Fall 2014 English 100-20 Summary Assignment Clarence Darrow‚ “Crime and Criminals‚ Address to the Prisoners in the Cook County Jail” In the captivating story “Crime and Criminals‚ Address to the Prisoners in the Cook County Jail” the author‚ Clarence Darrow‚ explains his opinions on the United States Penal system. Darrow suggests that there is “no such thing as crime” (3) rather‚ people only go to jail because they are in need of money. He further strengthens his argument
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The Abu Ghraib prison scandal shocked the whole nation into disbelief that our United State’s army can do such a thing. In Marianne Szegedy-Maszak’s‚ The Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal: Sources of Sadism‚ explains the rough conditions and new situations these young soldiers were faced. The Abu Graib prison shared many traits needed to make our everyday human beings in to a torturer. But‚ what would it take for me and you to act out such a horrific ordeal? Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram created an
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studies * Masami‚ a Japanese female * Autokinetic effect * Deindividuation is the tendency of people to engage in atypical behaviour when stripped of their usual identities. * Zimbardo concluded from his Stanford prison study that prisoners and guards adopted their designated roles more easily than anyone might have imagined because of deindividuation. * The Indianapolis Colts * Except openness to differing opinions * Finding holes in all arguments that go against the
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Does The Ends Justify the Means: Justifying the use of torture in the name of Public Interest Kenneth Rudominer Florida Gulf Coast University Introduction to Public Administration PAD 6060 Margaret E. Banyan‚ PhD January 20‚ 2013 Does The Ends Justify the Means: Justifying the use of torture in the name of Public Interest Public Administration can be thought of as where the rubber meets the road in the act of governing via the Constitution. Under normal conditions the framework of the
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Why Not Everyone Is A Torturer - Oliver Behrensdorff What are the causes of atrocity events such as the massacre at My Lai‚ the abuse and torture of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib or the extermination of Jews during World War II? Whether groups of people bestowed with unaccountable power naturally resort to violence or not‚ the subject is indeed controversial. Arguably‚ the less restrictions that one must follow‚ the higher the risk becomes of one to condone violence. However‚ how can we explain
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Saddam Hussein‚ Abu Ghraib was one of the worlds worst and most notorious prisons. From torture‚ to executions‚ to terrible living conditions. This was the honest view of the horrors of war. The mistreatment at Abu Ghraib took a toll on not only the prisoners‚ but also on how we view these war crimes today. Between Abu Ghraib and The Stanford Prison Experiment‚ one can draw several lines of similarity‚ as well as several contrasting elements. Something can be learned from witnessing such acts of disgust
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Creative and Critical Thinking II 1. Have you ever changed a strongly held attitude? What caused the change for you? I have only experienced a shift in my personal beliefs once: at one point in time I believed I was relegated to working in a factory‚ now I do not have the same belief. I believe that the shift in my attitude was due to an internal growth; I became more self-aware after my father passed away. I looked at my father‚ and all he had done‚ and began to believe that I was capable of
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WHY DOES PLATO COMPARE ORDINARY HUMAN EXISTENCE TO THAT OF CHAINED PRISONERS IN A CAVE? Plato in his famous Allegory of Cave compared the ordinary human existence to that of chained prisoners in a cave. According to Plato‚ we are all stuck in a false reality in this world like prisoners in a cave. His cave theory still applies today in the sense that the people are influenced and controlled by the world around them. They do not want to realize or seek the truth; instead they wish to live
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he Lucifer Effect raises a fundamental question about the nature of human nature: How is it possible for ordinary‚ average‚ even good people to become perpetrators of evil? In trying to understand unusual‚ or aberrant behavior‚ we often err in focusing exclusively on the inner determinants of genes‚ personality‚ and character‚ as we also tend to ignore what may be the critical catalyst for behavior change in the external Situation or in the System that creates and maintains such situations. I challenge
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Conner Wilson 10-23-2012 Composition I The Deindividuation of Society Since the beginning of time‚ mankind has advanced as a society of many; each person and individual a piece in the great machine that is time. This unity‚ this joining of forces‚ has driven mankind forward throughout the dark ages of humanity’s past and into the modern world people live in today. Much has changed with the passing of time‚ but what has not changed is humanity’s primal instinct to create allies and forge relationships
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