatic experience it can be valuable to remain calm and relax while they tell their story so that a safe place can be created.…

    • 2476 Words
    • 10 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Norma Rae Case Study

    • 1724 Words
    • 7 Pages

    As she is copying down the bulletin, all the male supervisors approach Norma and begin harassing her and then questioning her about making phone calls on company time. At this point Norma Rae becomes defensive and unruly during the questioning and requests the full names of all the gentleman in the office with her. The mill management refuses and demand that Norma Rae to leave company property immediately, Norma refuses and she combatively exclaims that if they want her to leave the sheriff needs to come get her and take her home.…

    • 1724 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Norma Jeane Baker or better know as Marilyn Monroe. Born June 1, 1926 and met an untimely death August 5, 1962. Fifthly plus years after her suspicious death we still wonder, was it an accident overdose or suicide. Who was Marilyn Monroe and what mental illness did she suffer from? A terrible childhood that lead to a successful but pained adulthood.…

    • 1288 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The court noted that Ms Bouvia was mentally competent, understood the risks involved in refusing nasogastric tube feeding, and, hence, any objections to her refusal of the feeding could not be based on those grounds. The hospital staff argued that the interests of the state should prevail over the rights of the patient to refuse treatment. Traditionally, viable state interests include: preserving life, preventing suicide, protecting innocent third parties, and maintaining the ethical standards of the medical profession. The court decided that these interests, although valid, were insufficient to overcome Ms Bouvia's right to refuse medical treatment. The appellate court concluded that the trial court had erred in deciding that, just because Ms Bouvia could live an additional 15 to 20 years with sufficient feeding, the state's interest in preserving her life for that period prevailed over her individual right to autonomy.…

    • 694 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    I will argue that there is more than just the loving eye and the arrogant eye, In Marilyn Frye ‘in and out of harm’s way: arrogance and love’ article in which she stats that our eyes are either arrogant or loving. She believed that there is no such thing for someone to have something as a ‘neutral eye’. For example, the arrogant eye sees everything in relation to itself and is always a one-sided demeaner, as it denies the mystery and complexity’s in the world instead the arrogant eyes-only favor seeing simplicity and having control in whichever situation it is in. On the other hand, the loving eye, which can see beyond just itself and acknowledge other realities beyond just its own, This eye see’s things like complexity, mystery and difference…

    • 1463 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    A short story by Tom Godwin called “The Cold Equations” interprets the theme life isn't always fair. This story takes place in the year 2178 and is about a girl, Marilyn, who stows away on a space craft called “Stardust.” The girl get's caught because of the heat radiation from her body. She is told about the rules and how she would have to be killed, because the craft has only a certain amount of fuel to get from point A to point B.…

    • 737 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    I really appreciate Cathy Small’s appreciation and respect for the Tongan people and culture. Our family like so many immigrants have a great story and journey to America. My relationship with Cathy I would say is professional in nature. As an Anthropologist she tries to remain objective. Her approach to her study takes Humanistic approach to anthropology, as Ivan Brady suggests, “must be creative, eager to search everywhere and to account for the greatest array of happenings, and willing to reach out to alternate narrative forms.…

    • 167 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Norma Short Story

    • 536 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Title In the short story “Norma” by Sonia Sanchez, there is a girl named Sonia, who is shy and needs help with a math problem. Another character, Norma, goes up to the board and shows Sonia how to do it. Norma was from Mississippi, and was the only kid who would talk to the “pip-squeaks.” On another day, Norma asked their French teacher a question Sonia could not understand.…

    • 536 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    First, let me say my mother's attorney, Laird Lambert told me in June of 2014 that Mary Ann planned this lawsuit in 2011. For what reason I do not know. I know Mary Ann was angry when I took my mother here. Mary Ann would not let my mother live with her.…

    • 524 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Have you ever had the feeling of complete and udder emptiness, like someone punched a hole in your chest and ripped out your heart? This is the feeling that swept over me as I sat on a hard, brown, wooden pew at my neighbor’s funeral visitation. Honestly I wasn’t even sure if my heart was beating anymore, I felt so dead inside. All sorts of people wandered into the church. It was packed, I mean wall to wall bodies.…

    • 1015 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Case of Lonnie and Dorothy 1. List the needs that Lonnie and Dorothy have. Then prioritize them. The needs that Lonnie and Dorothy have are important to be met in order for them to live comfortably.…

    • 905 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Narrative On August 4th, 1962, Marilyn Monroe was pronounced dead due to an overdose in her Brentwood home. Contrary to popular belief, Marilyn Monroe was not subject to an overdose; she was murdered by Robert Kennedy, along with his co-conspirators Peter Lawford, his brother-in-law, and Dr. Ralph Greenson, Monroe’s psychiatrist. Marilyn Monroe’s sexual relations began with Attorney General Robert Kennedy when he was sent by his brother, JFK, to stop her from contacting the president, with whom she also had an affair with.…

    • 1700 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    (Intro) Peter Singer’s “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” and Garrett Hardin’s “Lifeboat ethics” are contradictory philosophical works that examine whether scarce resources should be shared with the poor. Singer’s argument is that “suffering and death from lack of food, shelter and medical care are bad" (Singer, 1972); therefore all people become morally obligated to help the poor. While Hardin argues that ethics of a Lifeboat should be followed because there is a finite amount of resources available at our disposal (Hardin, 1974, pp.566). Both authors take extreme positions by providing opposing arguments on whether we should be involved in helping the famine or not. This essay will analyze the rational of both authors’ while trying…

    • 1468 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “I restore myself when I'm alone,” said Marilyn Monroe a week before she killed herself. Monroe was found dead on August 5, 1962. She either committed suicide, overdosed on pills, or was murdered in her home in Brentwood, California. The investigators are not sure who was involved, but some seem to think that either it involved her maid, John F. Kennedy, or the doctors who brought her body back from the hospital multiple times. Marilyn Monroe’s death raised a lot of awareness throughout the United States.…

    • 814 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Tom Godwin’s “Cold Equations” and Ray Bradbury’s “The Pedestrian” both share similarities in their respective views on the effect of technology on human freedom and individuality in the future. In “Cold Equations”, if a human stows away on an EDS ship, the computer systems of that ship’s calculations for the exact amount of fuel needed to get from point A to point B would be incorrect: “Additional fuel would be used during the hours of deceleration to compensate for the added mass of the stowaway”, which would infinitesimally miscalculate “increments of fuel that would not be missed until the ship has almost reached its destination” (Godwin 9). Ultimately, Barton, the EDS pilot, had to, by law, “... jettison [Marilyn] immediately following discovery” (Godwin 9).…

    • 509 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays