November 30‚ 2013 Submission to Authority Marines are one of the most disciplined armed forces in our world today. They are taught to receive orders and to follow them without question. But when should submission to authority stop? Should orders be disregarded when they conflict with a person’s own morals and consciousness? Maybe they should‚ but in the Milgram experiment‚ it was found that it is actually very easy for a person to accept and follow orders while leaving out their own judgment. This
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Anything Good About Men? Roy F. Baumeister Contact: R. Baumeister‚ Eppes Eminent Professor of Psychology & Head of Social Psychology Area‚ Florida State University‚ Tallahassee‚ FL 32306‚ Baumeister@psy.fsu.edu‚ phone 850-264-8792. Note‚ I will be out of the country July 3-31 except for the night of July 17-18. You’re probably thinking that a talk called “Is there anything good about men” will be a short talk! Recent writings have not had much good to say about men. Titles like “Men Are Not
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Many people think that power and authority is the same thing. They are not. They have the same desired outcome but by definition are different. Merriam-Webster defines power as “the ability or right to control people or things” (“Power”). Authority is defined as “the power to give orders or make decisions: the power or right to direct or control someone or something” (“Authority”). Power is often identified by people who hold a particular office or position. Just because a person may assert a powerful
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Blind Obedience While sitting in church on Sunday going through the same motions of every Sunday‚ my son leans over to ask‚ "Why do we have to stand up for this prayer?" My response "because we are supposed to". Reading "The Children ’s Story" by James Clavell‚ made me think a little more about this question that I had no answer for. A person needs to be able to explain why he does what he does. Children are innocent and unknowing; they are like a blank piece of paper waiting to be filled
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Alisha Thomas C. Sturm English 102 February 20‚2009 The Essence of obedience The fidelity of ones faith becomes the premise to justify the changing of ones conscience. In many cases people act rationally in pursuit of the “benefits” they pursue from being part of a religious group. There is a term coined for this type of thought process‚ “parochial altruism”-they combine a parochial act (the attacker killing members from other groups) with altruism (the attacker sacrificing themselves
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literature event as appeased to another more recognized poet. The first poem I read was ’Interview’ she talks about the ideal woman or what men think an ideal woman is. She writes ’Their candle gives a single light’ at first I thought that it meant that they were simple. But then I went on to think that the ideal woman to men isn’t simple but she just appears that way to men. Her choice to use the word ’Interview’ for the title made me think of women trying to get a job for a secretary. The pretty one that
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MY LAI MASSACRE AS A RESULT OF OBEDIENCE TO AUTHORITY The Vietnam controversy made many people feel at distress. It was never considered a "war‚" although that is exactly what it was. The My Lai Massacre in Vietnam was one of the many atrocities of that war. There is an unquestionable connection between Milgram ’s "Obedience to Authority" and the My Lai Massacre. According to Kelman & Hamilton‚ "Unquestioning obedience has been the cause of such disasters as the My Lai massacre and the Holocaust
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The authority of an agent is the act which he is allowed or authorised to do by his principal‚ and which will bind his/her principal. Usually‚ the principal will only be bound by the act of the agent if the agent acts within his/her authority. There are two types of authority which an agent could rely on‚ namely actual authority and apparent or ostensible authority. Actual authority is the authority given by the principal to the agent and could be in written or oral form. The capacity of an
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frowned upon in the Marine regulations. Jessup insists that this unofficial rule keeps the marines in line‚ and if Marines strictly carried out their service as the book of regulations states‚ then America would not be free. The victims in both "A Few Good Men" and "The Caine Mutiny"‚ distinguished many differences between their fellow marines or nay
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Topic: Differentiate between power and authority and how they linked with leadership To answer this question of the difference between Power and Authority‚ we must first understand what both Power and Authority actually mean. According to the dictionary (www.dictionary.com) Power comes from the Latin ‘potere’ which means ‘to be able.’ Just from this little description we can tell that to have power would mean that you are able to do things or control people and resources. The dictionary then
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