...The Minority Report Big brother is watching phenomenal has many people in the world feeling that their lives have be intruded upon and their privacy invaded. Imaging living in a world where everything you do is being recorded and watched by others including you most intimate private thoughts. The Short story “The Minority Report written by Phillip K. Dick in 1956 and later made into a movie directed by well know movie director Steven Spielberg in 2002. The Minority Report is based on that very concept of precognition. Precognition is the ability to see into the future to be able to predict something before it happens. In both the short story and the movie it takes place in the very distant future. There are three individual who have the special gift of precognition, two males and one female who are referred to as Precogs. The Precogs are held in a facility called Precrime because they have the ability to foresee future murders and the people who will commit these murders. With this knowledge it allows the police to arrest and lock those individuals away in prison for the rest of their lives based on precognition. Precrime can be described as a type of police headquarters/prison. In the short story Precrime is located in New York City, but in the movie it is located in Washington DC. Both the story and the movie had many similarities and only a few differences. The main character in both short story and movie is John Anderton who is the head of...
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...force is created called the Precrime Unit. It is under this department that future murders are seen by three gifted beings referred to as the Precogs. They see the method of murder, potential victim, and the alleged murderer. John Anderton is the chief of the precrime police and is one of the people who have helped in achieving such a buzz around the efficiency of the program to spread it nationally. With an agent keeping out a vigilant eye on the efficiency of the program, Anderton is determined to show that the program is flawless. However, he sees that the next murder seen is that of Anderton himself murdering a man named Leo Crow. Now Anderton knows that he has no intention whatsoever of killing this person because he does not know who he is, so he immediately sees it as a means to frame him for a murder to make the unit look bad. So what he does is he goes to the woman who helped develop the precrime unit, Dr. Iris Hineman, to give him a clue whether the system that he thought was perfect maybe flawed after all. He finds out that there is a minority report, or a vision that deviates from the majority of the predictions seen that may say otherwise about the murder and learns that Agatha, the female precog, is the key to solving this mystery. So Anderton has an eye transplant to confuse the eye scanners that check your id to steal Agatha. From her he learns that the he does not have a minority report and that he is destined to kill Crow. He hunts Crow down to find answers but realizes...
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...| | Bottom of Form * * * Charles Arthur * The Guardian, Wednesday 16 June 2010 15.30 EDT * Jump to comments (99) Why Minority Report was spot on It's only eight years since Steven Spielberg's Minority Report amazed audiences with its futuristic technology. But now science is fast catching up Tom Cruise as John Anderton in Minority Report - an early adopter of gesture-based computing. Photograph: 20th Century Fox The launch of Microsoft's new Kinect games system, which allows players to run, jump, punch and shoot without having to wear strange clothing or hold any kind of controller, has got technology and cinema buffs alike thinking of Tom Cruise again. Specifically, the moment in the film Minority Report when Cruise, playing police chief John Anderton, tries to figure out film footage and computer data by waving his hands around in mid-air to manipulate it: turning it, shrinking it, pushing it aside, revolving it. Give it time: in a few years, we'll more than likely be controlling our computers in a similar way. 1. Minority Report 2. Production year: 2002 3. Country: USA 4. Cert (UK): 12 5. Runtime: 145 mins 6. Directors: Steven Spielberg 7. Cast: Colin Farrell, Max von Sydow, Samantha Morton, Tom Cruise 8. More on this film When Minority Report came out in the summer of 2002 – the iPod was less than a year old and the iPhone and iPad weren't even gleams in Steve Jobs's glinting eyes – its technological...
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...Mini Cases NWM: I believe the software system that best supports the company’s strategy is the “knowledge base and network” management system. The organizations mission is to “Help Clients Achieve Financial Security over a Lifetime.” The description they give for the path of getting there is as follows: “They want to leverage the traditional strengths of customer relationships, expert advice and strong product value to become the premier company helping clients achieve lifelong financial security. They will add specialists that will enable the traditional life insurance sales force to draw upon product and investment experts as needed to address clients increasing complex financial security needs. The knowledge base and networking system will “enable agents to examine the knowledge base for simple issues and bring in (virtually) financial product experts as needed when advising clients.” This system fits perfectly into the balanced scorecard. Under financial, the company wants to manage operating expenses. By only utilizing financial product experts when they are needed, this will allow the company to control costs for their services. Within the customer section of the scorecard, they want to provide expert guidance and needs-based planning. With the knowledge and networking system, they can tailor their approach to each customer individually to provide the best customer service. Under Process, they want to enhance representative productivity. Again, the knowledge and...
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...reportDestruction of Home through Technology In this section I will argue that home in Minority Report (51) fails to be established due to the invasion of technology. I will achieve this by looking at three aspects of the film that depict the loss of home. I have chosen this film as it clearly depicts a technologically advanced world, where privacy has been lost. Minority Report, directed by Steven Spielberg in 2002, is partially based on the novel Minority Report (ref), written by Philip K. Dick in 1956. The film depicts Washington D.C. in the year 1954. It focuses on John Anderton, who uses precognitive images in order to stop crimes before they happen. The city is an extension of home that leads to the loss of autonomy. This is achieved through eye recognition scanners that are placed throughout the built environment. They are used constantly to identify individuals and are seen in department stores, offices and within people’s ‘homes’. Therefore, constant interaction between technology and the individual takes place. The significance of being recognised regularly in a public space is used to make the individual feel comfortable and familiar, notions of home. The city can therefore be seen as an extension of domesticity. However, this creates blurred lines between the city and home in the sense of a single building. However, this creates a digital invasion of home evidently shown by the pursuing of Anderton through the city (‘home’) by the authorities. In this...
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...Minority Report Essay Precrime is coming to life in today’s world. Police agencies, universities, and companies are creating technology to make Precrime non-fiction instead of fiction. Since Precrime is fiction not everything in the movie and story can actually be brought to life. There are some technologies similar to those in Minority Report that have been created and that are being created to make Precrime as real as possible like cameras on traffic lights, location services, Multi- touch interfaces, and retina scanners. Future technology includes insect robots, jet packs, and Crime Prediction Software. For some years now there have been cameras on traffic lights in certain areas. These cameras have been installed to catch people who run red lights and do other illegal things while driving. Once a person runs a red light and the camera senses it, the camera will take a picture of the person’s license plate, and soon after the person will receive a ticket in the mail that tells you when and where the camera caught you, the cost of the ticket, etc. Another big thing is location service on phones, iPads, tablets, computers, etc. With location services you can let people know where you are by going to the settings in your phone and allowing certain apps to say. Apple products have location services that can help you find your stolen electronic and help the police locate it also. In more serious situations this is help the police, family, and friends find a missing...
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...Native language: - Theme: 3. The problem is choice Subject: Ethics Thinker: Immanuel Kant Movie: Minority Report Ethics in Minority Report In the film Minority Report (Spielberg, 2002), all the murders in Washington DC have been prevented for the last six years by PreCrime, a system based on stopping the murders before they happen, with the help of “precogs”, three mutated humans with precognitive abilities. The to-be-murderers are caught and sentenced without a chance to defend themselves. All seems to go well until the chief of PreCrime police force is accused of murdering a person he doesn’t even know. He begins to investigate the PreCrime system and hears that sometimes one of the precogs sees different future than the others, in which case the “minority report” is discarded and only the two similar visions are recorded. It’s not always a hundred percent sure if they would have committed the murder after all. Also, the events in the film suggest that a person is able to change their future if they know it. In the end of the film, the PreCrime system is discontinued because of that flaw, and all the prisoners are pardoned unconditionally. The ending is rising a big question: Is it really worth it to get stuck in a minor detail if the alternative would be to have no murders at all? If one in hundred people would end up not killing after all, what about the 99 murders nobody was preventing anymore? German philosopher Immanuel Kant believed that certain types of actions...
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...|Department of Law and Criminal Justice Studies |[pic] | | | | |ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET | | |STUDENT NAME |Nkiruka-Rebecca Elliott |STUDENT No |ELL11053447 | | | |PROGRAMME | |(highlight correct subjects) | |MODULE NAME: | | | |Victims and Victimology | |MARKER’S NAME: |Rashid Aziz...
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...Can We Predict the Future? In the future world of Minority Report, there was three special people that were born from drug addicts that were supposedly to be able to predict the future. These pre-cogs as they were called in the movie had to ability to predict murders in the future, but the problem was whether all these murders were actually going to happen. There within lies the question of whether you can charge someone with a severe crime such as murder before they actually commit it. The pre-cogs were used by the government to prevent crime in the capital. The thing that the government was hiding was the fact that not all three of the pre-cogs were having the same exact vision of the murders they predicted. This leads to the problem of if you can actually charge these people with crimes when these pre-cogs don’t even totally agree on it. I believe the government went too far in this aspect of hiding the secret between the pre-cogs not always agreeing to murders. This program had a flaw and it should have been shutdown. I do not believe that we will have the technology to be able to pre-determine crimes committed. If somehow we happen to be able to develop something like it, the program will differ from the movie. I don’t think people would allow the government to arrest people before they actually commit the crime. If it managed to get into law, I believe pre-crime would have to have less severe penalties than if the crime actually did happen. People who believe...
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...Racial Disparity and the Death Penalty Jeanine Clark PHI 103 Namoi Sanderovsky July 2, 2012 Penalty Racial Disparity and the Death Penalty We should, generally, want fairness in all areas of public policy. We should especially want fairness with regard to the death penalty, since the stakes are so high. Yet the opponents of the death penalty make a most peculiar argument about fairness. They argue that if the death penalty is not administered fairly, and especially not administered with racial fairness, it must be abolished. Nobody would even think of trying to apply this principle in a consistent way. If we find that black neighborhoods get less police protection than white neighborhoods, would we withdraw cops from both black and white neighborhoods? If banks are discriminating against black home buyers in mortgage lending, would we demand they stop all mortgage lending? If we find the IRS discriminating against middle-class and poor taxpayers, would we want to abolish the IRS? The first question, of course, is whether the death penalty is administered unfairly. Among right-thinking, politically correct people, the phrase “racial unfairness” is a mere tautology. It is difficult to imagine that anything in American society is administered with racial fairness. But, in fact, the opponents of capital punishment have both a “mass market” version of the racial disparity argument and a “specialist” version, and the two versions are flatly...
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...KANT EXERCISE 1. Does the fallibility of the system—the fact that “minority reports” suggest that some few of those treated as murderers had a “possible alternative future” in which they would not actually have committed the crime— make that system morally unjustifiable according to Act Utilitarianism? According to Act Utilitarianism, the act that makes the greatest happiness to the group will be morally permissible. In fact, a person who is criminal will be judged by his ability to hurt other or committing a crime. The consequence of arresting the potential murderer will help to maximize victim and their family’s utility. Otherwise, if we choosing to refraining from arresting, murderer will be happy; and the victims will experience pain. In fact, one murderer can bring pain to many other victims; therefore, even if the system may be fallible Act utilitarianism says that it is morally justified to detain the potential murderers. How does this fallibility affect the appropriate description of the “maxim” describing the use of precrime for testing by Kant’s Categorical Imperative Procedure? I.e., should the maxim to be tested include acknowledgment of the system’s fallibility? State the appropriate maxim. The maxim of the use of precrime has stated that every potential murder should be put into jail to prevent possible crime. However, this maxim will be wrong if there is no crime that occurs. The fallibility failed the maxim because it stated that there...
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...deal with crimes. Statistics show a fair difference and connection between race and the percentage of people convicted of crimes. Other components influence these percentages but always seem to come back to race. The racial unfairness has taken a toll on the American people and contrasts the idea that America was originally built on Incredible as it is America is one of the most tolerant nations in the world. America is a country that was built on freedom, pride, happiness, and equality. Though this is common knowledge and an allusion of the American people, the country has some faults. Equality is a major moral in America that was fought for in history and even in today's society. Throughout our history minority groups have fought hard for there rights and we have accepted the fact that its wrong to discriminate. It is agreed that racial discrimination is wrong as well (Banks, 2009, p 79). Racism has been a problem in America seen the country was founded. Slavery was a form of racism in the early centuries of America. Our judicial system has been a pride and joy for some Americans for others criminals off the streets and keeps us protected. But is our judicial system accurate and fair to those who are put behind bars? Does the crime always fit the punishment? Or is e punishment based on the color of ones skin? It is appropriate to say that the judicial system should be reevaluated and/or changed because of racially unfair...
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...paper will address and summarize four different points from the juvenile arrests bulletin from 2001. Such points included in the summary are the overall decrease in juvenile arrests, the increase in drug offenses and simple assaults, implications for juvenile females and minorities, and last an assessment of the tracking of juvenile arrests as a method of measuring the amount of and trends in juvenile crime. In 2001 the juvenile violent crime index arrest rate declined for the seventh consecutive year. The rate increased dramatically from the late 1980’s through 1994 and then began its steady downward trend. By 2001 the rate had fallen 44% from its 1994 peak reaching the lowest level since 1983. Moving on to the increase in drug offences and simple assaults, arrests of juveniles accounted for 12% of all violent crimes cleared by arrest in 2001 specially, 5% of murders, 12% of forcible rapes, 14% of robberies, and 12% of aggravated assaults. The drug offences in juvenile arrests have increased. In 2001 the estimated arrests for drug violations were 202,500 this is one of the highest numbers in the estimates for 2001. Moving on from drug offences and simple assaults to implications for juvenile females and minorities this is also an issue that seems to be growing by the year. Law enforcement agencies made 645,000 estimated arrests of females under the age of 18 in 2001, between 1992 and 2001 the arrests of juvenile females generally increased more than the male category. The racial...
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...A group in our society that is disadvantaged would be minority groups. Minority Hispanic and African American are the largest opposition group in the U.S. I believe that they do have it harder then others due to the fact they are kids that are not mentally strong. However , according to Greene (2001) report that 54 percent of Hispanics students graduate high school and only slightly higher percent of African Americans, 56 percent complete high school. Also, Hispanic and black students are likely to dropout of school than white students. Poverty plays a huge roll for both ethnic groups. Hispanic students are likely to lack of English proficiency due to the fact they are use to speaking their own language. Most Hispanic household can not speak English. I know this because my mom cant speak English well. Basically, I grew up speaking Spanish and English both at the same time. I would speak Spanish at home and then English in school. Most Hispanic minority have a problem speaking the language due to the fact education was not introduce. African American Minority tend to be influence my violence in their community, However, that can happen in any community. Gangs also affects minority decision making, murder, and robbery to occur. Students feel as though school is pointless because they are having financial problem at home. Those are the two main reason why African American students are dropping out of school. The struggle these children face at a early age is very tough and...
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...homosexual individuals are unwarranted and malicious. Hate crimes based on sexual orientation are based on the mere fact that certain individuals do not approve same sex relationships or views. It is important to analyze every aspect of a hate crime in order to fully understand the true meaning behind these actions. A hate crime is an unmatched crime because it’s based on the hatred people harbor toward specific individuals. Anyone is capable of committing a crime but it takes a distinctive person to commit a hate crime. Those who engage in any kind of hate crimes are individuals with specific attributes that may include but are not limited to bias, prejudice, and discrimination. Society is propelled by highly controversial issues regarding minority groups in America and the world, this makes it easy for a regular law abiding citizen to be convinced or influenced to commit acts of hatred toward others without justification. Gender roles have an immense impact on the way society views homosexuality. The role of man is to be the breadwinner and head of the household. He is to exert the essential qualities that define what a...
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