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Media Activity 3

Media Activity 3

Q SPAD 284: Issues and Ethics in Sport Media Activity #3 - Rising Phoenix Directions: Watch Rising Phoenix on Netflix. Once you watch the documentary, fully answer each of the following questions using complete sentences. Please type your responses (in a different font color) directly on this document and upload it to Blackboard. 1. Give a brief review of the documentary (one paragraph of at least three sentences). 2. Identify an ethical dilemma present in the documentary. To receive credit, explain how it is an ethical dilemma by incorporating the three components of an ethical dilemma into your response (hint: look at slide 11 from the very first PowerPoint in class). 3. This week’s lecture discusses the importance of representation and visibility of the Paralympic movement. Discuss how you see this applied in the context of this documentary. What were the largest discrepancies from the Paralympic Games in London 2012 to Rio 2016? 4. Identify an ethical decision that was made in the documentary. Next, use the three components of Cavanaugh’s Model of Decision Making to explain how the decision might have been made. 5. Moving forward, the next summer Paralympic Games will be held in Paris 2024. How do you feel the Paralympic movement can gain traction to improve the experiences of the athletes? Use examples from the documentary to explain your reasoning.

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1. The documentary is about nine Paralympic athletes who give their stories and journeys in competition. They describe the different challenges they face, but their goals and drivers are a tribute to the passion for success and the human spirit's will. They also illustrate how Paralympic athletes have been to turn negative into positive and move forward. 2. The ethical dilemma is a diversity issue where the Paralympics struggle to gain equal and fair treatment representation in sports compared to the Olympics.