Although a blight affected the potato crops of Ireland during the 1840’s‚ the mass starvation was the result of British governmental policy‚ that forced many Irish to immigrate to America. Their immigration had many positive and negative effects on the American people and the economy. Ireland was a country of poverty and nearly half of the families in rural areas were living in mud houses with no windows or furniture. According to the Constitutional Rights Foundation‚ Ireland was not an industrialized
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Stanford Prison Experiment Following the American Psychological Associations guidelines Zachary Hudson Waterford District High School Abstract The Stanford prison experiment‚ an unethical experiment created to study human nature in the most hellish of environments. Regular students were deceived into applying for the experiment itself and later regretted the choice because of the events that occurred during the short time that experiment ran in. The experiment ran and quickly
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Behavioural Study of Obedience: Milgram’s Experiment M.J George Brown College #1) Obedience I think the three aspects of the situation faced by the subjects in Milgram’s study were the prestige of the university‚ the proximity of the experimenter‚ and the money paid. These aspects were the most influential in causing the subjects to obey. The influence of the prestige of Yale University was a key point to get the obedience of the subjects. People are prone to obey more
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Medical Experiments of the Holocaust As a society we place those in the medical profession on a pedestal. They are people to be looked up to and admired. In many ways they are Gods‚ right here with us on earth. People put the hope and faith in doctors hoping they can perform miracles. Throughout history‚ doctors have indeed preformed many wonders. There were‚ however‚ some doctors that betrayed this belief and peoples trust. These doctors could be found in concentration camps such as Auschwitz
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EVALUATION OF NEWLY RECOMMENDED SWEET POTATO VARIETIES UNDER COCONUT BY NELSIE MODINA FERNANDEZ Abstract This study was conducted to evaluate the growth and yield performance of different sweet potato varieties grown under coconut‚ and to determine which variety of sweet potato would perform best under coconut. Among the agronomic characteristics measured‚ only herbage yield differed significantly among sweet potato varieties and was lowest in PSB-Sp 16. Based on ocular observation‚ this might
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Phillip Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment: Ethical or not? Chase Clark University of Massachusetts‚ Lowell Abstract The research conducted in this paper consists of solely the Stanford Prison Experiment‚ which was originally conducted by the social psychologist‚ Phillip G. Zimbardo. This experiment replicated a real prison that took students to participate in it. Students role-played the prisoners themselves‚ and prison guards. It was conducted in the basement of the psychology department
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Stanford Prison Experiment P R E S E N T E D B Y: J O N AT H A N‚ V I N E E T H ‚ J A K E ‚ R O H I T The Purpose? Psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or a prison guard How would being placed in a position of power or weakness affect one’s actions and mental state? Who Was In Charge? A team of researchers led by Professor Phillip Zimbardo conducted the experiment at Stanford University on students Subjects Involved 24 male students were prison guards and prisoners in a mock
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The Aim of the experiment: In this experiment I will investigate the relationship between the concentration of the hydrochloric acid and the rate of a reaction. To find this out I will react different concentration of hydrochloric acid and magnesium‚ from there I will monitor the gas (hydrogen) produced and analyse the results. Prediction: I predict the higher the molarity of the hydrochloric acid the faster the rate of reaction therefore the quicker the gas will be produced in the specific
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In this experiment we are going to describe stress and prove how can a prolonged exposition to it have a negative impact on memory. The definition of stress used in this experiment is: difficulty one suffers that causes worry‚ emotional tension or loss of concentration. The reason why this topic has been chosen is because stress is a part of nowadays‚ hectic society and it has a very noticeable effect on people’s performance‚ in either work or daily life. The outcome of this experiment could be
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This assignment called for me to pick three out of four sensory experiments to conduct and then record my reaction to each experiment. The three experiments I chose to conduct are number one- the sandpaper experiment‚ number three- the index cards and flashlight experiment and number four- the water in bowls experiment. While conducting each of these three experiments I was surprised by the results of each of them. Experiment Number One: I rubbed my finger on the piece of coarse sandpaper and
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