Why do good people do bad things? (750 words) In this essay I will talk about the torturing of prisoners in Abu Ghraib. I will also write about the Stanley Milgrim Experiment and the Stanford Prison Experiment. All of these relate to one of the topics we have covered this term. There is an excellent example of uniforms influencing power in the Stanford Prison experiment which took place in1971‚ it was lead by Prof Zimbardo1 (see footnote) in which a group of students were selected to act as prison
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dreams of making it in the world‚ is What Jerald Walker was determined to do. Walker had grown up in a community where opinions about “whites” were shared by everyone. Whites discriminated against black people and anything that was believed as bad by black people‚ was blamed on the white people. In order to succeed‚ Walker would have to “Be” like his brother Clyde. Clyde did not fit the “stereotype”‚ of a regular black man. His brother said things like‚ “whites aren’t an obstacle to success” and
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People seem to be losing their sense of community for fear of “getting involved.” A community is a safe quiet place where a bunch of families enjoy the company of each other. Some family could work in a cubical at an office and others could work at the post office‚ whatever their occupation is there is always peace and quiet in the neighborhood. Kids playing outside knowing each other like if they were family‚ backyard grill out and other events‚ but when something bad happens in the neighborhood
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wealth‚ new materials and crops‚ new source of labor‚ and new land for the European nations. The consequences for the native people of the Americas were much worse with devastating death tolls‚ enslavement‚ new diseases and racist attitudes towards them. Though it would not be fair to say that the Europeans did not share in negative consequences or that the indigenous people did not gain any advantages. The greatest negative consequences for the Europeans due to the European expansion are a devastating
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A Vanished People One of history’s greatest ironies concerns the American treatment of Indians‚ particularly those who once inhabited the New English Colonies. While Nathaniel Philbrick’s Mayflower depicts these Native Americans as essential to both the Pilgrims and Colonist’s survivals‚ it also fails to elaborate on how utterly meaningless the role of these people became over the course of two centuries. What was once a large‚ prosperous nation of self-sufficient individuals became a mere smudge
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Puerto Rico: A Panorama of its People abdell samra The writer Fernando Pico mostly concentrated on the history of Middle Ages during his university career. But he dedicated his writing career to write about Puerto Rico`s social life. He has a lot of writings about Puerto Rico`s social life. He basically wrote everything about Puerto Rico`s social life from slaves‚ coffee and colonial officials and even about Students‚ prisoners‚ protesters and yet more type of people are covered in his writings
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resulted in a destructive genocidal impact on the San people. Thousands of San died in the hands of Dutch settlers‚ one of the main groups of settlers being the Trek Boers. During the immense agricultural growth in the Dutch Cape Colony in the late 1700s‚ a surplus in crops caused many settlers to turn to stock farming. These farmers searched for broad grazing grounds for their livestock and ventured further into San territory. The San people were not content. They viewed the Trek Boers as intruders
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Are famous people treated unfairly by the media? Should they be given more privacy‚ or is the price of their fame an invasion into their private lives? Many girls want to be as beautiful as Paris Hilton and many boys want to be as popular as David Beckham. Who doesn’t want to be a celebrity? They have all the things that common people can dream of‚ fans‚ designer clothes‚ luxurious cars‚ and the list goes on. Their lavish style of living keeps them in the eye of public and media. As a result
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aboriginal people were picked up by two police officers for no reason and left in a barren filed outside of the city‚ two of them‚ Rodney Naistus and Lawrence Wegner did not make it. ‚ As far as I am concerned‚ this case was an epitome of racial profiling against Aboriginal group in Canadian justice system. The racial profiling against aboriginal people existed in justice system for a long time and is hard to get rid of for many reasons. For the historical reason‚ First nation people seldom get
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The Native Puerto Ricans are also known as the Taino people. The Taino people are very peaceful and ended up greeting Columbus with open arms and showing him the river where they had their most prize possession‚ there gold nuggets. It began in the XV Century but was then rediscovered by Christopher Columbus both the people and their land. These particular people spoke the language of Arawakan and they came from South America where they lived in small villages. They lived in villages that had chiefs
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