In the prescribed text, The Wave, Rhue highlights the issue of conformity using the actions of a classroom experiment made to enlighten students about the rise of fascism in Nazi Germany. In the experiment in The Wave, Morton Rhue examines how ordinary people can become involved in a movement that actually takes away individuals rights and makes them conform to what the movement’s leader considers to be the general good.
Good afternoon teachers. Conformity involves developing attitudes, opinions, and behaviors to match the attitudes of a specific group. Most people conform to the standard values, also called norms, of many groups without stress and often without even knowing that they are doing so. By itself conformity is neither good nor bad.
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Good afternoon teachers. Conformity involves developing attitudes, opinions, and behaviors to match the attitudes of a specific group. Most people conform to the standard values, also called norms, of many groups without stress and often without even knowing that they are doing so. By itself conformity is neither good nor bad.
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In conclusion both texts illustrate Conformity and the Individual. The characters grow and strengthen due to a change of values and ideals. Conformity throttles change, but when a person grows and actually swaps from one to the other,