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    Louis and the Arch (1980)‚ Wildflowers (1983)‚ Redheads (1990)‚ Bay/Sky (1993) and At the Water’s Edge (1996). He also co-authored Bystander: A History of Street Photography (1993). In 1998 Meyerowitz produced his first filmed‚ Pop‚ which consisted of his travels with his son and father through a three week period. The film was described as “funny‚ sweet‚ dark‚ disturbing‚ depressing

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    Why would eleven police officers watch four of their colleagues administer savage beating to Rodney King and do nothing to intervene? People in groups do not behave morally in groups as they do as individuals. Also people act and think differently when they collect in groups. Carol Tavris‚ a social psychologist‚ published an article entitled “In Groups We Shrink” in March of 1991 in the Los Angeles Times. She argues that there are various explanations as to why people behave morally as individuals

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    The Black Dahlia Murder case remains to be one of Hollywood’s longest-running mysteries and one of the most dreadful of the 1940s. On the morning of January 15‚ 1947‚ the body of a pretty young woman‚ Elizabeth Short‚ was found severed in half in an empty lot on the west side of South Norton Avenue in Leimert Park‚ Los Angeles. The body was discovered at 10:00 am by local resident Betty Bersinger‚ as she was walking with her three-year-old daughter. At first‚ Besinger thought that the body parts

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    Darrin Edwards English 111 RPL October 1‚ 2013 Reader Response #2 Too Little‚ Too Late I couldn’t dare imagine a situation were I’m kicking and screaming for my life‚ trying my hardest to get away from the claws of death. And even though everyone can see and hear me yelling at the top of my lungs for help‚ no one has the courage to do so. In the short story “37 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police” by Martin Gansberg‚ that was the fate for Catherine Genovese. Gansberg does an exceptional job

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    Darley and Latané’s Training Manual—A Five-Stage Approach The purpose of Darley and Latané’s experiment was to look into the behaviour of witnesses. They wanted to look into what it takes for people‚ who witness something that requires their assistance‚ to ignore one’s call for help. They decided to focus on what happens when there is no authority in a group crisis. To find out answers‚ they decided to call for volunteer students from New York University. They told the students they were a part

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    Midterm Essay How are bystanders portrayed in literature and film (use two examples)? Are they judged negatively or given a pass by the authors or directors? In the several films and books that we have reviewed up to this point in the class‚ we can see that there a many people had their own opinion concerning the Holocaust and the tragic events that took during that epic period in history. Once Hitler had achieved influential level of control over the government‚ no one could have predicted that

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    They were bystanders. Germans and Europeans who lived through the Holocaust label themselves as bystanders‚ even though the world denotes a passivity and indifference shown during the mass persecution of the Jewish population and demonstrates an attempt to avoid taking responsibility for the violence that occured

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    like they need it? Probably not‚ but some people do help others. This is called the Bystander Effect and it happens everyday; we might just not realize it. As human beings‚ we sometimes assume that someone else will step in and help. We don’t think it is necessary to help them if someone else can do it‚ and we may be called selfish or lazy‚ but sometimes it’s not our fault if they are up to no good. “The Bystander Effect is the tendency for people to avoid getting involved in an emergency they witness

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    above 3.2 million students are victims to bullying each year. Bullies are worse than bystanders. There could be many reasons students are bullied. One of the principle reasons is that the victim is weaker than the bully in any way. The reason someone might become a bully is because they either have something happening to them in their personal lives or they were bullied. Bullies are so much worse than bystanders because bullies cause their victims depression and might cause them to commit suicide

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    Civilians are innocent bystanders in war. Civilians do not change anything during total war‚ soldiers are the only people who can affect war. Civilians have no reason to be targeted during total war. These statements are false. Civilians‚ in fact‚ play a big role for a country at war. Civilians should be targeted in total war conflict. Total war has no limitations on the destruction it brings. Total war is defined as a war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used‚ the territory or combatants

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