destructive obedience is not a consequence of moral weakness or an evil character; rather it is a response to a particular set of situational factors. Evaluate this statement. In order to evaluate this statement it is important to first understand what Milgram meant. This essay will first consider what is meant by destructive obedience and briefly look at Milgram’s work. It will then look at what is inferred by situational factors‚ focusing on conformity‚ socialisation‚ obedience to authority
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not write it for people to enjoy or to get interested in‚ I just wrote for myself‚ because it went with everything that was going on in my life at that time and helped me get through my depression. I enjoy writing and reading about things that I choose to write or read about‚ once I am interested in reading or writing something I can get to a point where I do not want to stop reading or writing. If I choose to write something I can write pages and pages‚ same with reading‚ if I find an interesting
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He was the last born of the family. I had known him for about 6months and during that time I had grown very fond of him. Our relationship began to flourish and that in the near future we would begin to grow closer. We both needed a break from our stress filled lives and I was hoping I could help him overcome whatever tragedy happen in his life because I didn’t understand why he was depressed and get drunk most of the time. He had told me about few things that has transpired between him and his past
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“destructive obedience”. Milgram’s interest in researching “destructive obedience” came from the Holocaust. “Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose”. Milgram’s experiment proposed that the murder of innocent people occurred because of the obedience from the soldiers to their leader. The experiment focuses on analyzing on why the degree of obedience from each subject varies from their actions. Milgram’s experiment makes it transparent that obedience is a
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LSD: The drug that keeps you from reality. “In ten minutes I lived a thousand years. My brain and my consciousness and my awareness were pushed so far out that the only way I could begin to describe it is like an astronaut on the moon‚ or in his space ship‚ looking back at the Earth. I was looking back to the Earth from my awareness.” This is a direct quote from George Harrison sharing his experience or his “trip” when trying LSD for the first time‚ it show’s you the hallucinations you get‚ and
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or two possible solutions to a problem we are facing. The purpose of comparing or contrasting is to understand each of the two things more clearly and‚ at times‚ to make judgments about them. You will be asked in this chapter to write an essay of comparison or contrast. To prepare for this assignment‚ first read about the two methods of development you can use in writing your essay. Then read the student essays and the professional essay that follow and work through the questions that accompany
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Basically‚ he had trained an accomplice who would pretend to have electric shocks. The experimental subjects were placed in front of a dial‚ which they were told would administer an increasing levels of electric shocks to the actor. They asked the subject a series of straightforward word pair questions‚ and when he got the answers wrong‚ they had to give an electric shock. The subjects were told that this was part of an experiment‚ by someone in a white coat. In one case‚ the subject was informed
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How effective is the author at capturing the reader’s attention in the first few chapters of the novel? The novel goes immediately into an unfamiliar‚ unexplained world‚ using unfamiliar terms like “Handmaid‚” “Angel‚” and “Commander” that only comes to make sense as the story progresses. In this novel‚ Margaret Atwood tells more than the story of Offred
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Obedience and Authority Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram wrote an article‚ "The Perils of Obedience‚" which documented his unique experiment about obedience and authority. The purpose was to observe to what extent an ordinary citizen would compromise his or her conscience when ordered to inflict increasing pain to another human. The experiment consisted of three people: a teacher and learner chosen at random‚ and a scientist. Once all three were acquainted‚ the scientist explained that the goal
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numbskull is not a numeral rule: an x is not a y ----- + rules = words/sentences Collecting Data (to build a model) - relying on what speakers say = our data Data for the linguist: Judgements vs. natural speech Date = speakers’ judgements about grammatical and ungrammatical forms (sentences) Competence vs. Performance When might performance not perfectly mirror competence? They aren’t always the same because people make mistakes while speaking‚ like they
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