English Assignment: Ethical Decision-Making in Challenging Situations

This English assignment presents a series of ten thought-provoking scenarios, each posing a unique ethical dilemma. The assignment challenges the student to analyze these situations and propose solutions, requiring them to consider the implications of their choices. The scenarios range from workplace conflicts and artistic integrity to life-or-death decisions in extreme circumstances. The student is prompted to consider various perspectives, weigh the consequences of different actions, and justify their decisions. The assignment encourages critical thinking, ethical reasoning, and effective writing skills to articulate reasoned responses to complex moral problems. The student is also encouraged to consider their own values and how they would respond to the situations presented. The assignment's diverse range of dilemmas aims to stimulate reflection on ethical principles and decision-making in a variety of contexts.

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English Assignment
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1. You are a fresher and have just joined a law firm. You are at your office. You work
happily and everything goes well. Suddenly all your office people start looking at you
with doubtful eyes. You get to listen to many rumors about you. There are mainly 2 of
them. The first one is that you are in an affair with your boss and the other is that you
have been illegally stealing money from the fund of the company. Both of these questions
will bring a bad name to you and onto your reputation. Which one would you agree with?
Would you leave the job? If not, how will you survive in the same by giving proper
explanations to your colleagues?
2. Imagine becoming an artist. You have become an artist and people really love your
artworks. Your works are being put up in many of the exhibitions, museums, and other
such renowned art galleries as well. You have recently been appointed as a painter at the
court of the King. Being a royal painter, you have to draw anything and everything that
the king likes to see. However, you have seen the King trying to take undue advantage of
many teenage boy and girls. However, you are asked to not display any vulgar activities
in the paintings. On the other hand, you cannot keep on seeing the wrong deeds being
done by the king. If you display anything on the painting, you will be banished from the
country. What will you do? You know that you are talented enough to find your
employment in some other places.
3. You are the doctor working in a hospital. You have many subordinates who are working
under you. Being a senior doctor you have the huge responsibility on your shoulders to
train and take care of your juniors. Suddenly there is an investigation takes place at your
hospital. One of the junior doctors is seen engaged in the business of selling of human

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organs at a higher price. However, you are asked by all the employees to hand him over
to the police. You also are aware of the fact that he is one of the best doctors at that
hospital and he has been involved in many critical surgeries as well. You are asked to
cancel his medical license. Will you do it immediately? Or you will try persuading him to
stop all these activities? You know that he is not the only doctor being involved in all
these. You also have full trust in him that he will not ignore your words. Keeping him at
the hospital will be a boon to many patients and terminating him will be a huge loss.
4. You are put with your friends on an excavation of the Amazon forests. You have no idea
about what places you have never been there before. You are however a big fan of the
discovery and the animal planet channels. You have been a regular viewer of those
channels. You have got some idea about how people can survive in the wild. You have
however not been on any such adventurous tours. After going into the deep dark forests,
you and your friends suffer from lack of food. You somehow lose your way and it cannot
find the way out. You are only wondering about in the forest. The food you had is also
finishing. The only option left is to eat the insects or any wild creatures that you can hunt.
AS there is lack of fuels, you do not have fire; the only option to survive is to eat the food
raw. Else you have to die. What will you do? Will you consume the insects or stay
starving.
5. You are a filmmaker. You are asked to make a film that will have a huge appeal and will
bring changes in the society. You are given two choices. Either you have to make a film
some cartoon character or some violent movies with murder, sexual abuse and ways of
dealing with it. You are given a good amount of budget. What will you do? Which option
will you go for? You might think that the world is no longer a happy place and the child

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is not a fairy tale for many children. So how does it matter if the children view all the evil
practices right in their childhood and e prepared for them in the future? You might also
think of making a wishy-washy happy childhood featuring film where everything is
happy and positive.
6. Imagine that you are somehow kidnapped. You do not have any idea of where you are
going or what future beholds in front of you. You know that you do not have any money
to survive. You are given two options. One is that you have to supply drugs to the young
generation of people or you have to become a serial killer. You have no other way out
except selecting anyone. Which one would you choose? You might think that giving the
drug to people is obviously a way of killing them. The teenagers and the youth on rugs
will die sooner or later. So, I might think that becoming a serial killer will be easier as I
would kill people directly.
7. You see that you are constantly suffering from the problem of if teasing. There are some
boys in your college that irritate you and other girls. You are given two options. Either
you can report it to the principle or you can use the means of reducing them to a hotel
room and then call the police. However, opting for the second option might make you
appear bad in the eyes of the society. So, what would you do in such case? You might
think that you do not want to earn a bad reputation in front of the society. Or you might
also feel that the principle will not take any action.
8. You are a graduate. However, you do not have a proper job. You have been involved in
the habit of drugs for a few years and you have forgotten whatever you have learned.
You know that you live in a selfish world and only one thing is evident, that is the
survival of the fittest. Now there is a survival crisis. You have two choices. Either you die

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or you kill and eat people. What would you do? Will you become a cannibal that is like
others for your living or will you die yourself?
9. You are a girl and a model. You live in a society where most of the people are
transgender and they take part in many of the campaigns and are exposed to media as
well. To gain this status many of the girls are also trying to prove that they are
transgender and are taking part in those campaigns. Will you do the same? Will you give
up your originality? Or you will stick to what you are? You know that for flourishing in
your career you need media exposure. You also do not want to give up your identity.
10. You wake up on a cold chilly morning and find that you are injured. You see a bag filled
with money. You do not want to steal. On the other hand, you are extremely injured and
you have to rush to the hospital. You do not want to become dishonest. What will you
do? Will you take the money or you will let go? You might think honesty is the best
policy or you might also think that this world has never valued honesty and you have to
think about yourself. What would be your action?

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