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    Shay Rebellion-Alexander Hamilton The lackluster response to the Annapolis meeting might have been repeated the following spring‚ but for the violence that erupted in Massachusetts over the fall and winter. To Hamilton‚ Shays’ Rebellion was the direct and inevitable result of the weak national government. The attempt by Massachusetts to pay off its war debts on its own had resulted in a crushing tax burden‚ especially for farmers unable to produce the required gold or silver currency. The consequence

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    Conformity and Obedience

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    Conformity and Obedience Task: outline and evaluate findings from conformity and obedience research and consider explanations for conformity (and non-conformity)‚ as well as evaluating Milgram’s studies of obedience (including ethical issues). The following essay will be about understanding what is meant by and distinguishing the differences between the terms conformity and obedience. It will show the evaluation of two key psychological studies which seek to explain why people do and do not conform

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    The Perils Of Obedience

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    controversial experiments that had to deal with obedience. Zimbardo conducted an experiment in a mock prison that showed the roles of the guards and prisoners. Milgram conducted an experiment that tested how much pain a teacher would inflict on someone else at the command of an experimenter. The experiments that they conducted have been called wrong and unethical. Although the experiments vary from each other‚ they both changed the way the world looks at obedience and Authority. Zimbardo wrote the Article

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    Shays Rebellion

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    Shay’s Rebellion was the revolt of Western Massachusetts farmers against their state legislature because they felt they were being unequally represented. The intention of this paper is to analyze the problems that led to Shays’ Rebellion and to describe the casual relationship it had with the ratification of the U.S. Constitution. Being able to help protect and support their personal lifestyles‚ which included their homes farms‚ and families was why Daniel Shays and other Western Massachusetts

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    Problem is Civil Obedience (Howard Zinn) The world has been through drastic changes overtime. In Zinn’s article‚ he discusses how people obey the law. Civil disobedience is the active‚ professed refusal to obey certain laws‚ demands‚ or commands of a government‚ or of an occupying international power‚ as a form of peaceful protest. He states that the problem is not civil disobedience‚ but it is civil obedience.1 Zinn includes how not only is this happening today‚ but civil obedience has been an uprising

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    boring‚ the experiment’s result shocked the world. The Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) has indicated the significant power of roles‚ or situations‚ on human behaviors; thus‚ brings about many influences on society. According to Zimbardo in “ Obedience to Authority‚” he asked the students during the spring term to reverse role and lecture him a topic that would interest him. One group of students‚ led by David Jeffe‚ decided to do a lecture on the psychology of imprisonment‚ and they spent the

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    Question: Assess the causes and effects of one of these rebellions: the 1837-1838 Rebellions‚ the Red River Rebellion or the Northwest Rebellion B. Thesis: The Red River Rebellion did lead to the Canadian government recognizing some of the Metis rights‚ but not to the full extent C. Evidence: POV#1: Ignorance of Metis rights and fear of the loss of the Metis culture built up towards the Rebellion Source#1:Bumstead‚ James. "Red River Rebellion." The Canadian Encyclopedia. The Canadian Encyclopedia

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    “On the Duty of Civil Obedience” I do not accept the motto. –“That government is best which governs least.” Government is a completely necessary institution. Without it‚ nations would crumble‚ famine would flourish‚ and massacres would occur daily. Of course it would be nice if humans didn’t need government‚ if men’s moral compasses all pointed in the same (correct) general direction. But they do not. It is just a far-fetched fantasy of perfection‚ it is impractical. Which is why government is necessary

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    The Sepoy Rebellion versus the Taiping Rebellion Although India and China are different when it comes to religion and culture‚ the Taiping Rebellion in China and the Sepoy Rebellion in India had their similarities and their differences‚ which allowed them to succeed in some parts of their rebellions and fail in other. However‚ neither of these rebellions were truly successful in the sense that neither of them achieved their main goals. Even though the leaders of the Sepoy Rebellion and the Taiping

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    Teenage Rebellion

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    Teenage rebellion is not a new issue in society and every generation has had this conflict. Teenage years are not always a nightmare for parents‚ and most adults enjoy watching their children grow into young adults. The biggest thing about teenage rebellion‚ is that young people go through a period of wanting to reject everything their parents stand for. This leads us to ask the question‚ is this normal and is it healthy? Some may say it is‚ and some may say it is not. The key task of rebellion is

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