In the movie‚ “Cool Hand Luke‚” Luke‚ the main character‚ is a special kind of person and really stands out with the situation he is in. The main parts of the movie is him trying to escape from this prison he was evicted to in Florida and forced to become part of a chain gang. Luke has a hard time fitting in with the prison and extremely defiant which is why he tries to escape three times‚ with no luck. The wardens try their hardest to break him and in the end it doesn’t turn out too good for Luke
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It was clear that the situation seemed to create the participants to act the way their behaviour did and it was nothing to do with individual personality. The experiment links into the Milgram experiment‚ in which ordinary people followed orders to give what they thought was electric shocks to people they could not see. Participants’ behaviour was slightly affected due to the fact that they were watched as opposed to a lurking variable (Hawthorne effect). This questions the reliability of the experiment
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In Bartleby‚ the Scrivener by Herman Melville‚ Bartleby is a law-copyist who works for a lawyer and whose job is to literally write something worth reading as they are legal documents. Bartleby is a very unusual character because he all of a sudden refuses to do any work. The lawyer relies on Bartleby to get his work done and becomes very frustrated when he refuses. Bartleby is told to leave the office many times if he is not going to do work. The lawyer finds out that Bartleby even sleeps in
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I was doing my regular cell checks when I found the prisoner Josh Brown hanging in his cell at 1600 hr. It is mandatory that we wear our radios everywhere around the facility. I shouted out to the prisoner before entering the cell. There was not a response or reaction from the prisoner. Outside of the prisoner cell was a wall clock that I had looked at before I stepped into the cell to check the time. I entered the cell at 1604 hr. I called for medical backup to block 24 hallway D cell 6D for a suicide
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carrying out orders in which they possibily may have contemplated in carrying out. Just like guards Zimbardo’s study they portrayed the prioneros as bad guys due to the shackles along with other symbolic represetantions in which the guards and Zimbardo himself allowed guards
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In 1971 Phillip Zimbardo conducted a controversial study know as the Stanford prison experiment. The experiment was a psychological study of human reactions to being imprisoned and how the effects would interfere with the normal behaviors of both authorities and the inmates in prison. Zimbardo and his team hypothesized “that prison guards and convicts were self selecting of a certain disposition that would naturally lead to poor conditions.” Zimbardo used undergraduate volunteers to play the roles
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of their own physical and mental health”. Obviously‚ Zimbardo could not have been completely aware of the possible effect and it is clear in the experiment that he was not thinking far into the future. Principle B‚ Fidelity and Responsibility‚ describes the importance of colleagues working together and establishing relationships with each other. This principle emphasizes the importance of being aware of conflicts of interest. Although Zimbardo may have been unbiased in the beginning‚ he ended up
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Phillip Zimbardo. A Pirandellian Prison. New York Times Magazine‚ 4/8/73 The quiet of a summer morning in Palo Alto‚ California was shattered by a screeching squad car siren as police swept through the city picking up college students in a surprise mass arrest. Each suspect was charged with a felony‚ warned of his constitutional rights‚ spread-eagled against the car‚ searched‚ handcuffed and carted off in the back seat of the squad car to the police station for booking. After fingerprinting
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While some believe that the answer for the increase violent acts in the Maldives is the death penalty‚ others think it is against human rights to implement it. What are the pros and cons of allowing death penalty in the Maldives? Maldives is a small nation allocated in South Asia. The only religion Maldivians follow is Islam. That leaded the peoples of Maldives to have a good relation with each other. This small nation is so peaceful that tourists call this country as “heaven
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Is it fair to criticize General Haig as a donkey who led lions? Douglas Haig was a General during World War One. There is much controversy over General Haig’s reputation due to the high level of losses during his battles in command. Many people agree with David Lloyd George’s attitude of Haig and many other British Generals of World War One. They are said to be “donkeys”‚ incompetents who sent the “lions” (the soldier) into futile bloody battles. Many popular books‚ films and television programs
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