In the beginning of the documentary it showed an experiment that was conducted in 1961‚ by a psychologist from Yale University named Dr. Stanley Milgram. The purpose of this “obedience study” was to observe an individual’s willingness to inflict pain when ordered to do so. The participants were required to use a machine to shock other person in a different room. What the participants did not know that the shocks were fake and the victim was an actor. Despite the fact that the participants knew that
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ideals and feel no remorse towards them. There is no hesitation to betray others for self benefit at any given opportunity. These traits can be seen in characters used in Tennessee Williams’ plays‚ Streetcar For Desire and Cat On a Hot Tin Roof. Stanley and Big Daddy‚ two crucial domineering and manipulative parental figures‚ mistreat their families and others around them to demonstrate their power and authority. In both of Tennessee Williams’ works‚ he creates characters which use mendacity to hide
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Fear of Disobeying Leads to Genocide Obedience‚ as well as disobedience‚ has been ingrained in our culture since the beginning of time‚ so it is no surprise that so many people obeyed Hitler and killed millions of Jewish people. In the Christian religion disobedience is viewed as bad and obedience as good. In the story of Adam and Eve‚ they disobeyed God by eating from the tree of knowledge and were exiled from Eden. In the story of Noah‚ he obeyed God and Noah and his family were rewarded and
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Vietnam controversy made many people feel at distress. It was never considered a "war‚" although that is exactly what it was. The My Lai Massacre in Vietnam was one of the many atrocities of that war. There is an unquestionable connection between Milgram ’s "Obedience to Authority" and the My Lai Massacre. According to Kelman & Hamilton‚ "Unquestioning obedience has been the cause of such disasters as the My Lai massacre and the Holocaust. People need to resist the dangerous web of influence from
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Multiple Generals have served during war across this nation’s great history; however‚ only a select few have left a legacy of leadership that will be remembered throughout generations of future warfare‚ Stanley McChrystal is such a leader. He is most remembered for his tenure as the commander of JSOC and utilizing the command to its maximum potential during OEF and OIF. Two of his major achievements during command include the capture of Sadam Huessein and the operation which lead to the death of
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Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire Throughout life‚ it is better for a person to tell the truth from the start‚ so that every individual be accepted the way he or she is. The play A Streetcar Named Desire‚ written by author Tennessee Williams‚ one of the main characters is Stanley Kowalski. Stanley Kowalski lives with his amazing Wife Stella Kowalski in an amazing place in New Orleans called the French Quarter. Their marriage is bright‚ and pleasant. This is until Stella’s sister‚
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Milgram (1963) claimed that 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
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Outline and Evaluate Milgrams Study of Obedience (12 marks) . Milgram after advertising for volunteer participants were paid on arrival at the laboratory for their time. Participants‚ believing they were taking part in a memory experiment‚ were introduced in pairs to the experimenter where they ‘decided’ who was to be either a ‘teacher’ or a ‘learner’. In reality one of the ‘pairs’ of participants was a confederate and the chances were rigged so that the real participant was always the ‘teacher’
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1 .Why did Morgan Stanley underinvest in information technology? His main focus was on management and organization changes and not information technology‚ when trying to restore revenue. Also‚ when the two publicly held companies merged together‚ their operations were still running as if they were two different entities. Dean Witter’s Retail Brokerage which managed close to $616 billion in client assets where never fully integrated into Morgan Stanley’s information systems. Some individuals mainly
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N of people‚ what is the probability that each member of N is connected to another member via k_1‚ k_2‚ k_3...k_n links?)‚ after twenty years they were still unable to solve the problem to their own satisfaction. In 1967‚ American sociologist Stanley Milgram devised a new way to test the theory‚ which he called "the small-world problem." He randomly selected people in the mid-West to send packages to a stranger located in Massachusetts. The senders knew the recipient’s name‚ occupation‚ and general
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