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Spike Lee's 1989 film Do the Right Thing remains aptly polarizing to this day. The film depicts the escalating racial tensions on the hottest day of the year in the predominantly black New York neighborhood Bed Stuy. While on the surface, the film concerns itself primarily in terms of binaries, whether it be black and white or love and hatred. However, it goes beyond simple divisions and presents a complicated portrait of social hostility, class barriers, and racism. Through a variety of…

Wilcox’s wallet in a bumper car ride and finds six hundred pounds, an absurdly large amount of money. He is faced with a moral decision; does he give it keep all the money for himself, spend it at his will as a form of revenge against Wilcox or does he do the right thing and return it to Wilcox? While he contemplates this, he hears a story about what Wilcox’s father did to his wife when she lost a strip of stamps, “Gordon Wilcox beat that women so black and blue, the hospital had to feed her…

of the struggles I faced during my early adulthood. My future seemed to point in the opposite direction of success due to the financial problems that my parents faced in sending me and my four siblings to school. I managed to get part-time jobs at local retail stores during the vacations so as to help my parents with my tuition fee. I saw a changed world opening up to me, seeing a motivating environment, I surpassed academically. I learned that if I pushed harder, I could thrive; I got the…

my belief I am very fortunate to have grown up the way I did. To give some background information, I am the youngest in a family of five. I have a sister who is four years older than me and a brother who is seven years older than me. Although at times I was frustrated by the brotherly and sisterly ‘love,’ from my siblings I have come to the conclusion that everything in my life led up to the exact moment of where I am today. My parents raise me in a responsible and respectful manner. I was…

Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing brings up many important themes, importantly, racism, order, and a person’s morals. One of the most important lines of the movie, inspiring the title, is when Da Mayor tells Mookie to “always…do the right thing.” This is important advice, but it brings up the question: do any of the characters in this movie really follow it? Sal’s interactions and reactions to his black customers, Buggin’ Out and Radio Raheem’s protest, and Mookie starting the riot are all main…

Pride, a simple word, yet a variety of meanings to different people. Pride seems to encompass our daily lives, impacting our decisions. For many pride runs their lives because they care too much about how others view them, instead of what’s right. Correspondingly, with this idea, Sophocles asserts that the only crime is pride and that we must stop our wrong and fix it. This idea by Sophocles is valid due to the fact that for various people pride runs their life and influences their decisions.…

police officers helping him, telling us yet again, that he thinks he is better than everyone else. Lee uses this scene, and the film as a whole to create an art form to forcefully communicate and display the racism and hate occurring in life. Do the Right Thing is a street-smart movie that doesn’t depend on one hero or villain to determine the plot, but uses small racial incidents that eventually explode into violence. This particular scene helps carry the plot of the movie, and helps…

Introduction Businesses need to be able to present a good mental image in their current and potential consumers eyes. Historically, this has been done by offering a good product at a fair price. Times have changed- consumers now also require a business to be mindful of others and the environment while presenting a cutting-edge product. In 1997 Benoit (as cited in Dutta and Pullig, 2011) stated that when something comes to threaten the public opinion of a business (aka “Brand Crisis”), that…

George Shultz has had a quite remarkable career moving from the academic world, to government, then to business, and back again to government. One might hypothesize that his success in these very different venues rested to some extent on his skills in learning the right lessons from his experiences. What actions did he take to continue learning throughout his long career? Shultz had an ability to seek out new experiences such that “spiraled learning” occurred, whereby lessons were gleaned…

The story happens on the most sultry day of the late spring and rotates around Sal's Famous Pizzeria, clearly the main white-claimed business in the Brooklyn neighborhood in which the film is set. Sal and his two children, Nino and Vito, are not without their bigot inclinations (particularly Nino), but rather they all things considered figure out how to exist together with their dark customers.In the initial seventy five percent of the film Lee wonderfully builds up the tone and composition of…