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    Milgram’s study of obedience is ethical‚ one must address these questions in the context of his experiment. The purpose of Milgram’s study of obedience was to determine the degree to which a person will be obedient to an authority’s orders or requests if they do not agree with the requests being made. This situation occurs in many aspects of society‚ including the military‚ employer/employee situations‚ and most disturbingly‚ Nazi Germany. For this reason‚ a general understanding of obedience is a worthy

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    Obedience in Society Growing up‚ children are taught to obey authority figures such as parents and teachers. As you grow older‚ adults are expected to obey the rules and regulations of the workplace enforced by their employer; and citizens are expected to abide by the laws imposed by the government. Usually the act of obedience becomes habit‚ because people do not want to face the consequences that would be due to happen otherwise. One question however‚ what happens when an individual’s better

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    between being obedient or following their own morals. Usually‚ obedience wins because of the emphasis society has placed on it. Most of human’s actions are a result of a previous action in which they felt necessary to do. Both authors‚ Stanley Milgram of “The Perils of Obedience” and Ian Parker of “Obedience” agree that‚ humans‚ as a whole‚ will not respond the same in every similar situation because their actions are usually a result of obedience or of their current situation‚ rather than their personality

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    the “hit parade of authority” (Russell‚ 138). This authority is that the Bible is understood to be the Word of God. Understanding its authority in this way enables readers to accept biblical contradictory‚ sexism‚ and racism (Russell‚ 140). More often than not‚ this authority obstructs feminist interpretations. Russell suggests that a feminist model of authority is inclusive in allowing feminist interpretation. The authority paradigm that does not align with feminists is authority viewed as domination

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    Sources of Authority In Moral School Leadership Sergiovanni defines the sources of authority as bureaucratic‚ psychological‚ technical-rational‚ professional and moral school leadership (pages 36-39). For this week’s discussion this author will discuss each of the sources and how a school leader might utilize each of the sources to improve instruction‚ curriculum and assessment at the school building/district level. Sergiovanni discusses and defines the sources of authority bureaucratic‚ psychological

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    consequence‚ control himself when he must follow a rule of life." (Montessori‚ 1988a‚ p. 49) Obedience in many educational practices practiced in Asian like Chinese medium schools in Malaysia for example where the cane is freely used to discipline a child‚ advocates suppressing the child’s will to be substituted by the will of the teacher suggesting that one consider breaking a child’s will. Obedience says Montessori develops in stages as do other human characteristics. “In our children……it shows

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    torture performed on the inmates at Abu Ghraib were both cruel and inhumane. But what if the reason the guards tortured the inmates was due to the result of obedience from their superiors. The cause of the torture of the prisoners at Abu Ghraib could have stemmed from situational factors instead of the will of a few aggressive soldiers. Authority figures that use persuasive methods can be very influential. There are many circumstantial possibilities as to why the guards treated the prisoners cruelly

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    The first noticeable objection questioned the reasoning for the slave’s obedience to the European culture. Through the eyes of the slaves‚ specifically Oroonoko‚ the narrator was introduced to the African perspective of the European people. By examining their interpretation of the relationship between the two cultures‚ Oroonoko addressed an imperative and insightful question: “...and shall we render obedience to such a degenerate race‚ who have no one human virtue left to distinguish ‘em from the

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    +233248651270 EMAIL: PAAYAW180@GMAIL.COM FACEBOOK: JAMES KING BAAFI TWITTER/INSTAGRAM @J_BAAFI AUTHORITY‚FREEDOM AND DISCIPLNE IN SCHOOL INTRODUCTION Authority and discpline are very important concepts of life. A related concept to the two which is also important is freedom. These concept are part of our culture. Authority and discipline are required to regulate the way individuals should behave in relation to others. For example‚

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    Full Authority Digital electronic Control (FADEC) The goal of any engine control system is to allow the engine to perform at maximum efficiency for a given condition. The complexity of this task is proportional to the complexity of the engine. The history of full authority digital electronic control FADEC started in the 1960’s when Rolls Royce experimented with their Olympus 593 engine on a Concorde. The start of full authority digital electronic control (FADEC) was a full authority analogue

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