Obedience Can Kill Obedience Can Kill As is common in our modern society‚ the government has laws and regulations in place for our safety. Many of these laws are well thought out and effective. But what happens when these same laws hamper our own ability to protect ourselves? Our obedience to the law can kill us. I firmly believe that my fellow students and the faculty of my college should have the ability to protect themselves from those who would do them harm. Students and faculty with a
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on the group’s decision regardless whether the individual knows it’s wrong. The factors the contribute to a personal judgment that leads to conformity are peer pressure and the social influence to fit in ("Module 11.4: Conformity‚ Compliance‚ and Obedience." n.d). For example‚ a person will more likely agree on the wrong answer in history class if the other students chose that answer as well. This is also another reason why election votes are held in private areas‚ so the person’s vote would not impact
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autobiography is named Janis Ian‚ who was a white girl that grew up among black people in New Jersey. She was one of seven white girls in her whole school and therefore there were a lot of opinions about the racial differences and angry narrow-minded parents‚ who would interfere in their children’s lives and choices about love. Janis Ian was a famous song writer and she was born in 1951 in New York‚ but lived in New Jersey through her childhood. In this essay I will focus on how Janis Ian uses her music to
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In The Perils of Obedience‚ Stanley Milgram expresses his findings of an experiment he conducted trying to prove the lengths people will go to be obedient to authority. The first experiments included a group of undergraduates from Yale. The experiments involved three subjects: the experimenter‚ the “teacher” and the “learner”. The teacher would read off a series of words. The learner‚ who is strapped to an electric chair‚ would be required to remember the words associated to one another. If the
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a wrong direction. The education must aim for enlightenments because the education is important. The school is just like our society where the power takes over justices and oppress individuals’ freedom under the name of regulations and customs. Obedience is the virtue in the school. “Whips” and professors treat younger students as their private servant. They abuse their prerogatives as
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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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Jazz Artist Paper “Bird Lives” Charlie Parker is with no question one of the most influential and important jazz players of the 1940’s. This man had such a talent and passion for playing the saxophone‚ more specifically the Alto Saxophone. Charlie’s Jazz era was during the Bee-bop phase of jazz. Bee-bop jazz differed from the other types because it used scales instead of chords‚ had small combos‚ and was built on rephrases of popular songs. Charlie Parker really helped influence and guide the way
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Obedience to Authority To what extent can humans’ morality be corrupted by environment‚ or are all humans cruel by nature? If an authority figure told another person to jump off a bridge‚ our response would be to reject his command and tell him to jump‚ but what would happen if an authority told somebody to execute a worthless criminal for his wrongdoings by pushing him off a bridge? According to research conducted by psychologists like Solomon Asch‚ and Philip G. Zimbardo‚ under the right variation
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their own ways of making their opinions evident in their writing. Some of these writers are liberal and some are conservative. Some of them believe in a strong national defense while others believe in a strong social safety net. Columnist‚ Kathleen Parker of The Washington Post‚ is a conservative. She supports moralistic ideals such as lower taxes‚ God and faith‚ charity‚ and limited government in her opinionated columns. In Parker’s column Defining Weird she describes Mitt Romney as “weird”
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Milgram’s infamous 1963 study into the nature of obedience is often portrayed in the media as strong evidence for an innate human predisposition to obedience‚ “resistance is futile” (Parker‚ 2007) when it comes to the human condition to obey – even in a “destructive” (Milgram‚ 1963) sense. As Milgram (1963) himself states‚ obedience as a concept is one of the most fundamental aspects of society‚ and much has frequently been made of drawing parallels with the atrocities carried out by the Third Reich
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