Unrealistic? Wendell Berry‚ Scott Sanders‚ and Morgan Spurlock all take part in an unrealistic world to prove their points. They portray themselves as the perfect humans who live that idealistic life we all dream of. They do this by living simple lives‚ having a great deal of knowledge‚ and being in great shape. If you could combine these three I think you would have the perfect human. There are plenty of evident cases of this happening in their writings‚ or‚ in Spurlocks case‚ his movie. This
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Stanley Milgram was a psychologist at the University of Yale. Milgram decided to conduct an experiment that would focus on the conflict between authority and a person’s personal conscience. Milgram did this study to find the meaning and a new understanding of the acts of the people that occurred during World War II. Milgram wanted to figure out if the Germans were particularly obedient toward authoritative figures. He was eager to find out just how far people would be willing to go in order to obey
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The Perils of Obedience by Stanley Milgram‚ was an experiment done on people to study the idea of obedience. However‚ a huge part in the research was the participant’s in the study had thought that the point of the experiment was how the learner’s responded to the given requests‚ not themselves. The experimenter has two participant’s given two pieces of paper to choose one from‚ both of the pieces of paper have ‘teacher’ written on them. The learner is actually a part of the research team to help
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A Critique of Stanley Fish’s “What Did Watson the Computer Do?” Zaw Phyo Ohlone College A Critique of Stanley Fish’s “What Did Watson the Computer Do?” In the fascinating game of “Jeopardy!” played in 2011‚ the end product resulting from decades of research and innovation was unveiled. This artificial intelligence system‚ named Watson‚ was able to answer questions by detecting keywords in the question‚ checking with its vast data base‚ and giving the most probable answer to the questions asked
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Stanley Milgram Obedience Experiment One of the most famous studies of obedience in psychology was carried out by Stanley Milgram (1963). Stanley Milgram‚ a psychologist at Yale University‚ conducted an experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. He examined justifications for acts of genocide offered by those accused at the World War II‚ Nuremberg War Criminal trials. Their defense often was based on "obedience" - that they were just
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Obedience is omnipresent; it is difficult to differentiate between obedience and conformity‚ therefore it is a complicated subject of social psychology. However‚ Stanley Milgram was devoted to understand the phenomena of obedience‚ and created a dramatic masterpiece. Interested in many different aspects of life‚ Stanley Milgram was an influential key figure in psychology. However his work on the field of obedience is respected and still exiting for both psychologists and lay people. The aim of this
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Tom Parsons is a simple character on the surface. Readers do not get to know him on a personal level. All that readers know about him is that he is a fervent believer in the doctrine of Big Brother and that his daughter turns him in to the Thought Police. According to Winston‚ he is also fat and sweats copious amounts. However‚ he is crucial to the story in that he is the epitome of the mindset of the Party members. He is ardently devoted to Big Brother; a fact which Winston despises him for. His
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Rob White’s book‚ And Then I Met Margaret: Stories of Ordinary Gurus is a non-fiction work. The book is more of the author’s autobiography since the story narrates the author’s life journey from his early life to his adult life. The author’s family reigns from a little town that has a couple factories. Most high school leavers opted to get a living from the two factories. The author’s grandfather and father are former employees of these duo factories. This story is told in the first person’s point
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In "Lean on Me" Morgan Freeman plays the role of a high school principal with a policeman mentality and vigilante behavior who is hired to reinstall order and education in the drug-infested Eastside high school in New Jersey in 1987. Mr. Joe Clark‚ magnificently played by Freeman‚ first takes control via discipline and then by instilling hope. Wearing heroic white through the whole length of the movie he one-sidedly expels all of the instigators and the problem-causing students as his first official
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In "The Perils of Obedience‚" Stanley Milgram conducted a study that tests the conflict between obeying immoral commands given by authority and refusing authority. The experiment was to see how much pain a normal person would inflict on another person because he/she were being ordered to do so by a scientist. The participants of this experiment included two willing individuals: a teacher and a learner. The teacher was the real subject and the learner was an actor. In almost all case the teacher would
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