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How We Can Learn From Fictional Characters A Lesson in Real Life This paper will apply several learned throughout the semester and relate them to the movies ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ and ‘A Few Good Men’. 2010 Shahidah Oliver Peirce College 1/1/2010 Table of Contents Synopsis of the film ‘A Few Good Men’3 Followership in ‘A Few Good Men’3 Abuse of Power in ‘A Few Good Men’4 Moral Decision Making4 Altruism5 Shadow Casters†¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦..5 ‘A Few Good Men’ This movie deals with the code and honor system of the some soldiers in the United States Marines. A young soldier, PFC Santiago, is killed while two other soldiers are supposed to be administering what it called a Code Red. A†¦show more content†¦That would be a valuable lesson that neither soldier would forget to soon. Altruism This term, usually associated with the phrase’ â€Å"Love thy neighbor†, I felt was also loosely intertwined in the film. One benefit of altruistic behavior directed to benefit groups is team building (Johnson 155). Of the United States four divisions of military (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines), the Marines are the only to be named in the plural tense. Not to say that the other divisions do not rank team work very high, the Marines are more so â€Å"conditioned† than just â€Å"serving† in the military. They are a team, for better or worse and blindly so. The Marines involved did what they did to better strengthen the core (or so they thought). 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