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The principle of standing alone means that a person is not connected or dependent on anything societal or emotional. An example of this is the current presidential race: each candidate must speak independently when speaking to the public; none should rely on other people to write their opinions for them, otherwise that would compromise their integrity in the race. However they are giving up these personal comforts in exchange for being able to be able to lead the country, and to prove their individual important point. The whole reason people choose to stand alone is so that can prove an important point. It is important to stand alone, even when giving up personal comforts, in order to contest against an injustice in a society. In the book …show more content…
Andrew Beckett was a successful homosexual lawyer up until he was diagnosed with AIDS, where he was then fired. After his termination, Andrew seeks the help of another lawyer, Joe Miller, so that he can sue his old employers for wrongful termination. Miller’s feelings toward homosexuality and the AIDS disease are negative things that shouldn’t exist and each go hand in hand together. However, Miller decides to cast these beliefs to the side in order to defend Beckett in his case. An example of how Miller gave up personal comfort is when he met Beckett at a library while reading. Miller confronts Beckett about his case and learns Beckett still doesn’t have a lawyer and decides to assist. At this point in the movie, Miller decides that he must cast away his own beliefs and comforts in order to do what is right in society. When Miller sits down with Beckett to discuss his case this shows how he is now standing alone and interacting with a man who has a deadly disease, while others simply move away. This initial act of reaching out sets how Miller will act open-minded during the rest of the movie toward Beckett. Towards the end of the movie during the case Beckett is asked if the lesions on his face were visible at work, in which the lawyer representing Beckett’s old bosses hands him a mirror and the lesion on his face is barely visible. After this, Miller goes to the stand and asks Beckett to remove his shirt in order to show some lesions that were comparable to the ones on Beckett’s face at the time. This act shows how Miller has cast away all personal comfort and stood alone in order to bring justice to a man who has been wrongly terminated from his job; a termination that was not caused by poor performance or action, but simply because a man had the AIDS virus.
Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks) is one of Philadelphia's most promising lawyers. He's the hot rookie and is hired by a top law firm headed by Charles Wheeler (Jason Robards). Andy is also gay and dying from AIDS. When the physical signs of the disease begin to manifest themselves, the firm gets cold on Andy and he's out of a job. They tell him it's because he has an attitude problem and his work is mediocre, but Andy knows it's more personal than that. After no other law firm will take his case for unfair dismissal, his last resort is old adversary Joe Miller (Denzel Washington). Joe, a homophobe with an innate fear of AIDS, is reluctant to take the case also because of his personal reasons, but after seeing Andy humiliated in a public library, can't resist standing his corner with him.
Individualism regards man—every man—as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being. Individualism holds that a civilized society, or any form of association, cooperation or peaceful coexistence among men, can be achieved only on the basis of the recognition of individual rights—and that a group, as such, has no rights other than the individual rights of its members.
In the movie Philadelphia a lawyer named Joe miller takes a heroic journey. His journey is taking a case dealing with an Aids patience that is working in a distinguished law firm . Andrew Beckon is wrongfully accused of losing an important document regarding an important cort case. To make the call of this hero more interesting, he has a personal problem with homosexual behaver . Also , he has to deal with society ‘s mindset on gays.
The debate over individualism and collectivism has been the fundamental conflict both in political philosophy and in ethics. Philosophers such as Ayn Rand think that human beings are fundamentally individuals, and that everyone exists for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself. But it is very rare for one to live completely alone by himself. The entire human race would not be able to evolve and reproduce, if humans were individualistic in nature, and each individual needs some form of support from group to enhance its own odds of surviving. Humans naturally are in need of each other to survive, to reproduce, and to protect their offspring. Such needs are innately built into every human being, and
Standing doctrine confuses both lower courts and litigants, because the Court manipulates the doctrine to serve other objectives. When the Court wants to reach the merits of a case, the standing doctrine is often relaxed. Conversely, when the Court wishes to avoid deciding the merits of a case--or perhaps, when it wants to shut a whole category of cases out of court--, the requirements for standing are tightened.
Until this day, many members of the LGBTQ community are still fighting for their rights and to be accepted for who they are. This community has to challenge political set beliefs such as same-sex marriage to change the societal norm because of who they choose to love and to find their identity. Jonathon Demme’s Film Philadelphia embodies the G and Q in LGBTQ. The protagonist, Andrew Beckett, is fighting an ongoing battle with AIDS but has continued to excel in his job at a Prestigious Law Firm in Philadelphia. Beckett has kept his identity to himself due to some homophobic remarks made by his boss’s in fear of losing his job. Soon enough, Beckett started to show what looked like lesions on his face. He was then sabotaged which caused him to lose his job due to suspicion of Beckett’s gay identity. This could have been questioned because of the connection of lesions to Aids and Aids to homosexuality. Beckett ironically proceeds to hire a prejudiced lawyer, Joe Miller to help him with his case of injustice and prejudice actions done against him. Beckett and Miller won the case against the head partners in the firm for firing him, but Becket lost his own battle with AIDS and lost his life. The root of prejudice and discrimination against Beckett is led by the idea of an over sexualized LGBTQ community derived from Social Media and Hollywood.
Being an individual enables us to think for ourselves, deciding what is right and what is
changing attitudes toward life and the other characters in the play, particularly the women; and his reflection on the
Do you stand alone as a unique and special individual? Since the beginning of American history there have been struggles for individualism. The American Revolution, the American Civil War, and the separation from family life are all examples of individualism in American history. Individualism is an American paradigm designed by the modern societal structure that is an altered idea of the foundation by immigrants. In today’s society the struggle for individualism is more personal and represents how American values have shifted since the beginning of American history.
...rs solitude to be of great importance in achieving an individualistic understanding. He writes, “It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” Here it can be seen that Emerson also recognizes solitude to be a beneficial thing to people, but he argues that to be able to remain an individual within society is a far greater achievement. To be able to think without the assistance of society while enduring the pressures of society is to be truly great.
...en that is the way that one can incorporate social groups into their everyday lives, all the while maintaining their autonomy. This segues into the final point: maintaining one’s autonomy is important because one should provide their own unique input, generating various ideas and unique perspectives allows others to build onto that and ultimately advances society as a whole.
...n isolation reflects the reaction of certain families when they have a family member who can not fend for himself, considering what a burden that all he does is spend family resources that could be used for other purposes.
Solitude. Examples are found of this idea throughout the one-hundred-year life of Macondo and the Buendia family. It is both an emotional and physical solitude. It is shown geographically, romantically, and individually. It always seems to be the intent of the characters to remain alone, but they have no control over it. To be alone, and forgotten, is their destiny.
Leadership is found not just at work but all around us. In any situation, leaders take a step forward and take charge of the situation. It can be at home, at work or at any other place. Leaders are never born, they become leaders because they have the credibility and people would love to follow them.
The increasing trend of people living alone is addressed in Eric Klinenberg’s book “Going Solo”, which offers a good explanation of the different social forces behind this trend, and investigating the psychology of the lone dweller. He starts the book off with an introduction quoting the Bible and Aristotle, laying down the difference between being alone and living alone, and introduces the context of the American individualism, and how living alone made its way into the cities. In parts of the book, he accredited this to the emancipation of women that led to increased job prospects, the flourishing property market that attracted young people to cities, and kept them there with the continual gentrification and cultural and social activities.