DEM 2533

ETHICS AND PROFESSIONALISM

ASSESMENT 1

Name ID Number

DEVAN A/L RAJA SAGRAN DEEM092080

SARAN A/L KUBIDASAMY DEM0920085

Batch :

Lecturer’s Name: MR. MUHAMMAD ZULMAJDI B ZAINAL ABIDIN

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ASSESMENTS MARKS

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ASSESMENT 1 (20 MARKS) ANSWER ALL SECTIONS

SECTION A (5 MARKS) STORY REVIEW

Do it in pairs, you need to pick any kinds novels or short stories from books or internet that you
love to read during this period and make a review based on criteria that given below.

a) Name of the novel

 Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott

b) Synopsis
 Stella, a seventeen-year-old cystic fibrosis patient, spends the majority of her time
in the hospital. Her life is full of rituals, boundaries, and self-control, all of which
are tested when she meets Will, an impossibly charming youngster who suffers
from the same ailment. There's an instant attraction, but the rules state that they
must keep a safe distance between them. As their attraction grows stronger, so
does the temptation to throw the rules out the window and embrace it.

c) What makes you love this novel

 I love this novel because this novel raises awareness about cystic fibrosis and the
people who suffer from it. It demonstrates how cystic fibrosis patients are normal
people who do normal activities, and how their affliction does not define them as
individuals. "Five Feet Apart" is more than just Stella and Will's love storey.

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 d) How this novel give impact to your life.
 Impact that the novel gave was appreciate your love one while they are still
around. Touch your loved one while you still can. The main impact was we get to
know the touch is more important in our daily life. It is because this movie based
on teenagers who brought to cystic fibrosis. For an example to relate to this, we
must apply social distancing that also involve touch during this pandemic.

SECTION B (15 MARKS)

Based on the same story you have read, answer all this questions below.

1) What are the application of ethics and morality from the story (3m)
 The application of ethics and morality from the story are some small children
might not understand this and might find it disturbing. In addition to the violent
and distressing scenes mentioned above, Five Feet Apart has some scenes that
could scare or disturb children aged 5-8 years. For example, Stella and Will watch
as Po dies. Besides that, Five Feet Apart is a book that will move you to tears, it is
heart-felt and gives light to the seriousness of cystic fibrosis. I liked how the
authors included a lot of detail, writing about the daily struggles and tasks that
CFers have to go through.

2) Relate all 8 approaches of solving ethical problem with the story you read (8m)
 The inner conflict of one of the protagonists, Will, a cystic fibrosis patient, as he
tries to save his partner Stella from dying by giving her CPR, is promising. CF
patients are told to be six feet apart from each other as the infection might get
transferred to each other. Moreover, Five Feet Apart revolves around a disease-
specific rule: To avoid cross-infection, CF patients must keep a safe six-foot
distance from one another. Furthermore, When another cystic fibrosis patient,
Will (Cole Sprouse), moves into the hospital, Stella tries to avoid him after their
first meeting because he sounds like the “I don't care” type of person to Stella,
and she is the opposite. Stella cherishes every breath, while Will can't wait for his

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 last. Additionally, Stella Grant is the main character of the "Five Feet Apart"
movie. The conflicts in the film described the way of Stella Grant, as the main
character, walk on her life with all the problems that she got. She faced several
external conflicts, including man versus man conflict and man versus nature
conflict.

3) What trust issue can be found in the story? (2m)

 The trust issue that can be found in this story is that when the teenage girl was
betrayed by her boyfriend. At first, they both promised to do the surgery together
since the hospital had two lungs to be transplant but at last the teenage boy let her
go through the surgery alone since there wasn’t two lungs but one.

4) What is ethical leadership can be found in the story? (2m)

 Fairness. The cystic fibrosis patients where treated the same in the hospital.

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