University of California Press‚ 2001. • Mark Danner. Torture and Truth: America‚ Abu Ghraib‚ and the War on Terror. New York: New York Review Books‚ 2004. • Alan M. Dershowitz. America on Trial: Inside the Legal Battles That Transformed Our Nation—from the Salem Witches to the Guantanamo Detainees. New York: Warner Books‚ 2004. • Seymour M. Hersh. Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib. New York: HarperCollins‚ 2004. • Michael Ignatieff. The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics
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The most famous sites are Abu Ghraib in Iraq‚ Guantanamo Bay in Cuba‚ and the Salt Pit‚ also known as COBALT‚ in Afghanistan. The most sadistic site often is considered to be the Salt Pit. Lights within the prison were never turned on and prisoners were forced to be naked almost at
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to find out why good people do bad things. Two strong examples of situations concerning behavior based on context are the Standford Prison Experiment conducted by Phillip Zimbardo and the work of Steven Stefanowicz as a contract interrogator in Abu Ghraib prison. In 1971‚ Phillip Zimbardo conducted an experiment on prison behavior. This experiment consisted of ordinary college boys who were all emotionally and physically stable. The set up was very realistic allowing the subjects to remain
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and experimentation with real world examples. Such can be observed with the chapters dedicated to the Stanford Prison Experiment and the abuses and tortures experienced in Abu Ghraib. In both situations‚ the background and “character mold” required many feasibly good people to transform into “monsters.” Prisoners at Abu Ghraib were humiliated‚ tortured and had that abuse immortalized onto photographs. Yet when the background and personalities of the prison guards was examined‚ many showed to be
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conception of others. "Even to readily accepting a dehumanized conception of others‚ as ’animals‚ ’ and to accepting spurious rationales for why pain will be good for them‚" (Zimbardo‚ 2007‚ p. 4). The Stanford Prison Experiment is compared to the Abu Ghraib situation‚ and also discussed are the implications of this research to the criminal justice system. The problems specified in the article addresses the social power of groups and as to whether a person could be influenced to exert power over someone
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Torture in the United States English 1020 4/19/2012 Torture in the United States Torture has existed all over the world for millennia but what is torture in America today? The C.I.A. and the F.B.I. have recently used torture against terrorists who were suspected to have vital information concerning American safety. Since torture is illegal in the United States‚ most of this torture took place at Guantanamo Bay in the southeastern corner of Cuba. Detainees at the detention camp were not
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Stephen Reicher and Alex Haslam‚ 2004. The article tries to explain why people become torturers‚ that evil is inside of humanity. This paper exposes that evil is inside all of us. The article refers to the Abu Ghraib prison‚ the controversial experiment of Zimbardo and the Nazis. However‚ Abu Ghraib is the central event in the article. The guards tortured and humiliated the Iraqis. In order to analyse this article‚ the rhetorical pentagram would be an obvious method. Stephen Reicher and Alex Haslam
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In the beginning of the documentary it showed an experiment that was conducted in 1961‚ by a psychologist from Yale University named Dr. Stanley Milgram. The purpose of this “obedience study” was to observe an individual’s willingness to inflict pain when ordered to do so. The participants were required to use a machine to shock other person in a different room. What the participants did not know that the shocks were fake and the victim was an actor. Despite the fact that the participants knew that
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The mythos of America had started long before the era of modern militarism; however‚ it had boomed in popularity during said era due to John Wayne. It was soon known to be the John Wayne mythos. Said mythos became of the talk of the nation‚ filling up novels and films‚ and used as propaganda for the war. It is built on heroism‚ the idea that America is the impeccable saviour of the world—that they are always right‚ no matter what the situation is. Despite how bright this mythos seems‚ it has some
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Documenting Torture: The Social Fate of Suffering Proposal for Dissertation Research Bishnu Pokhrel Introduction Torture is neither civilian nor military‚ nor is it specifically French; it is a plague infecting our whole era. – Jean-Paul Sartre Despite global monitoring efforts that reveal the systematic use of torture in democratic and authoritarian states (Peters 1986:160) and despite current controversies surrounding its use during America’s Global War on Terror‚ torture remains an
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