Sophocles: Family vs. Authority In the Greek tragedy Antigone‚ Sophocles demonstrates that family takes prevalence over authority. Throughout the play each character is put into a situation where they have to choose what matters more to them: family or authority. Although the characters who choose family all die‚ the character who consistently chooses authority over all else suffers the most. The fate that each character meets depending on their choice reflects on Sophocles’ personal feelings towards
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have been circumstances where the government or authority has become flawed and each citizen must decide to go along with it or stand up to it. The world has seen dictators like Stalin and Mao who killed anyone who opposed their rule. The world has seen peaceful leaders like Ghandi and MLK assassinated because of their opposition to the government. Voltaire’s claim states that it is dangerous to be right in matters when the established authorities are wrong. This statement has reminded true even
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Tehran- A demonstration held at Vali-E-Asr Avenue‚ Tehran on Wednesday‚ March. 8 and the response of the Reza Shah Pahlavi revealed the secret behind the authority of Iran. This ongoing protest from 9:00 am in the morning until 10:30 pm was held by people of all ages‚ declaring that the British have no right to take Iran’s oil free of charge. This protest brought attention to the Shah. After watching the demonstration on television‚ he responded publicly on BBC News and said‚ “The British
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Establishing a limited time frame for the claimant to recover damages is severely restrictive as hours or minutes should not be a relevant factor in situations involving the death of a beloved person. In Taylor v Somerset Health Authority‚ the claim for damages failed despite the claimant learning of the victim’s death within minutes. This requirement is seen as undeveloped as the trauma of losing a loved one does not make any difference regardless of the time limit. It is foreseeable that viewing
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The experiment was about people will respond to authority. In the experiment the teacher who is to obey the order of the authority who was the experimenter also the learner who was the recipient of incentive from the teacher. The teacher was given lists of words to teach the student‚ (learner) and the teacher have to read the original word given him also‚ read the four answers. What the learner would do was to press a button to show his answer. And‚ if the answer was wrong‚ the teacher would shock
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articles‚ but few of them for which Stanley is known for are ‘Obedience to Authority’‚ ‘Familiar Stranger’‚ and ’Small World Experiment’. Stanley Milgram was working as a psychologist at Yale University when he conducted his famous experiment on Obedience to Authority. In this experiment he engrossed on the conflict between individual conscience and obedience to authority of higher personnel’s. This experiment on Obedience to Authority began in the year 1961‚ that is a year after
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11/21/2014 Obedience and the Authority If a person in a position of authority ordered you to deliver a 400-volt electrical shock to another person‚ would you follow orders? Most people‚ I think‚ would answer this question with an absolute No. However‚ Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a series of the obedience experiments during the 1960s demonstrated surprising results. These experiments offer a powerful and disturbing look into the power of authority and obedience. Milgram
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The value of Strategy to Local Authorities in Kenya Central and provincial governments have progressively realized that effective service delivery to the community is best delegated to local government. This decentralization trend has obliged local governments to enhance their professionalism and performance. Yet‚ in many developing countries‚ the weakness of local governments is a key challenge in managing development processes. Many local government authorities in Kenya now go beyond one year
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Obedience to Authority Example in Real Life of Obedience to Authority Millions of people were killed in Nazi Germany in concentration camps but Hitler couldn’t have killed them all‚ nor could a handful of people. What made all those people follow the orders they were given? Were they afraid‚ or was there something in their personality that made them like that? In order to obey authority‚ the obeying person has to accept that it is legitimate for the command to be made of them. Obedience is a
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Running head: EFFECT OF AUTHORITY Effect of Authority on the Likelihood to Conform Abstract To explore the relationship between increased power or social status and a person’s likelihood to conform‚ forty high school students (5 boys and 5 girls from each grade level: freshmen‚ sophomores‚ juniors and seniors) will be taken one at a time into a room with five confederates (classmates who are considered by their peers to be in the “popular crowd”). The participants will be shown a variety
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