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    Authority is the power or right to give orders‚ make decisions‚ and enforce obedience. Authority‚ can affect relationships between people and the outcome of situations. One’s relentless strive for authority and the greed for power can overwhelm a character. In Act 1‚ the loss and gain of authority‚ and the resulting consequences characters suffer when there is a struggle for authority is discussed. Through Prospero’s grand authority and the lack of authority of Antonio‚ it can be said authority is

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    Good Evening Central Academy of Technology and Arts. (sigh) Today is the end a long journey of free education‚ and I welcome you to the world of lifelong debt where only the strong survive.I’m going to hopefully teach you something very important that I have learned here in the performing arts academy throughout the struggles and accomplishments I have endured these last four years. I hope before you leave this building every single one of you will learn something that will stick with you for the

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    LIBERTY BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY The Role and Authority Women Have in Ministry A Research Paper Submitted to Dr. Michael D. Stallard in partial fulfillment of the requirements for completion of the course‚ THEO 592 SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY II 201220 Spring 2012 THEO 530-B19 LUO By John Theodore Zachariah Student ID# 20004547 Lynchburg‚ Virginia March 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction …..……………………………………………………….……………………….1 Prominent Women in the New Testament ………………….

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    Power and Authority in Dead Poets Society The film Dead Poets Society (1989) directed by Peter Weir and written by Tom Schulman is an inspirational story of seven teenage boys who attend the private school Welton Academy for Boys. The young men face the challenge to defy the schools’ strict and traditional disciplines‚ led by the role model of their English teacher Mr Keating. Many of the boy’s face the tough challenge of living with the school and Headmaster Nolan’s strictness and Neil Perry faces

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    AND AUTHORITY IN THIS MODEL? ELEMENTS OF RATIONAL-LEGAL AUTHORITY According to Casey ( 24/10/2011)there are three elements of formal-legal authority. First‚ authority is won by technical expertise‚ not by special qualities‚ nor election or birth. Authority is not by sentiment or loyalty and not personal.(Linstead et al:2006:207). The authority is stable because the leader is chosen by special skills and knowledge technical expertise. Secondly‚ it is a legitimate authority. The authority is”

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    Since humans began to form societies‚ mankind has always chased authority and power. The same situation can be observed in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies‚ a novel which shows its audience that under circumstances where no authority figure is present it is human nature to develop like forms of societies that exist in the 21st century. The situation and course of events directly relate to the time period in which Golding wrote his masterpiece. In his novel‚ William Golding portrays the story of

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    Introduction Humans have always stood for their beliefs‚ even when overshadowed by a colossal adversary. This is what challenging authority is about‚ standing up for ones beliefs in the face of a foe that is above you in any way‚ shape or form. Challenging authority figures can be performed by any person‚ but is more commonly seen in adolescent youth. Teenagers reaching adulthood often rebel against their parents or other adults as an attempt to gain independence. Many authors try to capture this

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    Jackson’s  “The Lottery” shows humanity’s blind acceptance of tradition. This short story presents the tendency in human nature to hold to the status quo without critical thinking. The townspeople’s failure to understand the purpose behind the lottery‚ Old Man Warner’s condemnation of non-conformity‚ and the townspeople’s emotionless killing of Mrs. Hutchinson shows a culture’s blind acceptance of tradition. First‚ the townspeople show their blind acceptance of tradition in their failure to understand

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    interactions with one another and what drives those connections. 20th century psychologist‚ Stanley Milgram‚ executed a series of Obedience to Authority test on random participants. As seen in the YouTube videos online and in class‚ Milgram’s study found that over 65% of the participants carried out the experiment‚ despite potentially hurting someone‚ due to the authority figure urging them to continue. This poses the question as to why humans are so prone to conform to situations. Social influence can

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    Devin Crockrel Shannon Smith Eng 112 18 June 2013 Obedience to Authority: “The Stanford Prison Experiment” “The Stanford Prison Experiment” was a well-known and controversial study. It took place in 1973 and delved into the human psyche behind roles of authority‚ and obedience. The setting was a controlled prison environment at Stanford University. The experiment was meant to study the process in which “guards” and “prisoners” learn to become obedient‚ and an authoritarian. The subjects

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