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    Conformity and obedience are two types of social behaviours. These behaviours and influences are evident in human interactions and present within group formations. Conformity involves adopting attitudes of a particular group of people or changing behaviour or personal opinions in order to ‘fit in’‚ also known as a group or social norm. Social norms can involve socially accepted rules‚ laws and standards. The act or behaviour may cause the individual to agree or disagree with their personal beliefs

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    Peer Pressure Perils

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    As a social-being‚ humans can’t live without other people. They always need a help from others so they try to socialize and make friends to lead their life easily. This also happens to teenagers in a different way. Adults mingle with all of people‚ no matter their friends have same style with them or not. On the other hand‚ usually‚ some teenagers live in a group have same styles and characters. Therefore‚ all members persuade each other by encouraging individuals to change their attitudes‚ values

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    Analysis of "Peril of Hope" The poem "Peril of Hope‚" by Robert Frost is about having hope. The poem speaks about no matter how things are one minute they can always change. Hope‚ however‚ is constantly there and will always be there to help get through the tough times until things get better. Imagery is used throughout this poem to help describe the extent of the boundaries of hope. Hope has endless boundaries in this poem it goes from one extreme to the next. In the first stanza

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    involved. For example‚ in "The Perils of Indifference" by Elie Wiesel‚ it says‚ "He understood those who needed help why didn’t he allow his refugees to disembark." This shows that the way Franklin Delano Roosevelt didn’t send help right away affected the prisoners of all the different concentrations camps created by the Nazis. When someone does not realize they need to do something about what is going on people suffer. Another example of this is in the article "The Perils of Indifference" where it

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    Describe and discuss two factors that Milgram found effect obedience? Refer to empirical evidence in your answer Milgram’s original study into obedience came under to a lot of scrutiny because of both mythological and ethical problems. This meant that the validity of Milgram’s study was put into question. Following the study were further investigations to see what might change and explain the results that Milgram found‚ both by Milgram himself and other psychologists. Variations to his study throw

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    Obedience to Our Parents

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    is obedience. One has to obey the laws of the country‚ otherwise the society cannot exist. The laws may be irksome‚ but‚ for the overall good of the law one must obey them. For instance‚ the laws to be obeyed on the road ensures road safety. The laws pertaining to property help society continue without hitches and hindrances. Even in our body our limbs obey the commands of the brains unless they are diseased. Obedience is essential for the enforcement of order. Obedience includes obedience to

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    A CRITIQUE OF A FRAUD DETECTION MODEL: A MUST FOR AUDITORS BY MARIA KRAMBIA-KAPARDIS This article was published in March 2002. It addresses a fundamental issue in financial regulation-that of auditors ability to detect material irregularities. The paper provides a critique of existing fraud aetiology models and then describes the ROP fraud Risk-Assessment Model constructed by the author in a study of convicted serious fraud offenders in Australia. The main concern of this of the paper is with the

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    A main theme that I identified in the play is stressing the importance of obedience in a marriage. It was greatly over dramatized‚ but the point remains. The theme of possessing obedience is exemplified in several places throughout the movie and script. The best examples are towards the end of the story. One example in particular is the scene in which Petruchio and Kate are returning to Padua. Petruchio points out how brightly the moon is shining‚ in the middle of daytime. Kate then corrects him

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    Milgram’s research on obedience: how and why it can help student nurses The report aims to: Describe the main aspects of Milgram’s study on Obedience Explain why and how this research can be used to help prepare student nurses for working on hospital wards Contribute to the understanding of some of the challenges nurses may face in their working practices Background Stanley Milgram‚ a psychologist from Yale University‚ conducted a series of experiments on obedience to explain some of the

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    Obedience: Film Summary

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    From the film “Obedience: Research carried out at Yale University”‚ Volunteers were paid a small sum to participates that understood the experiment to be a study of memory and learning. In truth‚ Yale University’s psychologist Stanley Milgram wanted to study the willingness of subjects to obey an authority figure while this authority figure made the subjects perform acts that were in conflict with their moral conscience. The question guiding this experiment was asking to figure out to what extent

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