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    not act as properly as others from these types of elite schools. Should this be frowned upon or admired due to his ability to take risks. What do you think‚ should he get it or not? Read to see what I thought. Rob Parson at Morgan Stanley Rob Parson joined Morgan Stanley as a market coverage professional in the Capital Markets division focusing on financial institutions with ten years of experience in the banking and insurance industries. He has built strong relationships within these industries along

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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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    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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    Sacrificial Friendship In the book holes‚ written by Louis Sachar‚ Stanley Yelnats the main character is a poor‚ friendless‚ over weighted boy who is constantly bullied at school. He is arrest one day for a crime that did not commit. Stanley is therefore condemned to jail or to be sent to a place called Camp Green Lake for eighteen months as he is unable to prove his innocence. Stanley chooses Camp Green Lake. But upon arriving in the camp‚ Stanley discovers that it is actually a barren and desolate

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    Stanley Cohen (1973) suggests that the media depiction of anti-social behaviour helps to construct folk devils. Folk devils become the focus of public fears and anxieties. They are made to stand for wider problems and concerns and‚ in the process‚ become the figures who exemplify ‘what is wrong with society today’. Today’s folk devils might be the ‘yobs’‚ ‘hoodies’‚ ‘yobettes’ or ‘alco-yobs’ referred to in newspaper headlines. In Cohen’s original study they were the ‘mods’ and ‘rockers’‚ members

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    In 1963‚ Stanley Milgram was interested in the psychology behind people who blindly follow authoritative figures. His interest in this idea peaked because of WWII and the atrocities practiced by the subordinates of Hitler. As a way to test this question‚ Milgram came up with a university study that would put people’s conscience to the test. This observation of the human mind would lay a groundwork and test the boundaries of understanding the thought process behind genocides. It did not examine

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    Paul Nasr‚ a senior MD in Capital Market Services at Morgan Stanley (hereafter referred to as MS) is facing the challenging question of how to effectively handle Parson’s annual performance review without creating a vacancy in an irreplaceable area that was difficult to perform and had seen a tremendous amount of turnover at MS. Nasr had the fear of losing Parson‚ his valuable employee and a star producer if he was not promoted to Managing Director as promised by Nasr during his hiring. Rob Parson

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    Stanley Milgram‚ born a Jew‚ wonders how he was fortunate enough to be born and raised in the United States‚ however‚ he was still impacted by the Holocaust. He felt very passionate about the Holocaust and feels guilty that he hadn’t died in the concentration camps with his fellow Jews in Europe (Miller‚ 2015). Milgram‚ a psychologist at Yale University‚ sought out the reasoning behind why Nazi soldiers blindly obeyed authority‚ especially after the Nuremberg War Criminal trials in World War II (McLeod

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