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    Obedience: Film Summary

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    From the film “Obedience: Research carried out at Yale University”‚ Volunteers were paid a small sum to participates that understood the experiment to be a study of memory and learning. In truth‚ Yale University’s psychologist Stanley Milgram wanted to study the willingness of subjects to obey an authority figure while this authority figure made the subjects perform acts that were in conflict with their moral conscience. The question guiding this experiment was asking to figure out to what extent

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    wholeheartedly trusted God and God’s plans for his life‚ a special relationship that continues in present day Judaism. Abraham’s embodiment of the virtue of obedience was practiced in word and deed‚ being an example for other believers to be a hearer and doer of the Judaism faith. As seen in this story‚ piety to God leads to obedience. His obedience was his function of his piety‚ meaning Abraham was dutiful because he was devout and .faithful. This suggest that the Judaism faith has an element of causality

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    Blind Side

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    Blind Side In the film‚ Michael Oher was born and raised in the projects of Memphis‚ Tennessee. He grew up poor‚ not knowing his father‚ and was the son of a crack-addicted mother. Oher did not have a consistent place to live and sometimes stayed with his neighbors. He went along with his neighborhood friend and his father who wanted to enroll his son into a school with a good reputation‚ Wingate Christian School. While attending the school‚ he befriends S.J. Tuohy and later welcomed into the

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    Winning The Lottery

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    I woke up this morning and the first thing I did was pick up the newspaper to check my lottery numbers. As I read through the numbers my heart starting beating a little faster cause as I went through the list every number I had read so far was a match to what was on my ticket. Finally I was to the last number and I looked at it and looked at my lottery ticket. I almost passed out cause right there on my lottery ticket were the winning numbers. I jumped for joy and started screaming I won at the top

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    The Lottery Ticket

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    The Lottery Ticket Anton Pavlovich Checkhov (1860-1904) Anton Pavlovich Checkhov (1860-1904) stands out as one of the greatest short story writers of the world. He was educated as a doctor of medicine but preferred writing to doctoring. In his short story‚ “The Lottery Ticket”‚ he demonstrates that the mere thought of money can severely impact a personal relationship. Characters: Ivan Dmitritch – He is the major character and he is protagonist. He is from a middle-class. He does not care about games

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    Lottery Ticket

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    Summary: An older couple with a family holds what could be a winning lottery ticket‚ but resists checking the numbers while they daydream about what they might do with the money. It examines how‚ at first‚ their reaction to the possibility of wealth is joyful; but rather than share their dreams and communicate their wishes‚ it looks at how Ivan Dmitritch and his wife‚ Masha‚ recede into their own worlds. It attempts to show how money definitely does not buy love and how‚ in fact‚ it has the

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    Obedience to Authority: its Meaning‚ Uses‚ and Side Effects Obedience to authority is an aspect present in all societies throughout known history. For the entirety of this paper‚ obedience to authority will refer to any act a member of society performs that he or she was told to do by a position of higher authority. This paper will focus on the idea that members of society will follow commands that may go against their moral beliefs on the sole account that the commands come from a place of higher

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    Contrasting among Obedience‚ Conformity and Compliance Obedience‚ Conformity and Compliance- all are human behaviors. Let’s look at the following incidents- 1. The student followed his teacher’s orders. 2. The parents bought a crib for their new born baby. 3. The factory implemented all the safety measures (for its workers) set by the Government. In the first example above‚ we see the student doing as he was told by his teacher. That means he obeyed the teacher‚ which is obedience. In the

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    This essay analysis of “The Lottery Ticket” by Anton Chekhov will mainly review the changing attitudes of Ivan towards his wife and family as the short story develops‚ and the techniques that the author uses in order to build tension and interest in the story and in the fate of the couple. Anton Chekhov gets to the action of the short story very quickly. A brief but information packed first paragraph tells us without embroidery‚ what we need to know as readers.The author tells us that Ivan is  middle-class

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    all things. Social pressure is powerful and can affect people of all ages. These pressures can cause people to conform to society even if he/she does not have the same opinion as the rest of society. In the article “Conformity‚ Compliance‚ and Obedience” by Candela Learning‚ it was found that “conformity is more likely to occur when responses are public than

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