in her novel The Handmaid’s Tale to effectively display two main thematic concerns - rebellion and the place of an individual. Offred’s first evening with the Commander is one in which these two thematic concerns are exceptionally prevalent. Control‚ and the need to subjugate individuals is at the heart of dystopian literature and one of the primary effects of constant oppression is the inevitability of rebellion. Gileadean society runs on a strict social hierarchy in which only those at the top are
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In "The Perils of Obedience‚" Stanley Milgram conducted a study that tests the conflict between obeying immoral commands given by authority and refusing authority. The experiment was to see how much pain a normal person would inflict on another person because he/she were being ordered to do so by a scientist. The participants of this experiment included two willing individuals: a teacher and a learner. The teacher was the real subject and the learner was an actor. In almost all case the teacher would
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What makes ethical behaviors sometimes immoral? Obedience is one of the really good morals that everyone should have‚ one of the things that people are looking for in people around them and that parents wants their children to have. This valuable moral as much as it is really valued and wanted‚ sometimes is not the best thing to do; sometimes disobeying or saying “NO” is much better‚ but this does not mean that it lost its value and become unethical; rather it means that it is like any other thing
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implemented‚ great problems arose that would lead to extreme conflicts between the newly created American government and the whiskey brewers‚ especially in western Pennsylvania. This conflict would be known as the Whiskey Rebellion‚ which lasted for a period of three years. This rebellion was very significant because it marked one of the first times that there was a major conflict within the union itself. It was also significant due to the fact that 13‚000 militia from the union marched all the way to
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The Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins is a story about a girl named Katniss who starts a rebellion against the Capital. She tries to defeat President Snow‚ which is a threat to the people‚ her family‚ and her friends‚ but Katniss become the poster child for this revolt. This story takes place at Panem (U.S.A. after rebellions and other economic problems) in the future. Katniss becomes a Mockingjay rebel in District 13‚ in return she has permission to kill President Snow. Katniss and a few other Hunger
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off boats‚ like whippings‚ forced labor‚ disease‚ exhaustion‚ and being seen as property. On Sunday‚ September 9‚ 1739‚ a pivotal moment in American society occurred: The Stono Rebellion. Around an initial number of twenty enslaved people in South Carolina gathered to plan an act of resistance. The leader of this rebellion‚ Jemmy‚ led the group to the killing of many white masters. Historian John K. Thornton‚ the author of "African Dimension" in Stono‚ suggests that "the African background of slaves
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Sankofa: Slave Rebellion Caribbean Politics Sankofa is an Akan word that means "Go back to your past‚ to move on to the future." Literally translated it means "it is not taboo to go back and fetch what you forgot". This movie was written‚ produced and directed by Haille Gerima‚ a black professor at Howard University. The movie portrays a black model that goes to modern-day Africa to do a movie shoot with her photographer. While she is there‚ she encounters a Black African who tells her to return
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In this assignment I will be comparing and contrasting the terms conformity and obedience. I will also be answering the following questions: 1) Does research into conformity and obedience explain the horrors of war atrocities‚ such as The Holocaust‚ the Mi Lai Massacre in Vietnam or the abuse suffered by Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib prison? 2) Does research into independent behavior suggest these atrocities could be averted in future conflicts? Conformity is a form of social influence in which
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Stanley Milgram experimented with the theory that people will likely submit and follow an authority figure. He determined this from a famous experiment he conducted named the Milgram Obedience Experiment. In this test‚ he gathered random people and assigned them as the “teacher”‚ and placed them in a room with the controls for a shock machine (with various settings‚ from slight shock to XXX). Then he placed a confederate in a room‚ attached to a shock machine‚ who was the “student”. The “teacher”
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Hernandez Mrs. M English V01A 8 September 2014 Fat Crisis or Rebellion? Within the United States obesity is a growing epidemic; it is an undergoing health concern that is affecting men‚ women‚ and children from all walks of life‚ but is the road to obesity cultivated by upbringing and environment or is it a result of gender norms? In his 2010 article‚ “Kentucky Town of Manchester Illustrates National Obesity Crisis‚” columnist and author Wil Haygood provides a different perspective on the cultural
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